Science fiction

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”John F. Kennedy once said.Meaning that it puts limits to a person’s success not allowing them to go further.People Conform to many things such as to fit in a group but what they are doing is destroying their individualism.The meaing of being human is to be unique and to be different from the crowd. Conformity causes people to lose their individuality and it also stops someone from growing.In the movie Dead Poets Societ,written…

Horoscopes; It’s written in the stars. Well, not literally written in the stars, that would be catastrophic and expensive (Especially since N.A.S.A. won’t blow up stars to spell ‘Horoscopes’ for a tenner) Aries Hopefully you’ll keep that temper in check today, after all, it won’t help you tonight. The countries that have issued orders for your arrest are around the corner. You know which corner. Maybe have a drink for good luck, but just get tap water, you’ll make everyone else jealous if you…

As Greil Marcus once said, “It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.” For a story to be considered part of a nation’s mythology it has certain criteria it has to meet. “Rip Van Winkle” is a short story written by Washington Irving right before the American Revolution. This story does not just meet all of the requirements to be considered part of our nation’s mythology it surpasses them all. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” meets all…

Batuhan Şen 15010003012 Lect. Esen Kara ENG113 They All Know It Is There "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is a short story by Ursula Le Guin which tells the story of a city called Omelas. The city is unique, because while the citizens dwell in wealth and prosperity, one kid must suffer and live in filth. The story questions whether can you live while an innocent kid suffers, or would you walk away? In this way, Scapegoating becomes necessity for the order of the Omelas society. In this…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an iconic story, as it deals with many ideas that people face at some point during our lives. The main theme of the novel is that society tends to conflict with the natural being of people. Society shapes the identities of people and strips us from our natural right to act kind and moral to people around us. Throughout Huckleberry Finn’s story we witness how society raises people [of Huck’s world] in strict and conservative ways, which leads to people…

They’re lots of post apocalyptic movies Out there. One of these is Carol Amens “last Testament”. This is the story of a small town that survives a nuclear attack ,and how the people in this town deal with the fallout. Another good apocalyptic movie is “dawn of the Dead” The story of some people who have to survive the zombie apocalypse in a mall in Minnesota. These are two different movies with two different types of apocalypses, but while these two moviess are very different they are also very…

In the book “Cinder” by Marissa Meyer, there is a broken society with cyborgs and humans. The opportunity for a cyborg girl (Cinder) and a queen (Levana) to use her different powers is created in this world, that is full of many obstacles. At the same time, Meyers is writing her book in a special way. One theme that the story is representing is, someone's differences can be used as a strength when they use it to their advantage. The obstacle is challenged by the main character (who’s name is…

Brandon Sanderson’s dystopian book, “Calamity”, takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where the humans of the world are in hiding. They are isolated by everybody in fear of the other people with certain corrupt powers that take over their bodies. But one team, known as the Reckoners stand up against these super beings and face their powers, which in return helps them by getting their bodies back and to be themselves again. One theme that this story provides is that often providing help to…

Tale Not So Old As Time In the 1933 film King Kong, directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack create a fantastical horror rendition of the classic Beauty and the Beast tale. Ann Darrow, a beautiful but poor woman, gets noticed by a movie director and travels to a mysterious island where she gets captured by a giant gorilla who falls in love with her. However, Ann does not warrant these advances, and in a final chase through New York City, King Kong falls from the Empire State…

Chuck Klosterman, an American essayist, writes about the issues we face in pop culture today. An article he wrote, “Robots”, is written about the societal fear of a robot takeover. He criticizes our fear that robots are physically going to takeover the world because of the massive amount of media that portrays the robots as a technological war rather than a mental conquest. Through swift changes from formal diction to colloquial statements and allusions to modern media, Klosterman is able to…