Middle-earth

The story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a riveting piece of work. The story is about a girl Margot who has recently just moved to the planet Venus, from Earth, where the sun shines for one hour every seven years. Margot misses seeing the sun everyday from her house in Ohio. Instead, everyday, she sees rain just pouring down and never stops. But Margot is not the only kid missing out on the sun. Other kids on Venus, who were born there, have never seen the sun or even remember what it…

whale gave birth. At the same moment the baby whale came out of his mother’s womb and the turtle hatched from its egg. After hours of labor the mother whale mistake the baby turtle as her child as it was in the middle of the night where she could not see anything and led him to the middle of the sea where the rest of the whale family live. The net morning the mother turtle arrived at the shores to find that here egg had hatched but…

The film cuts to the Marianas Trench on the South Pacific, shows another dark cloud with lightning approaching. A vessel appears stranded in the middle of the waters. There is also a helicopter on the right side of the screen, which is headed for the vessel. We learn that this is where they will drill down into the Earth’s core to restart its rotation. Keyes and his crew are ready for the mission into the Earth’s core as it begins to rain rather heavily as a part of the storm. They understand…

people have lost sight of the fact that the earth is an amazing gift. We go through our lives never taking the time to truly appreciate the perfect environment we inhabit. Humans pollute, destroy and for some reason have tried to dominate the earth instead of simply enjoying it. Every couple of months we find ourselves absolutely shocked when a natural disaster leaves millions of people devastated. Reality is that the human race is just a guest on this earth. People foolishly let themselves get…

the the needs and beliefs of Igbo people. According to Drewal, the appearance of Mami Wata may vary depending of the interpretations of different artistes and believers, but most commonly she appears as a woman with thick, dark hair, parted in the middle, wearing a European-style dress. She is very…

Perhaps the most attractive feature of the future is uncertainty. The root of uncertainty is change, and in accordance with the world we live in, the most significant is environmental change. The uncertainty brought by environmental change is whether or not the planet can continue to sustain the population. The battle for environmental preservation is being fought by UNESCO, a branch of the United Nations in which I intend to be a human rights lawyer for, focusing on development strategies.…

Then: Fireworks shoot off into the clear night sky. The explosives whistle as they climbed through the air. The earth goes quiet. Out of nowhere, you see blasts of color as the fireworks reach their peak. The red, jewel-toned lights glimmer in the atmosphere and sink into oblivion. That was the day after I was born. I began my life in 1998, the day prior to our nation’s liberation (AKA the 3rd of July). Born half dead, an umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, I started life overcoming the…

tectonic plates, the two continents Gondwanaland and Laurussia came together and formed one supercontinent called Pangaea (Torsiv et al. 2003). The formation of this single continent occurred around 270 mya. Pangea forms a C-shaped landmass dividing the Earth into two main bodies of water. To the right, in the inner curvature of the landmass, is the Tethys Sea, while to the left is the larger, Panthalassa (Fig. 1) (Smith 2011). Figure 1. Depiction of the supercontinent Pangaea…

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 Star Wars Series is a saga of films loved by just about every person in the United States. From middle-aged Sci-Fi nerds to middle school jocks, you’d be hard pressed to find somebody that “just didn’t get the hype.” The first Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was released in 1977 and the last film of the series (so far), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, was released in 2005. Though the original movie was a pop culture phenomenon and has changed film forever, the…