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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Argument for the inclusion of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez into the canon of literature. F.R Leavis stresses the ‘importance of characteristics such as complexity‚ aesthetic unity‚ literary language‚ subject matter’. By examining the themes and patterns in ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’‚ we can see the complex effects created by the author‚ a mix of comedy with tragic irony whilst still retaining inventiveness throughout the plot and characters. I think a prominent
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Johnny Greavu Jesse Kroese June 28‚ 2015 Field Report #2 Wood Lake Nature Center & Shadow Falls Wood Lake Nature Center is a 150-acre (0.24 square miles) natural lake preserve featuring freshwater cattail marsh and floodplain forest habitats. The lake is dominated by cattail‚ the most photosynthetically active species in the Midwest. During the 1950s‚ Wood Lake offered some of the best fishing in the area‚ but its water table was drained about 10 feet to make way for the nearby highway. Richfield
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Unattainable Perfection Everything is ruined if an eye is not kept on the entire picture of the situation. The novel East of Eden‚ by John Steinbeck‚ and the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ by Gabriel García Márquez‚ both emphasize the negative outcomes that are met during the futile attempt to create a perfect world. Attempting to create a world where everything runs without difficulty can be extremely difficult in itself. Characters use land as an output when they are put in these difficult
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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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To what extent do you sympathise with Marcus and the choices he has to make in About a Boy? Discuss the techniques the author has used and use examples from the text to support your answer. In the novel “About a Boy” by Nick Hornby‚ the character of Marcus has to make numerous choices which affect his life in a variety of different ways. Marcus is 12 years old and because of this‚ he is often naïve and hasty is his decisions but he makes them in order to protect himself. These choices that he makes
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Work Cited Blais‚ Marie-Claire. Mad Shadows. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc.‚ 1959. More Than Skin Deep Mad Shadows is a French Canadian novella written by Marie-Claire Blais and was published in 1959. This novella illustrates a dysfunctional family‚ where outer beauty reflects status and is deemed more significant than inner beauty. Louise is a mother who loves her son Patrice solely based on his flawless physical beauty‚ which in essence
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In "One Hundred Years of Solitude"‚ one largely recognizable theme that Gabriel García Márquez presents is the role of religion. García Márquez repeatedly ridicules the extreme value Latin American culture has placed in organized religion. He also depicts the negative effects the outside religion‚ and technology‚ had on Latin American traditional culture. In One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ the character Fernanda del Carpio embodies the rigidity of Catholicism‚ the major religion of Latin America
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The authors of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The House of The Spirits" use "magical realism" to combine the fantastical world with the real world‚ using their Latin American cultural influence as a common basis. So what exactly is “magical realism”? Magical realism is the co-existence of the real world and the fantastical world; a state in which both worlds interconnect to affect each other. For example‚ the characters may find it perfectly normal for a fantastical occurrence to happen
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