In a world where a mysterious alien race has besieged Earth- survival is the ultimate goal. 95% of the world’s population was not able to achieve this goal; Cassie Sullivan is one of the “lucky” ones. The “others,”as the humans call them, set up five waves to eradicate the human race. Surviving the first wave wasn’t too difficult, it was, after all, just an EMP strike. The second wave really shook the world, literally. The aliens set the Earth’s tectonic plates in motion, causing thousands of off-the-chart earthquakes. The tsunamis that spurred from these quakes were detrimental; killing about 50 percent of the world’s overall population. The third wave proved to be the most emotionally devastating. A gruesome plague- created by the aliens …show more content…
Little does Cassie know, there is one person who is willing to risk his life to help her save her brother, Evan Walker.
Cassie’s mission is to escape the aliens and save her brother; Ben Parish’s is strikingly similar. Benjamin, age 17, was captain of the varsity football team, a prodigy in all things school, and he had a smile that could charm anyone. But brilliance and charm alone can not get him out of his current situation; sergeant and squad leader of a military unit assigned to eliminating alien infected persons. While in training at the military’s Camp Haven, Ben meets a very young boy named Sammy. Sammy is the same age as Ben’s now dead sister, five years old. He swore to himself that he would not let anyone hurt Sam, like the “others” murdered his little sister. No matter what the stakes, Benjamin will try to help Sam escape the alien compound that is Camp Haven.
Books that get published nowadays are usually intended for a specific audience. This often leads to a lack of interest by different audiences; Yancey, however, mitigates this problem with ease. “Finding a manuscript that will satisfy both audiences has become the holy grail of publishing. It's a tricky line to walk, and few succeed. But Rick Yancey's wildly entertaining new novel, The 5th Wave, is such a book” (Cronin). Mr. Cronin states it quite well, the book is incredibly entertaining. From
As you may know, equality and being a group was a big part of The Wave's "ideology", but I don't think you could have called it friendship. Nethertheless, after the end of The Wave, I actually became friends with some of my classmates and former Wave members. This whole thing formed a bond between us, we share this experience and to come back to your question: It was actually not that hard, as you may think, because now I have good friends to talk to and this was a massive help or still is a massive help.
This scene is nearly everyday now, in some places. Others have howling winds, torrents of rain, and the sea knocking against their doors. People near the Earth’s fault lines are knocked into each other, feeling as if God was rolling his dice. Great, mountainous waves attempting to wipe entire cities off the map, crash on the coast. All this, and many more, are the norm.
You and I live in a world were modernism is reaching new heights every day. One day that touchscreen phone is considered new, and then next week it’s old news. These two stories that I am going to compare are about the role of technology, science and how it affects me and you. Based on how it uses new technology and modern science A Sound of Thunder is a better sci-fiction story.
This week I read from pages 195-247. Sammy is taken into an examination room to have a chip put in him. When they are putting the chip in sammy he has a flashback to over the summer. He sees cassie spraying the hose trying to make a rainbow. Then sammy is moved to a training camp. He is assigned a squad with other of the kids. The kids range from 5 years old to 16 years old. At this camp they are training them so they can survive on their own. They are each given a nickname that represent them. For example, the 5 year old is called nugget because of his size. Then one of their squad members dies and has to be replaced. He is replaced by a girl who is a very good soldier. They were impressed on how accurate her shot were at the shooting range.
I am starting to wonder why the author is giving one of the main characters , Cassie, a sudden change in her trust towards Evan. I somewhat find this quote very funny because Cassie wants to “politely ask him to stand still” (Yancey 331). And that is just something I find funny. I am becoming more upset that the author is now changing Cassie’s feelings towards Evan only because there is nothing left in the world and so now all they have left is each other.
A triad of earthquakes has unexpectedly shaken the area of the notorious ring of fire much to the horror of Ecuadorian and Japanese citizens suffering from their unfortunate consequences. This was put into perspective by an early Sunday morning television program on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), This Week, displayed a live segment on April 18, 2016, that presented a breakdown on the recent earthquakes that hit Equator and Japan in the past few days. Equator was granted a closer look seeing as it was challenged by an severe 7.8 magnitude earthquake which left over three hundred and fifty dead and thousands more wounded from it massive destruction which has a tendency to rise even further with the passage of time. Another similar incident occurred twice in Japan which left it even more problematic to retrieve other survivor under insecure wreckages that offer only a risk in collapsing to the ground. It is undesirable actuality for the west coast of the United States as it will be more than likely confronted by an earthquake owing to its connection as part of the on the volatile ring of fire. Ultimately, these nations’ death toll is threatening to rise even more which is definitely much of a concerning subject matter for numerous individuals like me.
