Mile

teenage years, who goes to a boarding school in Arizona, with the main character, Miles Halter. Miles is madly in love with this girl for many many reasons. 1) She took him under her wing and was one of his first real friends; 2) She is a mystery, and everyone loves a mystery; 3) She loves labyrinthes, and everything that involves her own way of thinking; 4) She loved pranks, and hanging out with her friends. Because Miles is so in love with Alaska, he becomes completely…

California. During the beginning of the movie, you never saw these pods but only saw the alien species that you later learn come out of them. Dr. Miles Benner is the first to notice this epidemic of imposters impersonating people throughout the town. Obviously, this species of imposters do not want the humans to know that they are among them. Later on, Miles and some others get suspicious of this behavior and create a panic. This can hugely relate to how Americans felt during the Cold…

"(GREEN19). In the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green Miles, the narrator, and his friends Chip and Alaska seek to find a their way through the labyrinth of life. For each of them the labyrinth is representative of their personal life struggles , and the obstacles they face to "escape it". The labyrinth is different for each one of us , and we choose to face it in different ways. For Alaska the only way out of the labyrinth was "straight and fast". Miles on the contrary realizes that the…

Miles is always going to wonder what Alaska’s last words are, because since she was alone in the car, nobody got to hear the last thing she uttered. “A lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about. Does that make sense?" (Green. The last day. 45) The quote shows how much Miles idolized Alaska, he knows that she is the type of person biographies are written about. Miles adored…

While we were only completing about three to six miles a day she was hiking ten to twenty miles each day. She was similar to Bryson and Katz because she…

I have always been good at running. In middle school, I would always be the first to finish the mile long run for my Physical Education class. At that time, I often ran the mile in seven minutes flat; I was always at least thirty seconds ahead. It was the same outcome in high school as a freshman; however, that was not the case as a sophomore. As a sophomore, I ran the mile in seven minutes, but another sophomore, George, would run it in six minutes and fifty seconds. I wondered why he was so…

the many solutions Northwest Ohio can use to improve road safety is lowering the residential speed limits to 30 miles per hour or below. Ben Welle, a member of the World Resources Institute, states that lowering speed limits in cities can drastically change the risk of fatalities (Welle). In Ohio, the basic speed limit for residential areas is 35 miles per hour and it is about 70 miles per hour on the highways. Although there may be proof that lowering speed limits in residential areas can help…

like it or not. When reading Looking for Alaska by John Green, he forces you to see that and why we, as humans think of life after death, because we can’t handle the thought of complete nothingness. The book starts with the strange protagonist named Miles Halter and we see him start at a new school in Alabama for his junior year. He wants to find his “Great perhaps” in life and he thinks going to this school will help him find it, and it does. He meets some friends, but he particularly likes a…

Lights or Aurora Borealis Explained) “so much even that some people travel thousands of miles just to see them.” These lights occur when super charged electrons from the solar wind combine with the elements within the Earth’s atmosphere. The electrons will begin to move upward towards the earth’s atmosphere and on their way up they will encounter atoms of oxygen and nitrogen when they get to “20 to 200 miles of altitude.” (Northeren Lights or Aurora Borealis Explained)What is fascinating about…

where people have step foot on. The moon is thought to have formed after a mars size planet hit Earth. Size and Distance The moon is less than a third of the Earth. The radius of the moon is 1,079.6 miles. The moon is farther away from the Earth than people think. It is an average of 238,855 miles away. An example is 30 Earths could fit in-between. The moon is actually getting farther away every year about an inch a year. Orbit and Rotation The moon is rotating at the same rate that it…