Science fiction

The world's most valuable brands are Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Ray Bradbury, a well know science fiction writer, often wrote about this type of technology that captivates daily lives. His stories enchanted and his predictions, about the future, surprised not just the reader, but also himself. His strong usage of imagery, figurative language, tone, mood, diction, and syntax was put together to create a unique style in three specific stories. "A Sound of Thunder," "There Will Come Soft Rains,"…

Have you ever imagined a perfect community with Sameness? In the science fiction novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a community where everyone is the same, they use Sameness. It is a controlled community where everyone has fewer choices to make and the community chooses for them. Having Sameness is more of a disadvantage than because no one would have the freedom of choice and life is going to be dull for them. When everything is the same within the community, Sameness is more of a…

Mauricio Caballero Dr. Cremean Composition 201 17, March…2017 A Critical Review for the film The Director’s Cut: Blade Runner When thinking about the future, one’s imagination could help explore the many ideas people believe to come of it. One of these ideas is portrayed through the film Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The film is best categorized under the genre of Sci-fi and Thriller for its intense moments and futuristic environment.…

THE TREATMENT OF TECHNOLOGY IN METROPOLIS AND NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR HEIGHTENS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUES, SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTEXT OF THE TEXTS. In both the political satire, ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ (hereafter 1984) by George Orwell and the science fiction film ‘Metropolis’ (1927) by Fritz Lang, the composers explore the values and attitudes brought about by each of their historical contexts which is impacted by the influence of technology. The composers both use technology as a warning…

What would life be like if it took place in a dystopic society? What would change and what would remain the same? A dystopian society is described or defined as: “a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.” In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, readers are shown the life of Bernard Marx and other characters that live in this very controlled and futuristic world. It is shown as a “perfect” world gone wrong. Even though everyone seems happy…

Hook “There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion.” TAG Sentence In the science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury… (continued in summary) Summary tells a story about what happens when people ignore the oppression of the government, and one man’s effort to restore liberty. Guy Montag is a middle-aged man who has been a…

Brass gears were heavily used for the industrial revolution to make items work in the nineteenth century. Contrary to popular belief, gears are not only utilized as mechanisms to construct objects that tick. Within the 21st century, they have become involved in the pendant jewelry culture, as well. The object that I will be analyzing is a brass gear pendant that is made to be worn around the neck. The pendant doubles as a pocket watch with a cover on the outside. On the outside cover, there are…

SUMMARY Sets in the futuristic period, Guy Montag, a fireman, who, paradoxically, burns houses and illegally owned books. One night, after having burning quite number of homes and books, Montag met Clarisse, who happens to be his old neighbor. Clarisse, a seventeen year old, who is like a typical teenager, who likes to talk but what Clarisse sets from other teens is that she question about the world and nature In the course of the chapter one: part one, Clarisse asked Montag if he is happy, and…

Daniele Aquino Trigilio, Mike Vis 194s 8/30/16 Final Exam A) Neuromancer and Cyberpunk Film In the famous novel “Neuromancer”, written by William Gibson, was one of the first pieces of literature to introduce Cyberpunk as a subgenre within science-fiction. One major component within cyberpunk, deals with augmentations that are put upon the human being both physically and virtually. To put in perspective, one perfect example of augmentation that appears in Neuromancer, puts forward a…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World entailed a world of intertwined eugenics and genetic engineering, where humans are perfected not within a mother’s body, but in a hatchery’s test tubes (#). A pure work of science fiction one would assume, yet the modification of the human genome is far less outlandish than Huxley’s novel presents. In fact, this type of modification is soon to be in reach (disregarding any ethical roadblocks of course). A technology known as Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short…