Meme's Reproductive Success

Successful memes facilitate humans to learn, acquire, and transmit new ideas and behaviors. In Susan Blackmore’s essay “Small Creature,” she proposes that memes are the ideas and beliefs that pass on through generation. Moreover, she believes that humans’ behaviors are greatly influenced and solely dominated by memes. But there is an important omission that left untouched in her essay. Blackmore lacks a clear explanation of what exactly contribute to the success of a meme’s transmission. However, when exploring in the Malcolm Gladwell’s “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” we could find out that he suggests many valuable illustrations of how successful memes are transmitted and what ingredients contribute to the success. In his interesting piece, he regards successful memes as strong ties, while unsuccessful one as weak ties. In a strong-tie relationship, people keep frequent contact in-person and have shared personal history, whereas a weak-tie is with tenuous relationship. Furthermore, He argues that social media and online communications connect people with weak ties that do not profoundly influence real social change and justice. On the other hand, Gladwell cites Civil Rights Movement as a strong-tie phenomenon that motivates people to devote real sacrifice. To answer the question then of what makes one meme popular and another one not, even though memes can be transmitted discretionarily, personal

Our results show that there was not a significant difference between the different tank densities and the number of antennal groomings within them. (P=0.31). There was also no indication of a statistically significant difference between the tanks when pheromones were not present and when pheromones were present (see fig.1).

I agree with you. When working with women, especially when it's about the reproductive history, we need to be extra sensitive because some women are not comfortable with talking about their past pregnancies, miscarriages, or abortion. We need to make them feel comfortable and let them know that we are here to help not to judge.

Communal nesting is beneficial for the public good. They found you get thermal buffering with nests. Their team put thermal loggers in the nest to see what ambient heat would be in the nest. In Central Namibia they set up two sites. Mist nets were used to capture individuals to take blood, put leg bands on, and take morphological measurements. They measured cooperation of individuals which was the amount of items they brought to the nest. Aggression was measured also, which counted as individuals who chased each other off. In addition, they measured the amount of items brought to individual nesting chambers. Blood was used to calculate relatedness by genotype by sequencing. This allowed them to calculate population genetics and estimate relatedness. They predicted that individuals would modify their behavior depending how related they were to the colony. Punishment was analyzed also.

Jason takes a moment to describe his encounters with the fertility medicine. He explains how it became apparent that he would not bear children after being diagnosed with testicular cancer few months after he has married his wife, Bessie. He expresses how childlessness is a deeply personal issue that affects a person from within as the society often expects a child from a marital relationship. The thought of not having a child do make couples take a backseat when matters to do with children are being discussed in open forums or with friends. What Jason presents is a classic case of a couple ready to go an extra mile in the search of children. Despite the pains and frustrations that come by, fertility medicine may

Cynical, humorous, and peculiar –memes have engulfed the entirety of cyberspace. Originating from Richard Dawkins book, “The Selfish Gene,” a memes initial purpose was to delineate and elaborate how cultural information dispersed, throughout communities. However, the memes purpose has evolved over time. According to Paul Gil, author of “What is a “Meme?”, modern day memes are “often [used] to publicly ridicule human behavior.” Additionally, some memes have even been featured to contain “heavier and more philosophical content.” Memes today are now utilized solely for the means of entertainment and critical acquisitions, such as the memes presenting president Donald Trump as the former German Dictator Adolf Hitler. While the image may elicit

Reproduction affects politics through different views and privileges. These different views and privileges could possibly form a relationship between two people whether they are good or bad. However, whether there is a agreement or disagreement on the views, it is important to ensure that there is social justice. In other words, people need to be aware of the freedom of opinion and expression that others are entitled to as a human.

Father Boniface Hicks article, “Saint Joseph, Master of Virginal Begetting”, asserts that Saint Joseph plays an essential role in Jesus’ Incarnation. Hicks claims that because he begins this article saying that Msgr. Jean-Jacques Olier, who was the founder of the Sulpicians, assigned the seminarians of Saint Sulpice to the protection of Saint Joseph. Hicks’ purpose is to point out that even Saint Joseph was not the biological father of Jesus he has a real and valuable character in the generation of Christ. Consequently, he is a model for every priest because the priests have to generate Christ in their souls as Joseph did. Hicks is writing to seminarians in theological context and he tries to be contemporaneous quoting Pope Francis.

