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    TL;DR – Smart machines need to be used with ethics in mind or have ethics included as part of the design. The Gartner article “Create Smart Machines With Ethics in Their 'Minds '” (Buytendijk, & Andrews, 2015) examines how ethics should be included within the programming of smart machines. The article describes five levels of ethical programming. Level 0 is where ethics in not part of the programming of a device or software. The idea behind level 0 is the devices must perform as described,…

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    Woman In Art Observation

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    Throughout my visit to the Hirshhorn Museum there were many video, drawing, and sculpture pieces that really struck me. However, the one instillation that spoke to me the most was a performance piece called “Woman in E” by Ragnar Kjartansson. While I was walking around the museum I kept hearing this ominous and melancholy guitar strum. I originally had thought it was some odd music playing over the sound system to give the entire museum an eerie feel - however, as I kept walking the sound got…

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    An epic is a long narrative novel that is designed in an elevated style that deals with the trials and achievement of great heroes. The virtues that are celebrated in the novel are of national, military, religion, and political as well as historical significance. For instance, Odyssey is one of the earliest epic that is still in existence in a number of ways. The epic of Odyssey opens with the subject and the statements of Muse who identifies the techniques that is associated with trials and…

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    Hook: The definition of a hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities (“Hero”). B. Link: In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago encounters many challenging events in which he overcomes. Through his accomplishments, Santiago’s actions display a man who is courageous, determined, and humble. On the other hand, there is Henry Fleming who enlisted in the war to become a hero, but by the end of The Red Badge of Courage, Henry remains a coward…

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    Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji About 23,000 dolphins are being killed each year in the town of Taiji, in Japan. Not only they are killed, but their meat is also sold in the Japanese market and given in schools, even though it contains high levels of mercury. The film The Cove uses logos, pathos and ethos to effectively persuade their audience to seek some type of action from the audience to protect the lives of dolphins and to inform people on what is going on in the town of Taiji. The film The Cove…

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    2.1 Oversea Research The author Richard Sparks discussed the relationship between manhood and heroic roles in some popular movies. She researched that movies how to beautify and glorify hero's sufferings and struggles, which reflected the qualities and virtues of man. In addition, there are some positive evaluations about the manhood heroes in the classic movie, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Because of the attraction of hero’s charming, the audience admire the hero in…

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    The Bible is the religious book with an unbelievable history. In the very beginning many people were not able to read the bible because it was not written in their language. The Bible is split up in the Old Testimony and the New Testimony. It was until King James that the Bible was translated to English. It took 52 scholars and several days until they were and to translate the entire text. In our textbooks we are presented with 4 excerpts on this translated version. The 1611 King James Version…

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    Top of Individuals always go through obstacles; that’s part of life. There is always a decision to be made. Whether, it is to be a positive or a negative decision. On these hard situations, people believe fate is in their hands. Fate is a predetermined event and it is often caused by a supernatural force. While others don’t believe that. In the poem, “Beowulf” translated by Seamus Heaney, the concept of fate is introduced and fate follows the protagonist throughout the poem. Beowulf was…

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    Nietzsche and his words have been said to influence the belief system of the Nazi party in Hitler’s Germany. There are several of his works that can appear to back this claim, however, it was never Nietzsche’s argument nor his ambition to create what history unfolded in the Holocaust. But when you have passages presented such as the opening aphorism (257) in part 9 of Beyond Good and Evil, the lines blurry. What is presented to the reader in aphorism 257 of part 9 is an argument that all of…

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    Heroes character are shown through the actions that they do and the way that they do that whether that be helpful actions in an arrogant way and vicious way or bad actions with the good intentions everything is shown through a hero's actions bill in the book Beowulf conducts himself in a very arrogant way and being brave other puts Beowulf and as a character but the spotlight in order to make him be brave he uses direct characterization in order to show that every hero has a flaw. The character…

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