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Arthur C. Clarke

             Clarke was reputably one of the best Science Fiction writers. He got started in Science Fiction by the people that lived in his hometown. They helped him discover his scientific potential thus influencing the writings of his later years.
             Arthur Charles Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset, England on the 16th of December 1917. His dads name was Charles Wright Clarke and his mothers name was Mary Nora Clarke. He had two brothers Frederick William and Michael Neal; also he had one sister named Mary Nora. He attended Huish's Grammar School in Taunton, England from 1928 to 1936. (Meredith 50) In 1936 he moved to London where he experimented with astronautical data for the British Interplanetary Society. (Bianchi 1) In 1941 Clarke joined the royal air force there he became a radar instructor. During this time he wrote an article called "Extra-Terrestrial Relays". In this he predicted the satellite system that is still used today. (Meredith 50) The orbit he predicted that the satellites would orbit at is still referred to The International Astronomical Union as The Clark Orbit. It is at 42,000 kilometers above the earth. (Bianchi 1) In 1946 he was discharged from the Royal Air Force. Then he enrolled at the University of London using an ex-serviceman's grant to get funding. There he received his Bachelors degree in Science. During his time spent at college he became an assistant editor for the journal Science Abstracts. The first book he wrote was Interplanetary Flight. It was published in 1950 and was a nonfiction book about astronautics. His second book was called The Exploration of Space. Which he published in 1951. (Meredith 50) On June 15th, 1953 he married Marilyn Mayfield. She was from America. They broke up in December of the same year. (Bianchi 1) In that same year eleven of his short stories where printed in Expedition to Earth. (Meredith 51) In 1954 he gave up space for the ocean. This was started because due to the cheapness of skin diving equipment he had found a cheap effective way to imitate "weightlessness".


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1. 2010

... five years away, a science fiction mastermind and literary genius sat down and wrote one of the most compelling and riveting sequels in history. Arthur C. Clarke gave birth to the novel 2010, Odyssey Two which was the sequel to the incredibly amazing novel 2001, A Space Odyssey. This 288-page ... through the empty loneliness of space and into a claustrophobic spacecraft. Even the simple setting of a cryogenic sleeping chamber is brought to life by Clarke's descriptions. "The glorious pink glow that surrounded him was very soothing; it reminded him of barbecues and crackling logs of Chri...

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2. Conflict and Irony

... when it could potentially affect you in a negative way. Two works of literature that help reinforce my interpretation of the quote are The Crucible by Arthur Miller and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Some literary elements the authors use to help reinforce the meaning of the quote are setting, characterization, conflict ... , and irony. In the novel "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller, the author uses the literary element of setting to help reinforce the meaning of the quote by J.F. Clarke. John Proctor lived in puritanical Massachusetts. Setting helps reinforce the meaning of the quote by s...

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3. Orientalism and Edward Said

... historically and presently, between knowledge and power. While this has been exemplified repeatedly throughout history, the argument was perfectly epitomized when Prime Minister Arthur Balfour gave a speech in defense of Great Britain's occupation of Egypt in 1910 saying that, ˜We know Egypt better than we ... modern, whitewashed villas with satellite dishes rubbed shoulders with huts made of palm fronds, where plastic plugged the worst of the holes. " (Clarke, A House in Fez.) Said's theory of Orientalism may be related to this because this surge in curiosity seemed to be fueled by a ...

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4. Rise of the Labour Party

... furthermore the M.F.G.B was proposing to sponsor twenty-one Labour candidates against the Liberals at the next election. However historians such as Professor Trevor Wilson and P.F Clarke have argued that the Labour Party can best be seen as a part of the Edwardian Progressive Movement. They argue that in the early twentieth century ... Labour party that finished bottom of the poll in all fourteen by-elections they fought between December 1910 and July 1914. So therefore, Wilson and Clarke clearly believe that in August 1914 there were no signs of the Labour rise to power that Pelling, T...

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5. Edgar Allen Poe

... Maelstrom, Poe's imaginative science and pseudo-science made for compelling pieces of fiction which led to future amplification in the work of suck writers as Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur Clarke. Because of the power of Poe's narrative voice, many a tale is indelible. Poe's imaginative sociology in The Man of The Crowd will tell you more about loneliness in the crowd ... -shod amateurs in composition, some of whom, in the character of critics, perhaps, may display their utter inability to perceive in this very performance any characteristic of its real design. ( Clarke 117) Not ...

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6. Easter Rebellion 1916

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7. The Evolution of Weather Satellites

... Satellites In 1957, at the beginning of the space race, achieving space orbit was only a theory, and achieving a geostationary orbit was science fiction. In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clark, in an article entitled "Extra-terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations give World-wide Radio Coverage?" proposed placing three satellites in geostationary orbit to provide world wide radio communication ... . Clarke's proposal was a product of a theory developed earlier by Austrian engineer Hermann Noordung. Noordung had built a mathematical model that stated that an object placed over the...

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8. Management Information system for product differentiation

... conquer the product space. Some of the important IT applications towards product design and implementation are R&D databases, Professional work stations, electronic mail, custom engineering systems, and integrated systems to manufacturing (Clarke 1994). Product differentiation is important since it imposes switching costs over buyers and as a result may serve as an entry barrier. In addition, a continuous process of product differentiation may produce ... more costly ones elsewhere. Coordinating linked activities is also an important way to reduce the combined time required to perform th...

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9. The Next Big Thing -The Space Elevator

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