Spring Break Essay

Beebe, Ethan Blake

Period 3 

April 12, 2015

Why I am A Human Being

                  There are hundreds of thousands of logical reasons why I am a human. I have all the organs a human should have, I walk, talk, and act like the average human. But the biggest reason why I think I am a human is because I can experience the feelings of human emotions. I'm sure you could give a robot human emotions, and you can make them talk, walk, and act like a human, but you could never make a robot feel what its like to breath the air we live on, and have a  personal true to them, opinion about it. Opinions, Emotions, etc these are things that are beyond my level of explaining, and honestly I don't want to try (because it's very complicated) but it's something every human being has, you can;t take it away. Nobody can, because nobody has the physical or mental power to, robots are programmed, they think act and do what they do because of how their made, humans are similar, they are raised a certain way to be the person they are, but the difference with humans is that we have the power to say no. We might not always do it, but we always have the choice, and that power cannot be taken away until we die.

         Over the break I read "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep", the story is about a bounty hunter that works for the police and live around what seems is all androids. I won't get too deep into it, but at one point in the story he is being accused of being an android by androids. This made me think of the reasons why I am a human, and made me think of what would be going through my head in that position. I don't think, in that situation, I could contain my anger, confusion, and frustration, and like Montag in Fahrenheit 451, I would probably go on some sort of rampage. This book reminded me a lot of Fahrenheit 451 in many way, the biggest being the way the world was out of context with our own.

      

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I know one of the "Blade Runner" movies is based on  "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep" and I would've read Ready Player One but it was far too long for me to finish in the time I had, plus I want to read that book on my own time and at my own pace so i can enjoy it more since I know it's a great book and there is going to be a good movie on it coming out soon.

Stream is up

http://www.twitch.tv/notsoheroic

March 26, 2015 English Class Notes

Ethos- The character of a speaker, identity and impression of that speaker, Ethos DOES matter in communication,the physical 

Pathos- Emotion the speaker brings, the Passion in their voice, the mental

Logos- logic, how well does the speaker structure their arguments, the logical

JFK Speech

Ethos - formal president, positive reception, special event worth listening to, 

Pathos - passion in his voice, inspirational speaker, leading up to an end point, passionate about the US, a leader, intends to be first to the moon, not many fallacies in his speech, taking shots at the Soviet Union (USSR), 

Logos - Tu Quoque (You Too) Fallacy, Red Herring Fallacy, 

JFK Quote.

"We don't do things because they are easy but because they are hard"

My Question After Today.

Do you feel like if we all had the same routine everyday that we'd all think and want the same?

Master Piece Update

I love video games, they bring people together in ways I've never seen before. To make one would be my ultimate goal, to play one is an everyday goal, and to share that everyday experience with as many people as I can is at least a weekly goal, if not a daily goal. I have no idea on what I want to do realistically. I know at some point I want my pilots licence as well as my regular license, as well as a job, but all I really want in my life is to help others, because I tend to be a very selfless person, I'd be the rich guy that gives all his fortune away to people that need it, all I really want from life is to barley get by, and to maybe experience some things that not most do. So, I'll continue to work on my YouTube channel and I'll try to get started working on this game. A game takes so much to make perfect, and that's all I want is to make a perfect, simple, and lovable game. But I'm still doubting my ability to do it.

Media Examples of Fallacies

Now I couldn't really find my own examples, for I did not the time, but I found this video that has many different examples in the media, and explains them well. If this doesn't help you, I don't know what will.

The things you forgot

Appeal to pity

Argument to logic

Sweeping generalization (Dicto simpliciter)

My Masterpiece

I'm not too sure really, I know I want to do something with technology like coding, and game design, but I feel life is too short to just do one thing. I've also thought about being a pilot, serving in the military somehow, going to college, doing something big. All I know is i like helping people making people laugh, and the best way I could think of doing that on a grand scale would be to create some sort of content. So, I've dabbled in game design, and other things but the big thing I've been working on is my Youtube channel; https://www.youtube.com/user/NotSoHeroicGaming and live streaming games on my twitch channel; http://www.twitch.tv/notsoheroic I'll try to keep updating as much as I can.