...Maybe In Another Universe, I Deserve You Gaby Dunn What if, in another universe, I deserve you? Hear me out. There’s this philosopher from the 1890s named William James, and he coined this theory about “the multiverse” which suggests that a hypothetical set of multiple universes comprises everything that can possibly exist simultaneously. Are you following? The entirety of space, time, matter and energy is all happening at once in different timelines: It’s the idea of parallel universes. Right? So okay, let’s presume the multiverse is real. Well then, maybe somewhere in those infinite universes is one, or several, where I deserve you. Maybe there’s a universe out there — happening now — where we end up together and when I close my eyes at night, I’m not dreaming the way a normal person would. Instead I’m seeing flashes of our lives in the multiverse. They’re not simple dreams because I miss you, right? They’re scientific, anachronistic visions. For instance: In this universe, I don’t want a family, but maybe in another, I’m more of the type to settle down. Maybe there’s a universe where you hold my hand while I give birth to our daughter in a white hospital room with pink flowers and fuzzy teddy bears on the window sill. Where we take family vacations and pose for dorky pictures in our neon bathing suits on the sands of a Florida beach. Where we curl up to watch a cheesy movie at the end of a long day in our big, green, suburban house once the kids have fallen asleep...
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...to discover their identity and purpose in life. Throughout my childhood I have been raised to believe a set of principles in the Christian Traditions, and I came to a conclusion of not necessarily believing everything that was though to me. I would ask myself questions such as If I was born in the Middle East would I still have become a Christian? If there truly was one right religion, why are there so many others? and If God is all god why do some of his creation create the concept of evil? Moreover, I didn’t consider religion an important aspect of my life so I decided to become mainly an atheist, but I couldn’t cope with losing everything that I used to believe in. It was early 2014, I was excited for the premiere of the new series “Cosmos: A Space Odyssey”. After I watched the first episode that day, I was fascinated by wonders of the universe as well as the mysteries that lie within it. I became fascinated with the host of the series, Neil deGrasse Tyson, through the amount of knowledge that he portrayed in the series and his perspective on the world around us. I research Neil degrasse Tyson’s profession and I became introduced to the world of Astrophysics, the branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to explain the birth, life and death of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and other objects in the universe. To me, Astrophysics became the best way to discover the true nature of the world, a concept that I would previously answer with religion...
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...Explain the cosmological argument with particular reference to: The rejection to infinite regress and god as the necessary being (30 Marks) The Cosmological Argument is a posteriori argument put forward by St. Thomas Aquinas. Gottfried Leibnitz also made a similar argument. In the Cosmological Argument, Aquinas said that he believed that all things in the world were caused to exist by something. The universe exists, so there must be something that caused the universe. He believed the first cause to be God. He said that God is the only thing that was not caused by something else. The argument seeks to prove the existence of God from looking at the world we live in and the universe as a whole. The whole theory is based on cause and effect (when one event causes another to happen, the cause is why it happens and the effect is what happens.) Aristotle believed that all movement depends on there being a mover, and there has to be something that originates this. The universe follows this principle so needs a mover – this is the prime mover. The mover caused everything to come into existence, however, needs nothing to cause it and so must be exempt from the laws of nature. Thomas Aquinas created five ways to prove the existence of God, the first proof is based on motion, It can be noted that some things in the universe are in motion and it follows that whatever is in the state of motion must have been placed in motion by another such act, and things achieve their potential through...
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...SEINFELD: THE UNTOLD STORY Throughout Seinfeld’s eight-season stint on network television the show and its creator’s have stereotyped everything from young Puerto Rican boys to Jewish Priests. The main stereotype of this sit-com is the very florid portrayal of the generational age groups of the characters. The main characters represent the beginning of the Generation X culture. The parents and relatives of Jerry Seinfeld and that of George Costanza present the presence of the members of the Silent or GI generation. Throughout the television series we have seen the elderly as stereotypically helpless individuals with little or no purpose. The character’s Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer, represent the Generation X culture. These half-witted characters are often unreliable and uncaring about the society they live in. These characters often care about nothing more about life outside their own. The stereotype of these characters and the success of this very popular television show have contributed to the media’s wide usage of stereotyping generations. The article, “My Inner Shrimp,” can be directly correlated to George’s eccentric ego trips with his problems with shortness, unemployment, and baldness. George’s character is often portrayed as a very loud, very rambunctious person who is often seeking to be on top. Elderly: Helpless or Not Throughout the series we have seen the elderly characters of Seinfeld often being absent minded, senile...
