On a constant basis, horrific natural disasters destroy pieces of the world each day. Leonard Pitts expresses the central theme in the article “ Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel ” to be that in this world, where tragedy is now common, people have learned to recover from cataclysm and accept tragedy as the result of having a life.
People worldwide have learned to grow to adapt to hardships and nationwide struggles that may occur. Pitts states, “ we do the same thing. We dig ourselves out. We weep and mourn, we recover, and memorialize the dead, we rebuild our homes,”( 4,2-3). What Pitt's is saying by this is that humankind has gotten so used to a disaster occurring, people have gained a process of events to do everything in. In other words, people
In the short story, “On the Rainy River”, Tim O’Brien reflects on how an individual’s values and identity shifts in the face of adversity. This idea is portrayed in the character of Tim O’Brien and how he is able to compromise his values when he is faced with internal turmoil in the presence of adversity. “Oddly, though, it was almost entirely an intellectual activity. I brought some energy to it, of course, but it was the energy that accompanies almost any abstract endeavor”. This quote portrays how weakly Tim clung onto his values even though he held an opinion against this war. Tim never really takes initiative to fully fight this war, he only puts in the bare minimum. He talks about how the editorials he wrote were “tedious’ and “uninspired”
As a society, we focus some of our thoughts on how to preserve the Earth and different ways to recycle and keep it clean. Although we do have an effort into saving our home planet, we, as a whole race, don’t have our hearts in it. There are the people who are obsessive economists and worry about the world excessively and those who don’t care enough or at all. The two stories both present a possible outcome for our lack of effort in preserving the Earth in two different genres, fiction and nonfiction. Of the two stories “Silent Spring” and “If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…”, the one i felt most affected by was Marvin in, “If
A human being is a complicated entity of a contradictory nature where creative and destructive, virtuous and vicious are interwoven. Each of us has gone through various kinds of struggle at least once in a lifetime ranging from everyday discrepancies to worldwide catastrophes. There are always different causes and reasons that trigger these struggles, however, there is common ground for them as well: people are different, even though it is a truism no one seems to able to realize this statement from beyond the bounds of one’s self and reach out to approach the Other.
Resiliency is one concept that has never been the human races forte. Many things that happen in our current day and age require a great deal of perseverance and resiliency. People often will give in to the problems in their lives and learn to accept them, instead of persevering through them and working out the issues. The fact of the matter is, if you learn to persevere through problems, your life will be a lot more happy and pleasant to live. In Tennessee Williams’ play, “ A Streetcar Named Desire” suggests that you cannot give up on issues; you must be resilient to those issues and persevere to be happy.
Real destruction of nature made people feel discouraged at times. A flood in the ancient Near East around 3000 B.C.E demolished everything in it's pathway. Total of five cities was cleaned out by the tragic flood .Not only destroying plant and animal life, but human lives also. This was a hard time for people facing, having no home or resources. Apocalyptic literature come into the picture a few years later.
The external conflict of nature against man never becomes resolved, as nature ends the man and his goals. For example, the severe cold weather prevented the man fro...
Brooks’ “Year of Wonders” and Miller’s “The Crucible” explore individuals’ responses when they encounter extreme hardship. While the characters experience different types of crises, both authors illustrate how individuals act in ways that contradict their usual code of conduct in times of crisis. Whilst the spread of hysteria grows throughout both villages and results in supreme displays of self-centred attitudes, there are also some individuals who adopt the principles of noblesse oblige. Brooks and Miller show that the communities' fear of change, death and the unknown, serves to challenge one's morality, with societal conventions threatening the wellbeing of the human spirit. In some instances some behaviours become more extreme and more evident in midst of chaos and hysteria.
