He loves his job and never doubts his job or is curious about the reason why he should burn books for the ten years of his working life. ... She asks Guy a random question which changes his life. ... Guy faces a mirror and has a long time thinking. ... The life of them seems boring and rigid, she does not think about the future of their lives or even the society, although she has plenty of time to do so. ... The missing part of real happiness exists everywhere in the lifetime, and books show us it is the details of life, and everyone in this society is skipping them all the time. ...

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The play highlights the beauty and sincerity of impulsive young love in a time where society deemed such happenings as normal. ... She writes with an unflinching honesty about some of her most painful moments in her life and allows readers to dip into her world. ... (Crum) Why ban certain books but not others? ... Similar to William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Connell's story depicts what would happen if humans start to devalue the meaning of life and the thin line humans walk that borders insanity versus humanity. ... By reading books like The Mo...

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Introduction God is the central and controlling figure in both books. ... He has been stated throughout books when God compares other kings. ... However, Solomon couldn't remain faithful and obedient to God throughout his life as his father David did that caused him to separate from God. ... But God didn't divide Kingdom at his time because of sake of his father David (1 King 11:34). ... Book of Kings reflects the natures of prophets are different from prophet at the time of Moses and Judges. ...

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Development of Tools Throughout Time Our world today has many different kinds of tools. ... Besides hand axes, they also used antler spear throwers , for spear hunting, adorned with life like animal carvings. ... Fire also provided light in caves, or at night time which before this was unavailable. ... These edges were also sharper and could be produced in less time. ... By this time, then, stone and bone tool usage pervaded a great variety of other manufacturing activities and almost certainly produced both division of labor and social hierarchies based on toolmaking...

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Most people like Huber, believe that books are very important for students especially from the beginning of their age. ... As can be seen, how we can prevent children from this huge problems in the beginning of their life. ... For example, teachers can advise there students from time to time during the class time to pay attention to their head and neck while studying. ... Also, the more books they read, the more knowledge they can accumulate. ... From all the above points, we can conclude that books are very important for all generations of all ages because of its active role in our lives. ...

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Can you imagine a time in which books are a source of hostility, not of knowledge? ... Can you imagine a time in which firemen enjoyed burning books? ... It seems as if he loved books at one time but now he only wishes to see them burn. ... He was troubled in life until he discovered how books develop and expand horizons. ... He changed drastically over a short period of time and that changed his life forever. ...

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In this future time houses have been made fire proof. ... Fahrenheit 451 did not really explain why books are banned during that period of time. ... Characters: Guy Montag: Guy Montag is a third-generation fireman but he suddenly realizes the emptiness of his life therefore starts to search for meaning in the books he is supposed to be burning. ... Professor Faber: Professor Faber is a retired English professor and he really likes to read books in his spare time. ... It's an easy to read enjoyable story, but it also makes you think along the lines of "What would life be like if ?" ...

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Paulsen spent much of his early life in Minneapolis, which is the setting for many of his books. ... For example, while Paulsen was doing research for Nightjohn (1995), a book about slavery in the South, he wrote two or three books during that time. ... Most of Gary Paulsen's ideas for his books come from events that happened in his own life. At first, Paulsen did not want to write about his own life because he feared that his life was boring, and the books about it would also be boring. However, after a friend encouraged Paulsen to write about his own life, his books became mor...

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During Emerson's time, and even in today's society, the act of creating a book is consideredsacred? ... It came to [the author] life; it went out from him truth. ... The modern inventions such as the television, computer, and internet have resulted from our instinctual desire to make life easier. In making life easier, it has pushed our old forms of influence, one being books, further from our immediate sources. ... Aside from the fact that television reduces the amount of time a scholar has to spend reading books, TV can also create, like books, a certain lack of creativity. ...

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In the time of his life when we meet him he is very unhappy with his job, and life in general. ... She reveals to him that she fears many aspects of her life, including her peers "Sometimes I'm ancient. ... I think she is dead" (77), this is important because it points out that Millie shows no emotions whatsoever about her husbands loss, or a loss in life at all. ... He has for some while been stealing books from time to time, but never reading them just stealing and stashing. ... At this point Montag remembers an old English professor, Faber, who he met at a park some time ago. ...

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"The two important facts about the first phase of his life are that he was a Californian and the he wanted to be a serious writer." ... During this time Steinbeck met a person who changed him into a much more profound person. ... After Lennie accidentally kills a girl, George is forced to kill him so that he does not have to endure being killed or locked up for the rest of his life. ... It is full of realism, "Realism assumes a commonly shared approach toward what constitutes the "realistic" in life and literature. ... John Steinbeck's books have been able to withstand the test of t...

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"The two important facts about the first phase of his life are that he was a Californian and the he wanted to be a serious writer." ... During this time Steinbeck met a person who changed him into a much more profound person. ... After Lennie accidentally kills a girl, George is forced to kill him so that he does not have to endure being killed or locked up for the rest of his life. ... It is full of realism, "Realism assumes a commonly shared approach toward what constitutes the "realistic" in life and literature. ... John Steinbeck's books have been able to withstand the test of t...

