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move along the tape. The direction can change so it has the ability to go back if need be. A state register would do just that, and register the current state of the Turing machine and stores it Turing compared this to a human being’s “state of mind”. Finally the table’s job was to hold instructions and uses them to tell the machine what to do. Tom Siegfried offers a more concise description “A possible rule might be to move one square to the left and write a 1; or move one square to the right…

The Eloi area of of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine. By the year AD 8072,701, humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi nd the Morlocks, whereof Eloi live a banal life life of ease on the surface of the earth, while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing and infrastructure for the Eloi. The narration suggests that the separation of species may have been the result of a widening split between…

The sublimation of the assault weapons that were given out could cause both crime and tax would increase and new laws will be enforced. Noticing that assault rifles are not even required to use while hunting, the government already gives out shotguns and pistols. It’s not the gun, but the person who pulls the trigger, but some people want to give that irresponsible individual a weapon of mass destruction. The creation of an assault rifle caused the flow of war to change, think of what…

Thematically, the common thread among the three short stories “The Secret Miracle” by Jorge Luis Borges , “Journey Back to the Source” by Alejo Carpentier, and Julio Cortazar’s “Continuity of Parks” is the manipulation of time. Each use the cyclical nature of time to tackle a sort of worldly completion. Hladik finishes his book, the reader in “Continuity of Parks” becomes the ultimate reader by being completely absorbed by his book, the house in “Journey Back to the Source” comes full circle and…

The city of Futuristic was originally named Norwich Hills. Futuristic has over 189,446 people and is slightly over 5 years old. It has an ocean in the south and west as well as a plato in the north. Futuristic has a market economy. We have industry that includes mining, tourism, and manufacturing. Futuristic has oil, ore, and coal, as well as lots of water. The ore and coal are on top of the plato but the oil is right under the starting highway. The water is evenly dispersed throughout…

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Matt Haig two years ago at an event for his book, A Boy Called Christmas which I loved. It was at this event where I first heard about How to Stop Time which he was still working on at the time. The whole concept of a person not aging on the outside and slowly aging on the inside had me intrigued. However, I had completely forgotten about the book until earlier this year when I saw it on the Savvy Reader's “Most Anticipated Reads of (Early) 2018” blog post. The…

A Sound of Thunder Time travel is a fascinating concept that has been at the forefront of science fiction literature for generations. Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" explores this concept, but it is not glorified or embellished. The story is about Eckels, a man who travels back to the age of dinosaurs to hunt Tyrannosaurus Rex, and is faced with the severe consequences of his actions. Bradbury’s theme of technological innovation demonstrates that not all scientific advancements are ethical,…

Many different weapons with many different utilizations were used during World War II in the united states. Every weapon helped us to win the war. There were various different categories and each weapon had different ways in aiding the victory of World War II. The United States used numerous different weapons, all categories had different usages, to win World War II. The rifle was the standard issue weapon in WWII. There were essentially two types of rifles, bolt action rifles and semi-automatic…

The Sherman M4, the Sherman M4A2, the Russian M4A2, and the M4A3E2. These are just some of the types of variations of tanks that were used in WWII. These tanks were made in 1942-1946 and a total of 49,324 sherman tanks were produced in just eleven plants. Although these tanks were only created to be an infantry support they have helped us adjust and further our knowledge on creating new and improved tanks. Let's go back to WWII when we first started using The M4 Sherman tanks and some of the…

One theme in Ted Chaing’s “Exhalation” is acting for the greater good, in this case, to add to the pool of scientific knowledge. The narrator, a mechanical being in a world populated with other mechanical beings who believe they will live forever, is an anatomist. He has suspected for some time that the prevailing hypothesis of how memory is stored is incorrect. He comes up with an idea for an experiment to find out. The experiment poses great risk to his body, so he deliberates over whether he…