Salvation or Destruction: The Singularity is Near! Is the singularity humanity’s new evolution‚ which will catapult the species to a god-like status‚ or the ultimate means of its destruction? This is the main theme of Transcendent Man‚ based off the book The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. Ray‚ a notable futurist‚ hypothesizes that in the near future our technology will reach a point where computers can outperform the human brain‚ continue getting smaller and humanity will then blend with its
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Near Field Communication(NFC): The Future Mobile Money Service ABSTRACT : In this paper‚ we explore new ways in which Near Field Communication (NFC) can be used on smart phones. NFC allows for contextual application invocation (CAI)— the execution of code on the phone as a result of our environment . We can launch applications because of contextual information we learn from another transaction on our phone‚ or we can associate context with a virtual token to recall at a later time. We can also pass
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Thoughts on Leadership In Plato’s “The Philosopher King‚” an excerpt from The Republic‚ he finely draws out the kind of person he envisions would render the ability to guide his people to a flawless order. His is fearless and distinctly specifies the characteristics this leader should possess. Leadership is a challenging role to precisely define and I have found that I am yet to be able to do it. In past class discussions we have discussed as a whole what common traits we typically believe a leader
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The Letter to the Hebrews (New Testament) The Epistle to the Hebrews was written for the Jewish Believers‚ stating that Jesus is the only true High Priest and he was the perfect sacrifice. Personally‚ upon reading I came to realize that it was written for followers of Jesus Christ who were persecuted‚ judged‚ rejected in the early ages. It was mentioned that “Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings‚ yes‚ and of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned‚ they were sawn in two‚ were
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In the book of “The Testament” I was introduced to the protagonist of this book‚ Nate O’ Riley. Throughout the book‚ I recognized that Nate is a dynamic character. I saw his attributes as a dynamic character‚ because he truly graduates from his alcoholism. Nate has grown in character especially after his trip to the Pantanal region. Together along with his character‚ his attitude toward his job also altered. I can justify that Nate is a dynamic character due to his graduation from alcoholism‚ his
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Toma Ivanovic COM 1290 Oakland Community College‚ Auburn Hills Professor Moon Book Report: On Becoming A Leader Chapter One: Mastering the Context There is a trend of real leadership in the world today from the Kennedys‚ FDR‚ to Gandhi. There is a necessity to have leaders. A couple reasons are they are accountable for companies‚ organizations‚ and the running of a nation. People need to be led. There was a study done at the University of Michigan that talked argued that there are ten dangers
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by Neil Gaiman is just around the corner. The show will focus on the adventures of Shadow Moon‚ a man who ends up assisting the god Odin as he gathers all the old gods living ordinary lives. It is a very unique and interesting premise‚ but American Gods wasn’t the first novel to feature mythological deities as key characters. Here are 5 books that offer a new spin on the lives of your favorite deities. 1. Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis (https://www.amazon.com/Fifteen-Dogs-Andre-Alexis-ebook/dp/B00PSSDLRI/)
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The Untruthful Truth: The Story of Non-Writer Imagine a writer who never shares his writing and who represents fiction as non-fiction. Imagine a young man who wants to be a writer so much that he believes his own "lies." In Tobias Wolff’s novel _Old School_‚ the author poses an ethical dilemma to the reader concerning issues of personal identity and honor. Taking place at a preparatory school in the 1960s‚ the unnamed narrator struggles with moral issues that surround the development of his authentic
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passage of time is his stomach because he goes a long time without getting anything to eat. 5. Idek accused Elie’s father of being lazy and not doing his job. Elie just sits there and watches silently. 6. The dentist from Warsaw uses a rusty old spoon to extract Elie’s gold crown. 7. Elie is whipped by Idek an amount of 25 times for leaving his area of work. 8. The ones
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even remember the name of the man she had ordered to be beheaded: ‘What was his name? Peter? Simon? Andrew? John?’ All these names are those of some of Jesus’ disciples – another religious reference towards Salome’s era (she features in the New Testament of the Bible). This also indicates to the reader that all of her victims (the people that she’s chosen to be beheaded) are men – this concept is used by the author to convey Salome’s method of gaining back control over the male gender in a society
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