How believable is a future like the one Bradbury describes, one that ban books, and original thought? Could this rampant use of censorship really occur? Explain and defend your answer (evidence).
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How believable is a future like the one Bradbury describes, one that ban books, and original thought? Could this rampant use of censorship really occur? Explain and defend your answer (evidence).
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Taryn Shurling
1/30/2015 01:10:47 pm
Considering how are drastic change of style and practices throughout the course of generations, it could be possible. Though, there is the fact that the United States today is against any sort of communist rule, we are also against slavery, but that was written down in our history books, now wasn't it? The thought of extreme censorship could occur, and it couldn't as well. The scale weighs on both ends. However, it may tilt a little bit towards the possibility of such actions.
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Reese Nighbert
2/5/2015 11:03:51 am
The overall direction that our society is moving towards by censoring things in our everyday lives leads me to believe that in the future, our society could become one that censors all use of books. Many countries, including ours, already control parts of the media and what the public is allowed to know, hear, and see.
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Mikayla 1st
2/10/2015 07:22:17 am
In “Fahrenheit 451” doesn’t seem believable in that futuristic world. To ban books, well that seems a bit damaging to education and knowledge. To ban original thought, no originality period to be gone would be devastating. Truly I am happy that this can’t really happen in today’s world, but the future never tells.
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laurel p 2nd
2/1/2015 04:47:02 am
I believe it could be possible, but It would probably take a couple years to do it. I think if the government gets strong enough they could possibly do this. The government is very powerful now.
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alex g 3rd
2/1/2015 08:34:57 am
The future would probably censor books and it would probably take a few years to get rid of the books. If the future did censor books we would not get all the knowledge and what we need for a good job. "READ READ READ" (William Faulkner) Books give you the knowledge you need to get through life.
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Kylie N 2nd
2/1/2015 08:35:22 am
It's unbelievable the future Bradbury describes in his book. Burning books, white houses, I don't think that the government would take away books away from our learning. Our education is the most important thing I think that we should have. This future that Bradbury talks about is unbelievable because all houses wouldn't be all white. Everyone doesn't just like white.
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Katie Altis 4th
2/2/2015 02:43:42 am
In our world today we depend on things in the future. We have high hopes in technology, and science. In books we hold past experience, but without that we are nothing to the future. We would lose all the hours of long, hard work would be gone. Vanished before us and we don't have a clue!
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Angel D (1st period)
2/2/2015 07:09:59 am
While reading Ray Bradbury's book, "Fahrenheit 451", I thought of what It would actually be like to live in a society like that, how do people learn without books, etc. Comparing today's society to Ray's book's situation/setting, a lot of people in this society are just surrounded by technology and just read off of their phones instead of grabbing a book and reading from that.
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Mallory Robb
2/3/2015 06:12:29 am
It is possible for things that we have now to be censored in the future. Our generation is very different than the generation before us and it is changing quickly. Things such as books could very well be censored in the future. There is no way to tell but with the technology and the generation we have now anything could happen.
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Michaela Rahn
2/3/2015 07:25:47 am
Could something possibly be censored in our generation? Is this even possible? Yes! Especially in todays generation and/or in the future. We are so dependent of technology, and everyone is or will use technology. We have no way of knowing this, but it is very possible that paper could be censored in the future.
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Chase Howze 4th
2/3/2015 11:39:56 am
There is always a chance that there could one day be sensors in our lives. In North Korea the civilians lives are already censored. That idea could spread and before you know it the United States could have things censored. As much violence there are these days in our world I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we have things in our lives censored.
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Gwendolyn S. 1st pd.
2/3/2015 09:24:04 pm
A future for someone like that is truly not believable in any way. Even in the real world. You can't have a good future out of that. From burning books. In real life people would actually want you to read books not burn them. Also firefighters is supposed to put out fires. Not make them.
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Evy Brown 1st
2/3/2015 11:35:42 pm
Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, creates a non-believable environment to where they censor books. In our society today, we would never censor books and it won't happen. To many people would be familiar with the books and 2015 preadults have a mind where they will always wonder why. Not always how but why.
