Alchemy

In the course of achieving scientific understanding, it becomes necessary to distinguish between what can be proved and what cannot. Falsifiability is a necessary tool in making that distinction between what can be verified and what cannot, while also providing a criterion between pseudoscience and science. Though it’s not perfect, it’s a solution that works for the time being in creating scientific discoveries and refuting incorrect information. In the beginning of human discovery, there is as…

the Nazgûl. The poison turns one into a wraith, but can be slowed with athelas (S., Kingsfoil), and Elrond was able to “heal” Frodo, though not completely. I’ll work on the assumption that the poison is not a coating, but a combination of magic and alchemy that fuses it with the metal itself. The process is so difficult, only Sauron could do it. His masterpiece, so to speak, is the nine blades the Nazgûl carry, the only ones that can turn someone into a wraith. However, Sauron created more of a…

The two theorists I have explored in this assignment are Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. I am looking at Freud’s concepts of: Transference and Counter- Transference & Defence Mechanisms – Rationalisation and Disavowal. Also I am using Jung’s concepts of: to deepen my understanding of the psychoanalytic approach to understand human behaviour. Freud Transference Transference is the return of a figure from childhood or the past. The patient is consequently transferring their feelings and reactions…

Turing Test--The beginning of Artificial Intelligence In the past half century, Turing Test is being a controversial barrier in the study of artificial intelligence. The AI program cannot achieve the satisfactory standing due to the restriction of computing chip and storage, the limits of programming language, and the lack of creativity, which leads to an insoluble result. With the continuous development of science and technology, most problems will be solved in the future. However, some issues…

of the society but also against his own dilemmas and doubts. Eminent English novelist David Mitchell (b.1969) calls the book “an additive childhood memoir, a museum-in-prose of a city with West in its head but East in its soul, and a study of the alchemy between place and self”. Pamuk wrote this memoir at the age of fifty two, compiling all those spots of time, memories, and feelings which he believes shaped his persona. Pamuk, as he is known for being an experimental, innovative and versatile…

He believes he only way to learn about alchemy is to read books, but when he finally got to he oasis all the alchemist told him was “go and try” (Coelho, 95). Sometimes people make other people responsible for their personal legend. The Englishman put his personal legend in the hands of those…

Lady Ranelagh’s chemistry book, like Lavoisier, demonstrates a direct interaction with substances. Lavoisier criticizes relying on “suppositions handed down from one age to another [which] acquire additional weight from the authorities by which they are supported, until at last they are received even by men of genius, as fundamental truths.” Lavoisier is keen to usurp the Aristotelian elements which plagued the Universities teaching of chemistry. His solution to the mistakes made by relying on…

Ethnology is the study of culture of nations. Ethnology will also study the culture of a nation can only be studied, but also the culture of many peoples, comparing the cultures of more social features can also be generalized across the entire humanity. Ethnology is a study of culture that can be called the wisdom of the life in nations. Even if ethnography is targeting at ethnic study, anthropologist have to comparative study and identify the characteristics of different culture. Also,…

In the Gilded Age, the distinction between the upper and lower class were more prominent than other era in American history. While the lower class strives to attain the American Dream, the wealthy are immersed in luxurious amenities that blindside them to the societal issues around them. In The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, Lily Bart is depicted as a fledgling socialite seeking to enter the upper echelons of the Gilded Age. However, her moral standards unfortunately restrain her ability to…

The Scarlet Letter: The Essay In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne focuses on how revenge takes control of a person and ultimately destroys his very being. Although published in 1850, the story of The Scarlet Letter takes place in the 1600s during the early colonial era in America. Hawthorne depicts a Puritan world where people were ‘religious’ yet hypocritical and conforming to society. Within this community, a seed of revenge has been planted by Roger Chillingworth and the seed will soon…