Essay on Mysteries of Science and Technology

"So come down with me to the shore, and what's more, I adore you," La Dispute lyrically sings, which seems to mirror some of the major works of Edgar Allen Poe perfectly. A celebrated poet and author, he led quite an interesting life and maintained some of the darker themes of his life in his works, ranging from the popular "The Tell Tale Heart" to lesser-known works such as "Alone". However, the true art found within his poems is how beautifully they are able to show some of his innermost…

It was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution and also the Age of Enlightenment of the early 1700’s. The Age of Enlighten, also called the Age of Reason, promoted separation of church and state, and the use of science and logical thinking to answer all of life’s questions or mysteries. It also fought against traditional religion in the fact that the Bible wasn’t divinely inspired therefore couldn’t only be interpreted individually for oneself. The early 1800’s also gave birth to…

deeds and actions shape the world around us. As humans much of our behaviour and success as a species is attributed to our large, convoluted and complex cortex. This is generally perceived as the pinnacle of brain evolution and the generator of the technology that both helps and harms us. The so called reptilian part of the human brain, otherwise known as the brain stem, is misunderstood and maligned by pop psychology. The primitive brain stem has the emotional limbic system in-between it and…

American Intelligence only knew that Francis Powers and the U-2 plane had not achieved the flight to Norway ( Cook, 1973). The mystery crash was for the United States to respond, so they decided to come up with a “cover story”. The cover story was America had lost a weather plane. On May 2 a public information officer at the air force base in Turkey made an announcement ( Cook, 1973)…

In Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, he explains the journey of how corn developed to what it is today. In 1866, “corn syrup . . . became the first cheap domestic substitute for cane sugar” (Pollan 88). Then as corn refining started to be perfected, high-fructose corn syrup became quite popular. Pollan states that high-fructose corn syrup “is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year” (89). Once these different food processes were…

Written word had a huge impact on the new German Empire in the 19th century. With illiteracy rates decreasing, written word continued to gain a large audience. According to Berghahn (2005) it seem like newspapers, books, journals, and pamphlets demonstrated that there was a “functioning public sphere” within Germany society that was not active previously. The authoritarian society that could censor media at will was no longer effective as before. However, the authorities still were eager to…

Poverty is a huge issue in our world today. More than 46 million Americans are poor in the United States. 1.6 Million children have stayed in a shelter or emergency housing (Zalan, Kira. “ How Violence Perpetuates Poverty”). Several people find that their struggle to get out of poverty can sometimes be challenging because of the violence. Bullies in the neighborhood can beat, rape, and rob you, which can give you less of a chance to improve your economic status, those such things can pull you…

Many of the tasks that multi-cellular organisms perform are truly inspiring, from embryogenesis to organogenesis and other developmental processes. Developmental biology covers some of the most interesting procedures of the formation and transformation of living beings. One question in particular that sparked my interest in the vast field is how certain species of animals are able to completely reform a limb after it has been entirely severed. Such a feat is completely and utterly astonishing.…

idea that the Earth is stationary, and positioned in the center of the universe.... even Einstein himself said that all his equations would be just as relevant if the Earth was fixed and motionless..... And know this, it is absolutely impossible for science to make a factual claim, stating that the Earth is not the center universe.... when they discovered the universe was expanding, they came to that conclusion based on the fact that all points of light in the heavens were moving away from…

be resolved. The only difference in the writing is that now it is about disease (Durham, 2007). In both cases the image construed is of a catastrophe removed from the historical context, and a challenge to be solved via appropriation of Western technology and support but again, severely lacking the socio-political and economic…