Meme

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…

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…

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…

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…

form of communication in today’s culture. What do I meme? The use of the Internet meme has served as a phenomenon that has changed the way people communicate and have had a notable influence on forms of cultural expression. Memes are defined as, “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another in a culture and often altered in a creative or humorous way (i.e. images, phrases, snapshots, gifs, etc.).” The rise of the meme culture in a fragmented landscape has no doubt…

news consumption, along with television viewership and even the use of an app, allows the meme of Waldo to spread rapidly; Waldo evolves into an international phenomenon by the end of the episode. At the close of the show, Waldo is seen across billboards in a Orwellian police state, proving that he has become one of the most powerful memes ever created. According to a passage in our text by Richard Brodie, “A meme is a unit of information in a mind whose existence influences events such that…

Hannah Natanson the author of “Harvard Rescinds Acceptances for at Least Ten Students for Obscene Memes” wrote an unbiased article informing a general audience about the issue mentioned in the title. Natanson explains the why Harvard rescinded the acceptances and provides arguments from opposing sides about Harvard’s right to rescind acceptances. I agree with those who support Harvard’s right to rescind acceptances. Everyone is legally and morally responsible for the content exchanged through…

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 election, the internet’s collective obsession has effectively given the gorilla a new life. Furthermore, any…

does a meme equal? Numerous people in today’s society are not in favor of the Obama era, so various jokes and stabs in the form of memes are targeted toward our 44th president. The memes listed above are both categorized as amusing because of several unique factors that we will discuss later, and how these details allow them to be entertaining. This paper shall explore how the fun factor is achieved by the history of the allusions featured, the types of humor used, and the audience of these…