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    Angle is the figure formed by two rays‚ called the sides of the angle‚ sharing a common endpoint‚ called the vertex of the angle. Angles are usually presumed to be in a Euclidean plane‚ but are also defined in non-Euclidean geometry. Angle is also used to designate the measure of an angle or of a rotation. This measure is the ratio of the length of a circular arc to its radius. In the case of an angle (figure)‚ the arc is centered at the vertex and delimited by the sides. In the case of a rotation

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    Talking about the African Veldt‚ when you think of nursery you usually think of a safe place for a child and be cared for. Yet instead the nursery becomes a dangerous and like a weapon twisted into anything the children envision‚ that’s irony. Bradbury once again flips our expectations to have us see the dark side of things. Dangers also evident in the power of the imagination‚ the children create a reality that preys on their parents. Some

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    My short attention span of that time was drawn to Ray Bradbury’s story since at that time I loved space exploration‚ and the idea of colonizing Mars intrigued me‚ so I decided to read it over winter break. I remember sitting by the crackling fire with the sound of my cousins playing board games in the

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    The Attic Satyajit ray While returning from their new factory at Deodarganj‚ the writer with his friend and business partner Aditya were driving along National Highway 40. As they reached a point of bifurcation‚ the author asked his friend about his willingness to take the road‚ that deviated to the right. That road leads to the ancestral home of Aditya‚ at Bramhapur. His father was a landlord there and later shifted

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    wasn’t for you‚ I would still be doing the wrong thing. My job is to be a ¨firefighter¨ and not a firelighter.¨ To this day‚ your very words play through my head constantly. ¨Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?¨ (Bradbury 38). I don’t know what I was thinking and after you made that comment‚ I questioned myself a lot. Now that I think back‚ Captain Beatty typically avoided the topic of why we were burning books but immensely emphasised it. I never thought much of

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    idea of fun. After what felt like forever‚ they finally came back into the room. The doctor began to explain what was wrong with me‚ but I did not care to listen. His mouth was moving‚ but no words were coming out. He thoroughly explained that my x-rays showed some concerns for my age‚ and recommended I have an

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    committed by teens regularly. The novel Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has a lot of teen violence going on that is really eye opening‚ because a lot of it is also happening in the real world. It talks about teens being afraid of one another‚ shootings‚ bullying‚ and youth crimes being out of control. Bradbury makes the point clear that teens are afraid of one another when he says‚ “I’m afraid of childen my own age. They kill eachother.” (Bradbury 30). He is saying that the killings are the result of

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    ambiguous as there is no definite answer to what the soft rains are. Immediately Bradbury creates some curiosity in the reader as they are yet to be given an idea of what will be coming. Bradbury reflects his main plot around humans all dying out and the world and nature not even noticing. The history behind this could be the events of the atomic bomb. After the atomic bomb in 1945‚ pessimism would have hung in the air and Bradbury wrote about how humans would all kill themselves. In the text‚ many indirect

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    that’s why they don’t try to stop them when they hunt Montag. In the book‚ it explains how the police have everyone open their doors to try and find him. It says‚” the fugitive can not escape if everyone in the next minute looks from his house” (Bradbury 132). This shows how everyone reluctantly did what they were asked to do without hesitation or question. If only the people understood things that happened in the past they would know not to trust them. In Fahrenheit 451‚ if the people had known

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    entails‚ an account of past events in someone’s life. The stories that make us who we are and explain what we’ve become due to past experiences. For me‚ my story can be told best in song form. From beginning to end‚ the song “Southern Land” by Taylor Ray Holbrook explains my background and what I went through down in the “Southern Land” of Tyler‚ TX. 13 years of my life were spent in Tyler‚ Texas and I thought it’s where I would stay for years on end. When you moved into a new town at the age of 4

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