The Next One

The impetus behind the conception of the original “Star Trek” series of the late sixties was to give its audience a change from the stereotypical Western themed programs dominating the airwaves. From its very modest beginnings, however, Star Trek’s lead creator, Gene Roddenbery, had much farther-reaching goals. Soon demonstrating that it was more than a mere “wagon train to the stars” as Roddenbery originally claimed, the series invariably raised the question: “What makes us human?”…

some ERP systems for small or middle size business, like SAP Business One (SAP B1), SAP Business All-In One. However, SAP’s pricing model is different from normal software; it is consisted by two parts: the price of the software itself and execution cost. The cost of it is depending on the users’ requirements, because different users usually choose different service; but the cheapest SAP ERP software which is called SAP Business One (SAP B1) costs the using company from $40,000 to $170,000 (SAP,…

The Marcusian Conceptions of Automation In his book One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse argues that automation is a centrifugal tendency that is characteristic of technology itself. For Marcuse, automation can be a benefit, but carries with it some dangerous liability. The negative aspect is that that automation has the potentiality of use by repressive forces in society viz. government, to maintain the existing conditions. In a positive sense however, automation has the ability to yield a…

offered a source of relief in the Depression-era to the audiences throughout the 1930s and 40s; especially relieved them after the Hays Code was put into effect. The screwball comedy was a mixture of sarcasm, comedic relief, and a social satire all in one, making it wacky but highly sophisticated. Rather than focusing on the romantic relations of people, screwball comedies focused on the upper-class. The focus was a hero’s life being somehow disrupted by a heroine. The hero and the heroine were…

the upkeep of morality according to those in favor of censorship. In Capra’s film ideal America cracks with screwball humor, pointing out the absurdity of grown adults behaving in such a restrained manner. It Happened One Night is a classic screwball comedy; however, Capra goes one step further with a film that acknowledges the ongoing state of the nation with the presence of the Great Depression in the film. The two main characters behave differently, usually based on their different social…

In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Machiavelli’s The Prince, deception is a tool that one uses to gain a personal advantage. Despite the negative connotation that is typically associated with deception, Twelfth Night and The Prince demonstrate how deception can bring a positive outcome. If one employs a deceptive appearance under necessary circumstances, the end result must be justifiable, even when a majority of people are willingly deceived. Characterized by her beauty and resourcefulness,…

One of the significant values of genre in film is that genre, as Dr. Casper has noted, is used to “sugarcoat the pill” of challenges in human life, and the romantic comedy genre follows this value (Casper, 260). Comedy, as a whole, reveals the “fragmentation of man” in a digestible, enjoyable manner for audiences. Romantic comedies, specifically, reveal the fragmentation of each partner in a relationship and the fragmentation of the relationship. Throughout the history of film, romantic comedies…

In movies like one hour photo, Insomnia, Death to smoochie, and What dreams may come. Robin shows us his extreme range, playing the despite, the mentally disturbed, the psychotic, and the lost. These movies are dark examples of man’s balance of comedy and tragedy. Showing…

Personally, I deem the one baby policy in china as intolerable, because a women cannot control when she becomes pregnant. Even contraception does not always work. I believe that there should be no policy to how many children a couple are permitted to have. Bit do you agree with me ? In china they brought in a new policy about 30 years ago in 1979 which indicates that couples can only have one child. But if a couple has a child that is born with birth defects or major health problems the the…

Good Morning 7W and Ms Florido/ Mr Kazokas, the topic for this debate is that the One Child Policy is wrong in the Catholic Church, and I believe that this statement is false. In the early 1970s, birth rates in china were around 4.77 percent, and that had decreased to 1.64 percent in 2011, and therefore allowing less people in the future generations and then creating less of human activity on the earth. Recently, the Pope has been around the world preaching about climate change and the effect of…