Essays on Alien

1 Wagner starts his argument with referring to generally acknowledged dislike for Jews, noticed among people worldwide. The author defines it as “a rooted dislike of the Jewish nature” (Wagner 79). At the beginning of the article, the author claims this dislike to be almost completely irrespective of Arts, and Music as the particular art form. Nevertheless, he emphasizes the meaning of Hebrew, which influences Jews’ speech in the most direct way, and its effect in Music. Wagner believes that the ancient language, spoken by the representatives of this ethnicity, is one of the main reasons why Jews are ...

While the resulting dominance of European powers over persons in the areas with which they came into contact was acceptable, the effects of global trade on societal norms of Europe were unprecedented. In other words, just as the Triangle Trade influenced Europe’s place in the world, it also affected its interior societal makeup. The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West highlights the three steps that led to the Age of Revolutions: Commercial Revolution, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment (5mins).The Commercial Revolution posed the first threat to European traditions by debunking the ideologies of birthrights as the source ...

The Ariekei in China Mieville's Embassytown are a strange species of alien with a strange language. Words are not just words to the Ariekei Hosts but a reflection of reality. As it is described in the book, the Hosts need "a speaker, with intent, with a mind behind the words" for anything spoken in their Language to mean anything at all (p. 55). What is fascinating about this is the fact that Hosts are incapable of lying, because their Language must be an accurate reflection of reality. The most interesting thing about the Hosts' language, though, is given by ...

In the novel “The Left Hand of Darkness,” Ursula Le Guin states that the world is moving from alien politics to alien bodies. In the article, the writer argues that one has to concentrate on the walls that separate them from one another: both the physical and metaphorical barriers. The author further writes that one has to think of the body as the first wall that they have. She writes, ‘We all need our bodies’ (78). The paper states that the body structure has been used to create distinctions in all aspects of human living. For instance, the writer ...

The world of Anarres in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is remarkably alien to our world, in that it seems to be a perfect representation of the ideals of political anarchy and collectivism across an entire planet. Ostensibly, everything is meant to be the ideal vision of political and social freedom – there is no governmental authority, for instance. However, as the character Shevek learns in his own study of research into the ansible, the people of Anarres do not like when people deviate from the cultural consensus. Anarres as a society is particularly alien in that its ...

Introduction

Natural law theory and positivism are two approaches to thinking that differ in the basic legal principles and rules on the treatment of law. Principles and rules influence English jurisprudence and the administration of justice through the attitudes, perspectives, approaches, decisions and pronouncements of judges and jurists. Natural law theory and positivism dominate respective areas of English jurisprudence and adjudication process, but these approaches may also simultaneously exert influence to raise issues and cause developments in other areas.

Influence of Natural Law Theory

Natural law is “the order of the dynamic tendencies that are proper to man as a rational being”. The rule of ...

Invisibility of Women - Literature analyses of “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree Jr. in compare and contrast to “Invisibility in Academe” by Adrienne Rich

Introduction

The two literary texts analyzed in this essay are centered on the subject of feminine rights, power, and gender equality. James Tiptree expresses disdain for male domination in his story ‘The Women Men Don’t See’. He is concerned with the blatant disregard for feminine rights and identity flaunted by male dominance. On the other hand, Adrienne Rich writes an account of the feminine struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

Good day! I am here today to speak to you about Area 51. Much has been said and written about Area 51. The main perception of this area is that it is so secretive such that there are many theories that abound to this day about Area 51. It has been romanticized in books, papers and films that the area is the site where an alien ship crashlanded, that it is an area where meetings with aliens are held, and that time travel and teleportation are held here as well. Today, I would like to provide with information that ...

ABSTRACT

The Sedition Act of 1798 was signed into law by the Federalist Party when there was fear of war in France and to prevent their rival political party, the Democratic-Republicans, from speaking out against and criticizing the Federalist party, which could result in legal ramifications, including fines and jail time. The Sedition Act was and remains an example of unconstitutional legislature that undermined the spirit of the Constitution and the First Amendment guaranteeing Americans the freedom of speech, expression and press. The Act was hypocritical and defied the principles that the United States was founded upon. It made it ...

