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When does a sperm and egg begin to resemble what we call a fetus? Research has shown that at four weeks, the embryo is the size of an seasame seed (New Health Advisor). The cells that make up this sesame seed could be the future of regenerative medicine. Stem cells are the cells made during … Read more
In this recent – and highly contested – election cycle, new President Donald Trump launched a war on the institution of political correctness. Many of his supporters praised him for “telling it like it is”; he did not allow propriety to stand in the way of his messages. In doing so, Trump veered away from … Read more
Lurking in the woods and mountains of America lies one of the most controversial topics amongst scientist. A possible missing link in the evolution chain of human beings and apes, alluding society, as well as existence for some. The existence of Sasquatch, or otherwise known as Bigfoot, has become a huge phenomenon within American culture … Read more
Gattaca is a very interesting film that sheds light on the possible future of humanity, when it comes to genetic manipulation. The entire plot of the film revolves around a society that is primarily centered on the need for superior genes. Every child in the film, apart from the protagonist, Vincent Freeman, is born in … Read more
For such a complex concept a direct definition leaves more questions than answers. When a species changes biologically over time, evolution guides the process. All living species on earth effect one and other, during the evolutionary process. We depend on that change for our change and they depend on us to affect their change (Park, … Read more
Most people would assume that humans are superior to insects. This self-centered idea is a harmful aspect of humanity, as people do not try to learn from creatures that are regarded as inferior. However, in “Honeydew,” by Edith Pearlman, Alice Toomey, the strict headmistress of Caldicott Academy, and Emily Knapp, an insect-loving student, are the … Read more
Criminal to the Core Everyone has heard the expression ‘stranger danger’ since elementary school. But what if this simple phrase hides an alternate, deeper message? William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, has used his book to bring up the controversial idea that humans are evil at the root of their beings. The idea … Read more
Chaos: The New Order The will to defy order in society spurs chaos, but eventually, this chaos emerges as the new order. Chaos and order seem to contrast by definition. However, I hypothesize that chaos and order both reinforce each other after analyzing Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, and Oryx and Crake, by … Read more
Dystopian films are famous for presenting outrageous, typically end-of-the-world or post/pre-apocalyptic scenarios. While many viewers look at these films and see them as fun, sometimes scary adventures with their exciting, fascinatingly dangerous ideas, a closer look at the issues in these films reveals something about the societies they were made in. As a whole, there … Read more
David Icke, an author, conspiracy theorist, and former football player and sportscaster once said “The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the … Read more
Victor Frankenstein wanted to create life. His conflicting motives, whether self-centered or for the betterment of humanity, is one of the driving forces in Mary Shelley’s Romantic novel Frankenstein. She vividly depicts Victor’s self struggle as he bitterly regrets animating a hideous monster who is responsible for the deaths of his friends and family. Although … Read more
When the reader is introduced to Rick in the beginning chapters of the novel, he and his wife are planning their day emotionally on a machine that they had brought. This machine is referred to in the novel as a Penfield mood organ. The mood organ is able to control all emotions from despair to … Read more
What would you do if you learned that your home and family were directly in the path of an unstoppable, insatiable insect army made up of 68 billion ants that are devouring every living thing it encounters? This is the question that Carl Stephenson asks in his short story, “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” which was … Read more
Social constructionism is a core concept in sociology, so strongly integrated in every society globally, that it has affected the way we all think. Social constructionism displays the fact that the social world is not natural, it is not revealed, and it’s not even fully determined. It is completely made up by people, who also … Read more
Since the dawn of time, Homo Sapiens have developed and evolved in a short time, relative to Earth’s history, into a advanced and special civilization we know today as present day society. The beginnings of civilization 2. 5 million years ago was known as the Paleolithic Age which ends at 12,000 BCE and leads directly … Read more
YOUR HUMAN CHILD & YOU Translated from the original binary BEGIN TRANSMISSION Modern science is breaking new ground in the study of human children. Human Observation and Analysis Programs have processed alternative methods for growing human children, methods that statistically increase the likelihood the human child will become a human adult healthy enough for the … Read more
The dystopian film, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick journeys the galaxy during the commencement of the earth. During this enthralling journey comes the development of apes, which ignite the idea of the evolution of the most insolent species to ever roam the planet-humans. Now man has to prepare for the evolution of extreme … Read more
