In Ray Bradbury’s “August 2002: Night Meeting”‚ two beings have a random encounter that leads them to dispute the existence and reality of the other. Tomás Gomez is an Earthling living on Mars on his way to a party. While taking a break from driving‚ Tomás encounters a Martian named Muhe Ca. The two are unable to communicate until Muhe Ca learns English by touching Tomás’ head. When Tomás tries to hand Muhe Ca a cup of coffee‚ their hands fall through each other “like mist”‚ and the other person
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The Veldt is a story written by Ray Bradbury. It’s a story about a family in their Happy-Life Home in the future. More importantly‚ it reveals the impact of future technology on the children of that time. To examine this we analyze the children’s attitude toward their parents‚ their emotions to the nursery‚ and the impact it has on the children’s daily lives. First‚ to examine this impact we analyze the children’s attitude toward their parents. “I don’t think you’d better consider it any
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Case Study ‘Blu-ray versus HD-DVD: A Standards Battle in High-Definition Video’ Discussion Questions 1. What factors do you think influenced whether (1) consumers‚ (2) retailers or (3) movie producers supported Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Every party in this standards battle had its own reasons for chosing one standard over the other. For instance‚ the motives for movie producers to choose Blu-ray were completely different from the motives for consumers to choose Blu-ray. In our opinion‚ the main factors
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next generation video format. Sony’s Blu-Ray technology was backed by a consortium that included Philips‚ Matsushita‚ Hitachi‚ and others. Toshiba’s HD-DVD had the backing of the DVD Forum‚ making it the “official” successor to the DVD format. Both companies lined up major movie studios and video game consoles to promote their standards (Sony’s Playstation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360). In January 2008‚ Time Warner’s announcement that it would support Blu-Ray instead of HD DVD triggered a chain reaction
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In The Martian Chronicles‚ Bradbury ties in historical events and uses them to make certain points about human society. The three main topics he explores are colonization‚ technological advancement and censorship. These issues arose during the 1900s‚ throughout a significant part of Bradbury’s life. They had an extremely influential role on human society and way of life. Competition between countries and the protection of national ideals were catalysts for technological advancements and brought
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As humanity entered the twentieth century a breakdown in social convention and the resultant blossoming of social ideas lead to the conception of a new literary sub-genre‚ soft science fiction. Inspired by works including “The Iron Heel” by Jack London1‚ it used the deficiencies and corruptions in both capitalist and communist culture to predict a dystopian future. These counter or anti-utopian societies often focus on the dehumanisation of the proletariat‚ and how the ruling class use fear and war
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that authors such as Bradbury and George Orwell pictures in their books‚ a world that exists under the image of utopia‚ and yet to the reader seems like a foreign‚ inhumane residence dominated by an all-powerful government. George Orwell’s 1984‚ and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 depicts two different dystopic worlds. The settings of both books are different and the characters are unique; however‚ both of these books are also very similar. 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 are similar dystopic literatures by
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Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor‚ futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book‚ The Singularity is Near. In the film‚ Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the Technological Singularity‚ a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in genetics‚ nanotechnology‚ and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine
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The story “The Golden Kite‚ the Silver Wind”‚ can be seen as an allegory about the Cold War. The opposing towns‚ the walls‚ and the Mandarins in the story all serve as symbols to the war. The towns represent the two opposing states in the Cold War--the United States and Soviet Union. The two rival towns in the story symbolize the United States and the Soviet Union because they continuously upgrade their walls’ structures to stay on top of their opponent‚ similarly to how the USA and USSR added copious
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PLANNING: - Title: - An Experiment to investigate the lateral displacement of a ray of light through a rectangular block of a transparent material. Aim: - To investigate the lateral displacement for different angles and how the displacement depends on the angle of incidence when a ray of light enters the Perspex block. Scientific Background: - Refraction occurs when the speed changes when the lights travels from one medium to another medium. If the light travels from a medium to a denser medium
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