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Is Google Making Us Stupid? NICHOLAS CARR “DAVE, STOP. STOP, WILL You? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death […]

Which is smarter at chess-humans or computers? CLIVE THOMPSON brings us back to our original question here: Which is smarter at chess-humans or computers? Neither. It’s the two together, working side by side. We’re all playing advanced chess these days. We just haven’t learned to appreciate it. Our tools are everywhere, linked with our minds,

Why Robots Will-and Must- Take Our Jobs KEVIN KELLY Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do? IT’s HARD TO BELIEVE you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that- in slow motion-is what the industrial

Should immunizations be mandatory? In early colonial America, the smallpox virus spread quickly among growing populations, killing as many as half of those who caught it. When one of the earliest forms of immunization, called “inoculation”, was introduced in the West, colonizers fought over whether it was safe. Their fear was reasonable. In the 1700s, inoculation

Should Vaccination be Mandatory? Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases of the 20th century. In America, smallpox spread among the population at a very fast rate and killed over 50% of all those who contracted it. It was estimated that over 300 million people across the world. The spread of the disease was witnessed

The Context of the Speech/ the Rhetorical Situation Amamanda Adiche, who is the speaker, is a Nigerian by descent; she is a writer and author who have been termed as “the most prominent of a procession of critically acclaimed young Anglophone authors that is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African Literature”.

The Danger of a Single Story- Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Have you ever heard a rumor that completely contrasts with your true self or someone close to you? It has been well portrayed by Adiche in her story “The Danger of a Single Story”. She explains how a story can be a danger to oneself, and

Essay One: Rhetorical Analysis of a Text Your first formal essay for the semester will be to write a rhetorical analysis on a text. For this assignment, you should select one of the following texts we’ve read and/or viewed together as a class to analyze rhetorically: ·              “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda

Summarizing, Quoting, Responding (3 pages) Write an argument in which you summarize Kevin Kelly’s essay “Better than Human” and respond to his essay with your own “I say.”  Note that quoting (giving evidence) is a key element in this paper.  Your paper should include the following parts. – Introduction: Your first paragraph should introduce the

The Three 20-sentence Paragraphs of the Body of Paper 1   Remember: each time you indent five spaces you are indicating that a new paragraph starts. The three elements of your opening paragraph should be in one paragraph, your first. The three body paragraphs should be about 20 sentences each.  They are developed by examples