Deus ex machina

Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, is a tale about the epic hero Odysseus returning home and his conquering of the trials and tribulations that are thrown his way during his long journey. In his epic, Homer effectively employs various literary devices in order to argue that pure brute strength disadvantage can be overcome. In the passage about Odysseus’s encounter with Polyphemus, the Cyclops (pg. 155, lines 402-441), he demonstrates the Greek core beliefs in the gods’

that technology "is not an object, it is always a means to an end" (Rybczynski 1983, 213). The message here, remember this and use it wisely instead of for personal foolish reasons. Likewise, people choose globalization, not imposed, like some deus ex machina. First, we must distinguish between intensive and extensive types of globalisation. Under this intensive globalization, the role driven by markets, technology and enterprise. Market the economic side and enterprise the political/governmental

Turkle senses a standstill, pleading that we still have time to take back our lives, to draw limitations on social media, to refine technology in a way that it truly benefits us and doesn’t serve selfishly motivated actions. A better way of seeing this is learning how to turn off the cyborg in us, and how to make technology a useful and effective attachment. Technology being so deeply ingrained, we have all allowed our phones to become an extension of who we are. Students in Turkle’s research sleep

In the novel, the concept of apathy alludes to the insignificance of life: uncontrollable and virtually useless. The idea that life has no meaning in the world due to the inevitable ending of death. Vonnegut uses deus ex machina when Billy seems to be on the verge of death by having him “time-travel”out of the situation (154). For instance, in the plane crash where Billy was the only survivor, he “closed his eyes [and] traveled in time back to 1944” (198). No matter what

Mandela leads South Africa to an apartheid free country through the country’s main sport rugby. The documentary starts off by introducing conflict “’rugby is war…it is a battle of guts.’” A metaphor is used to compare rugby to a crime, where lives are lost. This displays the commitment to the sport, despite the dangerous consequences. Rugby is also used as a symbol “’rugby [represents]…the worst of apartheid.’” Rugby symbolizes the feud between the blacks and whites of South Africa. Justice Bekebeke

Donnie all of the rest of us must come to terms with our death by determining it as a cause of future creation. Thus there is not a good or an evil every acts and decision are part of a machine, near the end of the film Donnie tells his enemy: “Deus ex Machina” which translates to God from the machine. Donnie cannot comprehend throughout the movie that the universe is in fact just a machine trying to do its programmed job. In this sense the burning of Old Misery’s house is basically no different from

very happy). The cinema from the 50s to the 70s portrayed God as a boundless benefactor, an omnipotent and omnipresent being, who could easily take offence but would as easily forgive, and might help but only in certain situations, a sort of deus ex machina. All of which have led to some remarkably cheesy dialogues that have been used and hashed so often that they have become part of film folklore. Helpless character to another helpless character: “Bhagwaan pe bharosa rakho, sab thik ho jayega."

the problems that exist within his society, needed to battle and defeat Agent Smith with the specific goal to end the war with machines and spare mankind, both in the Matrix and in reality. With this acknowledgment, Neo made an arrangement with Deus Ex Machina in which the machines would respect a détente with Zion if Neo prevailed with regards to crushing Agent Smith. Neo breaks the law, and by doing this he defends the rights of

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) is a very famous 18th Century philosopher from Ireland. Berkeley is most famous work was for coming up with the view point “Esse Est Percipi”, or “to be is to be perceived.” Based on Berkeley's findings, an idea must be thought of or perceived in order to exist at all. And if everything in the world (aside from minds) is made of ideas, then the existence of things, depends on there being someone who perceives them. When you perceive a purple crayon, according to many

Traditionally, Christian literary works are set in an idealized Christian reality, based upon values sourced from scripture. In this reality, the Deus ex Machina is strictly literal, admitting at any needed time a supernatural element to the story which, in all functionality, serves as miracle, in either pivot of the plot or in character arc. It’s a cliché of storytelling that has become heavily condescended by readers and critics because it leaves little challenge, application, or relation to both