Essays on Trek

Understanding the nature and connection between the mind and the body is less about finding one definite answer and more about the lasting implications that arise when probing into such a question. What does it mean to be a human being? Is humanness simply the body, or is it the desires and inclinations that make up our complex personalities? Are mind and soul one and the same? These questions arise in the Star Trek episode, “The Measure of a Man,” where Picard and Maddox view the same thing, Data, in two different ways. Maddox is initially guided by the ...

The political elements of Star Trek show that the series had more insight than what is apparent. The show started in the 1960s when the Cold War was at its height. Many authorities argue that Star Trek is an exploration based on self-interest, colonialism, collectivism and control . However, George Gonzalez takes a different approach in The Politics of Star Trek where he undertakes a critical review of the story within the context of the actual implications of the actions of the characters. This paper will review the first two chapters of the book in order to present the critical ...

Would the Borg, as portrayed in Star Trek: First Contact, represent a political society formed by the Social Contract, according to Rousseau? Why/why Social Contract illuminates the creation of society and its legitimacy. Either freedom may be submitted wholly or substantially depending on the authority. The scenario of Borg represents a society designed based on Social Contract. Borg accounts for a political society. The detachment from the society by Borg indicates the unending connection with the society. Notably, the society dictates what is to be done and what to be avoided. Rousseau arguments are based on the need to ...

In the article, "Why Game of Thrones is taking over the world," writer Charlotte Runcie considers the popularity of the HBO television series noting that it is one of most popular shows of all time and is broadcast in roughly 170 countries. The series, which is based on a series of books by George R R Martin, is packed abundantly with everything from poisonous murders to beheadings, fights and dragons. The appeal is intricate and intense among fans. The show is recognized as exploring the topic of power, weaving in the comic and harsh realities of what is means ...

The distrust between East and West may be as old as the confluence of the two parts of the world themselves. After all, it was during his attempt to conquer India that Alexander the Great fell ill with the fever that was the only thing that kept him from world conquest (Biography.com Editors). The ongoing war between the feverishly fervent establishment of Islam and the coolly complacent secular-Christian West is only becoming more and more entrenched by the news cycle, as the West seems to have forgotten that it’s only been a few centuries since its leaders were ...

Miss Representation is an American documentary motion picture. It was released in 2011 by Girl’s Club Entertainment, to a limited theater release. It was shown at the Sundance film festival and several other film festivals, while also signing a deal to run on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The screenplay for the film was written by Jennifer Newson, Jessica Congdon, Claire Dietrich, and Jenny Raskin. Jessica Newsom also directed, and shared production duties with Julie Costanzano. With a running time of 85 minutes, the documentary had a shooting budget of $750,000, and box office earnings were not reported ...

Question 1 – The Silk Road

The Silk Road is thought to have been pioneered by Zhang Qian who chose to open well known ancient trade roads. Between 139 BC and 119 BC, he traveled bring with him massive amounts of data about Western Asia and Central Asia. Originally thought to be termed as such by German geographer Ferninand on Richthoten during the 1870s, the Silk Road was not actually one single road but a series of routes, treks and trips throughout Central Asia, as East met North; the major players in this new intra-territorial and overseas ventures were the Mediterranean, Greece and Asia (Waugh, ...

1- Publication sites

"Chekov and Zulu" was published in the New Yorker and then as part of a collection titled East-West.  It has also, obviously, been published in school anthologies.  How could these different publication venues shape or affect readings of the story?     One of the major contributions that the post-structuralist thinker Roland Barthes made to the field of literary criticism was the idea that there were no more authors and readers in literature, or in any other kind of writing. Instead, there were only “scriptors,” and both the people who wrote the words and the people who read them could fill ...

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The 2003 Iraq War received a wide variety of different opinions throughout the international media. While American networks and press organizations entitled the conflict as Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Canadian media and the channels in some Arab nations referred to the conflict as "attack and occupation." One character in this conflict was Chris Kyle, a deadly sniper in the American military whose life served as the inspiration for the film American Sniper. He wrote a book by the same name that teems with his utter disdain for the Iraqi fighters as well as with his excitement at the chance ...

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This work examines the popularity of captivity narrative among Americans as well as its importance for American culture and history. Captivity narratives clearly describe the relationship between the new settlers and the Native Americans. In such narratives the stories of settlers being captivated by the Indians are often described. Moreover, the popularity of captivity narrative at present time also symbolize Americans’ fear of losing their freedom and their identity. As an example, in the world of Star-Trek, people were afraid to be assimilated by the Borgs and to lose their identity. As Tindol states, captivity narratives describe people’s ...

I, Robot is a collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov written in the 40s and published as a collection in 1950. These are all stories related to the concept of robotics, and in particular highly advanced and intelligent robots. While the short stories as originally written had no single-story thread, these stories did all exist in a common universe and on occasion characters from one story will show up in one of the other stories, such as robopsychologist Susan Calvin or other less important characters like Powell or Donovan. Moreover, in order to tie them all together when ...

