John Locke and demosthenes

John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher whose ideas formed the foundation of liberal democracy and greatly influenced both the American and French revolutions. Locke held that our understanding of reality ultimately derives from what we have experienced through the senses. A social contract is that no matter where were from everyone has rights. There own personal contract. Working for the greater good. ENDERS GAME: Peter says that the Warsaw pact is important. Uses fear to keep things all together.

Came from the Greek republic and lived in Brittan. he lead a commander of warships in his later life and in the end he committed suicide.  he was afraid of the Macedonians taking over Greece and joined with Athens and fought the Macedonians for Greece. ENDERS GAME: He had a radical persona and wanted to disband the 'Warsaw pack' or the anti-Russian war. The reason why this was in the book because it was written during the cold war because there was no battle. Locke expected that she wouldn't be liked by these accusations and would look toward Locke.

quiz questions

1. 3rd
2. a third is a child or person that was born the 3rd in the family
3. Buggers and astronaut
4. Because he's scared and that he loves valentine and doesn't want to leave her
5. dramatic
6. As the best boy in the whole school
7. Dap
8. he see's the a game that a bunch of boys are playing and then he plays it and wins
9. Bernard is  a boy who ender broke his arm and then Bernard started to hate ender
10. The middle man and the leader, because he was friends with everyone and both friends with Bernard and ender
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Effective Technique In Enders Game

Name one technique you feel the author successfully utilized in the first 4 chapters. In one sentence say what the technique is and how it is successfully used in the book
Dialogue is on of the major techniques in the book as it is used at the start of all the chapters and even though its a bit confusing at the start but it gives the reader a sort of insight to why Enders being watched and how he is doing and what they think of him.
Find at least two examples of this technique in different chapters
Two example of this are at the start of each chapter when the two soldiers are speaking and as well as during chapters when Ender speaks because most of the description in the book is in dialogue.
Discuss how the author is using the technique in the section where you find it and why it is important to the novel. (You can not say 'he uses it to make the section interesting
The author uses dialogue at the very start of each chapter and it's important because it lets the reader know what the soldiers are thinking about Ender and what they think about and the feelings that they feel towards Enders progress and what he has done lately. It also gives the reader some information on why Ender was chosen and why it wasn't someone else such as Peter and Valentine.

chapter 2 of enders game

• Who are speaking at the beginning of the chapter again? The same people at the start of the first chapter
• From what these voices say what can we speculate the ‘monitor’ allowed these people to do with Ender? See what he sees and hear what he hears and get to know how he acts
• How do the soldiers react to Ender attacking the bully? They are concerned and then were happy about the reason for doing what he did
• What effect do the soldiers admit that they had on Ender’s brother Peter? They said that he was one of the best but he wasn’t the right one since he was mean and angry
• What voice do we switch into when the soldiers section of the text is through? Enders voice or the narrator
• (10) What is Ender’s sister’s name and what is implied by her name? Valentine, that she is nice and for that reason she wasn’t the one who the soldiers picked
• What are the two sides of Peter? The hard working, good at school side and then the angry mean and nasty side that skins squirrels
• (11) What do we learn about the greater world from the description of the game that Peter forces Ender to play called Buggers vs. Astronauts? That it is not like a normal game, its mean and it can hurts and peter makes the rules
• (13) What information does Valentine have that she uses to keep Peter under control? That she was a witness in the threat and that if he tries to kill ender than she will tell everyone what she saw.
• (15) Who tells the Enders to have 3 children? What does this tell us about the power of the government? The government and that the power of the government is so strong that they can do really big stuff with it
• What does Ender do at the end of the chapter? What emotional state is he in? Why? he cry’s, because he doesn't know what is happening and he has mixed emotions and that there’s so many things going on that he doesn't know what to do.

sci fi my life

The sky was dark as I stepped out onto the platform.  It was cold, dark and lonely. ‘Why am I the only one here’ I said to myself as I look around. A thin grey mist floated down by the end of the platform as I squinted my eyes, trying to see what was down there.

I heard a small whisper from down the other end of the mist. ‘Hello’ I say, my voice echoing down the tracks. The whispering stopped. ‘Hello’ I say again as I start to walk towards the mist. The whispering comes back. ‘Hey hello’ i say, walking to the edge of the mist.

