like in certain scenarios. Stories are written such as “Desertion” & “Second Variety” by Clifford Simak‚ “Slow Life” by Michael Swanwick and "Swarm" by Bruce Sterling to warn others of scientific evolution using the core science fiction concepts. These four cautionary short stories illustrate the future horror of scientific evolution for mankind. Firstly‚ the story Desertion by Clifford Simak is cautionary tale warning humans of superiority. Simak warns the readers about the way humans think by showing
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Jason Warren ENGL-371-010 Paper #1 Within the short story "Desertion" written by Clifford D. Simak the human race faces the ultimate challenge of the choice of free will vs. life determination. When the story opens we learn of a mission to liberate and populate the jovian planet Jupiter. The head of this study‚ and protagonist of the story‚ is a man named Kent Fowler. Fowler has two by two sent four men to Jupiter already and as the story begins is planning to send a fifth. The only problem
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In the story “City” by Clifford D. Simak‚ it takes you through the struggle that the city was going through. Within the first two tales give you a great sense of when this book was published was during the year 1952. So‚ throughout the stories I could find that three pieces of direct evidence that Simak was trying to tie in the era of the book. The first is on page twenty with it saying‚ “The‚ city is an anachronism. It has outlived its usefulness. Hydroponics and helicopter spelled its downfall
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Subject: Desertion What does desertation mean? In emeployment relationship‚ this word is normally used when an employee goes missing without an authorized leave. This ia a tricky issue because as an employer you are not sure whether the employee will reappear or not and at the same time you want your business to continue and you end uo hiring someone to replace that employee who had deserted. The million dollar question is‚ as an employer‚ the employee has deserted‚ when am i entitled to dismiss
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CIRCUS ANIMALS DESERTION The speaker describes searching in vain for a poetic theme: he says that he had tried to find one for “six weeks or so‚” but had been unable to do so. He thinks that perhaps‚ now that he is “but a broken man‚” he will have to be satisfied with writing about his heart‚ although for his entire life (“Winter and summer till old age began”) he had played with elaborate‚ showy poetic themes that paraded like “circus animals”: “Those stilted boys‚ that burnished chariot‚ / Lion
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William Golding wrote The Lord of the Flies in response to another story of desertion‚ where characters were stranded on an island and left to fend for themselves. This story described the lonely lives the characters faced‚ but it was not in the way that Golding perceived it to be. Golding believed that‚ if left to his own devices in a society with no rules‚ man would revert to savagery‚ a statement which can be proven by the events that occur on the island in The Lord of the Flies. At first‚ life
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W. K. Clifford (1845-1879) was a British philosopher and mathematician. He made a compelling argument regarding ethics of belief. In module two reading‚ he stated that it is always wrong to make a claim without sufficient evidence. William James (1842-1910)‚ on the other hand‚ a philosopher and psychologist‚ took a different approach‚ in which he shared a different view concerning religious belief. Notably‚ both evidentialism and nonevidentialism approach have some merit and validity. I will assess
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What I’m here to discuss is some of the flaws in Clifford’s principal in The Ethics of Belief. Clifford argues that it is always wrong to believe on insufficient evidence. He brings up a couple of premises. Premise 1 is that believing anything on insufficient evidence is always harmful to others. Premise 2 is that it is always wrong for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence. With the example of a shipowner‚ the shipowner believed strongly in his ship without sufficient evidence that
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Summarising Clifford Geertz’ ‘Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture’ Drishta Gopala‚ 3351‚ B.Sc.(H) Anthropology- II Year Geertz starts his article discussing the radical nature of the concept of ‘Culture’‚ one around which the entire field of Anthropology has arisen. He compares it to all other powerful scientific concepts and ideas that rose to fame and power‚ that due to resolving multiple fundamental problems‚ are thought to be the ultimate solution to all problems and
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Clifford Brown: Life and Music A musician’s life and works go hand in hand‚ with each one influencing and giving insight to the other. One of the greatest trumpet players in jazz‚ Clifford Brown‚ lived a short but successful life. Clifford Brown gained the respect and admiration of his peers‚ and his works continue to be appreciated by listeners today. His longtime friend and bandmate Max Roach pioneered modern jazz drumming and is featured on almost all of Clifford Brown’s classic recordings. Clifford
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