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    appalled by the traits possessed by humans like him, such as mating patterns, scientific knowledge and art. To him, these are evolutionary mistakes that contribute little to the survival of mankind. As a result of these thoughts he aims at changing humanity by eliminating the traits he deems useless or undesirable. His main goal is to make a different kind of breed that is self sufficient with all the desirable traits in humans, plants and animals. His succeeds in creating this breed but his goals are

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    Growing up in Queens, New York in the 21st century, exposed me to a diverse population of people and cultures. This is something that I am immensely grateful for as it allowed me to gain a greater understanding for others. Specifically, I have encountered a variety of sexual preferences and identities. With exposure to both social media outlets, like Twitter and Tumblr, and close friends in the LGBTQ+ community, I have developed an accepting attitude towards individuals who stray from the heteronormative

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    states her argument topic the humanities are a necessity in people’s life at the beginning by using the work of Audre Lorde. She claims that the vanish of language proves that the skill of critical thinking is degradation through various types of social media (48). By proving this claim, Smith uses the word from Robert Frost as an evidence to prove that people’s minds are easy to be manipulated. Smith mentions that for a long time, in many people’s opinions, the humanities are not making any profit because

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    characters they prefer, and disagree with other characters. The divergence in opinion between Kevin J. H. Dettmar and Sarfraz Manzoor on Dead Poets Society is one such example. Dettmar states that: “Dead Poets Society is a terrible defense of the humanities.” This is because he thinks the film is void of literary criticism or analysis; the only things left are misleading and deeply seductive. On the contrary, Manzoor cites Dead

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    the humanities and social sciences are perceived as unimportant and negligible. As a result, the liberal arts bear constant ridicule in the United States exemplified by the public’s mockery of the false perceptions of vocational failure surrounding the program of study. Nevertheless, Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, states that it is the liberal arts—most notably the humanities and social

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    Common to induce simplification, an attempt to thoroughly understand ancient literature often results in a reader unintentionally looking beyond the deep-rooted existence of certain themes within the written words of the literary piece. The interaction between humans and the natural world, which is referred to as human ecology, represents one aspect of literature which is easily overlooked; more specifically, in the great literary reads The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian epic from Mesopotamia, and

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    academic cultures because they created and conducted their own experiment. The results from the experiment are their own fresh new findings that no one has tempered with. The three academic cultures we have learned throughout this semester are Humanities, Social Science and the Natural Sciences. The natural sciences have a focus that everything in the universe can be studied. Often times, scientists in the academic culture will create things that are not a part of the natural world. A few of the

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    Dave Parry presents a more suitable definition for digital humanities opposed to the other two. His definition of DH is to view the digital humanities as new approaches of scholarship, as modifications in not the tools in humanistic studies, but in the scholarship itself. Regardless of the concentration of work being done, using the digital creates a whole new way of working. Parry finds the first form of DH quite dull because he’s not fascinated in study that looks for the frequency of words. Rather

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    Piggy never stopped believing in the power of the conch and everything that it represented- law, stability, and organized humanity. The power of the conch however, died along with Piggy himself. When Piggy the voice of reason on the island was brutally killed by Roger, so did the importance of order and logic in their society. Piggy’s murder perfectly ties Golding’s theme of humanities descent into savagery and its relationship with knowledge together because Roger’s savage ways directly killed the only

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    The primary goals of books are to connect the past with the future and spread the collective learning and ideas of humanity from one generation to the next. In The Great Gatsby, the parties that Gatsby hosts show the times and rules of the alcohol temperance movement. Despite alcohol being banned, it was cheaper and more popular than before. Also, the novel portrays the

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