Future Career Essay

In “Once More to the Lake,” E. B. White illustrates the gap between the present and the past through his vacations on a lake in Main as a child and as an adult. White recalls the moments with his father on this lake and sees that “there had been no years” (White 3) from the previous years and when he takes his son on the same trip. White’s memories of camping with his father from his childhood are filled with sensory details, and he links this father-son relationship with his current son,…

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but no human heart, oh no, its curved like a road through the mountains” (Williams). The previous quote was recited by a man named Tennessee Williams, who taught that a lot can be learned about a person from a single quote such as their values or maybe in the values of the society in which they live. Tennessee Williams was man who was taken from his urban home and landed on the streets of St. Louis where he became a playwright…

Although science fiction might seem to the future of our human lives not all is with us and view it as a good thing. People need to start viewing science fiction as a good thing because this is what drives humans to create new and improved technology. Which means if anything we are almost in the era of futuristic technology. We always see new and improved which of course this genre science fiction has a lot to relate to our human ways. Not all in this genre is bad especially how both of these…

At the age of twenty, what girl would even think about her boyfriend proposing? I know that every girl dreams of her wedding day, how it would look, and the way it would turn out. Planning a wedding is not an easy task like everyone thinks it is. Planning my wedding involved three main things; the date for the wedding, the type of dress that I would wear, last but not least, would be the type of venue I was going to have. Another main important thing is, where it would take place. The emotions…

whole city of Oxford. I predict that Kivrin will bring this new disease to the past; I am questioning how Kivrin’s journey to the past will somehow affect the events in the future; I am evaluating the coincidence between the times where she traveled and how there is a new disease in the future. As a traveler from the future it is possible to bring a disease to the past; where people are more likely…

Describe the setting: The setting of George Orwell’s 1984 is set in the future of Oceania. Oceania is a country, which is in a continuous state of war. In Oceania the living conditions of the country are extremely poor and the buildings are in ruins. The clothes given are poorly made, people are paid in small wages, and the food served out are restricted and artificially made. Also telescreens are placed in almost every room to visually and audibly monitor behaviour. What happens in…

kinds of utopian or dystopian future societies have been released; in literature, the dystopian genre has also become quite popular among adults and especially teenagers in the U.S. But what about the world that young people would really like to live in? According to recent studies by Dr. Alice Freidenhsrauer, the majority of young people connect the future world with the intense development of technologies. Usually, they describe their perfect version of the future as a world where…

Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about the science and technology of the future. It has influenced or led to a change in technology. As a genre, there needs to be some possibility that the events could possibly happen. While either reading or watching science fiction, it makes the viewer or reader constantly wonder, “what if?” It teaches lessons about the value and the dangers of advanced technology. Science fiction presents and discusses many real world…

Basically, an actuary predicts the outcome of an action performed by a company, however, they do not know the outcome for sure. All of an actuary job is educated guesswork. The only reason that a popular food or drink is still marketable is because an actuary determined that it deserved to stay on shelves. An actuary requires a bachelors degree with a strong math background, long term on-the-job training, and many skills that are math oriented along with problem solving. A job such as that of…

In 1977 the American novelist Phillip K. Dick published A Scanner Darkly, a semi-autobiographical story set in the then future of June 1994. Taking place in an anti-utopia Orange County, California, the novel is an all-embracing depiction of drug culture and drug use, both recreational and abusive. The main character and protagonist of the story is Bob Arctor, junkie and drug dealer, who happens to be living a parallel life as Agent Fred, a law enforcement agent assigned to bring down Arctor. In…