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How Jules Verne affected the world we live in today
__http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=108__ __"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne." __Science Fiction Inventions and Ideas__. technovelgy.com. Brunswick, MD. 12-2-10 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/authortotalalphalist.asp?aunum=50>.__


 * 1) Jules Verne thought of many ideas just in one book.
 * 20,000 leagues under the sea displayed things that were yet to be invented.
 * 1) In the book, he thought of Scuba Diving
 * 2) Also, he thought of undersea mining
 * 3) The taser as well
 * 4) Repel boarders
 * 5) and the submarine
 * 6) He gives a good description of all his inventions
 * 7) it is obvious that he loves science
 * 8) In his book, "From Earth to the moon", he came up with many other ideas
 * 9) he invented the original Rocket
 * 10) he even thought through the projectiles of starting and stopping
 * 11) The 900 foot cannon was invented by him too
 * 12) Thinking that hopefully it would create enough power to push the rocket.
 * 13) Jules verne knew only a specific spot would work for launch, known as the launch facility
 * 14) That is how NASA does it today, based on his ideas
 * 15) He also predicted the trajectory of the rocket would send it around the moon and back. He was right
 * 16) The first attempt to communicate with ET. Before all the societies were made.
 * 17) Before the rocket, he thought of having rocket power blast someone to the moon
 * 18) His works in this book have encouraged NASA, and created an important part of out history

Dryer, Roddy. "Jules Verne: This Great Writer Affected Your Life More Than You Think." __Arts and entertainment__. 2009. yahoo. associated content, 12-2-10 


 * 1) Our world wouldn't exist the way is is without the help of Jules Verne
 * 2) Some people believe he is important as Edison making the light bulb
 * 3) His imagination, not his actual creation, helped our society
 * 4) He had many other original thoughts
 * 5) like live TV
 * 6) video phones
 * 7) writing things on the clouds
 * 8) paper steel
 * 9) People believe that Verne knew these things would be invented sometime in the future.
 * 10) Verne was french
 * 11) That translations in English might not have let up to what Verne thought of originally
 * 12) We take advantage of some of our everyday things
 * 13) but the work it took to make them are very complex
 * 14) Like Verne thought of these, it might have been a lot of hard thinking
 * 15) A lot of his writing influenced other writers
 * 16) Verne was rejected from a lot of his writing
 * 17) He kept rewriting it until the publisher liked it
 * 18) Verne didn't just write invention and fantasy books
 * 19) He wrote one found in 1994, locked in his safe.
 * 20) It was about the prophesying aspects of the 20th century

___--- Skloot, Floyd. "Something to Marvel At." //Prairie Schooner// 84.3 (2010): 99+. //Student Edition//. Web. 3 Dec. 2010. [|http://find.galegroup.com/gps/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=IPS&docId=A236634995&source=gale&srcprod=STOM&userGroupName=fcpsbhs&version=1.]


 * 1) Sometimes, the writer found himself peaceful
 * 2) It reminded him of a novel Verne would have written
 * 3) None of Verne's novels would take place in an ordinary town or suburb
 * 4) Whenever they get something out of the ordinary, they always say the same thing
 * 5) It looks like something out of a Verne novel.
 * 6) He called him the 19th century version of Stephen King
 * 7) He can be scary, exciting
 * 8) Also, unrealistic...back then...
 * 9) and science fiction like
 * 10) A lot of his works have been made into movies
 * 11) Sometimes older novels, no matter how good, aren't always read.
 * 12) Verne exposed his own loneliness and detachment
 * 13) He yearning for shared adventure and small-group solidarity
 * 14) He took the time to explore personality, not just sketch figures
 * 15) He told action adventure stories, and showed it was something he could never do
 * 16) Verne found away to show insight, all the while making it iteresting
 * 17) One character in his book said "Don't reject the existence of something just because you have never heard of it."
 * 18) Verne felt freedom by writing his stories
 * 19) Verne's parents wanted him to become an attorney
 * 20) If that happened, the world we know wouldn't be what it is

Evans, Arthur B. "Jules Verne's America." //Extrapolation// 48.1 (2007): 35+. //Student Edition//. Web. 3 Dec. 2010 []


 * 1) Verne only made 1 trip to America
 * 2) Though his works in America have changed our lives
 * 3) He didn't even visit America for his book popularity
 * 4) He only went to visit Niagara Falls
 * 5) The later books he wrote weren't as good as the first, well known ones
 * 6) He tried basing a couple more books on 19th America
 * 7) But they weren't as good as 20000 leagues under the sea, or journey to the center of the earth
 * 8) Jules Verne was a strong believer in republicanism
 * 9) He includes America in his books more than you would think
 * 10) Like in Around the world in 80 days, they land in San Fransisco
 * 11) There is a riot, but it is only a local election
 * 12) Or in the Remake of Around the world in 80 days, they travel in Alaska
 * 13) Around that time, America was making more progress than France was.
 * 14) They were called Yankees, and every one was thought to know how to read and write
 * 15) This was partly the reason Jules loved it.
 * 16) The American reader though, notices in 80 days, America is not yet constructed and seems like a mad house
 * 17) Though at that time, it was.
 * 18) Americans are openly criticized or mercilessly satirized
 * 19) The true identity of America in the works and life of Jules Verne remains a profoundly ambiguous one.
 * 20) Jules Verne is remembered principally as the "father of science fiction."