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In the novel Oryx and Crake, what is the significance of fridge magnets. Towards the end of the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Jimmy says, “You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he’d thought much about them at the time” as he comment on the fridge magnets that Crake ironically chose and enjoyed. We are presented with a world which has been devastated by a killer virus, and language, in all of its senses has been spliced just like the Crackers. Jimmy…

In Cinema, the most common story told is the hero myth. It is a ten-step formula that depicts the transformation of the protagonist on his journey to heroism. When we first see the protagonist, they are portrayed as average people living normal lives. In Captain America: The First Avenger Steve Rogers is a scrawny boy from Brooklyn and in The Wizard of Oz Dorothy is a regular girl from Kansas. Then something occurs in the protagonist life that jumpstarts their journey. In Captain America, Steve…

The Article, Cheer up, it’s only the end of the world states that there are two major threats to the world which could lead to an apocalypse: nuclear extermination and environmental extinction. World War I started the nuclear age in history and “novelist Ken Vonnegut lamented that the threat of nuclear war had robbed us of plain old death…” (pg.2). America had a new fear that this would lead to the end of everything, “final destruction of the world”. (pg. 2). Environmental extinction is the…

The Atomic bombs and President Truman’s decision to use them will always be up for debate. From the political standpoint it was the right thing to do for the survival of America’s troops and America. Hindsight is 20/20 and looking back on what has happened in the past and deciding whether it was right or wrong is impossible. President Truman was faced with a tough decision, end the war quickly with less loss of American life or face an invasion of Japan that could have killed a million US…

Technology Against Humanity Our world is controlled by technology and how fast progression is happening. The development of many apps such as Google Maps, Pandora, and Yellow Books is hugely increasing. As many of these things are more convenient and more efficient, there are some advances that are not for the better. Nuclear weapons are being worked on every day. Almost all major government military has access to a nuclear weapon that can destroy their opponent. The consequences of these…

It was 2001 and just days after a massive tsunami swept the country of Indonesia, killing thousands and leaving thousands homeless without food by any means of communication with the outside world. Shortly after the word had gone out Richard Lewis an everyday author decided to take a trip over to the city of Aceh where the tsunami had hit the hardest. What he saw blew him away, he was speechless all the destruction around him demolished buildings flooded streets, and dead people everywhere he…

isolated for a long time and while it experienced internal conflicts, the country endured during peacetime. When World War II struck, Japan experienced multiple external conflicts; tension between countries gradually grew. America later dropped two atomics bombs and as a result, the citizens were mortified. Although they were somewhat prepared for war, the people of Hiroshima did not expect an actual bomb to destroy their lives and homes. Survivors in the book recalled feeling apathetic and…

wall of the naval blockade, with the only idea in their head was the fight back. This is proven in the Japanese concept of Bushidō, which means to fight for your country, till you can't fight no more, and that no more, means death. Even after the two atomic bombs were dropped, the military generals still, wanted to continue to fighting. But it took the intervention of Emperor Hirohito to override all military decisions and to order surrender. The intervention of a Japanese Emperor was needed…

many characteristics. The world had changed when they started using and mining uranium. The fun facts of uranium are truly surprising. Uranium is an interesting element the is used to create energy. Uranium bombs have impacted warfare. The first atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima in World War 2. The Manhattan project produced two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man. Little Boy was 10 feet long and had been dropped on Hiroshima. Fat Man had been dropped on Nagasaki. The bombs had…

said, "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds," after the first test of the atomic bomb. There are many important things that made the atomic bomb possible like: what kind of science went into it, the people who built it, other bombs compared to it, and the making of the bomb. Ever since the atomic bomb was built, it changed the way wars were fought. Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt asking for an atomic research program, Roosevelt agreed to move forward slowly. Einstein's…