Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor‚ futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book‚ The Singularity is Near. In the film‚ Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the Technological Singularity‚ a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in genetics‚ nanotechnology‚ and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine
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The Maltese Falcon: The Film & Book Dashiell Hammett was a prolific writer of short stories for the pulp magazines in the 1920s-1930s‚ but only wrote five mystery novels. Most of his works involved his anonymous detective The Continental Op‚ an employee of one of the big national detective agencies. Sam Spade became popular because of the movies‚ but didn’t feature in much of this author’s work. Hammett’s greatest skill was his combination of terse presentation‚ witty dialogue‚ and a plain style
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Everyone is blind until they experience something or meet someone that changes the way they see things. For some‚ meeting someone is enough to change their perspective on life. However for others‚ it may take an experience like falling in love or experiencing a death of a loved one in order for the individual to be enlightened to a new way of looking at things. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje shows Patrick as he goes from being blind to the realities of life to being enlightened to many
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The Big Time series is a series of paranormal novels by paranormal and urban fantasy author Jennifer Estep. Estep published the first novel of the series Karma Girl in 2007 to much popularity amongst fans of the genre. Following the popularity of the series‚ Jennifer went on to follow the first with several more titles in the still ongoing series. The Bigtime series of paranormal romances is set in the Big Apple‚ New York City. The Bigtime is a city full of uber villains‚ heroic superheroes‚ sassy
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Trafficking Cases in the Midwest United States by Andrea J. Nichols and Erin C. Heil‚ and Prostitution on Demand by Janice G. Raymond each have their own unique perspective on the topic of sex trafficking. The articles sample from and did their research in different areas of interest in the topic of sex trafficking‚ which is why they are all inimitable. Sex Trafficking of Minors in
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“regional” broker/dealers who had the same product scope as wirehouses but were based solely outside of New York. What “channels’ does Raymond James use to serve individual investors? Raymond James currently has two channels. One was a network of employee financial advisors. The additional channel was a network of independent financial advisors who had access to Raymond James’ product and services‚ research‚ back office operations‚ and brand name through an independent contractor relationship. What
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Dashiell Hammett’s novel‚ The Maltese Falcon‚ is a hard-boiled detective novel; a subset of the mystery genre. Before the appearance of this sub-genre‚ mystery novels were mainly dominated by unrealistic cases and detectives like Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. As Malmgren states‚ “The murders in these stories are implausibly motivated‚ the plots completely artificial‚ and the characters pathetically two-dimensional‚ puppets and cardboard lovers‚ and paper mache villains and detectives of exquisite
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ougDespite the criticisms and non–replication of factors within Cattell’s approach‚ he and his colleagues were responsible for the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF: Cattell et al.‚ 1973) and Cattell did pave the way for the development of the FFM. The next major player in the development of trait theory was Fiske (1949). Fiske’s factor analysis of peer‚ self and psychologist ratings of 128 clinical trainees ratedscales ‚ Norman (1963)‚ working with male university students‚ found through
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Question 1. Outline and evaluate the approach that suggests there are five main dimensions of individual differences in personality Personality is impossible to define succinctly because it means different things to different psychologists. Whilst most would accept that the field of personality is the study of how individuals differ from one another‚ they would disagree on the best way to conceptualise these individual differences. One definition is given by Allport (1961) who suggests that personality
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