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...Weekly Writing Seven It was an abnormally cold day in Baghdad, when I got my first chance to ride a Blackhawk helicopter. I woke up at 0500, began getting dressed and grabbing all the gear I would need for the flight. When I got to the tarmac the pilot was already starting his pre-flight briefs. The pilot told us it was just a routine flight over downtown Baghdad, and everything should be just fun, but Intel said there had been a recent rise in hostile activity in the area, so we should be on our guard. We began boarding the Blackhawk and getting all of our gear strapped down and the Machine Gunners began doing weapons checks on their M240Bs. When we took off from BIAP everything was going according to plan, the helicopter was operating perfectly. It wasn’t until 20 or so minutes into the flight that I would realize the true purpose of the flight was. We were given the brief that the mission was just a typical fly over for surveillance on a market in Baghdad, but after a while I noticed we were nowhere near the particular market. The Blackhawk slowed down to a halt over a small building and I could hear the pilot barking orders at the two men sitting up front but couldn’t make out what he was saying. The two men began unstrapping themselves and hooking up rappel ropes to the outside edge of the floor. I began hearing gunfire and realized we were taking small arms fire to the right side of the helicopter. The right side gunner began returning fire, I looked out the window and...
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...waved goodbye to my friends as I stepped off the bus and headed to my house. I was super excited to get home and see my parents. They hadn’t talked much at all yesterday. As a matter of fact they just stayed in their bedroom all day. They haven’t been feeling well. I ran up the stairs of the front porch and swung the front door open with a big, cheesy grin on my face; However, when I opened the door there was no one in the den. The television was off and the house seemed to be abnormally quiet. I took a step in and started calling out. “Mom? Dad?” I called. I knew they were supposed to be here. Dad had the day off and mom didn’t have any plans with her girlfriend’s until next week, right? I placed my backpack on the ground next to the couch and walked into the kitchen to check the calendar. October fifth. I was right. Dad took this day off so him, mom, and I could go see a movie together. “They’ve got to be here somewhere”, I thought myself. Then it hit me. School let out early today because of a busted water pipe. I looked at the watch on my wrist. “It’s only twelve o’ clock. They may still be sleeping.” I headed back through the den and slowly opened their bedroom door. Surely enough, there they lie. A sigh of relief escaped my mouth and my grin returned. I tiptoed over to my mom’s side of the bed and pulled the covers back. I was greeted with the same sight as the day before. She lay there motionless, eyes glazed over, mouth agate. Her skin was a pale white and her hair...
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...Poom Yingkamhang (TESOL Year 1) 57XXXXXXX-X No.26 30 October 2014 Acceptance Individual Thinking What did you learn in this class ? * Friends shared their experience * Listening to professor telling a story * Professor teach comparing the story to the lesson Conclusion 1.What did you learned in this class ? The first time in this class we checked in. And listening to friends telling stories. Friends Experiences The first one is Priaw , she told us about her story that she was 14 years old. That time she started interested in English and she tries to improve her English skills by chatting with foreigner friends and that time she is chatting all day and all night because time not the same that affecting to her health. It causes to be Insomnia. Her experience warned us about we should to manage time to make it balance. The second is Dream , She shared her experience when she was doing activities as she is Freshy Boy and Girl contest. The staff gave a mission to her “ You have to find to go to Khonkaen Zoo without use the money ” So , She decided to hitchhike the car and finally someone who is a good person stop the car and she asks for help to take her and her teammates to Khonkean Zoo for free. This story teaches us in the real world still have a good person who really glad to help other people. The third one is Fa , She told us her experience about the accident it happens when she was 8 years old. At that time her parents have to go to other...
