Holes Essay

Holes Bleeding Knuckles, tear drops falling and the realization of happiness; this fellow readers, is the day I lost my childhood. As far as I can remember I heard people say “You are just a kid, you will know when you get older” which is non-sense because I am mature and have been for many, many years. I could’ve understood but I was left out in the darkness in a land full of un-known details, like always. As soon as I saw my father’s big, boney, hairy hands ball up and hit the old floral…

When looking at any successful scientist or pilot there are some traits that each one must possess. Throughout Kitty Ferguson’s biography Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind and the fictional novel The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko the protagonists Stephen Hawking and Alex Romanov share many qualities and similarities about how they work, in their respective fields of work, and how they handle situations when introducing a new concept or flying a spacecraft. Not only do these characters show…

The mystery of how exactly diamonds form has baffled and stood out to many scientists for a long time. It is believed that diamonds form around 90 to 150 miles below Earth’s surface with the help of extraordinary heat and pressure. This takes place in the mantle. The mantle is in between the Earth’s crust and outer core. However, exactly how they form is the mystery. Some scientists believe that diamonds form from some type of liquid/fluid. What is this liquid? Well, when diamonds are…

maybe a Black Hole. Innumerable amounts of people have grown a phobia of black holes. This can mainly be blamed on the fact that numerous amounts of famous Hollywood films show black holes as being a vacuum of the cosmos, pulling in any and everything that crosses its path. However, science has proven that black holes are only of significant danger if a floating object were to get…

The speed of light is the ultimate speed limit in the universe. Which travels at 3.0 x 108 m/s in a vacuum and always moves in a straight line. When light travels to a new medium its speed and direction will change, this is called refraction. Materials have different optical density so light rays travel at different velocities. Refractive index is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in a medium. Calculated by the velocity of light in vacuum divided by velocity in a…

Joint Probability of Non-Independent Events For the joint probability of non-independent events A and B, we need to use a conditional probability. For P(Zargon-AND-Abduct), we cab use P(Zargon|Abduct) or P(Abduct|Zargon). P(Zargon) x P(Abduct|Zargon) = 8 /20 x 3 /8 = 24/160 = 3 /20 P(Abduct) x P(Zargon|Abduct) = 6 /20 x 3 /6 = 18/120 = 3 /20 Here is a different problem. The UFOs are invading, and the military shoots two special UFO missiles. The missiles blow up two of the UFOs. What is…

“ When I was little I'd watch my parents dig holes, every weekend and holiday. When I got bigger, I had a to dig, too. Even on Christmas.“ The fact that she is still digging after all this time, shows that the Warden really is determined. Another example, is on page 77, when X-Ray finds what seems to be a lipstick tube with the initials: KB. (Though the Warden didn’t know Stanley actually uncovered it.) She proceeded to dig all around X-rays hole where it was “found” and has the boys dig…

I read the book Holes, the author of the book Holes is Louis Sachar and it has 223 pages. The book Holes took me a month to read the whole thing. What I learned from the book Holes is that if you are having some bad times in your life you are sure to have some good times coming along your way. To expand on that in life sometimes bad things happen such as running short on money, having a loved one die and maybe politics. In the book it says one of his grandfathers was cursed by a voodoo…

The great Neil deGrasse Tyson once said something along the lines of humans have only discovered about 4% of the universe. Not only does my fear of what I don't know going on below my feet in the ocean scare the crap out of me, but that big star filled sky does as well. It doesn't just scare me, but it probably scares and excites scientists studying it all over the world. Since we only know a fraction of the inter-workings of the universe, there are many questions and things going on that we…

In the book Holes, Stanley’s character and self confidence changed once he got to Camp Green Lake and even after he got to know everyone. He got the self confidence by having a more fit body, and climbing God’s Thumb he knew he had gotten more fit [He never would have fit when he first came to Camp Green Lake (page 156)]. Stanley had barely any confidence with the other boys at first, but once he got the nickname, Caveman, he was proud and felt more important. When X-Ray moved him up the line,…