Randomness

How is the futility and hypocrisy of war and bureaucracy explored by Joseph Heller and Francis Ford Coppola in Catch-22 and Apocalypse Now respectively? Catch-22 authored by Joseph Heller and Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola are critically considered two of the finest examples of contemporary anti-war literature and cinema, despite neither being explicitly against the concept of combat as such, but rather, both opposing the bureaucratic absurdity that war inevitably entails.…

In Cormac McCarthy’s book No Country for Old Men, there is a certain character that stands out from the rest of the characters. That character’s name is Anton Chigurh. Anton Chigurh is hired to retrieve the case of money that Llewellyn Moss took by any means necessary. Chigurh is described as a cold and calculated killer who will eliminate anybody that gets in his way. Even though Anton Chigurh kills, steals, and works for a leader of a drug gang, he possesses values, skills, and principles that…

Unfortunately for merchant interests, enticing pirates to quit their criminal endeavors failed as badly as the military efforts to stop them. Although pardons were successful at bringing pirates into shore, they did not keep them for long. Many shook the hand of the governor, swore his allegiance to the crown, and then shortly returned to preying on vessels at sea. The failure of pardons to slow the proliferation of piracy cannot all be blamed on piratical greed. Pardons were specific to…

Within the past century, the United States of America has been the battle ground for many protests for equality. The fight for ethnic equality has been won, and marriage equality is gaining support in states throughout the nation. In times of change, there is one type of equality that is not given much thought by the American public, gender equality; specifically, pay discrimination. This inequality is solely based on luck, and something as uncontrollable as gender should not determine someone’s…

Overview of the Semantic Gap - What is it? The semantic gap is the difference between human perception of observations, activities, and objects and their computational or machine-based representations(). It is a split between high level features, or semantic information, and low-level features, of which there are many types. High-level features can include keywords, concepts, categories, or ontologies - virtually all things that lead to determining meanings of text-based information and phrases…

Contemporary Research In what is perhaps the most famous twin study, the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA), Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, and Tellegen (1990) studied more than 80 sets of MZ and DZ twins who were separated as infants and raised in separate environments in order to determine the heritability of psychological traits, including intelligence. The participants completed approximately 50 hours of assessment, including personality and occupational interest inventories,…

Jacob Layton Eng-102 April Dolata October 15, 2014 Short Story Paper The villagers of a small town gather together in the town square on June 27 for the town lottery. Every year on June 27 the lottery is held and everyone must be in attendance if they are physically capable. In other towns, the lottery takes longer, but there are only 300 people in this village, so the lottery takes only two hours. Village children, who have just finished school for the summer, run around collecting stones.…

When we improve on our technology, we create, group, or form new ways of language and speaking. Most of the time, we are shortening or condensing our language to make it much easier to speak. We make acronyms in our normal everyday conversation as quick remarks. We take the power and emotion from the original phrase and make it meaningless. We take the positives, like LOL, or the negatives, like WTF, and make them lack any connotation, so that they are just there to fill up space in our text box…

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI (Enrichment 1)) is the result of many years of hard work and research by the mother-daughter duo of Katherine Briggs and Isabelle Myers. The MBTI is a non-judgemental tool used to sort people based on personality, where no trait is positive or negative. The test is self-administered with no time limit, no right or wrong answers, and sixteen possible outcomes. Each outcome, known as a type, has four representative letters. There are two possibilities for…

I’ve Been Everywhere Johnny Cash Big River Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson 25 Minutes to Go Johnny Cash This increase in likes shows immediate results to what results +/- one song due to the randomness and shuffling of the algorithm but with that in mind an equation can be drawn created. Probability of a specific artists song based on the artists station. Limit of Phenomenon After liking 10 songs by Johnny Cash listed here: The list of songs…