...Reconstructing the Past to Change the Future: An Analysis of Character Development in When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Journey From the Fall While the characters from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Journey From the Fall move on to a life of "comfort and safety" in the US, unsettling memories of the war resurface that force them to revisit their pasts. In order to reconcile their regrets, they must reconstruct memories from their past and address their guilt. This essay follows the journey that the characters Le Ly Hayslip and Mai take from Vietnam to the US and provides examples of how the two women attempt to forget their previous existences, create new ones, and reevaluate their pasts in the context of the present. By “comfort and safety,” I mean that Le Ly and Mai are not worrying about survival and safety as much anymore in the US as compared to in Vietnam. The two characters escape Vietnam because the livelihoods of their families are at stake. Le Ly escapes Vietnam for reasons relating to physical as well as emotional well-being. When Le Ly talks about the story of a woman watching her son get shot and then the woman herself getting shot as well, Le Ly realizes that the only chance for survival for her and her son is by leaving Vietnam. In addition, not only is Le Ly in physical danger, she is also in a hostile environment in terms of her relationships with the people around her. Her family relations are extremely volatile, since her family is very...
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...Earth Day, Then and Now Thirty Years ago, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Fifth Avenue in New York City was closed to automobiles as 100,000 people joined in concerts, lectures, and street theater. More than 2,000 colleges and universities across America paused their anti-war protests to rally instead against pollution and population growth. Even Congress recessed, acknowledging that the environment was now on a political par with motherhood. Since that first Earth Day, the celebrations have only gotten bigger, if somewhat less dramatic: The organizers of Earth Day 2000, to be held April 22, expect 500 million people around the globe to participate in celebrations, workshops, and demonstrations. This year's theme is "clean energy" and the master of ceremonies for the big celebration on the Washington Mall is none other than Leonardo Di Caprio. Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions. "We have about five more years at the outside to do something," ecologist Kenneth Watt declared to a Swarthmore College audience on April 19, 1970. The day after Earth Day, even the staid New York Times editorial page warned, "Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction. Three decades later, of course, the world hasn't come to an end; if anything, the planet's ecological future has never looked so promising. The prophets...
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...EARTH PERSPECTIVES The biological and geological future of the Earth can be extrapolated based upon the estimated effects of several long-term influences. These include the chemistry at the Earth's surface, the rate of cooling of the planet's interior, the gravitational interactions with other objects in the Solar System, and a steady increase in the Sun's luminosity. An uncertain factor in this extrapolation is the ongoing influence of technology introduced by humans, such as geoengineering, which could cause significant changes to the planet. The current biotic crisis is being caused by technology and the effects may last for up to five million years. In turn, technology may result in the extinction of humanity, leaving the planet to gradually return to a slower evolutionary pace resulting solely from long-term natural processes. Hawking: How Humankind Will Survive the Future Listen, people of Earth: Everything's going to be fine. All we have to do is survive another century or two without self-destructing as a species. Then we'll get off this rock, spread throughout space, and everything will be all right. If this is not your idea of "optimism," then you are not Stephen Hawking. The esteemed physicist garnered headlines, and some eye-rolls, after telling Big Think last week that humanity needs to leave the Earth in the future or face extinction. As The Atlantic noted: He's not knocking climate scientists' attempts to figure things out on Earth-he's just thinking long...
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...Skies The Limit? The exploration of space VS The issues on earth. Aileen Johnson English Composition Introduction We live in a world where there are environmental issues that range from global warming to air pollution. Environmental scientists dedicated themselves by putting years and years into finding a long-term solution for these issues. The effects of these issues can potentially be damaging in the next couple of decades so people live I fear of what is to come. This same fear prevents people from thinking outside of the box. We came so far in the mist of our issues that it almost seems unfixable. With new technology today we have various ways for exploring outside our world to find new ways to make life on earth a little easier. Since issues on earth are still in effect, people’s fear of what is to come in the future prevent them from becoming aware of how exploring outside this world in space can actually benefit us all, and how important it is to our planet earth. Although there are many environmental issues on earth, outer exploration should continue to be funded. Outer space exploration may be needed in the future to prevent or solve new issues on earth to come. Oblivious To the Benefits There are many benefits to outer space exploration that people are aware not of. Before I decided to do research I was unaware of the number of things that we actually use today that would have never...
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...knowledge and technology can manage planet earth, it can help change the way we do things each day and change the way us humans affect the earth. Myth three is that knowledge about the problem is increasing. Myth four is that higher education can rebuilt the earth, and rebuild the damages that we have caused to the earth. Myth five is we educate children for more success and mobility only; we are not really preparing them for the problems they will be facing in the future. Finally, myth six states that culture is what represents all human achievements. The myth I agree most with would be hat ignorance is a solvable problem. A lot of people have no idea how we can fix the earth and how simple changes in our life can slowly help. The ignorance people just need to be educated on how they can change and what they are doing now, affects the earth. 2. What is Orr’s reasoning for saying, “all education is environmental education?” Orr is saying that all education is environmental education because students today are taught that we are part of the earth and that whatever we do each and everyday, can affect it in the long run. In schools around the world today, there are more economical classes teaching about the changes in the economy, there are classes about what we can do to change the way we use our resources. Children are being taught about what they need to do in the future with the earth and what they need to do with their jobs in the future. 3. In chapter 2, Orr presents...
