It was a rainy day in the early 2000s. A man sat in a building with his little students observing them as they did their activities they were told to do. The man looked out at the rain and then back to the children, an idea popped in his head. He called the children over to tell them a story. They children gathered around on the floor to listen to the story, the man spoke. “Do you kids want to hear how the story of how rain was created?” The kids looked at him in curiosity to see how rain was created. Whispers started circling around the circle. “Hush now children” the man said and the children hushed up while staring at the man. “It all started long ago, when the people from Earth begged for water and the gods has responded” “Joseph!” said the angel “Your meeting with the other gods is in a bit”.
“Thank you angel, I know” Joseph spoke as he finished tending to his plants. Joseph kissed his wife goodbye and said goodbye to his children happily. Joseph turned from his house and walked toward the heavens den. He pushed open the door to the place and continued to his assigned seat. The other God and goddesses staring at him.
“Always late Joseph” spoke Riley
“Oh shut it, I was exactly on time” Joseph said. Now that Joseph was sitting the meeting was ready to begin.
“What are the daily crises today” Joseph asked while he leaned back in his chair. One of the goddess spoke.
“Jared and Julie has recently got into a fight”
“Separate them, they should know better than to
The purpose of the story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” is to teach that technology can
In “There Will Come Soft Rains” Ray Bradbury suggests that technology is very destructive and dehumanizing. Bradbury shows this through talking about a house in the year 2026 that does everything for the humans that live in it. The house makes their food, cleans the dishes, cleans the house, and even reads to them. To some people this may sound like a good thing, but Bradburry shows how the house is not a human and it just is not the same. These are things people are meant to do and can have some meaning. Having a house doing nearly everything for you truly is dehumanizing. When he describes the houses jobs he makes them sound useless. The movements are useless because there are no people in the house, due to what Bradbury suggests was an atomic bomb by writing that the house was the only one not destroyed in a whole city, and there was a green radioactive glow throughout the city. Another way bradbury showed the house was destructive was when
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Recently in English we read “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury. It takes place in 2026 and it explains what it will be like in the future. The story talks about a house that is ran by machines. In this paper, it will talk about the theme, what the story is about, literary terms, and Bradbury's message on the future.
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Ann M. Martin’s latest heartwarming novel, Rain Reign, focuses on Rose Howard, an eleven year old girl with Asperger's syndrome who is positively obsessed with homonyms. She lives in Hatford, New York, with her single father and pet dog, Rain. But, when Hurricane Susan hits the city, Rose finds herself trapped in her house with her father and Rain nowhere to be found. Rose and her father find out that they have to make some tough decisions and sacrifice for the ones they love. One of the main lessons that Rain Reign provides is the idea that if you love somebody, you have to be willing to let them go.
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In the three passages “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” “Thomas Jefferson's America, 1801,” and “Chief Joseph Speak” the Americans did the Indians wrong. The way the Americans treated the Indians were unreasonable. When Lewis and Clark went on there expedition there was already a little bit of congregation going on, therefore it made the situation worse when the Americans were trying to fight the Indians again. In the article “Chief Joseph Speaks…” it talks about all the Indians want is peace and the American are trying to find every little thing that they don’t like about the Indians, and pick a fight about it.
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I performed a slam poem, dedicated to the Non-Profit RAIN, at connecting Charlotte, which is an event that honors 12 non-profits through poetry and photography. RAIN is an organization that brings attention to people with AIDS and provides treatment, counselors, etc. I always made eye contact with the audience members. During my performance I made eye-contact with one of the RAIN members and he had the biggest smile on his face. It took all my self-control and concentration not to crack a smile with him. After Connecting Charlotte ended I was able to talk to the RAIN people and they had nothing but good things to say. I talked to the man who was grinning ear to ear in the audience, Mr. Jason. He said that "it's good to hear a young person with
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