Introduction

There is no doubt that everyone loves ice cream. Due to its popularity, ice cream had many flavors that everyone loved. But despite that, it is not all the time that they want to eat it. There are times when sales in ice cream may have decreased and we want to find out if this really happens. This sampling design will be one way to see if ice cream sales indeed decrease during the winter months.

Population, Size, and Brief Reasoning

The population is a specific group or a number of people that are needed in a research or study. It is usually “the ideal population or ...

Slavomir Rawicz’s “The Long Walk” is set during the Second World War, revolving around seven men who manage to escape a Soviet labor camp, one of them being Rawicz himself. As the leader of the group, Rawicz chose to escape with men who were determined and strong enough to endure the harshness of the treat. Rawicz was a patriotic man, and the Russians had to drug him in order to make him “confess” to crimes he had not committed. Rawicz escapes with the hope and intention of rejoining his troops and reuniting with his wife. The group that escapes also ...

Introduction

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Cultural diffusion and interaction is one of the conspicuous phenomenons that have characterized the world in the post-colonial era. However, the world has seemingly been inclined towards the Western culture. Salaman Rushdie is arguably one of the celebrated post-colonial writers who have managed to capture this phenomenon through his novella-“East, West”. Chekov and Zulu is one of the intriguing stories in the novella that satirically or rather, humorously demystifies how the Western culture has diffused into the Eastern world. The underlying story of how Chekov and Zulu are fascinated and affected by the Western culture in Britain exemplifies ...

Reader’s Log

As someone who watches a lot of films, I also talk to many other people who watch them and love to talk about them. Among these people (and many others), there are directors that many people consider ‘dumb’ or ‘lazy’ filmmakers, like Michael Bay (the man who makes the Transformers films and The Rock, usually responsible for what people consider big, dumb action films). However, when I evaluate their arguments for why using the four tests, I am not sure that they have much of a leg to stand on; I am firmly of the belief that, while Michael Bay movies ...

Introduction

This 2012 American-made movie – The Grey – starring Liam Neeson in the lead role, can be categorized as a superior example of a movie in the aerial disaster genre, although the greater part of the movie is set in the snowy wilderness of Alaska, where the seven survivors of the airplane crash find themselves having to trek through the bitter cold of winter, whilst subjected to constant harassment by wolves. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a marksman employed by an oil company to protect the workers against wolves while they work in the harsh environment of the frozen north. In the opening scenes of ...

In 2008, there was a financial crisis which affected most of us. Till now, some countries are still recovering, including the United States. The crisis led to higher unemployment rate, lower disposable incomes, and bad loans. In all these cases, the number of loans applied by the citizens of a country and approved by lending institutions is anticipated to be lower. This will be true until a time the borrowers have increasing confidence in paying off their debt if they apply for one, and the lenders have confidence that the loans will get paid back. This will be the case when they ...

Dear Dr. Xu:

Henceforth is my reflection on how the course affected my knowledge in writing; hence, proving that the goals and objectives – the course outcomes - of English 131 are fulfilled in me. Taking the course has, indeed, improved my writing style by making me more conscious and aware of my mistakes in writing. In order to showcase this improvement, I would be using my four previous writings: Arabic Spring, Liminals: Rhetorical Analysis, the annotated bibliographies submitted on 10 May 2014, and Analyzing Star Trek. One of the most important lessons that I have learned from taking English 131 is ...

In the Star trek, Data displays some parts of the characteristics thought to be essential to be classified as human, these are intelligence, self-awareness, and consciousness. The Android, therefore, wins the case and is allowed to choose his fate on his existence. This view that Future Androids can have all the beliefs, feelings, and desires just like humans is misguided because the definitions of the components used in the Star Trek was shallow and do not fit into the morality and moral obligation that binds a human being towards action or inaction does not bind the Android. The Android is ...

The “Best of Both Worlds” has two storylines adapted from Star Trek: The Next Generation, American science fiction television series. It aims to describe the struggle between the two opposing factions, the Enterprise and the Borg. The Borg intends to conquer Earth, whereas the Enterprise is determined to prevent the Borg from accomplishing this. Before the cube can reach Earth, the Enterprise can destroy the Borg’s protective shield, leaving it/them vulnerable to attack and, therefore, increasing the Enterprise’s chance of success in preventing it/them from conquering Earth. This paper will analyze the second thesis in Cohen's Monster ...

The “Best of Both Worlds” consists of two storylines adapted from Star Trek: The Next Generation, an American science fiction television series. It aims to explain the struggle between the two opposing factions, the Enterprise and the Borg. The Borg intend to conquer Earth, whereas the Enterprise is determined to prevent the Borg from accomplishing this. Before the cube is able to reach Earth, the Enterprise is able to destroy the Borg’s protective shield, leaving it vulnerable to attack and therefore increasing their chance of success in preventing it from conquering Earth. This paper will analyze how the ...

