“Alert! Help! Shuttle going down! Shuttle going down!” I call into the receiver. My shuttle’s going out of control! I tighten my seatbelt to the chair even more and grip onto the controls harder. One second I see that I’m rocketing into an unknown planet. The next moment I heard a thud. My eyes are open, but I don’t feel any sight. Everything’s white and I feel paralyzed. This can’t be how I’m going to die..
In what feels like an instant, I wake up. My head is whirling and I can’t remember anything. I am about 100 meters from a crashed shuttle. I must have crashed, but I don’t feel any pain. I don't see any blood and I don’t even feel a bruise. There’s not a scratch on my body. How did I make it out alive and all the way over here? I can’t
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You want me to save the planet filled with IONS? The IONS you hate. The IONS that left damage on this planet. Planet Earth.” I begin to wonder.
"Be quiet child! I have it! How could I have been so clueless! I have the key to taking out your whole planet!" The alien laughs.
"What?! What's going on?!" I plead.
“It was all just a plan. A set up to get you here!” The alien says.
"I'm so confused! What do you mean plan?" I ask frantically.
"The IONs destroyed our Earth, our home. Now we are going to destroy theirs. We are going to replace the water with the chemical that has kept you alive and take out the whole planet. This chemical will cause anyone who drinks the water to explode. No one will know it's the water that is contaminated because the water will still have all of it's natural elements. " The alien says as he gets a gun type machine.
"How could you do this!” I scream.
“Do what? Let the IONS suffer like my kind did?” The alien argues.
“This isn’t right and you know it! Not everyone has to suffer.” I yell
“Then why did my people have to! The IONS left damage on Earth and left us to clean it up. We are all still getting sick. We are all still dying. It’s time for your people to feel my pain.” The alien
"And yet you do destroy it, each of you. Each of you contributes daily to the destruction of the world."
This quotation opens your eyes, I know of no one who wants to destroy the earth either. The majority of man kind doesn’t think too much about what is happening to the earth due to their actions. When most of us drive a car or spray deodorant we don’t think of the consequences. It is the responsibility of those who create problems to help fix them and prevent them from happening again. In society today it i...
...fore you leave… I did the right thing, didn’t I?” Assuredly, what he believes in was derived from his ignorance that turned into this “extraterrestrial threat” project.
Mosfet shook his head in agreement and then replied. “True though this may be, Commander, the original UF did what it did because it felt it was the only way humanity can survive. As vital as the Earth Strike operation may be, it has little hope of helping defeat the Cybrids on terra. It is true that destroying the Hydra factories will
the human race will be taken to the point of complete break down. He feels that
I thought that I was dead man the second I jumped out considering the fall but survived. Due to my heroic actions, I was globally recognized but wasn't enough to replace the leg I lost in the fall. Now the prosthetic leg I wear today reminds me of all those people who were scared and bleeding out because of the fire. Everyone around me...in awe...burned... or just dead. The ones who survived had ran from the scene not knowing which way to go because it all happened to fast. Everything... POOF!...gone...all in a blazing infernal which is now known as the Hindenburg disaster. I may have lost a leg that day... but the one things it really took away was my drive. The drive to fly great distances and want to ever be like a bird in the sky again. Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
Americans had knowledge of the events taking place during the war, but Carson shed a light on the ripple effects that the environment was experiencing. Silent Spring brings the focus to different threats that had arisen because of the war. In a way, Carson places the blame for the deterioration of the environment on mankind as a whole. In the past, wars had been fought without any use of nuclear weaponry. Carson’s writing really emphasizes the fault of mankind’s decision to hurt the environment. “Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man’s total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm – substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.” (Carson, 181). The writing technique Carson uses in Silent Spring has a way of making the reader feel guilty, especially considering that at the time of publication there was so much environmental destruction occurring. Carson’s writing helped to educate the American population of the harm to the environment caused by the Cold War. Because the war’s dangerous strategies provided such a strong backbone for Carson’s argument, the American public was very receptive of the content and themes presented in Silent
As the humans from Earth started sending out expeditions to Mars they didn't know whether to except any Martians at all. The first expedition to land on Mars had failed, killed of by Yll, a Martian who's wife had a dream about the expeditions arrival. “It came from a long way off. One shot. The swift humming distant bees. One shot. And then a second shot, precise and cold, and far away”(15). This was the first failure of the Earth men to Mars, they weren’t prepared at all for what the planet and its inhabitants were capable of. The second expedition to land of Mars was the one of Captain Williams. The crazy notion that the Earth men were being mistaken for being insane gets them killed after being put in as insane asylum. “You sad creature. I shall put you out of this misery which has driven you to imagine this rocket and these three men. It will be engrossing to watch your friends and your rocket vanish once I have killed you”(38). The third expedition which also did not succeed in colonizing Mars were caught in a trap from the Martians. Captain Black starts to doubt the city in which his crew lands on and if it really is the type of paradise that brings back deceased family members. “Well, what would the best weapon be that a Martian could use against Earth Men with atomic weapons? The answer was interesting. Telepathy, hypnosis, memory, and
Superman dominantly edges towards the landing site. With genuine regret, he says, "I really wished that it didn't come to this. Together, we could have protected this world."
