“Yours is the day. Yours also is the night. You have prepared the light and the Sun.”
This verse ran through my mind as I paced the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium after a long church service with my neighbors. Regardless of who I was, they hoped for me to find myself. So they took me everywhere: sight-seeing, fishing, wreath-making, Space Camp, bible camps, etc. Space Camp changed the life of their eldest daughter, a fellow Spartan, and me, while it bored the two younger daughters. When an astronaut explained how she survived the vacuum of space with a hole in her glove, that was beyond motivating. There was nothing to fear in the pursuit of matterless science.
Despite that boost, following Columbia, my mother substituted all the telescopes
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In the end, the time-filler would earn me a minor and some handy skills. For example, a magnetic skill was from stagecraft. There was an appreciation in electronically building the sets that performers could trust themselves to dance on. To form my mixed scientific and artistic vision, or generally the blueprints, a plasma cutting skill added layers. Constantly, being around the fourth element is as powerful as how the first human on the Sun would someday feel. By networking, I met an alumni who had a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics and Theatre. Interestingly, he merged his intellect of Solar Physics to become a profound lighting designer. Inspirationally, he told me the best advice in my collegiate years. “Don’t give up one. There are two points. Two points start off on the same horizon, but eventually one point becomes a vertical line that reaches high. Take the hypotenuse.” To clarify, how he built his career was his strength in theatre and his firmness in Astrophysics, where they are not exclusive to his life’s work. Astounded, I hope to follow the same formula. Perhaps, life would be a …show more content…
Often, I think back to the verse earlier, “Yours is the day. Yours also is the night. You have prepared the light and the Sun.” Timelessly, as the oldest subject, Astronomy tells a story. Theatrically, Astronomy places an empty chapter ahead to look forward to, whether it would be the imaginations of future technology and space travel. Lawfully, Physics fills the plotholes with its cement constantly advancing. In its rewarding contemplation, whether it would be divine intervention on solutions, and a unity of diverse minds with their own sets of divine intervention, it is all because of Astrophysics. Reflecting on the verse, just like the photons reflecting off the Moon and the photons from the Sun, Astrophysics illuminates my Earthly passions and is the energy of my
America’s present-day Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, has taken the nation by storm with her Pulitzer Prize winning book Life on Mars. The collections of poems revolve around a vast range of subjects regarding space exploration and her personal life. In the book, the poem “The Speed of Belief” is an elegy to her father whom worked on the Hubble telescope in the 70s. The poem is broken up over seven pages, each with its own structure that signifies a stage of grief. Smith’s elegy details how she personally went through the different stages of grief.
Tracy K. Smith is a poet that thinks outside of the box. This poet uses different types of figurative language in just one word or phrase. Tracy K. Smith’s poems in her book Life on Mars allows the reader to use his or her creativity even more so than other poems to figure out meanings of the poems. In the book Life on Mars I chose the poem “Life on Mars” to breakdown different elements and expose Tracy K. Smith’s techniques of writing. Smith very much loved her father.
In Bryan E. Penprase’s chapter one of The Power of Stars, Penprase talks about many features of the sky that we admire every day. The general theme of this chapter in my opinion is the relevance astronomy has in our everyday lives, and how it’s been that way since the ancient times. Each culture has their own interpretation of what the sky means whether it come to festival planning, farming, harvesting, and even religious means. The ancient Indians had their lives planned around the alignment of the stars.
When I started high school, the club that excited me the most, was National Honors Society. So, at the first chance I got, in my sophomore year. After being a member for a year, I quickly realized that I wanted to take on a leadership opportunity in the club. So, I took a shot for the stars, and campaigned for being president of Honors Society. Though I had some competition, I put my all into composing a speech, and I won the presidency, and I have been president since.
My whole life long, I have been trying to find a place where I can truly fit in. I have also been worried about what I would do when I grew up. I was torn between my passion for horses and my passion for performing. There was no way I could give up one for the other, so I searched the net for Christian colleges that had majors in both equine studies and vocal performance and there it appeared: Asbury University. It was manna from Heaven.
