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Ernst Mayr: an esteemed biologist who contributed to avian taxonomy, genetics, and evolution. He was a man who accomplished much, did much, and learned much. In his time, he was known as the ““Darwin of the 20th century””, because he expanded on Darwin’s theory of natural selection and completed it. (Encyclopedia Britannica) He earned many accomplishments and became honored in our society. Ernst Walter Mayr, born on July 5, 1904 in Kempten, Germany, was raised in a family of boys. His father…

Nancy is a young detective in the 1940’s and she has solved many mysteries before. It starts out with Nancy trying to find a birthday present for her dad in an anticic store. As she leaves the store she walks into a women who ask her to take her home. Nancy being a nice young lady help the old women get home. She lived in a mansion and had a maid waiting at the door for her arrival. This old women turned out to a queen who had to run away from her country a long time ago. Nancy went out with…

Clive Donner’s film A Christmas Carol, which is based upon the novella by Charles Dickens, is arguably one of the most authentic adaptations in this present time, however it poses several slight differences to the original storyline. Both mediums represented the idea of family and familial gatherings at Christmastime as ones of warmth, joy and “all in a glow” brought on by the idea of hope through the birth of Christ and Scrooge as the stark opposite, a “grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous…

never seen before. Two books, Les Misérables and A Tale of Two Cities, are perfect examples that demonstrate the chaos of that time. One book, Les Misérables, is written by Victor Hugo, who is French, whereas the author of A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens, an Englishman. However, while Les Misérables and A Tale of Two Cities differ slightly, the overall takeaway from these stories is similar. Revolutionists were a core focus in both books but they were shown in drastically different…

White Collar Crime: Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme We have all heard of a Ponzi scheme and may know of someone who has fallen victim to this type of fraud but we may not all be familiar with the definition of a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud in which funds from a new investor are taken to pay an existing investor an alleged return on their investments. New investors are recruited by being guaranteed high return rates with little to no risk for loss. The organizer of the…

The demise of Madame DeFarge, the Marquis, and Lorry Stryver were inevitable and cannot even be justified by being labeled unfortunate or untimely. As the novel went on, it became evident that their extreme character flaws would soon lead to self-destruction; Dickens makes this theme universal by using it repeatedly in both the English and French characters. Strangely, these characters all share two negative traits: evil and envy. It became obvious as the story progressed that at some point, as…

(Understanding Evolution, 2015). It is commonly theorised that living organisms have developed from simpler forms of life over a period of millions of years and branched out to become different species with similar genetic material (The Scientist, 2011). Charles Darwin is a notable biologist from the 18th century who hypothesized the theory of evolution and penned his at the time controversial evidence into a book he later published as ‘On the Origin of the Species’ 1859. His concept of natural…

Charles Darwin is the father of evolution by natural selection and was seen as a figurehead for logical and pure reasoning. Even today the image of Darwin is one of the most circulated and recognizable images. In the nineteenth-century Darwin had a cultish following from the public, but that did not mean that everyone accepted his work as fact. Those who did accept his work were quick to expand the ideas presented by Darwin and use them to justify their own cause. One of these was the use of…

One of the more popular and underlying theme’s, manifested by Charles Darwin, who during the 1900’s, proposed the theory of evolution. In Darwin’s theory, survival encouraged the reproduction of those species whose varying traits could be the determining factor for a species continuance. The generation after would receive these dominant genes and would be better suited to survive, sustain a healthy population, and the list goes on. Social Darwinism always came back to the idea of “Natural Law."…

Dandelion on My Pillow, Butcher Knife Beneath In Dandelion on My Pillow, Butcher Knife Beneath Nancy Thomas wrote about her early life experience with abuse and the many children she helped recover from the effects. He story includes domestic abuse from a young marriage and the abuse of her children by her husband. The effects of early abuse and time away from their working mother caused Chucky and R.B., Nancy's children, to suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder. Nancy's effort to help her…