Fictional scientists

characterology, which was founded by Aristotle, and flourished during the Renaissance. Aristotle believed one could create a portrait for an individual by emphasizing their style of life, habits, and central traits. This approach led to the creation of fictional characters and eventually modern day literature. In the late 1700’s, Franz Gall developed the approach phrenology, or cranioscopy. He believed that there were 35 regions and organs of the mind. Bumps on the skull, and their thickness,…

Have you ever wondered what would happen to the world if we had too much knowledge? In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, she contributes an incredible insight as to what possibly could happen in a fictional way. Having too much knowledge can have many outcomes that would be seen as dangerous. Once society gets ahold of potentially dangerous knowledge the world could fall apart before our very eyes. Possessing dangerous knowledge would most likely result in morally wrong actions being taken, harmful…

minimum drinking age, the rates of problems such as “traffic crashes and presentations for intoxication at emergency departments” had significantly increased, especially among the sixteen to nineteen year old age group (Gruenewald et al. 1757). The scientists find that before the law went into effect, many public health researchers and agencies thought that lowering the minimal drinking age would lead to greater use of alcohol and greater problems among the adolescent adult age group, and some…

Robert Duarte Mr. Recinto 12-5-15 Young Barry Allen's life stopped the minute his mother was murdered. The true killer never found, its mystery obsessed Barry, driving him to become a forensic scientist. Consumed by his work, he spent his life chained to his desk, solving every case that flew across it. But when a freak lightning bolt hits a nearby shelf in his lab, Barry receives super-speed, becoming the Flash. Now, he'll race up buildings, across oceans, and…

Frankenstein, Freddy Kruger, the Blob, Godzilla, the bogeyman are all fictional monsters that have haunted humanity for generations, known for the terror they spread. Unfortunately, not all monsters are fictional; there are even some masquerading as humans that show no humanity or compassion. Second only to Hitler himself, Dr. Joseph Mengele is the most notorious monster since the last millennium. Dr. Mengele performed a myriad of horrid experiments in the hops of not only creating the perfect…

When looking at any successful scientist or pilot there are some traits that each one must possess. Throughout Kitty Ferguson’s biography Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind and the fictional novel The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko the protagonists Stephen Hawking and Alex Romanov share many qualities and similarities about how they work, in their respective fields of work, and how they handle situations when introducing a new concept or flying a spacecraft. Not only do these characters show…

The Accuracy of Parts from The Martian The Martian is a fictional movie about an astronaut, Mark Watney, who gets stranded during the third manned mission to Mars and his survival story. This story can be broken down into three main parts. How he was stranded, what he did to survive, and the rescue mission to return him back to Earth. Each of these categories have smaller sub-sections to them. While analyzing pieces of the main parts in the movie, scientific accuracies and inaccuracies can…

H. L. Mencken suggests, “To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual antithesis- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young women for a goddess” (Evans 404:3). Teenage girls commonly misinterpret romance. Contemporary teenagers’ invest their hearts into finding Prince Charming because the media manipulates them to do so. Since the media sets these false expectations, it is nearly impossible for teenagers to find healthy relationships. Teenagers’ have to face…

vibrant scientist named Aylmer and his lovely wife Georgiana. Aylmer confesses to Georgiana that he isn’t fond of a small hand-like figure birthmark on her face. Aylmer believes he can remove the birthmark in a science experiment and make her as beautiful as nature intended her to be. Georgiana agrees to remove the birthmark in this experiment which ultimately leads to the removal of the birthmark, but also brings death to Georgiana. In “The Birthmark” Nathaniel Hawthorne creates the fictional…

Watchmen character Dr. Manhattan serves a purpose of displaying Moore’s concept of human dependence in American society.” The opening of the essay will have a description of Aperture Science Laboratories form a video game called Portal where the scientist create artificial intelligence technology that was meant to help humanity but one dreadful day the technology decides to go against the human creators creating a god complex for the technology. I would follow by a real life attempt by creating…