The science of Star Wars is book written by Jeanne Cavelos, it tries to link the content of the Star Wars trilogies with modern science. It offers the readers the plausibility of the phenomena that occurs in the world of Star Wars. The book is divided into five chapters excluding the introduction. She proceeds from environments to aliens and androids to spaceships and weapons to end with a chapter on “The Force”.
The first Chapter is called Planetary Environments. It has four essays and seven section, sections headings include “You Can’t Have an Empire without Real Estate” and “The Bright Center of the Universe” and “A Planet a Day Keeps the Empire Away” etc. The topics she covers in this chapter includes things like formation of planets, star systems, the power and importance of tidal forces, Biochemical necessities essential for life support, high energy particles, Tatooine’s dessert environment and moisture farms etc. She teaches that life can be comparatively common and that there are two billion other Earth like planets in our galaxy that have the potential to support life (the complexity of life depends on many other factors), theories on the formation of planets, formations of more complex life forms and that water is the best medium for carbon based chemical reactions. One particular essay “Twin Suns” tries to evaluate the possibility and probability of plants with twin suns (referring to Tatooine), while another one considers potential problems and challenges relating to radiations from moons (referring to Endor). This chapter is informative but smaller in comparison to the following chapters.
The second chapter in Cavelos’s book is named “Aliens”. This one has eight sections and three essays. Topics range from “the univ...
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The last chapter of Cavelos’s book is named “The Force” and it is the largest chapter in the book with ten sections and seven essays. Here she compares the force to the Greek celestial substance called ether (earth, fire, water, air, ether). She also brings out the concepts of zero point energy, neutrinos, precognition and tachyons. She also talks about five types of forces namely strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, gravity and “The Force”. She also compares “The Force” to vacuum energy. Other major topics in the book include subjects like Telekinesis, hypnotherapy, parapsychology, telepathic communication, remote viewing, psychokensis, the EPR paradox and control and consciousness. The essays “Are You Online With the Force” concerns mind control and levitation and “invaders
The discovery of America to the rest of the world, otherwise known as “Columbian Encounter”, was one of the majestic period in the European history. But nonetheless it was a starting to a tragic end for the Native Americans. Axtell calls attention to how the term, encounter, is largely a misfit in this situation because the
The essay starts with the “Columbian Encounter between the cultures of two old worlds “ (98). These two old worlds were America and Europe. This discovery states that Native Americans contributed to the development and evolution of America’s history and culture. It gives the fact that indians only acted against europeans to defend their food, territory, and themselves.
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...l change how we envision them and us. When Aliens are no longer popular and there isn’t a continued paradigm of fear, the integration of the different peoples will no longer be a hot topic and this need to write about the segregation of American society will no longer be necessary and this essay can be thrown out.
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When Bernard and Lenina went to New Mexico for a holiday, they met some Indians or “savages”. But for some odd reason they met two English or “civilized” people there.
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Thomas More’s “Utopia”, Bartolomé de Las Casas’s “Destruction of the Indies”, and Michel de Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals” have the commonality of discussing mysterious territories which have certain conditions in several aspects of life which their present audience is unaware. The three authors describe foreign places with vastly different values and social standards, but they all describe the treatments or relations of the indigenous people by Europeans and outsiders, as well as the natives’ reaction to these treatments. More, Las Casas, and Montaigne reveal their personal views through descriptions of the different groups of indigenous people, and all suggest that their “advanced” societies are not necessarily better than those with different
I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalize and mythologize their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us, (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy [i.e., God]. The "Life Force," the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis, may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work -- the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls "Forces" while denying the existence of "spirits" -- then the end of the war will be in sight. (1)
Of all the people of Macondo, Jose Arcadio Buendia is most affected by the supernatural knowledge that Melquíades has. With every new invention, or object Melquíades brings, Buendia goes to great lengths to buy the items and to understand how it works, and to further the uses of the objects. Every item the gypsies bring give Buendi...
You are being watched. Your phone calls are listened to, your internet usage is monitored, and almost everything you do is tracked. The technological invasion of privacy that takes place in 1984 by George Orwell is a realistic warning about life today, which can be supported by current technology, potential technology, and the real-life “Brotherhood” movements in the world today.
Quite possibly one of the most iconic openings in cinematic history is “A Long time ago in a galaxy far far away.” Of course, I am referring to Star Wars. It is such a fascinating and great movie going experience. There have been a total of seven Star Wars films, but in this essay I am going to be focusing on Star Wars: Episode 3- Revenge of the Sith. This film was written and directed by George Lucas and of the science fiction genre. Revenge of the Sith was released in theaters on May 19, 2005.
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