Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Our Relationship With Technology: March 29, 2016

Focus: What's our relationship with technology? How does Bradbury characterize people's relationship with technology?

1. Warming up by analyzing your survey data:

a.  Take a look at the pie charts and draw at least one conclusion about each graph that goes beyond the obvious (get in touch with your creative brain here).

b. Then, try to finish the following statements ON THE CLASS BLOG:

In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as .... because....

c. MINI BREAK: Find a quotation from F451 about technology and/or happiness. Read aloud.

d. In Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, people's relationship with technology can be described as ... because...

2. Enjoying F451 Fishbowl #3: Pages 40-63

Reminder: Bloggers--if you want that 10 out of 10, you need to be bringing some passages/page references into some of your questions and responses.

3. Wrapping up by posting (or discussing) the first day of your seven-day challenge

HW:
1. By Thursday, read through page 80 in F451. Leaders and discussers should prepare for Fishbowl.

2. If you're giving your presentation this Friday, April 1, you should be working on it this week.

3. Complete Day 2 of your seven-day challenge.

154 comments:

  1. In 2016 teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as dependent because they use it everyday and without it life would prove incredibly difficult and boring.

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  2. In 2016, teenager's relationship with technology can be described as both helpful and addictive because it is used for many good things but can be easily overused.

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  3. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as overused, because it seems now a days that students are always sitting on their phone, avoiding their social life.

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  4. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as direct because they are constantly around technology through social media, school, and communications.

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  5. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as exiting because they are able to explore the world with their friends and educate themselves with the world

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  6. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as controversial because we think there is nothing wrong with our use of technology, while the generation before us believes we are doomed in the category of social skills.

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  7. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as useful because teenagers are able to use the technology in a way that is helpful to their learning.

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  8. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as a bad habit that is taking away from our family and friends.

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  9. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as unique because it can be interpreted in many different ways.

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  10. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as unbreakable because I feel as though we will always find a way to gain screen time.

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  11. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as greatly dependent yet still able to break off because we grew up during the transition period so still have communication skills but technology has become readily available as we have grown older so our relationship is still in a balance.

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  12. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as codependent because the new technological markets depend on teenagers to buy and spread their product and technology is becoming a larger and larger part of every day life of a teenager; especially in the fields of education and media.

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  13. In 2016 teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as reliant and connected because of how much we use our electronics, even when it is for required work. There are many distractions and it is too easy to completely be off topic

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  14. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as dependant, but not that it is bad because teenagers are capable of doing many good things with technology.

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  15. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as outgoing and social because they associate with new people and communicate with many people in different ways.

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  16. In 2016 teenagers relationship with technology can be described as dependent because most people lack the social skills needed to keep conversations so they depend on there phone for comfort

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  17. In 2016, teenager's relationship with technology can be described as a safe way out because a lot of kids can't talk face to face with people so they use their cell phones.

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  18. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as reliance because most teens rely on technology to make life easier for them.

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  19. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as "relied on" because most kids completely freak out when they lose their phone or get it taken away and they can't live without it

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  20. In 2016, teenagers' relationships with technology can be described as repressive because it causes teenagers to not be social with other people.

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  21. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as reliant because of the increased availability of advanced devices and social development of the definition of "social network".

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  22. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as good but also bad because we spent way too much time on our phones but it puts us in a very happy state so it kind of balances out

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  23. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as a disease because every person has it and it is present everyday.

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  24. In 2016, teenagers relationship with technology can be described as innovative and fast moving because, even though this doesn't apply to every kid on their cellphone, young people are coming up with new technology and innovations all the time. New inventions and explorations are discovered everyday, and it is changing the world.

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  25. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as an utter obsession because teens are attached to mobile devices and it is destroying social lives.

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  26. IN 2016, teenagers' use of technology is something that can seen as mixed emotions because, some people do not mind the use of technology, but on the other hand, those do not like too much use of technology.

