96% of NASA employees got cut off. Which sucks. I <3 NASA. Unrelated: Had a college fair at my school today...More colleges offer astrophysics programs than I thought, which is nice, however most programs require many other physics classes, like quantum and theoretical physics. I'm personally intrested in all of it, but one of my teachers tells me of the horrors of his theoretical physics college course, and its pretty disconcerting.
That's your high school teacher though. I mean no offense by that either but some will complain about Calculus even a lot, which is all relative, or math majors complaining about something like statistics. It really depends what will be challenging to you. Regardless, you WANT it to be challenging. If you're going into a field like astrophysics, prepare for a challenge. It's won't be high school and all about memorization. If you put your time into it, study, and practice, you'll actually know how to do it... And that's the point.
Dude i've got the second top comment on imgur right now like the top five comments of the day thing on the main gallery screen
T The Monstrosity of Frankenstein’s Monster David Williams The Monster created by Victor Frankenstein is a rich and interesting example of a truly monstrous character. Through the pages of the novel “Frankenstein” we see the monster grow and change, ever dynamic and evolving. We watch the monster begin his life in a heinous fashion, and change into a true embodiment of monstrosity. Through the eyes of Victor Frankenstein we see his creation in a morbid and terrifying light, from the monsters first moments of life, to Victors last moments. Perhaps fittingly the first example of the creature’s inherent monstrousness is in its creation. Victor creates life, an act encroaching on the domain of the Christian God. The monster is created from inanimate, or previously dead, body parts (Shelley, 58), meaning that the Victor has literally brought the dead back to life, or at least given new life to the previously dead. Victor has performed a holy act and twisted it into a reprehensible action. The monster is created with only one parent, Victor, thus breaking the natural order. Shortly after Victor has given life to his creation we are given a description of the monster. The creature is described as having taunt and yellowed skin, watery white eyes, and thin black lips (Shelley, 58). Victor is almost immediately disenchanted with his creation; physical features which had previously been selected to make the monster beautiful now seem hideous in its creator’s eyes. From the beginning of the monsters life it is set apart, ostracized, and made monstrous due to its hideous appearance. Victor is so obviously and thoroughly repulsed by his monsters appearance that the monster takes notice and flees while Victor is otherwise preoccupied, either asleep or outside of his home (Shelley, 62). The first thing this new creature ever experiences is being loathed by its creator, setting it down a path toward true monstrosity. With the murder of Victor’s brother, William, we see the monster first choose to commit a monstrous act (Shelley, 78). Having learned of William’s relation to Victor, the monster, in a fit of rage, decides to violently murder the child. Already heinous, the act of murder is made even more monstrous because of the age of the victim. The monster murdered a child, taking life and a future away from a defenseless and innocent person. The monster had only been given the spark of life by Victor a short time ago, making him childlike himself. As something that should be pure and new in the world, the monster is instantly characterized by committing the unwarranted murder of an innocent. Justine, a girl adopted by the Frankenstein family, is consequently accused of the murder of William. In her naiveté she dishonestly admits to the murder, thinking she will be forgiven, but is instead put to death (Shelley, 87).The innocence of Justine is shown in her appeals to the court of her innocence, and her belief that if she admits to the murder she will be spared any serious penalty. The monster has now, albeit inadvertently, caused the death of another innocent in his mission to cause his creator pain. The murder of Justine is perhaps an even more egregious offence than the murder of William, because, as a young girl, Justine represents a certain level of purity and defenselessness. The monster, a large, hulking male has caused the death of a young and helpless female. At this point, the only knowledge that Victor has of his creation is its hideous appearance and its monstrous acts, leading him to truly distain the creature. Perhaps one of the most unusual and grotesque features of the monster is its desire for the creation and propagation of more monsters like itself. The monster, after explaining his actions and time spent traveling, asks Victor to create another monstrosity, this time a female, to be the monsters mate (Shelley, 146). Although Victor originally reluctantly agrees, he eventually ponders the ramifications of his creating more monsters, and decides to destroy the second creature before it is given life (Shelley, 171). The monster wants a female companion, with whom it can mate. This could possibly create a race