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Predictions Come True?
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Predictions Come True?
Similarities In Our Societies
Information & Media
- F 451: Bradbury was exposed to the explosion of television, commercials, and movies. He mocks advertising when Montage goes to visit Faber. (subway advertising that people are humming absentmindedly)
- Our Society: Information affects the decisions we make, the habits we develop, such that we don't realize it's happening. Advertisement gears us to brand loyality by the time we are adults (Nike vs. Adidas, Starbucks vs. Dunkin')
Info & Media (Cont.)
- F 451: Beatty explains how short and quick learning information is, people don't want programs or books that take too long. The people in the society prefer small amounts of informations.
- Our Society: More focused on entertainment rather than stimulation due to the adverse effects of info overload; fantastic at cutting to the chase (sparknotes anyone?)
Increasing Violence
- F 451: Clarisse's experience with kids suggested a great deal of violence with one another ("They kill each other...six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone"), there are places for them to smash cars and windows
- Our Society: There are constant news headlines about school shootings (teenager vs. teenager), we are affected by serious trauma, or something more minor but significant like violent video games
Educational Equality
- F 451 Education: Lack of books=more academically equal, the government has control of the national curriculum, Clarisse is bullied for being different from the other children, emphasis on technological studies
- Our Education: less academically equal, but common core is becoming more prominent (national curriculum where we all learn the same way, and the same content), differences are not celebrated, kids are still bullied today, art majors are de-emphasized, stronger funding and encouragement on STEM majors with longer education
Firemen
- F 451: firemen have duties to preform "what is good for the people"; protection, help, safety--do this by burning books to keep everyone on the same playing field
- Our Society: firemen protect the people by
Presented By: Jenna Simons,Ciara Sherling, Kelsilyn Norman, Chase Page, Mark Mullins, Matt Wells
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