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 * Fahrenheit 451 **
 * //__ Themes: __//**
 * Censorship **
 * Knowledge verses ignorance **
 * Religion **
 * Independent thought and intellectual freedom. **
 * Technology as a threat to human development **
 * Conformity verses Individuality **
 * Distraction verses Happiness **
 * Action verses Inaction **


 * //__ The following people, events, literature are mentioned or alluded to in Fahrenheit 451. __//**


 * 1) ** Dante Alighieri / //The Divine Comedy// (1265-1321) **
 * 2) ** Marcus Aurelius/ //Meditations// (121-180) **
 * 3) ** William Blake/ //The Tyger//! **
 * 4) ** Bible: Book of Job/ “A man’s faith is tested by a series of tragic events. **
 * 5) ** Lord George Byron/ British Romantic poet (1788 – 1824) **
 * 6) ** Charles Darwin/ Theory of evolution by natural selection (1802-1882) **
 * 7) ** Bible: Ecclesiastes/ //“To everything there is a season//…” **
 * 8) ** Guy Fawkes/ Plotted to blow up the English Parliament (1605) **
 * 9) ** Ben Franklin/ American patriot, inventor **
 * 10) ** Mahatma Gandi/ Indian spiritual leader w/nonviolent resistance (1869-1948) **
 * 11) ** Thomas Hardy/ British novelist and poet (1840-1928) **
 * 12) ** Thomas Jefferson/ Author of the Declaration of Independence **
 * 13) ** King John/ //Magna Carta// **
 * 14) ** Latimer & Ridley / “Play the man, Master Ridley…” last words of Hugh Latimer **
 * to Nicolas Ridley. They were two Protestants burned at the **
 * stake in Oxford (1555) **
 * 15. Niccolo Machiavelli/ Italian Renaissance political theorist (1469-1527) **
 * 16. Herman Melville/ //Moby Dick// (1819-1991 **
 * 17. Ortega y Gasset Spanish philosopher (1883-1955) **
 * 18. **** Thomas Paine/ British-born American patriot - wrote Common Sense (1776) **
 * 19. **** Thomas Love Peacock/ British writer of satirical novels (1785-1866) **
 * 20. **** Bertrand Russell/ British philosopher, mathematician, social critic (1872-1970) **
 * 21. **** Albert Schweitzer/ French philosopher, physician, missionary (1875-1965) **
 * 22. **** William Shakespeare/ //Hamlet, Julius Caesar// (1564-1616) **
 * 23. **** Harriet Beecher Stowe //Uncle Tom’s Cabin// (1852) **
 * 24. **** Jonathan Swift/ Gulliver’s Travels (1667-1745) **
 * 25. **** Henry David Thoreau/ American author of //Civil Disobedience// and //Walden// (1817-1862)**


 * Assignment: **
 * 1) ** Research your assigned individual and their related work. **
 * 2) ** Determine which theme of __Fahrenheit 451__ is supported by their work. **
 * 3) ** Find an image that supports your person/event/theme and save it to your drive. **
 * 4) ** Go to Timetoast.com Your instructor will provide log in information. **
 * 5) ** Find your class project. **
 * 6) ** Place your information and image on TImetoast. Your entry might read: “Ray Bradbury mentioned Jonathan Swift in __Fahrenheit 451__ because…” Remember, you must summarize because your space is limited. **
 * 7) ** Add your name at the end of the entry. **

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