It all begins in 1974, with an institution called Project Carthage, Project Carthage was a military program designed to block enemy communications, one of it's staff members was a scientist who 20 years later would be working against the project, a family-man who called himself Franz Hopper, his wife dissappeared with unknown circumstances, leaving him with just his 12 Year-Old Daughter, Aelita.
Moving on to June 7th, 1994, Franz's actions against Carthage had caught the attention of the FBI and such, forced to flee to his laboratory in an abandoned factory, Franz revealed to his daughter his work, a SuperComputer several years in development, and decades ahead of it's time, containing a Virtual Sanctuary called "Lyoko", armed with potent and aggressive Artificial Intellegence, Franz created The SuperComputer, Lyoko and last of all, X.A.N.A., to destroy Carthage, using hardware known as Scanners, Franz and Aelita vanished off the face of this world, to escape to another, planned by Franz as "A World Without Danger", But he reckoned against the complexity and genius inherent of X.A.N...
The western world is a superficial and materialistic society, consumed with the need for admiration and the feeling of prominence. A large portion of the bourgeois society participate in an inauthentic existence, denying both life and death. As a byproduct, we hide our empathy and compassion in order to represent ourselves in a socially acceptable way. When asked how one is doing, many reply “well”, regardless of how they are actually feeling inside. This is what social media is built off of: falsehoods and misrepresentations. By being preoccupied with status and wealth, we are robbed of our ability to experience life. Through the reading of “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, we are able to see that to genuinely live a life with meaning, we have to rise above the imperceptiveness of our society. Living a life of inauthenticity and confirming to social norms leaves you vacuous. This idea that social status and appearance does not define happiness speaks volumes to me, and
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, there are two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. The story starts off with Rainsford and Rainsford’s hunting partner, Whitney, on a yacht heading to Rio de Janiero to hunt big game animals. Rainsford ends up becoming trapped on Ship-Trap Island, and that is where he and the reader are introduced to General Zaroff. Unfortunately for Rainsford, General Zaroff is not your normal General. General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar and different in many ways, and even though Rainsford believes that Zaroff is a sick individual, at the end of the story he becomes more like Zaroff than he realizes.
Outside knowledge is gained by reading or by being taught something from a teacher. From reading the book The Death of Ivan Ilych, I gained outside knowledge about the upper class. In the beginning of the book Ivan Ilych passed away. The book is all about how his coworkers take his death throughout the book. The book mentions:
-- Mother worked in Army Intelligence during WWII and father worked at a plant that gave materials to the Manhattan Project.
Laika is the name of the first dog sent to orbit space. She was a stray dog found almost a week before the rocket was set to launch to outer space. Laika was chosen to be launched because of her calm demeanor and small stature. On November 3 1957, Laika was launched on a one-way trip to outer space, by reason of the technology at reach was not advanced enough to bring her back home. This launch was done to measure the safety of space travel for humans. Laika was a very nice and a great dog; a staff member from the space center would periodically bring her home to play with his children. Furthermore, Dr. Vladimir Yazdovksy wrote in his scientific journal noting, “Laika was quiet and charming” (Latson). Considering this was a one way trip,
Men never see women fight in the war of World War II, every man thought women don’t have the strenght to go in a combat warfare. Well they were wrong, in World War II a woman name Lyudmila Pavlichenko served from 1941-1953 in the Soviet Union army as being assigned to the Red Army. She first had an option to be a nurse when coming into the military. Lyudmila refuses and wants to be a women to put her foot on the battlefield and fight. So she decided to become a sniper, about 2000 women had become a sniper in the Soviet Union. Even though Lyudmila was the first successful female to become a sniper, she killed over 300 soldiers but was close to the record of 500. What her action shows was that women are capable to fight in the war and females should also be in the front line instead of second class. Her actions will make every women remember her that every female should be part of something such as fighting in the war.
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At this point in the novel, Vladek and Anja escaped the bunker and they are walking down a path. The panel demonstrates the couple wandering around, without a destination. Despite not knowing where they’re headed, they follow the direction of Sosnowiec, waiting to find a place to settle down and hide.
“The Slynx”, the first novel of Tatyana Tolstaya, had been under process of writing for nearly 14 years and was finally released in 2000. Tatyana Tolstaya is a Russian author, who began her writing career in mid-1980s as a publisher of short stories in various literary magazines. In 1986 she started working on “The Slynx”, a.k.a. “Кысь”. This novel is an intentional example of writing during the censorship period. Therefore, it is largely inter-textual, ironical and, most importantly, Aesopian. The plot is based in “the town of Fyodor-Kumichsk” (Tolstaya 10), which is in fact, the city of Moscow, 200 years after a mysterious and apocalyptic catastrophe – the Blast. The society, however, is not advanced at all, it reminds more of the medieval communities full of exclusion, inequality, tyranny and illiteracy.
Timeline started out with a group of scientists/archaeologists digging at an ancient castle site. This site was in a French valley with two main castles, Castelgard and La Roque, a monastery, and a mill. This was the site that ITC, a quantum research facility, picked to go back into time to research. Through quantum physics, ITC was able to make a machine that sent objects and people to a parallel universe that was different from this one. This was the basis of the whole story. Professor Johnston, the leader of the digging group, got curious as to how ITC knew more about the site than he did. Robert Doniger, the owner of ITC, decided that he would show the professor how they knew so much about the site. While the professor was back in time, he wandered out into the open field and got trapped inside the medieval world by the Dordogne River. Doniger then got the brilliant idea of sending back some of the other archaeologists to try and find Professor Johnston because they would know the spots where he would most likely be. The group of four, Andre Marek, Chris Hughes, Kate Erickson, and David Stern flew to the New Mexico site to find the professor. During the pre-tests to see it they were physically capable of going back through the machine, David Stern decided that he was not going to go because he did not trust the machines. The five of them, the three other archaeologists, and the two guides went back to the Dordogne valley in 1387. Right off the bat when they got there, a group of knights saw the futuristic people and chopped off the head of one guide and shot the other guide full of arrows. That left the archaeologists on their own to find the professor. Right away they were astonished by how the castles looked and by how quiet it was. Facing many problems, they soon found out who the professor was in the medieval world and found him. This was a time of war, however, which presented many difficulties in getting out, not to mention the fact that the machines had broken back home and the ITC crew did not think that the shields would hold up.
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In San Francisco 1950 at the old science lab, it was abandoned during a war so it was a perfect place, a deadly experiment took place. The scientists, Molly P. and Marlee, were trying to create the perfect war machine unfortunately they succeeded. Molly proposed that they use the kitten ( Callypso, yes that's how they spelled it) too wipe out the human race, but Marlee refused. That is where it all went wrong.
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A Hemingway Code Hero is a character from an Ernest Hemingway novel that follows a particular pattern of how he or she conducts life on a day to day basis. Catherine Barkley from A Farewell to Arms lives with a respect for honor and courage as a Code Hero should. Catherine Barkley is the original code hero of the novel. She has all of the traits of a Hero, and implements them onto Frederic as he matures throughout the story. Catherine’s three main traits that define her as a Hemingway Code Hero are her values of human relationships over materialism, her idealism, and her grace under pressure; she is fearful but not afraid to die.