Out of the Silent Planet

hundred years ago, the Earth was a peaceful place.... It sounds like it could not be a true statement, I know. Although, what I tell you, is in fact a true statement. At one point in time, there was no major wars anywhere, throughout planet Earth. Many people on the planet enjoyed the new found peace and prosperity, the Leaders of the world, found better use for their wealth, that equated to trillions of dollars. A large amount of wealth that would have normally been, used for War,Guns and War…

to theism in 1931. Influenced by Owen Barfield, he felt strongly that it was every christian's job to go out into the world save save the lost souls. C.S. Lewis’ unexpected vision of incorporating his fiction as a way of evangelizing came quite early and surprisingly to him. In 1939, Lewis was very surprised that many reviewers saw the christian theology in his book Out of the Silents Planet. He was shocked to discover that the Gospel could be smuggled into people’s mind through his fiction. One…

After the sun sets, out come the stars floating on and blinking from afar. Every night come out the convoy of beauty, and light the universe with admonishing smile. Where can you find such variety, such diversity, such loveliness, such beauty and such magnificence? Where can you find such pure, genuine, childlike…

table of hearing people stare at them and mock their signs. One member of the Deaf table gets up to use the phone and signs into the receiver. When he is done, a person from the hearing table tries looking into the receiver out of curiosity. This joke was trying to humorously point out that hearing people can often be gullible and in a case like this, the joke was on them. The Deaf group was able to make the hearing person look idiotic and mock him for his…

protect her or her family from the world around her going chaotic. Lauren was born with hyperempathy syndrome, which causes her to feel others’ pain, making t hard for her to live in the conditions she does. The communities have built walls to keep out the homeless people who will break into your home and torch it to the ground without a second thought. Lauren’s father is a minister who teaches the remaining members of his community to defend what is theirs. Soon, everything begins to go awry.…

It is to this same end that Keats cultivates the silent grounds of his sanctuary for Psyche, with everything that “the gardener Fancy e’er could feign” (62). In his discussion on Hölderlin, Heidegger reminds us that the poetic is not “merely an ornament and bonus added to dwelling” – but its simultaneous goal and condition. As the appeal to “poesy” in “Sleep and Poetry” tells us, its “sanctuary” carries the promise of “clear air, / Smoothed from intoxication by the breath / Of flowering bays”…

As much as solar seems to be and is a great way of harnessing an inexhaustible resource, there are two sides to each view. One side being that solar is a clean energy with out potential destruction to the natural environment and habitats. And the other that, even though it is clean and realistically free, it leaves an imprint. We are and will be destroying habitat for many of creatures and in hindsight polluting the very…

Clyde Staples Lewis, author of the well-loved Chronicles of Narnia series, was born to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis in 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lewis was the younger of two sons; he had a brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, who had been born in 1895. Lewis went by the nickname of “Jack”, a name which he apparently gave himself and which stuck (Biography.com). When he was 10, his mother died of cancer, and he and Warren were sent to Wynyard School in England. After…

is the end of the day, the rise of the planet Venus in the sky is the narrator's call (2), not to battle, but to start a peaceful journey as he pleads “and may there be no moaning of the bar / When I put out to sea” (3, 4). He is hoping that the sand bar will not give him resistance or moan, a sound of sorrow or pain, when crossing it. The narrator's voyage on the sea is reliant on the tide; in the second stanza the narrator wishes for a powerful, yet silent wave to allow him across (5) and to…

The main characters stayed the same through a couple of seasons. The series starred Tom Welling as Clark Kent A.K.A Superman. He starred in multiple movies like Cheaper by the Dozen, The Fog, and Draft Day. He portrayed a strong and silent type for the role of Superman. Kristen Kreuk as Lana Lang played the love of his life. Kristen was a tolerable actress for the position. She is a great actress, but her character in Smallville that she played was timid and weak. Michael Rosenbaum…