Homo sapiens

The book Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction (as described by the author) written by Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author; it was a great success in the year of its publication and was a finalist for multiple awards. The book takes place in a dystopian future where humans have been killed off by a deadly man-made virus, and through a series of flashbacks from the sole survivor readers are told of what had taken place. It transports readers from a post apocalyptic world where a man named…

"11 million people were killed during the holocaust.” (The Holocaust, 2014) The holocaust served Jews with being humiliated at home, on the streets, and in concentration camps where they were starved, shaved, and killed by gas chambers. There was a remarkable impact of life changing experiences during the aftermath of the holocaust with having to move to different states and not always knowing where there families are. The holocaust was very devastating in many ways. It all began in 1933 and…

Stevenson Jean Prof. Neil Leach Fall 2016 Emergence Chapters summary Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, by Steven Johnson The word emergence is defined as a system that has many mechanism, but none of the mechanism is called to be the leader of that system. The system works as a whole; every constituent knows their role to fulfil their task without any interruptions. Within the system, all entities follow basic rules and behave to achieve their goal in the same…

Works considered satire are categorized in such a manner because of their use of irony and exaggeration in conveying messages that are critical of certain aspects of life or society as a whole. It can be difficult to distinguish between conventional and satirical novels if the absurdities the author intends to critique are presented in a subtle tone. An example of a novel that is subjectively a mockery of contemporary American life is Don Delillo’s White Noise. While the main characters of the…

In this paper I argue that procreation in a world with limited resources is morally impermissible. I agree with Thomas Young’s argument that overconsumption is morally equivalent, or no morally worse, than procreation. Excessive use of resources is considered morally wrong and as children present an excessive additional use of resources, it follows logically that production of children is unacceptable. For the sake of this argument, like Young’s, we refer to the consumption habits of Americans…

Homo sapiens - our species is the same everywhere regardless of skin color, country of birth, religion, food habits, or accents. Human Race however varies. An Indian looks different than a Nigerian. Race is defined by a group of people of common ancestry, distinguished from others by physical characteristics, such as hair type, color of eyes and skin, stature, etc. (thefreedictionary.com). For centuries, crime and hate has been waged between races. Human rights were created to provide all human…

The author in this chapter connects the early development of religious practice among humans to the environment they inhabited and the respective obstacles within those environments they had to face. Early Homo sapiens had to contend with threats from animals and humans alike. Those with keen senses often fared better than those with less heightened senses. In this context, everything that moved was seen as an agent, an organism that could threaten their safety…

African art and architecture refers to the area around the sub-Saharan Africa. It’s geographically located in Africa continent and south of the Sahara Desert. Since the African Generations exists even before the United States and the nations of Europe became great powers, Africa had witnessed the rise and fall of many kingdoms. The people from this continent has a very long historical culture. Their art work represents the ancient African histories, philosophies, religions, as well as the…

Jayla Hodges 4 Jayla R. Hodges Professor Bork ENG-101-075 9/24/2017 Synthesize evidence from Fuentes's chapter and McIntosh's article to make an argument explaining how "race still matters" – or does not matter – in the U.S.A. today. Move beyond the issues and examples that Fuentes discusses to extend and/or challenge Fuentes's thinking. Race still matters in the United States, however, it should not be an ongoing issue that continues to separate us from being equal. Social class, education…

It is well-justifiable and undeniable that within the race called homo sapiens, lays a concept called happiness which all try to meet. To achieve that common goal, humanity has gone through several lengths, both valiant approaches and those that are frowned upon. And although it is not inappropriate to join the endeavor for…