Essays on Biology

Introduction The concept of "survival of the fittest" is intrinsically tied to the theory of evolution through natural selection, a groundbreaking idea put forth by Charles Darwin in 1858. This theory sought to explain how adaptation and variation occur within species and organisms. Natural selection...

Mosquitoes belonged to the family of nematocerid flies which was the Culicidae (from the Latin culex, genitive culicis, meaning “midge” or “gnat”). Female mosquito was responsible to carry the vector that leads to the disease spread. There were 3000 species of mosquitoes but there were...

Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy is a series of novels that explore various marginalized subjects in WWI-era Britain. Originally set in a mental hospital, she is particularly interested in exploring concepts of madness – how a society decides what constitutes madness and how the mad are...

Within the novel Regeneration, there is a strong emphasis on the relationships presented between men, with Barker emphasising the idea of ambiguity between conflicting (or coexisting) feelings of camaraderie and romance. In this way, there is a thin line between ‘the right kind of love’...

Both Regeneration and Private Peaceful are set in the First World War, and are strongly shaped by time and memory. Private Peaceful shadows young Private Tommo Peaceful and his older brother Charlie, and is told in a simple yet eloquent style. It follows the brothers...

A key concept to masculinity is being a strong protector, that one should protect one’s family and nation. Yet the texts, ‘Regeneration’ and ‘How Many Miles to Basra?’ present the argument that warfare promotes a distortion of masculinity; a passivity. The isolation from normal societal...