The Botany of Desire

A lot of modern society reflects Aldous Huxley's vision of what the world would be like in his novel Brave New World. In the novel, Huxley predicts that in the new society people would rely on drugs for antidepressants, sex being more a means-to-an-end instead of a privilege, and the constant need and want for technology. Instead of understanding and heading the consequences of what Huxley is trying to get across in this novel, we as a society have ignored him and ended up in the same type of…

Renaissance artists, in contrary, thought otherwise. The introduction of new painting techniques and materials, such as perspective through usage of a vantage point by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna, incorporation of studies in anatomy and botany by Giotto, or oil-based paint, provided artists of the Renaissance the ability to evade themselves from the flat and stylized features of medieval art, and in replacement, realistically depicted their subject, albeit nature, animals, or human…

Virtue ethics is a rather old theory with Chinese origins but is normally associated with the Greeks. Unlike most theories such as consequentialist and deontological where rule, acts, and consequences are most important; virtue ethics mainly emphasize character and being a good or virtuous person. The only rules that are important are the ones that are written by a good person or if they will help a person become virtuous. Virtue ethics asks the questions: How should one live? What is considered…

sub-continent by applying new technology with the ‘great surveys’, and applying science with the onset of steam power. Towards the end of the 1800’s, the British believed that they’d established the area and felt like they’d inserted (among Indians) the desire to be reformed. Without the presence of the East India Company, India would have struggled to develop. The English East India Company was able to add to the economy as well as govern India more effectively because of the…

Possible selves are the future self that someone wants to become. These perceptions govern our actions, motivation, and help to reach our goals. While there has been research on middle income people and their selves, Shawna Lee and Daphna Oyserman decided to test the possible selves of low income mothers and what strategies they use to achieve their selves. The main point of this study is that typically low income mothers think of their possible selves as being breadwinners and their to be…

Encumbered by highly advanced agricultural inventions, the American diet has evolved into a dilemma producing detrimental health affects for our nation. While a plethora of food choices, from chicken nuggets to Twinkies, may appear to be a dietary utopia; the technological advancements in the food industry have produced food-like products rather than authentic food. This nation-wide eating disorder has kept Americans in a cyclical process of attempting to achieve a thin figure while still…

once said, “One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.” For Mark Watney his decision to not die on mars allowed him to fight through his trials on the planet mars. In “The Martian”, by Any Weir, Mark Watney is faced with a struggle to survive on a desolate planet where he has to fight…

can excel at anything I have the passion for, and it happens to be science. My mother home-schooled my sister and me, and helped me discover my passion for learning. She taught me Chemistry through baking, Biology through watching my animals and Botany from all the species we have in my property. Unfortunately my mom had to move my sister and me to public school…

as well as singing, instruments, and musical structure. Optional careers include musician, composer, singer, and music teacher (Cherry). The sixth intelligence is interpersonal; these people have the ability to assess the emotions, motivations, desires, and intentions of others. They often enjoy communication, building relationships, and resolving conflict, and would excel in careers that involve psychology, philosophy, and politics…

Also, the controllers educated its people that by consuming new technology and goods and that by throwing away old things, people can seek satisfactory and happiness. By increasing their desire for consumption for technology and goods, the controllers achieved full control and happiness from its people. People were conditioned for several different classes such as alpha, beta, delta, gamma and epsilon and were conditioned to consume their…