ETHICAL ISSUES In the movie HER‚ Samantha is a fictional operating system. Sam‚ that’s her nickname‚ she organizes your emails and calendar for you‚ she proof reads your letters and she completes that book proposal you’ve always been meaning to finish. She really became a good companion for the lonely Theodore Thombly and supplies a romantic music composition for him. This is the idea that a super-intelligent bodiless computer would seek romance with a squishy glorified primate seems sort of odd
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gave birth to between five and eight children‚ her lifetime chances of dying in childbirth ran as high as 1 in 8.” Bradstreet gave birth to eight children‚ and it is likely that she feared her own death during each of her deliveries. “Before the
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quietly…but its power is always present in every human mind. No one can completely forget the past. The past has no shape‚ it’s invisible but it can change a man. Each person has their own past. The only common point is every human life is happy and sad past. Nobody is born perfect happiness or has to suffer forever. Secondly‚ the present is the real life of every human being. Everyone has a personal life for themselves. In present‚ the people would suffer or can be happy. People should live
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Evidence: S Ireland Roman Britain .A. Sources-Boudicca Suetonius: he (Nero) even considered withdrawing from Britain. Suetonius: leaving pockets of potential trouble (client kingdoms) behind Roman lines had become only too clear. Suetonius: for many Britons escape only lay in rebellion. Tacitus: while Suetonius was occupied with this (attack on druids at Mona- modern day Anglesey) he received reports of the sudden revolt of the province. Tacitus: Prasutagus made Caesar his heir together with
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In the play ‘Macbeth’‚ Lady Macbeth is presented as the female who dominates her husband. Discuss this statement and how typical Lady Macbeth is of a woman of her time. The play ‘Macbeth’ was written between 1603 and 1607 by the famous playwright William Shakespeare and it is considered to be one of his most famous darkest tragedies. It is about a regicide and its aftermath which would have been a topical issue in the period in which it was written in as it relates to the Gunpowder Plot. Since the
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She baked crackers to raise profits to buy her children’s freedom‚ but her mistress‚ who her grandmother was very loyal to‚ asked her for a loan one day. Linda’s grandmother had saved $300 and went ahead and loaned her money to her mistress who promised to give her back the money‚ but never did. An owner was never required to give pay to the slaves‚ so the loan never had to be repaid. Linda’s mistress died when she was at the age of twelve‚ so six years after her mother’s passing. Linda was almost
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"A Jury of Her Peers" was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916‚ and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. Glaspell was inspired to write the story while covering a murder investigation when she worked as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News (qtd. in Annenberg). The theme of the story‚ the way men view the stereotypical role of women and the isolation created by society because of that view‚ is revealed as the other women try to
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REVIEW Away From Her is a touching Canadian film starring Gorden Pinsent‚ Olympia Dukakis and Julie Christie about the effects of Alzheimer’s on an aging couple married for 44 years. Christie gives a powerful portrayal of a woman who slowly succumbs to the effects of this dreaded disease. Pinsent is also as effective as the helpless feeling husband who has the indistinct and difficult task of putting her into a home where he later learns that her memory is deteriorating. She begins to not recognize
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In The Crucible‚ Elizabeth Proctor sacrificed her principle of not lying to try and save her husband. John told the court that he had an affair with Abigail. Before that‚ he also told the court that Elizabeth would never lie. Danforth brought Elizabeth into the courtroom‚ but when she was questioned‚ she thought Abigail spoke of the affair. Therefore‚ she lied and said he didn’t have the affair. She lied to try and save her husband‚ but in the end‚ she made the situation worse. After that‚ John was
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quote: “The dandelions are spreading‚ their bitter leaves pushing up the black earth‚ their white roots forking deep‚ biting hard. Soon they will be in bloom. I will walk home via the river‚ père‚ to observe the small floating city that even now grows‚ spreads across the swollen Tannes.” (Harris 125) Harris uses this metaphor “the dandelions are spreading their bitter leaves... soon they will be in bloom‚” to represent the gypsies and how their presence will cause chaos in Reynaud’s town. I find
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