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Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein fits into the science fiction genre. The definition of this is: fiction based on imagined future scientific and major social or environmental changes. In the 1800s when Frankenstein takes place society was hopeful about science. Victor wanted to know everything about the world but not everything turns out as he intends it to. There are many connections between Frankenstein and what Shelly learned about science. Shelley has the reader thinking about the future…

was to make it possible for users to automatically connect to any other individual who was in the system by means of an operator located in central exchange instead of the branch exchange which had to be done manually. A year after in 1884, Lars Magnus Ericsson of sweden made the first telephone handset, which combined the transmitter and receiver into one. In that same year the Postmaster-General withdrew the restrictions he had imposed for companies to obtain a license to work anywhere in the…

On September 27, 2002, Magnus Gäfgen kidnapped 11-year-old Jakob von Metzler. Fast forward to four days later, when Gäfgen was arrested by German police, who had watched a ransom demanded by Gäfgen be paid out to him, yet with no release of the child was not released or his location.. With time running out and tensions growing, deputy police chief of Frankfurt, Wolfgang Daschner, ordered torture, upon which Gäfgen disclosed Metzler 's location just minutes before the action could be committed,…

What is a Roman tribune? A Roman tribune is soldier who is selected by the citizens ,the Roman people in this case, to help protect the people from oppressive government leaders ,who would try to take the people 's rights ,and make sure the citizens upheld the laws the government made. Having a tribune kept an equal balance of equality to keep the people from attempting treason against their leaders and keeping the leaders from becoming dictators over the people and abusing their power. In order…

Overfishing is, very simply, catching a large amount of fish so rapidly that the population cannot reproduce fast enough to replace those being caught. Signs of overfishing can go back as early as the 1600’s. In Medieval times a pair of fishing boats would drag a net between the two of them catching everything in its path. During the 1800’s, when humans needed blubber for oil lamps, they killed off a huge population of whales. In California, the herring, cod, and sardine population began to go…

increase in the antagonism towards gay and effeminate males.A few writers who described themselves to be of the “intermediate” sex expressed their stand on the matter through their writings. They include John Addington Symonds (England, 1840-1893), Magnus Hirschfeld (Germany, 1868-1935), Edward Carpenter (England, 1844-1929) and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (Germany, 1825-1895). Karl Heinrich Ulrichs is considered these days as one of the earliest forerunners of modern gay rights movement. They all…

In her book, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico, Maria Elena Martinez exposes the relationship between limpieza de sangre and the sistema de castas through its origins in fifthteen-century Spain and its ambiguous implications in Spanish America. Originally containing religious connotations during the Spanish Inquisition over concerns of converted Jews and Muslims to Christianity, Martinez attempts to answer the question of how and why the notion of…

A. In his monograph, Universal Women, Mark Garrett Cooper aims to examine the complex course of events that lead to the displacement of female directors from Universal Film Manufacturing Company during the mid-1920s. Although no direct cause can be confirmed, Cooper utilizes trade journals, newspapers, manuscripts, corporate documents and films in an attempt to draw a path though which to understand a series of circumstances that may have lead to this demise. Cooper hypothesizes that there is…

In Fifth Business, Boy, Dunstan and Paul all move out of Deptford and take on new identities. While their lives had been significantly changed, there were always aspects from their previous lives that they carried with them and eventually succumbed to. Each character evolved differently and went through a very separate set of experiences, but eventually it all came back to them trying to find their identity and place in the world. While they could all be called successful at this, it…

Once ago, I talk with my friend about stuff—if not mistaken, we gossiping a hot Math teacher from Italy, and from where it began, we start talking about gay and LGBT. The pinnacle from it was when my friend proudly declare the gay people is abnormal. I just sit still, silent and stunned. I should start somewhere. Here it is, for myself, to be abnormal is to be true to oneself. And it is kind of freedom that I longingly seek and understand, that is to be true to yourself, to who you are. It is a…