Fictional scientists

Vonnegut’s Ice-9 What if there existed a type of ice that could freeze anything within seconds of contact? A big plot driver in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle is the made-up bio-weapon called Ice-9 which does exactly that. When Dr. Asa Breed says, “When it [the rain] fell, it would freeze into hard little hobnails of ice-nine—and that would be the end of the world!” he clearly shows how dangerous this weapon is to the entire world (Vonnegut 50). It’s very existence would be a bigger threat…

Nonetheless, scientists agree that drug abuse changes one’s brain chemistry. Moreover, like with most chronic diseases, the longer the use of a drug is, the more consequences there will be. For instance, cannabis, a drug that is mainly consumed as marijuana, impairs cognitive…

illusion of fear in forms like cinema, stories and gaming. Monsters play a large role in the horror genre with movies like World War Z, Alien vs Predator and Jaws. Monsters are iconic now and aren’t seen as something that you fear regularly but as fictional characters that are used to create a false atmosphere of fear for a short…

children are seen being raised up by animals because they were left abandoned and as a result, they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or of human language. Many assume that writers and other people with vivid imaginations make up fictional stories about children raised by animals, unfortunately; indeed it is a fact in history that these children exist. Over the past few decades, there have been cases or stories about feral children, which have shocked the world.…

They could decide if they want a boy or a girl, what tan it will have, if it is going to be blonde or brown haired, what eye color it will have, and also you can enhance certain traits that are in your favor. Do you rather want an athlete or a scientist, a lawyer, a doctor or a model…

Human emotion. Scientists have been studing it for centuries, exploring the vast areas if the human brain. People have tried to understand how human emotional responses work. They've tried to mimic them as well, but have failed to do so. In Mary Shellys fictional sci-fi novel, Frankenstein, a bright but obsessvive scientist named Victor Frankentsein breaks the bounds of nature. He creates a unappealing human-like monster that he immediately despises. When Victor first sees his creation, the…

documentary style shows possess a harder stance on punishment and increased racial prejudice (2013). The result of Mancini’s study found limited support for the “Strong Prosecutor’s Effect.” He also found that people who tended to watch a lot of fictional based crime shows tended to be more likely to acquit (2013). Mancini relates his findings to cultivation theory. Cultivation theory claims that regularly repeated images presented through television can create a distorted perception of the real…

She introduced me to imaginary worlds, to fiction and literature. She not only taught me to embrace my libido, she expanded my mind. A scientist by temperament and training, she especially loved Science Fiction, the trashier and pulpier the better. I was disdainful of the genre at first, but her enthusiasm was infectious. She introduced me to Fitz's book. The first few chapters were difficult…

philosophy by logic reasoning to throw out a philosophical problem. What is so powerful in Story of Your Life is that the author invents an another world that is similar to the real one, but there is no causal order of thinking and language in the fictional world. Instead of mainly explaining why the non-linear thought occurs, Chiang focuses on discussing how does Louis, the person who occasionally obtained the thinking model that future is a fixed number, faces her own life with perseverance…

(AGG) About 7.8 percent of all Americans are affected by PTSD at some point in their life. (BS-1) PTSD is a disorder that is caused by tragedies and causes people to change who they are. (BS-2) Tragedies can occur in many ways, the most common that can cause post-traumatic stress disorder is family loss which is how the characters in the novel developed the disorder. (BS-3) Symptoms of the disorder are used in the book to affect Najmah and Nusrat to make them undergo character change. (TS)…