The Mask of Anarchy: a Reflection of Shelley's Revolutionary Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the only son of an aristocratic family: his father was an M.P. and his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. ... Throughout his life, he emphatically expressed his political and religious views in a struggle against social injustice, often to the point where it got him into trouble or mired in controversy. Later, in Italy, after he had lost his wife, Mary, and his 3 children, he began to accept his self-imposed exile, as he branded as an immoralist, an atheist and political...

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Compare Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN and William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES Looking at these books in detail it is obvious that there are many comparisons that can be made between Frankenstein and Lord of the Flies, despite the fact that they were written over a century apart. ... And that when people advance on an idea they will not know when to stop, creating a fear for daily life, not knowing what to expect. ... In LOTF the beast is a dead parachute brought to life by the children's imaginations, while the monster in Frankenstein is created from dead body parts an...

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Around the same time as Mary Shelley's Frankenstien, a good friend of Shelley's named John William Polidori wrote the first English vampire story in 1819, entitled "The Vampyre". ... But first, on earth as Vampire sent, Thy corse from its tomb be rent: Then ghastly haunt they native place, And suck the blood of all thy race; There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life; Yet loath the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse: Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, ...

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These types of conditions also open opportunities to a wide variety of health problems for tenets, resulting in even further complications for finding employment and life in general. ... This paradox has hindered the lives of many people and they are often denied a taste of middle-class life. ... If Little Billy goes to a private Catholic school in a white neighborhood his entire life that costs $20,000 a year, the chances of him spending any time with a lower-class minority are slim to none. ... My entire life I have been exposed to people of different creeds and colors and I feel that I...

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This is most likely due to the fact that American society is "[inching] ever closer to embracing phenomena that science [cannot] answer."12 Even highly esteemed academic publications such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration "now treat the paranormal with as much respect and analysis as physics or the chaos theory."13 The possibility of life existing on other worlds has been the subject of speculation for years.14 In May, 1988, NASA began using a "super computer" that is intended to pick up signals from any distant civilizations.15 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SET...

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I focused on this area for my capstone because I thought it would be an original idea and also would be interesting to investigate and determine if artificial intelligence is a good concept or a bad to the human life. ... However, writers and artists were not bound by the limits of science in exploring extra-human intelligence, and the Jewish myth of the Golem, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, along with that movie and other old ones gave us new ideas for other AI movies, but the point being it gave us new - and troubling - versions of the manufactured humanoid.3 Between these enginee...

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