Dewi Lestari's 'Supernova': An Analysis

Travis explains the ‘Butterfly Effect’ to Eckels, in which he states how a small action can have tremendous consequences on the future. “...The step of your foot, on one mouse, could start a series of

Lack of confidence or self-doubt is something someone deals with more than once throughout their lives, lack of self confidence can put someone through small to severe stages of depression, these stages can create thoughts of suicide or lead to actual attempts of suicide. Being scared of something or someone or being scared to do something that can change your life, when this happens, it kills or severely damages confidence and once confidence is damaged every life choice that has been made or is about to happen is thought upon negatively or reconsider all together. A young child choosing his or her career and sticking to it can create pressure the older the child gets and the more the pressure continues to become larger it can start to diminish confidence. The Space Between Stars by Geeta Kothari, follows the journey of Maya as she tries to figure out where she belongs in the world. Maya battle with the world, she is stuck in this never ending battle between the two cultures that are present within the story. Kothari illustrates Maya as this person who dislikes living in her own skin, within her own culture and her entire life as a whole. The death of the sunfish has lead to the idea of one single image that can impact an entire thought and decision made throughout an entire life.

but we still can hypothetically see, through the pictures painted by the travel guide Travis, that one trivial matter and one wrong move could destroy an“ entire history of life ” . Then, one of the men panicked and ran away. He fell off the platform as he rushed back and scrabbled at a golden butterfly with shaking fingers accidentally. Finally, the group of people went back to travel agency. While dramatically effective, the ending contradicts Bradbury’s earlier example of the dominoes effect and the mouse.We can infer from the ending that while the players remain the same, but people’s character and concept changed. For instance, the official had supported Krith brfore their began time trival, but when they came back, the official supported Krith’ s rival and hated Krith. What more, presidential candidates Keith and Deutscher, that their environment and the evolution of the human language has been influenced.

Chaos is not a light subject, in fact it is the exact opposite.Chaos has occurred many times in history, and they happened all around the world. Many of these events involved a large number of deaths. In both Night and “An Ordinary Man” readers can see that in to survive you may need to lie, to convince others, and to be selfish, in times of chaos and mass tragedies with a plethora of innocent people dying for an unreasonable cause.

In the story I was able to visualize the different scenes with a starting point to have to imagine off of. But in having the scene of how the way someone’s life can affect another referred to as the butterfly effect. They're invoked to explain our emotional reaction to everything from the death of a loved one to the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill to LeBron James' abandoning the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat (Konigsberg, 2011, p.1). As I continued to read, the more deeper I got the more emotions Artie has towards Vladek, even though his father can be an old kook

It was a world of chaos. Kate and Mr. Jacks realized a different kind of fear. Fear itself was the enemy. It was fear that caused the force fields to appear. Kate and Mr. Jacks did not imagine the force fields were for protection not imprisonment.

Balance and stability are necessary for humans as individuals and without these, individuals will face chaotic circumstances. In the novel, the father of the protagonist, Ed Boone, is an example of a character that

Symbolism is integrated into “A Sound of Thunder” to develop the author’s argument. It helps portray the idea that one small decision has a huge impact on future events by using physical objects to substitute the concepts of time. Nearing the end of the story, everyone arrives back to their present time, but something seems askew and distinctly different. Noticing the dirt on his shoe, Eckels goes to examine it and notices a small creature that was “Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly. Very beautiful and very dead” (Bradbury 24). The butterfly represents the future of civilization because once Eckels destroys the butterfly’s life, he also alters the course of time. Through the symbolization of colors, one assumes that the butterfly depicts fertility, prosperity, and the unknown because Bradbury describes it as green, gold, and black. However, it will all change when the butterfly dies and this is shown from the substitution of presidents, from a favorable, well respected leader to a cruel dictator. Therefore symbolism supports the idea that time is a delicate thing with major

Think of them as strings, the link between two different things that ties them together. These strings attach to the boxes in your mind and force them boxes in your mind to be open, they overflow out the top, and the tighterdeeper the connection, the closer the strings bring those two things together; until eventually, those boxes will tip over, spilling their contents out into your mind. And, once all our boxes have been opened up and dumped out, we’ll finally be able to see the world as it is-a giant, chaotic jumble of everything that makes up our world, held together by connections that tie it up into a ball we call Earth. This is how our world really is, how we’ll be able to see it if we just manage to reach out and form connections with others and break open all those little boxes in our

Chaos is the first step in moving to a new Era, inconsistences are brought to light, the way that things have been done, beliefs, morals, are all removed and focus on getting something new. Adjustment, brings about innovative thinkers who bring about solutions to the current chaos and how to remove themselves from that situation. Finally, Balance is when the order is brought back into the community and security comes from the idea that things have been restored, or renewed (Culture-Epoch

The most common scientific explanation of how our universe came to be, is the Big Bang Theory. Around 13. 8 billion years ago there was no sign of anything apart from darkness. Until astronomer Edwin Hubble made a remarkable discovery about how the universe was created. Edwin Hubble hypothesised the matter and energy in the universe was initially condensed in a very small and infinitely hot mass. A huge explosion, known as the Big Bang, then sent matter and energy expanding in all directions (Howell, n.d.).

There have been many theories concerning what the universe looks like, how it became this way, and where it is going. The most popular theory that people hold today is that the universe began when all the matter ever present in the universe was contained in a tiny speck and that spec exploded. This is known as the Big Bang. This theory has developed a great deal since it was first conceptualized and continues to evolve today. Many different scientists have had a hand in this.

     Does turmoil in people promote chaos in the world, or does chaos in the world create turmoil in people? To uncover a single answer to such a question is impossible. Therefore, those who seek a solution find themselves at a stalemate, and the query posed becomes rhetorical. Nevertheless, it initiates another inquiry worth thought and reflection: since the chaotic world is already well established, whether or not a product of human havoc, how is one to escape it and live uninhibitedly? Fences, by August Wilson, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë embody people who struggle against the chaos in the world to be rid of

     Though there seems to be a lot of evidence in favor of determinism, there is one field that remains an anomaly in science. Almost every area of science is based on cause and effect, order, and a structured protocol of operation, but the Quantum Mechanics is different. All matter is made up of atoms, and all atoms are made up of electrons, neutrons, and protons. These in turn are made up of quarks. The movement of quarks, and the emission of photons as electrons skip shells seem to be totally random. If this is true, then what are the implications on the free will/determinism debate? It may seem like an obscure point, but if you look at the definition of determinism, it says that all things are caused, and if there is one single uncaused event, then determinism must be false. So if you find one random event, then determinism is nothing more than a myth, but, in light of this

Our sun is halfway through its life cycle and based on the studies of the stars, when it reaches the last stages of its life it will go supernova destroying Earth, but that won’t happen in about 5 billion years.