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...Essays for A Level Art, Photography, Graphic Communication objectives • To help you to discover and focus in depth upon an aspect of art and design that fascinates you. • To develop your understanding of art and design history and to see how artists exist and work within artistic and social contexts that help shape their work. • To develop your academic research, writing and referencing skills, in preparation for university and work. • To inspire you and allow you to then make better, more well-informed, practical work, that discusses complex issues and sophisticated concepts. Format • A written and illustrated final outcome of 3000 words with 10% tolerance. • No shorter than 2700 and no longer than 3300. • Fully illustrated by you. • Presented visually. • Related to your practical work • Includes evidence of contextual research; critical analysis; critical interpretation; personal response and engagement; and critical evaluations and judgements • It is an essential component of your A2 year but it is NOT worth more marks than the practical element. Title • Design an essay title that will allow you to make a critical and evaluative conclusion. • Consider the following examples. Which ones will result in the better A level essays? Why do you think this is? Title examples • Lucian Freud: A Study of His Life and Works • Justify the following statement: All photographs are fake • To what extent is PhotoShop the cause of mistrust in...
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...What biological principle is illustrated by the Heike crabs? Selection by humans Sagan says that if artificial selection can produce vast changes in a short period of time, then what must nature be able to do, given the age of the ear (4.5 billion years or so)? Don't just quote the video here. Explain what he means! Nature must be able to produce and create. What are the basic “steps” in natural selection as Sagan describes them? What questions does he raise for you? Natural Selection happens when human’s changes have created other changes without humans directly deciding to do so. Sagan describes the basic steps as there are more creatures then can survive. Less adapted have a less chance of surviving and producing off spring. Sudden changes in heredity can be pushed on to the off springs. Environmental changes can have an impact on what mutations will help survival. Thus, slow changes produce new species. Natural Selection was discovered by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Explain the Watchmaker Hypothesis as an argument against natural selection. How does Sagan address it? “Our ancestors looked at the intricacy and the beauty of life and saw evidence for a great designer. The simplest organism is a far more complex machine than the finest pocket watch. And yet, pocket watches don’t spontaneously self-assemble or evolve in slow stages on their own from say, grandfather clocks”. (Sagan, C) It’s impossible to just look at something and understand...
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...Pasachoff, J.M. & Filippenko, A. (2014). The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium (4th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Embedded form: (Pasachoff & Filippenko, 2014) Type/strength/reason:a class textbook/strong source/well respected authors and only 3 years old There is a layer that we could see and that is the photosphere and it’s where we see light come from. The photosphere contains several sunspots and we get to see them in the rising stage in the sunspot cycle. The Sun looks yellow but it's actually white.It looks yellow or red when when we know it’s close to the horizon Solar energy is produced by the solar core, the core is about 10% of the solar diameter. The photosphere is where we get the spectrals line and it...
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...One of the most eye-opening movies I have seen in a while is the 30:30 film by ESPN called Broke. In the movie Broke, former athletes from all of the major sports leagues are interviewed and give their real life stories on how things were when they were pro athletes and how it is harder than it seems to hold on to the millions of dollars that they make in their careers. I for one knew that many players went broke fast, but I honestly had no idea how they did that until this film. To be honest it always made me somewhat mad that all my favorite athletes were in the tabloids all the time because they let all that money gets away from them. Little did I know, outside influences were taking everything away from them. It is important to express my overall reaction and also talk about something that really shocked me. First of all, after the film ended I had an instant reaction and opinion on the film and it’s subjects. I really felt for the former players who were thrown into this world of big money, fast cars, and women. There were so many influences that affected the way they spent their cash. For example, these guys are thrown into this world as 18-21 year olds that many had never even cashed a check before. Before they even get that first check people are trying to take advantage of that, as agents and bad parents look out for their own interests. These agents take a big piece of the pie, and sometimes cycle money into personal investments without these young men knowing it....