of monsters, potentially endangering the entire race of man. A completely normal desire, to have a mate and create a family, is made monstrous simply because of the nature of the creature. In this moment the creature doesn’t intend to do evil, but as an evil and murderous monster, the progeny of the monster would most likely follow in its progenitors nefarious footsteps. Because Victor destroyed the monsters mate before it’s completed, the monster vows to seek its revenge on Victor’s wedding night. The evening that Victor marries Elizabeth the monster returns and murders Victor’s bride (Shelley, 199). This killing is perhaps the most reprehensible crime the monster commits. Although all the monsters previous victims had represented innocence and purity, Elizabeth embodies both of these concepts in a much more powerful way. Elizabeth is a woman, weak and defenseless compared to the powerful and masculine monster. She has in no way directly affected the monster negatively, and he kills her only to hurt her husband. Importantly, she is murdered on her wedding night before she and Victor consummate their marriage. A bride, traditionally cloaked in white, is perhaps one of the most famous and powerful representations of purity. Elizabeth, a virgin bride on her wedding night, is brutally murdered by a creature, spawned from her husband’s unholy works. In many ways the monster is Victor’s child, created and birthed by unnatural means with only one parent. This abhorrent child of Victors reaches his most monstrous point when he murders his father’s wife. Though the monster is shown to be truly evil by it’s deeds in the novel, we also see how it becomes this way through it’s interactions with it’s creator and other people early in it’s life. The monsters creator and father, Victor, rejects his creation and treats it with disgust from it’s very first moments. The monster’s first thoughts and memories from it’s “birth” are of it’s creator being truly disgusted by it’s existence. The monster tries to communicate with Victor, but is met only with his absolute terror (Shelley, 59). The monsters first experience with the only other living being that it knows is overwhelmingly negative. Confused and new to every aspect of life, the monster is cast out and disregarded by the only figure of authority it can possibly comprehend at the beginning of it’s life. The creature has absolutely no idea why it exists, or what it’s existence even means, and the only person who could guide it, Victor, refuses to interact with it. This is the creatures first experience of any kind, and it’s first memory. After the monster leaves Victors home, it travels until it takes refuge in a place where it can spy on a small family. Through the family, and an assortment of fiction books, the monster learns rudimentary language, and how humans interact. (Shelley) In the creatures mind it is a part of this family, albeit an unknown one. The monster relies on the family for information, and begins to assist them, unseen. After growing so attached to this family, it finally reveals itself, only to be met with fear and disgust. The monster is then chased away from the family, alone once again (Shelley, 140). The family comes to represent something Victor wouldn’t give to the monster. The people the monster spies on are the creature’s guides, as he learns language, social conventions, and interactions from them unseen. As time passes the creature grows more and more attached to the family, as they have all the things it wants: companionship and stability. Being dismissed and vilified by the family is a traumatic event for the creature. Once again, people that the creature seek guidance and companionship from have spurned it’s longings for acceptance. Shortly after this incident the monster attacks and kills Victors brother; the murder of William being the creatures first chosen monstrous act. The monster understands language, and people, and the conventions and laws that govern all people, and it disregards these laws. The monster murders and destroys purity, knowing exactly what it’s doing. The monster is fully aware of the atrocity it is committing, and it continues to commit them in order to hurt it’s creature in the same way that it has been hurt. Victor has created and shaped the monster in multiple ways. Monstrous in form, and monstrous in action, the creature blindly rages through life, only driven by the though of causing pain for it’s creator. The creature is a child given no love and only shown the most brutal and negative side of every person it encounters. Through these jarring meetings with people it is molded into a truly monstrous being. The monster chooses to commit monstrous actions, because it has been made to be truly monstrous by the darkest aspects of the people it wants so dearly to belong with. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. New York: Penguin Group, 2003. Print.
Coincidentally, I happen to be studying Cohen's theses on monster culture It's actually very interesting http://teacherweb.com/NJ/MetuchenHighSchool/Volosin/Monster-Culture.pdf
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Got one. Sort of. They pay for my college and give me monthly money and only require a few years of my life