Catastrophe

or societal matter; the mythological Pandora obsesses over her box, while Tolkien’s Gollum obsesses over his “precious”, yet both attachments bring irreversible misfortune. The mythological Pandora and Tolkien’s Gollum obsessions led to catastrophe. Their temptation for their personal attachments resulted in undesirable yet permanent consequences. The myth of Pandora’s Box originated back in the Golden Age where “only men were upon the earth;…

The people of Oran live a life of monotony and indifference to the problems of the people around them, so when they succumb to the wrath of the plague, they realize for the first time that their lives are indifferent to the world and that death may be around the corner. In Albert Camus’s The Plague, each character develops a different way of thinking that helps them to rationalize the plague. Rieux uses what he knows as a doctor as motivation to help the people suffering around him, while Father…

September 11th, 2001. American Airlines flight 11, carrying 92 people took off from Boston's Logan International Airport at 7:59AM, in route to Los Angeles. United Airlines flight 175 took off minutes after flight 11, also headed to Los Angeles. After just 20 minutes in the air, flight 11 attendants notified the ground personnel that the plane had been hijacked by terrorists. Seconds after the hijacker of flight 11, Mohammed Atta, attempted to control the flight, the Northeast Air Defense Sector…

The Hundred Years’ War had countless negative effects on both France and England, and these effects would be felt both during the war and after the conflict had ended. The Hundred Years’ War caused the death of countless peoples, the destruction of massive portions of French land, massive damage to both the French and English economies, and the creation of a large and long-lasting rift and rivalry between these two nations. The casualties were felt by both the French and the English, and author…

Who would not want a pill that altered how your brain works, also rumored to be a squip, that was meant to make the person who consumes it cooler than they have ever been? Jeremy Heere is informed about this pill, known as a squip, so he knows he needs to get his hands on one in order to become one of the “cool kids” because he is nerdy and shy. Jeremy does whatever it takes to get a squip, which in his case he commits the crime of stealing and getting money from his aunt's Beanie Baby…

Brayzack had finished up his conversation with Petty Officer 1st Class Gannon just when another petty officer came up informing him of his presence being requested in one of the conference rooms located up in the control tower of the ship. Upon reaching the conference room, Brayzack was asked to sit in on a meeting that consisted of several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Military, three U.S. Senators—two of which two were from New York, the other from Massachusetts,…

Who is to blame for the witch trials in Salem? No one other than Abigail Williams of course. Abigail was just a normal girl who lived in Salem. She once went into the woods with a group of girls and from there everything changed. The girls one by one put different items in a cauldron and said the name of the person they adored. Abigail then got naked and started dancing with the group of girls and when they got caught she then later faked to be under a spell and panicked the whole town. Abigail…

hypertension, and general health status. This study confirmed these findings with clinical evidence of disease among participants. Even though the most severe food insecurity is typically related to catastrophes such as drought, floods, war, or earthquakes, most food insecurity is linked not with catastrophes, but rather with chronic poverty. According to Barrett “Only 8% of hunger related deaths worldwide in 2004 were caused by humanitarian emergencies; 92% were associated with chronic or…

less-desirable part of the island, it had already lost its native forest and witnessed major ecological changes. The demise of the forest had meant loss of habitat for many birds and other native species. Their rapid extinction resulted.” (Ecological Catastrophe and Collapse: The Myth of “Ecocide” on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Terry L. Hunt and Carl P. Lipo, page 12) In other words, Hunt and Lipo believe that the tools were made to grow corns, but not to kill or fight. According to Jared Diamond,…

The Maus and Persepolis While we read a story, we can compare it to ourselves as well as to our community. We can imagine how these people lived at that time, and how were their conditions only by reading a small detail. Those small details make the reader to have more information about that time as well as about the characters. The two stories that we are looking at are Maus and Persepolis. The first story talks about holocaust, which was the killing of millions of Jews by Nazi during World…