People wish to make their lives better. In generally people only wish for things that they might want or need. Some wishes can be selfish because they only think about themselves and when they do that then they would not think about the other things that could affect it. “The Monkey’s Paw” “Goldfish” and “The … Read more
The quaternary extinction event happened about 10,000-40,000 years ago. This even is when megafaunal animals went extinct. This event saw the extinction of more than 178 species. Megafaunals are defined as “A term generally used to refer to the largest animals present within an ecosystem, most often used with respect to the array of large-bodied … Read more
Man is born evil. Our natural intentions are to disobey and rebel. Think of a young child, they are not taught to be little dick heads, they just are until they are guided by an adult to become better. We are evil by nature although we may become good people much like Mencius says, but … Read more
Is honesty the best policy even if the truth disturbs many people? Kurt Vonnegut bluntly relays his opinion on the war between science and religion and other controversial topics concerning life though his novel, Cat’s Cradle. Consequently, it was banned by the Ohio School Board in 1972, but “without stating an official reason”(Indianapolis Monthly). The … Read more
A: In British literature, monsters are used as a tool for what the people of the Middle Ages believed they were supposed to do and created these monsters to be portrayed as something “bad” towards humanity. All of the monsters mentioned do share a few common characteristics of what they were supposed to do in … Read more
The Ancient Traveler Look at those bones embedded in the tightly packed sediment. They may be human said Mark Wells. Dr. Samantha Clark took a close look, shaking her head, not believing a human had lived 100,000 years ago. The dig had been full of surprises, trying to move the tools and volunteers safely down … Read more
Man, in the eyes of another man, is always incomplete. Fault is met with the resilience and strength to constantly forward as a species, creating and implementing the biggest and best factors of human life into individual traits. With its innovative and flourishing ideas, the study of transhumanism propels mankind into the biological role it … Read more
As a novice programmer and a participant in Lego robotics I find the controversy surrounding artificial intelligence very intriguing. Programmers, computer scientists, and researchers alike have debated about the possibility of artificial intelligence becoming more intelligent than humans. Because I do have some knowledge of how computers work I can see why this topic is … Read more
The collision of temperaments: The analysis of relationships between people with different physiologically determined temperaments An individual’s character can be determined by many factors. People learn behaviour from external factors like the environment they grow up in and by observing the people they interact with. Human behaviour is also impacted by the emotions people experience … Read more
The Millennials and Looking Towards the Future Millennials have come into a negative light in the eyes of many being blamed for problems in the world today. In Joel Stein’s article entitled The New Greatest Generation he believes they will instead of causing problems bring solutions to them and I agree with him. The millennials … Read more
Intro: Thaler and Sunstein provide a framework for decision making that can be applied and used across the board for health, wealth, and happiness, as well as other facets of life. They introduce behavioral economics to explain how decisions can be influenced so that a specific outcome is chosen. To lay the foundation for the … Read more
There have been many European leaders in the past 115 years, but one stood out overall all the others. His name was Janos Kadar. Janos Kadar was the General Secretary of Hungary, which is one of the 51 countries in Europe. He was born in 1912 at Fiume, Hungary and grew up with foster parents … Read more
1) Explain and evaluate the notions of Karma, samsara, and Nirvana? a) We know karma to be a chain of causes and necessary consequences in the world of human actions. Karma is the urge we have of doing something based on our previous actions or behavior. I believe the world has negative and positive energy. … Read more
Evolution, the science of how populations of living organisms change over time in response to their environment, is the central unifying theme in biology today. Evolution was first explored in its semi-modern form in Charles Darwin ‘s 1859 book, Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. In this book, Darwin laid out a strong … Read more
For many years, people have always questioned each other’s motives. People have always questioned why certain people do certain things or why certain people act a certain way. We have always wondered what makes other people tick; people besides ourselves. Watching another person perform daily tasks can raise many questions. Questions such as \” Why … Read more
Human relationships have always been dynamic. Change and adaptability have gone hand in hand with the passage of time for human society. Systems have been developed to regulate, direct and control the resources of this society. The systems are referred to as governments and the resources as the populace or inhabitants and forces of production. … Read more