Colonization is a process in which imperial power systems dominate a region and its components. It features, among other things, cultural domination, political subjugation, religious assimilation and economic exploitations. The colonists used these measures as tools of winning control of the helpless people. Colonization has a close link to massive exploitation and assimilations of new cultures and it further involves actual or threat of use of force. The colonizers were formidable icons and commanded loyalty through aggression. In light of colonialism, established cultures disintegrated. On the case of Britain emperialism,Tarique noted that, “as one of its legacieshas been ...

"Starship Troopers" is a military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven produced in 1997. This film does not only focus on life in the future and new civilizations and realities of the 23rd century, but it is also centered around the darker side of the role of government and authority, disturbing social spaces, and total absence of choice for ordinary people. The film depicts life of people in the distant future, particularly in the 23rd century. "Earth, three hundred years into the future, is under the rule of the Federation world government. Multi- nationalism has finally become ...

The 1980s was a complex era of transition, which saw the rise of military power, but also the emergence of new technology, as the fight against communist threats intensified. During this decade, the sci-fi genre reached immense popularity, and was closely related to the new blockbuster films which Hollywood exported throughout the world. During this decade, illegal immigration, the memory of the Vietnam War and the transformation of masculinity under the threat of feminism became prominent issues, which were reflected in the popular media of the time. As a genre which is particularly fit to reflect the anxieties and ...

The general assembly of UN approved an arrangement for dividing Palestine in 1947, which offered a chance for the establishment of Jewish State, as well as Arab State and Jerusalem, left under worldwide status. The Jewish and the Arab States rejected such an arrangement. The United Kingdom dropped its mandate or control on Palestine, which led to the proclamation of Israel state. As a result, the Palestinians with the help of Arab States declared war on Israel (Koops et al., 2015). Israel also fought many wars with other states; however, this paper focuses on factors causing internal conflicts within ...

Science fiction is nonexistent devoid of scientific and technological concepts. This essay aims at exploring how cautionary tales in science fiction make use of ideas rooted in science or technology. It focuses on four narratives and how their writers have incorporated scientific notions in creating admonitions. The four stories include Second Variety by Philip K. Dick, Slow Life by Michael Swanwick, Desertion by Clifford D. Simak, and Swarm by Bruce Sterling. These authors have used biological, chemical, physical, astronomical, or mechanical abstractions to warn the reader of impending danger in the narrative. In his narration, Philip K. Dick uses ...

In resonating with the residents of the Tenderloin in San Francisco, my personalities have over the years been influenced by my unique environment similar to the Tenderloin thus shaping me into an individual with diverse and affluent values and beliefs. I come from China, Asia and this makes my environment unique similar to that of the Tenderloin. The residents of the Tenderloin are known to have a unique background with many racial groups and people of different walks of life. As such, factors such as race, gender and poverty are issues common to the region with the region also ...

Final Portfolio Projects

Introduction The first project is from Chapter One: Introducing Linguistic Anthropology and involved asking people around me about what their opinion was regarding some popularly held notions about languages, and how the level of sophistication of a language is correlated with how civilized a people are perceived to be. The second project is from Chapter Twelve: Language, Culture, and Thought and explores the differences between cultural relativism and universalism in analysing various aspects of a culture. The third project is from Chapter Nine: Languages In Variation and Languages In Contact and pertains to the increasing usage of English language ...

Philosophy

Introduction Man has always gazed at the stars and attempted to answer the question about the existence of any life anywhere else in the Universe apart from Earth. While for the better part of the first two thousand years After Christ, there was a popular assumption that Man is unique in the Universe, the acceptance of the ‘Copernican Principle’ (Tyson, 2003) in the 1500s, when Nicholas Copernicus put the sun back in its proper place at the center of the solar system, propelled the notion that man may not be unique after all. Given the fact that the three ...

Introduction

This literature seeks to explore the correlation between class issues and schooling based on an Australian model of study. Most of the authors in this review agree that there is a correlation between class issues and the way schools are perceived and operated. The rise of neoliberalism has led way to an induction of creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. Australian schools have shifted from the dynamics of the 1970s and 1980’s where the idea of a more balanced school system was part of educational reform. However, as of 2009 this has shifted and ...

