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SSFT 212 Final Exam Reviewtaking dominion - answer an inevitable concept
technological society has how many wrong responses? - answer two
wrong responses to technology - answer1. expect too much from science (technophilic)
2. resist or ignore what science has to teach (technophobia)
new technology has what effect on society? - answer it reverberates and shapes it
Nicholas Nassim Taleb said that technology can - answer destabilize and render a
society more fragile
what types of culture result from technology? - answer disposal culture
replacement culture
trivial culture
ephemeral culture
shallow culture
antitheses of how technology influences attitudes towards nature - answer engagement
vs disengagement
regard vs detachment
flourishing in nature vs conquering nature
wisdom vs dominance of technique
nonreductive vs reductive
atom bomb was created/used in what year - answer1945
castle bravo hydrogen bomb test (1954) - answerfusion fuel -- lithium hydride
60% of lithium was ^7Li, 40% was ^6Li
all of it fused, so 6.0 megatron bomb was 15MT
who was tied in connection with genetically engineered viruses? - answerFrank Herbert
Wendell Berry's Nine Rules - answer1. new tool should be cheaper than what it's
replacing
2. should be at least as small
3. should work clearly and demonstrably better
4. should use less energy than what it's replacing
5. if possible, use solar energy
6. repairable by person of ordinary intelligence
7. purchasable and repairable as near to home as possible
, 8. come from small/privately owned shop that gives maintenance
9. shouldn't disrupt anything good that already exists
Who wrote The Abolition of Man? - answerC. S. Lewis (1943)
C. S. Lewis stated that the final stage of man's conquest of nature is -
answersubjugation of humanity
primary distinction between male and female? - answerlack of function in an individual
does not efface the fact that the function exists
sex hormone synthesis - answerheavily bio-regulated
what are sex hormones synthesized from? - answercholesterol
biblical view of sex - answerit's binary and is part of what it means to be made imago
Dei
people are created - answerfor a purpose
current culture has lead to what perception of the body? - answera distorted view, "i am
not right in my body"
worldly attempts at human glory (transgenderism/homosexuality) give - answeran
ersatz, false glory, redemption, and are nothing compared to the promises of scripture
"he snatched lightning from the skies, and the scepter from tyrants" - answerAnne-
Robert Jacques Turgot
three portraits of ben franklin - answer1. benjamin wilson (1759)
2. david martin (1767)
3. joseph siffred duplessis (1778)
new england puritans - answer- john bunyan
- cotton mather
- jonathan edwards
the benevolent heart of Mr. Whitefield - answergeorge whitefield, great awakening
evangelist
franklin and folger's map of the gulf stream - answermodern infrared imagery from orbit,
and franklin's published map
leyden jar - answerwhat franklin called a condenser
modern capacitors - answerconduct electricity
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