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...Vast Hell “A small town is a vast hell” The quote above describes how badly some people perceive small towns. There could be many reasons behind this strong dislike. One of them could be that small towns are often seen as these tight and small communities where everybody know each other in one way or another and are noisy with too much time on their hands, which resolves in gossip spreading out quickly in town when something happens. But what do you do when you try to move past the gossip, and stumble upon the ugly truth? We see this in the novel “Vast Hell” by author Guillermo Martinez, where the quote is also from. The story takes place in a small village, and resolves around a man that thinks back to the arrival of a nameless young boy in the small-town, that manages to become the talk of town, when rumour starts spreading that he is romantically involved with the wife of one of the two barbers in town, who people call “the French Woman” for unknown reasons. Fuel is added to the fire when the boy and the French Woman disappear, leading half the town to believe they ran off together and the other half to believe that the barber somehow did away with them. Further investigation into the case gives the story a whole different turn, because after digging in the ground to see if the barber had buried them there, they do find dead bodies, but not the bodies of the boy and the French woman, but of a lot of unknown people. The story is told with a first person narrator...
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...------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Middle Times ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saxon Period — Monday, March 11, 457 — 1 page 1 coin __________________________________________________________________________________________ Husband and Wife robbed of pudding! By: Drew BaudoinThe small town of Bath has been experiencing a very steep rise in robberies around the uptown area. One of these robberies turned out to be a pretty frightening event for one couple. A husband and wife on North Brighton drive in northern Anglo were both robbed in the late night on March 9th. According...
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...Exercise on stress on two-sylable words I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others: 1. a. nature b. change c. gravity d. basic 2. a. darkness b. warmth c. market d. remark 3. a. trays b. says c. bays d. days 4. a. knees b. papers c. trees d. bats 5. a. because b. nurse c. horse d. purpose 6. a. marriage b. massage c. collage d. shortage 7. a. enough b. tough c. laugh d. though 8. a. breathe b. with c. thermal d. clothing 9. a. education b . individual c. procedure d. producti 10. a. released b. pleased c. passed d. housed 11. a. helped b. struggled c. remarked d. watched 12. a. airports b. suitcases c. things d. calculators 13. a. fills b. adds c. stirs d. lets 14. a. cease b. chase c. increase d. raise 15. a. shops b. notes c. mouths d. books 16. a. jumped b. picked c. relaxed d. suited 17. a. hooked b. kissed c. traveled d. diminished 18. a. passed b. realized c. wished d. touched 19. a. enjoyed b. moved c. achieved d. liked 20. a. wicked b. wanted c. needed d. filled II. Pick out the word that has the stress differently from that of the other words: 1. a. recently b. conduct c. attitude d. marriage 2. a. banquet b. schedule c. diameter d. blessing 3. a. birthday b. cowboy c. enjoy d. pleasure 4. a. disease b. humour c. cancer d. treatment 5. a. persuade b. reduce c. offer d. apply 6 . a. farmer b. farewell c. factory d. fairy 7. a. cattle b. country...
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...In honestly and truth, am a follower of your teaching ,someone I could want to grow to be like. You are a father to all and nobody can dispute that. Everybody respect you and will never want to do anything that will make you bad perception about them. I have great experience working at the commission and the support you render to me sacrificially, I appreciate and love you. And God almighty will bless you. MY CONFESSION Everybody makes mistake, my mistake was combined with a lot of tears, regret, honestly and desire. I didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to lie to you, am not that kind of person. Have always been honest, smile a lot, share the way I feel, my story to people to know. I lost everything when I wanted to go for my visa first interview, when I was asked to resign even tho have not got the visa. I lost the plead to get a visa, I was left stranded and people I told, told me how stupid I was to have been honest with my employer that people don’t do it. I wake up everything, asking myself ”am I really stupid” ? I cried. Fortunately, with your kindness, you gave me back my job, but on probation with reduce salary. Which was not big deal and I was very grateful. Not long after that, Yetunde had to leave for her masters, (everybody knew how brilliant yetunde was) she was celebrated, rewarded with the short time notification she gave that shes leaving. Yetunde got her visa before she told the commission (don’t know if the management know about that ) and gave...
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