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Science Fiction Cinema's Portrayal of Society's Fears and Hopes

robots, coming to Earth to present power and knowledge in how people can live together. They insist that the people of Earth need ...

Galilean Science, Ptolemy, and Aristotle Viewed from the Perspective of Karl Popper

In eight pages this paper considers Karl Popper's thoughts on Galileo's theories, who himself had been critical of Ptolemy and Ari...

Erik Erikson's Contributions to Science

was born to Karla Abrahamsen in Frankfort Germany on June 15, 1902 (Wu, 2002). Eriksons Danish father had abandoned his pregnant ...

Historical and Contemporary Religious Responses to Science and Technology

empires that would endure for centuries. These initial ties would culminate in a genuinely global integration of human cultures. ...

The 'Science' of Human Behavior According to B.F. Skinner

or punish it. If a given behavior results in an effect that the organism likes, this behavior will be repeated. If the effect is ...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

A Cybernetics and Systems Science Overview

This theory then suggests that the system must be autonomous even if it is seemingly dependent on another system, for example. It ...

Culture and Science Conflict

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

Case Study of a Global Science Applications Company

macro environment. If the economy slows down there may be less disposable income to spend on new systems, cost cutting will be t...

Science, Insanity, and The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Frankenstein

it. If it was possible to create a human being, why not? he never stopped to think about what the consequences were and whether he...

Smith's 'Power and Spirituality in Polio Survivor A Study Based on Rogers' Science' Article Reviewed

the individual as a complete system with identifiable and separate segments. Neumans system theory has been widely studied and us...

1993 Science Article by Roger Lock Summation

adjacent to the school in order to ascertain where a species may be found. Say, for example, the assignment was to find ants. The ...

Cosmos Origins, Religion, and Science

period of time? The purpose of this paper is to use various sources written about the topic in order to attempt to answer this all...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Science and Hasty Generalizations

is important that qualitative researchers must therefore allow themselves periods away from their fieldwork for things such as ref...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Ancient Islam and Greece, Religion, Culture, and Science

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Ice Sculpture, Science, Theology, and Sensations

rationalize our mental processes. Beliefs such as those involving our ice sculpture are typically viewed from the foundationalist...

Science Advancement or Animal Rights

only way that to be sure that new drugs will actually be beneficial. An opinion poll conducted in the UK in 1999 showed that onl...

Science and the Piltdown Man Hoax

skull ("Piltdown"). The discovery was touted as the missing link and thought to go back to the prehistory of humanity ("Piltdown")...

Science Fiction Genre and Postmodern Individuals

made up of many windows and RL is only one of them"(Turkle 1995). What she uncovered, however, has many alarmed. Have we traded ou...

Issues of Forensic Science in the United Kingom's Legal System

resulted in post-mortem examinations, and inquests were held in 25,800 cases." (Jones-Death Certificates). The Luce Report ...

'Science' of Buddhism

(Rothberg, 1994). This makes it difficult to apply these terms to the Eastern concept of Buddhism. The fact that the usage of th...

Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Science

California National Assembly Health Committee, and as Wakefield reports, this is what makes the current situation so untenable. ...

1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...

Three Cases Involving Forensic Science

Mattias Reyes and DNA evidence. One author notes that, "Investigators are nearing completion into their inquiry of Mattias Reyes r...

Science That Changed the World

intracellular structures such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that "a nucl...

Antarctic Research and What is Learned from the Connection Between Politics and Science

the changes in the worlds political and economic foundation (Elzinga, 1991). Looking at the area today, there are twenty four co...

Hellenistic and Classical Eras' Achievements in Science, Art, and Literature

say that a great deal of struggle was not taking place during part of the Classical era, but it was a time of ideas and trading an...