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Archive for November, 2011

Darn you Genetics!

I’m put this piece in the Eugenics section because of the genetic modification idea, even if it doesn’t fit completely. It’s another rushed bit of writing, but the films for it were really interesting! Twas one of those end of semester times when I was trying to write three papers at once. It’s technically a […]

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UGH! Sorry Leilani…

Don’t you just hate when you lose something important! I’ve done two papers on the sterilization of Leilani Muir and after my computer died in September, I lost them both! I mustn’t have saved them to my email before printing them. It’s so sad… I had the feminist view and the scientific view all figured out and […]

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BIG SCIENCE! (A super old paper)

Here’s an oldie. I did this for history of science before I was even interested, lol. Edit: I found the mark I got on this while digging through my papers…. EW….just ew… it looks like I made a few too many generalizations and major claims for the lack of evidence I gave. I’m pretty sure […]

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Of course that’s not how to get A’s!

Here’s two sides of a cue-card for my first history if Science and technology course… there’s a reason my average was the class average U__U” (Click the images to see them in full-size)

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The Correct Way to Interpret Human Physiology

(note that this was the first comparison I ever made between bodies are medical forms – it’s really general, and not very well written) (and upon further review the grammar is just….EW! This is why we check our spelling and grammar, so we don’t add academic trash to our blogs!)  The Correct Way to Interpret […]

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Huzzah!)

So, here’s the first artistic piece I did for the history of medicine. It’s pretty lame, I admit, but it took lots of thought. The thesis is around the edge. (Click the picture for a full size view) I’ll post the corresponding dialogues and the semi-academic writing in other posts…they’re a bit long. (Read the […]

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The Thesis Behind the Dialogues

Before reading the dialogues it is best to know the point of them… Tea was discovered in China approximately five thousand years ago and people have benefitted from its healthy qualities, traded it amongst themselves, and cultivated it to perfection. Unfortunately with perfection comes greed, and imperialists began to exploit tea’s healthy qualities. How the […]

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Dialogue #1 + Explanation

Song Dynasty China (AKA – before Mongolian Rule): Characters: Tsang Kwan: The father of a dying son. A state official. Tsang Min: Tsang Kwan’s wife. The mother of a dying son. The Doctor: A physician trained in the medical teachings of the Yellow Emperor and other classical medical texts. The Dying Son: Silently suffering a […]

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Dialogue #2 and Explanation

Victorian era Britain: Characters: Henry: An upper middle class gentleman. Muriel: Henry’s wife, Lily’s mother. Obsessed with gaining a good reputation in society. Lily: Henry and Muriel’s Daughter. She’s getting a bit too old to be without a husband (which means that she’s 18). Lord Herbert Fitzwilliam: A lord who went to the orient to […]

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Dialogue #3 + Explanation

Modern North America: Characters: Customer in the first dialogue: A customer wanting fair trade green tea. Clerk in the first and second narratives: Interested more in a sale than the products being sold. Customer in the second dialogue: Wants to fix the information on a tea label. Setting: Vancouver, Canada Present day Select Tea Shops […]

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