Essays on Northern Lights

Introduction

Almost Maine is a wonderful heartfelt play by New York playwright John Cariani about the extraordinary tales of love that take place in the town of Almost, Maine. The assertion of this play is that all of these stories across the town take place at the stroke of 9:00 with the northern lights illuminating the slightly surreal, cold and northern night. John Cariani throws magical realism to the bittersweet love scenes in his play with original, sentimental and ultimately pleasant entertainment. Most of the characters in the play are eccentric, but all of them fit well into the small and ...

Northern Lights is a fantasy novel written by Phillip Pullman. The novel also referred to as “The Golden Compass” in the North American market belongs to the young-adult fantasy genre. The novel is set in a parallel universe. The plot revolves around the protagonist’s, Lyra Belacqua journey to the Arctic to look for her uncle, Lord Asriel who has been imprisoned and her friend Roger Paslow. The beginning of the novel makes reference to a line from the famous poem by John Milton, “Paradise Lost”. The line from the poem is “He took the golden compasses, prepared in god’s eternal ...

- Sticker info Q. Most plug-in electrical devices in your home or school have a sticker on the bottom or back that describes some of their electrical characteristics. Find one near you and share it. What can you understand about the device from looking at this sticker? The device in consideration is an HUAWEI travel charger. The charger indicates that it will require an electricity input of 100 – 240 volts. Its output is 5.0 V, and a current of 400mA. This means that if the input and output conditions are not met, the device may be destroyed or not ...

De Crevecoeur

De Crevecoeur was an American farmer during a time when the flora and fauna in the Americas were greatly despised and seen as naïve forms of life by the Europeans. He once described how the things that surround an individual play an important role in that individual’s development. He believes that ideal Americans are products of generations-old of cultural exchanges. And along that process of assimilation, native religion and portions of cultural identity “evaporated in the great distance it has to travel” (De Crevecoeur 51).

White

White was a naturalist, ecologist and a scientist. He studied different types of flora and ...