PREMISE: Antarctica never glaciates (or at least never glaciates completely) leaving a relatively warm, habitable continent with a functioning ecosystem. Essentially, Antarctica remains more or less the live continent that it was 20 million or so years ago. Despite being a live continent, Antarctica remains isolated by distance and the circumpolar currents. Even without glaciation, six month nights and six month days, and various local conditions make this the strangest, most exotic place on earth.
CAVEATS: I'm playing the ASB card big time. Despite lack of complete glaciation, world sea levels are approximately the same as they are now and followed the same historic and prehistoric fluctuations. Human evolution is not butterflied away. The prehistoric climate shifts, ice ages and mass extinctions occur on schedule. The Antarctic circumpolar currents and Coriolis winds are the same as in our universe with the same strength and effect, the only difference being that for arbitrary fluke Antarctica is not transformed into an icebox, but rather the circumpolar keeps the polar heat from escaping. No explanation required or given. Butterflies don't start to happen until humans actually get there, and even then, butterflies may not be significant for quite some time.
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Rule #2 - we don't talk about fight club. More seriously, the only rule is that the premise is inviolate - no going 'Is impossible' or 'butterflies prevent humans from evolving,
Swimming to Antarctica, by Lynne Cox, is about Lynne’s adventure to become a great long distance swimmer. Lynne started as a slow swimmer. During practice, she never rested for each instruction the coach gives. She later found out that she wanted to be a long distance swimmer. Her coach told her to join a race on a lake. She went and she loved to swim in the open waters. She then went to a different program that trained her to swim in the open waters.
...er into a life less constrained by professionalism and decorum. However, in both instances, a balance is needed between the two personas. In Fight Club, the struggle is resolved when Jack beats Tyler at his own game by learning to not fear death and to live life to the fullest; however, there is no such ending in "The Other" and the struggle is left for us to resolve.
This, however, demonstrates a fundamental difference between 'Fight Club' and 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest': the 1990's society 'no longer breeds a contempt for the virtues of individualism [...] on the contrary, totalitarianism now resides in a thorough dislike for all things social, public, and collective,' as Henry Giroux wrote. The positivity of Fight Club may lie primarily in that it is an unsanctioned, underground, counterculture collective.
Fight Club is a psychological drama directed by David Fincher. The movie was distributed in 1999 by 20th Century Fox and stars Ed Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter (IMDB). The film itself is like a roller coaster ride, it provokes the eye to pay attention to what is on screen. Not only is the plot innovative but the use camera techniques, editing and color schematics pushed boundaries for its era. I think the film delves into the historical influences of Film Noir due to its classic dark visual elements and subject matter(Wk7Ftv5107) and Germanic Expressionism The film was produced by three different
Roald Amundsen was the first man to reach both poles – a very significant achievement considering the technology and knowledge available at the time. There are many aspects that both parties had to consider in preparing for the journey – an analysis of the weather conditions, land, soil type, flora and faunae, and route to be taken, as well as the logistics involved in packing necessary clothing, food, scientific and navigational equipment, and what to pack this on to – since the type of transportation utilized is a very crucial decision in exploration. Through an examination of his two expeditions to the south and north poles – in comparison to the unsuccessful attempt by Scott – we can identify the reasons behind Amundsen’s success, namely his ability to utilize the technologies most capably suited to his task. Although both explorers utilized technology to a high degree, it was Amundsen that, through his understanding of the climate and conditions, made the right choices in his selection of tools and techniques for the trip. It is specifically decisions made in three key categories that allowed for the successful attempt: the transportation technology (and its effectiveness in arctic climates), the technologies employed to sustain life (including nourishment, shelter and clothing), and lastly, the technologies of navigation that made it possible to reach the pole itself.
The Pleistocene epoch is a well-known time period thanks to the glorification of now extinct megafauna as well as the proximity to our current epoch. Through the rapid climate changes and glaciation that occurred many times during this epoch, the fauna
Fight Club is a story about the never-ending struggles between classes. The Project Mayhem is formed in an attempt to overthrow the upper class who undermines the lower class. There are a number of scenes in the story, which highlights the struggle between classes. For instance, when Tyler pees in the soup of an upper class person, when he splices pornography into films and the scene when a mechanic takes the unnamed narrator to steal body fat. The characters here do all they can to fight against the upper class people and to get revenge.
The Arctic Tundra The Tundra is located in the northern regions of North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. as well as a few regions of Antarctica. The Tundra is the second largest vegetation. zone in Canada. It can be divided into three different sections: the High Arctic Tundra, the Low Arctic Tundra and the Alpine Tundra.
Our group collectively decided to choose the movie Fight Club as the movie to review for this case study. Fight Club was released on October 15, 1999 and is based off the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. The movie was directed by David Fincher and featured several outstanding actors such as Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. We settled on reviewing Fight Club due to the films’ psychologically thrilling nature.
Humans embrace great potential and power. Plenty use this capability in order to achieve greatness, not knowing the strength they have can easily cause destruction. This power is depicted in day to day life through actions and words. However, real strength is found in what is not said or done. Every action has a consequence, including the act of inertia. In Laura Van Den Berg’s short story, Antarctica, she uses geography, quest, and symbolism to demonstrate the idea that the refusal of knowledge results in turmoil regret.
21,000 years ago, the Last Glacial Maximum, or LGM, occurred. It was the most recent period in climate history where ice sheets were at their peak size. This era “represents the nearest of a series of past climatic extremes characterizing the waxing and waning of Quaternary ice ages and as such serves as an excellent testing ground for assessment of sensitivity of the Earth’s climatic system,” (814, MAROGT). Due to this sensitivity of the climatic system, when data modeling global climates it is easier to see the individual effects of various external forcings (factors that alter the climate) when they are manipulated. This makes the Last Glacial Maximum ideal for testing, and it can be essential to global climate data modeling, including our
Antartica is being populated due to global warming and for Antarctica to ensure a stable future the area has decided to have a market economy. A market economy is where the people and businesses are solely guiding the prices for products and services. With a finite amount of goods and resources, a scarcity is possible. With scarcity comes the desire and need to innovate and be more efficient with the resources. With the small amounts of resources that are available to the people of Antarctica, the people need to decide who obtains the scarce resources.
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Fight Club “Its only after we’ve lost everything are we free to do anything”, Tyler Durden as (Brad Pitt) states, among many other lines of contemplation. In Fight Club, a nameless narrator, a typical “everyman,” played as (Edward Norton) is trapped in the world of large corporations, condominium living, and all the money he needs to spend on all the useless stuff he doesn’t need. As Tyler Durden says “The things you own end up owning you.” Fight Club is an edgy film that takes on such topics as consumerism, the feminization of society, manipulation, cultism, Marxist ideology, social norms, dominant culture, and the psychiatric approach of the human id, ego, and super ego. “It is a film that surrealistically describes the status of the American
An arid tundra; temperatures so cold that limbs become black and immobile, land so barren that hardly anything can survive, this is the South Pole. Why anyone would want to go there may be hard to understand. Traveling to the South Pole isn’t just a lengthy process and an uncomfortable experience, it is extremely dangerous as going to far south provides several life threatening conditions. To survive in such cold conditions one would need specially made clothing designed for such extremely cold climate. Maybe the pre-planning part of the trip is what separates Amundsen and Scott the most.