Mirrors

Science Fiction storytelling, since Mary Wollstencraft’s Frankenstein in 1818, has always tapped into anxieties people did not know they had. Black Mirror, a Sci-Fi anthology television series by British writer, Charles Brooker, does not deviate from this technique, but, instead, appears to do a better job than its predecessors. It explores the dark consequences that result from human use of technology. In an article written for the New York Times, Brooker explains how his series “was inspired…

choices. Yet not only does this vary incredibly from country to country, or city to city, but even in the same community two people of different backgrounds may believe the other is completely immoral and insensitive. In the novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera, 2012, paints the stories of intertwining characters, one of which who becomes a suicide bomber in Sri Lanka. Looking into young Saraswathi’s life, Munaweera introduced her as an intelligent girl who dreamed of one day…

Lakshmi Chaudhry, the author of Mirror, Mirror on the Web, states “So it’s easy to miss the editorial sleight of hand that slips from the “I” to the “we,” substitutes individual self-expression for collective action and conflates popular attention with social consciousness” (158). According to Chaudhry, narcissism is becoming more prominent in society. She believes it is preventing social change because people are only concerned with their own social status. Mirror, Mirror on the Web is…

A tragic hero is a character within a literary work that possesses a tragic flaw that will ultimately incur the downfall of the character, regardless of the character’s good intentions. Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent tragic heroes throughout all works of literature. Macbeth is a tragic hero as he possesses noble stature, a tragic flaw, free choice, an increased awareness of his downfall, and a punishment that exceeds his crimes, all…

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, by Barry Denenberg, is the diary of Bess Brennan. This book is about a young girl that got into a horrible accident that changed her life forever. Bess Brennan, the girl that got into the accident, is now blind. She goes to a school for the blind, and doesn’t like it at first. Eventually she learns to do things for herself since the accident, and her view of the world is much different. The setting takes place at her home and her new school, Perkins School for the…

Fires in the Mirror “And it’s a way of knowing that no matter where I put myself that I am not necessarily what’s around me (Fires in the Mirror, 1).” Anna Deavere Smith wrote the play, Fires in the Mirror. It was shown in 1992, and it focuses on the power the white had over the blacks. More specifically it discusses looks, distortion in mirrors, and whether or not a person is being themselves or hiding it. I want to propose the question: how does Smith use her play to portray these messages.…

the Roman navy was evading Greek port, an ingenious weapon named "burning mirror" was used in order to defend the city of Syracuse & this successfully ended up in saving the city. However, on the contrary, lecturer challenges this claim and believes all the aforementioned reasons in the passage suspecting the existence of such a relentless devise are all sheer implausible. Firstly, the lecture states a single huge copper mirror merely possible by high-tech advancement to have a precise…

and Daniel J. Treier’s Theology and the Mirrors of Scripture: A Mere Evangelical Account, they raise the awareness that the problem of evangelicalism lies in the fact that there are no set doctrines that form a whole theology accepted by those who call themselves evangelicals or even other believers, as one would expect from a popular form of Christian denomination (i.e.: Calvinism, Baptist, Presbyterianism, etc.). The authors then liken Scripture to a mirror in order to illustrate the…

Mirror neurons were discovered almost eighteen years ago, which is fairly recent for scientific understanding; it is not yet known the extent of mirror neuron functions or what happens when they are exclusively damaged (Lepage & Theoret, 2007). The areas of the brain thought to make up the MNS are up for debate, but the areas supported by the current research are the inferior frontal gyrus pars opercularis in the prefrontal cortex, the ventral pre-motor cortex, the inferior parietal lobe, and…

do humans comprehend one another’s activities as well as their purposes, so easily?” Earlier eras would have merited human comprehension to the brain’s ability for swift analysis. However, more recent research cites the cause as newly discovered “mirror neurons,” which ignite when a person executes an activity as well as when they witness another person executing the same activity, which in turn programs patterns for these activities. Interestingly, these patterns aid people in understanding…