What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative Writing, as both art form and mode of communication, and how to we come to understand it? On Creative Writing considers what lies at the core of the very human creative activity called Creative Writing.
Added by: deception | Karma: 319.20 | Fiction literature | 24 February 2011
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Herbert Wells - The War Of The Worlds
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by a heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilisation is under threat.
In this explosive new book, Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values, arguing that most people are simply mistaken about the relationship between morality and the rest of human knowledge. Harris urges us to think about morality in terms of human and animal well-being, viewing the experiences of conscious creatures as peaks and valleys on a "moral landscape." Because there are definite facts to be known about where we fall on this landscape, Harris foresees a time when science will no longer limit itself to describing what people do in the name of "morality"; in principle, science should be able to tell us what we ought to do to live the best lives possible.
Since classical times, philosophers and physicians have identified anger as a human frailty that can lead to violence and human suffering, but with the development of a modern science of abnormal psychology and mental disorders, it has been written off as merely an emotional symptom and excluded from most accepted systems of psychiatric diagnosis. Yet despite the lack of scientific recognition, anger-related violence is often in the news, and courts are increasingly mandating anger management treatment.
Orson Scott Card - (Worthing Chronicle #4) - The Worthing Saga
Jason Worthing takes the drug Somec, which increases the life span of humans, and he is sent into space on a ship carrying human embryos, supplies, and teaching robots in order to colonize a planet and perpetuate the human species.
