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Before we begin reading Frankenstein, you need to understand a bit of the history behind the writing of the story. Answer the questions below, using the suggested websites or others that you find appropriate (not Wikipedia), to help build your historical and social context of the graphic novel. Please answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper. You may either type or write your answers; however, please be sure to answer in complete sentences. This is individual work.

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http://www.prometheas.org/mythology.html

1. How did Prometheus make man?

2. Why did Zeus get angry at Prometheus and how was Prometheus punished?

3. Why or why not do you think Prometheus should be considered a hero?

4. Google a picture to illustrate Prometheus’ punishment on Mount Caucasus. What feeling or mood do you get from this artwork? What about it makes you say that? What words help to describe this artwork?

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http://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-pygmalion-and-galatea/

1. How does Galatea come to live?

2. Explain, in at least three complete sentences, why or why not you think this myth to be a good example of a love story.

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https://www.biography.com/people/mary-shelley-9481497

1. When and where was Mary Shelley born?

2. Where did she grow up (if different than birth place)?

3. What inspired her to write Frankenstein?

4. What else has she written?

5. What was her personal life like? Husband? Friends? Kids? Etc.

a. How many children did she have? How many survived infancy? Also, did her husband die before or after the publication of the novel?

6. Where did she live as an adult?

7. What is the likely cause of Mary Shelley’s nervous breakdown?

8. When was Frankenstein published?

9. How did critics review the novel when it was first published?

10. This novel is a good example of an epistolary novel (the following question will require some web research).

11. What does and epistolary novel mean?

12. What does a framing device in literature mean?

13. What is the framing device in this novel?

14. Why might this framing device make this novel more effective?

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https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-romantics
1.  Define Romanticism.
2. Define Gothic Literature
3.. What are some of the elements needed to make a work a part of this genre?

4. Who were some major Romantic artists?

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Briefly Explain Stem Cell research/therapies.1. List the five best “facts” for and against stem cell research.2. What is the basic moral dilemma?

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Briefly Explain Stem Cell research/therapies.1. List the five best “facts” for and against stem cell research.2. What is the basic moral dilemma?

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https://www.eurostemcell.org/embryonic-stem-cell-research-ethical-dilemma

1.Briefly Explain Cloning

2. Identify some pros and cons about human cloning. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-scientists-clone-monkeys-break-barrier-human-cloning-n840736

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1. Somnambulism:
2. Revenant:
3. Necromancy
4. Exorcism

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Dictionary by Merriam-Webster: America's most-trusted online dictionary

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The dictionary by Merriam-Webster is America's most trusted online dictionary for English word definitions, meanings, and pronunciation. #wordsmatter

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https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/frankenfood-does-it-deserve-the-name/

1. What are GMO foods?

2. What damage can GMOs do to the human body?

3. What can you do to be a better consumer?

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Critics and supporters of genetically modified (GM) foods are duking it out again, as the FDA considers approving the first-ever genetically engineered animal food - in this case a breed of salmon modified to grow twice as fast as ordinary salmon.

Whatever the FDA's decision, food experts say many Americans are woefully misinformed about genetically engineered foods.

CBS News spoke with two prominent experts on GM foods to get their take on the potential risks and benefits of what some are calling "Frankenfoods."

Food Labels

If you've been scanning food labels to check whether you're about to buy products containing GM foods, you're wasting your time.

The FDA decided more than a decade ago that GM foods do not have to be labeled. So there's no easy way to tell whether a particular packaged food is made with GM crops.

Help Against Hunger?

"The industry often says that genetically modified foods are the most promising way to meet the food needs of the 21st Century," says Dr. Nestle. "This is an exaggeration."

Nestle says food shortages around the world are the result of poverty and other social problems that cannot be solved with a technological fix - a sentiment echoed by other food experts.

"In the U.S., we have had food surpluses for a decade, and yet we still have hunger," says Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports. "It's not because we don't have enough genetically modified foods. Some people can't afford food at any price."

Altered Genes

Critics of genetically modified foods were ridiculed when they suggested several years ago that genes from genetically modified crops would start showing up in conventional crops. Well, no one is laughing any more.

Dr. Nestle points out that airborne pollen from a field of genetically modified corn or soybeans, for instance, can drift over to a field where conventional crops are planted - and spread altered genes.

Says Nestle, "They can't keep their genes under control. There is a 100 percent probability that modified genes will show up in other crops to some low percentage."

Pesticides

One of the early selling points of genetically modified food was that crops engineered to be resistant to pests would require less pesticide.

That's true for certain varieties. But most GM crops are designed to be resistant to the chemicals that kill weeds and bugs. That means farmers can use the herbicides more liberally without killing their plants.

That's good news for Monsanto, the company that makes most of the world's GM seeds as well as the herbicide used to spray the crops.

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Think You Know What's In Your Food? Think Again

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What do you think doctors and scientists are planning for the future?

If resources and technology had no limit, what would you create/invent to make people or things live forever?