...The Caped Crusader, the Worldʼs Greatest Detective, the Dark Knight, defender of the innocent, crusader for justice, and defender of Gotham City. Now that sounds like a real superhero and someone to look up to. Playboy, Spare Parts Man, alcoholic; does that sound like someone youʼd call a hero? Batman and Iron Man are very different kinds of heroes, but the men behind the masks seem to be very similar on the surface. While Batman has a very strict moral code and refrains from killing anyone when he can, Iron Man has no qualms about killing. Both Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are billionaires, both seem to be good with the ladies, and both are extremely intelligent. Neither have any real “super-powers,” but both used their intellect to make themselves into heroes. Bruce Wayne outside of his suit could hold his own in a fight with his martial arts background. Tony Stark, on the other hand, seems to have no desire to better himself in hand-to-hand combat. As a child, Bruce witnessed his parents being murdered and swore to keep the city safe. While being held hostage by a group of terrorists, Tony makes the Iron Man suit purely to save himself. After these life changing experiences, both take to the vigilante life but for different reasons: Bruce to protect citizens so that no one else would have to feel the pain he felt, and Tony for the recognition and fame. Letʼs talk about motivation. Batman began because a little boy was left devastated and traumatized. Bruce Wayne was orphaned as...
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...writing services that are available: WritePointSM and Plagiarism Checker. I encourage all students to use these writing services throughout their education. WritePointSM will automatically review your paper for common errors in writing. The Plagiarism Checker will inform you of any content that may be plagiarized. This free service will also let you know what percentage of your paper has been cited. I hope that these tools will assist you throughout your education. Throughout your paper, you will see feedback from WritePointSM highlighted in blue while my specific comments are highlighted in yellow. Please let me know if you have questions! Dark Knight (Include a header) The Dark Knight Andy Axia Student COM/156 April 15, 2010 Axia Faculty [Please make sure to apply double spacing to follow APA guidelines] The Dark Knight was the most popular film of 2008. [Stating it was the most popular film of 2008 is a big statement that needs supporting documentation. Also be sure to indent the first line of each paragraph] Unlike most popular summer movies it was also considered to be a quality film and was thought to be a contender to earn an academy award nomination. Ultimately that honor was not bestowed on the film, but it’s [Contractions should not be used in academic writing. Also in this case “its” rather than “it’s” should have been used. It’s = it is, while its is possessive.] popularity and [Insert a comma before "and" if the following (1) is the last in a series...
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...Dark matter is everywhere, shooting through you every second of your day. You must ask yourself the question of how a particle so heavy in mass, a particle that can influence whole galaxies in the way they spin and their positioning in the universe, is still yet to be detected? This is down to the fact it doesn’t interact with light at all, it is literally ‘invisible’. Dark matter is the building blocks of the universe, without it, star systems like the Milky Way would cease to exist. Dark matter is an invisible mass that has such a large gravitational pull it can affect the speeds of entire galaxies in a cluster. The majority of the mass from a galaxy is actually considered to be dark matter. For example, “The Coma Cluster of Galaxies” is always moving at extreme rotational speeds. However, we can measure the mass of these galaxies by measuring the speed at which they travel and after the measurement it is obvious there is far too much mass to account for the amount of gas and planets in that cluster therefore, you must conclude that there is something else there making it so heavy. It appears there is actually about ten times as much dark matter in this cluster than there is...
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...Humanities January 18, 2015 DeVry University Professor Clarke-Peterson Outline/Proposal on Dark Ages I. Introduction and Thesis The Dark Ages refer to the medieval period in the studies of humanity. The general duration of the early Dark Ages is considered to be from 450-1000 century (CE). It is believed that the fall of Roman Empire brought about an age of “barbarism and religion” (Gibbon 18th CE). This era, compared to both the pre-dark ages and the post-dark ages, Renaissance, witnessed no significant scientific innovations, no great art produced, and no valiant emperors or leaders ruling the early medieval Europe (Middle Ages, n.d.). These are the major factors which led to the coining of the phrase Dark Ages by Petrarch, the great Italian scholar, in the 14th CE (Wikipedia). This proposal is about the vital role of flourishing Irish social order, in the Dark Ages, in the re-conversion of Europe to Christianity. II. In the Dark Ages, when the entire Europe was reeling under barbarism, the Irish social order was flourishing. * The Romans had never invaded Ireland, and thus it remained unaffected by the downfall deteriorating the social order of rest of Europe (Eaton & McCaffrey, 2002). * While the entire Europe was victimized by the Dark Ages, the Irish monks were the torch-bearers of luminous beam of civilization (O’Connor & Steves, 2014). * In the Dark Ages, religion was one binding force that kept the hopes of people alive. While Barbarism...
