...The lands beyond the human horizon Volume I- The echoes of prophecy… By: V.S. Nilanee Chapter 1:- Twenty one years later The palace was festooned with gold crepe paper and holly. It was Princess Moonshine’s 21st birthday. The huge blowout party was doing little to camouflage the dire mood of the people. They were afraid of the fulfillment of the Doomsday prediction. Moonshine had no idea as to why was the situation so as she was not supposed to be informed about the prediction until her birthday, when she was summoned by her father. She rushed to the throne room and knelt, as was her duty when her father was surrounded with people. She was baffled. Her father rarely called upon her when there were people present. She had made it quite clear long ago that she found it hard to pretend as if she were her own father’s subject. Also, it made the people present there feel quite uncomfortable. Still, she was sure that there was some important matter to be discussed, in the light of her birthday. ‘Father!’ she called, when she was certain that there were no more people left, except the courtiers. King Moonshine turned. He said ‘Sweetheart, there is no need to kneel. This is an entirely personal matter.’ Moonshine shivered. There was something in her father’s voice which did not bode well. It sounded to weary, subuded, not at all his usual hearty, light one. She panicked. ‘Father, is something wrong? Are you ill?’ she shrieked. She ran to his side...
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...that we're frequently asked regarding 2012. Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012. Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012. Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012? A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012. Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012? A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on...
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...DOOMSDAY 2012: PROHETS OR PROFITS FINAL Kimesha K. Sanders Western Governors University DOOMSDAY 2012: PROPHETS OR PROFITS Ever since the beginning of time people have been obsessed with the concept of the end of days. So if there is one topic that can create a good conversation, it’s the “Apocalypse”. In our times, we get more than our share of talk about the apocalypse. An apocalypse is a revelation, an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling (wikipedia.org). This means that no one could possibly know when this event will occur. Still, for thousands of years people have tried to predict when and how the world will end. From where do all these apocalyptic prophecies originate? Are we the victims of the hidden agendas of the media and secret societies? Are modern interpretations of ancient Mayan calendars and prophecies accurate; and do these prophecies predict the end of the world in 2012? And what has NASA said about all of this? When it comes to apocalyptic or “end of the world” prophecies it doesn’t matter. “End of the world” prophecies are ridiculous. We can’t rely on people, books, internet sites or movies to tell us an exact date because it is clearly something of the unknown? People are using prophets for profits! Apocalyptic prophecies derive from the stories told about the death of Jesus Christ and his ascension from the grave. It was said that He would one day return....
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...As the Premier tells the ambassador about the doomsday device his reaction chances the tone on his face from, nice to be talking with you, to a terrified we're all doomed face. As he explains what the doomsday device is, it consists of many buried bombs jacketed with Cobalt-Thorium G. Two months after detonation, the Cobalt-Thorium G would encircle the earth in a radioactive cloud that would render the surface of the uninhabitable for 93 years. After he explains it the reactions of the president and general change from, its a bunch of commie bull, to ,why on earth did you build such a thing. The funny part is their reason for building it was it being cheap and the they believe America had a similar project in development. So they didn’t what to have a doomsday gap and their source for this was the New York...
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...Dr. Strangelove Essay Relating Dr. Strangelove to International Politics As a class last week we watched a comedic satire on the context of mutual assured destruction between the U.S/Soviet Union during the Cold War. The movie is titled “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” by Stanley Kubrick. Throughout the film there are many situations in which the topics we have been studying in world politics are discussed in a comedic yet thought provoking way. The two most prevalent issues I saw displayed were the issues of information asymmetries/incomplete information, and the overwhelming presence of patriotism/nationalism themes displayed by the film to create a rally effect. I will discuss how these issues arose in the film and how they relate to international relations. There are many situations that arise in the film that incorporate a failure to communicate information. This actually seems to be the prevailing idea of the film. Information asymmetries occur when one side has more information than the other, giving more influencing power to the information holder. The first case involving information asymmetry occurs early in the film when General Ripper radios his orders to the bombers to drop hydrogen bombs on Russia (unconstitutionally), using a discrete three letter prefix that only he knows. He also requires all radios be confiscated, as they might be used to “issue propaganda” from the enemy. In doing this Ripper has created an information...