The film “Lost in Translation” is really about the difficulties in translation, but not so much in the linguistic sense, as in the human, - translation of others’ feelings ("Lost In Translation (2003)"). The film is not so much the words as the information, the mood and emotions are not concluded just in words. This is perhaps one of the few movies, where the characters’ silence can be comfortable and talk about many things. A slow, as it might seem, dragged action is not the lack of pictures – that's the essence of the whole atmosphere of loneliness – the characters ...

We live in a world where there is good and evil. Since time immemorial, stories told by humans have always had heroes and villains. Human culture has always been rife with tales of heroism, both real and fictional, wherein awe-inspiring individuals faced immense adversity only to overcome it and accomplish good in the end. In the last century, these stories have taken a new turn in introducing fictional characters that are superhuman. The heroes in such storylines who’re more commonly referred to as superheroes are capable of feats that, by any standard, far exceed human capabilities. It is ...

Intensified Research of Ridley Scott

Intensified Research on Ridley Scott There have only been a handful of filmmakers who had been able to stand out from the crowd of great film personalities that ever flourished in Hollywood. These filmmakers may not be the ones who made the most popular film in the world or the ones who made the most critically acclaimed or commercially successful films yet. Instead, these people are the pioneers that proved how significant movies can become for popular culture by influencing almost a couple of decades of filmmaking and/or lifestyle choices. Works of this handful of filmmakers, hailed as classics ...

The “American Indian nation” had remained forgotten for a very long time in the history of the United States. Efforts were made to silence American Indians and even make them disappear by getting absorbed by the white popular culture that has dominated the country since the very first white American immigrants arrived in the country. Despite all that, the American Indians looked for alternative means to protect their heritage and let the world and America acknowledge them. And it is against that very backdrop that the story of Mary Crow Dog is told in Lakota Woman. The story tells ...

Literature Review

Anthropology is all about learning the nature of humans and their works with studying the nature and essence of humanity. Anthropology is a science that revolves around exploring different aspects of humankind such as their origins, distribution, biological characteristics, cultural and physical development, social beliefs, history, and social customs. Moreover, it also studies similarity and divergence between animals and humans. It deals with finding out the ancestors of humans that came through space and time and relates to culture, physical character, and social and environmental relations of humans with each other (Lavenda, 2010).

Culture shock

A new cultural world is always ...

Legal Application Assignment 2

Agency Law and Business Formation The dumping of ship wastes just off the Florida coast within the United States water is in defiance of a number of federal and state laws. For example, companies are expected to acquire permits from the Environmental Protection Agency in order to release pollutants into the passable waters of the United States. It is the role of the permits holders to monitor their discharges and present a report to the authorities- companies that violate their permits are penalized by the Environmental Protection Agency. The company has been taking order from Sam Martin and this ...

Annotated Bibliography: African American History

Mayer, R. (2000). "Africa As an Alien Future": The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 45(4), 555-566. Palmer, C. A. (1995). From Africa to the Americas: Ethnicity in the Early Black Communities of the Americas. Journal of World History, 6(2), 223-236. According to Ruth Mayer’s Africa as an Alien Future (2000), there remains a connection between the African Diaspora community and the motherland. In the author’s words, African culture remains evident even in contemporary works such as “literature, installation art, [and] pop music” in which the passages between Africa and ...

Introduction

There can be no denial of the fact that in the age of technological boom and globalization, the domain of media and the Internet have come to majorly influence the domain of communication. Indeed, a sea of change has come about in the mode of communication as it is mostly dependent on technology in the present era of ICTs. (Rothkegel & Ruda 2012) But, apart from the predominance of technology mediated communication among people of the world and dissemination of information all over, the world of media and the Internet has come to revolutionize the domain of inter-cultural communication in ...

Introduction

The very title of this article may seem to some readers fantastic. Is there any evidence that alien beings exist? Can we prove that there is no clear scientific argument in favor of their life and activity? Such questions immediately arise among readers, of course, they are quite natural. And yet, I will try to show that the statement of the problem in our time of exclusively rapid scientific and technical progress is quite logic. Moreover, most recently the first steps towards the solution of this great problem facing mankind were taken. Basically, from the scientific point of view ...