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Caitlin E 4th period
2/4/2015 06:14:18 am
Is it possible that the government could censor books in our future? I believe that our government could do it. Today our world is focused on technology. We get almost every bit of information we know from it. In the past, we learned everything from books rather than technology. In the book Fahrenheit 451, the author creates an unreal society. I believe it is possible for our government to censor books in the future, because they can teach us so much the government might not want us to know.
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Aubriana Per.1
2/4/2015 08:14:56 am
In the book we are reading, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury sets his readers in a futuristic society controlled by their government. They aren't aloud to read certain books. They barley have any time to realize that there's a real world around them. They don't do simple things, like we do nowadays. They don't even look at the moon in the sky. People that do harbor books will be in trouble and their books will be burnt by firemen.
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Makenzie D 4th
2/4/2015 09:33:49 am
The society in Farenheit 451 is believable to me. Our society is easily influenced by new technology and ideas. I could see our society burning books, because children these days would rather not read. They are dependent about technology and electronics. We are easily influenced by others.
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James R 3rd
2/4/2015 09:44:24 am
No because we have to many to get burn and stuff. Our government already gave us rights that can not be taken away from us. We use so much technology for learning in schools and for other stuff. It would be to hard to take it away to begen with.
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Madison F 4th
2/4/2015 09:50:09 am
Is it possible for there to be a censorship of books in the future? I think there can be. If we think of how technology has become a big part in peoples lives today, books may be censored. Today everyone uses there technology instead of the old fashioned books. Kids our age have trouble using a dictionary when needed to. We relay on our phones or computers to look up the definition of a word.
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Madison B 1st
2/4/2015 10:08:53 am
The future were books are banned is not believable. It is not believable because a thousand people even more then a thousand people like books. People like to write books because they like sharing their feelings. Sometimes they even like to write books for entertainment.
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Brandon Brown 3rd Period
2/4/2015 10:12:14 am
Could that type of rampant censorship occur is the question. One thing is for sure, anything is possible. In my opinion, it would be easy for this type of control to happen. We are already being censored now. We have already begun to see how technology has become more controlled in the past decade. The government allows us to know what they want us to know, see what they want us to see, and do what they what us to do.
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Bryan 2nd
2/4/2015 10:22:08 am
How Believable is a future like the one Bradbury describes, one that ban books, and original thoughts? The future Bradbury describes does not sound much believable. Books are banned in this future Bradbury describes. In our time today every book that exists would not be banned. These books store the most important things we have today. They store the information that we keep. The books even tell us the stories from way back then that people do not know of today.
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Alexia G 1st :)
2/4/2015 10:25:49 am
The future that Bradbury describes is believable but not really (more of insane if you ask me!). Don’t get me wrong but driving a car 100 mph?! It’s not dumb it dangerous. Imagine how many deaths you will have and not to mention how disrespectful it is not to have a funeral!!! Like a deck of cards I just can’t deal…..I understand that the family doesn’t want to morn over the deceased but it’s a respectable thing to do instead of calling people to come and pick up the dead corps to be incinerated. I’m almost sure that no one wants to be thrown into a hot pit of fire when their dead right?
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Brennan 2nd
2/4/2015 11:12:41 am
If books would be censored the world would be different. Our world today depends on different things and one is books. Books can be very helpful and nice to read when you need something to do. Books can give you a better education because while reading you are learning.
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Katie kaetzel pd1
2/4/2015 09:15:38 pm
I think, this type or society could happen, because in the book that captain describes how they try to keep peace. Also, we already have a lot of technology.
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Caleb walsh 2nd
2/4/2015 10:16:59 pm
I don't believe that this could happen to our society today. There is to much technology we have and we could just use that to get on our apps and read books in their. Some people coulnt live without books.
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Amy Conley 2nd
2/4/2015 10:18:26 pm
If books we censored it would be really bad, because in our world to day it depends on alot of thing and the main thing is books.
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Chase R 1st
2/4/2015 10:20:20 pm
I think it is very believable that a future like Bradburys is very so quite possible. Every day we are turning into that society. People just want know it until it ends up happening. Our populations is growing ever so bigger everyday. Technology is getting more advanced every minute. I think that the U.S. will someday end up like Bradburys.
