Monday, November 2, 2009

Thesis statements from 451

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", what are the authors trying to forewarn to their audiences and why?

In a topic sentnece/ thesis statement, answer the following question.

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  2. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn to their audiences about how dangerous a completely equal society would be.

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  4. The one thing that I saw that the authors Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, "The Pedestrian", and "Harrison Bergeron", were trying to warn us about, is how much people are going to get taken over by television.

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  5. Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, in their works Fahrenheit 451, "The Pedestrian," and "Harrison Bergeron," warn their audiences of being spoon-fed information and accepting this as fact because the idea of not thinking is a theme throughout each of the three works.

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  7. In Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" the authors are trying to warn their readers about technology taking over the society because so many new advances were coming out and people are becoming attached to their machines.

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  8. In Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn the audience about how dangerous it could be if technology keeps advancing as fast as it does, and people continue to become addicted to it.

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  10. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors show their belief that our society in the future will be taken over by the control of technology that overpowers individual thinking.

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  11. In the three science fiction stories Fahrenheit 451, "The Pedestrian", and "Harrison Burgeon" Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut are trying to warn society of the danger of not thinking for yourself. By letting the parlor or the government think for you, you are in danger of being used.

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  12. In Fahernheit 451, "The Pedestrian", and "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn us of too much control and censorship in our society.

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  14. Ray Bradbury’s "Farenheit 451" and Kurt Vonnegut’s “The Pedestrian” forewarn their audiences that in the future, humans will not tolerate suspicious activity by any means because it could lead to an unhappy society.

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  15. The authors Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut are forewarning the control and influence new technology can have over a society through the texts Fahrenheit 451, "The Pedestrian" and "Harrison Bergeron".

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  16. Throughout Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, "The Pedestrian", and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn their audiences about the advancing technology so that the readers can grasp an idea of what the future would be like if we depend all on technology.

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  17. In the short stories, “The Pedestrian” written by Ray Bradbury, “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, and then the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the authors tried to forewarn the audience on how technology was going to eventually make us rely on it and no longer on other objects such as books and other sorts of communicating ideas. In each of these pieces of literature there are examples that show how we begin to sway from learning from books and humans and change to learning from televisions and robots have taken over everyday jobs.

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  18. In Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian", and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", The authors are forewarning a society that is under complete control.

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  19. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and “The Pedestrian”, and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,” the authors are trying to forewarn their audiences that banning books is not the answer to equality.

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  20. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forrewarn their readeres about the dangers of taking away thinking and imaginationation from a society.

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  21. In The Pedestrian, Fahrenheit 451, and Harrison Bergeron by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonegut the authors are trying to warn us of the loss of individuality and the dangers of expressing ones self in such a society.

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  23. In Ray Bradbury’s Pedestrian and Fahrenheit 451 and Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron the authors are trying to forewarn their readers about the loss of personal thinking in society because they found it important and a problem that could grow into something greater.

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  24. Fahrenheit 451, "The Pedestrian" and "Harrison Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury, are three stories connected through restricitons of individuality and society's over use of equality. These ideas are warnings to society today.

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  25. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and “The Pedestrian” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, the authors are trying to warn society of the control the government has over us because in the time period the book was written, America had just gotten out of a war and some countries in this war had governments with complete control.

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  27. Bradbury and Vonnegut are trying to forewarn their audience that they are relying on the media and technology too much and because of this are becoming used to not having their own opinion, transforming into a general society instead of unique individuals.

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  28. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn their readers of the censorship and lack of individuality that the government is forcing on society.

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  29. Authors Ray Bradbury of Fahrenheit 451 and the “Pedestrian”, and author Kurt Vonnegut of “Harrison Bergeron” are trying warn the readers of total control of the government. In these stories, the government has taken total control and many of the citizens rights have been taken away.

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  31. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn their readers about the dangers of taking away thinking and imagination from a society.

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  32. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" the authors are trying to forewarn society about the loss of free thought because they believe it is important that people continue to challenge the system.

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  33. In "The Pedestrian", Fahrenheit 451, and "Harrison Bergeron" by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonegut the authors were trying to warn the world of the impending veil of complete government censorship rapidly drifting over today's society.

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  34. In Ray Bradburry's Faherenheit 451 and "The Pedestrain" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" the authors are trying to forwarn their audiences of the concequences of complete equality because this takes away all indeveduality.

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  35. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to warn society of the breakdown of individuality and the human spirit.

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  36. In "Harrison Bergeron" and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and "The Pedestrian" by Kurt Vonnegut, the authors are trying to warn society of technology taking over.

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  38. In Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors were trying to forewarn the generations of the futere of the failing human connections that we share.

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  40. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian", and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron, the authors are warning societies of allowing the quest for equality to cause oppression from the government to reach equality.

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  41. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are attempting to warn society that if it does not use technology wisely, technology will take complete control over society.

