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Ray Bradbury has been considered one of America’s greatest science-fiction writer’s. His work often satires human nature and shows his reader’s the flaws found deep within the individual. Not only is Bradbury a novelist, but he is also a, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third son in the family. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician. His…

Introduction The space hotel is named Caelum, which is the Latin term for space, universe, and heaven. This name represents the future of luxurious travel, taking humans into outer space on an amazing vacation. Not only is this an amazing chance to travel into space and live there for a week or two, but it is also a once in a life time opportunity. Caelum lets the people who have already traveled to all seven continents get the full experience, and travel to a place “out of this world”. This…

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century who has brought about a phenomenal distinction in literature. Most of the writers have written only in a particular concept or genre, but Kurt Vonnegut has imprinted his undeniable mark in science fiction with humor, social commentary with absurdity and so on. Kurt Vonnegut has written fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. His works are occupied with…

Hatke. One will find this science fiction novel is filled with futuristic and scientific imagery along with an abundance of space monsters, aliens, and robots. Zita along with her friend Joseph come upon a large red button located at the bottom of an asteroid crater. Things go awry when Zita decides to push the button and her friend Joseph is swooshed away by a big bright ray of light and giant alien tentacles. Zita follows her friend into the light and ends up on an unknown planet that is…

Alyssa Eaves Professor David Bergbreiter CHEM 227 22 November 2014 Dmitri Mendeleev: A Biography Today in American classrooms, the name Dmitri Mendeleev conjures up the sole image of a periodic table, secure and immutable with all its ordered numbers and letters marching along in dependable patterns. More than one hundred years ago in Imperial Russia, the name Dmitri Mendeleev would call to mind séance scandals, economic tariffs, hot air balloon rides, a nationwide push for the metric system…

“endless possibility” called Skaia. Orbiting just outside Skaia is the golden moon of Prospit, where half the players dream selves exist, sleeping for the most part. The white army also comes from Prospit. Further away from Skaia, lies the Veil, a giant asteroid field filled with labs and important “seeds” to the game. Just outside of the Veil, orbits the obsidian moon of Derse, where the other half of the dream selves sleep, and where the black army comes from. Dream selves are game constructs…

The RNA World: The Implications and Problems it Presents Brandon Gutierrez Abstract The origin of life on Earth is a difficult topic to analyze with the limited data available in modern science. Many hypothesis have been suggested to explain how life may have arisen from an abiotic environment, but the topic is still far from fully understood. One generally accepted hypothesis to explain the origin of life involves an RNA world in which RNA was synthesized abiotically and carried out both the…

The Permian Mass Extinction Introduction There are five major extinctions in history: the Late Devonian, the Ordovician-Silurian, the Permian-Triassic, the Triassic-Jurassic, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary. Known as the Big Five, these extinctions exceeded all others in size and destruction, each killing more than 60% of species from that period. Each one acted as a bottleneck, allowing the survival of only a fraction of the organisms that had been thriving before, from which evolution and life…

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