The Dark Side of the Moon

curiosity to new heights. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean and reached North America. In the 1960’s, we accomplished something that was truly out of this world, for not only did we have a man orbit the earth, we put an astronaut on the moon. Today, humanity has its sights set on Mars, but getting to Mars and back poses a more difficult task than anything we’ve ever done before. However, because new technology is being developed every day to help humans get to Mars, a manned…

Buddha is a sage who founded buddhism. His main principles were escaping from suffering and achieving liberation. Tao/Dao- Dao translates to ‘the way’. It is a balance, represented by the symbol of Yin/Yang. Yang is the dark side representing ‘female’ and Yin is the lighter side representing male. This cosmic…

The poem, Acquainted With The Night, Robert Frost takes the readers on a journey into the gloomy side of the human soul. In a nutshell, it is a description of a short, boring night journey on foot via the streets of a city. However, taking a closer look at it reveals more than meets the eye. The narrator in the poem gives a detailed description of the loneliness he experiences as he traverses the isolated streets of the city at night. Throughout his walks that have seen him reach the limits of…

tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic that’s why the art started flaking of, it was restored many times, and the last time was completed in 1999. The painting is a large rectangular shape, with a large table with a white cloth cut the painting to two sides, also it prevents the viewer from getting involved in the supper. Jesus sits in the middle and his disciples are sitting to his left and right in groups of three. Da Vinci also add three windows, in the back to pull our eyes to the…

Geometry and Eratosthenes In Professor Russ physical science class, there’s a plethora of subjects you, as a student, are bound to cover. This semester we had discuss over twenty different fields of science; the first being Geometry and Eratosthenes computing circumference of earth. We started the final semester off with two worksheets. The first was the “Angles of a Triangle”, we had to cut out the three angles of the triangle and piece them together in a shape. The three angles form a…

Russia won that race with Sputnik, a satellite that reached space in 1957. However, this only started the Moon race, which just like the Space Race, was a race to see who could make it to the moon first. Former President John F. Kennedy started this race in 1962 with his famous moon speech. Before the end of the decade on June 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon. Unfortunately, JFK was assassinated in 1963 so he was unable to see…

Luke surrenders to the forces of the empire when he boards the death star and allows himself to be caught. This happens after the first part of the battle of Endor. Luke left the forest moon because he had a feeling his father was near, and that there was a possibility of saving him. On the Death Star, a commander says “This is a Rebel that surrendered to us. Although he denies it, I believe there may be more of them, and I request permission…

The moon hides behind the clouds as if mortified to witness what is about to happen but actively participates in the crime by being a spectator. Furthermore, it serves as a symbol for people and society who condoned injustice during apartheid. The complex sentence…

The Moon has not always sat in the sky watching over the Earth and all its inhabitants. No. In fact the Moon used to wander the earth just like any creature or human does now - as did the Sun. This is the story of what she did before she sat up in the sky. This is the story of the Moon and her only friend. The Sun was loved by all. His heart was warm and his smile was bright. His hands were strong hands that as they touched the earth could make bright green plants sprout from even the driest…

There are two types of people in the world: those who think out of the box and those who can only comprehend what is given to them. To think with a philosophical perspective, that person must go through an unexpected experience that allows them to comprehend ideas differently, as for general thinkers who typically accept reality as it is said to them. But, just because an idea is accepted by the general public, does not always mean it is correct. In the parable, “Allegory of the Cave,”…