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Analysis of Coriolanus' Characterization in Act 1

In the first Act, Shakespeare characterizes Martius as an almost stereotypical alpha male, showcasing his strength in battle and bravery. Nevertheless, it is consistently stressed that one of his tragic flaws is his pride, something that it outlined by both the plebeians and the tribunes of the Senate. Both of the aforementioned are a representation of the superficial and more complex political conflicts that Coriolanus' future in the play will be linked to.  Martius’ pride is particularly emphasis in the first scene where his personality is directly contrasted against Meninius’, who is more apt at cooperating or at least, conversing with the lower classes. It is observed that Martius has little patience and little sense of consequence and empathy, as he fails to see that pleasing the lower classes can be essential for his future in politics and in power. As his rivalry with Aufidius is portrayed, Martius is also characterized as someone whose stren...

Mastermind Reflection

1. If the leader is nature, which group of people do the students represent in the game? The scientists trying to decipher the laws that apply to nature. 2. What does the leader's (nature's) hidden code represent? The code represent the theories that scientists are trying to find and confirm through experimentation. 3. What does each sequence of four color or letters represent? The hypothesis that are formulated by the scientists in order to be tested against nature's secret code. 4. What do the black-and-white circle responses to each line of four colors or letters represent? The data that is gathered from experimentation. The data can either be wrong or correct, something that also is represented in the context of the game by the dots. 5. What is the role of the hypothesis in the game? To help decipher the code. They are first formulated and contrasted against the unknown code, and then data is gathered from that. Based on that data collected, another new po...

Science and Ethics: The debate surrounding telepathy

https://harvardsciencereview.com/2014/05/01/synthetic-telepathy/ The issue concerns the development of BBI (Brain-to brain interference) in which a human brain can be connected to another. What this implies is that if two people are connected to the BBI system, if one person thinks of doing an action, the other person will do the action due to the neural synapses being transferred across the system. The reason this technology results fascinating at its early stages is that BBI can transfer the neural synapses of one person to another. Neural synapses are the electrical signals neurons use to communicate with each other, leading to thoughts, emotions, movement, etc. Nevertheless, whilst this could have benefits in the medical arena for paralytic patients, numerous ethical questions are arising. The lines of autonomy and privacy could be violated in the application of BBI technology because the actions of another person are being controlled by another. If it comes to the point where ...