Bounty hunter

The Reincarnation of the Eight-Legged Guide In a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, human bounty hunters and androids are firmly pitted against each other in a race for survival, and empathy, which only the humans allegedly possess, is the sole differentiating factor. In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, through the evolution of the characters’ shifting perception of the spider, PKD uses the insect as a guide in order to reveal the destruction of traditional ideas rooted in…

theme through out the story. Everyone in the story is trying to capture these robotic looking humans to retire. They look so much like humans that being able to identify one is very hard. The creation of the empathy box is made and it gives the bounty hunters a more effective way on being able to recognize a human from an android. Androids are known to not show empathy and humans are the exact opposite. Humans are known to care for one each other probably because they know what it feels like…

When we think of the Wild West, the first things that usually come to mind are cowboys, gunfights, revenge, duels and Indians. The typical cowboy we think of is a rugged, tough looking man, dressed in a “cowboy” hat, a vest, leather chaps and boots with two revolvers holstered around his waist, always at the tips of his fingers. While these images, in part, reflect reality -- there were cowboys and bandits and Indian raids -- they are primarily based on popular culture, the movies, TV shows,…

one that guaranteed a killshot 100% of the time. Considering it was naturally augmented, his eye had a feature that allowed him to see anything from a least 500 yards off. It was no surprise that that eye alone made him the most sought after bounty hunter in the world. His skin tone was slightly pale, mainly due to the fact that he had hardly a lot of time to spend outside in the day time unless if his job required it. Once in a booth, Dante slung his booted feet up onto the table where he then…

Normally, it was not unlike Kolda to rise before a human had any right to, on the cusp of an ink-blotted morning, when the trees were still working tirelessly to shake the vestiges of dew from their waxy-leaves. When, on the horizon, a burnt orange ribbon lined its lip, radiating waves of indigo and cobalt and casting the world beneath it in an eerie, complacent glow. A creamy fog would trickle across the hyssop field from border of Sylph Grove, a merciful cover to nature’s cities beneath,…

controversial topic between the North and South and sparked a lot of criticism and disagreement fueling tensions between the two regions (“Fugitive Slave Acts”). Northerners believed that the law was “turning their states into a stalking ground for bounty hunters, and many argued the law [...] legalized kidnapping” (“Fugitive Slave Acts”). The formation of many resistance groups became more common including the strengthening of the Underground Railroad as well as many states such as Vermont and…

What was the Underground railroad? When I was a kid I had always thought they were well Underground Railroads. Now, it sounds pretty ridiculous but I was a young and didn’t know better. However I now know that they actually weren’t underground railroads at all. They are basically a network of safe houses and people who contributed to the escape of slaves to the north colonies or to Canada. The numbers of escapees a year where small, only about 1000 slaves a year, but over the years it would add…

When some people think of the internet, they think of freedom. The freedom of sharing and receiving information, the freedom of expression, and the freedom of speech are all exercised on the web. With all this, one couldn’t expect such a place to be neat and clean. If content isn’t meant for someone under the age of 18, the parents of that minor should be monitoring what they’re viewing. If content is illegal, there are laws set in place to prohibit and punish those who break them. It shouldn’t…

There is not one film or text responsible for this, but many as there are many perspectives on what sci-fi is described as. The genre does not have one definition, but rather many, varying from the number of people asked. According to the writer, Hugo Gernsback, "Science-fiction ... can be defined as: imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future" (Gernsback). . Hugo Gernsback’s definition of science fiction is strongest because it…

Although he was a considerable bounty hunter, he gained no support. With urgency, he travelled to a multitude of areas in District 4. His efforts, for the larger part, were of no avail. Obstinate to build support, he mustered together a band of no greater than fifty people to join the cause…