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...Daniel Dockal Feb 19, 2010 Bio 101 Heather Senseney-Mellor Prediction of the future In this paper I will be taking about the prediction of the future going forward 5 million, 100 million and 200 million years into the future of this planet earth. I decided to research and find scientific evidence to write and explain what will occur in the future. I think everyone is eager to know how this planet will evolve and what will happen to the human kind and other living things. This is one of the questions that we will never know or be accurate about. The more we know about our history the better knowledge we have about the future and what will happen. History always repeats itself this is why we learn as much as we can about the past and study it so well, so we can predict the future. By going into the future the climate of the earth is always going to be changing and all living things are going adapting to the changes and other species are evolved and others will die out because of it. “The condition of the environment is the key of the living things in this earth and plants are depend on it”(science nsa). The earth has to have a certain amount of carbon dioxide, a change in this can have a big impact on the living things and animals. “The temperature is also an important role”(wired magazine), if the temperature keeps rising every year than the plants will dry out and even cause global warming which we already are facing. This will only be a disaster and we have to know how...
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...Wall-E (2008) also uses an anthropomorphistic story to highlight aspects of sustainability. The first sentence of the trailer for Wall-E, sets the story seven hundred years into the future when mankind has abandoned planet Earth and left it’s clean up in the hands of a machine. As the story is being introduced, the audience is shown an aerial view of Earth from outer space. It zooms into the dusty, brown planet, and we are introduced to Wall-E. Standing for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, Wall-E is the last robot alive from millions of machines whose purpose was to clean up the Earth after humans fled the mess they made. However, after introducing the main character, Wall-E, the trailer then dives into his relationship with his love interest Eve. This undermines the importance of the film’s ecological message by portraying it as a love story. Through its dramatization of excessive corporate control, iconography of relevant waste culprits, and somber cinematography, Wall-E actually serves as a social critique of consumer mentality and illuminates corporate effects on the environment. It appeals and educates an extremely wide audience, but its ability to subliminally introduce the importance of sustainability to younger viewers is exceptionally powerful. The blame for the mess on Earth is attributed to a fictional corporation named “Buy n Large,” which grew so large it controlled global governments. With the slogan, “The Right to Spend,” they...
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...resurrection should lead us to living a life that is glorifying to God and one that works to bring about the kingdom of God here on earth. This book seeks to merge, what is the ultimate Christian hope and how said hope effects and energizes our present reality. Wright purports that the common held beliefs that we westerners have about life after death come from a mashing of different belief systems. The idea that Jesus will come back and rapture our souls up onto a cloud and transport us to heaven is not a historical Christian understanding and lacks hope for our present reality. Wright completely rejects the popular Left Behind books. The belief in such rhetoric will lead us to selfish dispositions and to as we discussed in class...
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...Humans often wonder what their obligations are and what they owe their fellow man. There are many answers to this inquiry, as there are many things we owe to each other as human beings. Every human being has an obligation to care for our planet Earth. We owe it to our predecessors as well as our future generations to protect and preserve the planet. We owe protection to the Earth for providing us with abundant resources and allowing us to inhabit it. In Recent years, humans’ negative effects on the Earth have become more evident. Pollution is slowly rotting away the protective ozone layer, causing ice caps to melt and the water levels to increase. The animal population suffers because of over-hunting, poaching and the destruction of habitats. Humans are taking advantage of the planet Earth, and our careless ways are slowly destroying this beautiful planet on which we live. The animals with which we share this planet are facing the brunt of our mistreatment of the Earth. The Endangered Species list is growing at an alarming pace, and no region is safe. “One in four mammals is threatened with extinction” (Rogers, EarthFirst) In Africa, elephants are being hunted for ivory and lions are being hit by cars on roads going through their habitats. The alligator population of the Florida Everglades is dwindling due to habitat destruction and the penguins of Antarctica are now endangered due to careless human mistakes such as oil spills. Most of this peril is due to the destruction...
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...GOVERNMENT FUNDS SHOULD BE SPENT ON SPACE EXPLORATION By Shanel Sun English Composition I (ENC 1101) Mrs. H. N. S. Jayaweera Government funds should be spent on space exploration Why do governments spend millions of dollars each year on space exploration when there are issues on earth those need to be addresses? Shouldn’t the government worry about crime, Poverty, National debt, Terrorism, the economy and the environment instead of outer space? What about the lives of astronauts that is at sake? What is the value of time and energy wasted on space crafts that end up crashing or becoming space junk? What about the damage caused to the Ozone layer? Even though these questions are yet to be answered, governments should fund space explorations because there are many advantages of space exploration such as increment of inventions, accuracy of environmental predictions, growth of stock of resources and development of the economy. Manned space-flight has spawned many scientific innovations. One of the very important by products of space exploration has been the adaptation and innovation of medical equipment technologies which are making individual lives better and in many cases saving them. A water purification device used by astronauts have been developed to help patients who suffer from kidney failure by introducing the kidney dialysis, analyzing the fluid flow around space shuttle engine has helped to create an artificial heart pump for patients, Nitinol is an alloy...
