Glados Analysis

This ability to be overwhelmed by something as little as the stars shows how easy it is for an android to have their emotions overpower their thoughts, let alone 4F6, who has the ability to feel more emotion than any other android. Therefore when 4F6 is flooded with emotion, after the baby robot is born, she becomes inundated and it clouds her judgement of how to properly handle the situation, resulting in irrational actions. While being overrun by thought, she begins to feel uncertain of what to do and who to turn to for help.

In the context of this story, the important men are those who had influence in Abina’s life and can also be defined as wealthy, and/or landowning, men who were fluent in English (57). This is evident by looking at the various encounters throughout Abina’s story, for instance James Davis is considered an important man since he was the one who helped Abina formally charge Quamina Eddoo and indirectly etched Abina into history through the paper to the magistrate (13). Quamina is also an important man as his mistreatment and coercion of Abina ultimately thrusts our protagonist on her journey to freedom (83). While Quamina Eddoo is a land owner, he is more notably an important man because of his relationship with the commerce of slaves in the

“Joyas Voladoras” is a poetic essay written by Brian Doyle. This essay is about the heart, big and small. The hummingbirds have the smallest heart while the blue whale has the biggest. Doyle is trying to tell us readers a message. The message he is telling us is that our (mammals, birds, reptiles, etc) hearts are strong and amazing, but fragile. We have to be careful what we do.

Each named emotion expresses Riley’s feelings after seeing the world through her eyes on a big projection screen. When something whens that would give Riley joy, the character, Joy, has the job to make Riley feel that way. The Two Factor theory explains we feel an emotion by first coming in contact with the stimulus, become physically aroused by it and cognitively label the feeling we have is an emotion, and then experience the emotion. This lines up very closely with the process of the characters choosing how to make Riley feel. They witness the stimulus RIley is in contact with, the named emotion whose job is producing that emotion comes forward to make themself known, and finally she feels that

In Trifles, Susan Glaspell debates the roles between men and women during a period where a debate was not widely conducted. Glaspell wrote Trifles in the early 1900s—a time when feminism was just getting started. In this play, Glaspell shows us her perspective on the roles of men and women and how she believes the situation would play out. Trifles seems like another murder mystery on the surface, but the play has a much more profound meaning behind it. Glaspell presents the idea that men and women analyze situations differently, and how these situations are resolved based on how we interpret them. Research shows that women’s brains “may be optimized for combining analytical and intuitive thinking.” On the other hand, male brains are predominately “optimized for motor skills and actions” (Lewis). In the play, this research shows true when the women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, analyze details rather than looking at the apparent, physical evidence, and they find out the motive of the murder. The men, on the other hand, look at broader evidence that does not lead to any substantial conclusion. When Glaspell was writing this play, she wanted the women to be the real instigators, the ones that would end up solving the mystery. While the men in the story laugh at the ‘trifles’ that women worry about, these details mean a great deal in Glaspell’s eyes. Glaspell presents the idea what men and women are different in the way they live their lives through detail.

Joy Harjo’s “Remember” seems at first to be a simple plea from an unidentified speaker that the listener (standing in for all people) “remember.” “Remember you are this universe and this / universe is you” (lines 21-22), says the speaker. Throughout the poem, the speaker tells the listener to remember sixteen times; “remember” is an anaphora, a repetitive command by the speaker that seems to indicate that “remembering” is what the poem is about. Look deeper, though, and the poem seems to be about the interconnectedness of all things, and understanding that people, nature (plants and animals), the earth and sky, and the universe are all connected and related to each other. Look even deeper, though, and the essence of the poem becomes obvious:

Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic since the invention of artificial intelligence. Many scientist and humans, in general, believe that artificially intelligent robots would want to rule the world and overthrow the human race. Something as simple as Siri or Corona could get too smart, and eventually, want to get rid of humans. Many sci-fi shows are based on this ideology. However, based off of this article by Tim Oates, artificial intelligence is one problem we should not worry about. In his article, Oates was able to relieve everyone’s anxieties they may have had, and he did so persuasively. Oates used many different rhetoric strategies to do so, but overall he used pathos, sarcasm/irony, and ethos He was persuasive in communicating his argument because of use of pathos, sarcasm/irony, and ethos.

