James Blish

Adventure Time has been nominated for various awards, including best children’s show. I believe this to be the wrong award. Adventure Time is not suitable for young children because of the copious amounts of body horror, stereotypes and recklessness. While discussing these points I will also be comparing the series to another award winning children’s show: Steven Universe. Adventure Time is full of body horror, in the episode ‘The Suitor’ Broko morphs into a mutated boy because he was ‘willing to

Cloning and the creation of the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein sounds promising, however, cloning is highly irresponsible to pursue. Dolly the sheep had a successful cloning but it brought many questions to the scientists. Cloning may have its benefits, but the outcome may vary. Cloning will impact the world deeply and cause a tension among the humans. Allowing to clone a human being is referred to as playing God. It is reasonable to decline the cloning of humans due to the fact it is a threat

The whole class has an essay due the next day. I panic because I have to take responsibility into my own hands to get the essay done. If I wouldn't get this done I would feel ashamed in myself of not getting it done when everyone else has the assignment finished. In an odd way, me taking responsibility into my own hands on this essay ties into Victor in the story of “Frankenstein.” Victor throughout the story felt guilty when everyone of his close friends and family died because he knew that the

What boundary should be kept between man and nature? This is a big question you should ask yourself as you read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. She makes you question when is taking something too far? In the book, Victor Frankenstein takes this boundary too far because the monster he creates was made with different body parts from deceased people, In this time period the anatomy of the human body was being studied. People wanted to know how our bodies worked and functioned so body snatching was very

The theme of Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan is that friends should stick together no matter what. Rick shows this through Magnus the son of the Norse God Frey, Blitzen the dwarf son of Freya, Hearthstone the deaf elf, and Sam the Valkyrie daughter of Loki. In the beginning, Magnus dies and goes to Valhalla where he learns Ragnarok the Norse version of the apocalypse is going to happen because Gleipnir, the rope that holds Fenris wolf, one of Loki’s children was loosening and

Even though Mr. Frankenstein was not clinically insane, his actions did perpetrate one who is. Victor Frankenstein was a mad scientist. In attempting to play God, his experiment back fired causing the death of his loved ones. “I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit”, said victor. His passion and obsession led him to commit unethical experiments and become absent to his family. For an extended period of time he isolated himself from society and dedicated his time in attempt

Fear is the tawdry darling of American culture, beloved and manufactured by the powerful and consumed tirelessly by the weak, sewing seeds of perfectly misdirected hate as perfectly as the tide’s ebb and flow. What ultimately becomes fear is an amalgam of other qualities—dissatisfaction, hopelessness, helplessness, et al—emotions without focus, desperately grasping at straws. Enter our false prophet, bearing great, long straws: can’t you see, you haven’t done this to yourself—try salvation! And suddenly

Journalism, I used think was taking stories and publishing them in as many words as possible for the largest profit. I believed it was just sharing a story that only several hundred people would get hear of. However, the truth is that it has the power to reach the masses. It is the beacon of light in a night of despair, the force which highlights the grievances of the people, but most of all, it is a weapon of mass destruction with the potential to obliterate any hopes or aspirations. Journalism

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley follows Victor Frankenstein as he retells his story of trying to break scientific boundaries by creating life unnaturally without women and the consequences of his endeavors through Robert Walton’s, an explorer, letters to his sister. In Frankenstein, science, the acquiring of knowledge, is a unnatural and destructive force destroying everything in its wake, when it is pursued without reserve; bestowing pain and extinguishing lives, loneliness and obsession with specific

Choose one specific sport to discuss and briefly describe the foundation and fundamentals to your training/programming philosophy? * Basketball: When I start creating programs, I research and find out what are the most problematic areas (areas prone to injury). In terms of basketball, the ankle, knee, hamstring, hip, and shoulder are areas of concern. After identifying those areas, I begin to research what makes them problematic areas. There is a plethora of explosive and strength movements in the