Essays Tagged: "Universe"

Are We Alone? (about Extra Terestials)

OutlineThesis: We once believed that Earth is the only planet in the Universethat supports life. Today there is overwhelming evidence thatnot only suggests, but supports ... helming evidence thatnot only suggests, but supports the very real possibility that wemay share the Universe with other intelligent beings.I. Things in the SkyA. The First Documented SightingB. The Fe ... , but I doubt it. Man in his arrogance isreluctant to believe that we may share Gods vast, glorious universe with otherbeings of intelligence. We sometimes fail to realize that if the Earth were aday ...

(6 pages) 216 4 4.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Black Holes

Everyday we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, it interests us to learn about all the variance t ... s us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of wonders, our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand, because of the complications that ari ...

(5 pages) 245 1 4.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

The Computer

ost everything you want to do research and applied technology, including constructing models of the universe to producing tomorrow's weather reports, and their use has in itself opened up new areas of ...

(4 pages) 230 1 3.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Macbeth. Superstitions.

d the supernatural. Supernatural is classified as the unnatural or the explainable mysteries of our universe. In Shakespeare's time many people would relate many of the unusual happening against the s ... ime but how are these superstitions used in the play. Superstitions are the unnatural unseen of the universe. Witches were one of these superstitions. Witches are no longer a big thing in today's soci ...

(4 pages) 51 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Divine foreknowledge. Concerns Nelson Pike and Boethius

eternal. This means that at any point in time, Godexists. God has a temporal relationship with the universe, as opposed to having a timelessrelationship. Pike uses these assumptions as the basis for ...

(2 pages) 56 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Religious Dialogue. What is religion?

ion is the belief in theexistence of a supernatural ruling power, the creator and controller of the universe, whohas given to man a spirtual nature which continues to exist after the death of the body ...

(6 pages) 265 0 4.8 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The big bang theory

How the universe was createdHow was this universe started? People still wonder. It's not simple as we all th ... god its up to you to decide. But the one thing that a lot of people believe to be what created this universe is the big bang theory. This scientific hypotheses made by astronomers are called a cosmolo ... the big bang theory.The Big Bang was the fiery explosion that is thought to have given rise to the universe. The Big Bang theory happened approximately ten to twenty-five billion years ago, and it ha ...

(4 pages) 183 3 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Creation of a Cosmology: Big Bang Theory Chronological history of the events, scientists and their discoveries.

ryby Scott J. SiegelFifteen billion years ago, give or take five billion years, the entirety of our universe was compressed into the confines of an atomic nucleus. Known as a singularity, this is the ... when space and time did not exist. According to the prevailing cosmological models that explain our universe, an ineffable explosion, trillions of degrees in temperature on any measurement scale, that ...

(16 pages) 311 1 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

What is life?

an adventure? Is it a way to helpothers? Or is it so brief compared to the rest of the time in the universe it hasno meaning at all? People have been wondering this for thousands of years,yet no one ...

(2 pages) 70 0 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

INDIVIDUALITY. A review/commentary of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

ual stars, but to the repercussions caused by the interaction of those stars. With the earth as our universe, societal problems are not due to malignity within individual persons, but rather to the co ...

(7 pages) 185 1 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Cosmic irony in "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane.

ever written by an American. Crane usesa theme of cosmic irony. Cosmic irony is the belief that the universe is so large and man is so small that the universeis indifferent to the plight of man. In 'T ... sed by Craneare, the power of the ocean against the insignificance of the boat, the sea against the universe, and the little boat in avast sea from the people on the shore.The indifference aspect of c ...

(2 pages) 160 0 3.8 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Does God Exist? Concentrated on Thomas Aquinas

rmurantes, Aquinas insists that human reason cannot prove the impossibility of an eternally created universe. Once again Aquinas has written with the certainty that God has to exist in order to have c ... nce again Aquinas has written with the certainty that God has to exist in order to have created the universe. There is no doubt in Aquinas's mind that everything was created for a reason and that reas ...

(4 pages) 322 0 4.5 Feb/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Atomism, Democritus and Epicurus

as far as it could possibly go. We see Democritus and Epicurus divide all the world, as well as the universe, into two categories; atoms and empty space. Everything else is merely thought to exist. Th ... it is in their nature to move so" (Jones 85). He believes that atoms are born along with the whole universe in a vortex. The vortex is not an outside influence, but rather the motion of the atoms the ...

(5 pages) 60 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Christocentric Panthiesm? Aquinas and Epictetus: Discussions on the Nature of God

Epictetus, a stoic of the first century. To Epictetus, God was a rational principle immanent in the universe functioning as a vital force that creates and governs all things in the universe.*(44) But ... c continues his explanation of God describing him as a cosmic intelligence which interacts with the universe from within this reality. Humanity, in this rationale, is considered to be part of that cos ...

(6 pages) 91 0 3.8 Dec/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

We are not alone. UFO sightings

OutlineThesis: We once believed that Earth is the only planet in the Universethat supports life. Today there is overwhelming evidence thatnot only suggests, but supports ... helming evidence thatnot only suggests, but supports the very real possibility that wemay share the Universe with other intelligent beings.I. Things in the SkyA. The First Documented SightingB. The Fe ... , but I doubt it. Man in his arrogance isreluctant to believe that we may share Gods vast, glorious universe with otherbeings of intelligence. We sometimes fail to realize that if the Earth were aday ...

(6 pages) 85 0 2.1 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Human Subconcious. Analysis of the two books "Sphere" and "The left hand of darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the movie "Enemy mine"

been created. We even considered the fact that we might not be theonly civilization in this immense universe. Yet, there is still one big gap to be filled; we stilldon't understand how human nature wo ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.0 Dec/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A Christian perspectavie on cloning in a short essay format.

me into existence have been in question for a very long time. Atheistic scientists believe that our universe simply "popped" into being, while Christians and other religions believe that it was create ...

(2 pages) 79 0 4.6 Jun/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

A decent essay about Eugenics, Human genetics controversy

tter. That ishow some people could look at it, and others frightened that it would change the entireuniverse. Early in the twentieth century science had to deal with the conditions thatimprove the inb ...

(7 pages) 198 1 2.6 Jun/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Analysis of the different theories about the nature of space held by Isaac Newton, Carl Leibniz, and Emmanuel Kant

on, describes space as a container. This container of space holds all of the material things in the universe and had a kind of reality. Inside of the container space interacts with material objects. N ...

(2 pages) 80 1 4.7 Sep/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Disrupting the universe

Disrupting the UniverseDr. Jack Kevorkian did something that most people would never even think of doing or think t ... ld never even think of doing or think that someone would do such a thing. He really did disrupt the universe by taking the whole world by surprise. Jack Kevorkian was the first person in the United St ... ne, and in a way he is.Jack Kevorkian dared to do what he believed in and as a result surprised the Universe. He is still, after all the things said and done to him, sticking to what he believes in.Di ...

(2 pages) 34 0 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues