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Paradigms “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” introduced Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm theory. Paradigms describe the scientific observations of a natural phenomenon or theory (Kuhn 2012, 41). Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” provides a philosophical look into the scientific process and an understanding of how theories change and progress over time. Paradigms help explain theories, concepts, and observations so they can be learned from (Kuhn 2012, 43). Kuhn himself…

not a good thing for us to have our individual thinking and be independent. In Susan Blackmore’s essay “Strange Creatures”, she claims that people become the host of meme because it is passed from one person to another easily. Meme is also “selfish”--using its unique behaviour to get itself copied in order to survive and reproduce. Meme is especially popular during individual's elementary education which prevent people from having their own critical thinking because they only receive the…

turned into a collection of memes and hashtags that have continued to circulate widely on social media. Why Harambe? The fact that Harambe was turned into a meme in the first place is not surprising. When stories like this get covered on the news and begin circulating on social media, they are often easy targets for the…

Technology has opened the door to many opportunities for many people, one more funny and silly aspect of it is memes. Oxford Dictionary defines a meme as “A humorous image, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.” As the internet has become more accessible to everyone over time memes have become a bigger part of the internet as a whole, which…

voice to survive from the discrimination. To survive among the people, they choose to keep their real identity: Blackness and spend efforts to maintaining the voice. While it processes, it works as like meme that “all they want is to be passed on to the next generation (Blackmore 35)”. Through the memes view, maintaining single voice passed on person to person and people gains advantages from its progress. There are still certain ways of discrimination but the single voice bring the better world…

Perpetually Malicious Author Stephen Kendrick once stated in his book The Love Dare,“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.” Almost every iniquity in the world has been caused by narcissism. Selfishness thrives in humans, feeding off of their evilness. People forget that evil exists within themselves as well, not just their peers. Evil is a very loose term, however the most clear denotation…

Dawkins and the Selfish Gene: A Summary In Dawkins in the Selfish Gene, Ed Sexton summarizes Richard Dawkins’ gene theory. He debunks misconceptions about theory: most assume it will be about selfish behavior in humans, but it is actually about evolution and a gene’s will to survive over others. He accurately explains the basic gene theory in simple terms that make Dawkins’ ideas clearer to readers. The original purpose of Dawkins was to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism, but he…

Introduction The topic of bilingual language play used in social media in particular Spanish. Especially when social media uses memes that are shared within a few minutes and are spread like wildfires. Social media has become a place in which the human population interacts by posting pictures and sharing their experiences and expressing their feelings. Memes are just way to show humor. As a bilingual speaker, in which I speak both Spanish and English I definitely understand the sense of…

A meme is, as Blackmore describes it, “[w]hen you imitate someone else, something is passed on. This ‘something’ can then be passed on again, and again, and so take on a life of its own. We might call this thing an idea, an instruction, a behavior, a piece of information … but if we are going to study it we shall need to give it a name. Fortunately, there is a name. It is the ‘meme’” (34). When capitalism is considered a meme, ideal and practice are separated because…

The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…