Alan Menken

It should not be surprising to state that there are many racists and racial tensions held within modern day America. From the early years of colonization, White-Europeans settled on this western land and after some time brought African-heritage individuals to America to be bought and sold as slaves. Centuries have passed since those days, but it seems the tense racial climate of the past still haunts the present. Society is currently saturated with technology that did not exist decades or…

movie stayed accurate down to every nuance (Old Time Candy 1). In fact, the movie even referenced Beemans brand, the same brand that Chuck Yeager used when he piloted airplanes. Also, the movie included real footage of President Kennedy presenting Alan Shepard the medal of honor himself along with other real footage clips. Finally, Philip Kaufman incorporated easter eggs into the movie, which gave viewers a direct visual of a historic figure. Although he played a very minor role, the real Chuck…

The topic that is discussed is Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of mimicking human intelligence using computers. AI as a science, “surprisingly, tasks which we find hard, computers find easy and vice versa. Trying to understand why this might be is the scientific side of AI - it is the attempt to understand our own intelligence. In this way, AI cooperates with other sciences like psychology, and philosophy of mind, which tries to understand what it means to be…

Lesson title: What is an Equation? Objective (s): • Students will begin to develop an understating of addition equations using numbers from 1-9 to eventually add numbers to equal 10. • They will apply their understanding by creating their own animal equations with toy animals and recording their numbered equations on paper or dry erase board. Materials: Pencil, large white piece of paper folded in half, equation assessment activity sheet, book that is read at the beginning of the lesson,…

The Cedar Rapids Animeals is a great local charity that focuses on helping with animals and people around the Cedar Rapids Iowa area. The charity began in December of the year 2000, and has been serving the community ever since then. The Cedar Rapids Animeals specializes in helping animals get food when needed and helping the owners who may not be able to go out and get food for their animal on their own. The Charity was started by a petco employee and meals on wheels employee. Together these…

Ideally Peaceful “Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunfire, treason, and plot. I know of no reason the why the Gunpowder Treason should ever by forgot.” That is the opening sentence for V for Vendetta. V for Vendetta is a movie about a guy in a Guy Fawkes mask, “V”, in an alternate future where Germany won WWII and Great Britain is now a fascist state, while “V” uses hit and run tactics against the British government he ends up crossing paths and rescuing a woman from police, he…

Artificial Intelligence Assignment #1 Answer the following question. Is AI described as THINKING HUMANLY, THINKING RATIONALLY, ACTING HUMANLY or ACTING RATIONALLY? Explain your reasoning. THINKING HUMANLY- the cognitive modeling approach - Artificial intelligence is all about developing computers that are able to do things normally done by people - in particular, things associated with people acting intelligently. “Thinking humanly” completely depends on the internal activities of the…

Alan Turing’s Invention Of Bombe: Caused The Alteration Of The Modern Era and World War II Introduction In the mid-twentieth century war broke out once more, for it lead to misfortunes and bloodshed, until a certain man stepped into the battle to alter the outcome of war. The man’s name was Alan Turing, and his intellectual mind of computer technology gave a gift for the Allied Powers to counterattack Nazi Germany. With the help of the codebreaking machine Bombe it has done a big help on…

V for Vendetta is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare), published by Vertigo. The story depicts a dystopian and post-apocalyptic near-future history version of the United Kingdom preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s which has left most of the world destroyed. There was movie adaptation made in 2005 but changed some aspects so it would reach a larger audience. This essay will specifically be looking at the comparisons between…

The film V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue is a dark thriller set in futuristic, totalitarian Britain. V for Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey who is rescued from a life and death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V." McTeigue uses a wide variety of film techniques to help express thought and emotion of the characters. In the opening scene of ‘V for Vendetta’ McTeigue establishes the setting to be an oppressive, totalitarian society in need…