principles: the butterfly effect, unpredictability, mixing, fractals, and order/disorder. The butterfly effect is
you make in your lifetime have an impact on the direction it goes. Small decisions like which colour you paint a picture won’t change your life, but larger decisions that have potential consequences, whether positive or negative can create a ripple effect and change the direction you go. Decisions made as a child are often overlooked but many can create a positive ripple that will continuously influence your life. Small decisions made as a teenager are crucial because they are often made with good
The American Heritage Dictionary describes the word chaos as, “a condition or place of great disorder or confusion”. Some people would gladly describe chaos as “Late Start School”, the worst school-related idea in centuries. Later start times will be a horrific idea at school, at home, and everywhere around the community. Throw added stress and loss of time in the mix, and that makes a recipe for disaster. Late Start School will cause the bombarding of after-school activities, daylight hours, bus
Parenting influences many factors of one’s early developing stages, some of the results are not that satisfactory. “…parenting styles that involve harsh and inconsistent discipline have been shown to constrain the development of children’s social competence and promote the development of psychosocial problems…” (Hamon, Schrodt 154) in which violent behaviors are seen from adolescence and adulthood. “Previous literature has found gender differences in delinquent behavior. Male adolescents are more
But no longer than 4 years later, the war ended with the complete unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied Forces. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a butterfly effect is where small variations or events in the initial conditions of a system can lead a large-scale and unpredictable results or outcome in the future. This effect could be seen in the attack on Pearl Harbor, where several small mistakes or decisions leading to the attack would have a huge
diversity, where ugly is known as beauty and intelligence is irrelevant. This is the kind of picture painted in Harrison Bergeron while in The Sound of Thunder, the story makes us realize that little things that seem unimportant can have enormous effects on the outcome of things.
As humans, we are uniquely motivated to understand and interpret events, situations, and people for how they truly are and strive to uncover “true meaning”. Vladimer Nabakov takes advantage of this human predisposition in his book “Pale Fire” to give us a story so enigmatic that is has continued to generate debate fifty years after its release. In it, Nabakov presents to us a wild character, Charles Kinbote, rife with unreliable characteristics who is tasked with providing commentary to a 999 line
him as a representation of a someone heroic we see how it upsets him. When comparing the young men in the beginning of the movie to the end we see the effects that the war had on deteriorating the human
relief; yet, he also held an important role in society as a social critic. He later spoke on the matter that war could never be a nice and gracious manor. In another way, people must retain a strong demeanor and not display concern about the harmful effects it exerts on everything, well displayed by Eric Maria Remarque. Therefore, in his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Eric Maria Remarque utilizes the symbols of water, the earth, and animals to convey the theme the destructiveness of war. Initially
A Cage of Butterflies By Brian Caswell An individual’s understanding of their own personal identity evolves over time in response to their interactions with the world. This understanding can come from the way one interacts with others, through interaction with a setting or location and through interaction with society. One’s interaction with others can create an image of self that stays with oneself for life. In Brian Caswell’s “A Cage of Butterflies”, Greg’s interactions with the other