Gatot Kaca Essay

Section 1: Question 1 – The society of Gattaca works to repress rather than to enhance the potential of human beings. Discuss.

“Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind,” by Ethan Watters, is a compelling article that challenges the reader’s perception on culture and cognition. Instead of cognition affecting culture, our culture affects our cognition. It’s interesting to conceptualize, and it makes one have to introspect their culture, beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Why do we do behave the way that we do? Are our thoughts our own? How much of us is influenced by our environment? This effect of culture can be rooted in our childhoods. We are taught societal norms and how to view, categorize, and perceive the world through the lens of the environment surrounding us. A prime example of this comes from the games we played growing up.

Ruth Benedict’s anthropological book, Patterns of Culture explores the dualism of culture and personality. Benedict studies different cultures such as the Zuni tribe and the Dobu Indians. Each culture she finds is so different and distinctive in relation to the norm of our society. Each difference is what makes it unique. Benedict compares the likenesses of culture and individuality, “A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought or action” (46), but note, they are not the same by use of the word, “like.” Benedict is saying that figuratively, cultures are like personalities. Culture and individuality are intertwined and dependent upon each other for survival.

Indian literature written in English language has its base n the myth that has been passed on from generations. Like many Indian English writers writing in English Girish Karnad is of no exception. In his writings the mythological aspects echo throughout. His plays like ‘Hayavadana’, ‘The Fire and The Rplay hain’ and ‘Nagmandala’ are based on the myths but Karnad gives an approach to myth in a different way. His plays originate from the myths of Indian legends but in the course of the play hee insert some of the acts which make us rethink about depending on God, especially through the man-God encounter acts.

The story of Vincent shows in Gattaca that there is possibility of beating the genetic engineering system. Vincent is one of the last naturally born babies born into a sterile, genetically enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30, he has no chance of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes, instead of your gender, race or religion. Vincent an invalid, dreams of working within Gattaca and making it into space. He combines with Jerome who was disabled in an accident to take his identity and live his life to enter the Gattaca Corporation. Vincent is selected for his lifelong desire, a manned mission to Titan.

Growing up as an Asian American, I often struggle to identify my own cultural identity. Being the first generation of both my mother and father’s side of the family, I more than often get confused between American and Asian culture when applying them to society or at home. While being raised at home, I am largely influenced by culture and traditions from Asian parents and relatives. However, when I go to school or someplace else, I am heavily judged for practicing part of my Asian culture because it is entirely different than western or American. With that being noted, I began to learn and adapt to the western culture in hopes of fitting with society as well of trying to keep my Asian culture intact. As can be seen, this situation I dealt with is the same problem the whole Asian American community faces. Mainly focusing on younger generations like me for example, the Asian American community struggles to adapt to the western culture because they were raised with an Asian influence. Wishing to fit in society and be part of the social norms, the Asian Americans community faces issues that identify their cultural identity.

In my opinion, this article shows the importance of knowing the difference between race and culture. Race can be taught in a “biological variation” which results

The movie “Gattaca” is a sci-fi movie that takes place in “the not-too-distant” future, where genetic engineering of humans is common. In this sci-fi future, class differences are construct is primarily determined by your DNA. In the movie society’s culture is ingrained with eugenics, evident by the clear institutionalized discrimination. Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim at improving the genetic quality of the human population. Eugenics is not a “new” concept, people have been discriminating based on looks ever since prehistoric times. The movie inspired me to do some research on popular eugenics movements in the post-industrial age (1850-present). My primary goal of was to identify the motives behind early eugenics

It is a significant struggle for many first or second generation of Asian-American who need to fit in two different culture and expectations sets, especially for who born from early 1980s to late 1990s. On one side, we have to get into the American culture. On other side, we are encouraged to preserve our traditional personality and keep our Asian ethnicities alive. Fail to keep either side of expectations can lead to rejection or culture crisis.

Considering the specific characteristics of Asian culture, the explanations can be drawn from two perspectives: what decreases the risk and what hides the risk. From general perspective to specific perspective, the following sections will compose the whole

Nagaina, Nag, and Karait like to cause a lot of trouble just to get their way. First of all, Karait starts this story off by having a little fight with Rikki-Tikki-Tavi saying “I am death” telling Rikki he is going to kill him, but instead Karait loses the fight and is punished with death. He could have taken the other route to goodness and not have died, but he chose to fight and he ended up dead. Next in this story shows that Nag is a follower, he’s afraid to tell Nagaina that he doesn’t want to kill anybody because there is no reason, but he does it anyway because he doesn’t want to upset his wife. The last main evil antagonist in this story is Nagaina. She thinks that it is okay to hurt those who are innocent, and she wants to rule over the whole garden, so her babies can grow up to be kings. So she tries to kill everyone, but the great Rikki-Tikki-Tavi saves everyone from her, and she is punished with death. She could have tried to work something out with Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, but she decided to kill, so her babies would rule over all. After reading this paragraph you have a great amount of information to tell who are the bad guys in this

The native accepted him as one of their own, and he was no longer a stranger.

Culture is fundamental to understanding human experience. It makes the world inspiring, entertaining, enables effective communication, and influences most factors of modern life, so it’s no surprise that psychologists are interested in the impact it has. Sociocultural psychology and cross- cultural psychology are two different approaches that explore cultural experience. The two disciplines, though different in their definitions of cultural impact, share many of the same goals and ideas, and can arguably offer great insight to the other approach. The potential for collaboration between the two disciplines to garner a rich insight into personal and social cultural influence means that the two approaches are by no means incompatible, and their compatibility can offer a wealth of positive contribution to psychological research.

Once in the lands of our ancestors lived a bold hero, believed to have the strength and wisdom of the gods. The hero was named Jehoshapet. Although he was great, it was no longer good enough. Many wars he had endured, never having lost, but he confronted them all alone. This made him a legend and gave him the name Jehoshapet " The Wandering Sword”.

Skandgupta (1928) the play we study here is regarded as Prasad’s most powerful play in which his dexterity in handling the plot “has few parallels.” The play is named after the Gupta King Skandgupta, who tried actually to stem the march of the Huns into India. The hero faces the rebellion of his stepmother, Anantdevi, assisted by Bhatark and Prapanchbuddhi. He fights, at least, three battles besides having to bear the brunt of many domestic conflicts. The play is indeed a plethora of conflicts – domestic, political, social and religious. In this play, “the concept of tragedy introduced into Hindi drama by Bhartendu was given another dimension by Prasad where the hero in his final victory suffers from his personal tragedy.’1