Alan Menken

A mindset can change from good to evil by the power of greed. Power requires responsibility, and if an individual does not use their power in a positive light then they will destroy the people around them. Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory of animals based of the Russian Revolution leaders that rebel after being harshly mistreated by their owner. The leader of the animals, Napoleon, manipulates the farm animals to establish a tyrannical rule over the farm. George Orwell reveals how the…

To be able to write in depth about Artificial Intelligence, the readers must first know what it is and how it works. First, some important terms need defining. Artificial Intelligence or AI is a, “... subfield of computer science that focuses on creating computer software that imitates human learning and reasoning” (Blackwell and Manar 1). Different from most computer programs, Artificial Intelligence does not use a predetermined step system with instructions, otherwise known as algorithms.…

This generation we have the most advanced technology than we ever had, we have new products that help us do virtually everything. N.A.S.A has created a new robot called the Valkyrie that can save you from disaster, and even complete missions. The Valkyrie is of much use, and it is mainly designed for the DARPA competition; DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. As you can see here we are trying to create robots and machine to help us to function better and protect us, and…

Watson Watson is a computer system that was designed and built by IBM in order to compete on Jeopardy, an American TV quiz show, against human contestants at an expert level live on the show. Watson was named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson. IBM Research have set out objectives to develop computer science with regard to pushing the boundaries of computer technology so as to advance the areas such as business, society and of course science. In order to achieve, this IBM Research took 3 years…

Merriam-Webster states that, “Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer science which simulates the intelligent behavior in computers”. This means that an artificially intelligent machine behaves like a human being. According to Britannica, Alan Turing, a British mathematician started working on Artificial Intelligence in 1933. He was the one who coined the term Artificial Intelligence. He considered these machines to have limitless memory and a scanner. These machines use a scanner to…

Challenges are presented to everyone within their daily lives, each struggles does not compromise who a person fundamentally is. Rather, the actions taken whilst one undergoes adversity forms a person’s character. Through the use of the characters in, Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis shows the audience different forms of adversity, and different reactions to such. For example, Jenny Curran --the love interest of the main character-- has a life riddled with strife, and the ways she responds to…

Wind Ensemble. The music selections featured, as the name would suggest, primarily popular pieces, including movie themes and Broadway medleys. I will be evaluating the performance of the Concert Band. Their pieces included “Pippin”, “Jurassic Park”, “Alan Silvestri: A Night at the Movies”, and “Music from Pirates of the Caribbean”. The first piece performed was “Pippin”, an upbeat, jazzy medley arranged by Ralph Ford, of excerpts from the musical by the same name, with music and lyrics by…

days employed there, I had moved from fruitless anger and focused it into an organized protest, one that had an impact on both myself and the store, if only for a day. Similar to the actions Smith took in The Loneliness of The Long-Distance Runner, by Alan Sillitoe, my behavior was one that resulted from a conflict between personal principles, and a hatred for arbitrary authority and abuse of position by “the man,” Smith and I hold the same philosophy, in essence, of power.”If only ‘them’ and…

enlightened self-interest, we would all arrive at the same conclusion: that working together in a spirit of harmony and open-heartedness combined with scientific methods can lead to a total transformation of human society. Similar to Dostoyvesky, Alan Mathison Turing’s biographical information is essential to understanding his ideas and the conditions in which they emerged from. Turing, was born in London in 1912 and died by the age of 41 as he was a homosexual, which at the time, in the United…

Picture this: sunny skies, roaring waters, monkeys swinging around.You here the roar of the great tiger makes your heart jump and the humming of the bees. You run around, like the deer you are, with a cheery disposition. You hop over to the crystal lake and start to take a sip. Everything is going your way. When suddenly, a dart comes up behind you, knocks you out, you get thrown into a truck and go on a very uncomfortable truck ride, and then you wake up in the smoggiest, most terrifying place…