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  27. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as borderline excessive, because of the frequency of daily cell phone usage, or other electrical devices. However, this does not apply to all teenagers, as many teenagers are able to maintain an equal balance between their digital social networking, and real life.

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  28. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as disturbing because many kids lack the social skills needed in person. Talking to people through the phone is so much easier than talking to someone in person.

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  29. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as dangerous and harmful because they can be doing bad things on it and they can be cyberbullying to other people.

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  30. 3 people of 61 responses said that they are unhappy. do you think that they are unhappy for the same reasons as the characters in F451?

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    1. No I think it's ridiculous to see a correlation between technology and unhappiness. People have been unhappy since the beginning of time and when studies come out saying more people are unhappy now it isn't because of technology. It revolves more about increased population and decreasing adjusted economy.

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    2. I agree with Graham. If people are unhappy, there are a million reasons that could be the cause. It's unlikely that technology would take someones happiness away.

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  31. "The girl. She was a time bomb"pg-60. This was said by Beatty when he was at Montag's house and explaining the history of the firemen. Why does he say this? Is it perhaps because she is part of the generation that would change the future and he was afraid of her?

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    1. I think he uses the time bomb analogy because the longer he waits the more dangerous she becomes

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    2. We've seen in the book that this society doesn't like unique and they shut down unique. Clarisse was a unique person who didn't go with the socially acceptable. Nobody there wants to see anything different so Beatty along with all the others think she was different and bad for the society.

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    3. I agree with Graham, because it seems to me that she is becoming more and more "deadly" as the book goes on

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  32. What is the symbolism behind the chapter title The Hearth and the Salamander

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    1. They are the symbols that repsresent fire

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    2. A hearth is usually the floor area of a fireplace and then in last fishbowl discussion we discovered that the salamander was to be supposedly fire proof or could withstand a great deal of heat as an ancient myth told.

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    3. I think the hearth and the salamander represents Montag's home and work life because the hearth is considered the center on the house and the salamander is the symbol for the firemen.

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    4. I think the chapter title symbolizes the main events that are going in Montags life. The salamander represents his helmet of the firemen and the hearth represents the floor of a fireplace.

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    5. I think the hearth and the salamander represents Montag's home and work life because the hearth is considered the center on the house and the salamander is the symbol for the firemen.

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  33. Beatty tells Montag, "If you want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one." What does he mean by this? What point is he trying to make?

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    1. The less people know the happier they can be because they don't know any better. Give a child a toy and he will be happy even if there was a bigger and better toy he could have gotten. But if the child didn't know, it wouldn't plague his conscience.

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    2. He is trying to say that if you give someone two options they can actually choose but if they never know that there even is a secind option then they wouldn't question anything.

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    3. It is very easy to manipulate a population by only giving them one choice. It only gets complicated when opinions begin to matter.

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  34. "How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real"(52). Montag says this to Mildred and do you think that Mildred is to far lost to technology that she has lost her sense of feeling to hold and care for something real.

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    1. I think Mildred is just too confused with all of the pills she takes which makes her completely oblivious most of the time.

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  35. On page 62, when Beatty tells Montag that when a fireman takes a book, it is merely a natural, curiosity driven error, why is it okay for a fireman to be able to think like this but why not for Clarisse to even think freely?

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    1. I feel Montag has reached a natural feeling for his curiosity and the only thing holding him back from changing is the society that censors the feeling of curiosity. And I feel Clarisse is young and has not been affected by this censored society and is basically rebelling by being herself.

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  36. Beatty states. "At least once in his career, every fireman gets and itch, What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh? Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe"(Bradbury 59). With no background on this dystopian world's past, what do you think got these people to this shelter where they are not allowed to read books?

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    1. I feel all this is about to prevent change, because change starts with ideas and there are a ton in the millions of books they burn and the government just wants total control.

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    2. Well in social studies I am learning about the Qin dynasty and how they used to burn books and kill scholars because knowledge is power. I feel it is the same in this book knowledge is power and they don't want the people to get power.

