Discovery One Essays

  • Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 A Space Odyssey

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    Odyssey, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, is a science fiction book packed with action, adventure and crazy twists. In this book, the outer space settings range from prehistoric earth, the moon, Saturn, and a distant galaxy that no humans have ever been to. One of the very interesting locations in this novel is the hotel in “the galaxy,” which was made by aliens to observe humans after TMA-1, a black alien-like piece of slab had sent a signal to them. It is a white, dreamlike, and anonymous old-fashioned room

  • Research Paper On Hal Jordan Green Lantern

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    BANG! The whole universe destroyed. DC Comics Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) is the wielder of the universe's most powerful weapon. The catch is–the one who wields the ring must have conquered his fears, and Hal fears most everything. Hal Jordan, born in Coast City, was a child to Martin Jordan and Jessica Jordan, and the middle child of three with older brother Jack and a younger brother Jim. As a young child, he idolized his father, a test pilot who worked for Ferris Aircraft. While his father was

  • The Running Man And The Chrysalids Comparison

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    the journeys of discovery in The Running Man and The Chrysalids. The Running Man written by Michael Gerard Bauer and The Chrysalids written by John Wyndham both have strong meanings to them and both are very similar to each other in many ways, for an example their fears their both afraid of something but overcome it. They also discover many things throughout the whole book, like when David discovered he had powers or when Joseph discovered his neighbor is actually not a bad man. One thing that David

  • Exculpatory Evidence Analysis

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    Discovery is a formal and informal exchange of information between the prosecution and the defense. The importance of discovery is to ensure that the adversary system does not give one side an unfair advantage. When it comes to discovery there are two types of evidence. Exculpatory, which is any evidence that may be favorable to the defendant at trail either by tending to cast doubt on the defendant’s quilt or by tending to mitigate the defendant’s culpability, thereby potentially reducing the defendant’s

  • Character Analysis: An Abundance Of Katherines

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    main characters, the 3 little pigs, did not plan or think out the construction of their houses therefore driving the story forward and spreading a message. Although this theme was fairly easy to think of, not all themes are as easy to see. How does one find the theme of a complex novel? In this essay, the theme of the novel, An Abundance Of Katherines,

  • Zubulae V. Ubs Warburg Llc Case Study

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    1. No one has a duty to preserve everything in their possession forever. Bills has a duty to preserve evidence when Bills has notice that the evidence is relevant to litigation or should have known that the evidence may be relevant to future litigation. When looking at a question of whether or not Bills met its duty to preserve the answer of two questions are of critical importance: When does the duty to preserve attach, and what evidence must be preserved. See Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, 220 F

  • The Negative Effects Of Animal Testing On Animals

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    Testing on animals Animal testing often kills the animals or harms them in one way or another. Sometimes it can make them lose their hair, hearing, or go ravid. They can also lose their sense of smell, vision,and or movement in parts of their bodys. Some people say that animal testing is needed. However, in vitro (in glass) testing, such as studying cells cultures in a petri dish, can produce more relevant results than animal testing because human cells can be used. Animal testing should not

  • Invictus Poem Essay

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    Discovery can be found in different understanding for different people and renewed a perceptions of ourselves and other. Also this process can be provocative and confronting which can be develop and changes. Harrison’s construction of setting immediately creates connotations of misunderstanding to Dolly’s family and white society. Also show how discovery has been altered by the past experience of the aboriginal women, Gladys and Dolly. While, in the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Hensley highlight

  • On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer Analysis

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    However, the concluding quartet of the poem is again a shift in perspective and surrounding, as it focuses on the western world. Keats follows Homer, Chapman, and now Cortez, a Spanish conquer to further draw out the discovery of the inner self by featuring the successes of the great. There is an evident sense of adventure and daunting nerve that is faced in Keats’ description, “Or like Stout Cortez when with eagle eyes / He stared at the Pacific—and all his men / Looked

  • The Paragon Of Freedom In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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    The Paragon of Freedom Equality is something strived for by society, to liberate ourselves of oppression and be ourselves unconditionally. But, equality cannot be achieved by the oppression of others, it will only cause others to retaliate or resist. This can be seen in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, where she depicts this exactly, the protagonist, Equality, is a young man who has been assigned the job of a street sweeper by his society. Equality has grown up being wrongly taught that the individual

