Raymond Buckland

About nine years ago I discovered a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines by a man named Ray Kurzweil that demanded my immediate interest. I was captivated by his view of the future of technology - astoundingly positive and bright compared to most peoples’ negative or dystopian outlook when it comes to the dangers of a society increasingly reliant on machines and technology. I recently had the privilege of watching Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie her. While focusing on the personal aspect of a man

Cathedral Sometimes we have to look beyond what we see on the outside to understand something more deeply. In the short story Cathedral By Raymond Carver, the narrator has an attitude of being selfish, and jealous through the story. The narrator’s wife invites a blind man, Robert, to come stay in their house for a short time while the man visits family members of his own wife who recently passed. The narrator is not enthusiastic because blind people make the narrator uncomfortable, mainly because

The Meaning Behind Seeing In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, there is a very insightful message spoken about the true definitions between having sight and being able to see. The story focuses on three characters, and they each have emotions connected to one another, whether it be trust, jealousy or compassion. These characters include a blind man named Robert, the narrator who is unnamed in the story, and his wife who also does not receive a name for the story line. Each of these

Cormac McCarthy wrote a novel by the name of “No Country for Old Men” in 2005 which was created into a movie of the same name in 2007. The film adaptation represents both continuity within the film noir styles and also breaks away from them in relation to films such as “The Maltese Falcon,” “The Big Sleep” and “The Killers”. In the film there are multiple characters that are hard-boiled and each try to figure out “who did what” and “what happened” for their own individual reasons. This characterization

Introduction “The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultraintelligent machine” (Good, 1965). As early as the 1960s renowned scientists such as Good and Neumann theorized of an “intelligence explosion,” now known as the technology singularity, resulting from intelligent machines’ designing their next generation without human intervention. This idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has grown immensely and is a common topic amongst scholars, scientists, and theorists in the mathematic

The Commander for the U.S. knew this was not going to be an easy mission and identified establishing airfields on the island would make future missions successful. Admiral Nimitz, who was Commander in Chief of U.S Pacific Fleet, placed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance in overall command of the battle. During the planning stage for the U.S, the Japanese knew the U.S. was planning

In a guest column, Computers vs. Brains on the Opinionator of The New York Times, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang analyzed some of the arguments by inventor Raymond Kurzweil, one of the leading inventors of our time, in his most recent futurist manifesto: “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” (2005). Kurzweil estimates that machines will inevitably be able to surpass our thinking capabilities within a few decades. Kurzweil's speculative reasoning has been heavily debated and challenged

Cathedral: A Lesson for the Ages Raymond Carver 's short story, "Cathedral," portrays a story in which many in today 's society can relate. We are introduced from the first sentence of the story to a man that seems to be perturbed and agitated. As readers, we are initially unsure to the reasoning 's behind the man 's discomfort. The man, who seems to be a direct portrayal of Raymond Carver himself, shows his ignorance by stereotyping a blind man by the name of Robert, who has come to stay with

Karina A. Burr Instructor Barbra Green Writing 102 11 September 2015 Cathedral by Raymond Carver In this short story by Raymond Carver begins with a man whose wife invited a good friend over named Robert and is blind. Before Roberts Arrival, the wife’s husband, whose name is Bub, does not know what to make out of his wife’s good friend Robert coming over to their house. Carver utilizes a story of a blind man who changes Bub’s outlook in life. Through the narrators changing character, theme

follows the map found in the Sark’s wallet up to the Island in the Laurentians. We know that Teed is following a lead he found at the first crime scene because Montrose has given us that bit of information. When comparing Montrose’s work to that of Raymond Chandler’s novel and the film adaptation, The Big Sleep we can see that the narration of detective Philip Marlowe is not very telling of where the story is to go or any insight into the detectives mind. Almost as if Chandler deliberately left out