The Bionic Woman

The idea of feminine identity has been debated since the birth of time. From Darwin’s Descent of Man, in 1871, Gamble “The Supremacy of the Male” in 1916, to Six Million Dollar Man episode, “The Bionic Woman” in 1975, the concept of the female identity has shown in different lights. Though Gamble agreed with some aspects of Darwin’s arguments, she strongly believes in how females are the stronger one in the human species. Years later Gamble’s point of a stronger woman is displayed in history and is proven in “Bionic Woman” and shows the feminine identity in modern times. The female identity itself has changed over time with the development of society and evolution, some characteristics of femininity has yet to change. Darwin’s Descent of Man…

Bionics as we should precive it “Adjective; 1. Utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material. 2. Informal. Having superhuman strength or capacity. Noun, ( used with a singular verb) 1. The study of how humans and animals perform certain tasks and solve certain problems, and of the application of the…

The Bionic Factor One of the first public mentioning’s of bionic engineering can be credited to the Marvel™ Universe, with the Iron Man comics. In the comics, Tony Stark is forced to integrate a micro-magnetic field into the tissue and muscle layers around his heart. This leads to the comics transforming his bionic technology that is keeping him alive into something that Stark builds another empire around (Fichera). Iron Man was not the only media source delving into the idea of the impossible.…

As soon as he reaches his first objective, Tung fights a giant and steals his sword as a spoil. As Tung and his brothers lay siege to the capital, it comes clear that the Gleannians weren’t the ones who hired the mercenaries. They gather this by interrogating capture enemy soldiers and that the mercenaries weapon only used by elite Pontikian troops. The Princess tasks him to kill the mercenary leader. This leads Tung to a warehouse where it turns out the leader is a giant computer that takes…

battles and many lost limbs resulted in American scientists entering the field of prosthetics. Even in World War I there was discussion of how prosthetics should come about for wounded soldiers. Given this rising issue the surgeon general of the United States created the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association. Finally, “around World War II the American government pressured the military sector to invest more capital into the functionality of prosthetics for wounded soldiers over that of…

“The Cold Equations” is a story where only men are found to be in charge. When a girl was found on an EDS ship, no one seemed to know what to do. If a man was found to be a stowaway on a ship, he would be ejected immediately, but “the stowaway is a girl” (Godwin 5). The presence of the young girl played on the emotions of the EDS captain. Gender equality can be found in few scenes in this short story. The commander states that “any stowaway discovered in an EDS shall be jettisoned” (Godwin…

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a literary work full of symbolism that adds meaning to the story and to the characters. Throughout the story Edna Pontieller expresses her progress, in The Awakening, as a new woman by using the symbolism of the caged birds, art and music, houses, and the sea. From the very beginning of the story, the caged birds play a main role in symbolizing Edna’s entrapment. In the book the parrots kept repeating ““ Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That’s all right!””…

description given is their names and age. The fact that both characters are equally described gives a constancy of role-equality improvements; which is also an aspect portray throughout the entire story. Continually changing their answers, both characters try to achieve certain equilibrium as they become parallel with each other. Setting the reader in a more liberal era, Betty portrays a self-thinking, valuable woman that serves as identity to all independent women at the time. For instance,…

than challenging them. Language is something we learn at a very young age, what we do not learn is that it is filled with gendered biased words that have become second nature for us, as humans, to use. Other languages have masculine and feminine nouns to help indicate the difference in words, the English language not so much, “words still have gender connotation”(Smith, 295). Words such as ‘mankind’ and phrases like ‘all men are created equal’ which imply everyone men and women, seem to only…

having a thinner than average body can be a sign of serious conditions, some women posses that body type naturally due to high metabolism or bone structure. Many women who are naturally thin experience accusations of eating disorders. These girls internalize the concept that their body is unnatural and sickly. Also, it is often not a body without any fat that is idealized, but a body with fat in certain areas. Both girls with thinner and larger bodies can struggle without the ability to meet…