Humanity Essay Cynthia Lee University of Phoenix Stephen D. Carter PHL/443 08/13/2007 1. What role do metaphors play in helping people grasp the concept of Artificial Intelligence? Do you agree with the statement that the brain is a “meat machine”? What other metaphors might be applicable to the function of the human brain? Personally‚ I don’t think metaphors really have anything to do with a person grasping the concept
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Humanities 101 Midterm Review Weeks 1 and 2 Mesopotamia: Sumerians‚ Akkadian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian Euphrates River Tigris River Fertile Crescent Uruk Cuneiform: wedge or nail shape marks pressed into wet clay –used for over 3000 years Sumerians 3500-2350 Located in lower Mesopotamia Between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Part of the Fertile Crescent Invented writing and beer (Kassi) Purpose? Records of goods and services 2700 BCE: rough date assigned the historical Gilgsmesh‚ King
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Art and Humanity Assessing the portrayal of the human form throughout the history of art is interesting to see the evolution. Eras and locations take a major part in the style of the human from the Ancient Greece to Gothic Europe. The Spear Bearer from 450 BCE‚ Head of Old Man from mid 1st c. BCE‚ and the Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Sicily‚ Italy from12th c.e. Are all great examples to see the different styles of humans being portrayed in a specific era. Each piece of work is a product
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This is an essay discussing human love‚ corruption‚ evil and hatred‚ and its relation to human nature. This is my philosophy; it is the product of what I have learned from other people and through observation of the world around me.The key ideas I will be supporting in the following paragraphs is that it is human nature to want to give and receive love; and a nature that must be exploited the fullest in order to rectify the current state of the world. Evil‚ competition‚ hatred and the human capabilities
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During this English 111 class I have learned how to become a better writer and how to plan out my essays before I write them. My attendance in the class I think has been well‚ I was always in class unless I had an emergency or illness. I rate myself in my attendance an 8 because I would always come unless I had a reason not to. I was active in class discussions most of the time and kept up with doing my lessons. In being active in class discussions I rate myself as a 7 because I could have participated
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Writing an Opinion Piece – The Long Fall of Swiss Air Flight 111 Heavy Opinion Piece Assignment The article goes beyond the tragedies that we see on the news or read in newspapers. It doesn’t focus on death tolls or statistics of violence. The article looks at the effects of tragedy on the lives of everyday people. In some cases it offers us a mirror to our own lives and perhaps allows us to reflect on what we would do or how we would act. Write an opinion piece on this question: How has this
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Humanities Time Line The following is a selective listing of some major figures and works of the Humanities (right column) and their relation to important events in History (Center Column) c = approximately First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History Third Column: Humanities Giants (write your entries here) Before the Common Era (BCE) = Before Christ (BC) c. BC 15‚000 - 10‚000 Old Stone Age Cave art at Lascaux and Altamira c. BC 7000 Native Americans may have migrated from northern
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A famous speech by Shakespeare’s Falstaff questions the value of: honor 1. ( T or F ) Aristotle considered plot more important than character or thought. True 2. ( T or F ) Aristotle was both a theater critic and a philosopher. True 3. Aristotle’s famous analysis of tragedy is found in a work called: The Poetics 4. Aristotle’s work on comedy is how long? 5 acts long 5. What did the Commedia delle’arte specialize in? 6. What is satire? a literary genre or form‚ although in practice
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subjects were contrastive‚ I had previously adopted this ideology because of the strong stigma concerning the two subjects. English was more well known for being a creative outlet and analyses more of a personal understanding while on the other hand‚ Humanities had been known more commonly for its fact-driven lessons and its focus on the reality of the state of the world and therefore‚ limiting the creative spectrum and holding back students. However‚ the minute I had entered the first lesson concerning
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John Gross PHIL 102 1. Utilitarianism is moral theory that tries to lay a set of rules that you should follow to achieve the most good or pleasure from any one act. Two popular proponents of this systems are philosophers by the name of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. They both have different ideas for how one should go about the use of utilitarianism to achieve the greatest happiness. Bentham’s approach is often called quantitative utilitarianism in which Bentham came up with an idea called
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