On October the 6th, I went to the Ruggles Native American Music Series at Paul F.Sharp Concert Hall in the Cattle Music Center. Joy Harjo played a number of native American songs using each of the saxophone and the native flute. She was supported by three members playing guitars, drums, and vocals.

The Popol Vuh is a written documentation of Maya oral history, containing a series of narratives that preserve Mayan myth, deities, religious practices, as well as ethical views and beliefs about the world. Popol Vuh translates into ‘Council Book,’ and is believed to have been used by leaders to consult during times of crisis and deliberation. Although the book is myth, it describes how everything became to exist on earth, how human life began, what to expect after death, and the gods who created life. The Popol Vuh is also an explanation for natural events and social order. The book becomes a way to overcome the human vision and live to the gods design.

This is not my first time watching this video on philotimo and how each person has this within themselves. Professor Tsolakos showed this video two years ago in one of his classes to us. When I watched it, I took it home and showed it to my siblings, parents, and sent it to a few of my friends. I’m not Greek, but from the video philotimo can relate to anyone, regardless of: race, religion, and creed. It can apply to the love of not just yourself, but for others as well this is the reason I am pursuing a career in criminal justice. First this is what my mother taught me because my father worked long hours at his job and he taught me to be hardworking. Not only that it can apply to people throughout history that is they leave a lasting image

Brian Doyle is not only an author, but also a father, whose writing is inspired by his son's heart deformity. He pursues knowledge of this topic and uses it in his book The Wet Engine. In this book, “Joyas Voladoras” tells about the heart and what it portrays in life. In “Joyas Voladoras”, Brian Doyle explores that the heart is a powerhouse and depending on how people live, determines their vitality.

My abuela tells me bien viaje, or safe travels, every time I leave Nogales, Mexico. Nogales, Mexico is located south of Tucson, Arizona, by an hour and a half. Just across the border in Nogales, Arizona, I was born. Once I cross the border, I exchange the rest of my pesos for dollars at a casa de cambio. From there I make my way to Phoenix via a shuttle. It’s not until the wheels of the plane leave the ground that I realize just how much it all means to me, and how grateful I am to be Mexican.

In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, written in 1916, two female characters are left in the kitchen of a house where a murder has been committed, while the menfolk search around for clues. The men largely ignore the women and are mocking of them and their petty concerns on the occasions that they do speak to them. While the men are about looking for the “cold hard facts” of the murder, the women are in the kitchen bothering with “trifles” that display all of the details about the wife’s life and, most probably, her motivation for the murder. In this play, Susan Glaspell has written male characters that clearly display the “Ethics of Justice”, a sort of right is right and wrong is wrong view; while the women clearly embody the “Ethics of Care”, a view that takes relationships and feelings into account when judging the morality of actions.

Fantasia, a Walt Disney film from the year 1940 is a strong example of hermeneutic composability because the orchestrated music was written with a story in mind. To accentuate this, an animation was paired with the music to illustrate the idea the composer had in mind. The conductor of the orchestra says, “What you are going to see are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists” (Fantasia). He specifies later that, “these [animations] are not going to be the interpretations of trained musicians, Which I think is all to the good. There are three kinds of music on this ‘Fantasia’ program. First there's the kind that tells a definite story. Then there's the kind, that while it has no specific plot, does paint a series of more or less definite pictures. Then there's third kind, music that exists simply for its own sake” (Fantasia). As conductor and music critic Deems Taylor so eloquently states, the point of the movie was to have the music inspire the artists to animate as they please, not to have musicians or people who wrote the music to tell them what to animate. The significance of this in terms of hermeneutic composability is that Fantasia is a direct and visual example of people interpreting music that the composer wrote with an idea in mind.

She also says that Wheatly's lack of stability is going to explode the entire facility! Killing everyone and everything in there. Before GLaDOS can finish explaining she is carried off by a bird and Chell heads off to find a way back to the main facility. While searching she uncovers what is left of the 1950's Aperture Science, guided by the voice of the deceased Aperture Founder Cave Johnson. She enters a series of test, that she runs, often using unconventional ways to get between the tests. At this time she learns of Caroline, cave Johnson's secretary/assistant, of which Cave is rather fond of. Chell finds GLaDOS in the nest of the bird who snagged her. GLaDOS is insistent that she can't lie with 1.1 volts of electricity, and implores Chell to take her back and put her back in her body. Chell ultimately agrees and attaches GLaDOS to her Portal Gun. And they continue to try to find a path towards the upper