The world around us, as we know it, is ever changing. The question is, is it for the better or for the worse? As Sandra Steingraber speaks out in her essay “Despair Not”, we must not look at how bad our world may be polluted or trashed by us humans, and just give up. We must look at the positives, quit feeling sorry for ourselves, and do something about it. Do not lose hope. We are our own cure to this problem. We are the ones that can make a difference. We are hope. Yet, at the same time, can we change what has been done and turn all of our mistakes around? Or is hope just the beginning of despair?
In the book of Slow Violence and the environmentalism of the poor, Rob Nixon makes the conceptual framework called slow violence. This book emphasizes the relationship between slow violence and the activists of environmental justice in the whole society. What’s the “slow violence”? From author’s definition, the term means “a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all (2).” In other words, “slow violence” is a summary term for the all unseen violence. People may not see slow violence in their life, but the power of slow violence spread anywhere. Climate change, toxic draft, light and air pollution,
What lengths should one go to in order to survive? This is a question which has challenged the human race for generations and to which no satisfactory answer exists. In the modern world, this issue is examined theoretically, but rarely confronts individuals, with the exception of the most destitute. However, in harsh environments and forbidding territories, this matter becomes very real and pressing. Nature pays no attention to the arbitrary emotions of man, demanding only the forfeiture of the sorrowfully short life granted to him. Many would argue that in order to delay the inevitable conclusion awaiting every man, humans must act upon their primal intuition rather than their emotions. Jack London’s “The Law of Life” includes this naturalistic viewpoint that human survival instinct drives individuals more than feelings or compassion. London shows this through his protagonist Old Koshkoosh’s past experiences and tribal upbringing, his view on life, and the actions of his family members.
The Dire Earth Cycle is a series of science fiction novels by Jason M. Hough, the popular New York Times bestselling author. Jason used to be a game designer, animator, and 3D artist, which perhaps explains his exceptional world building in the Dire Earth Cycle series of novels. The first novel in the series was The Darwin Elevator that was first published in 2013 to be followed by two more titles in the series in the same year. The author also published The Dire Earth: A Novella, which provides the character backgrounds thus acting as the series prequel. The series is set in a 23rd century post-apocalyptic earth where a space vessel that arrives on earth happens to be a harbinger of alien arrival.
The human nature can be seen to have adapted to all the situations in the environment while showing whatever the circumstances, there is always an advancement in the human nature as they get smarter and adapt to their own surroundings. They also shape their own surroundings according to will. Driftglass tries to lay the power lines about humanity on an ocean floor habitat with a better precision at hand . Such a message depicts that there is no failure or rather, the human kind often tends to possess a greater ability for adapting towards their own environment and surroundings (Delany, p. 109).
Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind is an allegorical novel describing the growth of protagonist Minke during the pre-awakening of colonized Java. Set in 1898 during the period of imperial Dutch domination over all aspects of Javan life, the novel provides a clear image of the political and social struggles of a subjugated people through the point of view of a maturing youth. Using several of his novel’s major characters as allegorical symbols for the various stages of awareness the citizens of Java have of Indonesia’s awakening as a modern nation, Toer weaves together an image of the rise of an idyllic post-colonial Indonesia with modern views of Enlightenment ideals.
When the town in Silent Spring dies, it is because the human race failed to preserve the glorious bounties of nature that, until then, were taken for granted. The entire Earth in “If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…” is reduced to inhospitable lifeless rock for years and years to come. Both of these selections call people to realize the damage we are causing and change the ways that disrupt the natural way of things. There is only one Earth, and therefore, we must make sure that it lasts us as long as it possibly can, because the vast majority wants life to continue as it has. Humans steadily discover new ways to do things, finding unfamiliar concepts to try, yet we do not always take into account the effect these alternative methods have on the planet.
Natural disasters can range between hundreds of different situations and it can happen to anyone. In “darkness” Lord Byron uses a dream of the end of the world to describe the belief of humanity ending. This poem talks about the life of the world as the ending world unfolds. The fact of this happening to everyone causes darkness and changes the mood of a whole civilization. The hidden darkness of the world now is all the hate of other creatures and vandalizing of nature.