G. H. Hardy

Thematically, the common thread among the three short stories “The Secret Miracle” by Jorge Luis Borges , “Journey Back to the Source” by Alejo Carpentier, and Julio Cortazar’s “Continuity of Parks” is the manipulation of time. Each use the cyclical nature of time to tackle a sort of worldly completion. Hladik finishes his book, the reader in “Continuity of Parks” becomes the ultimate reader by being completely absorbed by his book, the house in “Journey Back to the Source” comes full circle and…

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Matt Haig two years ago at an event for his book, A Boy Called Christmas which I loved. It was at this event where I first heard about How to Stop Time which he was still working on at the time. The whole concept of a person not aging on the outside and slowly aging on the inside had me intrigued. However, I had completely forgotten about the book until earlier this year when I saw it on the Savvy Reader's “Most Anticipated Reads of (Early) 2018” blog post. The…

“If we don't end war, war will end us.” One of many meaningful quotes said by none other than Herbert George Wells. Known by many as “the Father of Sci­ence Fic­tion” and praised upon for his humanitarian efforts on women’s rights. If it was not for Wells, modern day technology may not exist. He not only opened the world’s eyes to science, he encouraged innovation. Early Life Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley England on September 21st, 1866. (Bio.com) Wells was the youngest of his…

One theme in Ted Chaing’s “Exhalation” is acting for the greater good, in this case, to add to the pool of scientific knowledge. The narrator, a mechanical being in a world populated with other mechanical beings who believe they will live forever, is an anatomist. He has suspected for some time that the prevailing hypothesis of how memory is stored is incorrect. He comes up with an idea for an experiment to find out. The experiment poses great risk to his body, so he deliberates over whether he…

Millions of people around the world sit down in front of their television set and are told that “For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear”. But this seemingly absorbing lead into a popular science fiction TV show is actually telling the truth. What the unsuspecting audience is being fed is chilling. “What is dangerous about television is not its junk, it is that television is transforming all serious public business into junk” (449 P4) In addition, the…

“I forgot to my joke” “My supplies at my table” “Four minutes already! I’m not even on my main idea yet!” “I did so badly”. Many bad thoughts flew b as I went through my speech; I thought that I was going to be the person to “wow the crowd”; “people remember the person who goes first and the person who goes last the most” (Danielle Woody). That did not work out. I did a “How-to-Speech” on ‘how to reuse clothes’. I would give myself below an F-.My goal was to start the speech a week before I…

G. Wells’s The Time Machine,” Ruddick observes certain intentions of Wells that he calls “topical allusions,” in which such allusions imply an indirect relation to Wells’s desires in 1894. An example would be the mentioning of Professor Newcomb. The Time…

Finally, whereas Victorian definitions of progress implicitly rely on a binary opposition of success and failure, Morley and Stevenson use Fortune’s Wheel to replace it with a definition of human development where both fortune and misfortune can co-exist without contradicting each other. In the 1880s and 1890s, the Wheel of Fortune could easily have been used as a portent of the apocalypse, suggesting as it does that decline is inevitable. Many critics of the day were already talking about…

Eric Arthur Blair; was a man of strong opinion who addressed political movements like imperialism, fascism and communism. As an English novelist, essayist and critic this man played a big role in politics in his time. Through his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four he spoke stories of his life and political issues in early and mid 1900’s (“George Orwell”). In Motihari, India on June 25, 1903, Eric Arthur Blair was born. As a son of a British civil servant he spent his first years in…

Since the beginning of time, humans have been making natural formed settlements to survive. However, society has become more advanced through time. As society advances, more laws are enforced. In Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver, they have created a futuristic society under an Utopia/Dystopia theme. Literary experts explain that the Greek meaning for Utopia means “no place”, this shows that the Greeks thought that Utopia couldn’t be real or possible. Lois’s experience with her father's aging and…