written by Ray Bradbury. In his novel‚ he writes about how the future is deprived from books and how life focuses on giant screens as their main source of entertainment. The main character and the most important character is named Montag. Montag is a firefighter who tries to change his life from reading books which is illegal. Although society is forced to live a life without books‚ Montag feels the need for books and plays an important role in the story. Montag’s actions are influenced mainly by two
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decided to walk back to the debris. He was 150 yards away and standing under a pedestrian walkway across the West Side Highway‚ which connected the World Trade Center to the World Financial Center at the northwest corner‚ when he saw the three firefighters raising the flag. He immediately readied his lens‚ and took the picture. As soon as he shot it‚ he claims the have “realized the similarity to the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima.” This was the photograph he had been waiting for‚ and he knew
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Should NASA continue to be funded by the U.S government? Remember the “Space Race” against Russia? What would have happened if we had shut down NASA before that? Getting a man to the moon was a Cold War victory! Shutting down funding for space exploration would be utterly devastating. Did you know that we can do research in space that we can’t do on earth? In space‚ we can understand more about gravity‚ and how machines work in different conditions‚ special medical research can be done in space
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Those men and women do it every day of our lives‚ whether it is firefighters‚ police officers‚ or even soldiers overseas. No one can pay them back for what they do‚ and yet‚ they still go out and give up their lives so that someone else can have their own. This is how one can describe Engine 10 from the Ladder 10 in the New York Fire Department‚ a group of the first to arrive at the scene during 9/11. An unofficial slogan of firefighters is “Swift as eagles‚ Strong as lions” (Jamestown Fire Department)
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Honor has always been a central aspect of one’s identity. People go great lengths to keep and prove their honor. We have all heard of honor‚ but what exactly is honor? Honor today is seen as one’s integrity or high public esteem. But it has not always been that way. Honor is a difficult concept to characterize due to the fact that the definition of honor has changed over time and varies from culture to culture. Honor in past times was very different from that of today. The definition of honor has
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Paramedics Today‚ we live in a world where paramedic do pre-hospital emergency care to increase his or her chances of survival in an accident. Paramedic are the highest class in the Emergency Medical Service unit and can do more advance procedures than an EMT. While they may not make that much money‚ they do it for our survival out in the world. People’s lives‚ often depend on their quick response and care. Paramedics and EMT respond to emergency calls‚ performing medical services and transporting
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Mindless and Obeying Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 features a fictional and futuristic firefighter named Guy Montag. As a firefighter‚ Montag does not put out fires. Instead‚ he starts them in order to burn books and‚ basically‚ knowledge to the human race. He does not have any second thoughts about his responsibility until he meets seventeen-year-old Clarisse McClellan. She reveals many wonders of the world to Montag and causes him to rethink what he is doing in burning books. After his talks
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put my transfer in for Engine 124 where they had a tradition of training firefighter into good leaders. Once I transferred‚ I told myself when I gain enough experience and become more qualified to be an officer is when I would study and sit for the officer exam. During my time at Engine 2 I became more familiar with my job by working under and being mentored by my officer. I was taught how to be a good firefighter as well as being a good Acting Lieutenant. I also learned what it takes
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Department Manager: I am writing you with the goal of being able to join the professional ranks of the Hometown Fire Department as a Firefighter / Paramedic. Having experience as a Fire Lieutenant‚ a PCP‚ a commercial diver‚ and am waiting for result of NFPA 472 course exam to receive my ProBoard/IFSAC certification as a NFPA 1001 Level II firefighter. I am confident that my past experience‚ skills and my passion for the emergency services combined with continued fire/medical training would
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Writing varies from a text message to a novel. Writers often have a difficult task in creating a piece of work that truly identifies the meaning of good writing. Every good writer usually starts with the basics such as genre‚ audience‚ rhetorical situation‚ and reflection of the piece. Throughout this semester‚ we have gone through all of these key terms in great detail with each new assignment that has come our way. In doing this‚ not only as students but also as writers‚ we have come to create
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