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Reading AND OTHER Assignments
Through Chapter 5 of Victor's story by April 12.
Know the monster by Monday, April 16.
Through chapter VII by Wednesday, April 17.
Watch the video in the "What did you see" link. NOW
Essay due Tuesday, 4/24 beginning of the hour
Through 17 by Thursday, 4/26
Respond to Calkin's post. 4/27
Read through chapter 19 by Monday 4/30
Through Chapter 21 by May 1
Finish novel by Friday, May 4
Look for a test next week
And so it begins...
I am looking forward to sharing Shelly's novel, Frankenstein, with you through this blog. While blogging is fun and creative, please show respect for you classmates' opinions. Bad behavior will result in a written assignment equal to numerous blogging sessions, so do not create any monsters of your own!
Requirements:
Once you have a login, you will be expected to post at least twice for every session in the computer lab. Your post may be a quest ion or response to a classmate's question or reponse.
Stay current on the reading, or you will not be able to participate fully.
I will be reading your posts, but I may or may not choose to participate.
mariner
Reading to accompany the novel
- Rappaccini's daughter, N. Hawthorn
- Prometheus myth
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge
- The Monsters
11 comments:
If it was a regular practice to restore life, wouldn't that trump religion, and scientists would play the "God" role.
The effect of "life restoration" on society would be nothing short of earth shaking. Not only could a human being live for unimaginable amounts of time, but as a result overpopulation might become a problem. According to Encarta, there is 1 baby born every three seconds...
Thats 20 babies a minute...
Thats 1,200 babies born an hour...
Thats 28,800 babies a DAY... and so on...
If people weren't dying as a result of this "life restoration"... then we'd be too crammed full of oxygen breathing meat bags to survive... not enough natural resources to go around...
I agree, not to mention it was accepted in the scientific world that the Earth had reached its safe population limit somewhere in the vicinity of 1984 (No joke).
Let's populate the moon... and Mars... then this whole overpopulation thing wouldn't be such a big idea... eh?
I believe it wasn't worth his efforts. As we see, the monster didn't turn out to his liking. He spent so much time trying to create life, only to be let down by how the life he created turned out.....As to the restoration of life question, I personally think that would lead to the downfall of mankind as we know it.
I meant not a "big deal"...
Not "big idea"... lol
the world would become so overpopulated with life restoration. If they would allow that we might as well move to the moon and mars.
i think life restoration is stupid. there should be life then death the end.
Are there any good uses for this knowledge?
whether or not its right its crazy. in the book he is doing this in the 1700's. this is a time when people still believed that all sickness was just an unbalance of the "4 basic body fluids." not to mention the fact that the medical tools at this time aren't quite up to snuff. it shouldn't come as any shock that he wont get the result he wanted.
come on...talk about controversy...life restoration is ridiculous and won't happen...death is an important part of life and it will always be that way...not to mention the huge overpopulation that would occur
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