The Age of Spiritual Machines

The first recorded instance of pest control takes us back to 2500BC when the Sumerians used sulphur to control insects. Then around 1200BC the Chinese, in their great age of discovery towards the end of the Shang Dynasty, were using chemicals to control insects. The Chinese continued to develop ever more sophisticated chemicals and methods of controlling insects for crops and for people's comfort. No doubt the spread…

From 1450 all the way into the 18th century, the early modern period is understood and seen as the formation of the Renaissance, many scientific and technological discoveries and reformation. There were many discoveries of new lands, machines and cultures which became one of the main reasons on how society today has improved. The Renaissance started as a cultural movement based on the intellectual basis of its own version of Humanism, where Man is the measure of all things. This idea became…

steamboat may seem to represent another one of Doom’s foolish endeavors solely for the purpose of ego, in reality, it represents the beginning of a dependency on White culture. The natives do not just end up dragging a wondrous, incomprehensible machine back to their camp, but rather, they unknowingly drag back the values and culture the ship symbolizes as well. Consequently, Crawfish-ford changes his name to Crawford, the tribe begins to take slaves they do not need, and they begin building…

the multi-billion-dollar musical recording industry."(Adair 63) Everything the Edison invented he did so because it was practical at that time. He tried to only create things that were in demand. For instance, he invented the telegraph answering machine, which was very necessary for him because, at the time, Edison worked at the telegraph and by working on this it helped him to sleep at night. Edison’s inventions were popular all over the world many decades ago and are still popular today.…

Book Three: Morality C.S. Lewis’ book three of Mere Christianity is the most insightful of all the books thus far. C.S. Lewis combines many depths of morality that most do not dare to approach. Morality must be fully understood by all people regardless of religion. All people must understand it exists because of evil, and last but not least, all learn about morality in their own way. However, these points can be helpful to religious and nonreligious individuals. Ernest Hemingway states it…

allusions to classical and ancient literature and myths. The title itself is indicative of Eliot’s attitude toward contemporary society, as he uses the idea of a sterile wasteland as a metaphor for a Europe devastated by war and desperate for a spiritual and cultural replenishment. The poem is deliberately obscure and fragmentary, incorporating variant voices, multiple points of view, and abrupt shifts in context. Ultimately both of the poems mentioned above, exemplify Eliot’s dialogue with…

also a religious flaming doom that is a predicted way people or the world might end. Ice, however, is the scientific prediction for our planet’s demise. The theory calculates that the sun will die in a whimper and the earth will have an eternal ice-age that is unconducive to human life. Either way, Frost demonstrates the world is expected to end in on a devastating last…

immoral because it reduces the female body to just a place to create a baby. I remember from the Life is Very Good concert in Arlington, Virginia on the March for Life this year that the speaker said that women are tabernacles. When we reduce people to machines capable of making human clones we take away the sanctity of the womb. Human cloning contradicts the natural sanctity of women and life and turns babies, who are supposed to be made from love into a…

financial, occupational, physical, social, spiritual, intellectual and environmental. Sedentary lifestyle is a silent killer. There are studies that show that sitting or lying down for a long period of time is bad for health. Common examples would be watching television, using a computer, sitting down to read, talk and listen to music. People over 65 years of age spend approximately 10 hours a day sitting or lying down which makes the most sedentary age group. Physical activity releases…

years, middle age, end years, and interesting facts about Mark Twain will be discussed. Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth of seven siblings. He was born with the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but later in life he used the pen name Mark Twain which stuck. At the age of four he moved to Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a real life Candyland to Twain. The town…