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    3. Books became obsolete as film, photo, and other forms of media were seen as more easily digestible. This pressured books to be all the same and they were pushed out of society because people truly believed there was nothing to learn from them.

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  37. I find it interesting how when Montag and Mildred were talking about the first time they met, on page 43, Montag has no idea how they first met. Yet when Mildred confesses that she doesn't remember either, Montag gets extremely triggered and shouts, "Only ten years, that's all, only ten!"

    It shows how Montag is changing as a person, because it seems like Montag would never be such a hypocrite about something like that. He's obviously not as sane as he was before because of everything that's been happening.

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    1. I think he was just becoming self-aware of what was wrong with his relationship with Mildred at this point. He wasn't necessarily being a hypocrite, he was just acknowledging the social flaws in the world around him.

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  38. Page 62, "Well, then, what if a fireman accidentally, really not intending anything, takes a book home with him?"..."We don't get overanxious or mad". Does Beatty really mean they don't get mad at firemen for getting curious and breaking their oath? Is this a tactic to relax those who broke the oath and get them to talk? What are the consequences for this?

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  39. On page 51, Montag said, "Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe, I quit my job awhile?" What would Mildred do if he quits for awhile?

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    1. I think Mildred would get mad if Montag quit his job. That would put their whole family and everything they have in jeopardy.

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    2. I doubt Mildred would completely agree with it, but I think she would understand why, and being the great wife she is, she wouldn't fight it.

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  40. "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."(Bradbury 51) Montag is trying to tell Mildred about the secret behind the books. Do you think he is trying to convert more people over to the side of agreeing with books and how the society is blank without them?

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    1. I don't think he's completely convinced himself yet. He seems unsure about what he's doing, but I think that he knows its the right thing to do.

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    2. I think he's just thinking out loud. He is really confused why someone would give their life for books. This is starting to make him believe books must be really important to the people who have them.

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  41. "Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people weeping? Burn the book. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Blue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country. Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriums. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean,"(59-60). At first Montag talks about how race was involved in books. Then he goes on talk about how some would feel about sensitive subjects like death. His response to these things is to burn them all. Do all of his problems result in burnings?

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    1. To run from what doesn't make you happy is easier than meeting with it and facing it. But burning it stops the need to run because the concept that made people unhappy was executed and they need not to run from the ashes.

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  42. On page 63 "They didnt want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking" Why can something as simple as a front porch be banned from society.

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    1. They don't want people to have time to think about what's really happening. They want people to be occupied all the time so they don't realize the things that are being taken away from them.

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    2. I think that they banned the front porch because people used to read books on front porches. Plus, if people sit and think, they'll realize that the government is brainwashing them.

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  43. Do you think Clarissa is the only person who sees life in a natural way? because it does not say anything about a rebellion group or anything like that.

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  44. On page 58 Beatty states "We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy". Isn't this considered Communism? Where everyone is equal and there are no social classes?

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  45. How do you think the next chapter "The Sieve and the Sand" will relate to the first chapter and what do you think will happen to Montag in the next chapter?

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  46. Do Beatty's suspicion of Montag and the Hound's behavior go hand in hand?

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  47. On page 63, Beatty says, " We'd certainly miss you if you didn't show". Does Beatty know that Montag doesn't plan on coming in? Does this happen to firefighters often, so he knows what to expect?

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  48. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as secure because most teenagers are on their phones for the majority of the day. We are a very social and technological generation and I think we need to embrace that in order to continue advancing.

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  49. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as helpful because there are a lot of different resources and opinions on the internet.

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  50. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as antisocial because people are always looking at their phones

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  51. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as obsessive but also educational because technology is all around us so it is inevitable that we use it all the time, whether it's for learning or personal entertainment.

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  52. In 2016, teenagers relationship with technology can be described as normal because technology defines a lot of what we do every single day.

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  53. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as too much, because we have gotten to the point where electronic communication has become more common than real life communication.

