Fictional scientists

store that was now a smoking mound of rubble. That’s when I noticed the body of my best friend, lying motionless in the street. I thought he was dead, until I could hear a faint cry for help between the shots of gunfire that seemed endless. Social scientists started studying and debating the effects of video game violence in the 1980’s. With technology advancing in great strides, video games today are more realistic and bloodier than ever before. New research does show that playing games can…

Flying Sword In this essay I have chosen to compare the Cid Ruy Diaz de Vivar with Superman, a fictional character, a comic book superhero and famous movies. The legend of El Cid sits in the era of the Middle Ages around the twelfth century, when society was divided into fiefs or kingdoms preceded by a King, who dominated a given territory and engaged in the defense and protection of its people. The subjects, in turn, pay taxes to contribute to the King in such objectives. El Cid was not a…

reader can understand the underlying meanings of Aylmer’s quest in "The Birthmark". The environment and ancestry of Nathaniel Hawthorne are vital to understanding the shaping of the creation of “The Birthmark” however, the literary elements in this fictional short story are the greatest strength of the short story. An author is extremely affected by the environment he or she develops in and their ancestry. Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in Salem, Massachusetts which is a town full of rich, engaging…

between the ages 18-23 agreed on the perceived idea that there is an existing dispute between these branches. However, the reality is that only eleven percent of Americans belong to a religion which denies findings of modern science, and 52 percent of scientist believe that there is a superhuman being or spirit which has power over nature and/or human fortunes. Moreover, Voorhis declared how, although, he studies science for a living, it may not answer all questions. “We are left with a feeling…

According to Marina Kravkosky, scientists have based their studies exclusively on how we judge others based on two components: warmth and competence (Krakovsky, 2009). People tend to make mental shortcuts by favoring our own land and discriminating against others. In The Hanging Judge,…

Vonnegut creates a fictional religion that allows him to show how people find unity through their religion. Bokononism is intended to represent all religions. Bokononism gives people…

The book Unwind is a fictional book written by Neal Shusterman. In the book, everybody donates 99.4 percent of their body when they are unwound. In the future, this may actually be possible. Based on information that I found, it could happen and the future and decrease the numbers of people on the waiting list for organs. Part of the book could happen in today’s world and in the future with technology advancing and the demand for organs rising. Organs are matched by blood and tissue typing,…

messages they received, and if it will affect them in adulthood. There has been no research done using this theory and focusing in on female roles in science fiction horror films. This theory will help support my results on if the viewing of these fictional female roles affected their roles in their real future. To see if the film screen heroes influenced a culture change in society by making them stronger. By using other researchers work, a pattern should be found to also support the…

The film Blade Runner of 1982, poses the question of “what makes a human? And what makes a machine?”. If ultimately humans are trying to make “machines” just like themselves, then why are they not treated like humans. If humans are trying to create an “artificial life” that embodies human, they should treat it like a living life rather than a disposable object. Blade runner is essentially about Deckard (Harrison Ford), is a “blade runner”, who is a specialized assassin that his hired to find and…

The Perception of Monsters in Film Horror, as a genre of film, has grown and expanded from its beginnings in the 1930s when the term was brought about. Horror films, according to Noël Carroll, are paradoxical in the fact that they provide the viewer with something in the film that they can find to be both disgusting and pleasurable. This paradox of horror is further described by Carroll as being necessary in order to achieve the cognitive pleasure provided by the narrative of the film.…