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The party, Big Brother, from George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” may resemble Soviet Union’s dictator, Joseph Stalin, to readers. Stalin ruled over the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s, until his death in the 1950s. He was notorious for the power he had held over his people, as well as, all of his ruthless assassinations. The government in Orwell’s novel, Big Brother, watches its people through telescreens, listens to its people’s conversations and thoughts, and controls what the people know about the…

Space is a huge sea of unknown. We are simply specks of dust, trying to figure out the behaviors of giants. Thus it is apparent that the specks can not know much. For now. One of the biggest mysteries is the expansion of the universe; in the 1990s, we knew that theoretically, our ever-expanding universe was slowing down due to gravity, and that it would eventually collapse or keep expanding, just slower as time went on. However, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that to be dead…

Over 104 years ago, on August 7th, 1912, an Austrian scientist named Victor Hess changed the Astronomy and Physics world forever when he discovered cosmic rays through a strange experiment that took place in a hot air balloon. Cosmic rays are high-energy, subatomic particles that appear outside the Earth’s atmosphere. These rays are known to strike to down on Earth, which may seem dangerous but even very energetic primary rays crash into the Earth’s atmosphere and they basically never make it to…

Eliza Revell Big Bang Theory Task-Science 2015 10CH For a very long time the Big Bang theory has been one of the most talked about topics in science. Most astronomers believe that the universe began with a ' Big Bang ' They believed that it happened about 14 billion years ago. At that point in time, astronomers think that the universe was inside a dense kind of 'bubble' that was thousands of times smaller than a pinhead. They think it was…

On a warm fall day Willy Harrison, sat building a campfire waiting for his grandchildren to arrive. Today he planned to tell them the story that they had been waiting to hear since they last met. As he heard the rumble of a car on gravel he lit a match and dropped it in the fire. As Kelly and Billy ran down the hill towards the barn, the fire roared to life. Waiting for them to reach him, he pulled out candies from his breast pocket. Finally reaching him, they gave him a quick hug and thanked…

Neo is a man living a double life. He is a computer programmer by day and computer hacker by night. He always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. He is recruited by an underground rebel named Morpheus. Morpheus explains that Neo and everyone else has been living in is an illusion generated by a massive computer called the Matrix. He finds out that most human beings are not born, but are created by machines so that they can harvest their bioelectric and heat…

through cameras. However, in the end, he, like the others, cannot escape the controlling power of the government. In 1984, the Party controls people in serveral ways. First, the Party controls the population through the constant surveillance of "Big Brother." In the world of 1984, "every sound that you made was overheard, and... every movement was scrutinzed, [there was]... no escape." The Party would monitor everyone, every second by using cameras, posters, etc which lead to the fear of most…

There are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. The first galaxies formed around 13.5 billion years ago after the big bang and the dark ages. NASA states that, “After the Big Bang, the Universe was composed of radiation and subatomic particles.” There are two theories about what happened next. The first theory is that small particles slowly team up and gradually form stars, star clusters, and eventually galaxies. The second theory states that the universe first…

novel 1984 the rats symbolize Winston's fears and the reason he loved Big Brother, Big Brother way to survive, manipulate and dominate the people and the power. In other words Big Brother IS the rat,. It is the Party’s way of discovering the peoples rat and use it against them causing fear, and dominance over them. winstons fear that led him to subdue to the party and changed his hatred to love were the rats, big brother know everybodies fear to control their mind. after being taken to…

In the movie Big Fish, Edward Bloom is similar to that of a mythological hero seen in Greek stories. He was bigger than life, filled with fantastical adventures and had a flair for telling tall tales. Due to this, it is often difficult for those near him to decipher fact from fiction and reality from myth. This concept of myth reflects the ideas of Bruce Lincoln, who, like Edward’s son William, also attempts to reconcile the facts and fictions of myths. Edward saw himself as a big fish in a…