Fictional scientists

Up, Up, and Away The recent popularity of DC comics’ movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” has turned heads at the box office at a whopping $424.1 million its opening week. So what is a superhero? Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines as a fictional hero having extraordinary or superhuman powers; also: an exceptionally skillful or successful person (Superhero, n.d.). The Important question to be answered is why are superheroes so appealing? History Superhero comics came to prominence in…

In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the economic changes throughout Europe are explored as well as their impacts on the social well-being of the people. Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, Europe was undoubtedly the most developed continent on Earth. With the introduction of the industrial revolution in many European countries, citizens migrated to labour opportunities in larger cities, which promised higher standards of living, rather than working in the country for low wages. This…

Racial prejudice is a big issue within the courts globally. The biggest source of prejudice that the world receives is from government, and the information citizens get is what the government sees as suitable for the world to see. Discrimination in the courts comes from old political and social views, that in today’s society are seen as racist. The criminal justice and judicial systems are not color blind, they see deeper than African- American, Muslim , or Hispanic; they see the stereotypical…

People related by blood to a common ancestor. Many societies, tribes define themselves through terms of relationships between sons, fathers, grandfathers, and other male relatives (also called “matrilineal kinship”). Some groups like to invent fictional relationships in order to make non-family relationships into family ones. Tribal societies are not governed, and do not like governments. Anthropologists call these people tribes only to modernize the sense by saying that these groups of…

not just incongruity to be amused, but the resolution of that incongruity (12). The pleasure of humour in a mature person, according to this view, is not the enjoyment of incongruity, but the enjoyment of a kind of puzzle solving similar to what scientists do. As John Lippitt writes, “even if, in any given example of humour, it is possible to identify an element of incongruity, it is not necessarily this incongruity itself which is the predominant reason for amusement” (200). Andrew Stott…

In the United States, twenty million women and ten million men struggle with eating disorders (“Eating”). Society places high values on being thin, so it’s no wonder that men and women are pushing themselves to keep up with these ideals. People are resorting to vomiting, dieting, and starving themselves to fit in. The number of people with eating disorders has rapidly increased over the years as media has become a more prominent part of daily lives. Messages depicting “perfect” bodies are…

My career development had begun in 1980’s even before I was born. My father was working in a government telecom company. In those days (80’s and 90’s), in India when women were not supposed do job, however my mother got one in one of the state government departments of Maharashtra state in India and started working when she was pregnant with me. She began her job only because she wanted me to be highly educated and hence by earning money she could pay the fees for my education in future. I was…

In Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut expands on his humanistic ideals and explores religion in order to analyze the universality of the principals various religions teach. Vonnegut’s presentation of science and religion in a satirical setting serves to illustrate humanities need for these institutions and discuss the full extent of their impact on humanity. Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle uses a fictitious religion, Bokonism, to show how a faith gains its greatest following during difficult times. This…

migrated (O’Neill 2004, 7). While this idea is not widely accepted anymore, the migration model is one of great prominence. This book uses science to prove why the Bering land bridge is the best hypothesis to explain the peopling of North America. The scientists mentioned in the book studied the bones of animals found in North America and Asia and compared them to draw links to the two continents (O’Neill 2004, 8). Additionally, a Canadian geologist named W.A Johnson drew a connection between…

Doctorow’s final book, Andrew’s Brain published in 2014, is a stream-of-consciousness tale between the protagonist Andrew, a cognitive scientist, and an enigmatic interlocutor, creating a dramatic, vague, and all-around questionable story. Andrew deals with unfair deaths, epistemology scares, and schizophrenic realities of what it is like to be stuck inside one 's mind. Throughout the book…