The Terminator

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make you quiver” A quote written by a author, poet, and naturalist named Diane Ackerman. Most people in the society totally must have agreed to this quote. They have the same mindset, a negative one regarding to the matter of Artificial Intelligence like the fear of them surpassing human intelligence. The rest might just think that the possibility of artificial intelligence doing that is…

knock-offs), cartoons, comics, tv shows, and of course, sequels, Ghostbusters proved to be incredibly lucrative, despite how bizarre its premise was. People were having their “mind blown with a season full of influential hits.”(Truitt 1) Films like The Terminator kickstarted a profitable franchise that continues to this day. Meanwhile, films like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock contributed to their respective franchises and generated hype for more…

Though rhyming with Terminator, Gladiator does not have the ambition to be a pure and simple action movie mechanic. In the spectacular, this is a form of poetry that is sought after. The poetry of the ghosts: Gladiator is a film of ghosts. There are three of them. The peplum, a genre deceived for ages. Ridley Scott, past filmmaker of fashion and who succeeds a surprising comeback. Maximus (Russell Crowe), finally, superb character and anti hero. This valiant general of the Roman army is a dead…

culture seems to be the only force in work on peoples’ perceptions as they arrive, for the first time, in America via an airport. Iyer says the newcomers “. . . come out . . . in Dodgers caps and . . . the images they’ve brought over from Cops and Terminator 2 . . . ” (Iyer 1), and they see and hear “. . .fast-talking, finger-snapping, palm-slapping jive artists straight from their TV screens shouting incomprehensible slogans about deals. . .” (Iyer 2). The arrivals are obviously flustered and…

As described in the central dogma of biology, information from a gene can be used to build a protein in a two-step process. Transcription is considered to be the first step of gene expression. It is known to be the process of making a copy of genetic information stored in a DNA strand into a complementary strand of messenger RNA (mRNA). The process of eukaryotic transcription can be separated into three phases, initiation, elongation and termination. This complex process involves various cell…

which direction is it? Where is the right way? You stop yourself to see where professionals turn at. Then it gets calm again until you hear screaming, yelling, people falling out of their tubes. You realize that the time has come for you to face the Terminator. What is it you ask? It is only the scariest rapid you will ever encounter, it takes tubes under, leaving you tubeless, makes you wish you had never even gone tubing. But when that’s over you can take out your gum and stick it on the good…

his articles arguments and the plot of the movie. He gains credibility because it shows the audience he is using information and examples he has seen in our culture that can prove this is an event we all are worried about. He also mentions “The Terminator” trilogy, “The Matrix” trilogy, and “Maximum Overdrive” which are all media about a war against the machines. The use of allusion to multiple books and movies emphasizes our paranoia that machines will be our downfall and our overwhelming need…

intelligence was created with superhuman abilities or with unfathomable intelligence and we didn't know how to control it. We don't take responsibility for it. It could potentially cause armageddon. This is often seen in popular media, Skynet in Terminator, Hal 9000 in 2001 Space Odyssey, the robots in Irobot, even the Red Queen in Resident Evil. All examples of artificially created intelligence that got out of hand because it was never taught right from wrong. The A.I was never taken…

1. One of the sets of people that have allelic variation are Long Term Survivors who are homozygous for a 32 base-pair deletion in their genome. The deletion is for CCR5, a chemokine receptor which functions as a HIV co-receptor. Due to the deletion of CCR5, the ability of the virus to fuse with the host cells is impaired and those people can be exposed however they will not become infected. Another subgroup of Long Term Survivors are referred to as elite controllers. These individuals are…

Home Alone (1990) - “Fuller! Go easy on the Pepsi.” In the movie Home Alone, the scene shows Fuller McCallister drinking a can of Pepsi, while having a slight smirk on his face. Fuller is known to be a soda lover and that’s seen in this scene. When the movie came out in 1990, the movie became number one in America. Since the movie got so much attention, the company, Pepsi, had gotten a lot of attention as well. Individuals all across America adored the movie and eventually wanted a Pepsi after…