Apocalyptic Story 'The Star' By H. G. Wells

"Do you not realize what your foolishness could have caused?" it continued. The moon was dripping with shame, unaccustomed to such beratement. In contrast, the sun was still stubbornly latching onto its indignance. The sun's rebellion, however, was soon to be crushed like a bug by the universe's next words. "You are the cause of this all," the universe stated accusingly. "Look!" It beckoned. "The light you burst out still lingers in the sky. Who knows of its effect? Who knows of the destruction that might now be caused because of your selfishness?" Unknown then to the universe, sun, and moon; the hurled beams still linger in the sky, albeit smaller and dimmer than the original stars. Before the moon could feel as though it were free of charge, the universe turned its attention to it. "You are not without blame yourself. Even a wooden stick knows that if you, with your sheer size, collided into the sun we would not be able to discuss your ignorant and petty

The book A Magnificent Catastrophe, by Edward J. Larson, narrates a story about how dirty and devious America’s first presidential campaign of 1800, how it became the most powerful election and how it molded America’s future in today’s society. Adams and Jefferson two great friends that shared one common goal. It is to obtain America’s freedom against the motherland Great Britain. They have remained close coworkers and friends throughout the American Revolution, but then in the 1800 each went thru their separate ways and had their own political parties and different ideologies. One believed that solitary “effective central government led by a powerful president could forge a stable, secure nation from a multiple of weak, wrangling states” (Larson, 2007, 17) and called themselves Federalist led by John Adams. Adams believed that America should have only one strong influential president that is in control of the nation. He does not want to give people too much power because he does not want them to have a lot of freedom. On the other hand, one wants America to be the “land of free, prosperous farmers and workers” (Larson, 2007, 17) called themselves Republicans led by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson saw America as a country that is for the people. The people of the U.S is the President and that all people are born with individual rights. An individual rights that the government couldn’t restrict just because they wanted to control the people and create a central government. The

In the book “A Magnificent Catastrophe” author, Edward J. Larson examines all aspects of the events that occurred during the First Presidential Campaign in the 1800s. Larson discusses the Presidential Election rivalry battle between Thomas Jefferson of the Republicans and John Adams of the Federalists. In 1776 both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were sent to Philadelphia as delegates to the second continental congress, they joined a five-member committee, which drafted a Declaration of Independence for the United States. They later then voted to adopt and sign the document their committee drafted which was the Declaration of Independence. Adams was more active when promoting independence and argued the longest and the most effective, but

A Magnificent Catastrophe is written by author Edward J. Larson. This book was paying attention to the First Presidential Campaign in the 1800s. The United States had not presidential election in prior to 1800. However, electoral politics are re-oriented United States in it are definite direction and solidified the two party system since 1800, so that is a reason why this book is meaning detect. During the critical 1800 election, the author has written regarding Founding Fathers of America who are Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Aaron Burr. They have contributed in the country’s principal documents. Primarily the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were influenced by philosophers Hobbes and Locke. Even though election could be pursued in harsh adherence to law and principle with not turn into a battle of political ideology, in spite of the scheming between Adams and Jefferson, they remain as representations to be respected in the history of America. This book is pointing out extremely well about their unbridgeable breaks and the differences of their political devices.

One morning the town wakes up in a panic, for a ginormous star is in a destructive path heading straight for Earth, no one knows what the future is going to hold and everyone is in a panic. But the publicity eventually subsides, because the enormous start is still in the sky and nothing has happened for a couple of days, but one mathematician works tirelessly to brainstorm an equation to repel the star. Even when the genius stays awake for four nights in a row he never is able to come up with a solution to the life- altering problem that Earth faces. And the star eventually engulfs the planets Saturn and Jupiter, shrinks the size of the moon, and renders life practically unlivable as the star causes a warming process similar to that of global

Each star illuminated fragment more of the world until at last the little girl could see what was in the dark. Through a blinding burst of light, she saw all that lay before her. Each and every star shone brilliant against the darkness of the sky. She felt as though she were waking for the first time, so awake that it hurt. Stretched before her lay an endless expanse of nebulas and galaxies; filled with bright stars and mysterious planets, with quasars and black holes that reminded her all too much of the darkness she had

Not only were they on their way to the Andromeda Galaxy, the plan was to land on a planet that the public called Meso after the first civilization on Earth, Mesopotamia. They were counting on the seemingly viable planet to be able to harbor life. Vana wasn’t too concerned with the outcome - maybe they’d live, maybe they’d die. It wasn’t like the life she’d came from was going to get any better. What she couldn’t stop thinking about, though, were the stars. They were the most beautiful things she’d ever seen, yet something about them seemed so

A star’s purpose is to illuminate the sky’s darkness as it serves to be the guide when

Most people in their lives have seen a shooting star and exclaimed, “Make a Wish!” However, this so called “shooting star” is actually the clue to how the solar system was created. While this rock object is in space it is called a meteoroid, and then it is called a meteor when it enters a planetary atmosphere. The friction of the meteoroid created by the incoming velocity causes it to heat up quickly, and in result a bright flash of light. As noted above, this is what people see when watching the sky. In addition, meteorites gave the first knowledge about abundances of chemical elements in the solar system in the 1930s through 1950s. Meteorites are the most ancient rocks known to mankind and have helped pave the way in the study of the formation

On the night of March 13, 1781, a British astronomer William Herschel was observing the sky. He moved his telescope from one star to another, looking for two stars that were close together that made it seem like one star. That was when he stopped on something unexpected. It was not a point of light, but a fuzzy disk. At first glance he thought it was a comet. He observed it over the next several days and discovered something spectacular.

Amidst the thick grey clouds covering the Arizona desert, appears a space ship descending like a white feather slowly making its way to the ground. The Chief Explorer of planet Supernova, Mr. X, has arrived. As his role as Chief Explorer, Mr. X explores other planets in the universe and send signals back to his planet through his super spaceship. He has been on his mission for about 10 years, but has failed to find life on any planets. All he finds is rocks, diamonds, gold, and carbon dioxide. But Mr. X has one last hope to find other existing forms of life in the universe and decides to land on earth, unsure whether life exists on the planet or not.

William Herschel was an amateur astronomer. “During the day his house was a school of music. Suddenly, it was a telescope factory as well. During the night it was an observatory” (Littman, 6). In 1781, while completing his “second all-sky survey with one of his home-made telescopes”, he saw something he couldn’t specify as a comet or a nebula.

Never before had the Cosmos mirrored human affairs. Similar to how we were libel to drop both food and bombs over nations threatening our starry-eyed ideology, the sun bestowed upon us both life-giving rays and death. The greatest minds of the time assembled to discern effective ways of shielding humanity from the Sun’s continued malevolence to no avail.

Muscles ached. My arms almost too weak to hold the axe in my hands. The adrenaline made me feel almost sick, like a fire roasting in my stomach, with an almost sweet pain. The now empty cafeteria stank with the ripe smell of undead. Familiar faces one and all. Eyes blank. A smirk crept to a side of my face. I never liked any of them.

It is only after, when it is observed by scientists and others that the star is drawing nearer that the crisis begins. The planet is changed by the star. Cities and civilizations are wiped