Nightfall can be considered one of the best sf short stories of all times, because of the writer’s ability to integrate theories, events, and beliefs of others, into a captivating fictional story. In that, Isaac Asimov, cleverly combined, one might say, “past, current, and future events into his storyline.” He included theories of gravitation, events predicted by those called, “Cultist,” in his story, and various beliefs of the different characters. Wikipedia states “Aton, one of the characters in the story, who formulated the Theory of Universal Gravitation, in-story discussion of this makes light of an article once written about Einstein's theory of relativity, referencing the false notion that "only twelve men" could understand it.” …show more content…
Inasmuch as, Christians believe there is coming a day when Believers, who were referred to as, “Cultist,” in the writing, will be taken away. Consequently, Christians who believe they are the light of the world, will no longer be on this earth, therefore, darkness will consume it. By the same token, Nightfall, included a similar event into its storyline which was a catastrophic eclipse, that would send their planet, Lagash, into a period of utter darkness, removing all light. Wikipedia states, “Beenay, through his friend Theremon 762, a reporter, has learned some of the beliefs of the group known as the Cult ("Apostles of Flame" in the novel). They believe the world would be destroyed in a darkness with the appearance of stars that unleash a torrent of fire. Beenay combines what he has learned about the repetitive collapses at the archaeological site, and the new theory of potential eclipses; He concludes that once every 2049 years, the one sun otherwise visible is eclipsed, resulting in a brief "night". His theory is that this "night" was so horrifying to the people who experienced it, they desperately sought out any light source to try to drive it away: particularly, by frantically starting fires which burned down and destroyed their successive civilizations.” In the final analysis, Nightfall can be considered one of sf’ best, for its ability to masterfully expose real fear, in a
“Geronimo: an American legend” is a story of an apache warrior who fought against the United States in order to preserve his peoples culture. The film starts off, ironically, with the first surrender of Geronimo. His people are sent to a reservation called turkey creek. On this reservation they were expected to become farmers that would produce mostly corn. However the apache where not harvesting enough to sustain their community and had to rely on government checks.
Nobody understands what really took place that night, the night that John Brown launched his raid on Harpers Ferry. Why it was done, what caused it and what the actual event itself caused was later discovered and well known by people centuries after it even took place. This raid, was one of the biggest reason a nation was left divided. The Southern part of America was its own “nation” where as the Northern part was thought of kind of as the same but opposite. “Midnight Rising” gives an in depth explanation and feel for the events leading to and the events caused by this raid. The book is based around the time period pre civil war ( circa 1859), In the first part of the book and overview and a little bit of background information is provided. Explaining where and when the raid was being planned and where it was going to be executed, and all of this being told through the perception of one of John Browns men .Prior to this event, Bleeding Kansas had happened and it caused an immense amount of outrage, blood shed, fear and frustration amongst almost every single person part of the U.S at the time. Nat Turners rebellion caused an uproar filled with fear, in the south and that was one of the things that had led up to the main event discussed in the book ( the raid on Harpers Ferry). During the time period the book took place, the southern part of America was pro slavery where as the North was not, and due to these discrepancies neither side could or would compromise and neither would be able to come to any sort of agreement on what to do with laws and rules and with the slaves either. Events such as Nat Turners Rebellion are what caused people in the south to become more fearful of slaves
To begin, “Escape from Warsaw”, by Ian Serraillier is a book of courage and bravery. This book is a story of a family who is Polish and the things that happened to them during World War II. World War II was a time of conflict and lasted about six years. The Polish family lived in Warsaw in a very suburb area and the main character Joseph was the headmaster of a school. His wife was Swiss and he had three children. The children’s names were Ruth, Edek and Bronia. Joseph was living a very difficult and challenging life away from his family, he also had to teach school in only German and the Nazis took him to prison for turning a picture of a Nazi on the wall around. Warsaw was run by the Nazis and was a place of terror and fear. The family has to now go through many hardships and challenges which will bring their bond as a family closer.
Geologist John Mitchell is credited with first devising the idea of a black hole. He said that if some force could compress the sun down to an small enough size, it would have a gravitational field so strong, that one would need to be going faster than the speed of light to escape it (UTFC). All objects in the universe have what is called a schwarzschild radius. An object’s schwarzschild radius is the radius that an object would have to be compressed into in order to have an escape velocity greater than that of the speed of light, or a black hole. (VSBH).
In response to our world’s growing reliance on artificial light, writer Paul Bogard argues that natural darkness should be preserved in his article “Let There be dark”. He effectively builds his argument by using a personal anecdote, allusions to art and history, and rhetorical questions.
