Charles Wyville Thomson

In Plato 's the Republic book seven we have the allegory of the cave. This cave represents "...education and [our] want of education..." . The cave is a place that 's dark with almost no light. It 's a place where people are bound. They are chained and they can 't move. They stare at the shadows and shapes on the walls but never get to see the what is truth, the reality that is making that shadow. There are puppet masters who can manipulate the shadows and those who are bound think that what…

just because living organisms have design-like properties that they are part of an intelligent design. Manson states in the design argument that there is a more logical reason to account for the design-like properties of living organisms. He cites Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution as a plausible explanation for these having those properties and not being a creation of intelligent design just an adaptability process over billions of years. Looking at the objections made there is still room to…

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens the main character learns an important lesson due to a string of events in the book. Starting Pip’s life, he is brought up by hand by his sister and her husband Joe, for both his parents are dead. Pip and Joe are the best of friends and always have each others backs when Pip’s sister is in a foul mood. Later in Pip’s life, he goes to live with Mrs. Havisham for a little while. At Mrs. H’s Pip is introduced to different ways in which people live. He takes…

drastically over the years, paving a path for women to become educated, and form more equal gender relationships. This development of a new woman formed strongly during the Victorian Era, with help from literary works of Judith Walkowitz, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens. Prior to the Victorian Era, women had little to no voice. Women were controlled by men, owned no property, and were expected to take care of the home and children. If a woman did work, her options were limited to things such…

phenomenon happened with ease. Next, words such as “dissolve” and “blur” prone us to assume that heroes can be broken down and destroyed quickly. And so, it’s a logical transition to then believe, that heroes are not just humans. Finally, in describing Charles Sumner, Boorstin he adds a eulogizing poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “So when a great man dies...the light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men” (53) further dramatizes Sumner’s demise. Next, in stating facts about Sumner…

associate it with animals and how they have taken advantage of their evolutionary timeline. Even though the term might imply that the animal most “fit” would be more likely to survive, it is not in the sense of how physically fit they are. According to Charles Darwin, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” But in the world of science fiction, would we consider change in regards to the conditions of planet Earth, or…

Introduced by Morgan in her Ted Talk clip, the aquatic ape hypothesis is an interesting take on human evolution. The hypothesis revolved around the idea that human beings evolved from “aquatic apes,” or our early ancestors who called that water their home. This hypothesis takes from the fact that humans share many characteristics with other marine mammals, such as being “naked,” having a layer of fat inside the skin, and having conscious control over breathing. Before this hypothesis, however…

something that many believe in because there is prof of where the scientists ideas come from but even so, religious conservatives argue the facts. Evolution is a big reoccurring conflict in both science and religion dating back to the 1800’s when Charles Darwin published his book, The Origin of Species and even earlier. A famous conflict was between Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the Roman Catholic Church. In this conflict, science and religion argued over where the center of the universe…

The concept of race has been modified over time as people change their perspective of the world. Determining the boundaries of human ‘races’ has proven to be challenging, and there have been inconsistencies in defining these racial boundaries (James, 2016). Genetic variation arises from hereditary traits and environmental factors acting on populations. Humans are very visual individuals and consequently, classify things based on what they perceive. When different groups of people came into…

Bryan D’Ostroph SOAN 207 Midterm Assessment Darwin, Social Darwinism, and Darwinian Archeology “Why, if man can patiently select variations most useful to himself, should nature fail in selecting variations useful, under changing conditions of life, to her living products?” This key question that Darwin poses in his chapter “Recapitulation and Conclusion” helps to exemplify the ideas that he conveys regarding natural selection and “descent with modification.” Darwin distinguishes between…