Dover Beach

1.    What does “Dover Beach” say about the changing role of religion in the Victorian era?

Religion is slowly slipping away while science is becoming more dominant.  To back this up they are talking about “The Sea of Faith” and how it was once full is slowly going down and disappearing into nothing.

2.    In what way does “Dover Beach” add to the discussion of science in Frankenstein?





It’s telling us that science is becoming more dominant it’s widening its views on certain things and how that is affecting us. people are questioning their faith and what they believe is the truth.

3.    Annotate the poem and write a one-paragraph analysis of its meaning, focusing on the symbols in the poem. What is Arnold saying?

Arnold is saying that science is becoming more relevant than religion it talks about “the Sea of Faith” and how we have to fight our way through all of this and come out on top. science is also questioning us on the unknown.

The Age of Reason

1) The Microscope and the Telescope
 2) Obstructing the flow of human thought
 3) Cultural Renaissance
 4) The printing Press
 5)1642 the birth of Isaac newton
 6) The mathematical principles of natural philosophy
 7) The English Government
 8) Calculus
 9) The scientific Method
10) The first encyclopedia was made

Victorian Era and Science

http://www.ajdrake.com/e212_sum_04/materials/guides/rom_romvic_character.htm

Frankenstein

1) Can you identify any technological advances that you consider to have caused more harm than good? Explain. Man had found a way to create a living being using science that is very bad because some things are better left alone than to try and mess with.

2) Do you think that humans should always push the boundaries of knowledge, or do you think that some things should be off limits? If so, who should decide those boundaries? Elected officials? Religious officials? Explain. You should always try to push the boundaries of science, but never to the point of creating another being that is way off limits because you don’t know how it will turn out and most scientists aren’t willing to mess with the human skeleton and how it functions.

1). What inspired Shelley to write this novel?

·      A waking dream in 1916

2) What are some modern technological advances that the speakers reference?

·       Nuclear Weapons

3) Name one of the definitions of "Frankenstein" that you hear.

·      One who creates a monster will be destroyed by his ruin.

4) What invention in 1769 changed the world and prompted the industrial revolution?

·      The invention of the steam engine started the industrial revolution

Research Paper

Brittany Brinegar

Mr. Roberts

AP lit/comp

November 2, 2011

Is Wikipedia a reliable resource for us today? No, It’s not because when we use Wikipedia to do research on certain topics we can’t distinguish what’s true and what’s not. Jimmy Wales says “we have constant problems where we have people who are trying to repeatedly abuse our sites," he also said, “He was trying to make Wikipedia less vulnerable to tampering.” In USA Today they are saying,  “Wikipedia is a kind of collective brain, a repository of knowledge, maintained on servers in various countries and built by anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection who wants to share knowledge about a subject. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have written Wikipedia entries. Mistakes are going to be caught and corrected by later contributors and users.” So I say no because of the research I have done on Wikipedia and found out some pretty interesting things concerning Wikipedia and how it affects us in today’s society.

Jimmy Wales created Wikipedia in 2001 with Larry Sanger Wikipedia was the outgrowth of an online encyclopedia project, it was meant to hew to the traditional model — experts write the articles, and reviewers examine what they produce. It was aided by being mentioned on the influential technology news site, Slashdot, Wikipedia quickly grew, and a new mousetrap was discovered. The new mousetrap today is that more and more people are getting sucked in to use Wikipedia because it’s the first thing that pops up after you hit the “enter” key. The reason people call it “The New Mousetrap” is because like a mousetrap it snaps when a mouse tries and grabs the piece of cheese. Wikipedia does by luring them in and then snapping it shut so they can’t get free. In its first year, which was in 2001 Wikipedia has grown to more than 20,000 articles in 18 languages.

Wikipedia is not a reliable resource because the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales says; “he wants to get the message out to college students that they shouldn’t use it for class projects or serious research.” Students try and do research papers and get information off the website Wales say’s “he gets about 10 e-mail messages a week from students who complain that Wikipedia has gotten them into academic hot water.” It’s not that Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source for information it just as Wales quotes, “It’s good enough knowledge, depending on what your purpose is.” Although Jimmy Wales Created Wikipedia he believes that it was a mistake to make it in the first place because it causing more harm than good.  The “Wikimedia Foundation” created in 2003 and is located in San Francisco operates Wikipedia.  If the people who operated Wikipedia can manage and control what goes on the website why is it the Wikipedia’s defenders say, “The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work." If that’s true then why would they have created the website in first place?  

Thesis Statement

Brittany Brinegar

Mr. Roberts

AP lit/comp

November 2, 2011

Is Wikipedia a reliable resource for us today? No, It’s not because when we use Wikipedia to do research on certain topics we can’t distinguish what’s true and what’s not. So I say no because of the research I have done on Wikipedia and found out some pretty interesting things concerning Wikipedia and how it affects us today.