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    example‚ “Animal Farm” by George Orwell and “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury‚ they became from best novels of all time. The simple novels address some important messages‚ messages for future generations and future revolutions. To begin with‚ Orwell tried to convey a message “[you] need to have the sense when to put your foot down [against inequality]” (Orwell‚ ’Animal Farm’: What Orwell Really Meant by George Orwell). Secondly‚ Bradbury transmits a

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    anywhere between 8.5-9.25 hours. This is enough time for your body to recuperate and prepare itself for the day to come. Any amount under or above can be detrimental. Obviously under-sleeping leads to exhaustion and can also cause other health problems and weakens your immune system so you are more likely to get sick. Over sleeping causes chemical releases in your body to get messed up and also for certain chemicals to not work until you are awake. This can cause for things such as a slower metabolism.

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    Ray Bradbury uses a lot of different techniques to create tension in his short story‚ "A Sound of Thunder". The techniques used are adjectives‚ adverbs‚ verbs‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ short sentences and he varies the sentence structures to create tension. The first technique Ray Bradbury uses is Adjectives. He uses them in lists of three‚ "... great oiled‚ resilient‚ striding legs." This emphasizes that part of the description and it has more effect on the reader because it creates a strong image.

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    Soft Rains Will Come In Soft Rains‚ Ray Bradbury creates a story about life after people. Times in 2026 are described as a time where technology continues to operate after humanity has passed away. The author uses imagery and personification to develop his idea that technology had become excessive to the point it no longer requires human presence to operate. "In the living room the voice clock sang‚ tick-tock‚ seven o’ clock" (284). Ray Bradbury uses personification in this quote to suggest

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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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    The problem of sleep deprivation is not new and yet more and more people are becoming victims of the consequences that of sleep deprivation. More and more people are sleeping less each day without realizing the very harmful effects that not sleeping on time and at regular intervals for the required time can have on our physical as well as mental health (Sleepnet; Ledoux). Technological advancements and the fast pace of the industrial and information revolution has created spots in which we find 24-hours

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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 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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    The story “The Golden Kite‚ the Silver Wind”‚ can be seen as an allegory about the Cold War. The opposing towns‚ the walls‚ and the Mandarins in the story all serve as symbols to the war. The towns represent the two opposing states in the Cold War--the United States and Soviet Union. The two rival towns in the story symbolize the United States and the Soviet Union because they continuously upgrade their walls’ structures to stay on top of their opponent‚ similarly to how the USA and USSR added copious

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