Final Paper Ideas

I am having some difficulty coming up with a topic for my final paper. This combined with the fact that I'm having trouble just understanding the concept for this paper. One idea for a topic that I have had is how we usually do not mean to cause our own destruction. This is shown in how we usually start out by trying to make something that can help people, like a suit that can cure cancer, but in the end it becomes an out of control destructive force or by creating an army, such as zombies, that kills any one who is not one of them. This is just a starting point and I am still looking into ideas.

Databases

During my search of the databases to try and find one that could help me with my major. One of the databases that I found to be useful was the IEEE Xplore digital library. It had a wide variety of information pertaining to my major and loads of other research on projects and experiments done by other people. For the my basic searches       I have found that jstor, Gale PowerSearch, and LexisNexis Academic were good at providing general knowledge. Those were also good for most research projects.

Dr. Strangelove

In the film Dr. Strangelove they are taking a look at a potential way in which the world could end. They are playing on the fears of the time, such as America fearing an attack from the Soviet Union. This can be seen anytime that the president and his generals are inside of the war room. Especially when general Turgidson and Ambassador Sadeski are in the room together. Although there is some parts with humor throughout the film, anything with general Ripper and captain Mandrake, it mostly holds a large sense of oncoming dread. It ends with Sadeski hitting the button that activates the Doomsday device that brings about the end of the world. which still feeds the fear that the Russians would be the ones to destroy the world with nuclear destruction. It is interesting to note that the film is called Dr. Strangelove, but the character Dr. Strangelove is only in the film for about five to ten minutes. It was a good film that, although it was poking fun at the nuclear scare, still managed to pull out our anxieties about nuclear warfare.