Jules Massenet

(means "no one" in Latin, quite suitable, isn't it?) (Coordinates: -48.875485556, -123.392519167) This map always makes me overlook the fact that the Pacific Ocean is vast... Named after the eponymous captain (he's an Indian prince by the way) from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Point Nemo is about 2,688.22058 km (1,670.38289 miles) from any scrap of land. whether it's an atoll, a sandbank ...or this one that'll certainly work as a shelter for when of a zombie apocalypse...

In the inspiring family film, Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, Nemo is a young fish who has been courageous and strong all his life as a result of having to overcome life’s challenges. Early in the story we see that Nemo lost his mom before he was born. Nemo also has to face the fact that he has a deformed fin. Throughout the story, we are shown times when Nemo must learn to become even more tenacious to conquer situations that come his way after being separated from his father

In the novel, All The Light We Cannot See, the author, Anthony Doerr, uses allusion to convey how Marie-Laure (one of the main characters)  interprets the book 20,000 leagues under the sea. Since she is blind, Marie-Laure reads in braille and was given two significant things to help her adjust to her blindness; The book 20,000 leagues under the sea, and a handmade scale model of her town used for navigation. As she continues to read the book she learns that “Pages later, he [Captain Nemo] rammed

Karina Baez English 113-B Professor Cross April 26, 2016 Two Different Worlds The novel, “Shipbreaker” written by Paolo Bacigalupi, explains the journey experience that Nita goes through while becoming stranded on the beach near the American Gulf Coast region. The ship that Nita was on had no other option than to go through a horrible storm to lose the enemies that were following the ship she was on. Unfortunately, the storm was too aggressive, and Nita is the only survivor. As hopeless as she

The horrors of losing a friend, a partner, and children are a devastating blow to a person's way of life. Captain Nemo has lost all of his family and has lost good men on the nautilus. This could be the reason for acting childish, but some people can’t usually make that connection in this time period. They can make the connection to death, but they cannot make it on how Nemo’s family’s death. His family died because of the British government and that's why Captain Nemo has a strong hatred for society

With the world moving into a new age of sustainable development as is reflected by the United Nation’s new Sustainable Development Goals means that wildlife conservation is of growing importance. Finding Nemo (Stanton & Walters, 2003) can be said to highlight how human intervention in marine life can have devastating consequences on delicate ecosystems. The entirety of the plot revolves around a search for Nemo that occurred because of a diver who captures him. This can be seen as an enforcement

When Monsieur Aronnax first discovered why Captain Nemo created the Nautilus, he couldn’t believe it. The fact that the Nautilus was built out of vengeance and anger seemed odd for Captain Nemo’s usually high spirit. It’s proved that men have to fight nature’s obstacles along with man, and this can only be done by courage, strength, and logic. Most of the book occurs with the characters on the Nautilus, a submarine way beyond its time. The Nautilus is ran using a certain type of electricity, it’s

The excerpt from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea written by Jules Verne is a debate on rather or not Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax should try to go beyond the barrier. After many minutes of debating they found themselves stuck in the ice. They try to decide what they are going to do to get out of this messy situation. They finally come up with a decision to go under the ice. This conversation of going under the ice develops Professor Aronnax’s character as changing from concerned to unconcerned

Jules Verne plays with his readers' perceptions of life and sentience in both Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Robur the Conqueror. Both novels share fundamental novums; a vehicle that cannot exist during the current time does, in fact, exist. Although these technological modes of transport utilized in both novels are fantastical and near-mythical in nature, they both are grounded in possible (and probable) methods of operation. However, despite these vehicles being controlled by a knowledgeable

Jules Verne’s science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea delivers profound insight into historical events which influenced the work. Through Verne’s descriptive style, one is able to ascertain various political and foreign policy aspects that involved France during the time the novel was written. In addition, worldly issues and struggles can be accurately assessed. Due to Verne’s “detail and determination to explore questions of liberty and authority,” it is evident that he largely