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- 1301: Intelligent Design As A Theory
- ... to propagate genes in reproduction." Information can be specified. Information can be complex. Information can be both complex and specified. Information that is both complex and specified I call "complex specified information," or CSI for short. CSI is what all the fuss over information has been about in recent years, not just in biology, but in science generally. It is CSI that for Manfred Eigen constitutes the great mystery of biology ... the rat must take one hundred appropriate right and left turns, and that any mistake will prevent the rat from exiting the maze. A psychologist who sees the rat take no erroneous turns and in short order exit the maze will be convinced that the rat has indeed learned how to exit the maze, and that this was not dumb luck. With the simple maze there is a substantial probability that ... after which a trial is made. But at no point is CSI generated. Natural causes are therefore incapable of generating CSI. This broad conclusion I call the Law of Conservation of Information, or LCI for short. LCI has profound implications for science. Among its corollaries are the following: (1) The CSI in a closed system of natural causes remains constant or decreases. (2) CSI cannot be generated spontaneously, originate endogenously, ...
- 1302: Clytaemnestra And Penelope - A
- ... of Penelope and Clytaemnestra. Their situations offer examples of the rewards of fulfilling society's female gender role in the case of Penelope; the consequences of leaving that role are demonstrated by Clytaemnestra. In both stories women are shown as chattel, possessions for distribution to cement political moves, bind families and produce children. Clytaemnestra and Penelope are diametrically opposed representations of women in ancient Greece and as such allow an understanding ... seen in those behaviors admired in women. This may be observed through how they are described. It is not possible to give an accurate definition of women's roles in Greek society from two fictional stories written by men. These will be skewed by the views held by their authors, rather than representative of society's views. However they do offer at least two viewpoints from which to analyze the roles ... the positive female role model: passive, faithful, sexually loyal, wise and talented. Clytaemnestra is her opposite: deceitful, manipulative, controlling, assertive and sexually active with others than her husband. The reactions of other characters in the stories give clear indication that Penelope's role is the desirable one, while Clytaemnestra has deviated from this role and is reviled accordingly. The dualistic perspective presented by these two women offers, through the reactions ...
- 1303: Iliad And Odyssey
- ... in the Iliad and the Odyssey are surprising profuse. To name a few: the superfluous violence in Iliad and Odyssey, the characterization of Odysseus, the obscure use of narcotics, the similarities between Catholicism and certain stories of the Odyssey, and the role of pets and animals. Despite the numerous similarities, there are some distinct differences. The specific differences between our society and that of Ancient Greece is the role of women ... will pay large sums of money to try to prolong the lives of our beloved pets. Whenever a dog or cat gets hurt, we always feel terrible. I remember watching the news; the first three stories were about rapes and murders. Then there was a story about how a dog was shot and killed by a random bullet
there were more people crying and grieving for the dog than there were ... Their generosity came without hesitation and they did not expect anything in return. The Ancient Greeks would bathe you, feed you, and let you rest before they even knew your name. There are so many stories that display acts of excellent hospitality. Book IV and V display a case in which a "person" was too hospitable. Hospitality was so important to the Ancient Greeks because there were no hotels. People ...
- 1304: The Concept And Antilogy Of Ne
- The Concept and Antilogy of Necessity in The Things They Carried The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien, a medley of short stories tied together by a common theme, examines the many facets of necessity and poses a question of just how valuable the things we hold to be necessities really are. During the confusion of war, the ...
- 1305: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- ... daughter's (Pecola Breedlove) descent into madness. Through flashback and temporal shifts, Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves' misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to have "the bluest eyes." This short novel counterbalances two points of view: one, the tragic consequences of racism (in the Breedlove family), and two, agency and resistance to that racism (in the MacTeer family). The story's focus, however, is on ... version, retelling it, "talking back" to medicine and to readers. This section raises important questions about assumptions and the ways social factors such as race, class, and gender can get in the way of hearing stories and understanding patients' lives.
- 1306: Irony Of Dickens In Oliver Twi
- ... have loosened the knot, or kept the drop up, a minute longer. No, no, no! Fine fellows! Fine fellows!"
"What a fine thing capitol punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. Fagin thinks that capitol punishment is a good thing because no one can squeal on him if they are dead. In the beginning of the story Fagin favors capitol punishment, but when the ... on how he was involved. Mr. Bumble the beadle is introduced into the novel as being the tyrant over the workhouse that Oliver belongs to. He is described as being a fat man with a short temper. Mr. Bumble thinks highly of himself as described in the following passage, "Mr. Bumble had a great idea of his oratorical powers and his importance." Following Dickens theme of ironic reversal of values, Mr ...
- 1307: Gender Communication
- ... remain quiet. This causes women to become more vocal. Tannen suggests that status affects many different ways in which men communicate and raises several different examples. One area she found was that men tell more stories and jokes than women. She suggests that they are not doing this to be funny but instead do it to again to negotiate status. They often tell stories in which they are the heroes and act alone to overcome obstacles. While women use storytelling to gain support from her personal networks. They use their stories that, if they are the subject of, contain her doing something foolish to put her at the same level as the listener. In this way women are not concerned with status as with relating ...
- 1308: Irish Literature And Rebellion
- ... suburb of Rathgar on February 2, 1882. He is best known for his novels A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939), and his one book of short stories, Dubliners (1914). Although all of his works are overwhelming analyses of the social spectrum of Ireland and have undercurrents of political scrutiny, Dubliners is, in the words of Stendhal, a mirrors image of the ...
- 1309: Themes Of The Love Song Of Alf
- In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot uses allusions as well as imagery to develop his theme that life is too short to allow fear s hesitation to stop us from living true to dreams of happiness because we will all be judged in the end. This multi-layered poem is the internal monologue of the character ... back I always hear Time s winged chariot hurrying near. This sentiment compliments the reference from Dante s Inferno. He is living in his own hell. It further expands the theme that life is too short to allow the fear of being judged to prevent us from living true to ourselves. Eliot also uses sea imagery to evoke meanings that add to Prufrock s character as well as set up his ... cannot express all the feelings and idea s that Eliot s poem evokes. Like the magic lantern each allusion and image shines a new layer of light on the emerging theme that life is too short to allow fear s hesitation to stop us from living true to dreams of happiness because we will all be judged in the end.
- 1310: Iliad By Homer
- ... his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. From the heroic effortsin the Iliad itself it is clear that the populace of his timewere highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus' case, valuable, order. In the Iliad, there seems to be relatively little storyline from the Trojan's side. We are regaled with story uponstory of the Greeks, their heroes, and their exploits ... flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters..." This simile is tainted with dark wordslike "from a hollow cave" and "bunched in knots", giving the "bees" an ominous tone. A short, but emotionally appealing, simile is found after the Greek warriors have changed their mind about leaving and return to the Scamander: "They stood as thick upon the flower-be spangled field as leaves that bloom ... the Greeks are made to look like animals. In Book Ten Nestor comments on a set of horses that Odysseusis ushering, won by Diomedes through killing some Trojans, that they are "like sunbeams." A very short, and odd, description for horses. One is reminded of Apollo and his kinship with his chariot, often referred to as racing across the heavens. Shortly after Agamemnon dons his armor. On this armor fit ...
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