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Choose one of the following topics:
1. Write a comparative analysis of scenes from two of the following movies about artifical beings. Your discussion should focus on a single motif, scene, character, or topic from each film and not attempt to cover the entire works. Be sure to discuss not only the content of the two scenes but the relevant cinematic techniques and structural questions raised by your subject. Bring in perspectives from the reading wherever possible.
The Boys from Brazil (1978) - Franklin J. Schaffner, dir.
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), Steven Spielberg, dir.
2. Discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) in relation to Francis Galton's "Hereditary Talent and Character" (1865). Compare and contrast the authors' attitudes toward one or (at most) two important social questions, such as gender, work, reproduction, race, nationality, class, religion, science, etc.
3. Discuss J. B. S. Haldane's "Daedalus, or, Science and the Future" (1923) in relation to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932).
5. Compare Darwin's depiction of his trip through the Portillo Pass in Ch. 15 of The Voyage of the Beagle with Andrea Barrett's story "Soroche."
6. Analyze the roles of women in Andrea Barrett's stories, "The Littoral Zone" and "Rare Bird."
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Choose one of the following topics:
1. Discuss the question of continuity and difference across generations in Middlesex and White Teeth.
2. Discuss point of view and voice in any two of the works we have read (please do not choose a text you wrote on in the first paper).3. Examine the way science as a discipline is portrayed as in two of the following texts: Oryx and Crake, Mendel's Dwarf, The Double Helix, Middlesex, and White Teeth.
4. Discuss the social and cultural attitudes toward violence in two of the following texts: A Philosophical Investigation, Oryx and Crake, Mendel's Dwarf, and White Teeth.
5. Discuss the ethical issue of genetic privacy in two of the following texts: A Philosophical Investigation, Oryx and Crake, and Mendel's Dwarf.
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