Comparative paper between “Out of all Them Bright Stars” and “All You Zombies”

“Out of all Them Bright Stars” is a science fiction short story written by Nancy Kress and “All You Zombies” is a short story of the same genre written by Robert Heinlein. These two stories are similar because they are both science fiction and they differ because of the topics they deal with. The stories are different and while “Out of all Them Bright Stars” is about blue men coming from space to Earth, “All You Zombies” deals with a story which involves the time machine. “All You Zombies” is a story about a man who is young and ...

Question 1

(1) A word child was identified as legitimate child, there is a gap in arguing in case of illegitimate child. (2) It was concluded that if a woman is not a lawful wife of a father and this child is his legitimate child, than this child cannot have illegitimate mother

Question 2

(3) Graham-Perkins JA argued that (1) supports the fact that a child can be legitimate child of his father and cannot have illegitimate mother, while the primary argument of Smith JA puts parents in a different situation regarding the custody. (4) He argued that if the situation (2) occurs, ...

20th of April 2016

Barbara de Angelis “Secrets about Men every Woman should know” "There is nothing secret, which will not become known" - this old adage comes to mind when you become acquainted with the original and colorful book of famous American psychologist Barbara De Angelis. It is unlikely that the readers have ever held a manual on "How to handle a man”, such a mysterious and incomprehensible creature from another planet. At least, in such a way the author characterizes the stronger sex. Moreover, we must admit, not without reason. There is hardly a woman, even with the extensive experience of ...

Introduction

Not so long time ago, I had an opportunity to see and enjoy the play named “Little Shop of Horrors” based on on of the most beloved horror comedy movies of 90s. “Little Shop of Horrors” is the play staged in the local theatre of the University of Toledo by the Department of Theatre and Film. When I saw the advertisement of the play for the first time, I was really terrified, wondering whether it is just a coincidence that the story has the same title as the movie, but the poster is very scary unlike the movie that ...

Chinua Achebe manages, in a highly entertaining and educative way, to present the theme of collectivism in the Nigeria before the merciless yet highly effective occupation of the British in Nigeria. The Ibo society that forms the setting of the book is a microcosm of not just Nigeria but also the rest of the Eastern countries. Chinua Achebe tells the story of the people of Igbo land of Eastern Nigeria before and immediately after their contact with the Western culture. The story revolves around the life of Okwonkwo, a tragic hero, depicting his birth, how he rises from a ...

19th of April 2016

Thesis Statement Many scholars and critics have sought to find some hidden meaning and messages in the works of Shakespeare. However, despite the abundance of allegory, sarcasm and on satire, the reader’s attention should not be diverted from the main problem that the author shows in “Othello” and this is the issue of race and discrimination within the society of those days. This topic has not yet been fully described and is of interest as it shows some controversial noted in terms of the understanding of racism as we know it now, and how people understood it in ...

Alfredo Albondigas is obviously a mentally disturbed man. The inmate could be suffering from psychosis or other related psychological disorders. The mental imbalance might have been brought about by drug and substance abuse. With the known prison background and environment, use of drugs such as Marijuana, heroin, crystal methyl, LSD and others is rampant. Alternatively, Mr. Albondingas might be suffering from acute depression leading to the meltdown. Mental disturbance from the environmental effects of prison trauma and stress could induce delirious hallucinations. Other possible mental states that could be influencing the behavior could be Peduncular hallucinosis and primarily schizophrenia. ...

One of the most controversial pieces of American legislation in recent years has been the Dream Act, or the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The purpose of this law is to allow families to stay together in the United States, rather than deporting some on the basis of citizenship and splitting up families, and to give immigrants the right to the same tuition standards as their citizen peers. This law did not pass on the federal level but is in existence in some form in 20 states (USA Today 2015). Indeed some universities have decided to ...

The modern world is a wonderful place with millions of chances and possibilities for everyone. A person may find good in everything that surrounds them; however, there is also different side of the world that is full of evil. Evil is something morally wrong and wicked that may cause harm or pain. It is difficult to find the only objective root of evil, as it is actually everywhere, waiting for a person at every corner. My best guess would be that the humans with their free will are the sources of the most evil deeds on this planet, as ...

