increasing its use of industrial robots so Manley Principal‚ which he is the Vice President of industrial relations‚ meet with Kenny stoppum‚ president of the labor union local representing most of the company’s industrial employees ‚ to discusses the resulting impact of computer-integrated robotic systems on employment‚ workers‚ and jobs. Principal then listed the major advantages associated with robots: Improved quality of product due to the accuracy of robots. Reduced operating costs‚ as the
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The color line‚ W.E.B. Dubois viewed it‚ is a line drawn between two groups of individuals (not necessarily of different races) that accentuates the contemptuous discrimination of Western literature‚ philosophy‚ and various other meanings. Du Bois said on the start of his groundbreaking book entitled “The Souls of Black Folk” for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line a statement setting out to show people the strange meanings of being black here in the dawning of the
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Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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The Line to the Lunches Think back to when you were a kid and you waited anxiously for the whole school year to be over with so you could do that one special thing. For my friends and I it was going to the big‚ red bricked church down the road and getting free sack lunches. The older I got the roles had been switched‚ from receiving the lunches‚ to providing the lunches for the anxiously waiting kids. Community service changes the life of you‚ and also the lives of others. Even though it is cliché
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In "Sex‚ Love‚ and Robots" Eva Wiseman paints a narrative that opens the floor to conversations regarding intimacy‚ emotional capabilities‚ and ethical issues while also evaluating the capacity robots have to falter the natural development of a human in a modern society. Each conversation Wiseman introduces is from the perspective of someone from a corner in the robot industry. Cultural Analyst‚ Sherry Turkle introduces our cultural fascination with the nature of robotics. She writes humans "may
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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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Walk the Line Release Date: 11/18/05 Running Length: 134 mins Rating: PG-13 (Profanity‚ drugs) Cast: Joaquin Phoenix‚ Reese Witherspoon‚ Ginnifer Goodwin‚ Robert Patrick‚ Dallas Roberts‚ Dan John Miller‚ Larry Bagby‚ Shelby Lynne Director: James Mangold Producers: James Keach‚ Cathy Konrad Screenplay: Gill Dennis & James Mangold Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael Music: Johnny Cash‚ T Bone Burnett Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatre: Empire Theatres Date: 12/12/05 Time: 7:15 P.M.
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Want a Robot for Christmas! By Luis Caycho I always asked myself if those stories about robots overcoming humankind will become real. Sci-Fi books are being my favorites since I was a kid and I watched every major movie about this subject. My favorites is “I‚ robot” that tells the story of a society in the future that relies on robots for all its domestic activities‚ but somehow one of those robots became aware of his own self and started to develop a mind‚ but most important‚ a soul. The robot started
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capitalaim.com There is a blurring of lines between the urban and rural consumers in the country after economic reforms and it is necessary for companies to engage consumers online‚ according to Jotsna Mukherjee‚ a professor in Texas A & M Intl. University in the US and an expert on consumer behaviour. She was delivering a lecture on the subject here at the Integral Institute of Advanced Management on Wednesday at a programme jointly organised by Business Line and the State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH)
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In the article “Thriving in the Robot Workplace”‚ the issue that is brought up by the author‚ Alexandra Levit is people fear that their job might soon be taken over by the robots. Even worse‚ the robots might do something more than what the humans are capable of that the humans will not have any profession that they can be good at and in addition‚ the robots could hurt humans. The author argues that he supports the idea of the interaction between humans and robots at workplace or even in the humans’
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