Everything is silent, my breathe floating upward as I breath out. A cold breeze brushes over me, sending a chill down my spine. ‘I know your there’ I say, still quiet. I start to turn around when I hear footsteps. Slow at first, but speeding up. I hear a low moan, getting louder. ‘Hello’ I say again as I start to back away. ‘Hey’ I say as I see a shadow coming through the mist. ‘What the’ I start and a body bursts through the mist and sprints towards me.

‘Ahhh’ I start to scream as the body tackles me to the ground. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I grab its neck and push its face away from me, It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. ‘Ahh get off me’ I start to say and I take a good look at it. Its face was all distorted and messed up. Were a mouth used to be, small tentacles were bursting out, trying to touch my face. Its body was wearing a suit, torn and ripped and bloody, its arms red and skinless, and claws hanging off its back.

‘Ahhhh’ I screamed, trying to get it off me. ‘Help, help’ I screamed, the thing trying to get past my faces and bite me. ‘GET OFF ME’ I growled as I got my foot under it and kicked out, the thing flying in the air, landing on the tracks. I stood up and looked over the tracks. ‘Oh no’ I whispered as it got up and looked at me. ‘RRROOOOAAARRRRR’. Its roar screeched across the tunnel. Then in a single movement jumped, flying towards me. ‘AHHHHH’ I screamed as I went to grab me when the train screeched past, crashing into the side of the monster, disappearing in a cloud of blood.

Looks like I'm late for school I whispered, getting on the train.

Science Fiction

What is science fiction: is a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined ideas which revolves around science and/or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Its writing is a lot like fantasy, but it has more science so it seems like that in the future, the things in the book or movie might occur.

Where did the science fiction genre come from
It came from the scientists trying to explain things about the universe. It was first created in the scientific revelation when Newton and some other scientists were trying to explain some stuff about astronomy and mathematics.
What did it grow from
Science fiction came from a futuristic story, and formed into a genre with many different ‘sub-genres’ some which fall into stories about aliens.
Consider the role of other genres which had a direct or indirect influence on the development of science fiction
the role of other genres would have affected the way this one was created, since the first writer wanted to make something different than the other, more original genres.

Categories

With science fiction there are other sub genres that fall under the science fiction. This  Hard Sci Fi, Soft and Social Sci Fi, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Alternate History, Military SF, Superhuman, Apocalyptic, Space Opera, Space Western, Feminist Science Fiction, New Wave, Steam Punk, Comic Science Fiction, Anthropological Science Fiction and Bio-punk.

Hard sci fi is when someone writes about the future in a way that it could be possible that in the future, it could happen such as flying cars.

Soft sci fi is more focused on the character and emotion.

Time travel stories say it all. You know like back to the future and stuff like that.

Military Stories are stories that could contain things about wars and training such as Enders game

Superhuman stories deal with the emergence of humans who have abilities beyond the normal

Apocalyptic fiction is concerned with the end of civilization through war, pandemic, astronomic impact, and ecological disaster

Space opera is adventure science fiction set in outer space or on distant planets, where the emphasis is on action rather than either science or characterization

Space Western is a sub-genre of space opera that transposes themes of the American Western books and film to a backdrop of futuristic space frontiers

Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and personal power of men and women. 

New Wave is a term applied to science fiction writing characterised by a high degree of experimentation both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously "literary" or artistic sensibility.

Steam punk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past usually the 19th century and often set in Victorian era England

Conventions

Science fiction conventions are held worldwide and have many different types of people who come in dressed up in their favourite fictional characters and other well-known or unknown characters. They have interviews with famous actors and authors.

Chattacon is organised by the non-profit Chattanooga Speculative Fiction Fans Incorporation. First held in 1976, the convention drew more than 1,000 attendees to the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in 2010. There is also Capcom which is also well known convention.

Itzacon is a one or two-day science fiction convention held occasionally in the Dallas, Texas area mostly on Thanksgiving weekend. The organizers described Itzacon as "An occasional event meant to serve as a party, a mini-con, a chance to hang out and just have fun.