Theater of the absurd is an idea that started gaining relevance in the 1950s. The concept is essentially informed by the ideas of absurdism and existentialism. Their prominent trait includes having irrational plots that feature characters who seem to lack peace with their existence. This new style in the playwrights came out as controversial and amazing. Authors embracing this style mainly present the human’s state as futile. This is in line with the philosophical perspectives such as the ones presented by Albert Camus that insisted human being can only be in the position of exploiting their full potential ...

American superheroes and action figures follow a distinct history and background to their origin and existence. Also, that background is chosen to be American in nature, and mostly the work and actions of that chosen superhero revolve around an American backdrop. Superman is an age-old superhero who has gained immense popularity amongst the American as well as worldwide audience due to his saving-the-world way of life, and the various stories that circulate in his life are in one way or the other pertinent to American culture and lifestyle. Different critics have responded to the existence of Superman differently. For ...

Pseudo-History

Pseudo-history can be defined as an alternative take on historical facts and accounts based on speculation, and not on primary sources. Pseudo-history relies on facts that cannot be adequately explained by neither historians nor scientists. Pseudo-science is usually used to bolster pseudo-history. Pseudo-history makes sensationalist claims that cannot be backed by conclusive evidence (“How Thinking Goes Wrong: Common Fallacies in Pseudo-Science and conspiracy thinking,” n.d). There is usually a lot of distaste in accepting logical explanations. Unlike history, pseudo-history seeks to explain everything for how it is today. Pseudo-historians pride themselves in being revolutionary thinkers who see the world ...

Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 science fiction film Under the Skin is a supremely stylized, innately profound work that utilizes kaleidoscopic visuals and an unsettling performance from Scarlett Johannson to explore issues of the male gaze and take them to their furthest conclusion. Telling the story of an alien (Johansson) who comes to Earth and entices men with sex for her own twisted, mysterious purposes, Under the Skin charts the progression of a woman’s experience by simultaneously giving her a power and a predatory agency that women are not typically afforded, then stripping that agency away bit by bit ...

Analysis of Energy Sufficiency, Sustainability and Conflicts of US Forests

Abstract The focus of the paper is to analyze the economics of US forests. In particular, the paper analyses the energy sufficiency, sustainability, as well as potential conflicts regarding this essential us natural resource. Concerning forest sustainability, the paper will consider issues such as how the US can use and retain forests to meet different human needs, how it can preserve and promote healthy forests, and how the country can make ethical choices concerning forests. Key findings in the paper reveal that although the United States has shown some efforts in creating sustainability concerning forests, there is still much ...

In the summer of 1947, something in the sky crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico. Several locals claimed that there were horrific thunderstorms that summer, and when they were out in the location of the crash, they found metal debris strewn across a wide area approximately three-quarters of a mile long. One of the men, Mack Brazel, took some of metal pieces back to his house and he and the neighbors examined the material. Brazel and his neighbors, the Proctors speculated that the metal could be from a crashed spacecraft. That summer over New Mexico there had been quite a ...

Costume and Makeup

The history of theater and filmmaking has its long and full of changes journey. But, there are two things that remained unchanged from the very beginning. These two things are actors themselves and their costumes. Who would ever presume that costume is an essential part of every dramatic production? But we always admire the great work of costume designers. But what makes costume such an important part of the theater and film production? Firstly, a costume is an incarnation of a character. It can provide us with a bunch of information about a character. A costume together with the ...

Characters: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is a modern science fiction novel for young adult readers with Cassie Sullivan, Ben Parish and Evan Walker as the major characters. Setting: The events occurring in the book are set in the modern world whereby the Earth is invaded by the aliens.

Background: The author describes how five distinct, sharp waves destroy everything. It shows how people were once living peacefully but the arrival of aliens destroys everything and their beloved planet.

Event 1: The first event occurs with the destruction of all electronics by an electromagnetic power.

Event 2: The second event happens when all coastlines on the Earth are destroyed by the dropping of a ...

Steven Spielberg’s seminal 1977 science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind charts the effect of a mysterious and traumatic alien abduction on average American man Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) on both his psyche and his relationship with his family. In Jodi Dean’s essay “Fugitive Alien Truth,” the UFO abductee phenomenon is examined through a sociological and political lens, illuminating many social aspects of the cultural phenomenon of the abductee that are present in Close Encounters. As Roy’s sense of self and identity begins to shift gradually away from his family, and he struggles to ...