Description
Formatting:
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12-point Times New Roman font
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Title page with just the title of your paper in 16-point font bold with your name below in
12-point font italics centered in the middle of your page.
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Double-spaced.
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Minimum 1,000 words.
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Stapled on the top left corner.
Key Elements:
All of these elements should be easily found in your analysis.
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Who is the author and what is his/her general background? Why might they have written
this book?
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An explanation of the author’s thesis: What is the focus of this book? What was he trying
to say?
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What struck you or stood out in this book and why? Be as reflective and thoughtful as
you can. This is the soul of the paper.
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How does this book change/challenge the way you look at or think about some previously
held belief about the world? If it did not change or challenge anything for you, then
carefully explain why.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: MATTER’S END ANALYSIS
Matter’s end Analysis
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
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MATTER’S END ANALYSIS
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Matter’s end Analysis
Gregory Benford wrote Matter's end. Gregory Benford is an American astrophysicist and
a faculty member in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of California. He
is also a science fiction writer, and his love to explore science might have driven him to write
this book. The book is a collection of twenty-one stories which feature events and revelations at
a masquerade party. The stories also talk about a devastating earthquake in California and a
computer game, which escalates to become a matter of life and death. This paper is going to
discuss an analysis of Gregory Benford's Matter’s end and how the book challenges/changes the
way I thought and my held beliefs about the world.
Gregory Benford's main focus was trying to explain the relationship between science and
humanism. His combination of scientific knowledge and literary gift makes him a vitally
important writer of science fiction. He incorporates science into daily human life through fiction.
What struck me the most in Gregory Benford's Matter's end is the close relationship between
science and humanism. The stories give a narration of human behavior, belief, and interpretation
of science. The human beliefs concerning science vary from one individual to another, and this
determines their per...