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    Peter Weir’s film, The Truman Show, allows readers the opportunity to make connections between his work and Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave. This opportunity fosters the kind of investigation into the truths of reality that make for interesting fodder for conversation. If one were to examine how Weir uses the manufactured town to discuss the importance of finding the true realities, one would additionally discover that these concepts are eerily similar to The Allegory of the Cave: specifically,

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    Throughout The Matrix there is a multitude of evidence that this movie was influenced by other texts, for example Alice in Wonderland. When comparing these two stories together a sense of self in two different realities emerge, one in the real world and one in a dream world or in our case the Matrix where both can be changed. When Morpheus makes allusion to Neo going down the rabbit hole he is telling him that it will seem like a dream and that Neo as a person will change. Throughout the film Mr

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    The Game of Lives by James Dashner tells the story of a computer program that has turned rogue and caused mass destruction. Michael is a computer program that has involuntarily taken the body of a boy to become an alive and breathing human. Kaine, another computer program, was created by the VNS, an independent agency that monitors the world's usage of an incredibly realistic virtual reality called the Sleep. Kaine has also taken a body in order to become human so that he can overthrow the VNS in

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    Sam Crooks Dr. White History 105 9/23/14 Parallels between Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix Although one comes from ancient times and the other the 20th century, there are a number of parallels between Plato’s ancient work Allegory of the Cave and the modern science fiction film The Matrix. Plato’s work tells the story of a prisoner forced to reside in a cave while The Matrix shows a paralleled version in which a man is a prisoner in a computer programmed world. One major similarity between

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    Skynet: Hero Or Villain?

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    Imagine being created, not born but created, for one sole purpose. Imagine knowing that the only reason you exist is for this one thing. Imagine that you accomplished this task in the only possible way, only to be ridiculed and destroyed. Imagine trying to protect yourself from this attack, and then being seen as the threat and not the victim. Imagine being programmed to save the entire world, succeeding, and then being known as the bad guy. Imagine being Skynet. If you’ve ever seen any of the

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    Technological advances have certainly entered this era to facilitate people’s lives. There is no doubt that some new technology has been created to help operate or effectively manage time in a way that would be beneficial to humans. Technology significantly helps a number of people. A group that greatly benefits with the advances of technology is teenagers. Teens constantly use computers for schoolwork, networking, or knowing anything they want to know with a simple use of their fingertips. Furthermore

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    Skynet Human Body

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    In the year 2018, the artificial intelligence collective “Skynet” has attempted to eliminate the remnants of humanity with nuclear weapons and killer machines, known as Terminators. The main character, Marcus Wright, emerges from the ruins of a recently destroyed skynet base and makes his way to Las Vegas. Once there, Marcus befriends Kyle Reese and together they attempt to find the resistance leader, John Connor. On their journey however, Kyle is captured by the machines, forcing Marcus to find

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    On The 30th of November in 2013, Paul Walker’s publicist Ann Van Iden, confirmed his fast and fiery death. Paul Walker was well known on the big screens, as he was a Hollywood actor from 1986 to 2013. Born on September 12th, 1973 in Glendale California, Walker started out his acting career early by debuting in Monster in Your Closet. He also starred appeared on The Young and the Restless, Who’s the Boss and Charles in Charge. Walker also had appearances in teen movies, but he would eventually move

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    Principles of Organization These four broad principles have many variations and considered as exclusive principles of organization which are as under: Chronological Order (order of Time) In chronological order or time order, items, events, or even ideas are arranged in the order in which they occur. This pattern is marked by such transitions as next, then, the following morning, a few hours later, still later, that Wednesday, by noon, when she was seventeen, before the sun rose, that April

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    Matrix and Mindscan: Are AI’s Human or a Hoax? Since the beginning of humanity, people have disputed over the standards of what qualifies as a human being. In ancient Rome, the Romans persecuted and enslaved those of conquered states. In WWII Hitler slaughtered thousands of Jews. In the primary stages of America’s founding, rich white plantation owners imported black slaves to cultivate their fields. All of these types of persecution occurred because a greater, more powerful group considered the

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