Computers vs. Authentic Humans

"So if computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence." Computers are getting more and more powerful as time goes on. Within this article the computer is able to produce music which compares to Brave New World and the fact that computers/machinery are able to produce humans and also help train the humans to think the way the higher authorities want them to think. In this article, the main idea is how computers are starting to control everything. They are becoming more like the human brain, they hold so much information. The Singularity is a type of machine that would be able to combine the human's intelligence to combine with a computer, which gives more information to the human. The would then become smarter than the average person. For certain reasons, it would be a good thing because no one would every struggle in school anymore, people would exceed in all things of learning. It could also be a bad thing though. There would never be a reason to have types of challenges like spelling bee's and decathlons because everyone is just as smart as one another so there wouldn't be much of a competition. Being an authentic human means being different and unique when compared to everyone else in the world. If we were all linked to a computer then we would never be authentic. We would loss all of the qualities we had before. Bernard in Brave New World feels the need to be an individual when he is compared to everyone else. He is uphappy and feels the need to have freedom and also the right to his own opinion. "The difficult thing to keep sight of when you're talking about the Singularity is that even though it sounds like science fiction, it isn't, no more than a weather forecast is science fiction." The world in 1965, is filled with computers controlling everyone and also science being a main subject for the people to understand.

Beauty and the Beast

Comparing two fairy tales to point out the differences the authors make in the stories, was mainly the author's purpose. The author of the essay relies on both "Beauty and the Beast" by Madame de Beaumont and also, "The Tiger's Bride" by Angela Carter(http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/359/beauty-and-the-beast-and-the-tigers-bride-to-be-or-not-to-be-a-beast) to point out the different main ideas of both stories, but still using the same characters. The text is constructed into an essay, which helps compare the stories by their main points and make them into paragraphs. Beauty, which represents women shows a difference side in each of the stories. In Beauty and the Beast she chooses to go in her father’s place to the palace of the Beast and die, while Angela Carter’s Beauty is handed over by her father as part of a game of cards that he had lost to the Beast. Both Beauty's show that to be a woman involves a degree of passivity and dependency on a man. The man is represented by the father. The author of the essay tries to point out the difference in each of the Beauty's. Madame de Beaumont's Beauty is independent but also virtuous, where Carter's Beauty is independent but she is also willing to do exactly what the Beast does, which is trying to persuade people. The thesis of the essay is pointed out by the decisions both characters make in the stories. Madame de Beaumont's characters marry and and virtuous, where Angela Carter's characters give in to the pressure of their sexuality and the Beauty begins to turn into the Beast because of her actions. The author of the essay uses the comparison of the characters as the evidence of the stories. Some of the evidence is used as inappropriate text because it goes a little off topic. The author uses the pattern of a regular essay, there is an introduction with body paragraphs and also a conclusion. The author explains the symbolism of the characters by their actions in both of the stories. It is done efficiently because it is in the right format and it also stays on topic . he author uses the right transition words when going into a new paragraph and also, when ending the essay they were able to close it off nicely. The language of the essay is quite formal, it stays in order and uses the correct words in the different sentences. The author intended the essay to be read by teenagers like us. They us words we are able to understand and easy to follow. The whole essay is filled with comparison. Everything the author points out is being compared between the two stories and the characters. They use the comparison to show what the characters represent and how their actions effect the stories' main idea. The author of the essay follows the same format I have always been taught in school. It starts with an introduction, has a couple of body paragraphs, and ends with a conclusion. Everything follows perfectly.