The Two Cultures

Introduction The purpose of this unknown lab is to separate and identify two unknown microbes from a mixed culture. Kathryn Bart define a mixed culture as "one that contains more than one type of organism growing in a sterile medium, such as agar. The mixed culture can include multiple species of viruses, bacteria and parasites, which may or may not live in harmony with one another, sharing the available resources" (Kathryn Barr, 2016). I took number five test tube from the different microbes…

In the story Two Kinds by Amy Tan, the culture is being represented by Jing-Mei and her mother. Evidence supporting this is the conflict going on between her and her mother in the story is around her culture, and how her mother wants her to grow up. This can include moment in the story including when her mother wanted her to work constantly on things she doesn’t have interest in, or when she started doing her piano lessons with Mr. Chang. Although the conflict shows her mother trying to do…

Sex is biological, gender is cultural. For some of the world there are two genders as well as two sexes, but gender ambiguity, transgendered, the third sex flies in the face of the notion that the former is true. “The terms third gender and third sex describe individuals who are categorized as neither man nor woman who recognize three or more genders. To different cultures or individuals, a third gender or six may represent an intermediate state between men and women, a…

pretense for what was actually going on and often brought about the worst of society. In Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson advocates for the necessity of moral responsibility through his portrayal of dualism in Victorian era. Victorian culture produced the desire of perfection and admiration among higher-class individuals, which manufactured the suppression of natural desires. This fear of not achieving perfection or respect, which tremendously engulfed the Victorian lifestyle,…

From the video “Two Spirit People”, different people talk about being “two spirits”, their beliefs on it and sexual orientation. In the video, all speakers voices are according to their sex, but their physical appearance says something else. The first speaker is Benjamin, he has long hair, which he puts in pigtails and added pink hair accessories to it. He is wearing a gold long drop earring, a necklace, and lots of gold rings that look to be mostly for females. His face also seems as though he…

Two Source Analysis Essay Carrie Nation and Saloon Culture Lillian Stephens HIS 202 Man’s vices have always plagued progression; whether it be sex, drugs, or sin- there will continuously be temptation. The beginning of the twentieth century was no different, with alcohol running rampant in shady saloons, there was a constant invitation to immoralities. Wanting to abolish these depravities, America began to introduce the prohibition of alcohol. Carrie A. Nation coined her name in her name in her…

Jekyll in the story and his conflicts between his good and evil self conveys that the victorian culture at that time was very concerned about the two sides of a man, the pure evil and the other part which is more balanced and good. as Jekyll said in his last statement before committing suicide “man is not one but truly two” (74). According to Cohen’s first thesis he states that “the montarous body is pure culture” meaning that the monster represents the fears, anxiety and desires of the society…

Our industries, lifestyles and cultures feed us examples on how we should change and encourage us to follow suit. They paint us a picture that captures change as lively and exciting. Life is not a straight path, in fact it’s not a single path at all; it’s a series of different paths and trails leading to different adventures by branching off into a million different directions. We can easily be swept up from one trail and moved to the other or even stuck in between two roads. In terms of how…

While further reading and research may contradict this, it doesn’t seem like Stevenson cared too much about including female characters. Today’s culture pushes writers to include more heroines in their work, but the term ‘feminism’ was scarcely coined in Stevenson’s day. By the time Mary Reilly is published, however, the ideology is a major sociopolitical force. The eponymous character gives us a…

Appropriations of successful texts often make critical changes to the original novel for a variation of intentions. These changes often reflect the cultural values of the time period and upon analysis the similarities and differences between the cultures are revealed. The film Mary Reilly (1996) is a recent appropriation of the 1886 classic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stephen Frears, director of Mary Reilly, has cinematically and creatively chosen…