Effects of the Bottleneck and the Founders effect Cecil Smith GS102 Grantham University Online The bottleneck effect happens when something of a great devastation has happened‚ causing a great amount of people to lose their lives and leave behind very few people at the most. The bottleneck effect happens at random and can kill of a whole population and with it can also wipe out the gene pool by doing so. An example of the bottleneck effect would be something like a tsunami‚ or an earthquake‚ which
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In tandem with literacy‚ literature has become one of the leading vehicles for social criticism in American history. It amplifies the author’s voice‚ reverberating it throughout the nation‚ molding the history of America by changing the opinions of the people on certain issues. It can induce cries of hope and merriment‚ like John Winthrop’s sermon A Model of Christian Charity‚ which speaks about the optimistic prospect of America as the “City upon a Hill” (Winthrop‚ 84). But it can also elicit the
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spilled over the question of whether the world-view of archetypal auteur Stanley Kubrick is nihilistic or not‚ and appropriately so. To my mind‚ this is one of the most important questions we can ask about genuine artists and their oeuvres. If auteur criticism is to have any validity‚ from a philosophical perspective‚ it must address such issues. True cinematic geniuses (e.g.‚ Bergman‚ Antonioni‚ Wertmuller‚ Hitchcock and Cronenberg‚ to name only a few) have something to teach us about the meaning of life
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MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE: CRITICISMS OF REALITY AND DICTATORSHIP Stephanie Lane Sutton “Reality is that which‚ when you stop believing in it‚ doesn’t go away.” -Philip K. Dick Botwinick writes in A History of the Holocaust‚ “The principle that resistance to evil was a moral duty did not exist for the vast majority of Germans. Not until the end of the war did men like Martin Niemoeller and Elie Wiesel arouse the world’s conscience to the realization that the bystander cannot escape guilt or
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Psychoanalytical criticism focuses on the characters‚ symbols‚ and images in a literary work to decipher meanings and to gain an insight into the mind of the author. The terminology used is typically Freudian‚ even though Freud has fallen into disfavor in the world of behavioral sciences. This current disaffection does not‚ however‚ invalidate psychoanalytical interpretation of many of the characters and situations that a writer may have intentionally or unintentionally constructed. The story "Young
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I do agree with Bradley that the ending of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn serves as part of Twain’s criticism of American society. The fact that Huck knew that Jim was a freed slave‚ and still allowed Jim to be chased‚ chained and recaptured‚ speaks to how truly indoctrinated Tom Sawyer was in Southern racist and elitist traditions. Tom waited to share that critical information about Jim until Tom had completed his adventure‚ at a substantial personal cost and risk to both Jim and Huck. Furthermore
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A Dual-Criticism Look at The Birthmark Literature is many things: provoking‚ heartwarming‚ emotional‚ traumatic‚ poetic‚ maybe even life-changing. Literature can also be incredibly ambiguous. While literature can be “simply read”‚ when one takes a step back and looks at a piece through specific lenses‚ the work can take on an incredibly different‚ deeper meaning. Taking the lead of criticisms such as formalist‚ psychoanalytical‚ biological‚ feminist‚ Marxist‚ etc.‚ one can dig deeper into a text
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Charles Dicken’s Novels: Literary Criticism Something about Charles Dickens and his ability to take his reader to unbelievable places with his imaginative powers allows him the honor of being the most popular English novelist of the 19th century. Dickens has thrilled his readers for many years with his down-to-earth stories about real people forced into real situations. Charles Dickens has the ability to tell his stories from personal experiences. He fine-tuned his ability to tell his own story
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Criticism of Masculin Feminin film of Jean-Luc Godard written by Furkan Safak After World War II‚ the world was in a transition area from warfare to “Cold War” ‚the period in which countries tried to establish themselves as a new form of ”republics“ rather than “empires”. We would have rights to say that there was three main parts of the world two of which were actually ”sides”. Those sides were unquestionably capitalism and socialism‚ better to call the U.S and USSR. Those two sides were
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Criticism The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that depicts the evil side of human nature and is developed by motifs and the morals of the characters. There are many characters that show opposite moral believes‚ allowing the reader to judge the deterioration of a character’s virtues by comparison. This novel has also lead to many personal issues for Oscar Wilde as it was used against him in a trial for homosexuality. There are many theories to the main theme of the
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