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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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    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Complete Summary Part 1 Are we truly happy? The future is supposed to mean a great society with a supportive government and flying cars‚ right? In Ray Bradbury’s world depicted in Fahrenheit 451‚ it’s the opposite. Knowledge is considered absurd‚ all people do is watch TV‚ and owning a book is illegal. Reading is banned‚ books are burned. Is there even a single sane person in the city? With the lies and false promises blocking the citizens’ view‚ they must ask

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    Fahrenheit 451 How would you react if everything you knew wasn’t right but wrong? The book Fahrenheit 451 by‚ Ray Bradbury is about a man name Guy Montag that is unhappy with his life being a firefighter that starts fires by burning books. This book is based on the future. When Montag finds out the truth his life changes. Montag meets Clarisse‚ Faber and‚ Beatty his world changes for better and worse. Clarisse is an odd seventeen year old who likes odd stuff including books. “well” she said

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    Energies are many folds‚ they are available naturally‚ and are also made available through science and technology in different ways‚ intended for the purposes we desire. This light that enables us to see‚ the x-rays (which gives us pictures of bones and soft tissue)‚ the gamma and ultraviolet rays (which are used for sterilization)‚ infrared‚ the microwave (microwave ovens and cell phones)‚ radio waves‚ extremely low frequency waves etc. are all packed in the radiation that emanates from the sun. From

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    Extra credit Since the discovering of X-ray‚ many areas have taken advance of this science. For example‚ medicine‚ airports security and also repairing some part of the airplanes. Medicine is the most beneficiated from X-ray with the development of various branches and different areas of studies. Many diagnostic depend or rely in this technology to prevent the spread of deadly diseases. On this research paper I will cover three different areas of X-ray used in medicine in the prevention and detection

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