Charles de Secondat

"Knowledge within a discipline develops according to the principles of natural selection." How useful is this metaphor? Many times questioning existing knowledge leads to new evidence that either supports the knowledge or proves to be wrong. Thus knowledge that is preserved is based on natural selection. However how does natural selection determine the value of knowledge? In History, natural selection determines the value of knowledge through the use of memory and belief. Whereas in natural…

Charles Darwin, was an English naturalist best known for his contributions to evolution. Darwin defined evolution as descent with modification. Correspondingly, this is the change over time in the genetic composition of a population. Evolution was mainly influenced by three major ideas that shaped Darwin’s way of thinking: theory of gradualism, principle of uniformitarianism and population view. James Hutton, a Scottish naturalist and creator of the theory of gradualism, proposed that changes in…

Expectations Essay The novel, Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens specifies Pip’s experience through several stages to test his expectations on life struggles. When transitioning through society, Pip becomes oblivious of the meaning of social status and wealth until he falls in love with Estella. His desire for Estella causes him to reject his friends and contradicts his personal values and morals. During the first stage of Great Expectations, Pip is curious and ambitious; As a…

Microevolution allows us to see a small scale of evolution over a short period of time. To visually see and test evolution we need organisms that adapt quickly and have short life spans. Fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, are model organisms in order to gather as much information within a short period of time. Fruit flies have a life span of about 2 weeks, and are low maintenance, making it easy to see several generations. (Varga, S. J., Qi, C., Podolsky, E., & Lee, D , 2014) According to…

Chapters 9 & 10: Pip, upon returning home from Satis House, lies to Joe, his sister, and his uncle about the events at Satis House. After mulling over his guiltiness for a while, he confesses to Joe in the smithy the lie, and tells the true tale of his trip to Satis House. Joe is surprised that Pip would lied, but nevertheless offers him some advice: to stay away from the upper class. Pip keeps Joe’s advice at heart, but can only think about how ordinary Estella would perceive Joe, and dreams…

movies had all been created about the case but there was still no solution. Ruddick adopted the case , and it would lead him all across England and into Jamaica and Australia. Ruddick’s purpose in taking on the case was to finally solve the case of Charles Bravo’s death. Ruddick seems like a reliable author since most of the information he uses was all research. He doesn’t make assumptions based off of the older…

With the emergence of Darwinism’s book, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, several individuals speculated that evolution was the ultimate antagonist toward the fundamental belief of the origin of creation: God. However, Kenneth Miller, a cellular biologist, rejects the separation of the two concepts in his book, Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, by arguing that accepting one belief does not imply refuting the other but…

A Tale of Two Cities was written in the mindset of an ex-prisoner who escaped the Bastille from being wrongfully convicted and poor growing up. He was a scared man in England about a revolution occurring in his hometown, similar to how it did in France. The everlasting commotion of gunshots, ear piercing screams from riots began with the corruption of the first estate.. To say the least, hell broke loose, the mental and emotional wounds that the third estate bared is incomprehensible to the…

“I hope you care to be recalled to life?” And the old answer: “I can’t say.” Doctor Manette is a character in Charles Dickens’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities,” which is set in the late 18th century, right before and during the French Revolution. He was a physician that was called to care for a man and a woman who were injured. He later discovers that these people had been hurt by the Marquis St. Evrèmonde, who had called for his assistance. They imprison Doctor Manette to make sure he wouldn’t…

Evolution does not occur by itself. It uses thousands of organisms that twist together to form all the life on this planet we call home. In our world, nothing exists in isolation yet everything is weaved together to form a complex system of evolutionary changes. In isolation, parasites could not survive and reproduce, plants could not spread their seeds, viruses could not infect their host, and organisms could not form adaptations from their environment that allow them to slowly evolve into…