Future value

The book and movie of The Devil’s Arithmetic have similarities and differences, and each of them benefit the execution of their respective genres. The movie was released in March 28, 1999. Dustin Hoffman is one of the executive producers, and he introduces the movie. The summary of the movie is as follows; Hannah is a 17, or so, year old girl who doesn’t care about or accept her Jewish heritage. She reluctantly goes to Seder at her Aunt Eva’s house. A custom at the Seder is drinking the wine…

knowledge that is passed back and forth becomes lost and forgotten throughout time. As a result, due to this lost of information we are conditioned with the inability to fully comprehend our past or to a larger extent, even the possibilities of the future. ‘Untitled PSM’ is a large oil and archival glue…

It is impossible to determine what the future holds for anyone. Whatever decisions are made at the beginning of a life, for example, can have consequences for the future. Doctors are often placed in positions where they need to make decisions that could change the lives of people negatively or positively. The moral and ethical issues of a doctors decision become extremely difficult when it comes to negative consequences. As the video Does Doctor Know Best suggest, the difficulty lies in the…

Gernsback, "Science-fiction ... can be defined as: imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future" (Gernsback). . Hugo Gernsback’s definition of science fiction is strongest because it incorperates aspects of imagination, discusses technology that currently exists, and explores phenomena that may exist in the future as seen in Ray Bradbury's Farenheit…

and this burning would, on the instant, reverse itself.” This quote shows how small actions can cause much larger consequences. What the author is doing is trying to caution the reader to be aware of how a small action on their part can affect their future. The story progresses until it reaches the point where Eckels, the protagonist, sees the monstrous Tyrannosaurus that he paid to kill. He realizes the severity of the situation and firmly declares “We were…

Scurzynski's "Nethergrave" and Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" are both very well written pieces of science fiction that both focus on scientific technology and how it's affect the main characters' lives. Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" is about a young man named Eckels goes back in time and has to deal with the harsh consequences of his pusillanimous mistake. In Scurzynski's "Nethergrave", the main character, Jeremy, picks a virtual world over his entire life where he feels humiliated,…

UNSPOKEN WORDS: Unspoken words by Paul Callus, is a poem that can be interpreted in many ways depending on who's reading it. In my case, I took the poem as having to do with lost opportunities and things that I never got the chance to say. In the past I've bottled up my feelings, and now all I’m left with is regret on things that I hadn’t done. I have a feeling that the guy in the poem, if he doesn't take a chance to say how he feels, he’ll be in the same boat as me, with a million questions but…

Time travel tunnel, I'm driving through it at the edge of the world, or at least what I perceive to be the edge of the world... I'll cut to the chase. You don't want all the extra fluff and I don't want to give it to you. I was time traveling through a tunnel-- no, it was more like a wormhole, no time travel involved-- tesseracting, dimension traveling... but "time travel" sounds cooler. It's more accepted by the general public. Anyway, so I came out the other side into a pine forest, but the…

closer to it. They also show how attempting to alter another’s destiny yields the same outcome. Unfortunately, there is no definite outcome - the end result is dependent on how much of one’s future is made clear to them. Fewer details allow more room for change, and therefore becoming fully aware of one’s future only further…

The Future Learning about power, environment, as well as education, helps teenagers develop an opinion about ideas that are presented to this technological society with many issues. In fact, people have the opportunity to experience this in their everyday lives when listening to the radio, watching the news, or even when sharing ideas with someone. Janet McNaughton’s dystopian novel The Secret Under My Skin is an excellent exposure of how teenagers can have a significant impact on the future.…