artificial intelligence are pretty optimistic that it is not long till the day where we‚ humans‚ will be able to build human-level intelligence machines and even super-intelligence machines. In the book Superintelligence: Paths‚ Dangers and Strategies‚ Nick Bostrom aims to help mankind avoid existential catastrophe by exploring solutions to the challenges that we may face the day we successfully build superintelligence. Even before that happens‚ he forces us to deliberate on how we can build these machines
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Kiri Carlson Mrs. Ackerman Honors Literature 13 February 2014 Should We Care-Away or Care-For Nick Carraway? When pursuing relationships in The Great Gatsby‚ we are introduced to the characters with a sort of step-by-step process. Unfortunately‚ as our knowledge about the characters expands‚ our feelings of enchantment soon transform to that of disenchantment. Initially overlooking their flaws or putting them off to the side‚ it is only later that we realize the peril of each of their imperfections
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The narrator of The Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway comes from a wealthy family in Middle Western city‚ a graduate from New Haven‚ and a veteran who fought in the World War I. He relocated to West Egg‚ Long Island with hope to become a “well-rounded man” and also to experience the sense of excitement of being a man and a soldier from World War I after going through restless moments. Preparing his way as a sales bondsman‚ Nick rents a small apartment adjacent to an opulent house‚ which eventually is owned
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My story (Jack Alice Mathew Javier nick Maria) Nicholas was a 17 year-old kid who lived with his mom and dad in Armstrong‚ a small city along the Pacific Coast. They were a very tight nit family‚ always sharing family activities and spending time together. Jack‚ his father‚ was the boss in a pencil Factory. Alice‚ his mom‚ was a second grade teacher at Pollock‚ a local school in Armstrong. Nicholas was coursing eleventh grade at Liberty High School‚ and was an honor roll student and very good
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“We trust Nick as Narrator of this story because of his honesty” With reference to the first three chapters of the novel‚ to what extent do you agree? Throughout the first three paragraphs of The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald subtly builds Nick up as a narrator that the reader can trust. He presents Nick as an honest person and well respected gentlemen and through this essay I will discuss to the extent of which Fitzgerald presents Nick as a narrator we can trust through his honesty. In the opening
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Nick Carraway contributes to the Great Gatsby as the unbiased narrator. The tragic love story of 1922 is accounted through Nick’s eyes‚ with Nick serving as an observer of the relationship between the characters‚ in particular Gatsby and Daisy’s‚ the main lovers of the story. Nick’s retrospective view of the story emphasizes his dynamic character as his thoughts and perceptions of the characters display his loyalty towards Gatsby‚ and justice and honesty towards the judgement of events‚ though it
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February 2013 Thank You for Smoking Thank You for smoking is about a lobbyist name Nick Naylor who is the vice-president of Academy of Tobacco studies. The movie revolves around how Nick smooth-talks everyone into believing that Tobacco is not very harmful. Nick Naylor’s main job was to make people aware of the research his academy does and answer questions on television regarding health claims against tobacco. Nick believed everyone has some sort of talent and he has the talent to talk people in
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To what extend is the character Nick a reliable narrator in the book ’The Great Gatbsy’? Nick is a person with a number of contrasting allegiances within the book. For example he finds connections between himself and Gatsby‚ both serving in the War and that the both come from the ‘Mid-West’. However‚ Nick is also connected to the Buchannan’s: he is Daisy’s cousin‚ he comes from a wealthy background and he went to the same college as Tom Buchannan. Also‚ Nick says that his father told him to remember
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the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald‚ the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ introduces the character of Gatsby‚ and depicts him as an astounding human with a history and rumors that trail him. Throughout chapter 3‚ Nick goes to the party hosted by Gatsby‚ and a woman said “they thought he killed a man once‚” the reader is able to perceive Gatsby as a circumspect man who is using his wealth to cover his true persona. Although‚ when Nick is formally introduced to the man but isn’t able to set him apart
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lifestyles of many families living in the 1920’s. They used their status and money to raise their position in society. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ different socials statuses are explored through three main families/characters; the Buchanan family‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Jay Gatsby. The first house we will explore is the Buchanan household. There are three people in this household; Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ and a baby girl whose name is unclear. Tom is an ex-football player who has “reached an acute
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