But as the poem goes on, the speaker changes his mind and starts to see how important the astronomer's work is. He recognises the value and importance of astronomers' knowledge and understanding of the stars and planets for the development of science. The speaker is aware that astronomers' work involves more than just memorizing data points; it also includes solving cosmic mysteries and comprehending our place in it.
The first time I went to see a Camelot Musical was a couple of years ago to support my friend who played one of Ursula 's tentacles in the Little mermaid production. That day I was blown away by the performance of the actors,the singing,the set,everything! I was obsessed with that Disney Character for a while after that,I listened to the soundtrack in the morning,in the car,while doing chores. Camelot clearly left an impression on me. Now I am proud to say I am in a Camelot production that is debuting on the 27th!
Michael Whitworth, British philosopher and academician, currently a teacher at Oxford University, has written a book titled Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor and Modernist Literature. In this book, he examines the popularization of science in the modernist era, theories of matter to theories of self and Einstein’s theories of relativity through the concept of simultaneity. “Scientific facts in literary texts need to be understood primarily as a rhetorical ploy, one form of what Barthes termed the ‘reality function’; the literary context evacuates them of their content. Of course, the way that a literary writer treats scientific facts, scientists, and discussions of science in his or her works is not to be ignored: it can indicate the level of receptivity to more significant scientific ideas” (Whitworth 17)
Music is something that has always been an important part of my life. Whenever I am feeling a certain way, music helps me express my feelings and process them. Because I am a vocal musician, music weaves its way into almost all aspects of my life. I started singing and dancing at a very young age and fell in love! I don’t think I’ve stopped singing since!
My history as a writer has been a bit of a struggle of slow development. From a young age I had a hard time with spelling and this is still a trouble area for me, even with the help of autocorrect. As I grew in age and as a writer my problematic area became not including enough nitty gritty details. My bad experiences that I recall would always involve the start of writing because I struggle with beginning paragraphs. Also, I tend to use the ending paragraph to just repeat myself, so overall my first and last paragraphs are usually shit.
It is after two paragraphs exploring notions of man’s cosmic connection that Sagan asserts his first claim in the essay, “plainly there is no way back… we are stuck with science” (1). The compassionate tone persists even in assertions, as seen through the use of first person. More compassionate is the gentle acknowledgement of the pseudoscience appeal. “Yes, the world would be a more interesting place if there were UFOs lurking in the deep waters off Bermuda… or if our dreams could, more often than can be explained by chance and our knowledge of the world, accurately foretell the future” (1). This series of sentences ends the introduction.
In youth the author communed with nature, especially the sun and stars, but did not understand the “power” (1-8). He questions if it be madness (9-10) — but believes it is visionary (11-16). Intuitively he finds profound meaning in common things (17-24), Beauty, foreshadowing Heaven, draws him by the grace of God away from a fall threatened by his pride
Astronomy plays an important role in these teachings as early humans heavily relied on the information provided by the moon and the stars to not only keep a calendar but also navigate on land and sea. By incorporating important key moments into songs and dances, these populations
It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all”Stephen Hawking, (Brainyquotes.com)For years he studied them trying to figure out how they worked. His discoveries were so amazing that the radiation that is emitted from the black hole is named Hawking radiation. Through out his entire life he wanted to learn about the cosmos. At Oxford he was able to study his theories with a professional scientist. In 2002 he publishes the book The Theory Of Everything That explains some of the most complex theories the world has ever seen.
The first half of this semester was swift and I can’t believe how fast it passed by. College is a whole new world for me that I had never imagined with a lot of new experiences that I hope will shift me into a better and smarter person. There are more things I can do in college that I would have never dared to do in high school and I am happy for these new freedoms. I am able to eat in class, leave class without asking and they don’t care if I pay attention or not. My high school teachers would always tell me to wait for the bell, sometimes would not let me leave and if I did not pay attention they would yell.