Alan Shepard

Matthew Shepard was an American college student at the university of Wyoming, he lived a decently normal life. However, since he was young he was targeted because of his lack of athleticism and his small stature. Saudi Aramco hired his father in the summer of 1994, and Shepard's parents then lived at the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran. During that time, Shepard attended the American School in Switzerland, from which he graduated…

classified as anti-gay (male) bias” (Latest Hate Crime Statistics Report Released). Crimes against homosexuals have been reported nationwide, but a hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming changed the gay community. On October 12, 1998, twenty-one-year old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and murdered by two young Laramie citizens because of Shepard’s sexual orientation. In The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, Moises Kaufman and his team of interviewers uncovered Laramie’s many…

“The Laramie Project” was a movie played by a group of people showing the reaction to the 1998 murder of a gay student in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder was criticized as a hate crime and brought attention to Laramie, Wyoming. The town was well known as a friendly place until Shepard’s death. This incident was an awful tragedy that discolors the name and reputation of the town. I was surprised to see that people would kill someone based on their sexuality. In 21st century, being homosexual is no…

It seems so for multiple reasons. For one, as the crew interviewed people in the town, some people argued that the murder of Matthew Shepard misrepresented the town; others argued the opposite. This exemplifies the community’s self awareness because people began to wonder: what does Laramie represent? Also, “the Laramie Project” crew lessened criticality by interview all who were willing;…

The Laramie Project, written by Moises Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project, offers a commentary on homosexuality and living as a minority in the United States. As a gay man, Matthew Shepard represents a small minority in the overwhelmingly conservative town of Laramie, Wyoming. In Laramie, the population is largely straight and 89.39% Caucasian. These demographics represent one of the most reserved political views of rural republicanism. Rural republicans are largely…

years, Obama has been a champion for LGBTQ+ Americans. Victories under his presidency include the signing of the Matthew Shepard Act and Marriage Equality becoming the law of the land. Obama’s legacy, motivates me, in my work in the…

involvements are revealed. In “Selections from Losing Matt Shepard”, by Beth Loffreda, certain groups of individuals were not allowed to represent…

Cleverbot is an online AI program that any user can “have a conversation” with. To use the program, one simply has to log onto the host website and type ANY random phrase into the conversation box, be it sensical, nonsensical, inappropriate, innocent...the options are limitless. The AI will then respond, conversation-style, with something similar or related. The nature of this program has baffled many people, and even the creators of the site claim that the average user will feel as if they…

The question of what consciousness is or what we can deem as to be conscious is most fiercely debated topic in this dissertation because its subjective nature; what you and I may consider to have its own consciousness may possibly or rather probably will be different, how then can we build a machine with its own conscience when we has humans still haven’t figured it what it even really means to be conscious. I think therefore I am This very famous statement written by French mathematician and…

Statement of Purpose “How do we ask the turtle to trace out a circle? Remember, it only knows how to walk in straight lines and turn around.” Playing with the Logo turtle on screen in sixth grade was my first exposure to computer science. I was immediately fascinated by the idea of approximating a smooth circle with a regular polygon of, say, 360 sides. Staring at the “circle” on screen, I could not quite digest the fact that it was something produced in a fundamentally different way compared to…