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Fire Truck Flips in Detroit Accident
Fire Truck Flips in Detroit Accident
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Berkeley Won't Burn
Follow a day in the life of 26 year old firefighter David Gabriner. While most of his twentysomething friends are still searching for their place in the world, he can rest assured that he has a lifelong career ahead of him... assuming that he stays safe in this dangerous line of work. Follow a day in the life of 26 year old firefighter David Gabriner. While most of his twentysomething friends are still searching for... more
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Cheap Ice Cream for a good cause!
Baskin' Robbins 31 cent scoop day
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Fahrenheit 451
The film presents a future in which all books are restricted, individual people are anti-social and hedonistic, and critical thought is suppressed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this future, means "book burner"). The number "451" refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which a book or paper burns.
It is anticipated that a second version will begin filming in 2008 (unless it really happens, then there will be no movie needed). At least two BBC Radio 4 dramatizations have also been aired, both of which follow the book very closely.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's dystopian soft science fiction novel, was published in 1953. It first appeared as the novella, The Fireman, in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It is a critique of what Bradbury saw as an increasingly dysfunctional American society, written in the early years of the Cold War.
Parts of this book still haunt me today and I believe this should be, if it isn't already, required reading. The film presents a future in which all books are restricted, individual people are anti-social and hedonistic, and critical thought i... more
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