  • Depositions And Interrogatories

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    The term "discovery" is defined as the next pre-trial stage after the commencement of a law suit, which allows all parties to use various strategies to discover or obtain information held by other parties. This process and time period is used to assess the strengths and weaknesses essential to each party's case. The two discovery methods that I have chosen to explain are Depositions and Interrogatories. A deposition is a formal proceeding by which the oral testimonies of individuals are obtained

  • Cultural Encounter In The Joy Luck Club

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    concept is planned to deal with all the varieties of this cultural phenomenon including the communication between cultures in place and time, the interactions between people, the dialogue and conversations between them, the conflict between the people of one culture in another culture. This essay will analyses and demonstrate how the concept of cultural encounter

  • Sacrifice In Crispin's The Awakening

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    When Crispin finds a living person, he got the urge to go up to him. He is forced to promise to stay with this new man, Bear, and that was his first, with many to follow, discovery that he madekes. In order for Bear to keep Crispin in a servile way, he made Crispin swear “on the sacred name of Jesus” (chp. 18 pg 81). Also, when Bear discovers that Crispin has a cross made of lead, Bear demands to see it, and he reads the writing on the side, refusing to tell Crispin what it said. He helps Crispin

  • Is Animal Testing Wrong

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    “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” a quote from Mahatma Gandhi. Animal testing has been around since ancient times with the Greek and Romans. Aristotle and Erasistratus were the first documented to perform experiments on animals between the years 384 and 258 BCE. Since the 1600’s, many people have debated on whether it is morally correct or wrong to test on animals. While testing on animals might help humans slightly, is it what we should do? First, humans

  • The Struggle For Friendship In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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    sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend” (Shelley 163-164). This is the wish of the scientist Robert Walton whose letters start Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Unlike the first thoughts coming to mind when hearing the title, friendship is one of the main topics in the story and the wish Walton expresses in the beginning stands for the desires of all the main characters. Not only Walton feels to be in need of companionship, the central character Victor Frankenstein does so too and even the

  • William Harvey Dobelle Inventor

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    Dr. William Harvey Dobelle made the first functioning bionic eye by a brain implant although limited it’s better than no sight at all. He is also known for the breathing pacemaker which is the only FDA approved device for phrenic nerve pacing. I chose this inventor because I thought it is cool to be able to have the ability to see without your natural eye or eyes. William H. Dobelle is the son of Martin and Lillian Mendelson Dobelle. He was born in Pittsfield Massachusetts, on October twenty-fourth

  • Vasco Nunez De Balboa Research Paper

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    Important voyage- Eryn Snethen Many voyages have led to many amazing discoveries in the world. One voyage that made impacts and was very important was Vasco Nunez de Balboa’s voyage that was important in history. He discovered that there was more water in the world. He discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513. I believe that after many discoveries and voyages in the past, more is to come. Vasco Nunez de Balboa was an explorer, and conquistador which is a person that conquers new land. He helped establish

  • How Did Henry Hudson Find A Water Passage Into North America

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    North America for the purpose of a trade route. Nevertheless, this discovery was an amazing and crucial one, not only for a water passage into the interior of North America,

  • Age Of Discovery Vs New Imperialism Essay

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    Acquisition and discovery are two extremely separated concepts, as one is fueled by the unknown, while the other is driven on by the known. Since the popular discovery of the Western Hemisphere, European expenditures and ventures to unchartered lands have constantly taken place, evermore mapping the Earth. However, once the geography of the World was understood, those same Europeans began movements to seize and occupy the lands they were once mystified and intrigued by. Although the Age of Discovery and the

  • Age Of Exploration

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    The age of exploration saw to the beginning of the New World with the discovery of the Americas and Africa; and the interexchange of goods, culture and diseases between the people of the new lands and the Europeans. Europeans, mainly the Spanish, British, Portuguese and later on the French, were driven by similar desires to discover these lands; the riches and spices of the East and the desire for more land. The heavy travel toll exacted by the Muslim middlemen on Europeans for travelling to the