Doomsday

Essays, Not Rants! 224: Regarding Movies About Two Superheroes Fighting Each Other If you were to put 2016’s blockbusters in a museum, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain America: Civil War ought to be displayed next to each other. They’re the sort of movies that, when looked at together, take on a whole new dimension. Because one is far more successful than the other. To understand why Civil War succeeds you don’t have to look much better than at how BvS fails. Both movies have the…

My efforts to finish Bloomsday My finest accomplishment was completed when I was nine. This achievement was done with the help of my family's athletic ability and capability to run. They indoctrinated me to believe in running. That's why I'm a runner today. My family convinced me to do Bloomsday. At first I did not want to but they are good convincers Bloomsday is a 12k race that makes Spokane famous. People come from around the world to race in it. So I was very jubilant when I was told I was…

The DC flick Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice displayed a completely new Lex Luthor, who may seem to be an eccentric genius but actually turns out to be a sociopath hell-bent on destroying Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel as well as Ben Affleck’s Caped Crusader. Luckily, Jesse Eisenberg’s character has been arrested in the film and is currently facing jail time. However, his company LexCorp Industries is officially washing their hands of Luthor by issuing a statement on Instagram! The official…

not want to be tied with controversial political opinions. Radiohead’s song Idioteque, the 8th track off their album Kid A, is a classic example of a protest song that’s message is not completely obvious. Idioteque, written in 2000, illustrates a doomsdays situation, most likely being about climate change. The lyrics read, “Who's in bunker, who's in bunker? Women and children first / Ice age coming, ice age coming / We're not scaremongering This is really happening, happening.” Radiohead never…

particular, Heavy Metal dramatized themes of nuclear annihilation and embraced doomsday prophecies (Hartigan). Metallica, a punk influenced metal band released a slew of atomic themes songs in their debut album Kill Em’ All. Metallica’s opening song of the album, Fight Fire With Fire, warns that “Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast/Armageddon is here, like said in the past”. The lyrics prophesize a nuclear doomsday based on the “blank check proliferation” policies both practiced by the…

John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards were some of the earlier American writers and they had some little characters in common in terms of their ways of writing. They were backers of the same principles adopted by Christianity but they had many differences in the ways they adopted different styles of writing. The differences in the styles of writing can be explained by the situations faced by each one of them in terms of time in which each wrote the essays. Edwards had a feeling that the new world…

Some people ask what are we doing to ruin the earth. What are we doing to speed up the doomsday clock and how can we stop it or reverse the effects. There could be many ways to do so but we are doing more damage than repairs. is the human race bad for the earth lets find out. First thing the reader can think of that we do wrong is the constant air pollution with carbon emissions from cars and the huge smoke stacks from factory. That is not the only thing that can cause air pollution but test…

term “survivalists”—or the more polite “preppers”—conjures images of tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists holed up in Montana hoarding canned pinto beans and assault weapons” (O’ Conner). We have all seen or heard of television shows such as Doomsday Preppers that portray the group as extremists. Due to the political and financial strife often portrayed in society, how important is prepping going to be in the future for all members of society? How vital is it going to become to pass these…

The Mayan Calendar has bewildered scholars for quite some time. Its accuracy and detail makes it a well-studied piece of history. Many would say that it’s the most accurate calendar created by any culture. Others believe that it held a more scientific explanation. Throughout the centuries, its meanings have been studied by scholars and discussed at large. Many have linked the calendar to a deeper meaning: the end of days prediction. Propelled by media and notoriety, the association with the…

Jesus Camp is the title of a documentary film that is about an evangelical Christian summer camp led by Becky Fisher. It depicts the lives of children, such as Rachael, Tory and Levi, who attend the camp in details. Most of these children homeschool because their parents disagree with the science education provided by the public schools; creationism is what the evangelical parents teach their children. They are also taught that global warming not a serious issue because it is just a political…