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    The Martian Chronicles: A Look into Colonization on Mars Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles‚ a science fiction novel explores the lives of the people who are migrating and colonizing Mars in order to escape an atomically devastated Earth. The book is a collection of short stories that are inter-related‚ and they describe the lives and assimilation processes of a number of settlers that came from earth to the planet Mars. It narrates the difficulties that the settlers face in getting accustomed

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    following two stories‚ both authors create suspense in slightly different ways but overall the concept was the same… using a character’s dialogue‚ thoughts‚ and personality to generate suspense in their story. In the story‚ “The Pedestrian”‚ the author‚ Ray Bradbury describes the desolate streets in the time A.D.‚ 2053. The story depicts a lone man wandering the streets all by himself. As the story continues on‚ the author gradually starts to develop suspense as this lone man meets a sole police

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    We have been reading a story by Ray Bradbury from the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun called A Sound of Thunder‚ it is a futuristic story about the consequences of time travel and how changing a small thing can result in a huge change somewhere down the timeline‚ the best way of describing this change is to imagine a single mouse‚ you kill the mouse then you stop the families of that mouse from being produced and so the families of those families‚ maybe millions of mice and for want of a

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    Jimmy Nguyen English Petrow Ray Bradbury’s Predictions Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 portrays a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. Writing in 1953‚ Ray Bradbury warns readers about a future that could happen. Bradbury notices dehumanization in society as technology makes people become less individual and incapable of independent thought. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury makes predictions of the future that is frighteningly accurate to what life today is like

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    In the novels‚ ‘The Giver’ and ‘The Pedestrian’‚ Lois Lowry and Ray Bradbury‚ both illustrate a future utopic world‚ we could come across‚ if we don’t embrace our individual characteristics and the ability to think for ourselves. In this worrying future‚ the Government‚ has full control of the citizens‚ in order to make a better world. The authors confront us with the theme of a Government‚ that implies strict rules and makes decisions for their citizens without them realizing‚ so that they all have

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    In The Martian Chronicles‚ Bradbury ties in historical events and uses them to make certain points about human society. The three main topics he explores are colonization‚ technological advancement and censorship. These issues arose during the 1900s‚ throughout a significant part of Bradbury’s life. They had an extremely influential role on human society and way of life. Competition between countries and the protection of national ideals were catalysts for technological advancements and brought

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    Use of Taylorism in contemporary organistions Taylorism contributed in many areas of management in nowadays organisations. Four aspects are selected to present. Dividion labour. Taylor reduced the number of people shoveling at the Bethlehem steel works from 500 to 140. This work‚ and his studies on the handing of big iron‚ greatly contributed to the analysis of work design and gave rise to method study. Mass production methods in modern day factories This method could product the

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    Graphic Designer: Bradbury Thompson By K. Lee Goodrick Patrick Kirk ARTD 201 Due: March 28‚ 2007 Bradbury Thompson (1911 – 1995) is often times called the "father of modern design" and considered a pioneer among graphic designers (Father). As early as high school‚ Bradbury showed a keen talent in the field of graphic design. He jumpstarted his career when working in New York; and from that point he undertook many projects that made him famous. Among those projects includes designing stamps

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    The “Stop for Pedestrians” advertisement‚ sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration‚ demonstrates an extremely effective way to caution drivers when they decide to go behind the wheel. The success of the public service announcement is accomplished through the use of visuals and exaggeration. Persuasion is first achieved through an account of an anonymous driver‚ who made the mistake of only keeping track of the surrounding cars‚ “[He] was looking out for the other cars. [He did not] see

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    Technology is becoming increasingly popular; we are forced to confront it everyday. Ray Bradbury has noticed this trend of people becoming more and more dependent on technology; after all we use the television‚ computers‚ and even automobiles everyday. In the pedestrian Ray Bradbury has used insect images in The Pedestrian that suggests that with the increasing number of people using technology it will trap and destroy us. Bradbury writes "During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars‚ the gas stations

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