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    A Critique of Stanley Fish’s “What Did Watson the Computer Do?” Zaw Phyo Ohlone College A Critique of Stanley Fish’s “What Did Watson the Computer Do?” In the fascinating game of “Jeopardy!” played in 2011‚ the end product resulting from decades of research and innovation was unveiled. This artificial intelligence system‚ named Watson‚ was able to answer questions by detecting keywords in the question‚ checking with its vast data base‚ and giving the most probable answer to the questions asked

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    Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiment One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II‚ Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just

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    Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was devoted to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Interested in many different aspects of life‚ Stanley Milgram was an influential key figure in psychology. However his work on the field of obedience is respected and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this

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    W.E.B. Du Bois‚ author of The Souls of Black Folks‚ wrote the enlightening text that many progressives (and non-progressives) of his time and of today study. Du Bois writes this novel in a lyrical and poetic style to tap in to the consciousness of African-Americans to inform them on the ways of gaining success in the American system that racially undervalues them. He also makes points to non-black Americans‚ but specifically white Americans‚ to inform them on how they can use their white privilege

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    Luvleen Singh Period 4 11/17/10 Folk VS Pop Culture Outline Preliminary Questions 1 Some differences between pop and folk culture include fashion and clothes. For example‚ in pop culture‚ new fashions change constantly and are influenced by the media and celebrities whereas in folk culture‚ clothing styles are passed down by generation to generation. Another difference is the way they are diffused; Pop culture is spread by hierarchal diffusion whilst in folk culture‚ they hinder new and mainstream

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    Globalization with Respect to its Impact on Indian Culture *Dr. Sushil Kumar Singh‚ Assistant Professor LFEH‚ School of Education‚ Lovely Professional University‚  Phagwara‚ Punjab. ABSTRACT It has been experienced that every step of movement towards economic‚ political and cultural modernization‚ taken by the state in India‚ is responded to by the people with an enhanced sense of self-consciousness and awareness of identity. Cultural modernization‚ sponsored by the forces of globalization‚ is resented

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    In "The Perils of Obedience‚" Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obeying immoral commands given by authority and refusing authority. The experiment was to see how much pain a normal person would inflict on another person because he/she were being ordered to do so by a scientist. The participants of this experiment included two willing individuals: a teacher and a learner. The teacher was the real subject and the learner was an actor. In almost all case the teacher would

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    Leonard Cohen is one of the most famous singer songwriters‚ to ever come out of Canada. He is often compared to Bob Dylan in style and depth and the impact he had on the music scene starting in the 60’s and his popularity still continues to today. Famous songs include Bird on a Wire‚ Everybody knows‚ Hallelujah and Dance me to the end of Love. Several of his songs have been featured in films such as Wonder Boys and Natural Born Killers‚ which opened his music to new generations. Leonard Cohen was

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    In the poem Sympathy for the devil‚ the speaker uses many different historical allusions and understatements to gain the readers sympathy for him. The speaker of the poem is the Devil and he tries to make it sound as though he is forced to be around all of the death and despair so that the reader might feel bad for him. He uses the historical allusion of “I was around when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain” to show that he has been around for a very long time and he has seen some of

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    The Devil and Tom Walker is a short story about a man who makes a deal with the Native American version of the devil called “The Old Scratch.” In the beginning‚ Tom Walker meets the devil in an abandoned house in a swamp. The devil offers him a part of Kidd the Pirates hidden treasure‚ which is under his protection. Tom’s wife is convinced that Tom should take him up on the offer because they will be richer in the long run. When Tom decides against it because he doesn’t want to share with his wife

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