The Once Open And Airy Plane Of Earth Now

The officer slowly and cautiously crouched down while opening the door. He told the boys to stay down in the back seat of the car. The officers knelt down making hand signals. The radios sputtered as the chopper saw that multiple people were in the woods. “One is holding a large weapon, wait, no , no, no….” The chopper began spinning in rapid circles while the tail began to break off. It had been hit by a missile. The soldier had been supplied by spies and now had weapons that were extremely dangerous. A policeman saw that he was running low on ammunition, and was now reaching the end of this standoff.

“No. Not now. The garrison soldiers are listening to us.” my brother said walking in our private room. “Anyways I’m not letting my little brother get in trouble.” he said in with a happy grin. My brother is the leader of the group in our area. “I know it isn’t good to wait but we need to act in secrecy.” Then something was happening is the center of town while we were walking to our homes.

“You did the right thing.” Leaning back in her chair and adjusting the folds of her skirt, she glanced over at him. “She hasn’t spoken

He laid there, staring at the tv playing the news. It was about the shooting. I rushed to turn it off, blocking his view. He blinked at me, then smiled. “Hey, buddy.” I smiled back, crawling next to him and hugging him. Some happy tears stained our shirts as I held him. We laid there for a long time in just pure silence. Our minds were saying the unspoken words. “Why did it happen?” Travis said into the air. “It happened because--” I stopped short. Why did it happen? Travis stared up at me, waiting for my answer. “I-I don’t know.” my brow furrowed in confusion as I pondered. Silence overcame us again. Eventually, soft snores came from Travis. He had fallen asleep. I stared at the wall, still unable to sleep. A woman somewhere screamed for unknown reasons. That scream triggered a flashback in my

Lifting your head up from a nap from the cold wood-finished desk, trying to overcome the haziness from your eyes as you look at your teacher, turning your head to the right your friend is taking a colorful page of ocean-blue, rosie-cheek-pink, lime-green, purple heart majesty colored notes and you wonder why you are doing the same. You suddenly hear loud thuds coming up the metal-rusted ramp outside leading to the door. The door swings open with a powerful “swoosh” and an eerie creek from the rusted bolts follow. A gun walks in, following a middle-aged white man who has a distorted look in his eyes.

“What the hell am I going to do now?” the reality sets in as a loud pounding noise is heard advancing up the street coming his way. The spotlight passes through the streets, moving in a timely fashion up and down the road and then against the buildings probing up the walls searching for something. One spotlight is coming from a large building about a block away, north of his location. Watching the streets from the darkened and watery alley, he stays put, careful not to be discovered knowing if he is spotted, it’s over.

“Heller, I’m Lapacot, I am a portable robot. I have fur from an alpaca, a snout and mouth from a llama, and a body of a goat. Delaney is my new owner because she pressed the button to turn me on. I can help you with anything that you would like. I will be your best friend!"

In class, we talked about three utopian ideas that were actually put into action in a few cities. The first is the city beautiful movement. The design is just like the name makes it sounds; the idea that everything in the city will be designed with beauty in mind. This meant that it would reflect the rebirth of the United States through confidence and class of mostly prominent, architectchally sound buildings. A real example is Central Park in New York City. Despite the rapidly changing population of New York, this design is clearly thriving. The next utopian idea was from Le Corbusier called the Radiant City. His idea stemmed from changing the polluted industrial city into a clean one. He wanted to do this by making taller buildings where large amounts of people would reside to ensure for more green space. One can see a city that reflects this design idea in Brasilla. The last utopian idea is called the garden city by Ebenezer Howard and was implemented in Greenbelt, Maryland for one example. The garden city utopia is designed in concentric rings with a mix between a country and a city feel. Howard thought if the city had both the country and the city feel that everyone would want to live

I lived my childhood surrounded by robotic servants, raised by them to have everything I needed as ordered by my mother. I never set foot outside the floating Theta-Fortress, and only sometimes did I look through the window of the observatory on the 404th level, and only sometimes did I think of the trillions of people living

The prisoner on the very left began crying, sobbing like a child. The Captain was not swayed by his weeping. She continued. “There is one bullet in this gun,” she said, overwhelming the faint cacophony of gunfire that murmured in the background. “One by one, I will point this gun at your heads. One by one, I will pull the trigger. All you have to do to stop me, is tell me the location of your nuclear devices.”

It started off like any normal day. Tony had gone to Paul’s house over the weekend. Paul’s parents had gone to Hawaii for a vacation and had not contacted Paul at all over the weekend. Paul thought this was strange. His parents usually always contact him when they are away. “Hey Tony, have you gotten any texts from my parents by any chance?” Asked Paul. “No I haven’t. I don’t even have service.” Said Tony. “That’s weird, I don’t have service either.” Said Paul. The two boys were now starting to get worried. A few minutes later, they heard a huge bang outside. The boys ran downstairs and looked out the window. The sky looked green and there was smoke everywhere. “What’s that over there?” Asked Tony. In the distance, they saw armored vehicles

”Hold on.” Your doorbell had rung so you jump out of bed and head to the door. At first, you had thought some

The head scientist, Travis, ran to open the door after one of the others said it looked like a human boy. The second the door opened, every occupant of the room heard what sounded like a distress call in their minds. No one knew what language it was in, but they could tell whatever was making it was in trouble.

After coming home from a typical frustrating day of failed group projects, and social anxiety, most anyone would hope for a calm place to rest. Then you are met with screaming children, a messy home, or loads of work. This is why people way before us have imagined this place of perfection. Where everyone agrees on politics, there are no disputions, and most of the world is magically full of food. The fact is utopias can’t and don’t exist. First of all, the literal meaning of the world is “not” “place”. A utopia is a place that does not exist. Secondly, in life people have different ideas of what is perfect. Lastly, we will never reach ‘perfection’ because things evolve and change. This is why utopias are not possible.

Imagine a city where no green space can be found. Where concrete and steel buildings rise up and block the sun. Where streets are chaotic and gridlocked and citizens are stuffed in cramped, dirty and unsanitary apartments. This was the world of 19th-century cities where human health and happiness were disregarded for economic gain. These horrid conditions shaped the lives and ideas of three very influential men: Ebenezer Howard, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright. They took their own experiences and redesigned the sprawling metropolis to improve the lives of the residents. Each man created urban utopias that included green spaces, farms, and parks to improve air quality and the livelihoods of the people. Despite theses similar views, each design differed from the others. Howard, Le Corbusier, and Wright all completely reimagined the urban city in differing ways based on scale, distribution of land and technology. Their design concepts have been adapted across the globe and implemented into modern urban planning everywhere.