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    Fahrenheit 451 Obsolete

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    I believe that books should be obsolete because they not only are boring but it makes the brain process and think more, and make you tired. The dystopian society in Fahrenheit 451 is very corrupted, but at the same time it’s becoming more and more like our techy futuristic society today. Obsolete books should supersede paper and hardback books, and here’s why. My first reason is that books require which comes from trees and this issue has affected many animals and people. My second reason is that

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    Libraries: Are They becoming Obsolete? Herring, Y Mark. “Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age.” http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.northcenttexascollegelibrary.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=81d1e5f8-4786-40ea-8f01-3d2f25c73c8a%40sessionmgr101&vid=1&hid=120. Herring was questioned by a legislature, “Everything was on the Internet, so why did our students need a new, big library building?”. "Not everything is on the Internet" answers Herring. In his most recent

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    Are Nuclear Weapons Strategically Obsolete? Why or Why not? The ongoing debate of whether or not nuclear weapons are obsolete or not is a very complex one. Numerous studies have purported that nuclear weapons no longer serve an important strategic purpose for countries such as the United States of America and Great Britain. Clausewitz stated that war and politics were inextricably linked. So the distinction between “political” and “military” viability of nuclear weapons is one without meaning. Essentially

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    re-tribalizing, involuntarily getting rid of individuals. We once only had books and reading was an individual activity. Books were read line-by-line, things happening one at a time, but as technology develops things are happening all at once. Our world is becoming smaller, connected through the media and technology. When something happens in the world we all get the message. He believes that the western world is becoming more group oriented like the third world countries. The media changes the way

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    The future of print communication lies within the direction of where print media is currently heading, digital. With that being said, print will never die; there will always be people who want to physically hold a book, a magazine, or a newspaper. Although it is not presumptuous to assume that the amount of print will decrease, it will however continue to live for decades to come. Print history will always have a crucial aspect in the linear advancements of technology. There are many ways to look

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    Electronic Writing Will Not Make Books Obsolete Twenty years ago, the thought of instantly publishing your thoughts for the world to see with the simple push of a button, would have been a dream. Today, websites and on-line forums have made this dream possible. Through the years, technology has made advancements in many fields. Today, nowhere is that more apparent than in the field of writing. Electronic writing’s detractors fear that the increase of electronic writing will spell

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    prominent but unlike our society books are illegal. In their society books started out just becoming obsolete they weren’t originally illegal. Captain Beatty starts to described on page 54 why people dislike books. He says that people thought they took to long to read and that they were too offensive to many people. Eventually they started shortening them into five minute radio shows and then to 10 to 12 word definitions in the dictionary. Once society read them off as obsolete and unnecessary the government

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    compare and contrast canonical books, we can learn many things about the theology and context in which these books were written. Today, we will be comparing two books from the New Testament: Hebrews and Revelation. While Hebrews is often referred to as an epistle, it is actually more similar to a sermon. Revelation is a book that describes a supposed “vision” from the author John. John wrote this vision down on the instruction of a heavenly figure. While we compare these books, we will specifically focus

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    Pariser's Summary

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    source outlets, including books, newspapers, and possibly television, are quickly becoming outdated and obsolete as a result of the growing personalized web and the expansion of other companies by utilizing the internet, and he supports this claim with several examples of this phenomenon that already occurred or are currently occurring. The best example of the latter is when Amazon launched and used its “personalization code” (29), which allowed customers to not only buy books from their computers,

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    surveillance to our short attention span. Even more surprising, is how our world appears to slowly turn into the world of Fahrenheit 451. In the book, the US has taken a turn for the worse. Children are killing each other, robots are replacing people in the workplace, and most importantly, books are banned. It is intriguing (and even scary) how much this book and our society have in common and if we don’t want be like this, we need to be like Ray Bradbury and find

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