PHIL 1030 Paul Gomberg February 22, 2012 Dinosaurs’ extinction is still a mystery. In “Sex, Drug, Disasters and the Extinction of Dinosaurs”. Stephen Jay Gould discusses three speculations how dinosaurs became extinct. The speculations made by the scientist refer to a theme of our culture, which is sex, drugs, and violence. Two theories, sex and drugs, are quickly ignored because of lack of evidence.
She didn’t believe about the PurBlood’s safety. 3. Charles Levine: Scopes, his rival and ex-best friend, thinks that he’s trying to do something bad the change the human race. He breaks into the GeneDyne network, the company building, and talks to Scopes about not selling X-FLU and X-RUST. 4.
In 1966 Charles Whitman killed 16 and injured 33 at the University of Texas. Later there were notes found written by Whitman asking for an autopsy because he knew something was wrong with his brain. After analyzing it was revealed that a nickel size abnormality close to the amygdala in his brain, which is the primary emotion center. Decades since it is still not that simple with the technologies of MRI and CT scan. The Prefrontal Cortex communicating with the amygdala puts it in over drive when there is a threat and if there is no threat the prefrontal will calm down, being that if the communication is faulty that message won’t get through.
She loves the young naval officer, but had until recently been engaged to a young scientist Dr. Serizawa, who was also Steve Martin's friend in college. She had lost interest in him because he has become and outcast, to her and others. After her breaking up with him, he revealed to her the reason for his solitary confinement was because he had developed a formula capable of destroying all oxygen in water. In the process of which any animal coming in contact with the "oxygen destroyer" is stripped clean of all flesh and organs, reducing to the surrounding life to a harmless skeleton. His time had been spent over what to do with this discovery since he feared of the consequence of it falling in the wrong hands.
Candice had previously discovered “a world filled with stupidity, plagued by evil, mired in ignorance...” (Sayre, p. 817). Additionally, another earthquake happened just over a week later even though an auto-de-fe was carried out to prevent earthquakes. The author somewhat convinced me of the surprise ending. However, confining both men for crimes that were not similar to the Biscayan and two Portuguese prevented me from accepting the full value of the surprise ending. The chapter does not give an indication of the reason for Pangloss being hanged versus being burned.
It was the year 2161 on the planet mars and an elite squad of soldiers was preparing to sneak into an enemy base under the order of the chancellor Sopot. They were there to take an object called a nano-cell that allowed the user to create countless soldiers. The two main people doing the invasion were genetically altered soldiers named Alias and Shrike. Over a radio, Shrike was saying to Alias “Don’t screw up Alias, what chancellor Sopot wants, chancellor Sopot gets” They were flying over the enemy base and Shrike was firing the Gatling gun on his gunship at the enemy troops while Alias was being brought in via drop ship to a place where the enemies could not see him. Alias had a machine gun with a rifle-mounted grenade launcher, which he used to blow a hole in the wall and then he destroyed the four watch towers surrounding the base.
The Farm Sanctuary has also developed species-specific animal care sheets that outline the basic care needs of farm animals, including housing and feed requirements, common health problems, health care needs, and other basic care information. These sheets are available for viewing on their personal website. This organization has many ways for people to get involved such as the Walk for Farm Animals which is an annual walk that starts on September 7th and continues through November 3rd. The Farm Sanctuary also has a vast amount of printed resources available to read and educate yourself on the horrors of factory farming. From all the inflicted pain and unjust rights that animals are subjected to the Farm Sanctuary is the one organization that cares.
Michael Gomez 11/28/11 In the short story, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, the setting takes place in a time traveling company where people are given the opportunity to go back in time to the era of the dinosaurs and be able to kill one. Eckels and a few others take the opportunity and decide to go back in time and kill a tyrannosaurs rex. The usage of foreshadowing brings out the conflict where Travis (Group leader) kills Eckels. The constant threats said by Travis directed to Eckels, brings suspicion in the audience if he kills Eckels or not. Eckels as an hunter, is motivated to go back in time, not only be able to see one in his own eyes, but kill a T-rex.
Ender’s Game On the surface Ender’s Game is a straightforward science fiction book set in the future about humanity overcoming an alien race. The book is set after humanity’s first war with the aliens in which the people of Earth narrowly defeat the invading force. After this near cataclysmic encounter with the alien race humanity comes together to create the International Fleet, a force of highly advanced spaceships with the mission of destroying the alien race’s home planet in order to ensure the safety of the human race. In order to accomplish this the I.F. creates a screening system for potential future commanders that monitors children on Earth and identifies children with the desired traits so that they may be pulled for a series of specialized trainings in order to groom them for the impending battles to come.
A Response to “The Stanford Prison Experiment” In Philip G. Zimbardo’s essay, “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, he set up a fake prison in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology building with volunteer “guards” and “prisoners” to prove that inherent personality traits are primarily responsible for abusive behavior that takes place in prison environments. After reading Zimbardo’s essay, I felt very much disturbed that this experiment actually took place. The experiment was intended to last fourteen days, however the experiment went badly wrong causing some of the volunteer “prisoners” to become psychological disturbed and initially put a stop to the entire operation after just six days. This experiment caused a threat to the well-being of all those involved by means of dehumanization. The setup of this experiment was comprised of twenty-four volunteers of middle aged white men of the Harvard area whom were offered fifteen dollars a day to participate as either a “guard” or a “prisoner” which was decided randomly.