My Blog on Singularity:)

I believe that the concepts presented in this article are very factual and make sense in which they believe the world is coming too. In this article when they talk about faster being faster on the scale of which computers have transformed within the past thirty years is growing rapidly so at this rate Kurzweil does make sense in which he can make a human immortal with the use of technology. I also believe in the idea that technology and humans maybe could form or fuse together to become a cyborg later throughout the years. "Maybe we'll merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs, using computers to extend our intellectual abilities the same way that cars and planes extend our physical abilities";I think it could be a good thing because what if there is a so called "robot or cyborg", then they could annilate the world when instead we can fuse and become something much more self-efficient. By merging and being a so-called "cyborg" would indeed make us less authentically human because by having a computer or any technological machine in or on us would change the way our body functions in mind,spirit, and theory. I do believe Bernard is on the right track of believing that there is a pristine state that human is trying to achieve. It could be true that someday technological advances could change the way we live and prolong aging and overcome death. If a computer scientist made a super-intelligent computer it could collect endless amounts of data that could better the world or yet end up corrupt and go in to self destruction of our planet.

Beauty and the Beast Rhetorical Blog

In the essay

In Madame de Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast and Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride, both authors use a variety of logical reasons of determining the "beauty" be portrayed as an animalistic creature in which that succumbs that of the "beast" through an act of kindness, while in Carter's the "beast" is succumbed by the women, or "beauty" by using her flawlessness and body features knowing that she controls the outcome of what will happen. In this article the author, Iulia O. Basu, uses one of the three of the persuasive appeals and that is Logos. Basu takes facts or quotes and draws conclusions from them using it as reliable evidence, therefore called Inductive Reasoning. I noticed that she occasionally did use CD's and CM's but was used very well and did not just keep the sentences and paragraphs minimized while doing so, it was well thought out and very elaborate in which the sequence of the paragraphs went. I also noticed that in comparison from my 1984 essay to Basu's article, that she used a variety of quotes and examples explaining her thesis or topic more thorough and efficient. Basu also did good on the transitions of switching and contrasting each novel, it was unified and coherent while reading the text. The quotes are all documented and the respones to each example or quote are understandable. Basu used an introduction and body paragraphs while following with a conclusion but in the beginning of the body paragraphs she talked about De Beaumonts Beauty and the Beast and how the beauty was the civilizing agent in relationship with men who fall for men's quote on quote "beastliness" . In transition, in the second half of Basu's article she talks about how the women are the ones who open up to the beast in them in relationship with men, instead of being the civilizing agent. Carter talks about how the beast uses his sexuality and beastliness knowing that he is the one in control. Ive found that in published academic essays that i have been reading there is some usage of CD and CM and different types of formatting. Some of the writing i feel has contradicted my rules in which for example in fourth grade you are tought to keep a minimum of five sentences a paragragh and that way of being taught is not healthy writing. Students should be able to elaborate on there and use there ideas without being shortened or thinking to much of keeping it short.  The diction and language is comprehensible, Basu uses a range of vocabulary dealing and describing the character or the way the character acts towards one another.