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  42. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to warn their audience of society losing their individuality, technology controlling the life of citizens, and the consequence society faces when they try to make everyone happy.

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  43. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" the authors are trying to warn society of the dangers of removing all imagination and individuality from society.

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  45. In “Harrison Burgeon” by Kurt Vonnegut and Fahrenheit and "The Pedestrian" both by Ray Bradbury, the authors are trying to warn us that we rely on not always reliable technology to run our everyday lives.

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  46. "The Pedestrian", "Harrison Bergeron", and Ron Bergeron Ron Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut are trying to make our society realize how consumed we are become in technology so we do not completly eliminate our freedom of thought and time.

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  48. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn their audiences of technology because it can overpower the human mind.

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  49. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and “The Pedestrian” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, the authors are trying to warn their audiences that they need to stop depending on technology so much because technology is not always reliable and can be harmful if used in the wrong way.

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  50. In Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" also in Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" the authors are trying to warn the people of the lack of imagination that will happen in the future by the way people interact with eachother, their community, and with their emotions.

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  51. Ray Bradbury in "The Pedestrian" and "Fahrenheit 451" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Burgeron", the authors were trying to warn us about how reliant on equalization in society because of peoples wants and needs.

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  52. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn their audiences of the advancement of technology in society because it distances people from each other.

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  53. In Fahrenheit 451 and "Harrison Bergeron" by Ray Bradbury, and "The Pedestrian" by Kurt Vonnegut, the authors are trying to warn society of becoming to dependent on technology because society will lose its ability to function.

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  54. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" attempt to warn society about the increasing dependence on technology because of the ill effects of technology on society.

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  55. In literature such as Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Burgeron" the authors are trying to warn the reader of a controlled society. The authors are try to alert the audience of this parallel because they see that this society is becoming less strange and more familiar than we know.

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  56. Fahrenheit 451,"The Pedestrian" Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron,all foreworn their audiences of government control. All of these stories portray what life would be like living under such a controlling government, the lives of the people are miserable showing that too much government can be a mistake.

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  57. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 415 and "The Pedesrtian", and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" are warning us of becomin fully technologically driven because of knowledge, relationships, and power.

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  58. In Ray Bradbury's "Harrison Burgeron" and Fahrenheit 451 and Kurt Vonnegut's "The Pedestrian", the authors are trying to warn society of the advancement of technology because they lose their individuality.

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  59. When Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 and “The Pedestrian” and Kurt Vonnegut wrote “Harrison Bergeron”, they were trying to forewarn the audience that our world is changing, and they would like to see the world end up becoming something different than they predicted.

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  60. In Ray Bradbury’s ,Fahrenheit 451 and “The Pedestrian” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, one thing the authors were trying to warn us about is the growth of technology and how it will take over our lives. If technology takes over our lives we will stop thinking all together and become dependant of technology

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  61. The three peices of literature, Fahrenheit 451 and "Harrison Bergeron" written by Ray Bradbury and "The Pedestrian" by Kurt Vonnegut are cautioning readers of government control of everything citizens do because they have predicted correctly so far.

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  62. In Fahrenheit 451, "The Pedestrian" and "Harrison Bergeron" the authors Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut are trying to forwarn the audience about not letting technology take over our lives because it leads to negative effect in society.

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  63. In Ray Bradbury's the book Fahrenheit 451 and short story "The Pedestrian" and Kurt Vonnegut's, the authors are trying to warn the future how individuality and knowledge are building blocks that form our society. The warning is coming because of how technology is stripping us of those aspects.

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  64. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and the "Pedestrian" as well as Curt Vonnegut's Harrison Burgereon, these two authors strive to warn society of the misuse of control. Thus, readers might come to understand the important of individuality despite the human tendency to conform into a single majority.

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  65. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrian, as well as in Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", the authors are trying to forewarn their audiences about the disappearance of free-thinking and human individuality because they believe that we will eventually grow into a corrupt society where the only feelings of the general public are a dull, boring median.

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  66. In Vonnegut's "Harrison Beregeron" and Fahrenheit 451 and "The Pedestrain" the authors are warning the people in society that the government is taking over and stopping every persons indivudial thinking.

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  67. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and “The Pedestrian” and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, the goal of the authors is to forewarn readers of what is to come in the future, how societies at one point will become dependent and controlled by technology, they feel the need that not only writers should be limited to express themselves freely but as well as others. Overall people within a society should not be dependent on something that can be taken for granted.

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  68. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and “The pedestrian”, and Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, the authors are forewarning that society will become impersonal because they believe technology will evolve mankind.

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  69. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" and "The Pedestrian" both these authors are trying to warn us that technology will take over peoples daily lives, which will collapse society.

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  70. In author Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 and his short story "The Pedestrian as well as Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" these authors used their stories to warn our society that one day the civilians of our country might be forced to conform to a communistic and a "one mold fits all" government because there are so many similarities between the society in these stories and the society of the real world.

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