The Big War

1984. In the book, 1984, the protagonist, Winston Smith, is forced to live in a Totalitarian society where the Party, the Government in the book, monitors everything that one does, where one goes, and to make sure that one believes in the words of Big Brother. This has become a controversial topic due to the fact that it appears that our society is headed in a direction of a Totalitarian society. In the novel, 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the a low-ranking member the Party in London,…

For my concert report I attended the Mile High Jazz Festival presented by Flesher Hinton Co. on February 16, 2017. The event took place in Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado Boulder at 7:30 pm. The concert consisted of a student ensemble and then after a short intermission a faculty ensemble. I decided for this report to select the most impactful song from each ensemble and write about their musical components. The student ensemble consisted of: a piano, a bass, drums, a guitar, 4…

One concept that has interested is dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the thing that makes it possible for galaxies to exist. When astrophysicists and cosmologist calculated why the universe is structure the way it is, it became clear that there’s just not enough normal matter. The gravity of the visible matter is not strong enough to from galaxies and complex structures. The starts would more likely be scattered all over the place and not form galaxies. Therefore, cosmologist concluded…

Science has changed the way the human race lives, their everyday lives. Everyday society encounter different and new technology because of science. Everyday scientists are coming up with more and more theories explaining the world. Science has been apart of the human race since the beginning of time, science will also remain in the human race's life till the end of time. According to Webster dictionary science is “knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through…

On April 21st, 2017, I went to the concert hold by Nocturne- a two years old club in Denver, and the Keith Oxman Quartet did a remarkable concert that night. The Keith Oxman Quartet is a Jazz band lead by Keith Oxman on tenor saxophone, and has Derek Banach on trumpet, Todd Reid on drums, and Jeff Jenkins on organ. Additionally, Jenkins was playing keyboard on April 21st. The Keith Oxman Quartet plays at Nocturne every Friday night between March 10th and April 28th. On last Friday evening, the…

Technology is something we as a race and especially as Americans pride ourselves on. Technology has been something that always has a frontier, like that of space, which will always be sought after at any cost. The government is always striving to have the most up-to-date technology in order to better society as a whole, but what they don’t realize is that they will choose technology over the people that they serve. Their thirst for technological advances outweighs the importance of the people…

Huffington Post’s article authoritatively described the definition of a trophic cascade as an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition, or removal of top predators and involving reciprocal changes in the relative populations of predator and prey through a food chain, which often results in dramatic changes in ecosystem structure and nutrient cycling (huffingtonpost.com).” For that reason, in today’s society we have witnessed numerous trophic cascades that occur all over the world,…

It was a cold and windy night in Big Timber Montana while Dakota was at his favorite bar watching the football game. Dakota is 31 years old and was born and raised in Montana. He grew up learning how to hunt and fish from his father when he was younger. Dakota's mother and father passed away a couple years ago, now Dakota lives by himself in a small ranch just outside the small city of Big Timber about 6 miles away from the bar. Dakota drives a beat up and rusted Ford pickup truck and works at…

I started off the interview by asking if my mom agrees or disagrees with the theory of the big bang. She did not know too much about the theory so I had to jog her memory on it. She stated that the theory itself is an amazing concept of life and how it could have created everything we know. I then had her read the article we read in class called…

“When the majority of their brothers voted against them, they abandoned their ideas as all men must.” These are the words of a totalitarian society in which technology is slow. This is the world of Anthem a place where thinking can kill you and doing things independently can make you dangerous. The world of anthem views technology as an unnecessary and unlawful transgression. The world of Anthem is technologically slow. Their latest invention has been the candle which in this world was around 3…