Dark side

For many years, everyone that’s into superheroes movies has finally got their wish to see Detective Comics Batman and Action Comics Superman in the same movie. It will be release this March with both characters. The movie Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice will feature both characters at the same time, but each character does have their own unique story of how it all originated. The origin with Batman is also known as Bruce Wayne is a billionaire owner of Wayne Enterprise which takes place…

The universe today is huge. Scientists and Astronomers are finding new galaxies, planets asteroids, and more. But today, that's not what we are going to talk about. We’re going to talk about galaxies. Have you ever wondered what a galaxy really is? In the early 1900s, astronomers . Astronomers argued about spiral shaped, gas, dust were getting closer to discovering galaxiessome star vast cloud found in the night sky. In 1919, Edwin Hubble, an astronomer found the answers. Hubble used his…

Christopher Nolan has arguably created the best Batman film. The Batman in The Dark Knight has taken the approach of a more vigilante role with ambiguous morals. The definition of a vigilante is member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement into their own community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate. By the definition above Batman is a vigilante because he is a self-appointed citizen of Gotham City who took law…

Hello there. I will be talking about Olbers’ Paradox. In the year 1826, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers’ proposed a controversial question about what makes the night sky dark if the universe contains an infinite number of bright stars (Newton 1). This question fascinates me because every celestial object that can be observed with our eyes, should have an important reason and role to play. The paradox about the night sky was also argued by Kepler as stated in his “Conversations with the…

Fear, why do we like it? Dr. Kerr states that our bodies react to scary things by releasing dopamine, boosting self-confidence. Since 2005, the amount of money spent on Halloween has doubled to 7.5 billion dollars. What is the reason for this sudden increase in spending? According to Allegra Rango’s interview Dr. Kerr, “a scare specialist” discusses the dopamine is released into the brain and produce a natural high. Dr. Kerr is an expert in the field of fear, she talks about how the mind works…

One concept that has interested is dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the thing that makes it possible for galaxies to exist. When astrophysicists and cosmologist calculated why the universe is structure the way it is, it became clear that there’s just not enough normal matter. The gravity of the visible matter is not strong enough to from galaxies and complex structures. The starts would more likely be scattered all over the place and not form galaxies. Therefore, cosmologist concluded…

Thesis: “Is the Dark Ages’ an appropriate term to describe the Middle Ages? The “Dark Ages” sounds like the title of a deep, dark, despairing, and desolate period of time, with gray, grim skies and little beauty. However, the “Dark Ages” is not really an appropriate term to describe the Middle Ages. Many people who hear the term “Dark Ages” often believe that this refers to a period of history that was essentially a very dark and intellectually depressed period. The term portrays a very grim…

Batman's hobby of crime stopping in tights has come to attract various kinds of villains but there is one who has truly made a name for himself. His name is the Joker and he is best known as Batman's nemesis. According to ("Joker comics "), Joker became who he was after he joined the mob in a attempt to support his pregnant wife. He is later pursued by Batman which causes him to jump into a chemical vat to elude the Batman but the mental strain of coming out of the vat disfigured and learning…

In the excerpt, “Let There be Dark” the author, Paul Bogard, clearly states his viewpoint that [darkness is an irreplaceable value]. Bogard uses real world examples, rhetorical questioning as well as figurative diction to stress to his audience his strong belief that natural darkness should be preserved. Towards the middle of the excerpt, Bogard includes a rhetorical question that persuades his readers to also value darkness as much as he does. “In a world awash with electric light...how…

“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.” This quote, by the character Rorschach from the movie Watchmen, serves to highlight what the character’s ethical values are. Movies are a useful tool in teaching and personifying ethical ideals in a way that reaches a wide variety of people. The 2009 movie Watchmen is a near perfect example of this as the main characters are personifications of several ethical…