Fictional scientists

Although it seems like something that only occurs in horror movies people sometimes ask themselves is a zombie apocalypse possible in real life? Whether it’s corpses rising from the dead or the spread of an infection, the human race can fade away in the most unexpected way. The closest people have seen to a zombie is through Mad Cow disease spreading to humans after eating the diseased meat. Often times people are worried more about surviving through the whole thing or finding a cure rather than…

Brave New World, a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, is set in London. The year is AD 2540, but referred to in the novel as 632 A.F. – “After Ford.” The work anticipates developments which will combine profoundly in order to change society: sleep-learning, reproductive technology, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning. As the novel’s plot thickens and deepens the further one reads, the discovery of themes and motifs of the work present themselves. The…

God Is Here The existence of God has puzzled humanity since it learned to think scientifically. Philosophers proclaim God’s existence has been a debate for centuries. It has been taken into great consideration by many scholars. The unsurpassable debate of the existence of God will forever be a contentious topic. Human beings are entitled to have their own opinions. God does exist and can be easily proven by carefully examining three arguments Evil, Creation, and Morality. Evil is the first…

A Psychoanalytical Approach on Stanger Things Numerous psychologists have developed and offered their own theories regarding personality. These theories have been used to describe human nature in an everyday setting and in characters in fictional works. This paper will apply Carl Jung’s psychoanalytical approach on several character from the Netflix original series, Stranger Things. Carl Jung and Psychoanalytical Psychology Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who began his career in a mental…

The Crusades: A Catalyst for Exploration “God, glory, and gold--not necessarily in that order--took post-Renaissance Europeans to parts of the globe they had never before seen.”, states Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen at the beginning of their book, A Patriot’s History of the United States (Schweikart). Discoveries stemming from the Crusades’ driven hunger for gold and righteousness are explored in this paper along with contemporary examples of discoveries made to meet wartime needs.…

Introduction H. G. Wells has long been considered the father of the science fiction genre with the publication of his first book, The Time Machine in 1895. This novel details a narrator’s travel through time. The unidentified narrator tells of his voyages through time to house guests of various professional backgrounds except one of religious background. To explain, there is not a minister or priest situated among the house guest. This essay will address the absence of religion in the novel…

Science and technology are enormously popular topics within several utopian and dystopian pieces. Various writers, directors, and reporters tend to portraying technical and controlled advancements within their own fictional societies. This can produce an ideal or flawed society, based entirely on the perspectives of the audience. Aldous Huxley utilizes this format through his novel ¬Brave New World (1932) in which he creates a civilization consisting primarily of genetically engineered…

Stranger Things is a Netflix original series that takes place in 1983 Hawkins, Indiana. Throughout the first season, three boys discover the reality of another world that coexists with our own while trying to find their lost friend, Will Byers. With the help of a government experiment named Eleven, the boys are able to understand that Will is stuck in another dimension. Using the boys’ Dungeons and Dragons game board, she explains that Will is stranded a world very much like their own. According…

A young girl, at the age of 16, was a victim of a traumatic car crash that deeply damaged her spinal cord and left her paralyzed from the neck down. After being hospitalized for almost a year, her doctors concluded that she would never walk again. A nine month old baby boy was admitted to a hospital and diagnosed with sickle cell disease, and the same night, suffered a stroke on his entire right side. A natural gas leak had been detonated inside of a house after a match had been lit, covering…

Theoretical Framework Van Dijk (1993) in his work, on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), defines power as control. According to him, some groups may have more or less power over others. The privileged groups have complete access to resources, for instance, fame, money, knowledge, information, status and are able to shape the discourses prevalent in the society. It is evident from his work, that power is not absolute. Powerful parties may control others, in specific situations and circumstances,…