Oedipus Carr Chapter Summary Sparknotes

article Carr explains how machines are making humans lazy and are weakening our awareness and attentiveness. He gives examples about situations where humans relied on computer operated machines. One of those examples were about a plane crash that killed all 50 people on board. “It reveals that automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it.” said Carr. The pilot of that plane had training but the more planes he let be in auto pilot the less control inputs he remembered causing him to react in an adverse way and unable to safely land the plane.

In his essay, “Introduction to Oedipus the King”, Bernard Knox supports free will by stating that Oedipus’ downfall was not caused by fate. According to Knox there is not a doubt that, “Oedipus is the free agent who, by his own self-willed action, discovers that his own predicted destiny has already been fulfilled” (86). He clearly states that Oedipus is responsible for his free actions during the play. He insists that Oedipus’s made the decisions to discover the truth about himself.

In Nicholas Carr’s essay “All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machine’s” he brings up the ethical problem of technology. Technology is all around today, but people are starting to wonder if this surplus of technology is starting to make the world less smart. Carr’s primary argument is as technology becomes more prevalent, people are losing knowledge to do certain tasks. Carr claims this is bad because people are putting their lives at risk and dying due to this lack of knowledge. People are starting to get lazier because of technology. They start to care less and think they are gaining something extra by using the technology, when, in fact it is the exact opposite. Carr states, “most of us want to believe that automation frees us to spend our time on higher pursuits but doesn’t otherwise alter the way we behave or think. That view is a fallacy” (5). This fallacy is affecting how people think and how current children are being taught in schools. Children as young as preschoolers are now starting to use tablets and computers for learning instead of having a teacher doing their job fully and actually teaching them. Instead of adding something to a task or helping to get it accomplished technology, “alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part” (5). Throughout his entire essay, Carr argues mostly why he believes too much technology could be harmful in the long run, but also states

It is amazing how compassionate the people of Veracruz can be. They are so poor and can barely afford anything for themselves and yet they give without hesitation to complete strangers. The migrants could not survive the journey without people like this reaching out to help them. Hundreds of migrants riding past Veracruz, and it seems as though everyone of them is given something. Churches which open their doors to house and feed the migrants show the true meaning of charity. I can't imagine what it is like to be one of these migrants, where my basic needs of food, water, and shelter were not fulfilled, nor can any of us. To us, a bit of bread or a bottle of water does not mean much, but to these migrants it is like being given the moon.

REMARKS TO THE CONVOCATION OF THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST By William Jefferson Blythe III. Was mainly about him trying to make the gun control and the violence under control because he said It was just outta wack. He wanted to do what King wanted to do by saying, “if he was here today by my side he would say yall did a good job” (line 1-3).

In conclusion I agree with most of the points Carr makes because in fact we are becoming lazier and stupid. Technology has changed our ways and we have not even notice. Proving the point that we have in some way been manipulated by technology without

Getting out of the bed in the morning is always hard, especially when one doesn 't want to. It 's your bubble and the longer you stay there, the harder it is to leave, yet you can 't see the wonders of the world from inside that safe space. One would be blind to the truth, they would be living a false life, one deprived of the truth they can not see. Exactly how Oedipus was in Oedipus the king, where Oedipus was blind to see his truth from his ignorance of not knowing what he was missing from his life, but is finding the truth, really worth it?

At the end of Act 2, Oedipus starts to uncover the truth about where he came from with the help from the messenger. As the suspense grows to know what will happen after Oedipus comes out of the palace. As the scene closes and Act 3 starts, a messenger came from within the palace to tell the chorus what he saw.

Within the play Oedipus Rex the main character Oedipus faces many life changing obstacles. Even though the new king of Thebes is facing so many problems the man still believes that he knows everything, especially everything about himself. Inscribed above the entrance to the temple at Delphi are the words: “Know Thyself”, which is something that Oedipus must do in order to help his people. Throughout the whole play the character Oedipus is shown as a classic example of a man whose central problem is that he does not know himself.

This essay will focus on the Compare/ Contrast of Kevin Kelly and Nicholas Carr essays. Both authors are technology, writers. As both authors talks about the future and technology of the world, Carr suggest that we will become lazy due to use of Google and the web and Kelly believes robots will take over present day jobs, Who is right about what going to happen in the future and will technology actually take over.

I believe this was a key passage as it is revealed to the readers just how cunning Creon really is, taking advantage of being powerful without having to live up to the people’s expectations.

This play is different from a murder mystery because it does not end as soon as you find out who the killer is. Also, there is no twist for who the killer actually is. If the play had ended after the murderer was revealed, there would have been no explanation for what happened to the characters lives. Without doing this it would not have summed up the play and would have left the audience on a cliff hanger.

Are humans facing the degeneration effect due to our reliance on technology? Carr would argue in chapter four that yes, we are losing creativity and knowledge of work because we are not actively using our memory and cognition. When humans typically learn a new skill, the generation effect

Carr’s work, he worries that human brains are becoming simplified and replaced by technology. Due to this change, our concentration and determination will slowly fade away as time goes on. In this information era, people can enjoy the dazzling and decorated websites and passively accept their messages. He repeatedly emphasizes that humans’ abilities related to reading and imagining are largely disappearing. The author describes what it is like when he works by saying, “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski” (Carr 410). Carr warns us of a possible negative change due to technology. Similarly, Mr. Pontin in the presentation also shows his concern about how humans treat technology. He argues that current technology, like energy and aerospace, has almost no commercial value that few companies are willing to invest in these fields. By contrast, he did present four negations on misunderstanding about the power of technology. He claims that the current problems blocking the development of technology are little policy supporting, failure of the political system, not understanding problems, and blindly thinking technology is the problem. The real concern he thought is that we have not had the eagerness and passion like the past to hugely go forward developing technology, but instead stopping to enrich our personal

The tale of Oedipus and his prophecy has intrigued not only the citizens of Greece in the ancient times, but also people all over the world for several generations. Most notable about the play was its peculiar structure, causing the audience to think analytically about the outcomes of Oedipus’ actions and how it compares with Aristotle’s beliefs. Another way that the people have examined the drama is by looking at the paradoxes (such as the confrontation of Tiresias and Oedipus), symbols (such as the Sphinx), and morals that has affected their perceptions by the end of the play. Nonetheless, the most important aspect is how relevant the story is and how it has influenced modern ideas like that of Freud and other people of today.