Gulliver's Travels

Kung Fu, Nazis, explosions, guns, eighties synth pop, and time travel are just some of the many outrageously amazing elements that make up the thirty-one minute film Kung Fury. The film Kung Fury has a crazy plot, B-rated quality, and an abundance of all things that makes up the eighties. Kung Fury has taken the internet by storm especially for those like myself who love the perfect train wreck that was the eighties. David Sandberg, the director of the film and Kung Fury himself, said in an…

Butler gives way in Kindred for the reader to gain a new perspective by utilizing time travel in a way that goes beyond a gimmick. She shows the struggles of a proud, black woman living in a society that isn 't wholly accepting of who she is in tandem with the struggles of a submissive black woman who seemingly cannot stop her digression into…

In Sickness and in Health One aspect that many people read travel narratives for is the danger, the risk to the protagonist 's life as they travel through unknown lands. In a travel narrative, especially one written in an early part of human history, the chance of injury or illness is all too great. But what interests an audience is not just the thrill of how close the protagonist comes to death, but how the protagonist handles their suffering. This essay will compare Ibn Ibn Battuta and…

time, people have conversed over the existence of time travel. According to David Lewis, time travel is “the discrepancy between time and time” (Lewis 1976). When one time does not equal the other time then, in that case, time has been traveled. Some people believe that time travel is in fact possible, and others believe the idea is absurd and impossible. Those people believe that time travel is impossible present several objections to time travel. Some of these objections are the elapse…

Kindred is a science fiction book written by Octavia Butler which explores slavery, interracial relationships, family history, love, hate, and fear through time travel. The main character and narrator is Edana who goes by Dana, an African American woman newly married to Kevin who is white in 1976. Dana and Kevin have just moved from an apartment in Los Angeles to a home of their own a few miles away in Altadena. In the prologue Dana’s arm was crushed inside a wall in her home, and had to be…

“A Sound of Thunder” In Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder,” the protagonist, a man named Eckels, pays a time travel company to take him on a trip back in time. Specifically, the purpose of the trip is to shoot a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Although the time travel company carefully plans the trip to avoid disturbing the course of history, it does not go as they plan because humans are not perfect. In fact, Bradbury conveys the idea that mankind is corrupt throughout the plot. The protagonist, setting,…

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,…

"Monster is a relative word; to a canary, a cat is a monster. So far we humans were used to being cats." After the first three movies in the series, you might think that they would have learnt of their incapacity to contain a dinosaur – precisely the reason why Jurassic Park was shut down at the end of the third movie. Twenty-two years later, the park has been reopened, renamed and revamped. The theme park, dubbed Jurassic World, is now owned by Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan) who has taken…

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…

A hunter name Eckels pays $10000 to travel with the Time Safari. The Time Safari is a company that allows you to travel to the past to hunt down prehistoric animals. Eckel request to hunt down a Tyrannosaurus Rex. During this trip he will be accompanied by two other hunters and a guide named Travis. They were to obey their guide…