The Trek bicycle factory is located in Waterloo, Canada. This paper discusses the different direct and indirect costs in the Trek bicycle factory. It will first explain the direct and indirect material costs, and then the direct and indirect labor costs. In the end, the paper, will discuss some of the overhead costs this factory incurs. The Trek Factory tour showed us some of the direct and indirect material used in the manufacturing process. Direct materials are those materials that can be attributed to manufacturing of the product. In the Trek factory tour, the direct materials that were ...

Abstract

Technology has revolutionized the manufacturing process in ways we would never have dreamed about. 3D printing made the idea of do-it-yourself possible and the manufacturing process cost effective, user-friendly and more customized. This leading edge technology was applied to manufacture a strong, classy and lightweight nylon bicycle that could easily replace the traditional metal bike. This amazing bike was designed using the laser sintering method that gave a final product in the form of printed layers of nylon. The 3D technology has the potential to change the manufacturing reality and make people’s craziest designs become true. Technology reinvented the manufacturing ...

Science Fiction

Introduction Fantasy as well as science fiction answers this question –What if? Science fiction often takes our understanding when it comes to how our universe works and even imagines technologies and ideas that people have not witnessed yet, but could still fit within our understanding. The fiction, which expands on what people know about science, is working on known principles. There are many roots of science fiction and fantasy as a genre that can be explained through the course of this study. In this research, we also argue that there are major creators of science fiction and fantasy ...

Introduction:

Marketing Research is conducted on the basis of the feedback collected from a good many respondents including customers, competitors, general public and intermediaries. The questions asked to the respondents during a marketing survey should be analyzed precisely because the success of the survey depends on the accuracy of data interpretation and analysis. Several scales of measurement are used to analyze the questions. The measurement scales are broadly categorized into four segments: 1) Nominal Scale, 2) Ordinal Scale, 3) Interval Scale and 4) Ratio Scale. This paper would discuss upon these four scales of measurement describing their usage in questionnaires.

Nominal Scale

The nominal ...

Introduction

While the laugh track of the live studio audience will irritate anyone watching this show to no end, the portrayal of women in its first season would have women rights activist suing all the life out of the show, the mistaken pop culture references every now and then and the feeling that Hollywood has once again taken a shallow look at a long and evolving culture can make people rethink that The Big Bang Theory is really not a show that portrays nerd culture properly, it also cannot be denied that it has gotten a lot of things right more than it got ...

In April of 1992, Chris McCandless walked into the Alaskan wilderness and died there. He was the child of an upper-middle-class family, who provided him with every opportunity in life, and yet, he felt a burning desire to renounce all his worldly possessions and trek off into the Alaskan wilderness. Prior to his renunciation of all his worldly possessions, McCandless had excelled both academically and physically; he ran cross-country, and had been accepted to Emory University to study as an undergraduate. In his investigative piece Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer describes McCandless as particularly energetic and strong-willed. Krakauer notes that ...

The tensions associated with robotic development in modern culture mirror many of the tensions that have informed the interactions that people have with technological advances. While the twentieth century began in an atmosphere of optimism in the face of the technological promise of the twentieth century, the events that the new technology brought to pass served as a major impediment to the development of that optimism. Between the years 1914 and 1945, the world saw the advent of the armored tank, the bomber and fighter in the air, rockets carrying bombs, mustard gas and other biological weapons, the use of ...

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American Indian education is one of the units taught in major colleges and universities in the United States of America. It is a unit that was introduced with the aim of helping history students understand the ancient history of the Indians who had then migrated into the country. This unit gives details of the assimilation of Indians, their culture and traditions into the lifestyles of the whites. In short, this was a long-term project that was intended to narrow the racial gap between Indians and Native Americans. Its introduction in schools was aimed at bringing together students from these two different ...

Each country and academic institution has its own form of grading system. The grading system is normally widely accepted and acknowledged by the relevant authorities in the country. Grading is normally done with using alphabets e.g. A, B, C, D and E or using a range of numbers for instance 4.0-1.0. Each of the alphabets and number range denotes a certain class of excellence.GPA is the short form of grand point average. GPA is used as a measure to classify grades according to a student’s excellence. It is an average of the total grade points that a student has achieved. GPA is gotten ...

The journey is something that has been discussed in literature for many years, as it carries a universal resonance for all people who wish to reach a destination or accomplish a goal. Eudora Welty and Robert Frost are two authors who examine the nature of the journey, and attempt to symbolize that nature in their short stories and poems, “A Worn Path” and “The Road Not Taken,” respectively. Both “A Worn Path” and “The Road Not Taken” are about how the journey we take through life defines us and gives us purpose. Phoenix’ journey is to help others and herself; the protagonist ...

The naming of the main character ‘Phoenix’ in Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” provides many different implications and meanings for the character, providing subtext that would otherwise be missing from such a self-contained tale. The Phoenix is a mythical bird that lives for hundreds of years before burning itself into ashes, a new phoenix rising from those ashes, reborn. In myth and legend, the Phoenix is a symbol of strength, integrity, rebirth and dedication. It is also known to be quite benevolent, giving of others and adoring of the sunlight. It has a very strong connection to the colors red and crimson, which ...