Lost Moon

Keeping on track he kept going before the sun would disappear and the moon would come out he made his way out of the forest and into the desert. Even though this desert wasn’t nearly as hot as a real one it had felt as long as a real one to him. Making his way all the through the long not very hot dry desert he reached the…

(fist) Today we know that they circumference of Earth is 40,075 kilometers. His estimated calculation was very accurate. It is a bit difficult to completely interpret Eratosthenes’s work and calculation because his work was lost and he used the units of measurement that were being used during his time period. Also there was not a standard unit of measurement to where everyone used the same measurement and was completely universal. Eratosthenes lived to be around 82 years old…

Dante voyages through paradise in nine spheres, there order is the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Fixed Stars. This is a trip through heaven's journey towards the vision of God in the Empyrean, a realm of pure light (The World of Dante). The sun is the home for the theologians and wise men (Digital Dante). At this time, the sun was seen as a symbol of intellectual power and illumination, it could even represent God. This “planet” was perfect for the theologians and wise men…

The zodiac is believed to be a belt of the heavens with eight degrees either facet of the great circle, together with all apparent positions of the sun, moon, and most acquainted planets. Its divided into twelve equal divisions, every section with it's own sign, symbol, and a temperament kind. John Gardner uses this pseudoscience motif in his parallel novel, Grendel, through images of the zodiac in every chapter to reveal the progressive modification of Grendel’s temperament as associated with…

days later… At last the astronauts reached their destination thanks to the navigators on Earth. Then, without another word, they got off their rocket and set foot on Mars like Neil Armstrong, who was the first to set foot on our natural satellite moon. The crew members began by placing their…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) is an ongoing space exploration mission of the planet Mars utilising two robotic rovers named Spirit and Opportunity launched on June 10 and July 7, 2003, respectively from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA [1]. The mission’s primary goal is to “Determine Whether Life Ever Arose on Mars” (NASA) through the search for clues in soils and rocks that suggest past water activity on the planet’s surface. The…

to. Vincent hires a doctor that will genetically transform Vincent into a “valid” man named Jerome Eugene Morrow. Jerome is a very smart man, who was very successful in the sport of swimming. Jerome is very intelligent but also has seemed to have lost himself the day he won silver in his swim competition. Jerome is very suicidal, depressed, angry, and has become a very bad alcoholic. Jerome is a perfect match for Vincent because they look alike and Jerome has been an unknown foreign ever since…

The Electrifying Scorpio Races The folklore surrounding the mysterious water horse myth has always captured my fascination. Maggie Stiefvater 's The Scorpio Races takes this exceedingly ancient folktale and beguiles audience 's with her own unique retelling. There are decidedly few authors that can write in such a way that not only makes readers envision the setting, but she transports us there. Stiefvater 's opening of The Scorpio Races is both thrilling, and yet haunting with the declaration…

Have you ever been terrified by a beast that might be yourself? In the book Lord of the Flies there are a group of boys that are on an island and they had to evacuate from their school because there was a war going on. Their plane ended up crashing at this island and now they are stuck there. The boys started to hear things at night and see things at night and they thought that there was a beast around. The boys all thought different things about the beast; they thought there was a snake thing,…

On "Landscape with the fall of Icarus" "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is inspired by the Bruegel painting which is based on the Greek myth of the tragedy of "Icarus." Icarus is the son of Daedalus; Icarus flew from prison with the fragile wings that his father had made for him. Icarus didn't care about his father warning to keep a middle course over the sea and avoid flying too close to the sun; the boy flew with joy too close to the burning sun, so his wings got melted and the poor…