Essay on Life on Mars

Zakariya Daham, NA14 Song Analysis 2016-02-12 (Is there) Life on Mars? ’’Life on Mars’’ is a song with the text and music written by the British musician David Bowie. It was first released as a single in the 22th of June, 1971, and was later featured in his album Hunky Dory. David Bowie is notoriously famous for his critique of society, and this song of his is a metaphorical masterpiece that takes the crown. This song is all about how our own entertainment, movies, music and TV have become too inclusive and important that our own lives have begun to imitate them. The first verse highlights on ‘’the girl with mousy hair’’ as he puts it. She has got drama going on, and it’s not a shocker with whom: her parents. This song was released in 1971…

Mars harboured long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3.8 to 3.3 billion years ago, boosting the odds that life may have once existed on the Red Planet, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found. Using data from the Curiosity rover, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team has determined that, long ago, water helped deposit sediment into Gale Crater, where the rover landed more than three years ago. The sediment deposited as layers that formed the foundation for Mount…

EASSY Harry Bittering and his family live on Mars at the moment because Earth has an on going war with atomic bombs which could kill many people. Harry must go through the struggle on Mars because the moment he steps off the rocket he wants to go home because the new environment make him feel out of place. After being on Mars for some times Harry starts to physically and mentally change about being on Mars. Harry Bittering and his family go to mars after a war had started on Earth but shortly…

Although scientists have speculated about intelligent life on Mars, it comes as a complete surprise to England when Martians land, having been shot to Earth in flaming cylinders. At first the projectiles are mistaken for shooting stars or meteors. Then Ogilvy, the first to discover one of the cylinders that has landed, realizes that it is hollow; as it cools, he can hear something inside unscrewing the cylinder’s top. Ogilvy informs a local journalist, Henderson, and soon a crowd, including the…

the existence of potentially life supporting water that flows across the antient surface of Mars, even today! According to John Grunsfeld, the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, "the existence of liquid water, even if it is super salty briny water, gives the possibility that if there's life on Mars, that we have a way to describe how it might survive." Using images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA researchers confirmed that the water streaks found…

Sending a manned space mission to Mars sounds pretty cool, right, and we all have questions like "Is there life on Mars?" I personally think we should give Mars a visit because think about the secrets we could uncover that could be astonishing and so helpful. We could go to see if we can find information about earth or even have success living there would possibly give us time to explore longer and collect more. Imagine living up there in a sustained area waiting for whatever comes next. Now…

The Ethical Approach To ‘Life on Mars’ With the current state of Earth as global warming causes extreme weather changes set to intensify through the coming years, combined with the depleted level of resources available, due to unsustainable extraction, consumption and waste, and the rapid advances in technology, the race to colonise Mars is becoming increasingly alluring. At present, there are many interested government bodies such as NASA and private companies such as Mars One along with…

Life on Mars by Smith has a somewhat similar focus, where the speaker finds herself doing something similar to that of her father. This occurs as part of the eulogy, “Speed of Belief,” specifically the second page where the speaker sits to eat as she reflects on the loss of her father. The second part of this long poem starts off with the line “When your own sweet father died.” The 'your' is referring to her father, and the first stanza talks about how he lost his father—her grandfather—sometime…

existence of other lifeforms beyond this planet, coexisting with ours. The thought is still there, but not many feel the need to go into further research to try to investigate it. In the book, Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith challenges us to open our minds to the idea that we are never alone, death is a beautifully tragic thing, but we must find peace in it. Metaphors Tracy K. Smith's poetry help us grasp a better understanding of life after we pass and how we can cope. Dealing with the loss of a…

Even though Life on Mars does not have the focused theme of family presented throughout like Rose, Smith's collection of poetry nonetheless does include a long interlude that is her eulogy to her dead father. The poem itself goes through multiple stages of the speaker's grief. Page thirty-one of this poem focuses on the speaker reflecting on life and her father. It is as if after all the grieving, she takes a moment to pause and think. The speaker addresses her own viewpoints of her father,…