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Ray Bradbury

"Ray Bradbury Online - Biography." //Space Age City//. Web. 28 Nov. 2011. .

"The Big Read | Fahrenheit 451." //The Big Read | National Endowment for the Arts//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. . "Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the Dystopian Tradition." //Washington State University - Pullman, Washington//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. . "Ray Bradbury Interview with Don Swaim." //Wired for Books: Poems, Stories, Plays, Essays, Lectures, and Interviews for Children and Adults//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. . //Fahrenheit 451 //. Steppenwolf Arts. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) Born in Illinois on august 22, 1920
 * 2) His childhood was characterized by his loving family
 * 3) 1931, Bradbury started writing stories on butcher paper
 * 4) Active in the drama club and wanted to become an actor
 * 5) Traveled from Illinois to Arizona during his early childhood 1926-1933
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">His formal education ended at high school
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the 1950s people were fighting against censorship
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Continued to educate himself through books
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Published his first story in 1938 for an amateur magazine
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wanted to use mentors for guidance in his writing
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1947 he created his first short story series
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fahrenheit 451 was released in 1953
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Classic author of the 20th century
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Went to los angles high school
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">George burns gave Bradbury his first job
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He was to write jokes for the Burns & Allen show
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Married his wife Maggie in 1947, they met at a book store
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Has 4 daughters, Susan and Ramona were born before he wrote Fahrenheit 451
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a rental type writer
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In his writing technology took a back seat to human stories
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Finished the book in 9 days
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The book burning was based off of hitler
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Also the library of Alexandria burning inspired him to write about a community that burned books
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He thought that if it could happen there then it could happen anywhere
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Had to write in the library of UCLA because his house was to hectic to focus
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1950s the television became popular in America
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bradbury thought that it was causing the death of literature
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1950 also started the “red scare” period
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The “Red scare” was an irresponsible crusade against supposed communists, which included attempts to remove them from the library
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Also type of Hollywood blacklist, where actors and writers were being banned from working on films or television
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">More likely inspired by censorship that accompanied the red scare of his era
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He first imagined the book being about having all books, but pornography, comic books and tv scripts banned
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This book lacks description that characterized his other works
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Year before Bradbury wrote the book, the Russians exploded the first nuclear bomb
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the book, he describes the community already going through 2 atomic wars
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Seashells can be related to ipods today
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the book, he believed that tvs would be as big as the wall, which they are today
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the 50s, people would come to houses to watch tv with each other and talk about what they were watching
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The number of hours people watched tv were increasing
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cold war began after world war II
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Americans were paranoid about the threat of communism
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fears heightened when the people’s republic of china established communism
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">People started attacking the president for not effectively fighting the communists
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Red scare was started by revolutions around the world, most notably in Russia
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Book burning usually happens because of cultural, religious, or political differences
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cost him $9.80 to write the book
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Inspiration for the book happened in los angles 1949
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the time was the period of McCarthyism
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">McCarthyism is intense censorship and blacklisting
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When he and a friend were walking down the street, the cop stopped and asked him what they were doing for no reason
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Incident was an example of paranoia and fear that overwhelmed the americans
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Cop stopped him because almost nobody walked around LA
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Thought about mccarthy and the burnings of Alexandria before writing the book
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the book, the society is run by a totalitarian government


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The united nations pushed back the Chinese in the Korean war
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Head of soviet union started using McCarthyism
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Truman approved the production of the hydrogen bomb in 1950
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1951- television became nationally broadcasted
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Also the first nuclear test occurred in Nevada
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for passing info of atomic weapons to the USSR
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2nd US nuclear weapons laboratory is established in California, 1952
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1952- first british atomic bomb was tested
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1953-crick and Watson discovered the double helix DNA
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1954- U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins a televised anti-communist witch-hunt.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1st deliverable hydrogen bomb is tested
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">US threatens to use atomic weapons on the soviets if they don’t stop harming Europe
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">First fusion device test by the Soviet Union, it had a yield of one point six megatons, Andrei Skharov led the development.-1955
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1957- first underground nuclear test occurred in Nevada
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Television viewing expands, introducing cable
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Soviet union launched 1st artificial satellite
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The first US Polaris capable nuclear missile submarine enters into service-1958
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">European democracies (Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France) found European Union
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1967 a special edition of Fahrenheit 451 had to be published to high schools for profanity used
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This was done without bradbury’s knowledge
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He demanded that the books were to be taken back, the publishing company agreed
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not only were books banned in the 50s, but music and some forms of art were also banned by the government
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Today the average American ages 2-17 spends 19 hours and 40 minutes a week watching tv
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the age of 2 children can develop brain loyalty to the tv
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the book, Bradbury describes young people as being violent, like some kids are today
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Compared the firemen burning books to hitler burning books