Tracy K. Tiller's Life On Mars

In literature, themes shape and characterize an author’s writing making each work unique as different points of view are expressed within a writing’s words and sentences. This is the case, for example, of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death.” Both poems focus on the same theme of death, but while Poe’s poem reflects that death is an atrocious event because of the suffering and struggle that it provokes, Dickinson’s poem reflects that death is humane and that it should not be feared as it is inevitable. The two poems have both similarities and differences, and the themes and characteristics of each poem can be explained by the author’s influences and lives.

The Dead of September 11 is deep poem that provokes many feelings and thoughts. There are many topics that are rather easy to delve in to. Throughout this essay, three of these literary techniques will be addressed and “delved into”, so to speak. These techniques are: diction, figurative language and tone. Throughout the following essay several large ideas and the theme of this poem will also be addressed, including but not limited to the universality of the poem and the absolute obliteration of falsities and of false intimacy. Tony Morrison has created a complex, captivating piece of literary art that can be viewed and be interpreted in many different ways, with each individual person who examines it

The criterion used to determine whether or not artistic works can be considered poetry or not are, at best, esoteric. As poetry has evolved from rigidly-structured sonnets of the Renaissance to the plethora of imaginative, free verse pieces being produced today, the scope of what the artistic public defines as “poetry” has been stretched to encompass a great many things. This new freedom of form does have its limits, however. Take, for example, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric and Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and Disasters. Rankine incorporates a number of images and collages into Citizen to help augment the messages being put forward by her writing, while Goldsmith’s work is composed entirely of transcriptions of

In Alison Sargent's article, Life on Mars (Hill), she explains how faith and feminism do not easily coexist within a community in Seattle. There is a church known as "Mars Hill Church" in a city full of hipsters, and it is "…one of the hippest, fastest-growing, and most conservative evangelical churches in the nation" (Sargent). The founder of the church is Mark Driscoll, who is also the main pastor. In this church, there is a mixture of pop culture and a strict ideal set, regarding the Calvinist doctrine. This makes for a conservative Christian church with some contemporary and liberal values (Sargent). These liberal values are often "hip", for example the church might have religious services in a coffee shop, or they will have graffiti art

The Martian movie talk about a team of astronaut named Ares III who had a mission in Mars. During their mission, the Team is hit by an unpredicted storm have to abort their mission and leave for earth. Unfortunately, one of the crew members, Mark Watney, is hit by a projective due to the storm and is thrown away. The team forced to leave him thinking he died because of his space suit is offline.

Life after death is apparent here in many different ways, such as altering with a passed life can lead you into a position of doubt.

Robert Frost is an iconic poet in American literature today, and is seen as one of the most well known, popular, or respected twentieth century American poets. In his lifetime, Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, and the Congressional Gold Medal. However, Robert Frost’s life was not always full of fame and wealth; he had a very difficult life from the very beginning. At age 11, his father died of tuberculosis; fifteen years later, his mother died of cancer. Frost committed his younger sister to a mental hospital, and many years later, committed his own daughter to a mental hospital as well. Both Robert and his wife Elinor suffered from depression throughout their lives, but considering the premature deaths of three of their children and the suicide of another, both maintained sanity very well. (1)

Do you enjoy freezing temperatures? How does -148oF sound? Maybe a maximum of 32oF? If you do, welcome to Mars! You will get hypothermia if you’re not careful. If only the people who want to live on Mars would understand, Mars is a genocide waiting to happen.

Part A: What do you think happens after you die? Explain your answer. What factors have influence these views?

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun with half the size of Earth. It takes Mars nearly two years to orbit the sun. Named after the Roman God of war, Mars’s reddish color is the result of the rust in its iron-rich soil. Of all the planets in the solar system, Mars is the most similar to earth; particularly the landmass despite that Mars has 15% of the Earth’s volume, and one tenth of the mass of Earth and 62.5% less surface gravity than Earth.

Mars has had its own effects on the past, “Throughout human history Mars, the red planet has been at the center of astronomical thought. The ancient Babylonians, for example, followed the motions of this wandering red light across the night sky and named it after Nergal, their god of war. In time the Romans, also honoring their own god of war, gave the planet its present name” (Dictionary of Space Technology). This shows that throughout the history mankind has been fascinated by this little planet. “In August and September 1975, two Viking spacecraft were launched on a mission to help answer the question: Is there life on Mars? Each Viking spacecraft consisted of an Orbiter and lander. While scientists did not expect these spacecraft to discover

The terrestrial planet Mars is a topic of conversation many scientists have been invested in for the past few centuries. There has been historical evidence found that astronomers had been drawing maps of Mars since 1860s, with a very good attempt for its time being drawn by German/Italian astronomer G.V Schiaparelli in 1877. One might begin to ponder why Mars has been such a large interest in the astronomy field. The red planet is a huge topic of debate because scientists believe there is a possibility of life, although this has not been vastly established it has yet to be concretely disproven. Life consists of things that are able to take in energy from the environment and transform it for growth and reproduction, stimulation fosters a reaction-like motion, and anything that has life will grow and develop.1 Finding life on Mars is more significant than one might initially imagine, Earth may potentially see an end due to global warming, collision between the Milky way and the Andromeda Galaxy, or many other causations, which is even more reason the human race may need to find a second home. Mars is filled with new mysteries that we have yet to discover that may be the secret to establishing Mars as our new beginning for the human race. Mars, also known as the red planet is four planets away from the Sun measuring out a distance of 1.52 AU. The surface temperature of Mars ranges from -87OC to -5OC. It also experiences twenty-four hours of daylight, which is unlike Earth. Mars

Tanya was pacing all across the lengths of her room (which only consisted of a closet always stocked with the community uniforms, a desk for completing school work, and a bed) worrying about every possible thing right now while her friend Rose tried to comfort her although she had learned the disturbing news with Tanya. Tanya and Rose had just been educated on this special secret as she was afraid she might be chosen. They government only told the community now because they didn't want to risk a decrease in childbirth or any attempts or actually committed suicides which were illegal. She had grown to love this place and would do anything to not get chosen to go to Earth. She looked at the mirror and saw her tall, slim figure with jet black

Mars Vesper had always been more of a rebellious type, so when his mother told him that he was grounded and had to stay home, his thoughts were elsewhere. Sure, he respected his folks, but he felt the reason he got grounded in the first place was stupid. He has been suspended from school for back-talking a teacher who, in his eyes, didn’t know what she was talking about in the first place. Things got pretty heated when said “You’re just a know it all who doesn’t have shit better to do than scold teenagers,” Just the fact that he cussed at a teacher and insulted her had made Mars’ parents furious. They instantly brought him back up to the school following his suspension to apologizes to her. But even after that his parents weren’t satisfied and he was grounded for two weeks. This meant no arcade, no television, and certainly no going to a Halloween party. He had initially planned to serve out his sentence without protest, until Juniper Sinclair had personally invited Mars to her party.

“I don't know why you're on Mars… But whatever the reason you're on Mars is, I'm glad you're there. And I wish I was with you.” That is part of the recorded message astrophysicist Carl Sagan left to the future humans on Mars, a few months before his death in 1966.