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  54. In 2016, teenagers relationship with technology can be described as dependent because a lot of people rely on their technology to get them through the day.

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  55. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as reliant because we use our phones for everything.

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  56. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as reliant because we find it difficult to be without our technology for a period of time.

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  57. In 2016, teenagers relationship with technology can be described as a given because technology is used everyday and needed and not really thought of without it in your life.

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  58. In 2016, teenager's relationship with technology can be described as confusing because I think a lot of teens use it as an advantage and use it for good things, like learning, or a way to connect with others. But some teenagers use it in a negative way. And may not benefit them.

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  59. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as modern because technology is a relatively new thing that our younger generation uses. It is the "hip" thing today.

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  60. In 2016, teenager's relationship with technology can be described as confusing because it's a very different life style and it is too early to see how it will effect us.

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  61. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as a distraction because many teenagers get distracted by technology while trying to get things done.

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  62. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology is a love/hate kind of thing because it is very nice to have in order for us keep us busy and social, but it would be very nice if we could put it down and not rely on it for everything.

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  63. In 2016, teenagers’ relationship with technology can be described as beneficial because there are so many things that are now possible because of it, however, the structure of being social has completely changed in a downward slope.

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  64. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as non social way to interact, but a helpful way to know if there is an emergency because we are just texting our friends instead of actually talking to them. We also make snap judgements about people because they are not used to seeing people with a disabilities.

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  65. In 2016, teenagers relationship with technology can be described as reliable because we always turn to our phones if we have any questions or are curious about certain topics.

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  66. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as useful, because it's better for the world if we have a generation of tech literate people who can further innovate everything.

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  67. In 2016 teenagers relationship with technology csn be described as ridiculous. Kids want to see likes followers, ect. Kids spend more time pretending to be somethinf they are not instead of just doing it forreal. I think the relationship is dependent and teens "need" their phone.

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  68. In 2016, teenagers’ relationship with technology can be described as people's lives because a lot of the things we learn in class is online and if the power goes out or the internet crashes then we can’t learn. We no longer can use sheets of paper and a white board because we revolve our lives around technology. And if we're not at school we are at home on our phones and video games and television shows. A lot of kids these days don’t even know what they would do if there connection to technology was gone because it's all we got it's what school taught us to use it’s what jobs expect us to learn and know it is our lives.

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  69. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as helpful but hurtful because many kids from our generation are dependent on technology for things other than making calls many people spend most of their time on the life they have created in their phones and we use them as a crutch.

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  70. In 2016, teenager’s relationship with technology can be described as reliant and evolutionary because we are a new generation and our whole lives are revolved around technology and that will change the world forever. But some people get lost in technology and use it negatively or are affected negatively by it.

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  71. In 2016, teenagers' relationship with technology can be described as medication but also a (bad) drug because some of them use their phones to escape from all the built up stress they had. However, others, the majority, use it out of entertainment and a way to pass time. After awhile, it starts to be an addictive habit to be glued to an electronic all day.

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  72. In Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, people's relationship with technology can be described as obsessive because the characters depend on technology for everything.

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  73. On page 63, Beatty states, " We'd certainly miss you if you didn't show". Does beatty know Montag isn't coming in? Does this happen frequently?

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  74. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal” (58). Do you think that having everyone be the same would be a good society to live in?

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  75. In 2016, teenager's relationship with technology can be described as confusing because it's a very different life style and it is too early to see how it will effect us.

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  76. Near the end of the assigned pages, Beatty explains to Montag why they burn books. Without books, happiness blossoms in the world and everyone will continue to have jubilation as long as they live without books. Would you agree with his perception?

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  77. Do you believe that technology can make a person unhappy?

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    1. After all the cyber bullying and stuff that was huge a few years ago, definitely.

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    2. I agree with Ben think that some of the content in technology can make people unhappy but for the most part it helps us and makes us happy.

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  78. Did Montag change his beliefs because of the positivity and curiosity that Clarisse has brought into her life with her different beliefs?

