Leonard McCoy

one of the head scientists on the project. While he is speaking to his mother, Dr. Carol Marcus, he remarks, “We’ve built something that can be perverted into a terrible weapon,” (David Marcus, Wrath of Khan). Although he believes that this weapon can be used for evil, he continues to create it. This implies that he believes Genesis can be kept out of the wrong hands, even though people will try to bastardize its purpose. When this conversation takes place, the audience does not yet know what Genesis does. Once Captain Kirk discloses the nature of Genesis to Dr. McCoy and Spock, they all begin discussing the morality of such a weapon. McCoy questions the morality, stating, “Dear Lord. You think we 're intelligent enough to... suppose... what if this thing were used where life already exists?” (Leonard McCoy, Wrath of Khan). Spock reveals that all life on said planet would be destroyed, and used in the new matrix. McCoy begins to liken this machine to having the power of God, seeing it as a terrible thing, saying that they are “...talking about…

love in a practical way. Not everything is black and white, there are not just two paths. It is my belief there are three. The first path is doing something practical, something that gives you money and security. Highly educated writer and musician Carl McCoy writes an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on May 28, 2013, it is called Dear Grads: Don 't Do What You Love. He points out that commencement speakers are always trying to force the inspiration to do a job you love over something…

Many football players go their whole career without doing anything to help people off the field. They make a difference on the field, but off the field, it is a whole different ball game. Tim Tebow is a man of courage, love, faith, and hope. He spent his whole college and NFL football career, devoting himself to sharing the gospel and giving people hope in their darkest days. Tim Tebow used his fame as a way to help kids with dyslexia, ADHD, cancer patients, and disadvantaged kids. He is known…

he immediately assumed it was Gatsby who drove the car and not Daisy. In Tom’s mind, Gatsby had already come close to taking his wife from him and so it wasn’t a stretch to think that Gatsby was getting back at him for ruining his chances with Daisy by killing his mistress. His train of thought would have been logical if Gatsby actually knew that Myrtle was Tom’s mistress or if he knew that Tom had a mistress to begin with. Tom was so focused on Gatsby and how much he hated him due to his…

Death was an ongoing matter during the nineteen forties due to the events of WWII and the holocaust which brought a sense of darkness upon the world as a whole. The thought of despair and desolation was embedded in the mind’s of people as WWII lasted several years. The world witnessed the deadliest wars of all times with the loss of millions of lives. whether it was captured on the news, written in the papers or witnessed in reality, the whole world was alert to it. This brought a gloomy…

For example, the males in The Big Bang Theory are all scientists. Leonard Hofstadter is an experimental physicist at Caltech in Pasadena, Sheldon Cooper works as a theoretical physicist at Caltech, Howard Wolowitz works as an aerospace engineer and former NASA astronaut at Caltech in Pasadena, and Raj Koothrappali is an Indian-born astrophysicist who lives in Pasadena and works at Caltech. Unfortunately, one of the main women characters in The Big Bang Theory is another story. Penny is a…

The edits and revisions of Ayn Rand’s novella, Anthem, strengthen the message that collectivism is oppressive and objectivism is necessary for an individual to function. Rand’s edits of diction and sentence structure assist in developing the meaning of the novella. Ayn Rand, author of the novella Anthem, utilizes diction and sentence structure in order to develop the villainy of collectivism and the virtue of objectivism. Rand’s choice of diction in the edited novella complicates and confuses…

Symbolism in Anthem This story is about how the future could look like in communist Russia, it basically explains in detail what the people in the society are living and how they think of everyone as their brothers and how men can’t look at women and can’t keep their children with them, basically no one knows who their real family actually is in this society. Ayn Rand uses symbolism to show that Anthem truly belongs to dystopian literature by discussing light, names and freedom. As we have…

Connor Boldt Mr. Storsveen Prep LIt and Comp. 1 November 2017 Anthem Essay I’m myself, not a label ( John Bunner). In this quote he means that don’t be put as a label and be who you want to be. Nobody can make the decision for who you are, you have to shape that. This is like Equality 7-2521, he doesn’t get to be who he wants to be. He is forced to be who they want him to be. He is not himself he is a label. In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 portrays his identity through…

Orthodontics At Clear Lake Dental Care Having crooked teeth can ruin your smile. If you show your crooked smile to someone that you are associating with, it can change the way they look at you. A great example of this would be if you are in a job interview and show your potential boss your crooked smile. Even though it sounds shallow, a potential employer could look at you as a lesser candidate for the job if you have an unattractive smile. A crooked smile can affect you negatively in all areas…