Count Zero

In the book Neuromancer by William Gibson, the technology and violence shown by the people and AI demonstrate that with the progression and evolution of technology, the cruel nature of humans progresses and evolves with it, and vise versa. This shows that we should be weary and careful of letting our technologies evolve too fast until we depend on technology too much for bettering our lives and get controlled by AI 's for their own interests. Neuromancer is set in the distant future where technology

Neuromancer, is a novel written by William Gibson in 1984, the story follows the experiences of Henry Dorsett Case, a talented console cowboy (hacker), who’s lifestyle dramatically changed once he was caught stealing from his employer. As a punishment, he was given a Russian mycotoxin that damaged his nervous system, rendering him unable to hack into cyberspace again. Case meets Armitage, his future employer who can fix is nervous system which will allow him to return back into cyber space, but on

to the small European duchy of Cagliostro to investigate some excellently forged money and stumbles across a national conspiracy going back some hundreds of years. Lupin and his friends must rescue the beautiful Clarice from the hands of the evil Count Cagliostro and solve the mystery of a hidden treasure dating back to the 15th century. After pulling off a heist at a Monaco Casino, Lupin and Jigen soon discovered that they just stole counterfeit money, which gives Lupin an idea on what their next

of money and a solid, black register tray that looked well used. ‘Count this,” he said in a frantic manner as I heard a loud crash take place across the store. He rushed over to the scene, leaving me by myself as I began to count. I was confused. “How am I going to count this?” I said sarcastically. I asked around for a piece of paper, but no one had a piece on them. I counted all the money in my head, trying not to lose count. It was hard to focus while listening to a coworker of mine talking

Chapter One February 23, 1843, 10 years before the events of An Immigrant American, Volume 1 of the Kopp Chronicles. Suddenly, the door of the carriage flung open, as it pulled up to the doors of the Mannheim Palace on an early and cold February morning in 1843. “Karolina, I am so glad you are here!” A young woman with brown disheveled hair said frantically as she burst into tears. “I thought you would never get here. I don’t know what to do with my hair, and my mother needs help with the wedding

close, personal correlation with their murderers. In My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue in which a Duke addresses the agent of a Count about the possible marriage between him and the Count’s daughter. However, before the Duke can make the decision to marry or not to marry the Count’s daughter he briefs the agent of the Count about his last Duchess. The Duke wants to make sure that the next woman he will marry will be submissive and won’t give him any trouble, unlike his last

Both poems, "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" have similarities and differences. This can be seen in the two central characters, content and language. In "My Last Duchess" the duke, a rich upper class man, is talking to a messenger of a count whose daughter he wishes to marry. This poem begins in front of his last Duchess painting which is on the wall in the Duke's home. Throughout the poem, we discover the characteristics of the Duke and learn about the murder of the Duchess. "Porphyria's

You walk in your school library and see the student workers working at the reservation desk. You see them picking up a book from the shelves, scanning it, and giving it to their patron. You think working at the reservation desk is way easier than any other jobs at school such as tutoring or child caring and hope to get this position. Well, it is good if you get it, but you might want to know that this job is much heavier than what you expect. The job itself does not include only picking books and

Tetrahymena in the 5% ink showed a higher stained vacuole count that those in 1% ink. This supported our hypothesis that the Tetahymena in a higher concentration of ink would show more staining, because there is more ink around for them to consume. Differing results were found in a similar experiment by Bazzone (2000), as cells in a higher ink concentration showed fewer vacuoles than those at a lower ink concentration. This experiment followed the same procedure, but expanded the ink concentrations

In To His Coy Mistress, the speaker quickly makes it clear that he wants sex from a woman he is talking to. He uses pretty language to veil the fact that he is impatient and somewhat disrespectful towards her. In My Last Duchess, a Duke is talking about his late Duchess, and explains that he wanted something that he had lost – her full attention. He further describes that he didn’t use any language towards her at all, but simply gave orders and commands to attempt to gain her attention back instead