The novel, "The Chrysalids," is a book based on the despair of our society in the past, present, and future. Throughout the story, we are discouraged by the way in which man treats his own kind. Before the story begins, their society originated from a nuclear war in which most of the world's pop...

There are many scenes that take place in a book, some are more important than others. In the book I read over the summer, "2001: Space Odyssey" by Arthur Clarke. A few of the scenes were very important and without them the book would have been a waste. Here are three examples of impo...

Movie Critique The film that we watched was "A Planet For The Taking". The marquee star of this film was David Suzuki who is a greatly known scientist all over the world. In this film he tries to express how technology has given our world many benefits, but there are also downfalls to...

The legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. Young men are sent to die in other countries everyday and can't even drink a beer legally. The irony of the whole situation is that the United States Government decides that the age of adulthood is eighteen. Many people drink resposibly by ...

Employment in Geological Fields There are many fields of geology that each focus on minute details and problems. Though the focus may vary, the relation to geology on a whole is closely intertwined. I will graduate as part of the Spring 2000 class with a degree in elementary education. I f...

There is no world population crisis. There are lots of major countries with population problems, but it is also true that some don't have a population anywhere near to "uncomfortable" so it is not reasonable to categorize the world having a population crisis. Popular belief tells of r...

Ishmael Summary David Quinn's book Ishmael is a fiction book with sobering relevance to the world we live in today and the direction it is going. The main characters in the book are a young man and a telepathic gorilla, Ishmael. The book opens with the young man looking at the newspaper whe...

ExistenZ is a film that primarily engages with our perception of reality. It plays on our perceptions of what reality is, cleverly cultivating a sense of the unknown through subtle distortions of our reality; playing with the medium of film which is, in essence, a suspension of disbelief. ExistenZ...

David C. Mohr 11/02/00 WR121 Hayden Bass Civilized by way of Nature The natural evolutionary process has persisted throughout the eons of time. A new race breed appears just to be vanquished off the face of the earth a few thousand years later. A few thousand years, nothing but a drop i...

Global warming is a fact, and it is going on, and glaciers are melting rapidly. There is far too much bona fide scientific research available to doubt it, and not enough room in this paper to document it; and additionally, the shame of it is that the conservative movement in America has taken a scie...

"Understanding Wicca By Its Principles." "To me, the word 'Witch' is delicious, filled with the most ancient memories that go back to our earliest ancestors, who lived close to natural cycles and who understood and appreciated the power and energy that we share with ...

Does Global Warming really exist? Many scientists don't believe it does. According to very accurate satellite atmospheric temperature measurements, the earth has actually cooled by 0.13 degrees Celsius since 1979. Not only that, but the artic, which everyone is so concerned about meltin...

The humanity is currently facing one its biggest problem ever. Indeed, the Earth is warming and consequences might be devastating for the future generations. There is a general agreement among scientists that Earth's climate is being affected by industrial society. Industry affects global climate by...