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    In the poem “There will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury‚ he has found future technology to be ironic. In this poem technology is pretty much the owner of the house‚ because there are no humans. This house does everything cooks‚ cleans‚ and sings‚ everything a normal person would do. The thing about the title “There Will Come Soft Rains” is that it’s the families favorite poem‚ is that it’s a one sign of irony. The house programed to read a poem that is called ‘There will come Soft Rains” and

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    Radioactive Isotopes Radioactive isotopes are any of several species of the same chemical element with different masses whose nuclei are unstable and dissipate excess energy by spontaneously emitting radiation in the form of alpha‚ beta‚ and gamma rays. Every chemical element has one or more radioactive isotopes. More than 1‚000 radioactive isotopes of the various elements are known.. Approximately 50 of the isotopes are found in nature; the rest are produced artificially as the direct products of

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    By Nahomie Gourdet Definition  Pancreas : is an organ found deep in the body‚ behind the stomach. It is shaped a little bit like a fish‚ about 6 inches long and less than 2 inches wide across the belly.  Pancreatic Cancer: Is a disease in which malignant cells are found in the tissues of the Pancreas. Pancreatic Cancer Classification Stages Stage 0 of Pancreatic Cancer  In stage 0‚ abnormal cells are found in the lining of the pancreas. These abnormal cells may become cancer

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    future. Another comment Ray Bradbury seems to make on real life is technology’s ability to make kids rude and ungrateful. In the story the dad says he’s going to turn off the automated technology in the house. The kids then proceed to throw a fit and end up killing their parents. This is seen in real life at a smaller degree‚ when kids end up swearing at their parents when they get their video games taken away and complain when actually have to do work at their jobs. Ray Bradbury satirized this very

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    The passage “August 2026: There will come soft rains” by Ray Bradbury is mainly about a house in the future. From the context given and the knowledge of Ray Bradbury’s style of writing one can assume that this house is placed in a apocalyptic setting in the future. The house is programed to be self maintaining and self relying and it does that after there are no humans around. After reading the passage one can conclude that the central theme is that nothing lasts forever. The house is programed

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    and the damage done depends on the exposure to radiation. Short exposure leads to cell mutation and the development of cancer. Long exposure leads to lots of cells being destroyed and to radiation sickness. | Even after it has been packaged‚ gamma rays can be used to kill

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    read as children and young adults‚ they would have been intellectual enough to pick that up. Overall‚ it was a smart idea for Ray Bradbury to mention "The Republic" in his book. People who dig deeper can realize that he’s trying to tell the readers that there’s a reason for everything that he added into "Fahrenheit 451". Because of the two story’s similarities‚ Ray Bradbary’s descision to add one into another was very expertly

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    Fahrenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury in 1953. A well-known science fiction novel that teaches people to appreciate the freedom to read books. It explores the theme of having a negative dystopian society that is controlled by a ruling government and the censorship of books. Fourteen years later the book was adapted into a movie version directed by Francois Truffaut. The movie was made so that readers have a visual way to look at it rather than reading it. There were major differences in the

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    stopped before they happen using pre-cogs by a special police unit‚ when John Andurton‚ the head chief‚ discovers he’s going to murder someone he’s never met‚ he sets out to find out why he was going to murder him and who he is “You don’t have to run.” Ray Bradbury’s foreboding novel “Fahrenheit 451“ is a book where firemen burn books because they are outlawed but when a fireman starts breaking the law and starts reading books after he meets a special girl‚ Clarisse‚ he must hide and run from a government

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    infectious and addicting technology? If you’re anything like the rest of today’s society‚ reading probably doesn’t make it to the top of your “to do” list. “…You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” As Ray Bradbury foreshadows‚ people are indeed slowly beginning to cease reading. I could not agree more with his opinion that putting an end to such will‚ in fact‚ destroy a culture. While people may die‚ words will not. The textbooks we read in school are

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