The Blob

laughed to myself. It was just a block away! My glasses weren't with me that day and everything was a blur. There were only 7th graders, so that was a relief. I came in and blended in with everyone around me. We went to other classes, jointly like a blob not really knowing where to go, except the one person that was leading us. I was afraid of getting lost so I tried staying as close as possible to the others. We went through all our classes, it was so immense therefore I had a headache. I had…

June 6, 2052. There were numerous names for this day. The Christians called it Judgement Day, those who studied Norse Mythology called it Ragnarok. But, all of the remaining humans that survived after that global catastrophe called it Pandemonium. The first hour of Pandemonium was felt throughout the world, it was a literal "earthquake". In just under 1 hour, pieces of the 7 continents started to spread out. Others crashed onto one another creating new bigger continents. While others dived under…

beneath her is shaded area, representing her shadow. The features on character are realistic and have enough detail that you can see her freckles, nose and a definite mouth form. The shading is that touch of simplified cartooning as it appears to be a blob of darkened area with no definite shapes. The second comic, in the third tier, second panel , the greyed, grid like area underneath the red masked man represents feathering. This…

tube. This idea emerged when he was presented with a patient who lost all of the skin on his face to a cordite explosion. “The burns had left extensive scarring. The eyelids and lower lip were turned inside out, and all that remained was a twisted blob, which had once been a nose. “ (Williams, 2002) By trimming a piece of skin off of the man’s chest, Gillies was able attach it to the face, and by cutting holes for the eyes and nose, he was able to make a mask of sorts. This had worked, however,…

Aliens, UFOs, and Encounters of the Third Kind Since the beginnings of civilization man has been gazing at the stars. With eyes fixed on the vast expense of the celestial bodies came the belief that we may not be the only one’s in the universe. According to ancient alien theorists, aliens have been interacting with humans since the earliest civilizations giving early humans access to technology and helping them build vast structures such as the pyramids in Egypt and Stonehenge.( Ancient Aliens)…

Key Question The key question for this research project is: what is the relationship of earthquakes and volcanoes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge compared to Iceland? Introduction Iceland is located over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate, and is an example of a mid ocean ridge seen on land. Iceland has divergent and transform plate boundaries, which are also seen along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The North American plate, with respect to the Eurasian…

you feel a sharp pain in your back and suddenly everything feels hot. You’ve been stabbed with a fairly long and sharp blade. You look around and see everyone else also being ran up to by what look like wild acting men and women in the form of black blobs. The life starts you leave your body as you quickly lose blood and the people around you are in the same boat. The killers that stabbed you are running around and killing so many people, but there’s nothing you can do. You just fall…

once said “The power to hurt has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.” It is 2016: advancements are endless, especially when it comes to horror films. Think of the famous 1897 horror film Dracula; the blood that looked like blobs of ketchup, the large amounts of makeup on the actors, it all seems so fake now. With advancements in technology producers are able to create horror films with undeniable visual effects. Better visual effects increase the activity in the brain…

Our definitional model of consciousness states that consciousness cannot be explicitly measured, however is biologically rooted and dependent on the brain. Although consciousness is cognitive and internal, it is developed through social interactions with others as well as social reflections on those interactions. In this way consciousness is a social construction that is rooted in, and dependent on, cultural grounding and context (Lutz 1992, Sandstrom 2010). This ‘awareness of awareness’ is…

"[T]here was a unifying theme that ran through most of the judgments made about Ireland and the Irish in Victorian England, and that theme had a distinctly ethnic and racial character. Stated simply, this consensus amounted to an assumption or a conviction that the 'native Irish ' were alien in race and inferior in culture to the Anglo-Saxons" (Curtis 5). In North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, this Victorian undercurrent of anti-Irish sentiment is felt throughout the novel. The novel 's view…