...ove the ground, I yanked down on the parachute control straps with all of my strength. The parachute got more air, and I slowed, almost to a standstill, and gently touched the ground. As my feet touched the Earth, I went into my roll and then stood back up. No broken bones or bruises.
...is destroying persons and the environment….What I am suggesting is that it might be the only chance for the turning of human beings from a course leading to the deterioration and perhaps the end of life on this planet.” ³
The Creature That Opened My Eyes Sympathy, anger, hate, and empathy, these are just a few of the emotions that came over me while getting to know and trying to understand the creature created by victor frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first time I became completely enthralled in a novel and learned to appreciate literature not only for the great stories they tell but also for the affect it could have on someones life as cliché as that might sound, if that weren’t enough it also gave me a greater appreciation and understanding of the idiom “never judge a book by its cover.” As a pimply faced, insecure, loner, and at most times self absorbed sophomore in high school I was never one to put anytime or focus when it came time
When I stepped into the large neatly organized white polished plane, I never though something would go wrong. I woke up and found myself on an extremely hot bright sunny desert island filled with shiny soft bright green palm trees containing rough bright yellow hard felt juicy apples. The simple strong plane I was in earlier shattered into little pieces of broken glass and metal when crashing onto the wet slimy coffee colored sand and burning with red orange colored flames. After my realization to this heart throbbing incident I began to run pressing my eight inch footsteps into the wet squishy slimy light brown sand looking in every direction with my wide open eyes filled with confusion in search of other survivors. After finding four other survivors we began moving our small petite weak legs fifty inches from the painful incident. Reaching our destination which was a tiny space filled with dark shade blocking the extreme heat coming from the bright blue sky, I felt my eyelids slowly moving down my light colored hazel eyes and found myself in a dream. I was awakened the next day from a grumbling noise coming from my empty stomach.
Acid rain is a very big pollution problem in the world. It has killed fish and other aquatic life in many lakes and streams. It harms human health, disfigures monuments and erodes buildings, and, along with other pollutants, threatens forests. The story of acid rain can be compared to the plot of a science fiction movie. In the 1950s an invisible force begins to destroy lakes and rivers, killing trout and salmon. By the 1960s it is harming the waters of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. High-altitude forests are beginning to fade away. City statues are gradually eaten away. The appearance from the damage of the aliens is starting to appear all over. Just as in science fiction movies, the authorities refuse to warn the alarmed citizens. Also, at the last moment the scientists figure away to destroy the aliens. Unfortunately, fiction and fact falls apart at this point. There is no quick remedy that will wipe out acid rain completely. (Pringle 1-2)
We got ready at the start line forming a cloud of smoke behind us. All I could smell was burnt gas filling my helmet. Suddenly, the lights turned red, yellow, green then off we went accelerating smoothly through the first kilometer raising dust behind us tending to the sharp turns and hills. As we made the first jump, we crashed into each other and landed like a cannon on hard, dry ground. I felt my temperature rising and sweating like a marathoner in a race. I could not feel my heart beat for a couple of seconds. Quickly I thought I had gotten an internal injury and was going to die. I turned my body slowly in the dusty air to lie on my back as I cried loud for help. as I...