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    before the fire snapped the Hound up in the air‚ burst its metal bones at the joints”(114). This dragon was slayed and allowed the hero to continue the departure of his journey. Throughout the entire story Montag has been in fear of the Hound. It was always on his mind and what really made it worse was when it came by his window the night beatty came by to check on Montag. This shows progression in Campbell’s hero’s journey by adding in the dragon battle with the hound which is an overbearing fear

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    The Most Dangerous Game Introduction: A. This story is started off by explaining how Sanger Rainsford and his hunting companion Whitney are traveling to Rio‚ Amazons to hunt jaguars. After they discuss about the island that they are passing which they believe has a bad reputation and is a not a very good place to be. The intro ends when Whitney goes to sleep and Rainsford stays awake. This is taken place on a boat near a stranded island called Ship Trap Island at night. This info is stated on

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    Fahrenheit 451

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    Study Guide Questions for Fahrenheit 451 As you read each section of the novel‚ answer briefly the following questions. These questions should act as a reading guide and are not intended to replace careful examination of the novel’s themes and development.   Part I: The Hearth and the Salamander (pages 3-68) 1. What do the "fireman" do for a living? Firemen burn books. On a deeper level‚ firemen control society and perpetuate the classless uneducated society of Montag’s world.   2. In the

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    Lysistrata Essay

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    themselves up in the Acropolis to prevent the Athenian men from getting into the treasury‚ and withholding sex from the men until they agree to end the war. A title that reflects the theme of the play could be‚ “Lysistrata the Maiden and her Pack of Hounds.” The story encompasses many themes that are prevalent in society today‚ from masculinity and femininity‚ to sex and warfare‚ and political power of certain classes of people. The strongest theme of all is the use of feminine guile to withhold sex

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    possessions or a wife’s drinking problem becomes the subject of glaring headlines. Photographers hound celebrities at their homes‚ in restaurants‚ and on the street‚ hoping to get a picture of Halle Berry in curlers or Jim Carrey guzzling a beer. When celebrities try to do the things that normal people do‚ like eat out or attend a football game‚ they run the risk of being interrupted by thoughtless autograph hounds or mobbed by aggressive fans. In addition to the loss of privacy‚ celebrities must cope

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    Post Hoc Fallacy

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    1. Post Hoc In my community news‚ called Neighbor News‚ I was reading an article on a Saturday Morning called‚ “Follow All the Rules to Keep the Hounds Happy” (Kintish). This article talks of the Happy Hound Playground‚ a dog park in Denville‚ NJ. It discusses the rules and regulations that need to be followed for the benefit of the dogs’ and owners’ health. However‚ this is a post hoc fallacy‚ because the article title makes the reader believe that the dogs become happy if all the rules are followed

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    Ageism Research Paper

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    AGEISM (Heading) * MYTHS * WHAT IS AGEISM? * LANGUAGE & SOCIAL ISSUES * INTERVENTIONS & STRATEGIES Speaker notes: According to Martin (2007)‚ “Ageism typically involves any attitude or behavior that negatively categorizes the elderly based either on partial truth (often taken out of context) or on outright myths of the aging process” (pg. 142). There are nine basic myths that show cause to an individual having the label of ageism: “(1) poor health‚ illness‚ and disability; (2)

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    The novel opens with Guy Montag‚ a “fireman” in a futuristic society where he and his coworkers start fires rather than put them out. Books are banned and burned upon discovery‚ and Montag has no qualms about his responsibility. But then he meets Clarisse McClellan‚ a seventeen-year-old Bohemian girl who happens to be his neighbor. She’s very chatty‚ and opens his eyes to the world of nature. Montag grows increasingly dissatisfied with his life the more he talks with Clarisse. He starts to

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    ENGLISH ESSAY Science fiction is a genre of fiction revolving around science and technology‚ usually conveying the dystopian alternative future context‚ the pessimistic resultant of society. Ray Bradbury ’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and Andrew Niccols Gattaca (1997) both explore the values and concerns of human existence. Despite the difference in context‚ Gattaca and Fahrenheit 451 both extrapolate the relationship between man and machine in a metaphorical sense. Both pose similar dystopian concepts

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    The Song Ain 'T Misbehavin'

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    Songs of the 20th Century The Twentieth Century exists as the start of the fast paced changing world the human race lives in today. Each decade of the twentieth century possessed its own great characteristics and because of this‚ each decade left significant changes in music from year to year. The 1920s‚ ‘30s‚ and ‘50s lived as three radically different decades based on values‚ morals and music. The mindset of the people living in these times transpired with completely different ideals and ways

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