Introduction: Quantum physics, also known as quantum mechanics, is the branch of physics that uses quantum theory to predict and describe the properties of a physical system. While chemistry is the science of composition, properties, structures, and reactions of matter; it is also known as the ‘central science’. While reading the book Alice in Quantumland by Robert Gilmore, one is able to link the two together, causing a curiosity to learn more. It is amazing to see how the two correlate and work together.…
The Secrets The sun hung low in the sky as night began to dawn on the small village. A girl named Alice was finishing her assigned chores after the rest of the staff had gone to bed. Alice had recently been promoted to head maid in the manor where she had worked for her entire life. Long shadows were cast in the laundry as Alice began to finally make her way down to her quarters as per her usual mundane routine.…
Alice When I was a little boy, there was a very beautiful little girl who lived around the corner. The little girl’s name was Alice. Alice was my age, long jet black hair, baby blue eyes, always wore a boys t-shirt and jeans to school. I never payed much attention to her. I mean she was in my grade and in my class, but I never really payed much attention to the grls in my grade, but one day that all changed.…
Demographic Information For this assignment I watched Still Alice (Glatzer, 2015). This movies main character is Alice who is a linguistic professor at Columbia University. At the begging of the move she is celebrating her 50th birthday. She is married to John and has three adult children Anna, Tom, and Lydia. After having some issues with her memory Alice decides to see a neurologist who tests her cognitive abilities and does scans of her brain.…
Discovery can be a sudden or unexpected experience, that is faced with a positive or negative attitude and often involves an outcome that is either physical, emotional or both. Individuals can deliberately transform themselves as they may have been exposed to an impactful discovery. The poetry studied, written by Australian poet, Robert Gray, explores a concept of discovery through the character’s individual selves among the worlds in which they are surrounded by. The anthology of the poems, Journey the North Coast, The Meatworks and North Coast Town all provoke an idea of discovery through a form of transformation of a persona. Journey the North Coast illustrates the journey of a man who sets on-board a train along NSW’s North Coast to relive…
The vagueness of language is referenced in other ways as well, mostly by the comments made by secondary characters. For example, in the lines, “… the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable –” the Mouse is interrupted by the Duck with the line, “Found what?” To this, the Mouse can only reply, “Found it,” and the Duck is left to conclude that the Mouse must mean a frog or a worm, as those are the objects he most commonly refers to with the word it. Similarly, when the Wonderland creatures and Alice find themselves needing to be dried off after swimming, they cannot understand why they do not become dry when one of them tells “the driest story they know.” Carroll’s satire of the English language not only offers his own opinion about the unavoidable miscommunications that are bound to happen as a result of the flawed language itself, but also makes the case that Wonderland and the Looking Glass land make more sense than the “real world,” due to their precision of language.…
Nelson Mandela once said, “We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination”. I this quote, he mentioned about gender discrimination, which sometimes happen in literature. In certain works, women are often compared to dirty objects especially in the recent modern literature. So in different books or stories the gender lens plays a very big role in it because of the content it delivers. People read books using a lot of lens so they can understand it in different ways but for the books that I’ve read in the last 6 months, the gender lens plays an important factor in understanding the book.…
The point of view in the story “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker plays a big part. Throughout the story, one of Mama’s daughters came to visit. The way Mama and Maggie see her is not in a very pleasant way. In fact, they are scared to tell her no when it comes to anything. From Mama’s perspective Dee seems like this rude, stuck up, spoiled child because she had the opportunity to go out and expand her education, while Mama and Maggie continued to live their lives on the farm.…
Nowadays people have a hard time with finding out who they are and struggle with identity confusion. In the Short Story “Mirror Image” by Lena Coakley, trouble finding who they are and struggle with identity confusion comes up a lot with the main character in this short story named Alice. Alice feels that her identity and her personality are not the same anymore since having her procedure on getting a new body. Alice has quite a hard time trying to figure out who she and why she looks so different in her new body she feels this way from the lack of support entailed by her family and her family not treating the way they used to because she looks different than she did before her surgery. But after Alice had met up with Mr.Jarred the man who donated his daughters body to Alice he helped Alice somewhat realize that she is the same girl she was going into that surgery as she is coming out and nothing has changed other than the fact that she may look different.…
When I first read the title of the movie, I did not think that it was going to be about Alzheimer disease. “Still Alice” appears to be a positive movie title. Consequently, I thought that the movie would be based on something positive. While I watched the movie, I learned that the character is facing the hardship of a rare disease (familial Alzheimer’s disease). The biggest question if whether the character is still Alice because of the changes that she is going through with her disease.…
In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll is attempting to show Alice maturing from a child to a young adult. Before Alice’s tumble down the Rabbit hole and trip to Wonderland, she had gone through a phase in which she believed that everything could be explained and all questions had a reasonable answer. In the real world this was the case, but not in Wonderland. This leads to the inevitable outcome of her confusion between the real world and the “imaginary” world of Wonderland. Alice’s view of Wonderland being truly real makes her very vulnerable.…
The White Rabbit is like a decoy. Alice follows him and therefore leads to all her adventures in Wonderland. He first gets Alice's attention because he's a bit different then a normal rabbit, hes seen wearing a waistcoat and a pocket watch. The White Rabbit is the first Wonderland character Alice encounters. She follows him when he hurries into his hole and goes on to enter Wonderland by falling in.…
oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!’ (19) it becomes logical nonsense just like the puzzle of who Alice is. Logic and puzzles are a prominent theme within the text and this is mainly because Carroll had a fascination with logic puzzles and games. In the end Alice finds it easier to accept the logic of nonsense within wonderland or she could go mad with…
As Alice, curious in nature, also shows a great deal of ambition as she navigates through Wonderland. Making a great deal of mistakes in her adventures, Carroll makes her a relatable character who can learn from said mistakes but also tell right from wrong despite beliefs of others. Progressing through the story she develops a strong and courageous heart, dealing with a great deal of hostile creatures in Wonderland’s environment. Both Carroll’s themes and Alice’s character have the capability of being adapted to new audiences, however, changes made in Disney’s adaptation not only fail to utilize this aspect of the story, but instead remove them entirely, contradicting Carroll’s message and ruining Alice’s character. Comparing the two stories at face value, several scenes shown in Disney’s film are…
Alice in Wonderland (2010) is an American fantasy movie, which was directed by Tim Burton, and was written by Linda Woolvertoon. It is a loose retelling of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). This essay will describe, compare and contrast two of the many characters in Alice in Wonderland. Alice Kingsleigh is a blonde-haired and brown-eyed girl whose original size is small, however her size changes depending on what type of Underland’s foods she eats. She is easy on the eyes due to her soft face.…