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...The Batman Behind the Mask Greetings! Are you here for your meeting with Master Wayne? Unfortunately he is occupied at the moment, so please take a seat and relax. Oh goodness, where are my manners. Would you care for anything to eat or drink? No? Then welcome to the gorgeous Wayne Manor, home of the one and only Bruce Wayne. I am Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth, the valet of Wayne Manor, but you may just call me Alfred (“Alfred Pennyworth”). After a valiant career as an intelligence agent, I was employed at Wayne Manor after poor Thomas and Martha Wayne were brutally murdered, which was seen by young Bruce. “ Thomas and Martha were walking home from the Monarch Theater one night with their son, when they were held at gunpoint by a mugger who demanded the pearl necklace that Martha was wearing. When Dr. Wayne refused to surrender it, both he and Martha were shot dead in the streets” (“Batman – Bruce Wayne”). From here, young Bruce made an oath to protect the city of Gotham, traveling the world to train himself physically and mentally. Now, let me tell you about the “real” Batman; the one behind the mask. After his parents’ death, Bruce began to travel the world at the age of fourteen, not to see the beauty in the world, but to train himself into physical and mental perfection. During this time, Bruce “[learned] and variety of crime-fighting skills, including chemistry, criminology, forensics, martial arts, gymnastics, disguise and escape artistry” (“Batman – Bruce Wayne”)...
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...and desperate for finding answers. Dark matter is one those topics that left many scientists clueless to what they are. Dark matter makes up about 24% of the universe and normal matter only makes up 4%. Even though the quarter of the universe is made up of dark matter, they are one of the most elusive particles to detect. They do not emit or absorb any light like a normal matter, making them invisible in dark space. Dark matter till this day have not been discovered yet, but scientists know they exist because it emits some gravitational pull on galaxies. Around the world many scientists...
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...describe it. This era was best labeled by the Dark Ages, Age of Feudalism, the Age of Faith, or the Golden Age. Historian Frantz *****- Brentano used previously publishes texts to describe Europe in the Dark Ages the excerpt says that the Hungarains swarm over the Western provinces, sucked town and village and laid the waste on the fields. The conditions on Europe were horrible. This is because of all the terror the trade ceased and peasants abandoned the fields to avoid the violence of the anarchy. (Doc. 1). In an excerpt from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles it says that in 842, during the dark ages, there was a great slaughter in London, Quentavic and in Rochester. Because of this, men loaded their boats with their goods and returned to their own country. (Doc # 3). During the Age of Feudalism, Vassals and Lords had feudal obligations to each other. Vassals owed loyalty, military service and ransom, if needed, to their lords. Lords who owned their land, or fiefs, and protection to their Vassals. ( Doc # 4). In an excerpt from the Homage Oath taken by John Toul it informs that Toul was making it knows that he was the liege if the count and countess of Champagne. Since he was the liege, he would aid the count of Champagne in his own person and he would send his knights to count and countess, who he owes service to for the fief that he holds of theirs. (Doc # 2). Although the Golden Age really made improvement from the Dark ages. During a council of the church, they observe...
