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    Carleton Prize for Biotechnology: Gregor Johann Mendel; the Father of Genetics 1 The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology: Gregor Johann Mendel; the Father of Genetics Sarah Joyce Carleton University The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology: Gregor Johann Mendel; the Father of Genetics 2 This year for the Carleton prize of biotechnology I nominate the Austrian born monk‚ teacher and biologist‚ Gregor Johann Mendel. It is no surprise

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    In The Metamorphosis‚ Franz Kafka discusses Gregor Samsa and his metamorphosis into a monstrous vermin. Kafka opens with Gregor discovering his new life as a bug‚ which prevents him from going to work to support his family‚ as he has done since the failure of his father’s business. Kafka transforms Gregor into a monstrous vermin as a commentary on existentialism‚ illuminating Gregor’s true sacrifice of giving up his life and relationship with his family in order to force them to discover their own

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    Summary: Do not cut/ paste from a website‚ which is a form of plagiarism. One morning‚ Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug‚ and soon realizes he has missed his train and will be late for work. His father‚ mother‚ and sister knock at the door and ask about his condition. He assures them he feels fine‚ but soon his manager arrives at his house‚ accuses Gregor of being lazy‚ and upsets the whole family. Eventually‚ Gregor crawls over to the door and terrifies everyone with his new physique. After chasing

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    that the truth can have on one’s moral compass. This desire for knowledge and closure play out in Hamlet‚ Frankenstein‚ and Young Goodman Brown by demonstrating their journey into madness and giving up on loved ones. In these stories the truth is the ultimate desires of Hamlet‚ Frankenstein and Goodman Brown‚ suggesting that the desire for the truth will lead to one’s downfall. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ there are many contributing factors of Hamlet’s desire for truth and downfall. Starting with the

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    forced to keep it in order to support his family and pay off his father’s debts. Gregor suddenly finds himself transformed into a giant insect. Never coming to terms with his metamorphosis‚ he struggles with intense feelings of guilt as if his inability to support his family were his own fault. Though freed from his job‚ Gregor was now a burden to his family and they left him locked in his room to rot. Before Gregor so arbitrary changed into an entirely different specie‚ he had an average life. He

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    Gregor and Grete have similar names. Gregor had been forced to conform to society‚ by getting a salesperson job to pay off his father’s debt‚ something that wasn’t in his control. Grete is forced to conform‚ by getting a salesperson job to continue providing for her family due to Gregor becoming a bug‚ something that wasn’t in her control. The reason Gregor was so invested‚ in the idea of Grete going to the conservatory‚ was she would have been able to follow her dreams unlike Gregor was allowed

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    Christine Garcia Christine Benes English 112 April 14‚ 2013 Character Analysis on Gregor Samsa In the absurd yet sensational story “The Metamorphosis” written by Franz Kafka‚ the main character Gregor Samsa has awoken from unquiet dreams to find that he has been transformed into a big insect (Kafka 112). Gregor is very devoted to his busy work as a traveling salesman‚ not only because he wants to support his parents and pay off a debt that they incurred‚ but because he dreams of sending his

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    imaginary only to show the bad transformation that one can face in their life. Kafka’s story of Gregor Samsa really made me think more about how the people around me will take any situation when I fall broken in anyway‚ and this is very crazy‚ whether it was the family‚ the friends‚ or the partner. And what Kafka wanted to indicate in his story‚ is more than one thing‚ I also believe that the same situation of Gregor and how he felt‚ useless‚ a burden on the family and the society‚ is how an elderly person

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    Gregor Mendel Mendel was born in German family in  Vrazne‚ Czech Republic‚ and was baptized two days later as Johann. He had two sisters - older veronica and yonger teresia. During his childhood‚ Mendel worked as a gardener‚ studied beekeeping‚ and as a young man attended Gymnasia  in Opava. From 1840 to 1843‚ he studied practical and theoretical philosophy as well as physics at the University of Olomouc   In 1843 Mendel began his training as a priest. Upon recommendation of his physics teacher Friedrich

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    Gregor‚ in Gregor the Overlander‚ distorts our view of the masculine hero. Throughout the novel he is fighting an internal battle of how to live up to this prophecy while trying to squash his adolescent fears of being in an unknown place. Lykke Guanio-Uluru is a professor of literature at Bergen University College in Norway who writes on the dynamic of Gregor’s capability to be a hero along with his feminine and masculine supporters. Guanio-Uluru states that Collins’ writing style specifies Gregor

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