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    Shelly's Alchemists

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    sorcerer's stone, or just a way to find gold. They were searching for material wealth instead of the spiritual kind, and it always ended badly for them and those around them. The alchemists are present in Shelley's novel: they are the old masters with whom Victor in obsessed as a young man. But science

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    In the thrilling book Shadow House: You Can’t Hide by Dan Poblocki, it is 210 pages of bone-chilling, and terrifying mystery solving for 4 teens trapped in the Larkspur House. The book is read in an omniscient point of view that really expresses each main character, Poppy, Dash, Amuzi, and Marcus. Having to overcome the never-ending nightmare of Larkspur is Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Marcus’ biggest dilemma and ultimately having to escape the changing house. For Dylan on the other hand, trying to

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    The Diar Loneliness

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    “They’ve been picked up. That’s what happened. They’ve been taken.” In July of 1492, one of the greatest concerns happened to Jewish families in the Netherlands. Hitler invaded and took over Germany having the Nazis kill all of the Jews. The Frank family and the Van Daan family left in the middle of the night to walk approximately two miles to their hiding spot. The Frank family left everything chaotic and wrote a note saying they escaped to Switzerland anticipating it would attract fewer suspicions

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    People see so many articles everyday about a new discovery or plans to things that have never been made. For example, currently, scientists are planning on bringing the wooly mammoth back to life. There are also being robots made and self-driven cars and new inventions to deal with outer space. All of these inventions are from the urge to explore and answer the unknown. People will risk their lives to find out an answer to something that has been troubling scientists for years. This is called a drive

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    never noticed before: high divorce rates, murder rates, and drug use just to name a few. James Riddley-Scott and Mary Shelley noticed and had a fear of child abandonment. In Frankenstein, Shelley explores this subject through the viewpoint of a man, Victor, who creates a child so hideous that he cannot bear to look at it, and consequently deserts it. In Blade Runner Scott explores this matter through a businessman, Tyrell, who makes replicants of humans, the Nexus 6, gives them only four years to live

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    within the novel. Set in 18th century Switzerland, Victor Frankenstein embarks on a horrifying journey to satisfy his growing desire to create life. However, Victor and his creation are overcome by their selfish agendas and growing hatred of one another, creating seemingly endless misfortune for their selves. The enemies' constant misunderstandings of each other ultimately turn an innocent victim into an inconsiderate and hate-filled monster. When Victor Frankenstein began the process of creating a living

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    The whole world has crashed. It is full of emptiness and miserable scenes on earth, where dead bodies are all around lying on the ground, demonstrating the massive destruction caused by people who attempt to conquer nature. For decades, every creature except for humans has been extinct; everyone who struggles to survive wants to murder and rob others, and some people even choose to practice cannibalism in order to survive. Humanity and morality established through billions of years by human ancestors

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    and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred." - Mary Shelley. In this quote you can see that the monster is angry at Victor Frankenstein because Victor turned him into a hideous monster. According to the book there is only one monster and that is the creature of Victor Frankenstein. But you can also look at it in this way: Victor Frankenstein made a monster, so is Victor then also a monster because of what he has created? First the definition of monster: 1. Any animal or human grotesquely

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    Opening Motivation can be defined in many ways. In the oxford dictionary Motivation is explained as a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. There are so many ways of motivating people as I have discovered by all the motivation theories that have been thought by people all over the world. Some of the theories are very different to each other as lots of people have different opinions. For manager it is so important they understand how motivation works as they want to get the

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    to life, death and the interpretation of god. She introduces us to the character Victor who can be recognized as a mad scientist, he is obsessed over creating a perfect human being. However, according to Victor's actions, his experiment of creating the perfect human being goes all wrong when his creation the Creature comes out hideous (Shelley 43). Nevertheless, the Creature is not as horrible and “wretched” as Victor proclaims. He is a human with feelings and a soul (Shelley 43). The Creature is

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