Blog assignment #6

From reading The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, and the Alpha Dog Porto video, I understood Artificial Intelligence. In The Singularity is Near, technology is vividly used. Technology is obvious to anyone reading this story, very important to Ray Kurweil. I agree that technology is very helpful today for almost anyone. Technology is helping me to post this blog assignment right now. Technology is used to get me to class in the morning. Without technology, I really don't know where I'd be. We depend on technology for almost every given thing in the world. Then there is a point where I do disagree that technology is extremely important. I am not one sided in this argument. This is so because, how did people make it in life before technology was invented. Technology is also a distraction, as it is to this blog assignment that should have been done a days ago..instead there was pacman, games... but anyway, technology has come in the way of learning about the past. People used to get to places further than you can imagine by feet, or man-made canoe  and such. What happened to those days? What happened to the days people survived on their own, without anyone's help? Technology today is just taking away the life that was once lived. Okay, now as for the video on The Alpha Dog Porto. So this machine was designed and looked like a horse basically. It was a very, very  powerful machine. So powerful that men tried to push it to a side, and failed badly. Now, who in their right mind would even think to make a machine that huge and powerful? One day someone could make something like this, and it can get seriously out of hand. Then what do we do? People can seriously get harmed from technology.

Blog assignment #7

Never Let Me Go helps me understand an imaginative text and see how this literary or cinematic text can offer in understanding one of the topics from class. I chose Never Let Me Go, a novel and a movie by Kazuo Ishigur. Clones and humans are very similar, as one can read from the novel. By reading this novel, I learned that humans and Clones are very much alike, and have emotions just as each other. They both live basically the same way. Clones have feelings and such like humans, but the author thought of this as a bad thing. He wasn't very sure if it was a good idea or not. At first, before watching this film and reading the novel, I looked at cloning as a bad thing. I thought that I didn't want someone to look like me, and I don't want another person like me. But then I realized, I've always wanted a twin, and this wouldn't be much different. I no longer had a problem with clones because of the fact that they are harmless. The author does take sides, and doesn't like the idea of cloning, but also gives others, as readers a chance to decide on their own if clones are alright.

Thesis Statement

The film, "The Notebook" is a great example of portraying human minds. It shows what the Alzheimer's disease is, and how people react to it. Some of the treatments that were tried to bring back her memory were shown in this movie. It also shows many affects of what can go wrong if you act the wrong way around a person with Alzheimer's. How it is dealt with is also shown in this film.

Milestone #1 - topic write - up

I will be using Reasearch Paper idea # 4 - portraying human minds in film. i am interested in learning more about alzheimer's. the film i will be using is the notebook. i chose this because i love watching movies and i've watched the notebook millions of times. this movie is about a woman with alzheimer's= memory loss. by writing this research paper, i hope to learn much more about this disease. this film is about a woman who once had a wonderful life, with a man and an amazing love story. the woman one day loses her memory of it all, and he tries to refresh her memory by reading to her the story of their love. i al really interested in finding out how this happens to people, and how it is dealt with

Research Paper Topic Freewrite

I am interested in Research Paper Idea #4 -- Portraying Human Minds in Film as my research paper. The film I will be using is The Notebook (2004). I chose this because, I love watching movies and I've watched The Notebook millions of times. This movie is about a woman with Alzheimer's - memory loss.

I am studying nursing at LaGuardia. I was indecisive about choosing a major, going from one to another. At first I wanted to be a Pediatrician, but i realized that kids are way too much work. I then wanted to be a cop, but my mom and dad said I'd die and I think my boyfriend thought I was going to shoot myself, by accident... I decided to study up on becoming a registered nurse. I heard it isn't easy at all, but I'm up for a challenge. When I was little, I wanted to be a nurse, but I changed my mind years later because I hated needles with a passion. Then I got over it, because .. it's not that bad. I have many goals, and plans for the future and right now. My goals are to finish college as soon as possible, and to finally begin my life with the career I have chosen. I can't wait to be a nurse one day and take care of people. I'd say I am a humanities person, definitely not a science person. I've hated all that scientific stuff from the first time I ever heard of it. I think I've always been a thinker, maybe sometimes too much. So that's why I'm a humanities person. I've always had a thing for investigating, like inspector gadget =D Because of Area 51 in Las Vegas, Nevada I believe the U.S. is scientific in a way. I hope to learn a lot about science, even though I don't like it, but because I never paid attention to it in highschool..

ENG 101 Assignment #1 Brainstorming

I was interested in Temple Grandin's story. I agree with the quote that "Human beings do not really need emotions to connect with other human beings or animals or to behave morally with a sense of right and wrong." Humans can connect with other humans and animals in many other ways. She did not understand human emotions like love because of her autism. This did not effect her life in being a successful person. She was an animal researcher, activist for autism research, and writer and public figure. She did all of this without any emotion, so a human does not need emotion.