Things fall Apart when you dont do your work

While reading "Things Fall Apart" and having to write an article on what i would like to talk about i decided that i am going to base my essay from a Feminism point of view. The reason i decided to write about this is because many years ago women did not have any right nowadays "it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human right" (167). Having said this is a big feat itself. Not even as of a few decades ago would you not have been able to associate men with women. many men today still do not try and associate themselves with each other. Many people still try and make jokes with women about how they should not ever leave the kitchen or how they should never drive. Those are only just a few of he reasons i am writing from a feminist point of view. I believe that since a lot of people still do not associate themselves with the women's class it will a better thing to write about this subject.  Hopefully after writing this it will open my eyes up to writing a better essay about Things Fall Apart

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In Neil Postman's " Technopoly" he states that " Americans were better prepared to undertake the creation of a technopoly than anyone else." After reading this statement i would probably have to 100 percent agree with him and his views on this. The reason this is, is because if this what not true that the Americans were better prepared to undertake the creation of technopoly, then who would. Besides human there would be no one else that could possibly undertake the creation of technopoly. "These conditions provided the background, the context in which the Americans distrust of constraints the exploitative genius of its captains of industry, the success of technology and the devotion of traditional beliefs took on the exaggerated significance that pushed technocracy in America over into technopoly." This basically describes the belief on technopoly and technocracy. Machines nowadays are doing things that humans could have never thought of ages ago. But today we are producing machines non-stop and its ridiculous, and that why i would have to agree with Neil Postmans's idea that  "Americans were better prepared to undertake the creation of a technopoly than anyone else." In some way I can see the relation between 1984, Brave New World, and Tecnopoly. Even though they are not related at all the relate to each other in many ways. I think that once we finish reading Brave New world we can eventually compare these too and out are input into these two topics and hopefully we can all agree on similar things and have input are own information on what we believe the future might hold for us.

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What would the world be like if humans were not the dictators of the world anymore? How would the world run, with computers becoming more powerful and possibly becoming more efficient then even the human body would humans become “cyborgs”(1)? If we (scientists) were to create a computer powerful enough to do anything a human could do that could be good and it could be bad. The bad part would be “ Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an untraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an “intelligence explosion,” and the intelligence of man would be left far behind” (2).  The good part on the other hand would be the possibility of the machines or computers coming up with ways to make humans live forever or a longer than the average humans nowadays. Also another benefit from have machines be the people making decisions is that they might be able to find cures to diseases or possibly even one day find a cure to cancer. Raymond Kurzweil was probably one of the greatest young minds at his time ever. He came up with something that no one had ever even thought of. He was the first person to come up with a computer and then also the first person to come up with a way for blind people  to type stuff from the computer he made. I think this article was very helpful in helping me decide whether or not it would be good for the world to have computers and or machines take over the human race. I would have to say in my opinion it would be good if machines became like humans and found stuff that we never could and it would be fine even if the surpassed us but I would have to say we should never be totally destroyed.

Should we fear the future?

here is a video related to the article
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,784887564001_2048332,00.htmlb

The Human Factor

heres an idea on the computer that beat the chess man Larry Christiansen
http://members.cox.net/mathmistakes/chess.htm

Ideas from singularity

top 10 man vs machine
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2049187,00.html

i thought this was very interesting considering i brought up one of these the other day in class

corys essay yeah

Cory Stevens

AP Lit

Period 3

Dominguez

            The article that I chose to read was Poetic Structure in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening". The main reason I picked this article was because first of all, it was the shortest article I cold find and it was something that seemed interesting because its something that I do not read a lot about. The first thing that really caught my eye was the title of the article "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", it seemed as if it was going to be about someone or something walking in the woods and stopping somewhere along the way because that someone or something noticed something very peculiar. While I continued to read on my thoughts toward the article changed dramatically. This is because in my opinion it should have seemed like there was no possible way for walking through the woods to come out as committing suicide. At first I did not believe this, I thought it was just this persons opinion, which in fact it was but it seemed that he went off in a totally opposite direction of the article. This made me think a lot about the article, it made me think the thought that my parents always told me “ don’t judge a book by its cover.” The reason I thought of this is because if I were to have picked this book out to read I honestly would never have thought of a book about someone committing suicide. It really made me think to myself that maybe the person who did more investigation on this book was as a matter of fact; correct in what he was saying the whole time. When I think about take a walk in the woods during and stopping along the way, I think of very peaceful things. It reminds me of snow falling down on and off the trees and just that amazing sent that the forest gives off. After thinking about it, it didn’t really make sense why someone would want to commit suicide in the middle of the forest, or even have thoughts of committing suicide in the middle of the woods. I guess the author thought since the forest was such a peaceful place that while reading the story no one would at first think of committing suicide they would just think nothing of it except for some random guy stopping in the middle of the forest. After thinking about it for a while it made total sense to me, the author of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" wanted the readers to have to go into more detail with the story so that we would have to find out what he was really trying g to get at and the readers to understand the first time we read it. I believe, in my opinion after doing something like this and realizing that if I read something I may not understand it all and get a totally different vibe from it I may want to read it again. If I do this in the near future it will help me understand things a lot more and it will help me write my essays a lot better and help me get into better places and do better things in life.