Greene continues with his explanations of the special theory of relativity.Chapter 3: Of Warps and Ripples Green begins the chapter by describing "Newton's View of Gravity" and continues by discussing the incompatibility of Newtonian Gravity and Special Relativity. The author also talks about how Einstein discovered the link between acceleration and the warping of space and time. Greene also discuses the basic aspects of General Relativity. He later points out how the two theories of relativity effect black holes, the big bang, and the expansion of space.Chapter 4: Microscopic Weirdness This chapter describes, in detail, the workings of quantum mechanics.
McKenzie Banks Rebecca Yacker English 2 Honors March 1st 2024 Passing and Quicksand: Nella Larsen and the Biracial Identity Race Is a difficult yet easy thing. Someone is born with a label placed onto them based on the background of their parents, however, what if a person is born without a label, without an identity that can properly be expressed, Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing demonstrate that experience. Larsen was a biracial writer whose stories have left readers conversing on the themes of race and selfhood, leading academic conversations to this day. Larsen used motifs of the mixed race identity within the novels Passing and Quicksand using the characters Clare, Irene, and Helga to make a statement on Colorism, Antiblackness,
“The sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light” (Conrad 2). By using wording such as “benign” and “unstained”, it paints a picture in one’s mind of a kindly, pure environment. Since the story begins here, it seems as though the tale has begun in the light, and accordingly, honesty, and as the day progresses will descend into darkness and thus falsehood. As Marlow begins to speak, he contemplates the history of the land around him. “Light came out of this river since-you say knights? Yes; but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker-may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday” (Conrad 3). He speaks of our world as a “flicker”, a twinkle in the “darkness” that was present before our civilization arose. T...
It was late I thought. Almost midnight yet I was still unable to sleep. I stared thoughtlessly at the moving shadows mumbling to myself, "it was just a story" but in my heart I knew it wasn't, it was more than a story, much, much more. Then, a crow appeared in the middle of my room. The crow stared at me with such intensity that I fell backwards into the safety of my pillow. I stared at the crow in shock as it disappeared into my closet and that's when I heard it, a long piercing whine that was like a nail to a chalkboard. I prayed that it would go away, I prayed with all my heart but it stayed there continuing its long whine. It was then when I caught a glimpse of it. I saw two glowing bloodshot eyes stare at me. I let out a scream born from terror and almost immediately my dad came bursting into my room. He stared at me with confusion but all I could do was point a shaking finger at my closet door. Cautiously, my father marched into the closet door only to find nothing inside. Then, without warning, the closet door slammed shut along with my father still inside.
A hundred years ago, a young married couple sat at a kitchen table talking over the items of the day while their young boy sat listening earnestly. He had heard the debate every night, and while there were no raised voices, their discussion was intense. It was a subject about which his parents were most passionate - the electrodynamics of moving bodies in the universe. The couple were of equal intelligence and fortitude, working together on a theory that few people can comprehend even to this day. Mileva Maric Einstein was considered to be the intellectual equal of her husband Albert, but somehow went unrecognized for her contributions to the 1905 Papers, which included the Special Theory of Relativity. The stronger force of these two bodies would be propelled into the archives of scientific history, while the other would be left to die alone, virtually unknown. Mrs. Einstein was robbed. She deserved to be recognized for at least a collaborative effort, but it was not to be. The role which society had accorded her and plain, bad luck would prove to be responsible for the life of this great mathematician and scientist, gone unnoticed.
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A sandy beautiful beach; the first thing we see in Autumn, by Ali Smith. A text that some readers may see as a sweet story of how a young girl, Elisabeth Demand, and an older man, Daniel Gluck became best friends. Other readers will see how this polynomic story is also a struggling tale of Elisabeth grasping for freedom, but she isn’t the only who loses her freedom at times. Autumn begins in the consciousness of Mr. Gluck himself. He’s aged quite a bit since first meeting Elisabeth and is now on the verge of dying.
Daredevil is a series that has a typical silly radioactive origin story, which is what we see in the first episode. The story begin as a little boy, Matt Murdock pushes a man out of the way of a careering truck and ends up with some weird and mysterious chemicals, that splashed in his face that the truck was carrying, almost completely blinding him and also giving him the power, as he grows older, to beat up pretty much anybody. Also to hear, touch, taste and smell better than most non-superheroes to make up for his lack of sight. Now as an adult, he has done what any sensible person would do, which is taking a day job as a lawyer and at night he use his power to investigate more deep into his cases and also save to people, especially a
I raised my head and looked. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquility leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky-seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.” (Conrad 125).