Meme

and making a difference worldwide as opposed to Gladwell’s view making a difference in the country. Just like how Blackmore explains how memes are just passed on by anyone not trying to. “This is the sense in which memes ‘want’ to get copied and spread, ‘want’ you to pass them on and ‘do not care’ what that means to you or your genes,” (Blackmore 37). She uses memes as…

I found the constraints of the Meme too difficult to thrive in. My own sense of humor does not tend to mimic that of the meme. Although, I can appreciate a solid meme, I wouldn’t be the one to create it. With that said, I picked a meme from the genre that I knew I would enjoy- the bromance of Obama and Biden. My memes fit rather well into the expectations of the genre. I did not test the boundaries too much, because I did…

everyone else? Economics and policies are common issues, but the issue being discussed is not about the economy and its policies; it is about the lottery, but not just any lottery – the Powerball. Washington Post writer, Caitlin Dewey, took a simple math meme and broke down the facts behind it, talking about the issues at hand. Though the article is expressing its feelings towards how the Powerball money is being distributed irresponsibly, it explains times and events when the money was used…

About the only similarities between the meme and the real Harlem shake are the sudden stops and starts. The Real Harlem Shake The real and original Harlem shake—raw, technical, fluid, and frenetic according to The New York Times writer Kia Gregory—was invented over 30 years ago in New York…

at least the idea of God, as a meme, important enough to last for thousands of years and spread across three separate religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Over the course of time, religions and supernatural deities have often come hand-in-hand, a sort of universal meme. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins defines the meme as “a noun that conveys the ida of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation,” (Dawkins 249).One prominent example of a meme is that of God. But, the…

According to scientists the conventional wisdom of viruses says that about viruses, scientists say that viruses aren’t bigger than bacteria and that the majority have viruses have 10 or less genes. But organisms such as the meme virus, mega virus and the Pandora virus prove us wrong. In some cases, some of these controversies to the change of biological evolution is in heredity by accident, natural in nature or caused by mutation. Before 2003 there only two kinds of living things on earth which…

the concept that humans are merely robots created by our genes to protect them and to promote their survival. He expands on the universal Darwinian view of human psychology, that humans are vehicles for self-replicating genes and self-replicating memes, acting upon their own interests to replicate themselves rather than in their human hosts’ interests. Stanovich explains the fact that the evolution is programmed into our brains, much like how a robot is coded. Within humans are two minds in one…

the fitness that is maximized by organismal beings on the genetic level. Similarly to the gene, Dawkins implements the term “meme” in his description of societal evolution regarding the spread of ideas throughout civilization. As stated by Scott Atran, a meme is “an element of culture that may be considered to be passed on by non-genetic means, especially imitation.” Memes begin as ideas and continue to spread when those ideas become communicable. Those concepts then continue to proliferate by…

people express their creativity. A common form of expression on the internet is through the use of fan made content, including things such as fan fiction and memes. In recent months, the 2007 animated film Bee Movie has received much attention on the internet through the use of this fan made content, in particular memes. Many of these memes are about making the film seem even more absurd through editing the film or its trailer. The making of these videos has created a new following and fandom…

With 65.3 million estimated refugees the world is quietly experiencing the worst refugee crisis since World War II (T). The only exposure the world receives about this on-going crisis is in the form of a picture of the lifeless body of a refugee child who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean with his family; or a video that shows a young Syrian boy who sits in the back of ambulance covered in a thick, grey coat of dust and drenched in his own blood. Although these images resonate with the…