Likewise, Ottoman sultanate’s traditions of reproduction also translated into 19th century Istanbul. Much like the royal concubines before them, after marriage, the role of women in Istanbul was still to give birth to children and raise them to be successful adults. With a fertility decline in Istanbul in the 19th century, it became more significant for women to give birth to her husband’s children. Duben and Behar states that pronatalists in Istanbul associated children with the future in hopes of increasing fertilities. Hence, there is resurgence in the role of Istanbul women as mothers and caregivers. Women were heavily encouraged to give birth to children in order to sustain the future, which is clearly reiterated in the journal Kadınlar Dünyasi: “The purpose of marriage is the future…Family means nation (millet), nation means family.” Additionally, like the concubines, it is through birthing and raising a child that a woman gains power – in this case represented through citizenship. In the journal titled Rights, Reproduction, Sexuality and Citizenship in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Ruth A. Miller suggests, “motherhood [was] made identical to citizenship.” Miller argues that through birthing and raising a child, a woman confirms that she is a beneficial citizen in the society that is given “not a partial granting of rights but a full granting of rights, not an incomplete acquisition of civic identity but a

The history of memes is a very long one, and many argue that memes have been spread through the first human cultures. One example of this is the meme called Kilroy was here. Kilroy was here was a graffiti that was seen all across the world in the 1940s. The United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States all had a different version of Kilroy was here. The UK had Mr. Chad, Australia had Foo was here, and the US had Kilroy was here. Even Adolf Hitler got word of this graffiti, and thought it was a codename for American intelligence. Why was this graffiti popular among all of these countries? The answer; memes. Although the origins of Kilroy was here are debated, most believe that James J. Kilroy, a man who worked at the Fore River Shipyard,

Advice given over the phone prior to arrival- Firstly I advised Ms Matado NOT to feed Imelda prior to bringing into the clinic as this can cause her to regurgitate under anaesthetic. I also asked Ms Matado to bring any puppies in if she has had any. I explained to Ms Matado to lay a blanket down in the back of her car with the air conditioner running to keep Imelda cool whilst travelling to the vet. I also explained to Ms Matado to gently carry Imelda into the clinic by hold under her hind end and holding behind her front legs. This will prevent her from having to walk in and feel uncomfortable.

A species’ long-term reproductive success is the most important factor when determining if that species cooperatively breeds. Cooperative breeding is a when an individual forgoes reproducing to assist offspring that are not their own (Hoogland 1983). Although there is an absence of direct fitness, individuals still gain genetics benefits through kin selection (Queller & Strassmann 1998). Kin selection allows some of the individual’s genes to pass on to the next generation by helping his or her relatives, who carry similar genes, raise their young (Queller & Strassmann 1998). Helpers feed, groom, and watch the young. They also protect the territory boundaries and alert individuals of incoming threats (Jennions and MacDonald 1994). Cooperative

When analyzing memes, it is important to understands the concept of the meme itself. The word “meme” was first defined by Richard Dawkins in his book “The Selfish Gene”. The greek meaning of the word meme is mimeme, which means to “imitate.” Imitation is one of the most values that makes a meme successful, without the imitation and the ability to replicate one image into a hundred different types of humourmous memes, the meme itself would fail. Success baby, also known, as “I hate sandcastle kid” is an image of a kid about 11-month-old boy at the beach with a pouty facial expression.

Herbert's novel communicates a fundamental truth, water is the most precious elements on the planet. Without it, most life,including human life would cease to exist. Water serves multiple purposes, circulating through the earth, much like it does though the human body, transporting, dissolving, replenishing nutrients and organic matter, while simultaneously washing away waste material. The supreme

Within the TED talk, Hans Rosling discussed that religions had little to do with the number of babies per women. Rosling classified each country by their religions; Christianity, Islam, and Eastern religions. He stated that each of these countries religions experienced a high and low fertility rates and that there's been a rapid drop over the past 50 years. That the fertility rate had fallen around the world, even in lower-income countries, but yet remains high in some poorer countries such as Congo and Afghanistan.