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    father pop out in front of me holding a newspaper which gave me a big fright! My father say that he has great news! Which that he wants to bring us to Port Dickson‚ He showed us the news that referring to today Port Dickson is organizing an annual seashell collecting competition. Soon‚ we pack our stuff and head to Port Dickson as soon as possible! On the way to Port Dickson‚ I was watching the view of the sky. The sun was shining brightly in the sky‚ birds was flying out and about. Wow! Such Great

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    The people in the Fahrenheit 451 society have a different way of entertaining themselves. For example they bash windows or drive fast and run over animals for fun. The most common forms of entertainment though are the “parlor families” and the “seashells” . This frustrates some people like

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    When first observing the art piece‚ the viewer notices that the woman on the seashell is Venus‚ the main focus of the painting. Botticelli included certain allegories when painting Venus standing nude on a seashell. Knowing that Venus was born out of the sea‚ her standing on a seashell symbolizes that she has just emerged from the water. Some may think that Venus is the goddess of the sea because she was born in the sea; this is false. Venus standing naked actually indicates that Venus is the

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    technology. Bradbury uses the seashells within the novel as a symbol to represent the depth and importance the government places on the effects of propaganda. As Montag comes home from work he notices just how effective these seashells of propaganda truly are when he sees “His wife stretched on the bed‚ uncovered and cold‚ like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb‚ her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steal‚ immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells‚ the thimble radios tamped

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    (Nearly) Mirroring Images Although many may strive to develop a utopian society‚ this ideal is only an unattainable dream that can never become reality; a wish that can never be brought to life. As many aim for this unrealistic ideal‚ many utopian societies first appear as is; a perfect society with a flawless government and harmonious people- at least on the surface. But when we are provided with a closer look at this supposed utopian society‚ it is revealed that‚ at some point in time‚ this society

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    phone. Montag uses it to talk to his retire professor friend‚ Faber‚ and Faber can talk back to him on it. It rests in the ear and allows people to communicate with each other at long distance. The seashell ear is plugged into the ear and provides music to the listener. Montag’s wife Mildred uses the seashell ear when she is not watching T.V. Mildred is more connected to what she is watching or listening to than to other people‚ including her husband Guy Montag. These inventions interfere with her personal

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    “knowledge” of the people who use it. Montag discovers this when he observes Mildred using “the little Seashells‚ the thimble radios tamped tight‚ and an electronic ocean of sound . . . coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (Bradbury 10). What Mildred listens to is not knowledgeable information‚ but merely a bombardment of sound and useless facts used to asphyxiate her mind. The Seashell radios force information on the listener to block out thought and short-circuit the listener’s creative

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    In Fahrenheit 451‚ author‚ Bradbury‚ uses a number of paradoxes to mock and exaggerate aspects of real society. In the novel‚ the author creates a despotic government where the protagonist Montag‚ acknowledges that there is something missing in this society and he feels empty. Montag becomes valiant and takes an adventure to find out what is missing. Bradbury’s main focus in this novel is based on technology. He believes it can have negative impact on our lives. Throughout the novel‚ Bradbury uses

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    the future. We can easily connect objects and behaviors to our own lives. For example the seashells‚ “And in her ears the little Seashells‚ the thimble radios tamped tight‚ and an electronic ocean of sound‚ of music and talk and music and talk coming in‚ coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind…”‚ “There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea…” (pg. 76). The seashells are like earbuds‚ forever attached‚ they can be brought pretty much everywhere: shopping‚

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    (SIP-B) People in this society have used technology that they have become extremely unsociable and unable to talk to. (STEWE-1) Mildred can read lips and doesn’t have to listen because she always has her seashells in.”She was an expert at lip-reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles.”(Bradbury 16) To the people in this society the act of talking itself is just absurd. "’Oh‚ just my mother and father and uncle sitting around‚ talking’...’But what do you talk about?’"(Bradbury

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