Nebula

Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” ends with this stark imagery: “Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek bridge” (151). This line presents a cold, distant, and annotative description of death; there is little to invoke the representation of the life that has been lost. Yet, Bierce’s narrative up to this point has succinctly painted the picture of that life, its final moments and its desire to keep…

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION The study of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) draws from two well known branches of physics, electrodynamics and hydrodynamics.The basic laws of electrodynamics described in the form of Maxwell’s Equations where The hydrodynamics of a fluid is expressed in the form of conservation laws of mass, momentum and energy.The magnetohydrodynamic phenomena are a consequence of the mutual interaction of the fluid flow and the magnetic field. As is well…

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.” (Sander). We as people have always questioned what humans are really doing, but never question what we are too scared know the answer to. In the novel, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a Highly intelligent child is taken in by an International military school to find the next “Mazer,” by a man named Graff, to save the world from destruction by the hostile alien…

If there is anything that can be learned from the stories and myths of Prometheus, Faust, and Frankenstein, it is that knowledge, in its various forms, can lead to suffering and pain. The Fountain, a film released in 2006, can join in this tradition of the archetypal theme of forbidden knowledge; there is a disclaimer, though: when it comes to death, the knowledge of acceptance should overcome the knowledge of how to reject it. Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman…

In Jack McDevitt’s Eternity Road, Nancy Kress’s “By Fools like Me,” and John Wyndham’s “The Wheel,” the authors aim to encourage open minded thinking to the reader to avoid the tragic outcomes of the societies in their texts. Ignorance and tribalism are significant issues that hold societies back from achieving greatness outside of the social norm. The negative use of technology is a common theme among these texts, as the characters in the texts view technology as evil. The reader is shown that…

In book one, the story begins at a control center for an organization called CERN. At this scene, the audience is introduced to particle physicist and Canadian researcher- Lloyd Simcoe, his fiancé- Michiko Komura, and his research partner- Theo Procopides. They, along with numerous other unnamed scientists, were working on an experiment of some sort using a device called the ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment, detector to produce a particle named Higgs Boson. Although it is not clear what…

In the genre of science fiction, authors and directors create new worlds of fantastic possibilities. Some of these worlds take place in our future, theorizing about things that are to come, while others take us to galaxies far, far away. Regardless of where or when the story takes place, particular conventions are always certain. One such convention is that when a new technology is central to the plot, the technology will cause harm. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan demonstrates this through the…

Bradbury became one of the most honored American authors in the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery. In the 1950’s many authors were writing motivational novels, but not Bradbury. His desire for fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery set him aside from other authors and he was widely noticed. “When people asked about the purpose of his novels, Bradbury responded, ‘I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it’” (“Ray Bradbury” Encyclopedia). Ray Bradbury was…

Abstract— Nowadays, Cloud computing is being the number one concept in IT industry where all large IT companies such as Microsoft, Red hat and Apple are migrating their services to be delivered via the cloud, and through this high competition on cloud-driven services the user is distracted by many different services of different providers which means many different GUIs. Clouds are groups of nodes or machines whose sizes may be different from small machines to data centers [1] [11]. These…

The article H. J. McCloskey wrote, On Being an Atheist, discusses how arguments presented are proof that God does not exist. As I learned from Dr. Foreman’s presentation, Arguments for God’s Existence, there is nothing that can be proven with one-hundred percent certainty. We need not use arguments, but we should use evidence, just as an attorney in building a case against or for an accused. (Foreman, Approaching the Question of God 's Existence n.d.) Evidence sometimes is circumstantial, full…