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...starting point for gathering particle data was the Cosmic Microwave Background, relic radiation left over from the Big Bang. The supercomputer Titan created the data and put it in a format that could be downloaded onto weaker machines, for our purposes. This data was then consolidated and manipulated so that the evolution of features of the cosmos could be seen on a small, detailed scale, which allows for close observations and analysis. The results yielded depict many examples of the innate relationship between ionization and energy density, as well as how these features are related to temperature and photon density. Using a stereoscopic display, dark matter collapse was simulated in 3D so that the details of the connection between gravity and energy, mainly how the gravity of dense regions affects structure formation by causing dark matter to collapse and form halos, could be seen from an advantageous perspective. Overall, these simulations allow us to better understand how the cosmos has evolved over billions of years in order to give rise to stars and planets capable of supporting life. 1. Introduction All of the energy that forms the universe was at one time concentrated at a single point. This extremely concentrated point of energy expanded in what is known as the Big Bang. Blumenthal et al. (1986) Hyperinflation caused the tiny inhomogeneities in the original concentrated point to be amplified on a massive scale. Therefore, even though the young, expanding universe...
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...“The Dark Knight” is a film based on DC comic book character Batman and his fight to protect his home, Gotham City, from the antagonist, the Joker. Director Chris Nolan provides the viewer with not only an action film, but also a thought-provoking masterpiece. The film focuses on the thin line between sanity (Batman) and madness (Joker) and how anyone can easily turn from good to evil, the example being Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face in such a short time. The film deconstructs previous ideas of the “hero” by portraying Batman not as a hero, but as an “anti-hero”. He appears to be the hero, but possesses no superpowers and also causes mayhem in his city, much like a villain would. The Joker represents postmodernism because he threatens our “givens” (Instead of soldiers who are allowed to die, threaten the mayor and hospitals). He makes people question everything, creating chaos. The Joker also represents post-modern beliefs because he challenges our idea of the conventional villain, who is supposed to represent pure evil, by comparing himself to the hero, Batman, using such examples as how they are both freaks to society and how they were both created by one bad day. The most important instance of post-modern values is the Jokers entire character. He believes the average man lives with a bloated sense of humanity’s importance and a frail and useless notion of order and sanity. He sees human existence as mad, random, and pointless and the world as a psychotic carnival of animals...
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...": U.S. Show/Hide Brasil BR Canada CA Deutschland DE España ES France FR Ελλάδα (Greece) GR India IN Italia IT 日本 (Japan) JP 한국 (Korea) KR Maghreb MG United Kingdom UK United States US Newsletters Top of Form Get EntertainmentNewsletters Email address Enter Email Address Bottom of Form Huffington Post Search Top of Form Search The Huffington Post Enter Search Terms Submit Search Bottom of Form iOS app Android app More Desktop Alerts Log in Create Account $USERNAME Desktop Notifications Profile Settings Logout FRONT PAGE Politics The Levy Breaks: Democrats Rage Against Obama Over Wall Street Giveaway 0 The Speech That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of the United States 0 Lawsuit Settled Involving Ferguson Officer Who Allegedly Choked, Hog-Tied A 12-Year-Old 424 GOP Senator Mansplains Democracy To Elizabeth Warren 0 Obama's New Triangulation Strategy Has Democrats On Edge 654 Go to Politics More in Politics Pollster Politics Blog Off The Bus Election Maps Pollster You Might Also Like WorldPost Green Black Voices Latino Voices Gay Voices Business Black-White Wealth Gap Has Reached A 24-Year High 58 RadioShack Planning More Store Closures, Layoffs To Avoid Collapse 28 'Eat More Kale' Guy Beats Chick-fil-A 28 Hurry Up! Big Obamacare Deadline Coming Monday 134 For 'The Interview,' Even Negative Publicity (Like A Massive Sony Hack) Is Good Publicity 11 Go to Business More...
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...Dark and gloomy Gotham was in danger until the same gloomy looking person – Batman appeared in the huge city. New York – the prototype of Gotham is saved now - fantastically fast, dangerous to Evil, but kind to all good citizens Batman is ready to defend anyone who is in danger. No one guesses that Bruce Wayne – the famous billionaire, highly educated person who attended courses in the best universities – Sorbonne and Cambridge hides his personality under the mask and costume of a superhero. The guy spent years to travel and to learn martial arts, criminology, gymnastics, escape artistry, fighting skills, chemistry and what not. He had only one aim – to punish killers and BIG Evil. When the boy was 14, he witnessed the murder of his own parents, thus the “revenge” became his goal....
