SPHERE is a great unpredictable and exciting novel. The transformations between
Introduction,Rising Action, Climax, and the Summary is almost perfect.
As the wire snagged something the crew laying the cable on
the bottom of the Pacific Ocean realized they had a problem for
their were no shipwrecks on the chart. They told someone and this
went up the corporate line of command and soon the military found
out that their was something on the bottom of the ocean and that
they had to investigate.
The military put together a team of people ranging from a
psychologist to a mathematician. They called in Norman Johnson to
lead the team he was a psychologist who had dealt with many, many
disasters in his years. He comes in and comforts eyewitnesses who
can't deal with the sight and helps victims and family members
deal with the loss of friends and family.
Norman was called one day and told that their was an
emergency and that they wanted him to come in and work. He
suspected that it was another plane crash. This guess of his was
bursted when he was loaded onto a military helicopter and took
off. He flew over the dark blue Pacific ocean and flew for what
was hours but seemed to be days. Hours and hours of dark blue
water was ended with a speck of a ship that turned into an entire
fleet of navy research vessels. He knew then that this was no
ordinary plane crash.
The introduction of the book is very grabbing. You feel that
this is just going to keep building and become fantastic. This
feeling of amazement stays with throughout the introduction.
As the rising action starts to take off you just sink into
the same world that Norman, Beth, and Harry, the three
protagonists, are living in. You start to feel claustrophobic as
your reading about how confining the habitat on the ocean floor
is. After the rising action gets going the "gang" as we will
refer to them as will meet many hard problems and take risks.
They battle with the giant squid near the begging of rising
action. That was a case when something was heading toward the
habitat and the couldn't tell what it was this thing was flying at
the habitat when it stopped and seemed to disappear. The next
encounter wasn't as easily escaped the thing reached up through an
open hatch and with it's huge eye looked in and tracked the crew
of the habitat running about trying to escape him. They finally
figured out a way to defend the habitat to some degree against the
Sphere Many people have questioned the existence of intergalactic intelligence such as time travel and aliens. Sphere takes all of these theories and rolls it into one novel. The main character in the novel is Norman Johnson a 56 year old psychologist who is very well known in his field. Norman plays a very important role in the novel, constantly changing the events for the better. Throughout the novel many changes occur to change his thoughts and his characteristics. Norman along with other scientists
Sphere Sphere is an interesting story about a group of scientists from different disciplines who are brought to a super-secret underwater site where the U. S. Navy has discovered a mysterious, glowing sphere. Although the movie was very interesting, a lot of scientific facts, it was just too long and there were parts of the film where I found myself yawning. I give the movie a thumb up for being the movie my teacher chose to show the class. Although the movie was directed by Barry Levinson and
Privatizing the Public Sphere The privatization and fragmentation of space in post-industrial urban America is a widespread social problem. As society becomes even more globalized as a result of technological advances, the rampant spread of a privatized public realm is ever-increasing. Public space is needed as a center in which to bring people together to share a common place. It is within public spaces that public life unfolds and without public spaces such as parks, streets, and buildings
The Importance of a Sphere of Influence to a Superpower This influence, that was felt around the world, led to many wars and possibly prevented a holocaust. It was a visible defensive action and an invisible security wall. The real importance of this question is not "should" a sphere of influence be established, but "why should" a sphere be established. Is it really to protect your neighboring nations for the evil of "capitalism" or "communism," no. A sphere of influence is a cushion to soften
Theoretical Frameworks of the Public Sphere The public sphere can be characterized in basic form as an artificially constructed social space in which differing opinions, concerns and solutions can be expressed on a public level as a means of influencing political action. It is in a sense the social space where all citizens can engage in political participation and form public opinion, and has become an integral part of democratic theory. The public sphere is the central realm for societal communication
People do things that they normally would not do when they are put in certain situation that test them. In Michael Crichton’s novel Sphere, Beth does many things that she would not normally do when she is put in certain situations that test her. “‘I want to put you under, Norman. Like Harry.’ He shook his head. ‘It’s only for a few hours, Norman,’ she said, and then she seemed decide; she moved swiftly toward him, and he saw the syringe in her hand, the glint of the needle, and he twisted away… She
Who Controls the Private Sphere in an Archaic Greek Society Abstract: Texts, such as Oeconomicus, reveal that while men in Archaic Greek society had authority over their wives, they were too confident of their control, and once they taught women how to act and behave they granted women authority over the household or private sphere. This segregation of the public and private spheres allowed women control not only over the private sphere, but also some control over her own life. Did women
her moral sentiments? To a great degree, the economi... ... middle of paper ... ..., 1820-1865. Columbia Studies in American Culture Series (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942): 13-14. Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: the Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Dublin, Thomas. "Women
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promote active citizenship into public sphere. Public sphere, in rhetoric, a place for citizens to express their ideas and opinion, are becoming an important concept in China during 1990s. The concept of Public Sphere was originated during 18th century by German scholar Hannah Arendt, with analyzing of the human condition, the origins of totalitarianism and the plight of the modern constitutional issues in the public domain, thus Hannah Arendt opened the public sphere theory study of the regiment. In 1961
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satellites. Hypothetically speaking, say we measured our distance from one satellite to be 10,000 miles. Our position would be narrowed down to a point on the surface of a sphere, centered on the satellite, with a radius of 10,000 miles. Now, say that the next measurement is 11,000 miles from another satellite and we imagine a similar sphere.... ... middle of paper ... ...ave some problems that have yet to be worked out. GPS is constantly being tweaked and improved. With innovations such as Differential
straight line on a sphere is very similar to that on a Euclidean Plane with a few minor adjustments. My definition of a straight line on a sphere is one that satisfies the following Symmetries. These symmetries include: reflection-through-itself symmetry, reflection-perpendicular-to-itself symmetry, half-turn symmetry, rigid-motion-along-itself symmetry, and central symmetry. If we find that a line on a sphere satisfies all of the above condition, then that line is straight on a sphere. I have included