Prometheus

The portrayal of a totalitarian world in the future is a common basis for a book. However, “Anthem,” by Ayn Rand, differs from most of the dystopian genre. Unlike the usual hovercrafts and artificial intelligence, the technology in “Anthem” is set back hundreds of years. The events of the book establish this deterioration as a comment on the conditions necessary for progress. Rand depicts a society operating under collectivism, defined by Merriam­Webster as “emphasis on [group] rather than…

was 127.5 million, an increase from the previous year. However, funding for the different programs shifted, NASA’s Deep Space Network and combined separate funding for Mars and Solar System activities was removed, as well as funding for Project Prometheus in 2004. There are many programs; Space exploration, Solar System exploration, Biological Sciences Research, Aeronautics Technology, Space Station and many others. Each year the budget fluctuates in the different programs based on need. The…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, the society is orderly, simple, and “equal.” The government has forced everyone and everything to be the same. Now, instead of speaking as an individual, they speak as one. People are forced to say “we” instead of I, “us” instead me or “ours” instead of mine. Throughout the course of the text, the theme of Relationships has progressed and developed in many ways. In the beginning, Equality 7-2521 loved his brothers, just as they love him. Before they go to bed…

Helplessness Only Significant to Human Beings? Is helplessness only applicable to humans or for monsters as well? Throughout the novel many occasions arise that are meant to display how helpless one may feel using the struggles of many characters as examples. Victor Frankenstein further exemplifies the concept of helplessness because of the loss of his mother Caroline, the ever elusive truth that all the education he received during his childhood was obsolete, and the death of his father…

appreciation for animals. Sprinkling water on people holds significance in both cultures and represents purity. The stories behind the deities in Ancient Greeks possess similarities with the stories in Christianity and similar religions in modern America. Prometheus’ creation of man by using clay and water is similar to the process of creation described in the Bible. Athena’s olive tree represents peace like the olive branch found in the dove’s mouth after it returned to Noah’s ark. Hades…

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. Saturn is the second largest planet and is best known for its fabulous ring system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Saturn is a gas giant and is composed of similar gasses including hydrogen, helium and methane. Saturn can be seen with the naked eye. It is the fifth brightest object in the solar system.Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians…

In the story of Noah, Noah and his family are delegated as the saviors of the human race due to their “innocence.” However, their innocence is derived not only from their loyalty to the Creator, but from their ignorance toward the ways of other people. God described all other people as wicked, stating that “everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil” (Genesis 6:5). But Noah, “the only blameless person living on earth,” was told he and his family would be spared. God…

Frankenstein is filled with many themes and topics all throughout the novel. Shelley does a great job at adding as many themes as possible to her story. Frankenstein shows the outcome of playing God and creating things that should not be created through death, revenge, and guilt. Death is a reoccurring inevitability that affects the characters throughout the book. The monster uses death as a revenge tactic to his creator many times. An example of this is when he's telling victor about…

It is believed that first evidence of artistic activity is a diagonal itching on a stone with a shark tooth, associated to Homo erectus around 500 000 years ago. However the oldest undisputed form of figurative art is a sculptured Venus figurine around 40 000 years ago. A time where human behavior hadn’t yet developed behavioral modernity which consists of abstract thinking and symbolic behavior among other things, yet art found its way. These first forms of art were not pure creation of the…

human civilization because of their enormous contributions made as scientists, inventors, and innovators through the course of time. And Dr. Victor Frankenstein is part of that club of serial entrepreneur. Mary Shelley frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) has been interpreted…