Carlos Benavides
Professor Finn
ENGW 1111
22 September 2016 Profound Moment It is dark. My eyes try to adjust to the sudden loss of light, my pupils dilating to their maximum size. I can’t see. Frantically I reach forward into the emptiness around me. I’m searching for something; what it is, is something I don’t even know. Is it familiarity? Is it light? Is it another just as lost as me? I ... am alone. In my panic I nearly miss it, something that was always there. Above me, a speck of light blinks into existence. It shines brightly against the sheet of black it is set upon. But its solitary life lasts for only a moment as the black sheet is poked with billions of holes. Before my eyes lies a magnificent show of light. I continue to stare as my once empty world is filled with pinpricks of brilliance. Suddenly a streak dances across the sky, a line cutting through night. As quickly as it appears, it vanishes, leaving only its faint impression. The sky is beautiful. It is a whisper… falling effortlessly from my mouth. And of course that statement holds true. To explain my passion for space, you have to revert to childlike wonder. It isn’t just a love for the stars above, but also an endless awe for them. I am entranced by its many mysteries, by the lack of knowledge we have for it. I have never thought of a specific profound moment that I have had from my passion with astronomy and astrophysics because, frankly, it has always been profound. Past the ceiling of my room,
I’ve always felt a strange connection to the stars, one that I have never fully understood. I used to believe that it was simply the night itself that appealed to me. There is something so incredibly compelling about it. It’s not the silence, necessarily, but the way that every breath is amplified; it’s not so much the darkness, but the way that the stars light it up. There is an unparalleled magic to them, to the way that they swirl and writhe and explode of their own accord. Although the moon will orbit for eternity and the stars will eventually fade into submission, it is the latter that I admire the most. I would rather die at the hands of my own power and light than live infinitely off of the nectar of somebody else’s.
The stars are bright and radiant-- their numbers are vast beyond all imagination. They shine in the dark sky, like billions of little lights hanging from nonexistent threads. It is a reality that not many people stop to admire. In the city people sink down into their couches at night and drift away, eventually, to the slumber that most people crave. But the stars, shining endlessly, are there night after night, in the rain and even in the snow. If you just stop for a moment, on a night with no clouds, and look up, you will see this magnificent
Topic Sentence: The Military Service Act was vital in maintaining contribution of soldiers to Britain, Canadians faced the harsh conditions of war and were forced to serve into war without a strong motive to fight.
The moment I realized I love astronomy was on a family trip to canada. Before my trip to canada I lived in the city of lights, Los Angeles. Every time I would look up to the sky at home, I would see a darkness full of lights vacant of the twinkling stars that should be present but the moment I looked up at the sky in canada I saw something that I could never conceptualize nor imagine. Something that made me feel as if I were I were just a second within a billion years. When I looked up at the sky in canada I saw a luminous white glow expand and take on a slightly greenish emission, and soon, the skies began to dance around in a motion that seemed random yet full of meaning. I quickly came to the realization that I was in the presence of the
The craving of knowledge is something that has shaped the human race to what it is today. As humans, it's a necessity to have something to kindle a person’s flame of curiosity. Since the beginning of time, the world has always gazed up into the sky on a starry night and asked “what there is out there; what made this stunning view?”, “How immense is this vast expansion of space?”. These inquiries could be answered now that humans are capable of space exploration with the mechanization NASA and other space agencies have now, and will possibly take advantage of in upcoming years. The use of the stars has been very beneficial to humans, whether it’s navigation, religion, or something to spark the imaginations of many. The technology that astronauts
was always fascinated by the vastness of outer space and spend a lot of time
Awe. Light is not beautiful without darkness. My Dad and I stepped outside the cabin into the wee hours of a crisp autumn morning. We were to prepare for a fishing derby that would begin at sunrise and walked down a dark gravel road toward the docks. Already tired to begin with, the freezing mountain air made me even more tired which made be even more cold. The wind blew the terrible odor of a dumpster our way which made the walk even more unbearable. Then, something caught my eye. Through the almost bear trees above me, I saw a canopy filled with stars glimmering through. I found myself face to face with the universe in a cosmic desert, each star a grain of sand.
Ever since I was seven years old, I was dramatically fascinated by outer space and set out every day to learn more about it, whether it be through the Internet or
My fascination was perhaps born from my father, who always seemed to have a love for the cosmos. He could frequently be found watching films about space, anything ranging from campy science fiction flicks to formal documentaries. He even brought me and my brother along to watch shuttle launches from the beach. Space has been always at the forefront of discussion in our home. The discoveries being made were always options for a dinner time topic or impromptu story time.
It was Friedrich Nietzschehas who said, “What doesn’t kill you makes, you stronger”. I like to call these moments in a person’s life, “defining moments”. Additionally, I like most people, have had a few of these “defining moments”; probably more than one person should. Growing up, I had a hard time accepting one of my “won’t kill you-make you stronger” moments. It was a moment of betrayal and deceit, inflicted upon by a person I trusted fully and completely, with my life. My mother.
Let me tell you a story about how all the stars were put into the sky. Not long ago there was a girl named Sofia, she was by far the Prettiest in the land. With long golden hair and deep blue eyes that a person could just fall into. She was so pretty that any mortal would be blinded by even taking a glance at her. So to stop that from ever happening, she secluded herself away from civilization. Sofia grew lonesome, but instead of crying, she would look up at the stars which littered the sky. But soon the stars started to fade away, and one by one they fell from the sky, soon there were no stars in the sky and all around her was pitch black. She was heartbroken, but instead of moping she used her smarts to call all the stars and boulders to
Many people influenced and events my reading and writing development throughout my childhood from my mother, my elementary librarian, and Sesame Street, to getting my first pair of glasses. We all have defining moments in our lives where we can look back and say, “That moment changed my life.” This is the story of the defining moment that changed the way I read and write, and I learned it from a whale!
What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?
It was three o’clock in the morning. Outside the window, the sky was still dark. There were barely any stars in the sky, and no cloud cluttered. The sky was painfully dark and motionless. Except for the faint light from the moon, everything seems lifeless. In a dark room, there was a girl sitting up on the bed, leaning on the wall beside her. She was looking out the window. Through the window, the girl can see the sky and the top of some buildings, however, nothing special or attractive. But, the girl has been staring at it for almost an hour now, silently and peacefully.
Space can be excellent. The planets, stars, systems and nebulae make effortless and vivid shapes noticeable to our telescopes.