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jaylin 3rd
2/4/2015 10:21:29 pm
If technology were censored then thing's would be different because , now a day's that's all people use.If they're not using phone's,then they're on a tablet if not that then their on on the computer.
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Taylor Vezevicius 1st pd
2/4/2015 10:31:14 pm
I believe it wouldnt possibly happen, but if It did happen would probably take a couple years to do it. the goverment is so strong now. He could probably make this happen. not anytime soon though.
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Todd 1st
2/4/2015 10:31:26 pm
Censorship in todays world is used to cover up documents, and hide other things that a person wants to keep a secret. In the novel fahrenheit 451 censorship is commited by burning books so no one there has knowledge of the past or of history. A question is asked if i think this could ever happen in our modern day america.
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jami b 1st pd.
2/4/2015 10:34:36 pm
I think that this type of event could actually happen someday ? Because we have so much technology coming our way its unbelievable? one day we are gonna be able to read with just the click of a button. but if they were to ban books then some people could/would take that hard because they may love there books.
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phillip
2/4/2015 10:36:17 pm
Ban books shouldnt be allowed because most of the things and items we have today are from books. People think we shouldnt ave books because its to much but if you didnt have books you wouldnt havev known the areas and diffrent parts of the world Most of the world is made up of books. Like everybody reads. Even cell phones you have to read but it helps you if you read. Many people think that we have technogoly that we dont need to read. What if there was no electronics and you had to choice but to read. Many famous people today has to read and if they didnt they wouldnt be famous well some would but most of them read so i think the goverment should not ban books.
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michael lundquist 3rd
2/4/2015 10:37:33 pm
This society is non-believable because there would be too many people that would not agree with the society. And they wouldn't censor books they would censor the internet .
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eli
2/4/2015 10:39:49 pm
In our world i dont think that they could do the censorship thong because we would not be okay with it we would rebell.(not finished
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s.jucook
2/4/2015 10:39:49 pm
I think it is not believeable to have tthe state to ban books. We use books everyday for projects, book reports, and to study out of. We use books in college to learn more information. Also to study for exams in the classes. When you get a book report it requires us to have a book to read.
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ronnie boydston 3rd
2/4/2015 10:39:54 pm
Our society is base of our differences of each our.Our socially economy.It's all base on our differences.Not just that we thrive on them.our society is build on the different people we have making up our lands.if the government ever did censored thier roitsd
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Ernest 1
2/4/2015 10:39:55 pm
I think this will never happen to modern day because everybody know that books help us learn and some people really like books and if somebody try to ban the books it will be big you know what mod and they will have no choose to stop ban books and other things like comic books newspaper and them little funny things in the newspaper.
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eric 1st
2/4/2015 10:41:47 pm
It is very stupid that they banned books in the story 451 Fahrenheit.People like reading books and the should be able to read books when every they want to because people have there on mine about life .
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Josh B 2nd
2/4/2015 11:48:56 pm
To me when you say something about censorship, it means that someone or something has censored a book, movie etc. for a certain reason. Some people like censorship, some people don't. Me, I like certain things to be censored such as the movie Apocalypto, it shows survival, Weird behavior, etc. One day censorship such as this can happen! Our president, Obama, might stop all the survival books from coming out because he does not want us humans to take over. You can achieve what you want to achieve "Don't stop your dreams, only you can stop, you."
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Joshua W 2nd
2/4/2015 11:49:34 pm
Our society is base of our differences of each our.Our socially economy.It's all base on our differences.Not just that we thrive on them.Our society is build on the different people we have making up our lands.
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Madison Johnson 2nd pd
2/4/2015 11:50:45 pm
Is it true that the government can censor things? Yes it is very true. They can do whatever they want to. If they censored books we would be in a heap of trouble because books help us learn new things. We would not have new vocabulary skills or any imagination if they censored books. It would be a very dark world if they censored books.
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Kevin Thomas Not Finished
2/4/2015 11:51:44 pm
No a world where books are banned is kinda believable because around the world certain books are banned. But I would not believe that they would burn books.
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Rebecca B.
