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"About Ray Bradbury." //Ray Bradbury//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. .


 * 1) Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois
 * 2) He graduated high school in 1938 in Los Angeles
 * 3) His formal education ended with high school
 * 4) He began selling newspapers on the street corners and spending nights on typewriter and at library
 * 5) He started as a full time writer in 1943
 * 6) He started a collection of his short stories and periodicals and published them into Dark Carnival in 1947
 * 7) He gained reputation of a writer when he published The Martian Chronicles in 1950
 * 8) This was a book that told the tale of human attempts to colonize Mars
 * 9) His next book was the Illustrated Man
 * 10) In 1953 he wrote Fahrenheit 451
 * 11) This was considered his masterpiece
 * 12) Some of his other works include: The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric!, Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving.
 * 13) Throughout his career he has published over 30 books, 600 short stories, and many poems, essays, and plays.
 * 14) His works have appeared in over 1,000 lists for books to read in high school
 * 15) He has won the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award
 * 16) He was also nominated for an Academy Award and won the Emmy Award
 * 17) He adopted many of his stories into his television show Ray Bradbury theater
 * 18) He worked as a creative consultant to the 1964 New York's World's Fair
 * 19) In 1947 he married his wife Maggie
 * 20) Together they raised four children and eight grandchildren

"Ray Bradbury Biography." //ENotes - Literature Study Guides, Lesson Plans, and More.// Web. 29 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) Many story settings he has written set place in towns like Waukegan
 * 2) As a child he was exposed to movies such as The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 * 3) Both these stories include a social outcast as the main character
 * 4) In 1937 he joined the Science Fiction League
 * 5) The Martian Chronicles expressed many social issues of the 50's including racism, technology, and nuclear war
 * 6) His earliest writing showed his concern for human imagination
 * 7) His stories have been featured on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Twilight Zone
 * 8) Fahrenheit 451 is described as one of the best works of examples of humanity oppressed and its negative effects
 * 9) He won the PEN Body of Work award in 1985
 * 10) Many stories have been adapted into theatrical plays
 * 11) He created an adaptation of Moby Dick for a director
 * 12) He wrote I Sing the Body Electric in 1969
 * 13) Bradbury was praised as a sophisticated science fiction writer
 * 14) Many themes in Fahrenheit 451 were from books read with his aunt and at the public library
 * 15) Growing up loving books created a special connection with the conflict of Fahrenheit 451
 * 16) He began writing seriously at age 15
 * 17) His wife Maggie passed away in 2003
 * 18) His first writing was Hollerbochen's Dilemma
 * 19) He wrote for many pulp fiction magazines
 * 20) Among the more famous was Weird Tales and Amazing Stories

"Society of the 1950's." //US History: 1950-1975//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) During the 1950's rock music starting gaining popularity
 * 2) Time period marked the start of Cold War, Korean War, and McCarthyism
 * 3) The war in Korea seemed to be useless as the south and America seemed to be losing
 * 4) At the end of the war the territories were returned to how they were before war
 * 5) Many Americans opposed the lives lost in such a useless war
 * 6) Americans also now lived in constant fear of nuclear war
 * 7) Lifestyle changes were made in order to live safely
 * 8) Many people also expressed feeling through art
 * 9) Artists such as Pollock came about
 * 10) He believed his art wasn't paint splatters but a representation of time
 * 11) Many others were greatly influenced by music
 * 12) Elvis Presly and James Dean were huge superstars with youth
 * 13) Rock and roll became a genre of music
 * 14) They took rock from an African American genre and introduced to whites
 * 15) Jazz also changed and many artists made their name in this unorthodox genre
 * 16) This break in music from teenagers music and parents music led to a revolution
 * 17) Teenagers began a whole different class of American citizen
 * 18) This led to teenagers of the 50's to spend more money than any other had before
 * 19) The economy experienced a huge boost
 * 20) This boost was fueled by the change in culture of teens

"Book Burning." //United States Holocaust Memorial Museum//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) One of the most famous book burnings was on May 10, 1933 by Nazis
 * 2) In 1817 German Students chose the date of the 300th anniversay of Luther's 95 Theses
 * 3) On this date they burned texts that were considered "Un-German"
 * 4) In 1933 the Nazi Party decided to burn all texts that were against Nazi Ideology
 * 5) Joseph Goebbels was the head of Nazi propoganda and led bring German culture in line with Nazi goals
 * 6) All Jewish reading material was burned
 * 7) On April 6, 1933 Nazi Press and Propoganda began the "Action Against Un-German Spirit"
 * 8) This was the purging of all texts and literature by fire
 * 9) Officials were issued lists of "Un-German" authors
 * 10) On April 8th the students association drafted a 12 Theses
 * 11) They described a pure language and culture
 * 12) On May 10, 1933 students burned more than 25,000 books that were deemed "un-German"
 * 13) This prestaged the era of censorship and control
 * 14) Officials and students gathered at large bonfire
 * 15) There they preformed rituals called "fire-oaths"
 * 16) In Marxism, it was encouraged to burn books of "bourgeosie"
 * 17) Some authors included were Ernest Hemmingway and Thomas Mann
 * 18) The German Students Associtation planned to burn all books on May 10
 * 19) Some burnings were postponed past this date due to rain
 * 20) Another mass burning occured during summer solstice on June 21