Individuals occasionally consciously block and repress discoveries in fear of the consequences, since they often highlight the most negative features of oneself and humanity. Therefore discoveries can definitely affect ones vision of the world as they can bring to surface what was intentionally unknown and allow one to view things in different ways. These expressions are conveyed through many texts, three of those most significant being John Foulcher’s 1983 poem ‘Martin and the Hand Grenade’ extracted from Light Pressure, James Bradley’s 1997 novel Wrack and Jason Russell’s globally acknowledged film in 2012, Kony 2012.
Within each of the three texts audiences are brought to the attention of issues such as power, imagination versus history and truth that help expose these points. There are several notions of power expressed through the three texts, for example within ‘Martin and the Hand Grenade’ the grenade is the main power source of the poem making each boy lose themselves in their own minds and within Wrack very significant powers such as the European’s are portrayed in order to uncover history’s roots and beginnings.
Kony 2012 also has many ideas of power within it but it also clearly underlays concepts of imagination versus history, where audiences are lead to understand that the destructive history being made by Joseph Kony at this moment is beyond ones imagination and beliefs. The biggest factor of truth within each of the texts assists deeply in portraying the statement ‘Discoveries can affect our vision of the world’, as one is brought to see behind the exterior of what is currently known by everyone.
The Term Paper on Discovery of Radiation and Radioactivity
Introduction: Radiation can be defined as the propagation of energy through matter or space. It can be in the form of electromagnetic waves or energetic particles. Ionizing radiation has the ability to knock an electron from an atom, i.e. to ionize. Examples of ionizing radiation include: • alpha particles • beta particles • neutrons • gamma rays • x-rays Non-ionizing radiation does not have ...
It also reinforces the fact that people refuse to acknowledge the truth since it can present one with the most destructive aspects of humanity. Within ‘Martin and the Hand Grenade’, John Foulcher explains the state of the boys’ minds whilst present with the hand grenade. Since it is within their own grasp, the boys come to imagine the brutal realities of the war, in comparison to their previous conceptions where it was a fun game when they were young.
As the boys discover the power the grenade holds, their perceptions of the world gradually change to comprehend the violence it depicts. Some would say the reason why they are suddenly realising the truths at the sight of the grenade is not because they did not know these truths, but instead they were consciously unrecognising them in order to repress the negative aspects of humanity; how violence and death are very real in this world. Foulcher cleverly depicts this message through symbolism and his class’s reactions, “And each boy holds the small war”.