2/5/2015 12:16:48 am
I don't think that a future that censored books and original thoughts could be possible. Everyone would go crazy and some point. There would be more people like the lady who got burned in the house. There is more people now than in the book who cared about books.
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Harmon Ringgold 4th
2/5/2015 12:23:30 am
Our wirld could not become like the world of Fahrenheit 451. Many people in our world still read books, magazines, and comics. Without these things our world could not learn our history. We may hve tecnology like computers and cell phones but some people learn from books better. Technology can have lies on the internet and your new, but history books do not lie.
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Cat 1st
2/5/2015 12:23:45 am
In the real world the act of censoring books will not work. People are going to to continue to read even if books are not allowed. People read on the Internet all the time to see what is going on in the world at the time. Reading is beneficial for many people.
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Hannah H 4th
2/5/2015 12:25:00 am
I do believe some things would soon become censored in our society today. We're always using technology whether we're doing something for work, ordering dinner, catching up with friends and family, or even playing games. In the future, our society may rely solely on technology. They would begin to censor actual books, real magazines, and other tv shows. For all we know they could get rid of it all together and go completely with computers.
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Evan Oglesby
2/5/2015 12:31:14 am
I do not believe this could ever happen. We jave a constitution that protects our rights. I also do not see why people would ban books. They are not doing sny harm to anyone. You just dont read if you dont want to. You are free to do what you want.
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Anna F 4th period
2/5/2015 12:39:13 am
I dont think that a society can be where books can be banned. I think that riots would start and people would go crazy. What i mean by that is reading gives you knowledge and books give you that ability to practice reading. i dont know how you can know stuff without reading out of books. They hold societies together. Imagine if the people in the way back when nothing was invented age, didnt write books, then people wouldnt know what to put on websites because they caouldnt read on it. We wouldnt know half of the stuff we do today.
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clayton 3rd
2/5/2015 01:37:50 am
It is possible for things that we have now to be censored in the future. Our generation is very different than the generation before us and it is changing quickly. Things such as books could very well be censored in the future. There is no way to tell but with the technology and the generation we have now anything could happen.
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s.jucook
2/5/2015 02:27:10 am
I think it is not believeable to have tthe state to ban books. We use books everyday for projects, book reports, and to study out of. We use books in college to learn more information. Also to study for exams in the classes. When you get a book report it requires us to have a book to read.
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Brianna Sims
2/5/2015 02:35:58 am
Do you ever think that the government will get so powerful that they will censor books? Yes, i think the government will get become advanced and censor books. Their is very advanced techngioloy know for that so i this the government would do that.
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Katie C 3rd
2/5/2015 02:54:37 am
I don't think that would happen. The citizens would be very upset because they would have to get rid of there stuff. They would probably react with a riot and violence. Also the police men would have to go through everyone's stuff to get everything out of the people's houses. Plus the citizens would be mad that the police men have to go through there stuff.
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aaliyasha 3rd period
2/5/2015 02:54:53 am
I don't believed that books are banned. The reason why is because you need books so you can learn in my country.
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Eric 1st
2/5/2015 04:50:52 am
It is very stupid that they banned books in the story 451 people like reading books. And the should be able to read books when they want to. Because people have there on mine about life they should be able to do.
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Wyatt H. 4th
2/5/2015 05:37:05 am
I don't think that the future could be like what Bradbury describes. It would be almost impossible to get all books gone. People would hide books and read them. All books would never go away because some people would just write more if them. Humans wouldn't let books just be taken from them. They would fight to keep books, so that would be a problem for the government.
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Kaila C.4th
2/5/2015 06:29:12 am
I believe that it is impossible for the government to ban books.This would not happen because some people still read books.People also still write books.People would write more to satisfy their needs.Books are still important to some people.
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Gabbi H. 2nd
2/5/2015 06:34:12 am
It is possible for books that we have now to be censored in the future?Well the future is very unpredictable. The government could possibly censor books,but it would take a very long time for them to accomplish something that is very valuable to the people of the world. The way our world is turning into is not good. It's changing. We rely on technology and other things. Soon the government will think we just rely on technology instead of books. Some people won't take that very well and they will fight for their rights. The government could do this.
