Spock

Nation's most controversial: Guns Disclaimer, this is not a paper about abortion or space semi trucks, this is a paper about why guns are not such a bad thing. Many people may not have grown up in a household with guns, and do not feel comfortable with them. Due to lack of education of guns in many people’s views causes some to have negative preconceived ideas about guns. Many individuals do not realize that guns provide a balance of power in society which proved successful for our…

(MBTI), I got the INTJ personality type. INTJ stands for, Introverted (I), Intuitive (N), Thinking (T), and Judging (J), I personally scored high (88%) on the introverted part. A famous TV show character who resembles an INTJ personality would be Spock, logical, emotions never shown, and blunt. People usually call me cold hearted and unemotional/apathetic, they are mostly correct. I will explain the cold hearted part first, I come off cold hearted…

Mothers are usually the rock and foundation of a family when it comes to being taken care of. In the 1950’s. Mothers were almost looked at as maids. Staying home all day, taking care of the children, cleaning the house, and having dinner ready by the time her husband came home from work, wake up and do it all over again was a mother daily schedule. “We American women need every laborsaving device there is. There are more demands on our time than it is humanly possible to fill, and we are…

All the Canadian parliament parties have an interest in security. Since the Conservatives have passed Bill C-51, Anti-terrorism Act, there has been some controversy and dispute over the powers and agencies it establishes. The Bill was a response to some newly founded terrorist acts in Canada and the US. More importantly, Bill C-51 makes it illegal to promote terrorism and lowers the legal threshold required for police to arrest and detain suspected extremists without charge. It also allows…

Supernatural, Doctor Who), Sherlock was subject to a high production of fan activity based on the show and its iconic characters. The often homoerotic pairing of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in the fandom is similar in fashion to the pairing of Kirk and Spock from Star Trek discussed in Jenkins’s article, which spurs an endless production of what is called…

The episode of Sherlock that I will be analyzing is series 1 episode 3, called “The Great Game.” In this episode, Sherlock is sent by an unknown person to solve a number of mysteries and he is given a specific amount of time for each one. If he does not solve one in time, then a bomb strapped to an innocent person is activated, killing dozens of people. After successfully solving the crimes he is confronted by his archenemy Moriarty, the man behind all of the felonies. The episode ends with a…

The contemplation of my childhood sex-education brought back many conflicting recollections. I was born in 1966, the year Masters and Johnson wrote their book “called Human Sexual Response, which summarized their research on individuals who readily experienced orgasms during sexual activity” (Matlin, 2012, p. 288). This book was almost as revolutionary as the two volume manuscript called the Kinsey Reports, written by Alfred Kinsey in 1948 and 1953, which attempted to explain the sexual behavior…

Historians agree that a generation “gap” was created in the 1950s between parents and teenagers, but not everyone agrees as to what caused American families to dismantle from its traditional cores and values. Some historians theorize that the introduction of Rock ‘n’ Roll is what caused the youth of that generation to separate from its’ parents and other adults. As J. Ronald Oakley proves in his essay, “God’s Country: America in the Fifties”, teenagers were not changing their values and morals,…

Changes And Continuities In Post World War 2 America Especially during the time period of 1945-1961, there was an abundance of changes throughout the country, especially social changes. New ideas were blossoming, more and more people were leaving the traditional ideals of America and being more rebellious, fighting for civil rights and doing other liberal-centered stereotypes, like listening to rock music and writing or making art depicting what they felt was a boring, simple country. On the…

to what the state says; we are also scrupulous to our own moral laws. Everyone has their own moral code and the mentality to think about the implications of immorality. Apart from our morals, many hold ethics at the heart of their lives. Commander Spock from Star Trek once uttered with dying breath “, The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.” This was the main ethical view that he held throughout his life. Our ethical standards help to define who we are and how we act.…