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...September 8, 2012, Doomsday as also known as “A Day Without Media”. A Day Without Media was first conducted as an experiment by an undergraduate class at University of Maryland but was duplicated by myself for the doomsday experience. By way of this challenge I learned different variables such as my media consumption habits, my most used sources, what were the psychological effects, and the difficulty of finding activities to consume the time I use for social media. This experience was nothing nice, especially for someone whose phone is their world. Media is a way of life. I learned from my personal experience that I eat, sleep and breathe media. This challenge was extremely hard to complete being that all my sources and connections to the outside world were taken from me. Most of my media use comes from my phone. I am always involved in social media such as Instagram, Twitter and sometimes even Facebook. Then while in engaged in these features I am in tune with my music application. I love music. It’s my personal getaway, a home away from home. If my phone is not in use then it’s my computer. It’s always something to do on the computer, whether I’m surfing the web, online shopping, movie streaming, or even catching up on my latest shows. My computer is my backup generator. Without media I am lifeless, and this assignment almost brought me to my death. Being that all active media was not an option during a whole twenty-four hour period I had to find different activities...
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...Alisha Nanda Mrs. Waller English 11H Period 2 March 5, 2015 The Dependent Generation June 20, 2016. The new predicted Doomsday. Huh, coincidentally, Doomsday lies on the date of my high school graduation, also known as the day society ends. Why? Well, because my generation, 1990-2003, is the dependent generation. We are dependent on technology, of course, but also dependent on parents. My generation is addicted to technology. The multitude of devices now readily available explains the origin of our dependence. Even teachers now use technology as part of their curriculum. Considering this fact, an argument stating that students do not actually need their many devices is proven invalid. Students indeed require their phones to be successful in school. For example, in physics, my classmates and I used our phones to videotape an oscillating spring to gather data for a lab. Therefore, the vital incorporation of technology into education forces students to own phones and partially justifies the use of technology, but it does not rationalize the obsessive use of technology. Inside and outside of school, all that matters is Facebook, Google, and Snapchat. Technology consumes three hours and sixteen minutes of our lives every day. (Woollaston) People today believe that they cannot live without our IPhones and Macs. Interestingly enough, many of these people have actually experienced a technology-free world, and therefore, know that it is possible to live without checking Facebook...
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...England’s Royal Power Strengthened and Centralized? Looking at the Kings of England from about 1066 to 1215 A.D., there were many ingenious new laws and processes that were implemented in the Kingdom to strengthen and centralized the royal power. These laws and processes also allowed the Kingdom to overcome rebellions that would have arisen if they were not kept in check. An early document in this period was the “Doomsday Book”, in which William the Conqueror ordered it to be written in 1086 A.D., about twenty years after he conquered England. The “Doomsday Book” was a recorded survey that listed all the parcels of land and the associated owners. This book was made to know what land the Kingdom owned and also to be able to tax it properly. This document would also record livestock and other properties that were owned by the Kingdom....
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...How far do you agree that the building of castles was the main reason why the English were unable to mount a successful challenge to William I’s rule? After William’s victory at Hastings in 1066, he introduced Motte and Bailey castles, which showed the Norman’s power, when faced with rebellions from 1068. Nevertheless, not only did he use castles to prevent the English from mounting a challenge to Williams rule, he also introduced the feudal system, as well as the Doomsday book and harrying of the north. To begin with, William was a Norman, where he lived in a country full of castles which showed of wealth. On top of this, French kings had gained a reputation for building castles, as a way of coping with the constant attacks by Vikings from Scandinavia. After the victory of William at Hastings in 1066, he acted swiftly to solidify his victory, where he began to build motte and bailey castles, which was newly introduced as before the conquest there was only one apparent castle in Hereford. Although William was a powerful man, he was unpopular in the English kingdom, where he was faced with rebellions from 1067, with the first rebellion in Dover. William managed to respond by re-asserting his authority as he captured villages, towns and road crossings in places where rebellions took place and building a castle. This was then a visible sign of the Norman’s power over the English. The castles provided his troops with strong defensive structures to guard against any upstart Saxons...
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...friend of mine about the recent global financial crisis, the accelerating climate related catastrophes and the general prevalence of apocalyptic doom and gloom. He asked me, “Don’t you think it’s close now? You know, the whole system collapsing....an end to the known world, ......don’t you think it’s about to happen any day now?” “Yes I do”, I replied “.....but I have been thinking that for over thirty years, since I was about fourteen years old.” Apocalyptic warnings are nothing new, there are literally hundreds of doomsday prophecies scattered throughout our collective histories. Apocolyptism is mainly a religious...
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...Rant: Batman V Superman Well, I may be a week late to the party, but that won't stop me from writing about this terrible movie. That's right, I said it. This movie is trash and there is no debate. Of course, you can enjoy this movie and like it, that's your opinion, but you can't say that this movie was 'good' in any way. Why have I decided to write about this movie? Well, I was on Instagram the other day and there were way too many comments on various posts actually DEFENDING this piece of shit. I got into a number of arguments with random people because they were just trashing on other people and the critics for disliking the movie. I cannot believe how hard headed some blind fanboys are. To the point where I knew I clearly won the argument because their next replies were always something like: "You're just a dumb fag who hates on movies go kill yourself". I'm not exaggerating. These people need to be stopped. They need to open their eyes and see that this movie was not good AT ALL. Some more examples of comments I found on Instagram were like "This movie is perfection" or "Everyone who hates this movie is stupid and wouldn't understand the dark theme because they only like light-hearted Marvel movies". What exactly was wrong with this movie? Everything. I mean the fight scenes were pretty cool, but that's about it. It was just an overall mess. The story jumped around everywhere and couldn't focus on anything. Let's start with the first thing wrong, the title. It shouldn't...