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Breanna j 4 th
2/5/2015 06:57:11 am
Have you ever heard of a dystopian society? Where was it? What were the laws there? How did that apply to you? There is a dystopian society that has firefighters starting fires instead of putting them out.
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Gracie w 2nd
2/5/2015 07:39:05 am
It is not possible for our government to censor books. When you look back where did we learn from in school,books. They really cant do that. People complain about kids to day on technology way to much . Just think where would we find words ....not the dictionary.
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Autumn 4th period
2/5/2015 08:02:53 am
Yes, i believe the society created in Fahrenheit451 really could happen. The "speeding up" of their odd society is fairly quick and simple. See it starts slowly with one thing and then its two things that have changed as allow as it might be happening it seems like change the changes are happening so fast.
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Jenna Roberson 2nd period
2/5/2015 08:35:33 am
Could our future change because of censorship? Yes our society today is very in to technology and if the government banned books we could easily be okay because we would still have our technology. Their are many people who loved to read and then there are some people who absolutely hate reading. So I could very easily see this whole government change sometime in the future.
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Lane C 4th
2/5/2015 08:39:02 am
I believe a future similar to Bradbury's depiction is very possible in our modern society. Recently, we've seen more reform of information available to the public. One radical example of government-enforced censorship in the modern world would be the situation of North Korea. The Kim Jong Un Administration limits the outside information that get to its citizens in astronomical proportions. Any news broadcasted in thee country is made to or tailored to make the nation's public believe whatever ludicrous and (for lack of a better term) made-up propaganda the government wants them to think. Because no outside opinions get to the citizens, the citizens consider the leader like a god, and have a false sense of "paradise"
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Lane C 4th
2/5/2015 08:39:36 am
I believe a future similar to Bradbury's depiction is very possible in our modern society. Recently, we've seen more reform of information available to the public. One radical example of government-enforced censorship in the modern world would be the situation of North Korea. The Kim Jong Un Administration limits the outside information that get to its citizens in astronomical proportions. Any news broadcasted in thee country is made to or tailored to make the nation's public believe whatever ludicrous and (for lack of a better term) made-up propaganda the government wants them to think. Because no outside opinions get to the citizens, the citizens consider the leader like a god, and have a false sense of "paradise"
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Lane C 4th
2/5/2015 08:40:00 am
I believe a future similar to Bradbury's depiction is very possible in our modern society. Recently, we've seen more reform of information available to the public. One radical example of government-enforced censorship in the modern world would be the situation of North Korea. The Kim Jong Un Administration limits the outside information that get to its citizens in astronomical proportions. Any news broadcasted in thee country is made to or tailored to make the nation's public believe whatever ludicrous and (for lack of a better term) made-up propaganda the government wants them to think. Because no outside opinions get to the citizens, the citizens consider the leader like a god, and have a false sense of "paradise"
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Micaiah Bolton 2nd Period
2/5/2015 09:03:41 am
For a moment lets be real. If books were censored, there would be riots in the streets full of fangirls/fanboys. It would be disastrous and the person who tries to accomplish it is a looney bird. Now lets get back to the writing.
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Tala S. 4th
2/5/2015 09:23:11 am
Fahrenheit 451 describes a heartless, lifeless community that consists of occupants that try to travel too quickly through their lives. No one really feels or understands emotions to begin with. They merely seek happiness, according to Beatty. Can we ever turn out to be such a dark community? Well, to determine this, we must first take a look at the small things that barely anyone notices within the book, and compare it with our every-day lives. Maybe something lies deeper in between the lines.
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Madison V 1st
2/5/2015 11:08:49 am
I don't believe that what happened in the book would happen in our time. No books is unbelievable. I think some people would go crazy with out them. I can't even imagine about a world with out books.
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Tiffany P 4th
2/5/2015 12:29:02 pm
I believe that our world may turn out like Fahrenheit 451's. Without books, people will be careless. Books carry information which means we learn every time we read, but most things can be recorded online. Education, jobs/careers and hobbies can be taken up differently. Even the Government would change!
