Death of a Naturalist

they don’t notice everything that nature has given them a chance to see. Nature gives us this beauty and we just destroy it. John Muir also called “Wilderness Prophet” was an important figure because he was one of the most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, he helped create and save several national parks, and he created the Sierra Club. John Muir was born on April 21, 1838, in Dunbar, Scotland. He was the son of Daniel Muir and Anna Gilrye. His father, Daniel Muir was a…

London. They became good friends up until Hunter's death in 1793. John Hunter had a large influence on Jenner and gave him the advice, “Why think [i.e., speculate]—why not try the experiment?”. After Jenner's studies in London, he returned…

trauma (Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust, 2014).The victim of the 2012 New Delhi gang rape eventually died from her injuries, while her family members had to watch her go through multiple operations and eventually deal with the emotional loss from her death (Best, 2013). Even a year after her passing, her father was quoted ‘There is not a day go by that we don’t cry. I am talking to you, but I’m thinking of her (Shama, 2013)’ and that ‘I cannot rest until they are all dead (Shama, 2013).’ This shows…

The novel McTeague was published in 1899 by the author Frank Norris. A common theme along with many others shown in this novel is Social Darwinism which is shown through many of the couples. Frank Norris used Social Darwinism and Naturalism to show the struggles people dealt with on an everyday basis. Social Darwinism is most simply put as survival of the fittest. Also this novel shows the uglier side of urban society at that time. Frank Norris wrote the novel McTeague not to just show how…

Frank Norris, a famous writer of the late 1850’s and early 1900’s, had written many famous and well known books about naturalism among the realism movement of writers in his time, with works such as McTeague, The Pit, and the Octopus . And with his naturalist writing style, Frank had received a lot of criticism on the way he had portrayed social Darwinism, and many people didn’t like his books at first. But as time passed, people would realize that these views had not been far off, thus…

Arthur Miller was looked at as a prominent figure during the twentieth century. Miller was an essayist and wrote creative American playwrights. Throughout his career he earned the Tony Awards for Best Play, Kennedy Center Honors, and several more. He is also famously known for his short marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Miller started as a young man with a dream and ended with a wonderful life, and several writings behind. Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York to a family of…

Stephen Crane, a naturalists author, writes about people living in situations beyond their control. In Maggie, A Girl of the Streets there are characters written in a way the represents the world that surrounds them. Characters who are subjected to the type of world they were born in and are never able to leave. The dark region of Rum Alley of New York portrays the personalities of the characters that live there. Maggie was the only one in her family that had hope to leave the tenements while…

Protagoras was a Pre-Socratic philosopher who followed the beliefs of the Sophists, a group of naturalist intellectuals who believed in the concept of relativity. Relativity is the belief that, “the truth about something depends on what person or cultures believe” (Vaughn 46). This concept has sparked numerous accounts of debate, most notably by the philosopher Pluto, and continues to be a topic of debate in today’s society. However, Protagoras’s views of relativity and his belief that “Man is…

people, I’ve experienced loss of a loved one, my mother who was cremated and her ashes spread in Rocky Mountain National Park, her request while living. Linda Badham’s realistic approach of resurrection and the problems associated with life after death brought about a sense of fear and dread within me. Linda Badham brings to light, how unlikely is it that our various atoms would come together to reconstruct our original human form (Peterson, et al., Philosophy of Religion, p.507)? Would we…

Vegetable Spirit: The “vegetable spirit” was a concept introduced by Isaac Newton who was an active physicist in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To Newton, the vegetable spirit was a vital alchemical principle that explained cohesion and surpassed the realm of vulgar mechanics. He thought the Light of Genesis could be explained by the vegetable spirit and its fermental virtues because it was the vital ether in the world and God’s agent on Earth. Newton’s vegetable spirit represents the…