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    1. Definitely. She is one of the main causes for happiness in Guy's life.

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    2. Yes I think that his beliefs wouldn't have changed without the influence of Clarisse in his life.

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  79. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal” (58). This sounds kind of like a communist community, some countries to this day actually do live like this. What would allow a world to sink to this level? Corruption, power, money, greed?

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    1. Countries that are more communistic and totalitarian have a lot more control over their civilians. Some countries try to balance their citizen's well being with the political power of the country, but others just repress their people and use them as a means to an end

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  80. "He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea."
    I love this imagery that has been laid out in this sentence. It shows really how far he feels from his wife and himself from the other things in the world and in life. Why put so much imagery in this sentence? Whats the significance of how far away he feels from everyone else?

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    1. I think he distances himself because he doesn't really know what to do. I think he's struggling with staying with Mildred or possibly falling in love with Clarisse, and Bradbury wants us to feel his emotion.

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  81. Pages 46-47, Mildred seems to be very lost and ignorant by having Montag ask her for Asprin a dozen times until she finally remembers to give it to him. Do you think she's normal or does she have a special condition we are yet to find out about?

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  82. I think Bradbury did an excellent job of predicting what the future will be like. Nowadays we talk much less in person because we are too worried about our technology. This is sort of like the book in the way that no one talks to each other in person very often.

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    1. Does Bradbury assume that this is how the world is going to end up?

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    2. Well this book was written 50 years ago so I believe he might have seen signs of this happening at the time and thought of a future where it kept happening.

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  83. "We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now." Page 62. Betty says this to Montag. How do you interpret this?

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    1. Beatty is attempting to praise Montag and the firemen so Montag can see Beatty's same perspective on burning books. What he tries to convey to Montag is that they are the ones who are in charge of keeping the world happy. However, what he avoids to explain is that he destroys the other peoples' joy when they burn the books.

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    2. Beatty thinks that the firemen are responsible for the happiness of the world. He thinks that if the firemen didn't burn books, then people would be too upset over opposing opinions, that it would only result in pandemonium.

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  84. Why do we see words about joy and happiness associated with Clarisse and words about gloom and sadness associated with Mildred?

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    1. I think it is because Clarisse is new and he sees hope for change in her when he see the same gloomy life he has in Mildred.

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    2. Most likely to show that Clarisse represent the happiness left in this world and Mildred represent the opposite.

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    3. I think Clarisse is a symbol of what life used to be like and how being different is a good thing and Mildred is gloomy and sadness because she is a symbol of what's normal and how being like everyone else can do .

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    4. I think that Clarisse would see the other side of things where others were blinded by the bad currently happening.

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    5. I think Clarisse has her own imagination and thoughts and is different so she is happy and that is why she is associated with joy.

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    6. I see Mildred as the society they live in and Clarisse as a glitch in their world like rebelling against it even though she stood alone. However, although Beatty claims their world is happy without books, I think Mildred is associated with sadness because that's the real condition of what their society is in. It's not true happiness.

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  85. "So bring on your clubs and parties, your acrobats and magicians, your daredevils, jet cars, motorcycle helicopters, your sex and heroin, more of everything to do with automatic reflex." In this society, the normal thing to do is to keep filling the internal emptiness with artificial things and to blind people from the truth. When someone acknowledges the fact that its wrong, they're gotten rid of.

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    1. I don't know if he will be able to knowing that it isn't something he believes in.

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    2. I think he will but he definitely wouldn't want to burn books anymore.

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  87. On page 59 Beatty says, "Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too." Do you think Beatty thinks burning things or ignoring issues is the way of handling problems?

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    1. I think burning things. He mentioned that burning things is the cleanest way to eliminate the things that made people sad because no evidence is left afterwards.

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  88. "Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband'r wife."
    How could they not remember where they met? What does this mean? At least one of them should have remembered. Why was it so important for Guy to know where they met? Why was he frustrated at her? What made them not remember?