With regards to the multi-regional continuity model of human evolution, there is without a doubt a preponderance of fossil data that supports the diverse origins of Homo sapiens in different regions of the globe. Skulls displaying a wide variety of mixed modern and archaic features have been found in every corner of the world. The … Read more
Listen up soldiers, we have a crisis on our hands. A silent army has been built up over hundreds of years and is the most deadly enemy we have ever had to face. This enemy you people have known since the day you were brought into this world. You are face to face with this … Read more
Should humans be able to have a choice if they would like an experimentally procedure? I feel that yes- humans can use animals’ organs transported into them for medical research! We have come along ways on our research of organs transplants between animals; but of course the monkey is similar to humans but it is … Read more
The complex immune systems of humans and other mammals evolved over quite a long time – in some rather surprising ways. In 1982 a Russian zoologist named Elie Metchnikoff noticed a unique property of starfish larva. When he inserted a foreign object through it’s membrane, tiny cells would try to ingest the invader through the … Read more
For centuries man has grappled with the riddle of what it means to be a person. But the questions Who is man? and What is the meaning of life? are still unanswered. Yet, while man is still a long way from arriving at any acceptable definitions, there is deep within everyone the hint of an … Read more
The ear is an organ of the body that is used for hearing and balance. It is connected to the brain by the auditory nerve and is composed of three divisions, the external ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The greater part of which is enclosed within the temporal bone. The ear is … Read more
In the dictionary a human being is defined as a person showing qualities of people. But what exactly is a person or people? Do dictionaries go into detail about that? Where do we come from or why do we have ears? Scientists have been trying to answer questions like these for years, but everyone has … Read more
The suffering of man is a very complicated matter that is most likely impossible to understand completely. It is a subject that people have grappled with since the dawn of recorded history. In fact, suffering is evident in every form of art man has created. Suffering is in our paintings, our poetry, our music, our … Read more
In today’s pop culture, there is one very popular view of the future. All humans will be free to do as they wish, because robots and computers will work for us. Computers are viewed as the ideal slaves. They work non-stop, never complain, and above all, never make mistakes. It is often said that computers … Read more
In Arthur C. Clarkes novel Childhoods End, people or beings use each other for selfish reasons. Sometimes it is subtle, even subconscious; other times it is a blatant usage. Three obvious examples occur and kind of chase each other around in a triangular fashion. 1) The Overlords use humans/humanity. 2) The Overmind uses humans. 3) … Read more
The large cast of characters in Heller’s Catch-22 is what makes the novel so memorable. The experience of each character makes the “catch” more believable to the reader. Each character symbolizes a different attitude and reaction to the system in which he is trapped. Oftentimes, the characters are stereotypes rather than actual “individuals.” There is … Read more
Two hundred years ago, Thomas Malthus, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, reached the conclusion that the number of people in the world will increase exponentially, while the ability to feed these people will only increase arithmetically (21). Current evidence shows that this theory may not be far from the truth. For example, … Read more
The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international research program designed to construct detailed genetic and physical maps of the human genome, to determine the complete nucleotide sequence of human DNA, to localize the estimated 80,000 genes within the human genome, and to perform similar analyses on the genomes of several other organisms used extensively … Read more
After the war crimes committed by the Germans in the holocaust that occurred during World War II, the United nations decided to create a document guaranteeing respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all people, regardless of race, sex, language, or religion. This document was called The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration … Read more
Science is moving at such a rapid speed these days, between cloning, gene therapy, miracle drugs, exotic therapies, etc. One of the most significant breakthroughs came in November 1998, when two separate researchers successfully isolated stem cells from human embryos and aborted fetuses. Stem cells are primordial cells of a human organism, which are capable … Read more
Should man govern nature? This is a question that has been posed more often recently than ever. Human will soon know the secret to life and be able to use that secret in many different ways. This is all made possible by a nation-wide research effort called the Human Genome Project. The HGP is a … Read more
A goal implicit in human evolution is survival; thus, humanity directs some of its energy toward creating a state of peace to achieve the necessary efficiency and conservation of energy to survive in a hostile and sometimes unpredictable The foundation of the emergence of rule systems in the world is built upon centuries of reasoned … Read more