Apocalypse

The 5th Wave opens after aliens have invaded and attacked Earth. First, electricity was destroyed with an electromagnetic pulse; then the coasts were enveloped by rising seas; next, an Ebola-like plague wiped out much of the population; then, what were effectively alien sleeper cells were activated, and the few remaining humans can't be trust anyone. I know what you're thinking: Another post-apocalyptic novel? The 5th Wave isn't just another post-apocalyptic novel. It's character-driven, it's…

Problem/Solution Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and oft-referenced expert in the field, does not believe that foreign language requirements are worthwhile. His analyses of the General Social Survey, in 'The Numbers Speak: Foreign Language Requirements Are a Waste of Time and Money ', are unflattering. Though he does not deny that there is a significant benefit for some, he finds foreign language education standards something of a novelty as less than one…

action, and strong acting. The Avengers is about how the evil Norse Loki is assembling an army of Chitauri aliens to conquer Earth after he was banished. With the help of the tesseract, a mystical cube, Loki plans to open a portal and start the apocalypse. The black-ops government agent, Nick Fury, must assemble a team of “Earth’s…

authorities have accumulated control. Orwell’s government maintain control through the use of psychological manipulation and physical control whilst Blake’s society relies on impossible promises of a Utopias after a life of misery. Blake’s religious apocalypse involves a progression from ‘Chimney Sweep’ in songs of innocence and of experience and an acceptance of the two contrary states if the human soul. An antithesis between death and life, coldness and warmth, darkness and light. Blake…

Eschatology is “a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind.” The Christian teaching of Eschatology sometimes pulls in a belief in the Rapture in which some believe the world will be destroyed, a literal reading of The Bible says, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more” (Rev 21:1). This seems to in a literal sense state the world will be destroyed. In this…

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Homework 2 As we get further into the novel, there are a lot of zombie themes that become very clear. One theme I noticed was the failure of technology and the reverting to older, medieval-like weapons and traditions. This idea strongly presents itself in the interview with David Forbes who talks about humanities use of castles and medieval customs for survival. Technology in a lot of instances became useless since resources such as…

Colonialism and war are two different ideologies and purposes, but many times they have walked on the same path. Conquering and colonizing another land has been around since the beginning of time, the Roman Empire, the British Empire and many more. It was not a good thing but it happened. The British Empire is most notorious colonization must be the colonization of America, which found the country we have now. As glory as we can say about the Revolutionary War and the Independence of our…

Caroline Sloan April 4th, 2024 Environmental Justice Professor El-Tinay. The Environmental Globe: War on Life. There is a fundamental connection between the way that humans treat the environment and the way that humans treat each other. Modern social hierarchy and economics are driven by the ideology of domination, whose Judeo-Christian roots extend as far back as the 15th century. Genesis 1:26-31 states, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have…

Zombie Project The very first day was going great. My friends and I were on our way home from school. My friends name our Riley and Jaylin. On our way home to work on a project we saw this strange thing coming toward us. We thought it was another kid trying to pull a prank on us. We were dead, I mean Dead wrong. Like the thing was limping and saying weird things. We tried to ignore it, but it keep following us. Riley (trying to be brave) started to head toward the weird thing. He came back…

Since the inception of the earth, humans have displayed an overpowering need for a god. We desperately long for some higher being to provide order and reason to the universe. While many find peace of mind in wealth, power, or love, other choose to devote themselves to religion. Over centuries of fairytales and superstition, humans have created numerous separate deities to worship and revere. But how does one distinguish the Idols from the genuine creator? Obviously every religion cannot coincide…