How Did Arthur Clark Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End

By looking at Childhood's End, one can see that Arthur C. Clarke included the themes of paranormal and religion along with science, he tied all three together and showed their differences and how they acted and how they change over a period of time. The other thing he shows is what happens if one is more dominate and how it imbalanced the humanity and the atmosphere. Arthur Charles Clarke was born on December 16, 917. Clarke grew up on a farm in Minehead in Somerset, a town off the English Coast. After his full day of work and chores, he liked to look at the stars and wonder if there's more to life, and if there is more out there. The long stargazes began his interest in science, Sci-fi, and the paranormal.

This leads to the Geostationary satellites, he was credited as the inventor of the first communications satellite. The geostationary satellite was named “The Clarke Orbit” it orbits 42,000 kilometers above the earth. Clarke went back to Dr. Harry Wexler, which led to the branch of meteorology that utilized rockets and satellite for weather forecasting He earned a gold medal from the Franklin Institute, Lindbergh award, Marconi award, Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the physical research laboratory Ahmadabad, and the fellowship of college, London. In 1946 was his first fiction publication was “rescue party'' in astounding

He visited Sri Lanka; while he was there he dived and observed the ocean life. This lead him to write several books and articles on the Indians Ocean. Clarke help work on a film with Mike Wilson called “The Great Barrier Reef,” which was based “The Peep Range.” Clarke was interested in the paranormal. He researched telekinesis and other paranormal phenomena. His fascination inspired the book Childhood's end. He had a television show called the “mysterious world” in the early 1980's. Clarke joined CBS newsman Walter Cronkie and astronaut Wally Schirra and he narrated the landmark of Apollo 11 lunar landing he also covered 12 and 15. Clarke was the 1st chancellor of the International Space University. Clarke was an honorary board chair member of the Institute for Cooperation in Space. There was an asteroid “4923” named after Clarke. He also had species of ceratoposion, serendipitous dinosaur named in his honor. Clarke helped Stanley Kubrick with the movie based 2001“A Space Odyssey” which was loosely based on Clarke's short story “ The sentinel”. In 1986 the book was published Kubrick and Clarke shared the Oscar nomination for the film. 1985 they published 2010 odyssey two and worked with Peter Hyams on a film