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...Oral presentation In the film ‘The Dark Knight’ the director, Christopher Nolan, uses many significant scenes throughout the film to present certain themes and ideas to the audience. To do this, Nolan skilfully uses a variety of techniques to present these ideas, which help to develop and craft the narrative. One of the most important scenes in ‘The Dark Knight’ which uses a number of these film techniques is The Party Scene An important technique used in The Party Scene is the Camera Work. Half way through The Party Scene, The Joker is seen holding a knife to Rachel’s head, as he recounts his terrifying past. The camera in the scene circles around the two, with a slight low angle, and blurs out the rest of the party guests. These three camera techniques create a feeling of sickness, fear and intimidation as the audience can only focus on the Joker, much like Rachel. Rachel is presented as a very strong character throughout the film, yet trembles in the Jokers presence in this scene. These camera techniques show the audience how the Joker can instil fear into even the strongest and most respectable characters. Whilst the camera work in The Party scene helps develop the audiences understanding of the Joker, it also helps the audience understand Batman, and why he is so feared by Gotham’s criminal society. Towards the end of The Party scene, Rachel is thrown out of a window in the top floor of one of Gotham’s many skyscrapers. Without hesitating the Batman follows Rachel out the...
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...billion times as much as our sun. A cluster unlike any previously discovered. The photo for April 22, 2014 of “El Gorgo Massive Galaxy Cluster” stuck out from other pictures taken on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of The Day. The appearance of this galaxy was especially fascinating. I was drawn by the image’s bright spots and blue and pink colors. The image is a combination of a visible light image by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002, an X-ray image from the Chandra Observatory of the hot gas in pink in 2014, and computer generated dark matter in blue through gravitational lens distortions. The bright spots in the image are galaxies within and beyond the cluster. Remains of radiation from the Big Bang along with electrons from hot gas in the galaxy cluster creates the warping seen from earth. Hubble's high resolution shows the distortion in space caused by gravity. This warps the background of galaxies in the image. The more mass in the cluster the larger the distortions. The long vertical galaxy in the image is far more distant and the light is being stretched as it travels towards us through gravitational lens caused by the massive cluster. The pink color across the image is the hot gas that was slowed down by the collision. The blue color across the picture is dark matter...
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...Culture to Darkness What was first the chicken or the egg? To this day no one really knows it remains unsolved but what we can say proudly is that we have found the perfect way to identify the middle ages. Ew Look at the years 8700 BCE to 2000 BCE we don’t call it year 8700 BCE to 2000 BCE it was named specifically The Stone Ages, so why shouldn’t the middle ages be named as well because of its experiences? The middle ages were years where many Europeans became uncivilized and began to lose their culture and morals this happened between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance when culture began to fade away by the second causing darkness to arise and take over. So it would seem appropriate to title the middle ages as a time of cultural decay and decline but others beg to differ. Believe...
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...more than 70% of or known universe is made up of Dark Matter. What is Dark Matter? Why does it take up so much space? How can we use it for the betterment of our universe? There are so many questions that arise when something we know little about makes up so much of where we live. What I Already Know About My Topic: I chose to write about Dark Matter in the universe because it is a very rarely known thing in human understanding. When someone thinks space, they think planets, galaxies, and “Star Wars.” When I took my first high school science class, the very last section we had was about Dark Matter, and I had visibly freaked out to the point that my teacher asked me if I was okay. When it comes to “galactic” science, I tend to know quite a bit more about the subject than those that taught it to me because I was always a “Discovery Channel” child. Dark Matter is an interesting thing that you seldom hear or see anything pertaining to. This is why I have chosen to “teach” you about this potentially catastrophic element. Have you ever just taken a moment to look up at the stars and thought, “Wow, there’s quite a lot of black up there! I wonder what it is?” Well, ladies and gentlemen, that “space” that surrounds us is actually not space at all! It is filled with boundless amounts of an element that doesn’t exist within the Earth’s atmosphere! Surprisingly enough it is filled with a substance called Dark Matter, otherwise known as ‘Anti-matter.” Now...
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