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Mikey g 4th
2/5/2015 08:13:16 pm
In the book we are reading, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury sets his readers in a futuristic society controlled by their government. They aren't aloud to read certain books
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Adam Seigler 4th period
2/5/2015 09:30:44 pm
In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury tells about a future where books are banned. I believe that this could not happen in our time today or in the future. He shows many other things being banned but books are the focus of the whole world. They are trying to get rid of the books.
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Jaylin Coleman 4th period
2/5/2015 09:31:06 pm
I don't believe our society could turn into the Fahrenheit 451 society. Our society is surrounded by books. There are so many of the world's most popular religions that are based on a book. People won't change their beliefs just because of what the government says. In the book it even says they believe in God when Captain Beatty says,"...thank God."
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nazharae 1st period
2/5/2015 10:16:30 pm
in our world to day we depend on most things to happen. I don't think that our world would turn like Fahrenheit 451 because we are more worried about our education. we wouldn't have a good education like we do now if we didn't have books. I can understand if some things get banned but not all. We wouldn't be the way we are now if stuff was banned. In Fahrenheit 451 they have different speed limits then us.We are allowed to drive slow and fast but not to fast. In there society if they drive slow they are most likely to get arrested.
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Jake Brinson 1st
2/5/2015 10:38:12 pm
I don't think they would banned books in todays world. With all the laws and kind of government we have to day wouldn't let us do something like that. Because in todays world education is the most important thing in the worlds.
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halie 2nd
2/5/2015 11:06:44 pm
In fahrenheit 451 it convinces the government. Honestly its dumb not have all kinds of books. Honestly whats the pointy? There isnt one.
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Kevin Thomas 2nd
2/5/2015 11:48:35 pm
No a world where books are banned is kinda believable because around the world certain books are banned. But I would not believe that they would burn books.In today's society in our our nation we would not ban books."We worked so hard to get freedom in our past I think we would not do what we fought so hard for that why most likely we would not censor books." Burning books we would not do that because that is a waste of trees. our firemen are here to put out fires not intentionally start them.
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KuwanD3rd
2/6/2015 12:28:16 am
I don't think books should be banned because everyone needs too know how too read if you like it or. Because reading gives you knowledge and everyone in the world needs some knowledge. I think people are going too continue too read regardless what anyone else says there gone keep reading no matter what. Not everyone loves too read and not everybody hates too read . The reason i think some books become banned because sometimes someone will complained about what it is in the book . Maybe some one will say that the book offenses them. Maybe the book talks about a different type of religion. Some people may say books get banned because some one is trying to hide stuff from the people.
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Morgan Clifton 4th
2/6/2015 01:22:47 am
A society without books. A society without originality. Is this possible in our lives today? Well with technology these days, theres a possibility. Technology can take over everything in our times.
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Brandon Story 4th
2/6/2015 02:36:29 am
I believe that a future like this is very possible. Our government is so corrupt that nothing surprises me anymore. Each day our government slowly clutches our country's independence. In little to no time all of our rights could be gone. If you watch closely they are already banning stuff right under our noses.
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shadasia w 2nd period
2/6/2015 04:05:58 am
Could something possibly be censored in our generation? Is this even possible? Yes! Especially in todays generation or in the future. We are so dependent of technology, and everyone is or will use technology. We have no way of knowing this, but it is very possible that paper could be censored in the future.
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Tyrique3rd
2/10/2015 01:45:15 am
In the Fahrenheit 451 it talks about how they have rules like books are illegal and you can't be a pedestrian in the street. I think this kind of thing can't happen in modern day society.
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Dakota Burgess
2/10/2015 09:05:26 am
I do not think that this could happen in our society. Our society is too much based on books and inventions and new ideas. Also we probably aren't working on making houses fire proof. Books are too important to our society. They teach us life lessons and let us escape into worlds only that others can think of.
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Cayman S. 4th
2/18/2015 05:56:34 am
a world of censorship like the one in Fahrenheit 451 is very possible. The slightest change in something such as technology could cause censorship from the government to happen. We are so heavily reliant on our government that we wouldn't be able to do much about them censoring anything. Censorship is very probable in our society.
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