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Seuss managed to find time to stop and take another look at Mulberry Street. ... Despite his reputation as an advertising illustrator, twenty nine publishers rejected his book in part because children's books of the time where out of style. ... In May 1954, Life magazine published an article about widespread illiteracy among school children, claiming that they were not learning to read because their books were boring. ... Twenty years have passed since he's last visited his hometown and the last time was the funeral of his father. ... In a time children books where not in style, he b...

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In his time and where he lived, the fact that he denies his parents is a serious offence. ... He spent more time with them than he spent with his parents. ... He devotes himself to studying, ignoring his family life. He finds more pleasure in reading his books than in spending time with his parents. ... Books were for him not only a means to acquire knowledge, but also a way to escape from the life back home. ...

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Winston has memories of his life before the Revolution happened and The Party took over. Montag, on the other hand, has only known a life of burning books. ... When O'Brien contacts Winston for the first time, he and Julia go to his apartment together to meet with him. ... After this meeting, Montag begins to question his life as a fireman. ... They tell the tale of their characters' adventure in overthrowing a strict government; Montag succeeds while Winston returns to a life of submission. ...

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"Parents are taken away books from their child due to violence. ... In which some cases it has helped inspired some people to real-life violence. ... (Alex Corman and Wei) The list continues on and on as we begin to discover that they describe a child reading a gory book resulting in positive affect the majority of the time. ... "There is so much mental corruption that kids are exposed to, including every single time a child reaches for a library card. ... Jones who feels violence in books is good for children says; "I admit that violent stories are not harmless, in witch some cases it has ...

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Within the bible we can read many accounts of the life of Jesus. There are actually four whole books wholly devoted to just his life. Through these four books we get a very in depth look at his life. ... This is not a common occurrence within the four books of Jesus' life, but when it does happen it is important to take notice, because more than one author thought the story was important to include. There is one story within these books that I have taken time to study. ...

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The futuristic firemen seek out and burn books. It is a crime, in this society, to own or read books. ... His escape from the city to the refuge of the book people offers us a view of how far this society has become from the reality of life in our century. ... (Bradbury 16) As time went on and as the novel as well, Montag became more individualistic and he both changed and transformed into a real person. ... He voiced these opinions throughout his life through his literary works and his screenplays. ...

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The works aim to preach that as with everything else in life, too much of anything is bad for an individual. ... By the time children grow into adulthood they have no notion of what freedom is, this leads to a society in which everyone follows and lives for each other in peace. In both societies everyone is living a "happy life"." ... Because freedom is something that a human being can not enjoy life without. This is what both books show the reader. ...

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Parents are afraid that books may change the way their children act after they have read books with explicit material. ... It can help them see how sex can affect one's life. ... His reason for doing so was because the "Potter books are capturing the minds of young kids who have a hard time dividing between fantasy and reality" (Jackson). ... If we want to continue reading books, readers are the ones who have to oppose those who wish to burn, ban, or censor books. ... The Courts argued that the school district had taken away the right to receive information from their fourth grade dau...

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This quote explains a lot about Steinbeck's life and his perspective on the time period in which he lived. ... Steinbeck published 27 books (Harmon). His early books were, The Pearl, Tortilla Flat, and Sea of Cortez. All of these books were about early experiences in his life, like him working as a manual laborer, and living in a rural farming community in California. These books are the one's that got him really noticed as a writer. ...

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L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... He was fighting professionally at the time, and knocked out thirty-four of fifty-one opponents during his light heavyweight career. ... There's no fun in their sex and nobody appears to be having a good time" (Long 265). ... He had no formal education, spent much of his youth wandering from job to job, and was over forty by the time he published his first novel. ... So many of L"Amour's heroes were kids bec...

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Zorba states: "There was a time when I used to say: that man's a Turk, or a Bulgar, or a Greek. ... The narrator, who lives life through books, decides to experience life by going to Crete. ... Steinbeck uses the doctor in, The Pearl, to show the power that white colonizers held over the Indigenous people at the time. ... While the narrator turns to books, Zorba looks to experience lifes events. Kazantakis uses these two opposing types of characters to show that one not only needs to study books but experience life to gain power. ...

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Officer Beatty was trying to explain the danger of books to Montag. ... People had and still have this need to be busy all the time due to the fear of being bored. ... The little details in life are neither noticed nor cared about in either society. ... Beatty was a very educated man, and he possibly could have seen the good in books. He led a double life. ...

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Those were the only books I liked. ... I guess it wasn't an important time in my life, probably because I struggled with reading. ... In my last class we read several books. ... I have enjoyed few books in lifetime. ... I really got into science-fiction books and read nearly six books that summer. ...

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