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    The meme is controlling humans and humans are the robot for meme. A job is to replicate any meme that is presented in our daily life. Blackmore gives an example of birthday song and jingle bell in her essay, “Strange Creatures”. Just by saying the title “Happy Birthday to You” will make the people to humming a tune. Blackmore believes “those words affect you, probably quite without any conscious intention on your part, by stirring up a memory you already possess” (6). Based on how people are knowledge

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    A Doll's House play by Ibsen is important for its crucial viewpoint toward 19th century marriage standards. As the leading role, Nora, leaves her husband and children because she wants to discover herself, it created great disagreement at the time. In the beginning, Nora and Torvald's relationship appeared to be a good marriage according to the principles of the time. However, this marriage was based on fairly different and unequal roles. Torvald is a banker and he holds the power of the house as

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    narrows the field to his tragedies. In the case of Iago and Othello this complicated relationship is made more so by the interwoven theme of appearance verses reality. The idea of Iago, the wolf in sheep’s clothing, fighting both for and against his master that permeates the play. Othello, however, a seasoned warrior being unable to see through the guise is a flaw his companion takes advantage of. Iago’s hatred is the biggest mystery of this play, making the reader wish Shakespeare had written a prequel

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    only comprehend what is given to them. Philosopher Plato discusses the importance of questioning the accepted thoughts of the general population in his parable “Allegory of the Cave.” He presents the idea that closed-minded people are only puppets to their masters, the open-minded thinkers. Those who think from a unique point of view are able to live a better free life outside of the allegoric cave while the general thinkers are forced to be chained to the inside only to see their own shadows for inspiration

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    Hypocrisy In Othello

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    Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, Rodrigo, Emilia; all of them are marionettes in a deadly puppet show with none other than Iago as the puppet master. The drama fueling themes of Othello are hypocrisy, revenge, passion, jealousy, and prejudice. These themes are demonstrated mainly by one character, Iago. He is the manipulator responsible for the outcomes in this tragedy. One of the events that directly led to the fall of almost all of the main characters in this play was the party scene in Cyprus. In this

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    Carl Sagan said “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” So if we all will die anyway, why do we work so hard to survive? In the book Codebreaker, the Puppet Master has set up a series of codes for the reader, the Codebreaker, to solve in order to save many people. In this instance, the victims had to depend on an outside source. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Night by Elie Wiesel, the characters as well had to ultimately depend on outside sources. Survival of the fittest

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    Artificial Intelligence in Gibson's Idoru and Oshii's Ghost in the Shell      Introduction If people knew what scientists are up to, they would not be sleeping as calmly as they do today. If only they knew, they would read more carefully what the cyberpunk authors have to say.   The purpose of this work is not only to compare the pictures of Artificial Intelligence (hereafter referred to simply as AI) included in two major works of cyberpunk genre, but also to show the connection

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    care for him the way I did! Everything I know he taught me! Everything I’ve learned to love was because of him! Have you ever had someone you love die for you! I am almost a puppet if not even one! I am not human nor doll but a mix of both! I move like a human, I speak like a human but unlike a human I grow from how much my master loves me! I need to be physically taught emotions! My body wasn’t made to know happiness, sadness, embarrassment, sorrow, anger, and such. I was meant to be a slave and nothing

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    little attraction, people were began to start to looking at this in those terms and to then ask themselves. The regional power, such as Iranian, and Saudi have own agendas and they were standing in the shadows with their favorites. There were some puppets

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    Sometimes it is as if everyone is a puppet and can do only what the puppet master tells makes them do. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes both convey the message that people are in control of their own fate. Through “Invictus,” William Ernest Henley communicates the theme that people are in control of the bad or good decisions that someone makes that winds someone up in either heaven or hell. The use of simile in this poem expresses the theme because it

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