Week 1: Blog Two Cultures 

After reading, “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution” by C. P. Snow and “Third Culture: Being in Between” by Victoria Vesna it opened my eyes to a whole new perspective about literature and science. For example, the author C.P. Snow states that the division between science and literature had happened many years ago because of two causes. One was social and the second one was personal. An example as to how this separation came upon was Snow states, “The honest answer was a that there is, in fact a connection, which literary persons were culpably slow to see… Why some of us turned our backs on the art and tried to back out a new or different way for ourselves.”  This quote justifies the personal separation between science and literature.  Even though both go hand in hand many people on both ends prefer not to go out of there comfort zone.

https://andrewrcameron.com/2011/03/23/genre-no-longer/

If I am being honest, I never noticed the separation between these two professional fields let alone for it to be its own culture. I believe one of the main reasons why I never noticed this separation is because, I am currently a second-year nursing student and my whole life has been focused around the sciences. I have never really bothered coming out of my comfort zone in order to learn more about art and literature.  I came to this realization because I personally have never stepped foot on north campus other than when I was on a tour of UCLA. I got so worked up in my own little bubble and never really notice the beauty of a different perspective like literature or north campus.

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From reading these two articles, it has given me a new mentality seeing the two cultures coming together. If it wasn’t for literature, many of the great research papers would not be published. One thing is for sure, this separation of literature and science is becoming smaller due to one change they both have in common, technology. Technology is taking both of these cultures and bringing them closer together as they both move forward with new innovations that will help bridge Literature and Science together. As a future nurse, I will definitely bring them together because I need literature in order to document patient’s symptoms and make it easier to conclude  a diagnosis using my scientific knowledge.

References

Cameron, Andrew R. “Genre, No Longer”. Blog. March 23, 2011. https://andrewrcameron.com/2011/03/23/genre-no-longer/

“Welcome to Scientific Literautre”. Scientifici Literature, Web. 4/7/2018.

Snow, C. P. “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Reading. 1959. New York: Cambridge UP, 1961.  Print.

“University of California, Los Angeles” Biochemistry UCLA, Web. 4/7/2018.

Vesna, Victoria. “Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between.” Leonardo 34.2 (2001): 121-25. Web.