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mental disorder, or that the author that wrote the book could have one either. Some authors, such as Charles Dickens, were around in a time that they didn’t have the capability of diagnosing mental disorders. What about the characters in these authors stories? Readers don’t think anything can be wrong with them, but what if the characters were real life people? Pip Pirrip; a fictional character in Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Facing hard times growing up in the marshes of Kent in the mid…

When thinking of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities from an adult standpoint many would think that it is an easy book to read. But when consulting a regular high schooler, contrary to popular belief, they might think that it is an ambitious book with cutting-edge vocabulary. Mainly, because when being realistic not all that many high schoolers read 15 - 20 books a year unless prompted or forced to. Which is why a medium sized portion of high schoolers might think that A Tale of Two Cities…

According to Walter Isaacson, author of “The Innovators”, some early women influencers in computing included Ada Lovelace, and Grace Hopper (Isaacson, 2014). She observed while working with Charles Babbages on his calculating machine, that it beyond just calculating numbers, it could support anything symbolically, including music, and word processing. Ms. Lovelace (1815-1852) was a gifted computer programmer and mathematician that was considered to have written instructions for the first…

On the Notion of Perfection in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species In On the Origin of Species (Origin) Charles Darwin argues that natural selection “works solely by and for the good of all being” (13). That which is “good” for a being is defined in a Darwinian sense as any combination of factors that provide an organism reproductive advantages over other organisms in its environment. Later on, Darwin connects this notion of “good” to the idea of perfection, claiming that natural selection…

When Charles Darwin exposed his theory of evolution for the first time, criticism soon aroused. The period 's mindset highly motivated the struggles for acceptance of Darwin 's theory. In other words, by the 1800s, the notion of an old Earth filled with evolving species dating back from billions of years contradicted religious beliefs and was far beyond everything concluded by other scholars. Although his book soon attracted the attention and support of many scientists to his new “Darwinistic”…

To be fair, the process of reading through and understanding Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is not an easy task for a reader who is unfamiliar with the language and culture of the era the novel was written in, 1859 was when it was first published, to be exact. Although, the story itself takes place even earlier, between the times frames of before and during the French Revolution, the text still manages to be confusing to a modern reader. This issue can of course be simply pinned to the…

To put simply, natural selection is the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution. This is a prime factor that also supports the theory of evolution. Everywhere around in the world, you can see how human and animals adapted and received the “better”…

Charles Sheeler photographed the abandoned textile mills of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire and a decaying woolen mill building in Ballardvale, Massachusetts while doing artist-in-residences at Currier Gallery of Art and Phillips Academy Andover respectively. He superimposed these photographs onto one another, creating what he believed to be a more realistic view of his surroundings, Millyard Passage. For him, these superimposed images represented the memories…

that lived on an island with hard fruits would have a beak that could grasp a stick to break open those fruits. A finch that lived on an island with access to large quantities of insects would have a sharp narrow beak to kill and eat those insects. Charles Darwin also observed that tortoise that lived on the mainlands varied from those on the islands. Eventually environments changed so drastically that these tortoise evolved into new species. These weren’t just random changes that occurred, they…

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells the story of Pip, a common orphan boy who dreams of being a gentleman. The novel is set in Victorian England and follows Pip’s encounters with many colorful characters throughout his rise through the social classes. At the center of Pip’s story is the weather. Dickens uses it as a tool to share aspects of the story. Although he may use the weather just to explain the setting of the novel, Dickens actually utilizes it to foreshadow what will happen next…