Buck Mulligan

power of instinct. Buck and the other dogs are living in the frozen terrain of northern Canada and they experience starvation, exhaustion, and freezing temperatures. Buck is put into a place where he must learn skills in order to survive the harsh conditions. Throughout the story we learn that Buck isn't just learning new skills, but is merely recovering primitive instincts. As you read the book, the author writes in way that seems as if Buck is going back to his old ways. Buck is now…

With the focus of discontinuing of mentally ill people in order to better humanity. The case regarding Buck V. Bell began the controversy with eugenics. Buck V. Bell was the case that determined it best to sterilize Ms. Buck and her family for the sole purpose of them becoming unable to bore any children due to them being diagnosed as feeble minded individuals. Following the sterilization of the Buck family, thousands of other people were forced to undergo the same procedure. It wasn’t until the…

The science of eugenics began in the twentieth century by the Franci Galton who coined the idea that favorable characteristics in humans were hereditary. These desirable traits were seen to be prominent in the superior classes thus, sterilizing women of inferior traits to prevent her from spoiling the chances of the master race. This master race consisted of those with high intelligence, fair skin tones, desirable physical characteristics, and not a descendent of a minority background. This form…

The Buck v. Bail court case during 1920's, is concreted to be one of the worst rulings of the Supreme Court in the history of American law. During the 1920’s court case in Virginia, the Supreme Court supported sterilization of so-called mental defectives or imbeciles American’s. The First person who was reported to undergo sterilization was a young poor woman by the name of Carrie Buck. According to the Buck v. Bail video Carrie Buck was confined in the Virginia State colony for the epileptics…

Eugenics is quite the term to the common ear, and for those who have heard someone speak of it probably aren’t familiar with the ethical intricacies lie behind it. A British scholar named Sir Francis Galton pioneered eugenics in the 1930’s, and defined it as the desire for offspring to be “well-born” (Introduction to Eugenics). Eugenics involves manipulation of human reproduction, in an effort to improve bloodlines and the overall physical and mental makeup of a man or a woman (Introduction to…

Herbert Spencer was thought to be the father of social Darwinism. He initially came up with the term survival of the fittest. Eugenics and social Darwinism were both similar since eugenics originated from social Darwinism of the late nineteenth century. "Eugenics" was thought of in 1883 by the English researcher Francis Galton, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton characterized the expression "eugenics” as the theory of hereditary improvement of the human race by selective breeding. The…

Why did the Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses become a law? What type of treatments did the people go through? What effects did it have on the patients, the people who performed the sterilizations/ surgeries, and local citizens? The Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Mental Illnesses became a law because the Germans wanted a pure race. The treatments were brutal and the effects differed from the person’s view of the German race and what a part they…

Summary of James Joyce’s Ulysses Chapter Three Stephen Dedalus goes for a walk. That’s it. That’s all. From a plot perspective, that sums chapter three of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Plot is not the point of the novel, however. Joyce explores, rather, the internal life of each character, his mental responses to the sensory input received during the daily tasks completed in the course of everyday life. In this chapter, the author gives the reader a primer by which to navigate the rest of Ulysses.…

In order to ground himself in pragmatism, Stephen must establish his whereabouts to situate himself in the vast universe. Since the world is, “very big to think about,” Stephen reverts to placing himself in Ireland, his homeland (Joyce 13). By doing so, he is evoking a logical way of thinking. In youth, Stephen attempts to imitate Byron while writing poetry. However, he gets distracted and begins daydreaming. In his ambition to be creative, he realizes that he has nothing original or significant…