How did space look like before the Big Bang?

This is a question that is impossible or almost impossible to answer as nobody was alive at that time. So there are a lot of theories. The most famous one and the one in which people believe in the most is the Big Bang; which consisted of an explosion that led into our universe that is constantly expanding. But I asked myself, what happened before that happened? There is one theory that consisted of a very tiny particle smaller than an atom that had a very high temperature. It started inflating until the size of a grapefruit and then exploded. After reading this, I wondered what was surrounding the mini particle and after the grapefruit, and the answer is simply nothing. Imagine vacuum bags, well what’s inside vacuum bags, nothing. For us, this is almost if not impossible to understand as we can not imagine emptiness/nothing/void. There is another theory that came to my attention. This theory was from Stephen Hawking. It consisted of before the Big Bang, events could not be measured, so it’s undefined. Time and space are not infinite, but they don’t have a beginning or an ending. Being the Big Bang a moment, not a place, time began when the Big Bang occurred.

There is another theory in which also a lot of people believe in. It’s called the Big Bounce. It’s like the Big Bang. It consists of a parallel identical universe that started decreasing until it got so small that it exploded and created a mirror universe. Therefore its name, it’s like if the universes are constantly bouncing. This leads us to think that we could be living in the first of all of the universes or in-universe 5.8 billion.

To conclude and to answer my question, I believe that these theories might be right although we’ll never know and never really understand. I think that we are not able to understand things like “nothing” or infinite. We cannot imagine something that existed always. And to answer my question, according to these theories, if the Big Bang created the universe; before the explosion occurred, space did not exist yet.

Sources: National Geographic, Live Sciece, Space.com,

What Was The Universe Like Before The Big Bang?

 

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-started-the-universe-2014-12

self-assessment before the big bang

Schindler’s List vs The Watch

Schindler’s’ List vs “The Watch”

 

Nowadays, movies like Schindler’s List or short stories like “The Watch” are two great examples of learning about the Holocaust. However, many people discuss on which source is better at exploring the effect of war on an individual society. The two stories are a great example of learning about the Holocaust as they take place in two different places and one can learn a lot as it shows the events of WWII from two different points of view. Furthermore, both stories are sad but at the same time show hope. Schindler’s List and “The Watch by Elie Wiesel”, both show the historical events of the Holocaust in WWII. The main characters are Oskar Schindler, a Nazi profiteer and Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust victim which personality as well as Shindler’s changed completely due to the war. Schindler realized that what the Nazis were doing was wrong when he saw the liberation of the Ghettos. He saw all the damage that his Party was provoking to some innocent Jews. After that, his personality started to change. On the other hand, in “The Watch”, the narrator, returns from a Concentration Camp and after 20 years and he is still shocked. Schindler’s List, the movie is the best source because the plot was more clear and easier to understand the full effects of war on these people.

Firstly, Schindler’s List shows better the events of the Holocaust in WWII. Schindler’s List is a better example at exploring the effect of war on an individual society than “The Watch” because it is easier to understand, it is more visual, meaning that one does not have to make their own idea, it is not confusing as “The Watch”, it is more emotional and more complete. In addition, Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party who ends up saving 1,200 interned Jews. A great example that shows when his personality started to change, was when the Nazis were liberating the Jews from the Ghettos to the camps. Schindler stood at the top of a hill and observed. He saw all the damage, but the turning point of the film was when he saw a little girl wearing a red coat. She was a Jewish girl that was alone without her parents trying to look for them. A lot of people were surrounding her. When Schindler saw that, his personality changed radically. Furthermore, almost at the end of the movie, when he already saved a bunch of Jews, he cried saying, “I could have saved one more person. One more person, I could have saved one more person and I didn’t” (Spielberg). This dialogue that Schindler had with the Jews that he saved is one of the best examples if not the best of the movie as it gives the readers a great example about humanity and it is also the best example of his personality change.

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Secondly, “The Watch by Elie Wiesel”, is not as good as Schindler’s List at exploring the effect of war on an individual society. Despite being a magnificent example and a great story, problems like the hard understanding, specific points in the story that had no answer, moments in which the story was confusing, or the making the idea on one’s head did not make the short story as good as the film. In addition, many people also complain about the credibility of the story. The author is the narrator and it is a fact that “Elie Wiesel” was a Holocaust victim, but the problem is that people do not know if the story was real or not as it was written in 1st person. There is a sentence in the book that says, “I have just committed my first theft” (Wiesel). Most of the people that read the story, were very confused after reading this. People asked themselves what Wiesel was trying to say: “Did he steal his own watch? Why taken what is yours is stealing?” In the book contest, this sentence had no place, the only thing that it does is confusing the reading. It is a sentence that does not have an answer. Although some parts of the story are confusing and hard to understand, that does not mean that the book is bad. Despite some errors, everybody must agree that it is a great story and a great example to learn about the mistakes that humanity committed during history.

 

 

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To conclude, Schindler’s List and “The Watch” are two magnificent examples to learn about the Holocaust. Although Schindlers’ List is a better source at exploring the effect of war on an individual society than “The Watch”, the two stories have a lot of differences and things in common as for example the personality change that both characters show in both sources or the huge difference that they have as one is a Nazi and the other is a Jew. Many believe that Schindler’s List’s flow was better than “The Watch”. It is not confusing, easy to understand, it has more detail and it is a rollercoaster of emotions. Meanwhile, “The Watch” is harder to understand, there times in the story that did not have an answer, it is sometimes confusing, or one had to make their own idea which could be wrong. Taking all these, many people may ask themselves after watching Schindler’s List and after reading “The Watch from Elie Wiesel”, if WWII was worth it.

 

Works Cited

Steven Spielberg, director. Schindler’s List. Universal, 2004.

Wiesel, Elie, and K Goldfield. “The Watch.” The Call of Memory, edited by K. Shawn, Ben Yehuda, 2008.

 

Reflection:

I’m proud of having done a big essay with a lot of words and I’m also proud of having done the big essay and do more or less fine. I’m not proud of the quotes that I used and I think that I should have added more content to the essay.

 

 

 

 

Reconciliation

Firstly, I just want to say sorry to every First Nations Canadian. When we came from they were treated badly. They were sent to residential schools, we took kids out of their families. After the residential schools, when we realized all the damage that we provoking, we wanted to help you. Since then we are trying to help you but, as we all know, it has nor been efficient. So for that is that I am here today. From now on we are going to make sure that you are treated fairly. We are going to make sure that we all can live together in peace and happiness.  For making this possible, we are going to bring more facilities to all the northern provinces. There are going to be more and safer schools, especially high schools so that nobody has to leave their families to have an education. There are also going to be more universities. There are going to be more hospitals with the right and necessary equipment, with experimented doctors. Adding to the northern communities, also in the south ones as in every place the racist comments will be seriously punished with a penalty fee of a minimum of 1,000$.

Masculinity and femine

This is when Simba, in Lion King roars at the end movie after beating Scar. The moment of the roaring is masculine as it is a symbol fo strength, leadership, and power. When I was a kid I really liked this movie because I found it pretty cool, but also because fo the masculine that is is. For me, the Lion  King was an example for me and I wanted to be like him.  I liked the leadership, the strength, the power…