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feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...
idea of self is more genuine and original, unique in its conception. Also, at the very foundation of this philosophy is that there...
power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...
and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...
No, Montag, admits, because books are illegal, but her question unnerves him to the point that he tells her, "You think too many t...
Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...
the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...
characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...
scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...
When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...
in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...
the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...
Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...
dirty clothes and reeking garbage make the atmosphere unbearable fairly quickly, and nobody wants to live in a toilet for the endl...
travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...
PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...
(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...
decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...
form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible...
has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
legal perspective provides an "imaginary frame that seems/seeks to establish narrative truth on the side of verisimilitude" (Cohen...
eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...
This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...
text addressing geology encompasses chapters explaining minerals, rocks, plate tectonics, geologic processes and geologic time. Ea...
International Relations is a topic which comes under the broader heading of political science, but is the subject really a science...
human race and preventing nuclear war (Rolston, 1991). But environmental ethical questions are just as serious: "the degradation o...
down into three basic categories: academic, cultural/social and professional. My aspirations include the expectation of being a ...