A recent study on influential spreading of contagions via air transportation found that contagions spread globally via a few influential points of focus such as JFK, LAX, and Honolulu Airport. This is because the first two service flights from all over the world, while the latter one tends to only have connecting flights to super-spreaders like JFK and LAX (as well as offering a relatively direct connection to Asia) (Nicolaides et
The culmination of these arguments is that they have been found persuasive by many contemporary philosophers who have adopted some form of anti-physicalism. Consequently, a debate has emerged between physicalism and anti-physicalism, which is about fundamental ontology (Balog, n
The microphysical features. While there are numerous ways of describing this wide characterization, consciousness supervenes metaphysically on the microphysical (Frankish, 2007, p
Generally, the zombie argument poses a problem of physicalism and attracted response from physicalists who attempt to defuse the problem. History of the Zombie Argument: According to Descartes, non-human animals are automata, which imply that their behavior is completely explicable with regards to physical mechanisms (Kirk, 2011)
These initiatives have been geared towards demonstrating the importance of consciousness with regards to physicalism. Generally, many physicalists are willing to admit that there are several kinds of elementary particle though it is quite difficult to understand the meaning of non-physical substance and what they could amount to (Montero, 1999, p
In fact, compared with Americans in 1957, today we own twice as many cars per person, eat out twice as often and enjoy endless other commodities that weren't around then -- big-screen TVs, microwave ovens, SUVs and handheld wireless devices, to name a few, yet at the same time compared with their grandparents, today's young adults have grown up with much more affluence, slightly less happiness and much greater risk of depression and assorted social pathology," notes Hope College psychologist David G. Myers, PhD (DeAngelis, 2004)
Industrial farming is not only depended upon fossil fuels, but also degrades the minerals, such as nitrogen, out of the land leaving it unable to support future crops. Land use for waste and disposal of the previous generation's iContraptions is taking a devastating toll on the Earth's water supplies, natural resources, and ecosystems exacted by a plethora of disposable cameras, plastic garbage bags, and other cheaply made goods with built in product-obsolescence, and cheaply made manufactured goods that lead to a "throw away" mentality (Mayell, 2004)
If the human race consumers more than the Earth can replenish then the species will be out of balance with the carrying capacity and billions of people could suffer on an enormous scale. Currently the human population has increased its population doubling time to every fifty eight years (Pimentel, 2011)
In reconstructing the nation after World War II, leaders of business, government, and labor developed a political economy and a political culture that expected a dynamic mass consumption economy not only to deliver prosperity, but also to fulfill American society's loftier aspirations. (Speth, 2012)" The idea that emerged during this time was that consumption needed to go far beyond what was simply needed to satisfy an individual's needs
As populations are becoming more and more accustomed to living lives with greater material possessions, the Earth's natural systems are already showing signs of being stressed. It is estimated that industrial activities directly and indirectly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions at a level of roughly thirty seven percent of the total emissions which has also grown by sixty seven percent since 1961 (Worrell, Bernstein, Roy, Price, & Harnisch, 2009)
Accordingly, all social institutions condemn individuals to zombification: an ironical state of figurative subjectivity and death (Thomas, 2010). Zombies in the American Culture The notion of the zombie-slave managed by some kind of zombie-master was initiated into the American culture by the individuals coming back from Haiti after the American occupation, which began in 1925 (Krivoruchko, 2014)
Zombies in the American Culture The notion of the zombie-slave managed by some kind of zombie-master was initiated into the American culture by the individuals coming back from Haiti after the American occupation, which began in 1925 (Krivoruchko, 2014). Romero's re-imagination of the genre to an apocalyptic siege tale instead of an icon of Haitian teachings, gave American audiences a perfect outlet of embracing survivalist dreams, which hearten back to the country's birth on the frontier (Stewart, 2013)
Even though zombies have been the subject of various studies, they have not been investigated with regards to their mythological contributions. Many mythological studies have focused on Greek texts and other texts that have greatly influenced the modern Western world ideology, which is why research into Haiti's zombie myth was quite unlikely (Thomas, 2010)