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...Mountain Dew is 18 year old males who embrace excitement, adventure and fun. But in the advertisement, actors are heads of military, villain, and two Dew dudes. All of these actors have nothing to with target segment – 18 year old males who are not heads of military, villain, or Dew dudes. For most of 18 year old males, they are too young to save the world. In advertisement, two Dew dudes seem on the mission of saving world, but when they ski into a lodge, they are obsessed with music, Dew, and beautiful women. Right now it is exhilarating time, but it is not proper, and saving world by a drop of Dew doesn’t make sense. In a sense, the advertisement emphasizes that Dew brings happiness and has extremely power to penetrate land and destroy doomsday machine. But this ads does not build any association with brand strategy – drinking Mountain Dew is an exhilarating experience. Mountain Dew’s major consumers are at rural. Advertisements in the past were talking about happy time of rural life, like Skateboarding, Rope Swing, and Waterfall. Dew or Die doesn’t inherit any theme or element of these advertisements. So I have to say it doesn’t build any association to current consumers. According to market research, product imagery of Mountain Dew is sweet, entertainment, fun to drink, intense experience, and lots of flavor; psychographic imagery is adventurous, wild, active, daring, courageous, rebellious, and youthful and so on. What we can get from this...
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...star that guides every lost ship (guiding star = Polaris). Shakespeare again mentions Polaris (also known as "the north star") in Much Ado About Nothing (2.1.222) and Julius Caesar (3.1.65). Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken (8): The subject here is still the north star. The star's true value can never truly be calculated, although its height can be measured. Love's not Time's fool (9): i.e., love is not at the mercy of Time. Within his bending sickle's compass come (10): i.e., physical beauty falls within the range ("compass") of Time's curved blade. Note the comparison of Time to the Grim Reaper, the scythe-wielding personification of death. edge of doom (12): i.e., Doomsday. Compare 1 Henry IV (4.1.141): Come, let us take a muster speedily: Doomsday is near; die all, die...
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...December 21st, 2012, the end of the world as we know it, somehow the earth is going to end in some shape of form. We’ve all heard stories and legends about doomsdays and none of them have come true, so what makes 2012 so important? The fact that there are several different prophecies that are all linked to this date and year, all reading the same thing, the end of the world. The prophecies are gaining strength and support from all over the world, sooner or later we’ll find out whether or not these prophecies are true or just myths. Let’s begin with the most famous prophecy; it originates from the Maya Empire. This is where the prophecy was first discovered in one of the great Mayan empires in Mexico. The Mayan calendar ends on the leap year of 2012. The Mayan calendar was invented by a civilized tribe from Central America, dating back to 250-900 AD. The Maya empire stretched around most parts of Mexico down to El Salvador and even some parts of Honduras. Mayans had very advanced writing skills and an amazing ability when constructing cities. The Mayans are most famous for their magnificent pyramids which can be found all over South America. The Mayans were obsessed with time keeping; it was a spiritual practice for them. Their calendar was so precise it predicts a lunar eclipse thousands of years before it happens. The prophecy would just be like the Y2K bug though unless it had a good track record of predictions. The calendar predicted the arrival...
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...In the end, he made himself richer but less popular; and the vilains (peasants) poorer and made their daily life a struggle. After 1066, William was announced the King of England and the superior ruler of democracy. Right from the beginning of William’s reign, he set up the Fedual System-which was a way of showing the rankings of people. The higher you were on the Fedual System, the wealthier you were and the more significant you were. For example, the vilains were always at the bottom because they were less important than the groups of people above them. However, the vilains worked harder, and were responsible for all the crops and food for England. In addition, William made himself more affluent by creating the Doomsday book. You may wonder, ‘What is the Doomsday book?’ .Well, it was a way of recording the amount of taxes the people of England owed King William. Also, it was a way of seeing how much people had – in the terms of their land; wages and even the amount of people they had in their family. The previous King (King Edward) was a generous and kind hearted man who was not concerned about his wealth but cared for others and funded health projects and supported the sick. But William has done the complete opposite; he has overly charged the poor and taken advantage of his power. On the other hand, William has defended England and securely disciplined the crime. To look after his country, William built sturdy and robust castles to keep out unwanted visitors and to protect...
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