The New Atlantis

Leonard Simon Nimoy or better known as commander “Spock” from the star trek series; Leonard was born in Boston Massachusetts on March 26, 1931 to Dora and Max Nimoy, who owned a barbershop he died February 27, 2015. His parents were from the Ukraine and were Jewish immigrants. Nimoy was raised in a tenement and acted in community theaters since age eight, he acted in locals theaters. His parents didn’t want him to become an actor, they wanted him to attend college, and have a stable job, and a stable

individuals to death. In an effort to implicate Socrates in their actions, the government ordered him to arrest Leon of Salamis. Socrates, however, resisted and was spared punishment only because a civil war eventually replaced the corrupt government with a new and most radical democracy. A general amnesty, the first in history, was issued absolving those who participated in the reign of terror and other crimes committed during the war. But because many of Socrates' associates were involved with the corrupt

Every once and a while a story comes out that makes everyone stop. They reevaluate how they see things, how they see a whole genre after reading something. This incredible phenomenon is what happened after Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote his extraordinary tales about worlds in the beyond. Lovecraft’s works are very influential and can still be seen in works today. He created a whole sub-genre that sprouted a cult, movies were born from his ideas, and even videogames are blossoming truth behind how

Before beginning the research for this work, I had planned on producing a paper and presentation which detailed the history of open sea navigation and the difficulties and dangers which would have faced sailors and seamen during the Age of Discovery. My premise was that we, living in the twentifirst century, had lost touch with the reality of just how hazardous a voyage such as that undertaken by Columbus was. I had hoped to be able to capture for the listener and reader a sense of wonder at the

As stated in the Atlantis, one of America’s leading political magazines, “Finland 's success is especially intriguing because Finnish schools assign less homework and engage children in more creative play”(Partanen). So how is Finland consistently turning in some of the highest

his generation had the chance to change the world, but the turbulent years during the Vietnam War destroyed that hope, and those in his generation either sold out their values and conformed or were destroyed by alcohol, drugs or disease. Hearts in Atlantis is unique in that although there are five different stories it is less about following each of those stories individually but rather following the characters through each story noting what year it is in their life. First, Carol is a main character

An in Depth Analysis: Under Pressure The biggest problem one faces when constructing an underwater settlement is, obviously, the pressure. Water exerts roughly .036 pounds of pressure per square inch, which isn’t really a problem when you’re taking a dip in a pond, but when you want to put an entire structure a few thousand meters deep in the ocean you find yourself with a bit of a dilemma. That’s not to say that it’s not possible, James Cameron piloted a submarine 11,000 meters down to the bottom

The Internet can be a wonderful place, but it can also be a very strange one. every once in awhile someone finds something on the internet that is creepy and unexplainable. So, today I am sharing with you another 5 Unsolved mysteries of the internet. Chip Chan Chip-Chan is a Korean woman who has been doing a live feed from her apartment for years now. She was discovered unconscious and was initially thought to be dead. Later it was realized that she was sleeping, though for long periods of time

Our memories often time embellish the memories we once had of such great people, places, times, and etc. We live these times up to standard that makes us reminisce, hurt, contemplate and so much more. The power of a photograph has been described to have worth a thousand words, metaphorically meaning of course, that what an image can capture in one instance, something that may not ever be captured through words. For too many centuries we have been without, what many of us now take for granted, the

Nick is the narrative reader in The Great Gatsby. Gatz was a poor person that changes his name to Gatsby. Tom was a cheater and was unfaithful to Daisy. Daisy was a flirt and rich. Myrtle is a poor women that lived over her and her husband’s garage shop. Myrtle would let Tom push her around because he was a rich man that would let Myrtle forget that she was poor. “She never loved you, do you hear he cried. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me (Fitzgerald