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...THOUGHT PAPER 2 THE HUBBLE The earth is given to us, to grow, to survive, to breathe and to live; it’s for our own advantage. But we often take this privilege for granted, probably because its given for free, we did not earn it or strive to deserve it. We value it less; however, one of the beauty that The Hubble showed, was that with trillion miles away, galaxies and stars, non-showed existence of life; it was only the Earth, our home that showed the wonderful blessing that God has given us. How can we then give back to the Earth? How can we balance the need of demand and supply? The Hubble documentary portrays the Earth is the only one who has life, it suggests that one must take care of our planet with the purpose of having a home for future generations to come. The Hubble is a space telescope that is located above the surface of the atmosphere specifically in the low earth orbit far above rain clouds and light pollution. Hubble has an unobstructed view of the universe; scientists have used The Hubble to observe the most distant stars and galaxies as well as planets in our solar system. Hubble takes extremely sharp pictures, the most detailed visible-light image ever made of the universe’s most distant objects. It is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well known as both a vital research tool and a benefit to public relations for astronomy. Hubble’s existence marks the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo’s telescope. It was built by the United...
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...………………………………………...…………………………………..7 Doubt ……………………………………………………………………………...………………8 Impact of 581g on the Past………………………………………………………………………...9 Impact of 581g on the Future……………………………………………………………………...9 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….10 Abstract The discovery of a new planet, Gliese 581g, will have lifelong impacts on how people view religion in America for many years to come. The discovery of this new planet will make many people question their core beliefs on the basic foundations of religion. Through research, we will look at how the characteristics of Gliese 581g possibilities of life and how it impacts our current and future religious decisions. The Bible says “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1New International Version). With that being said, should earth which is singular be changed to earths? The answers too many of our questions on life elsewhere in the universe will be discussed now and for years into the future. The implications on what is found on Gliese 581g will impact not only us, but the future of our children’s children. Introduction How will the discovery of Gliese 581g change how religion is viewed in America? The discovery of Gliese 581g will lead to conflicts of history as we know it as well as to new discoveries in the present and future. Will history be changed forever with the discovery of life outside of our planet? First, we will look at the discovery of Gliese 581. Then we will...
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...SAVE FORESTS "SAVE FORESTS AND FORESTS WILL SAVE YOU" "MORE GREEN FOR BETTER ENVIRONMENT" "Save nature Save future" "preserve the forest for our healthy tomorrow" "SAVE ME SAVE U" "GROW A TREE GET OXYGEN FREE' No trees=No oxygen=No life Save forest and forest will save u TO LIVE FOR FUTURE IN REST SAVING FOREST IN THE BEST BREATH FRESH AIR AND PRESERVE FOREST Save tree Don’t destroy the greenery and don’t spoil the scenery. Save mother earth. One tree can make a million matches,One match can destroy a million trees. plant a tree, plant a tree, so that next generation can get air for free If the present generation cuts down trees, their children will have to pay the fees Don’t make Trees rare, we should keep them with care Save the trees, save the Earth. We are the guardians of nature’s birth. there is enough on the earth for the human’s need but not for the human’s greed. save trees now they will save you in future Save Trees or else their leaves will only be seen in Museums Trees are green gold. A plant a day keeps the flood away Trees – the lungs of the world LET THE GREEN BE SEEN ! Each one, Plant one They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. Cut a Tree, Cut a Tree and there’ll be no more left to see.. killing trees is killing us….. Save the trees, I will even say please Save a tree to help us breathe If you love to breathe, Save the trees Save Tigers: Tiger Tiger burning bright, will not let you fade out of sight, that is my promise...
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...during the late 19th century. He had several positive views of the future and where it was headed in the next 100 years. The improvement of steel and the expansion of the railroad began a progressive era in the US. With technology and industry thriving, the outcome of the US began to appear bigger and greater as the economy became one of the world’s strongest. Although Thomas De Witt Talmage was wrong about how the world would end up in 100 years, He created an interpretation of a future where as long as natural disaster doesn't completely obliterate earth then there will be a bright and hopeful outcome for the human race. He was merely shaping his thoughts on the best possible outcome for the future. His reasons behind his assumptions were based on science and technology, not religion....
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...Our Earth, birthed four billion years ago has existed to shape life for organisms that thrive among it, but as of recently there has been a massive disturbance. As stated by universetoday.com, humans have first came to existence 200,000 years ago, but were fully settled only 6,000 years ago. Despite settling only less than 10% of Earth’s life span, humans have contributed to the most damage inflicted to the Earth itself since its whole lifetime. Not only is it due to simple deforestation; humans have over mined Earth’s resources, reduced biodiversity and increased pollution dramatically. As of the past, humans were not educated so they initially survived based on their natural prime instincts, but as centuries flew by major problems began to...
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