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    alludes to society’s irresponsibility while dealing with science and technological advancement. Shelly represents the exhilaration and eventual horrors of modern technology through creation of a monster by Victor Frankenstein. Impetuous actions bring tragedy and death into the unfortunate life of Victor; his family and friends all die by the hand of his creation. Twenty-first century science must realize the lesson embedded within Frankenstein: while ingenuity

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    Hugens Hugens is the first collaborative effort of this husband and wife team who love nothing better than researching and writing new books that will titillate even the most discerning. While Hugens IS a fictional allegorical “satire”, it is based on “a sign of the times” theory—acting here as a futuristic Cultivating Guide for Human-Hugen Hybrid Ranchers, where scientists rush to phase out the Natural Human Population because they are hard to control and chemically toxic, while maintaining

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    First Episode Of Cosmos

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    In the first episode of Cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes the human race as a baby in a basket left at somebody’s doorstep without a note. He later goes on to say how the human race was gifted our sense of pattern recognition, passed down to us by our ancestors. This sense was essential to our survival, as our ancestors used the stars that would tell them when seasons would be coming and when they should set up camp or leave. They also noticed comets in the night sky and almost every ancient

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    companionship. From this we can tell he is a lonely person. Throughout his journey he is writing his letters to his sister Margaret who lives in England. Robert is driven to step foot where no one else has stepped in. Later on, we are introduced to Victor mostly known as the narrator of the story and also the Creator of the monster in which later we will get detailed in has the same

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    In the murky, ice cold waters of Scotland, you see a long neck swimming towards you.”The Loch-Ness monster!” you think, but I’m here to tell you differently. The sightings of the Loch-Ness monsters are just illusions The Loch Ness… ELEPHANT? Let’s address the elephant in the ballroom...or the lake. Circuses were extremely popular in Scotland during the 1930s, and Dr. Neil Clark suggests that the elephants swimming in between shows could have been mistaken for the loch ness monster.”Because

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    “Les Miserables” The extract is take from the novel Les miserables written by victor hugo in the nineteenth century. This was the time when art and literature was influenced by Romanticism movement. In this novel hugo has condemned the unjust class based structure of the nineteenth century France. This movement has an emphasis on individual’s freedom of thoughts and emotions from social conventions. They are more concerned with imagination rather than reason. The situation in this passage is idealized

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    Victor Frankenstein he talks about his family history, and childhood. Frankenstein tell him about his sister/ lover Elizabeth Lavenze describes his relationship with her. Elizabeth was Victor’s cousin, the daughter of Alphonse’s sister, when Victor was four years old, Elizabeth’s mother dies and Elizabeth is adopted into the Frankenstein family (fake reason). The real story came about Caroline went on a trip to Italy, when Victor was only five year old, and she found Elizabeth. Caroline was visiting

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    Frankenstein is about a man from Geneva named Victor Frankenstein. He is a smart man, who at a young age, becomes very interested in natural philosophy. His parents, Caroline Beaufort and Alphonse Frankenstein loved him more than anything in the world; he was an only child for several years. However, one day Victor’s mother, Caroline, adopted Elizabeth Lavenza. Caroline fell in love with Elizabeth’s looks when she saw her on the streets of Paris; Victor and Elizabeth were set to be married when they

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    People are not truly good at heart “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” These words were spoken by Anne Frank. She wrote these words in her diary in the attic of her father’s business. She was hiding from the Nazi’s, and hid among several other people in a confined area. Anne thought that everyone was truly good-hearted. She sadly died in a concentration camp about a year later.The truth is people are not good at heart. People are selfish, they are

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    “It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways” (Buddha). Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a science fiction novel about knowledge. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein spends years creating a creature from dead bodies. Upon the completion of his project, he immediately abandons the creature leaving him to discover humanity on his own. In Mary Shelley's novel, both Frankenstein and his creature are on a search for knowledge, though the quest is executed in opposite ways:

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