Dark side

Short Essay: After Dark Haruki Murakami tests the boundaries between everyday Tokyo reality and a surreal realm in After Dark. The book follows two sisters who are each present in different realities. In this novel, Murakami uses sleep as a symbol of disengagement and disassociation from the world. The plot bounces between many different locations, but centralizes around Eri’s bedroom and the love hotel, Alphaville. Takahashi discloses to Mari later in the book that his original business of…

Astronomers recently discovered one of the most massive black holes to date in the cosmic background. This supermassive black hole contains 17 billions times the mass of the Sun, only slightly smaller than the most massive black hole ever found, which is 21 billion solar masses. For comparison, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way totals only 4 solar masses . This newly found black hole lies in the center of the galaxy NGC 1600, which lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the…

It takes many factors to make a good director: a director must be calm, he must be articulate, and most of all he should be inspiring. However, Christopher Nolan is not simply a good director, he is one of the greatest directors of all time. Not to mention his impeccable writing, his directing expertise is beyond comparison: he skillfully draws the best performances out of the renowned actors in his cast, his imaginative stories can bogle even the most ingenious of minds, and his movies, while…

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying. Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are invisible. Space telescopes with special tools can help find black holes. The special tools can see how stars that are very close to black holes act differently than other stars. Black holes can be big or small. Scientists…

The Middle Ages were a period of both great devastation and mediocre advancement around the discovered world. The "Low Middle Ages" or the "Dark Ages" came in succession to the fall of Rome and held the development of feudalism. Feudalism sustained itself and oppressed the formation of new ideas until approximately 1100. An idea came about that was essentially the turning point of the Middle Ages. Up until this point, humanity thought that their sole purpose was to worship God- but when the idea…

Robbie Abraham 5/18/17 The Dark Knight Neo Noir Challenge Commentary on dark and light. Neo-noir, unlike classic noir, does not require darkness to be dark. Instead, the darkness resides in the shadows cast by daylight. Director Christopher Nolan doesn’t rely on the darkness in all his films, but The Dark Knight still heavily relies on ideas about dark and light. We see this in its name (The Dark Knight), but also in the film’s sometimes harsh lighting and in the inversion of what…

Literature took a dark twist when gothic literature was introduced into the world of writing. Writers in the 1800s wrote about morbid topics, such as death, ghosts and torture. They found ways to incorporate terror over horror in their works and opened the doors to a new genre that is still found today in modern works. In Edgar Allan Poe’s Tell Tale Heart gothic elements are shown by the author’s use of repetition and voice, which displays the fact that this style of writing exceeds the…

my essay is dark matter’s importance on galaxy formation. I chose this topic because the notion of dark matter piqued my interest. It’s non-luminous so it cannot be directly observed by a telescope, which prompted me to learn more about the topic and understand it on a deeper level. Outline Introduction In this stage, the topic will be introduced, as well as a brief introduction of the subtopics that will be addressed. However the bulk of this stage will be dedicated to discussing dark matter…

The middle ages, which was also known as the dark ages for most of Europe, was a time when mathematics very under-developed and slow due to the Roman Empire and it’s hold that they had on mathematics. This was the case until the Renaissance Era. The Roman Empire flourished until about the 5th century. The decline of the Roman Empire created a new awakening for mathematics. Mathematics around the world began to flourish and develop again. For majority of the world, mathematics was used for…

Europe evolved from ancient to modern times. This gradual change began when the Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe during the 400s. Many people believe that after this collapse culture and society declined. The middle Ages is sometimes called the Dark Ages because of this belief. In fact, the Middle Ages was a time of great activity. The Roman Empire was divided into many smaller kingdoms. Most kings had little control over their kingdoms. As a result, hundreds of vassals2 with titles like…