A short story by Tom Godwin called “The Cold Equations” interprets the theme life isn't always fair. This story takes place in the year 2178 and is about a girl, Marilyn, who stows away on a space craft called “Stardust.” The girl get's caught because of the heat radiation from her body. She is told about the rules and how she would have to be killed, because the craft has only a certain amount of fuel to get from point A to point B.…
The Miracle Wrecker Most people see timid, ignorant, and sarcastic people as mean, untrustworthy people, but that's not the case with James Keller. James is just a sad boy mourning over the loss of his mother, with an attention sucking sister. He is one of the main characters in the play “The Miracle Worker” written by William Gibson. Because James is timid, ignorant, and sarcastic he will soon learn to change. James is very ignorant.…
In Virginia Bergin’s book, H2O (2014), she tells a story that informs readers about the character’s life in the time period when the killer rain took life away in the world. Bergin develops her ideas of the killer rain by having the character narrate in a candid and addicting way that brings the terrifying and wholly plausible story to life. Incorporating the language that teenagers speak today, Bergin writes in an informal way in order to hypnotize the readers into the book, making them think that the killer rain is factual. Bergin begins the book by saying to the readers, “If this was a regular story, like the kind you’d read for fun, it would have such a great beginning. Probably they’d want to make it into a movie- it’d be good,” having…
Knowledge and truth combined together can lead to a very dangerous outcome. Stephen Vincent Benét’s post-apocalyptic novel, “By the Waters of Babylon” is about the protagonist, John, destined to be a priest and his journey to the forbidden land his civilization calls “The Place of the Gods.” Throughout the novel Benét entertains us with his vivid descriptions. John’s journey and the discoveries he makes reveal that truth influences his understanding, society, and actions. John’s quest to “The Place of the Gods” and the truth he unravels influence and improve his understanding.…
His mother gave him an emphasis on education, hard work, and church. In addition, she always encouraged him and her other children to be self-sufficient, as she had raised all of them mostly by herself. She opened the doors for James to look into his Jewish side when she revealed to him the facts of her life (McBride, pg. 269). James created his own resources, which included, staying away from the color boundary (McBride, pg. 262), expressing himself by writing books and composing/playing music (McBride, pg. 266), and by traveling (looking into his mother’s past). James background had a huge impact on his life even if he didn’t know it until later because he had been raised somewhat like his mother…
[Enter] My pa.”). A lot of the characters are described indirectly, like how James is very hard working and caring (Page 1, front, “He does all the chores at home…”) for his family but it never directly tells this.…
This finding made James curious, but does not challenge his identity as he knows who he is. James figures out that he could never be like his father; “But everyone can’t be like Bob, or Rev. McBride, or even Ruth McBride. People are different. Times change” (253). James realizes that race and religion help define his identity, but his identity does not revolve around his race, his mother,…
If the story had started off with the death of James’ father, revealing the underlying…
The Cinderella Man is a movie that is based on the true story of a boxer in the middle of the Great Depression. How through boxing he had once been on the top, and when the Great Depression started he lost it all, as many did to, but slowly through boxing he managed to get his family to survive and inspire the people to fight to. When the movie begins, November 30, 1928, James J. Braddock the main character is in a boxing match that he wins. After the match he goes to his house and his family.…
Since most of the human body is made of water and by lowering the body below the freezing point of water will result in massive ice formation. Cryonic facilities can’t simply put patients into a vat of liquid nitrogen because their cells would freeze and simply shatter. Because of this reason, patients are protected from ice damage by using a mixture or agent (sort of a human antifreeze) to reduce, or even eliminate, ice formation. Conventional bypass technologies are used to circulate the solution throughout the body. When enough water is replaced with the agent, the patient is maintained at cryogenic temperatures for long-term care.…
He has always got to be in control of every situation. He goes in and out of his room/building at least 30 times a day. I believe he has adapted his behaviour to this so he can be confined like he previously was. If James wasn’t brought up in an environment like this I believe his outcome…
Does the type of liquid affect how fast an ice cube melts? Does the type of liquid affect how fast an ice cube melts? In an experiment (not ours) involving three liquids, pop melted the ice within it the fastest out of the three. Molecules cause ice to melt in a pretty simple way. When salt is thrown on snow or ice, it prevents the ice or snow from freezing over once again.…
Freezing salt-water experiment Contents: Contents, introduction and literature review on page 1. Aim, hypothesis, variables, risk assessment, materials and method on page 2. Results on page 3. Discussion and conclusion on page 4. Introduction: I have decided to do my SRP on salt water freezing because our planet is 71% water and about 96.5% of it is in the ocean which it is salt water so this is why I was interested in seeing how much salt, depresses the water from freezing.…
• The heat (q) “lost” or “gained” is related to a) sample mass b) change in T and c) specific heat capacity Specific heat capacity = heat lost or gained by substance (J) (mass, g)(T change, K) © 2006 Brooks/Cole - Thomson 11 Change in Temperature (T) ∆T of System Increase Sign of ∆Tsystem + Tfinal >Tinitial Tfinal < Tinitial Sign of q + Direction of Heat Transfer Heat transferred from surroundings to system (_____thermic) Heat transferred from system to surroundings (_____thermic) 12 Decrease - © 2006 Brooks/Cole - Thomson Chapter 6 — Thermo — Part 1 3 13 14 Example 1: If 25.0 g of Al cool from 310oC to 37oC, how many joules of heat energy are lost by the Al?…
Varying environmental climates require organisms to develop defense mechanisms to survive. For conditions under freezing temperatures, each animal has a response. If an animal is unprepared for the extreme situation, the formation of ice leads to a destruction of tissues and most organisms are unable to tolerate even frostbite; which make animals adapt to stay warm and out of the cold. Biochemical studies have examined why amphibians can tolerate freezing temperatures. Many amphibians, though have learned to adapt specifically to these extreme cold environments.…