Fictional scientists

believing they can do the same and get away with it. Ronald Bailey stated, “Basic theory linking media violence to real violence can be summarized as “monkey see/monkey do.” They believe media consumers have difficulty distinguishing between real and fictional mayhem.” “Reel violence leads to Real violence” (Bailey 1). ‘There is now growing reason to suspect that playing violent video games does not impact prosocial behavior in a normal population,’ concluded by researchers.” (Bailey 2)…

effects and then got into the second series called “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” We were never Trekkies but we both enjoyed sci-fi and the “Next Generation” series was actually quite well done. One of the things I always appreciated about this fictional foray into outer space “to boldly go where no man has gone before,” was their prime directive to not interfere with the civilizations they visited. It made for some interesting plot twists when they knew they could make things better for…

Man has started out with good intentions, but in so doing, he may have doomed himself. In 1896, radioactivity was discovered by Henri Becquerel (Nobelprize.org). Upon its discovery, scientists started experiments on it, eager to learn everything they could about it. Radiation was experimented with by numerous scientists, one of the most well known of these, being Madame Curie. She spent her life studying radium,…

In the book “Faces At the Bottom of the Well” author Derrick Bell writes different fictional stories that tackle the permanence of racism in the United States. Bell was a professor at Harvard Law School, where he left his position to protest against the absence of African American women on the faculty. Him being such a prominent scholar from Harvard Law, in each story he added legal analysis to look at each issue from a different perspective. Bell main argument in this book is that “Racism is…

reality through the use of extraordinary fictional characters, such as the Green Arrow and the Flash. These two DC characters differ greatly from each other, and in their own way they each represent opposite sides of the superhuman realm. The Flash (A.K.A Barry Allen) represents a more familiar part of what has become defined as a hero. Born a normal boy, Barry Allen grew up with an unbelievably compassionate personality and became a forensic scientist with the hope of freeing his father from…

Chapter Two Ethnographic Fictional representation of tribe and gender in select fiction of Pratibha Ray Pratibha Ray’s The Primal Land is the story of Bonda tribals who struggled to survive through the development induced displacement of their indigenous ‘country’. She reconstructs the socio-cultural myths, beliefs and rituals of the past and also the present transformations in the socio-cultural setup in the Bonda lands. BondaRay’s narrative provides us the social, political, and economic…

thing that might befall their mind is violence and destruction. Watching the wrath of mother nature before your eyes can be disheartening. Several movies have depicted her power such as San Andreas (2015), and Geostorm (2017). While these movies are fictional they do display how terrifying nature can be to the frailty of life. Evolutionary systems such as natural selection and survival of the fittest, weed out the weak and increase the strong. Nature can often be a very cruel mistress to the…

completely fictional. Fast forward to today and we now have the technology and resources to effectively pursue stem cell research and cloning. Interestingly Michigan has banned cloning but “state law does permit the use of embryonic stem cells in research within Michigan labs as long as they have been retrieved from embryos outside of the state.” (Katz and Walker 11). While stem cell research may be deemed inappropriate for society, it is simply remarkable the number of breakthroughs scientists…

out of society. I like this source ever though it is a fictional movie because it shows a good depiction of what a highly genetically modified world could look like. I also like this movie also because it was made in the late 90s, so…

The Philosophy of Romanticism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Science, and scientific ambition is a central theme that is explored in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Mary Shelley demonstrates through her story that scientific advancement often comes at a cost to both society and more specifically to the personal lives of those affected by scientific achievement. This can also be reflected in the time period that she lived in, and the rise of the ideology of romanticism. In the novel, Shelley uses…