It’s a clear, cool, spring Friday afternoon. All were going about their quotidian business, in offices, on trains, in rice fields, in stores, in schools, in warehouses, in shrines then, the ground began to shake. Located at Pacific fault lines, Japanese are accustomed to these shudder and shakes but something was different on March 11th. Moments later a low rumble from the east came, the Pacific Ocean. People began to see a ragged white line in the horizon, within minutes a monstrous wall of waves came sweeping in, clawing across the land destroying everything in its path. If that wasn’t enough, a nuclear accident arose after a power plant was struck. Nightmares within two minutes turned into reality. Only debris remained where homes,
At the sound of this, the humans down on Earth said to each other, “Something’s coming, what can it be?” … “Could it be a bear?” “No, nothing on Earth can make the ground tremble and quake as much as we are witnessing now.”The path of terror began in a large manner, first by piling high mounds of earth and then kicking it everywhere and stomping heavily on the ground around them; kicking at any and everything that comes in their path. These actions caused a chain of reactions, the first being large waves of water crashing onto the mainland triggered by the tremendous quakes caused by the giants. Secondly, large scaled earthquakes which caused the living spaces of humans to be transformed into rubble and lastly, dust storms plagued the whole world caused by the stomping and kicking of dirt. These events became known as “The Big Ones” and sent a wave of fear throughout all the humans on Earth who trembled and asked the gods for mercy so that they may be
The 5th Wave is a dystopian novel that takes the genre to a new level. The novel begins with the arrival of an alien spaceship in the earth's orbit. Then, different doses of Armageddon begin to appear in waves. During the first wave, an Electromagnetic Pulse destroys all electronics on earth and plunges the earth into preindustrial chaos. In the second wave, a giant metal slab, sent crashing from high orbit into a major geological fault line, releases a tsunami that drowns the world’s coastlines. The third wave occurs when an avian virus takes at least 99% of the populace (A version of the more developed Ebola). Then, in the fourth wave humans implanted with the alien consciousness are sent to stalk and kill the few survivors who remain.
The 2004 tsunami was a major dent in today’s history. It began as a normal day on December 26,2004. Everyone surfing, tanning, or just hanging around town with friends and family. . The day was sunny and dry, a perfect day to have some vacation fun. During all of the fun on the beach in the Indian Ocean an earthquake hits. No one thought of it and just began going back to their everyday things. A little while later the tide pulls back and there perfect day at the beach was about to end before their eyes.
Over a decade ago on December 26,2004, a catastrophic event occurred on the coast of Asia that changed millions of lives forever and caused ripple affects that are still being felt 11 years later( such as the accounts of Hailey being displaced and seeking answers about her families where abouts ). A undersea mega thrust earthquake measuring at 9.0 on the Richter scale hit the coast of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean causing a devastating landslide . As a result Plates on the ocean floor shifted manifesting 100 foot waves that led to the third-largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph.
Yao Guangqing, a survivor of the Tangshan Earthquake, was leaving an outdoor film show which ran overtime. On his way home, he noticed a fish pond in which fish were jumping out from the water but thought nothing of it. That night, he could not sleep and was awoken by a “bright flash in the sky…and intermittent sounds of explosions.” Then, the earth began to violently shake. Guangqing shook his wife to wake her up and scrambled for the door, but due to the intense rocking, he could not get it to open. The shaking stopped in less than a minute. He ran outside to the courtyard and stared aghast at the ruins of the neighboring buildings (Golkorn, 2008, para. 6-14). The Tangshan Earthquake, with initial and aftershock magnitudes of 8.2 and 7.8, respectively, was one of the deadliest earthquakes internationally. It had a reported death toll of approximately 250,000 people, although some estimates indicate twice as much (Wallace, 1983, para. 1). In addition to destroyed infrastructure, the survivors were left to face lack of clean drinking water, economic setbacks in both the mining and agricultural industries, orphans, and the hardest of them all, the death of loved
A secret passage separated from our base underground near the edge of our planet, so they have shot to live unlike me. Ensuring their safety is my number one priority because even though this civilization is done for a new world of buggers and era will begin. After that, I head back to join my fellow friends and family to battle to fight with them till my last breath so no harm can be done, but I knew that wasn’t going to be possible, but it never hurts to give it your all. The countdown has begun “ 5...4...3...2...1…” a tremendous beam of red hot liquid smashed into our one place where we thought could never be destroyed .A nuclear explosion occurred blasting our planet with one huge hit, and it felt like 100 earthquakes simultaneously occurred. Some hope was still striving to spread when I thought maybe, just maybe, this planet could be indestructible for a mere second until a sharp pain inflicted on me and everyone including our current queen on the throne. My heart shatters to hear the painful cries from the buggers. Although this era has been burned in the fire, a new one will start ruling
Mark Kenny's article on the coal power versus nuclear power debate was published in the Advertiser on the 31st of October 2009. The Advertiser is South Australia's only daily tabloid newspaper, and is widely distributed around South Australia allowing for a large dispersion of readers from diverse cultural backgrounds and an assortment of age groups. The article has Mark Kenny's photograph situated next to a quote from the conclusion of his article stating “It's time for a real debate which admits clean coal is a pipe-dream and safe nuclear is a global reality”. It also has a cartoon of Peter Garrett being portrayed as lead singer of
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