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- 4951: Jurassic Park
- ... All the questions and more are what plague the minds of scientists when trying to perfect this technology. As we approach the 21st century we need to keep in mind that the condition of the world can only benefit from this technology if used properly. If we corrupt this new science field, and try to play God and create super humans we will be disturbing nature and this will bring about ... and end up being right in the end about the animals. He also states that society will turn into an information society and thought will be banished. By this he is saying that if the world of technology continues on the path it is on now, the future will be run and determined by technology. Humans will leave everything to machines and we will have an era where humans, as I ... goal and then taking the well-deserved credit. Anything else would be UN - civilized. When he starts discussing the fact that we are witnessing the end of a scientific era is the result of the world becoming totally based on technology. Computers are going to be the basis for everything; human thought will become non existent. Machines will become the dominant forces in the world and this will be as ...
- 4952: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Symbols
- ... it is made out to be. Kesey establishes this theme through the brilliant manipulation of setting. Kesey uses the specific setting of a fictional mental asylum to represent the non-specific realities of the real world. The literary term for such a technique is the use of a "microcosm" - a small universe representative of a larger one. Kesey uses the environment of the mental asylum to demonstrate just how hypocritical society can be. As aforementioned, Kesey utilizes many symbols that represent elements in the real world. The very fact that the story takes place in a mental asylum is in itself a commentary on society. In the asylum, it becomes highly evident that a great deal of oppression takes place. Although ... men personify the traits completely opposite to that of the Cowboy. The asylum turns them into weak-willed shadows of real men. This second use of contrast helps underline the amount of oppression in the world. The control panel in Nurse Ratched's office was another important symbol in the setting It gave her control over the entire ward. She could control what the patients saw on TV, the lighting, ...
- 4953: Oliver Twist: Summary
- ... On the surface, Rose is very different from Nancy. Both were orphans, but Rose grew up secure and protected. She is compassionate to Oliver, but unlike Nancy, rose is innocent of the evils of the world. Dickens makes clear that she is a pure flower. Agnes Flemings younger sister, thus Oliver's aunt. Accepted as Mrs. Maylie's niece: later becomes her daughter-in-law. Sally Thingummy - A pauper, nurses Oliver ... a clergyman. II Content - Setting The major action of Oliver Twist moves back and forth between two worlds: The filthy slums of London and the clean, comfortable house of Brownlow and the Maylies. The first world is real and frightening. While the other is idealized, almost dreamlike, in its safety and beauty. The world of London is a world of crime. Things happen there at night, in dark alleys and in abandoned, dark buildings. You can find examples of this (in the book) in Chapter XV, when Oliver ...
- 4954: Why Does Theatre Survive
- Why does theatre survive? 3rd term acting studies essay by Ralph Gassmann "All the world’s a stage…" to quote the world’s most famous playwright William Shakespeare who rose to prominence in the 16th century during the reign of Elizabeth I, and who’s plays have excited and obsessed the generations since and will doubtless continue ... is an intrinsic part of his/her personality, an inborn urge and desire - and the courage - to become, for that brief moment in time, another human being. Playwrights and directors are artists who interpret the world they live in trough theatre and give the actor, as the creator, the basic material to work with. These people will always find a way to express themselves through the art of acting and ...
- 4955: African Americans In The Post
- Jefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... Is the slave to be benefited by it? Not at all. It is not humanity that influences you in the ... South through federal supervision of state elections. (McDuffie, 117) It was sign that Congress, and its northern constituents, had finally lost interest in the cause. As the opportunity for economic advancement increased after the Civil War, the North felt as though it had done its part and both the President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. With the protection and support of Northerners lost, the ... adopted by all Southern states except Tennessee, turned out to be extremely successful. The white Southerners had effectively disenfranchised the African American by the turn of the century. With the Northern victory in the Civil War, African Americans were forever freed from the bonds of servitude . However, the freedom that they were released into closely resembled their years of servitude, filled with degrading poverty and little chance for advancement. Although ...
- 4956: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... Christian. Written in 1864, shortly after Dostoyevsky lost his first wife, his brother, and a close friend (Gibson 32); Crime and Punishment reveals a time in Dostoyevsky's life when he felt disconnected from the world and God. Through Crime and Punishment's protagonist, Raskalnikov, (Whose name, according to Vyacheslav Ivanov, is derived from the Russian root meaning “schism” or “apostate.”) (Ivanov 72) one glimpses into the condition of Dostoyevsky's ... carried to the extreme is self destructive. In addition, Dostoyevsky's work cogently illustrates St. Paul's words in his first Epistle to the Corinthians that “To shame the wise, God has chosen what the world counts folly, and to shame what is strong, God has chosen what the world counts weakness” (I Corr. 1:27). In Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky also offers a hopeful message: through humility and love, even the vilest man can be reformed. Finally, it is through learning to love ...
- 4957: Three Sisters
- ... too highly of himself and is too self-centered to change his ways. Both ultimately ruin themselves because they are too focused on their way of thinking to realize how they actually fit into the world. The old doctor, Chebutykin, is a man that knows he is going to leave the world soon and is giving up. He tells us that he lives only for the girls and would have died if it weren’t for their existence. Right from the start of the play he doubts ... Andrey thinks of himself as a well-respected man who has a good future. Yet we know Andrey as an egotistical coward who cares nothing of his own family. Both Chebutykin and Andrey view the world around them differently too. Chebutykin sees no hope for the future and has given up on it. He feels what he has at the moment is what is important to him the most. Andrey ...
- 4958: Emerging Trends - Body Wearable Computers
- ... are attributes of wearable computing and would be required to fill the void of wearable computing. The user finds it UNMONOPOLIZING of the user's attention. It does not cut you off from the outside world like a virtual reality game. It is built with the assumption that computing will be a secondary activity, rather than a primary focus of attention. Ideally, it will provide enhanced sensory capabilities. One will be ... it made everyone roughly equal. Even if one person were much more skilled in its use, there would still be some risk involved in robbing other civilians or looting someone's home. In today's world, the handgun has a lesser role to play. Wars are fought with information, and we live in a world in which the appearance of thugs and bandits is not uncreated. While there is some crime, we spend most of our lives living in relative peace. However, surveillance and mass media have become the ...
- 4959: The History of the Automobile
- The History of the Automobile The automobile it is made around the world by many different company’s with even more different models. The automobile is one of the main piecese of our daily lives. Today it can play a major role in anybody’s life around the world. From day one people were trying to lighten the load that they would have to do. Anything from an animal such as a horse or a mule to human beings have been used to lighten ... project before the development of the car. Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, in Dearborn Michigan. He was the son of two Irish imigrants. No one expected Ford to revolutionize the Nation or the world with his invention but he did. He had quit school at the age of 15 and by the age of 16 he had created a steam threshing machine. By the age of 17 he ...
- 4960: Nine Tomorrows: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
- ... The increased use of computers in the future, however, might have negative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated ... they would only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of ... and doing everything for them. According to another story in the book, Asimov also describes how computers would be able to predict probabilities of an event, future. In the story All the Troubles of the World one big computer predicted crime before it even happened, allowing the police to take the person who was going to commit the crime and release him/her after the danger has passed (All The ...
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