the span of just a few days‚ tornados devastate Los Angeles‚ huge hail pounds Tokyo‚ and colossal tsunamis and blizzards whip New York. Could it really happen? Are these events based on true scientific fact? Like much science fiction‚ The Day After Tomorrow is based on some solid scientific fact Climatologists consider a sudden global warming-induced climate shift unlikely in the next 100 years‚ but do acknowledge their computer models are too crude to know just what the probabilities are. It goes
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Fiction Vs. Reality Animal Farm is a book that relates to everyday problems of leadership and authority. There is a stark correlation between fiction and reality in the book‚ highlighted by George Orwell through two characters that have power and use different manipulative techniques to secure different outcomes. In reality‚ Orwell uses the pigs to symbolize the powerful people in our society‚ such as Muammar Gaddafi‚ who manipulate their people using suppressive and alluring tactics. Through
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300: More Fact than Fiction “300” begins by setting the vivid stage of what was to become one of the most inspiring battles of Greek history. Leonidas‚ the Spartan “king‚” is warned by messengers from the Persian empire to kneel before Xerxes‚ the Persian god-king‚ or to see his beloved Sparta be destroyed and it’s loyal people be captured as slaves. Leonidas denies these requests as a free man who will kneel to no one. Xerxes‚ seeing this as a threat to his newly established empire‚ wages war
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The Trojan War: Fact and Fiction From the beginning of time war has been a part of human life. One of the most well-known wars to date is the Trojan War. It is that it started when Paris of Troy stole Helen‚ the wife of the Spartan king‚ Menelaus. Surprisingly enough‚ this battle talked about in textbooks across the world is the same one historians question if it even happened. The only account of the war is The Iliad‚ written by the infamous Homer thousands of years ago. Although his work gives
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There have been many stories over the years that have captured the imaginations of men but none so much as the Plato’s story about the Lost City if Atlantis. So is this story fact or fiction? Well nobody really knows‚ but there have been a lot of guesses and theories over the years‚ some with evidence and some without. It was Plato who first gave us the story about the city of Atlantis around 355 B.C. In Plato’s books he uses a type of writing where he used conversations between different people
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Cloning: Is it Science Fiction or Science Fact? Diane Norton June 2‚ 2010 Cloning is it Science Fiction or Science Fact? It is true that medical advances can save lives‚ but does new medical technologies go‚ too far. Cloning’ medical benefits are astounding. There were medical advances that were unethical‚ for example heart transplants or other organ transplants and "test tube" babies‚ but are now considered being‚ the "norm". That being
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Counselling Skills Adolescence is a time of turmoil – fact of fiction? Introduction Life in general has its up sides and downs‚ moments of turmoil and tranquillity. It isn ’t different for any stages or moments in life. The concept that adolescence can be a time of turmoil is not a new concept in terms of popular understanding. It was believed that adolescence was a time of storm and stress (Heaven‚ 2001) and considered to be quite typical of adolescence‚ and hence not investigated as it
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The American Dream: Fact or Fiction We all have our own image of the American dream‚ some being as generic as the next; A dependable car‚ a suburban home with a large front yard‚ children playing outside‚ and the man of the house traveling to work to support the family. Consequently‚ due to all of the hype of the “American Dream” it no longer stands for what it once did. In a New York Times article‚ columnist and “opinionator” Allison Arieff described her opinion on the matter. In her article
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The Loch Ness Monster: Fact or fiction? This question seems simple enough‚ but there so many factors that must be weighed that the actual answer is much harder to give. For a legend as old as the monster is‚ fact and lore blur into one story that any interested party must sift through before they have any hope of understanding of the truth about the Loch Ness Monster. There is no definitive proof for or against the existence of the Loch Ness Monster‚ but the few facts that do exist suggest it is
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Facts vs. Imagination Facts are facts; they will not disappear whereas imagination will change as human being goes through different channels and growth. Charles Dickens was great renowned writer. In his story “Hard Times” he showed how students reacted when a teacher taught them only about facts. The students were uncomfortable. This made the students thought that studying and learning is not an easy task. But education is all about making hard things easier. What is fact? Something that
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