Isaac Asimov

GIMPEL THE FOOL With magnificent characterization and an outstanding point of view, the story "Gimpel the Fool", written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, clearly strengthens the age-old thought that repentance and good deeds will be…

Luka Zuschlag 12/21/16 Fool’s Crow Review Mr. Maggid Sourcing Fool’s Crow was written by James Welch and published by Penguin Books in 1986 featuring 393 pages. James Welch is the son of two native Blackfeet parents. He is considered as the first great popularizer of Native American literature. His writings may be biased in favor of the Blackfeet as he is one. Summary of Book Fool’s Crow is a book about coming of age and of change. It's shows changing culture, people, and entire ways of life…

Isaac Asimov In 1942, American author and biochemist Isaac Asimov published a short story entitled Runaround. No one would have guessed that this story would become such a major part of science fiction’s “zero hour”. Along with authors such as Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein, Asimov would help form the foundation of modern science fiction and explore new concepts that would soon become the commonplace of the genre. Overall, Asimov had an undeniable impact on the science fiction genre as…

Irony in I, Robot I, Robot is a novel by Isaac Asimov. I, Robot is about robots and “The Three Laws of Robotics”. The book is a collection of nine stories about the development of robots from past, to present, to future. In I, Robot, Isaac Asimov uses Socratic, Sophoclean, and Situational irony throughout the novel. First, Asimov uses Socratic irony. Socratic irony is used in chapter five, “Liar”. “Well I’ll get started. I’ve got the darnedest job of any of us, so I’m getting out of here and…

In the work What Is Intelligence, Anyway?” written by Isaac Asimov he shares his view on what he sees as intelligence. Asimov says that when he took his military test he scored a 160 and the average was 100 so he was considered intelligent. Later as years passed on he began to question what intelligence was, was it the ability to complete task scholastically or was it the ability to provide a service or a function to a field. Asimov then talked about how if he ever had car problems he would go…

Sally is a story that was made back in 1953. It is about a man and his farm of self driving cars. The author of Sally is Isaac Asimov. The story is about a man and his farm of driverless cars, a man comes to his farm and tries to steal or take his cars from him. Sally is similar to the cars that we have today. The story has a lot of similarities with how our world is today. Self driving cars are a big help and basically a new type of freedom for people who can't drive around anymore. They can’t…

of the world. Many writers of the later centuries were greatly influenced by Doyle. Isaac Asimov, the popular American mastermind, is one of those writers, who were attracted by Doyle. Though he once told that he was not a true enthusiast of Holmes, there are many examples in his Baley novels to show the influence of Holmes. Asimov travels in the same path created by Doyle. Keywords: Arthur Conan Doyle, Isaac Asimov, Sherlock Holmes’s Influence, Social…

For example, Asimov has no idea when it comes to fixing his automobile. Asimov’s auto mechanic fixed his car every time it was not running properly. Although the auto mechanic could not score well on an academic exam, he was intelligent in his own trade. Asimov states that “in a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something indicate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly” (Asimov). Asimov explains that if he had to take…

between the lines and identify crucial themes hidden within a novel. Isaac Asimov’s “The End of Eternity” is not merely a fast moving, plot driven, ficticious novel written to entertain. “The End of Eternity” is a social…

1.0 Introduction As robots get smarter and more widespread, independent cars are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in unpredictable places, thus taking over or at least seeming to assume moral authority. Weapons systems currently have human operators “in the loop”, simply as they get more advanced, it will be possible to shift to “on the loop” operation, with machines carrying out orders autonomously. As that occurs, they will be faced with ethical dilemmas. Should a drone fire on a…