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  89. On page 62, Beatty says "I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They're about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction."
    Why is it that in a world of mindless entertainment, books with characters are a bad thing?

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  90. On page 57, Beatty says, "Bigger the population, the more minorities." Is this always true?

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    1. I think that it is true because the more people their are the harder it is for one person to stand out and be themselves

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  91. Are young people full of energy and creativity, until they hit a certain age in which it is ripped away from them?

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    1. I think this is true and it relates back to our unit about schools and that they gradually take away all of our creativity.

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    2. I think it is different for every person. Each person's education plays a large part in the loss or development of their creativity. So in this society their education kills their creativity at an extremely early age because the government doesn't want people to have their own ideas.

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    3. Yes. As time progresses, we grow older, meaning that we must gain more responsibility for us and our lives. Doing this consists of a lot of energy and since we cannot have a break from responsibility it wears people out and they become exhausted from this. We also have to attend school which basically destroys our creativity and construct it into maturity like a "business" mind.

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    4. Kids are really creative because the world is so open and free, and there's so much opportunity and so many things to do, but as you get older you get more experience, and realize that the world is much smaller than you thought, and there's not as much that you can do

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  92. "How do you get so empty?"
    I think this is the question he has been waiting to ask himself for a long time. This is the question that makes him think about his life and why he feels that way and how he wants to change it. What other questions must he ask himself to know for sure that the society, to know himself is sick?

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  93. What are your thoughts about the whole relating to calling in sick and the reasoning with Montag in the Fishbowl?

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    1. I feel like Montag's curiosity sparked once Clarisse introduced him to things their society doesn't observe and it began to grow and grow and grow until it got to the point that he wanted to read a book. I think he began to get overwhelmed by his desire of wanting to go against the law by opening a book rather than burning it which is why he got sick and vomited.

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  94. On page 65 Montag said "I'm going to do something big" what could this be? Will he end something bad or start something great?

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    1. I think Montag is starting to see the truth in this society and I think he is going to try to open the eyes of other people. If he succeeds I think this will be a very good thing but if not it is going to end very badly for Montag and the people who help him.

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    2. Not to sure what he is planning, but I can see both happening. He could end something bad, and that can be the start of something great.

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    3. I feel like it is going to be something about the burning of books. And depending on your view it will be good or bad.

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  95. I think in this society, the government is scared that if people read books then they will become smart. They think that smart people are most likely to question the government and revolt. I say this because we are learning about the Chinese Dynasties in history and a very similar thing happened in one of them.

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  96. On page 50, Montag says, "We burnt a thousand books. We burnt a woman." Mildred responded, "Well?" This is a good example of how Mildred has no care about anyone else other than herself. Is this a common thought, and is Montag the one who's on the outside, or vise versa?

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  97. "No. The same girl. McClellan. McClellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago. I'm not sure. But I think she's dead. The family moved out anyway. I don't know. But I think she's dead."
    How did she forget to tell Guy that she had died. In four days it should have came up sooner. Why would it take her so long to bring it up? How does this change Guy emotionally? How is he feeling about it? Is she really dead? So quickly? Where did the family go? Why did she die? Accident?

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    1. These questions have all sorts of truth running through them and can be seen as a controversy to many. First off, I believe entirely that Mildred should have told Montag the day of or the day after McClellan was killed because after all that was one of the few things that made Montag happy as he states on page 32. Also, I feel as thought Montag is taking this news harshly. Although he may not say it specifically, Montag is shown to be impacted by this news and I bet that he is having some major regrets as far as not changing while she was still here today. Because of this, Montag will change who he is and what he fight for no doubt. I don't think it is even a question if McClellan is dead also because thus far in the book there is no signs of her being alive and even if she were alive her family moved away because they didn't like the town, so I don't think there is a chance.

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  98. Do you think the government controls other things like media?

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  99. "You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one" (60-61). Is this quotation a metaphorical demonstration of a political oppression? Would those with one or no option politically be suffice with the result and therefore be happy?

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