The Destruction of Our Earth It is a well known fact that our planet is time and again being attacked by those who dwell on it. The human race is constantly playing with nature, as though it is our play thing, our toy. This continual raping of our Earth has brought about consequences that many...

Earth Forgotten Poetry has always been a powerful way of communicating society's feelings, concerns, and discomforts without directly stating their inspiration. A good example of such poetry is William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us". This poem expresses concern a...

Beowulf and Superman A hero is defined in classical mythology as a man, especially the son of a god and a mortal, who is famous for possessing some extraordinary gift. Beowulf, the title character of an epic poem and Superman, a more modern day hero are both prime examples. Beowulf and Superman ex...

Discuss the treatment of death in three poems of your choice. One must be at least a pre 1900 poem. In your answer you should consider  Use of language  Use of form  Use of mood and tone No matter what we refer to death as it is always with us and causes great pain in our...

Commander's Log Entry 0001 November 21, 1456 N.W. The whole of the new world belongs to the vampires in the year of 1456 N.W. (New World). In 5008 P.E. (Past Earth) all was destroyed by the ruling tyrants of that current time. These tyrants pushed the Earth to her limits and beyond. Th...

Man is a product of his environment. This has held true since the beginning of man's existence. In the short story "The Broken Globe" by Henry Kreisel, it especially holds true. Man's beliefs can be attributed to the environment around them. The protagonist in this story, Nick Solchuk, g...

The Cloning War: Moral or Immoral? Outside the lab where the cloning had actually taken place, most of us thought it could never happen. Oh we would say that perhaps at some point in the distant future, cloning might become feasible through the use of sophisticated biotechnologies far beyond th...

In the science fiction movie "The Matrix" people are ruled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), machines made by men to make life easier on the human race. This form of industrialization has also begun in our world today. We have given birth to a host of machines that think for themselves, hoping they w...

Human Dimension Establishing an environmental ethic is of utmost concern to the human species to better comprehend our place in the world and our potentials for the future. In doing so, we must extend our thinking of rights and responsibilities. I believe we must incorporate not only a temporal comp...

The Ethical Basis for Ecosystem Management Andrew J. Green Ecosystem Management: The Human Dimension Establishing an environmental ethic is of utmost concern to the human species to better comprehend our place in the world and our potentials for the future. In doing so, we must extend our ...

In "Menschheit und Mutter Erde", the author, Arnold Toynbee, describes his point of view concerning man's relationship and interaction with the earth's biosphere and also gives an insight on a future development of both. Tonybee begins with a clear definition of the term biosphere. The biosphere i...

Developing the Under Developed The desolate and scorched soil of a vast empire that once ruled lay wasted in the dim morning sun. This is symbolic of a newly developed nation that grew at a pace that the environment could not stand. Human life in future generations depends on the judgement of the...

The tulip cycle. The tulip is a beautiful flower part of the family of the Liliaceous plants. Its name means turban and it has its origins in Turkey, where turbans are plentiful. My fascination with Tulips began last summer when I visited Holland. I never before had seen so many bulbous-rooted rain...

There is no doubt that most people have a special type of organization for their own individual room. When people come to think about a room, they think it's only a place to sleep in! Nowadays, this concept has changed. My room is like a palace, which provides me comfort and relaxat...

The Aquatic Ape Theory There are many debates about how Homo sapiens came to be. Different people have different theories or ideas about the evolution of man. There is the Christian belief that a spiritual power put humans onto the earth, this view is shared by many religions throughout the world...

Robot City 3 (Book 5) Refuge By Rob Chilson Refuge is only one book of seven that are in the collection of Robot City. Robot City is not Earth. It is another planet that was made by one human, Dr. Avery, who created a world where robots do most of the manual labor. There are few people live there,...

Humanism during the Renaissance During the renaissance, there was a renewed interest in the arts, and the traditional views of society came into question. People began to explore the power of the human mind. A term often used to describe the increasing interest in the powers of the human m...

Above any other god or titan, Prometheus had the best interaction with humans, more then Zues, the king of the gods, who actually despises men; his appreciation for men is greater then Hermes, who help humans as they travel through the dark and guide the newly dead to the underworld. Prometheus is ...

The book, "Religion of Technology", written by David F. Noble, presents concepts of religion and technology, along with the correlation between the two concepts, in terms of their similarity for reaching the millennial goal. The theory behind the millenarian approach is based on the idea t...

Vampires are mythological beings who survive by feeding on the blood of living creatures. The vampire has been defined down the ages as an accursed body which cannot rest in the kindly earth, but nightly leaves its grave to prey on sleeping men and women through whom they are believed to maintain a ...

What Makes Us Human? When I asked to write about what makes us human and how are we different than other primates I thought this question would be easy to answer. After all we are arguably the most intelligent creatures on this earth. How hard could it be to compare our intelligence to that of ...

Composed in Anglo-Saxon England, the epic poem "Beowulf" deals with the adventures of a hero battling the forces of evil in the world. The monsters in "Beowulf" personify this evil. The universal literary theme of good vs. evil, found in many epic poems, climates in the various battles between ...

I. First Reactions A. After I read Galapagos, I thought it was a good story. It was a little different from other novels I have read in that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, had a different style than most other authors. I liked how he made comments about humans&apos...

The Holocaust, what is the true depth of the word? As sad as it may seem, it affected the lives of millions because of the hate inside of one certain group of people, the Nazi's. Dehumanization is to deprive human qualities such as individuality or compassion. Victims of the Holocaust wen...

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy is a poem written in December of the year 1900. This coincides with the themes of the poem itself, being a sadness and depression because it is the end of not only year, but also a century. However the poem is not all-negative, there is a sense of hope felt becaus...