The Elegant Universe

My favorite relative is my Pap. He weighs a solid 170 pounds and is in very good shape for his age. Even though he's older, you would never guess that he's 60, which he just turned on July 17th. He's always at the gym working out, or with my family and I. It's not just his outgoing personality but the way is fun and how he still is very energetic. He has a mustache and always tickles us kids with it when he kisses us. I can always tell it is him by the way he walks, his legs curve out a bit and go out to the side. He might have had open heart surgery, but he's still keeps a great big happy smile on his face. The times of dark hair have going on since he was young but his big brown eyes haven't. He has dimples and there is always a twinkle in his eye. Even if his jokes aren't funny, he's always laughing at his own. One thing is that he's always singing Elvis and whistling. Whistling is one of his favorite things to do, and you know when something is on his mind when he does it. My pap was born in \_____, and has 10 siblings not including himself. He lost his dad when he was very young, and his mom just a year ago. He always says "She was one of the strongest women I knew." I can tell that he misses her very much by the way his facial expressions look, if he's staring he's usually thinking. The Contraguerro family is a huge family, but something has seemed to keep the family together through decades. All the siblings and my pap himself were always there for each other all…

to Chola period. It has very smooth surface and decorated with carvings. The artwork depicts god Shiva who is known to be intricate, multidimensional deity. At first glance, he carries quite opposite characteristics. On one side he symbolizes ultimate asceticism, he is a master yogi, who overcomes himself and now possess an incredible wisdom. His zealous austerity and deep meditation create inner heat (tapas), which also makes him tremendously powerful being. However on other side, through his…

Man Isn’t Center of the Universe Anymore? Before the sixteenth century, the common knowledge of astronomy was based off the Pythagoras, Aristotle, and the Ptolemaic model. They said the Earth was the center of the universe and everything, including the sun, planets, and the heavenly spheres rotated about its center. Aristotle established the principle that there were only seven planets considered wandering stars: Earth, moon, sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Anything besides these stars…

Could WWII be prevented? One of the bigger question of World War II was, “could it have been prevented?”. There are many theories that support it could've been prevented and that it couldn’t be prevented. World War II was one of the bloodiest wars, if not the bloodiest, in all of the wars ever. The total military deaths that came from the war were roughly around 19 million people killed (Appleby 519). It featured great Allied leaders: Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph…

cannot repent! Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears,“Faustus, thou are damned.” (5. 194-197). History and social events had a lot to do with connecting into this play, such as the New World Renaissance Era. Faustus was a character people could connect to about a smart man, wanting more power, even shunning God in the process. Renaissance thinkers are searching for knowledge during this New World time, and this play sparked their interest because…

be another smaller instant of time, and so on, it can be argued that time is continuous, with the past and the future not existing as such. This however prompts the question of whether time really exists at all or if it’s just a human construct. Philosopher St. Augustine supported the notion that past and future don’t really exist. He argued that instead of being a separate actual entity, time is just a function of human perception and memory. But if the past and the future aren’t real then how…

something that can be proven through science, yet it’s something that will remain forever debated. Philosophers have produced many logical theories that are easy to believe, but many of these theories are strictly opinions. God does exist, and one of the most well-known theories backing this statement is the design argument. What is the design argument for the existence of God? There are variations to this argument for the existence of God, but this argument in its simplest form is known as…

There are several different anthropic coincidences that explains the overall reason for the belief of the Anthropic principle and how the universe is precisely designed for the purpose of human life, evolution and survival. One of the many different anthropic coincidences is “The Strength of the Strong Nuclear Force”. This theory says that if the strong nuclear force had fluctuated even microscopically stronger or weaker, then the world would have never existed. The strong force holds nuclei…

Origin Stories A creation story is any story that tells of a creation, these stories can be as specific as the creation of a new invention or they can be as broad as the creation of everything (Creation Story Definition). Many creation stories have points that are very similar and point out that it is very possible that many of these events are true since they are in common. There are also many differences in these stories as well. This paper however is going to detail the similarities and…

For the atheist, acknowledging the possibility of a necessary being that is the ultimate cause for the universe would suggest that they do, in some respect, acknowledge God’s existence. The cosmological argument states that there must be a first cause for the existence of the universe and that everything in the universe is contingent on that first cause. For Christians, that first cause is God, the creator of the universe and everything in it. McCloskey suggests that the world just happened,…