...the film “The Matrix”, I want to talk about some computer programs inside the film. In the modern century, the developments of new artificial intelligence machines are obviously outstanding. The scientists build more and more robots and make them act like the human. How many information of the robots do you know about? Do you know why they can do anything just like a man? Do you believe if the robots are smarter than the human brains, or not? Nowadays the robots are used at more and more industries such as the automated assembly line of an automobile manufacturing company. I watched a video before which was talking about the...
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...Ethics and Social Responsibility October 15, 2010 Dr. Steven Englehart Large companies have formal performance management systems with a matrix process on every employee that is held every 6 months or once a year. The matrix is a sort of a syllabus for measurements of job performances. The written appraisals will have an influence on any salary adjustment, promotion, upgrades, transfers and positions. In the mean time it is a manager’s responsibility to oversee all the tenures performances, ethical behavior, and moral standards throughout the year. When managers give continues feedback performance against those objectives are measured employees are not surprised by the annual performance. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that seeks to determine how human actions may be judged right or wrong. When the study of ethics is applied to management it is necessary to discuss all basic ethical position, but the nature of the profession and conditions under the management operation. Ethics is not the same as moral, since ethics uses common experiences as its point of managing from right and wrong. There are two types of rights moral rights, in which the claim is based on moral principles, and legal rights in which the claims based on law. Any such claim your obligation as a manager is to manage and hold them accountable for the company’s matrix as tenures. Rights are accepted when they have been justified or made valid by an appeal to the proper set of principles. Yet, without compassion...
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...infinite patterns of data throughout our mundane lives, while digitally we must submit to a finite code or password to identify ourselves to the digital community. In turn, by manipulating and possibly falsifying virtual identities, one can live an alternate, and sometimes dangerous, life through creation of an artificial self, through prosthetic vision and creation of the cyborg. The modernity of humans communicating through machines and developing a highly complex reflective system of digital information that relies on the analog world to input material knowledge suggests that seeking and attaining justice in the analog world is a virtualization exercise. This essay will discuss the connections between virtual and actual identities, the role of the monotheistic God according to Milton’s Paradise Lost and examples of how ethics are experienced within virtual and actual worlds. The ruler of the cosmos, or a person’s God/Higher Power, has a direct influence on determining which persons are judged as fit to be a trusting friend or a doubting enemy. This already creates an...
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...teachers, we want to ensure our instruction is designed so that every student we teach is equally capable of learning the material presented. As educators, it is vital that we follow the advice of Grant Wiggins, who states in What’s My Job? Defining the Role of the Classroom Teacher (2010) that teachers should practice “the core obligations of successful learning: cause successful learning, cause greater interest, and make students feel competent and confident.” (15) Understanding and incorporating learning theories with which the teacher is most comfortable, and can best accommodate student learning, helps build successful curriculum design and instruction. I am a strong advocate of students learning by doing and often incorporate Bruner’s Discovery Learning theory into my curriculum planning and instruction. Today’s students are geared towards autonomy due to their deep immersion in the world of technology. My role of teacher has become one of modeler/facilitator versus direct step-by-step instruction. Bruner’s Discovery Theory, according to the Learning Theories Knowledgebase (April, 2011), enables students to “draw on his or her own past experience and existing knowledge to discover facts and relationships and new truths to be learned by interacting with the world by exploring…or performing experiments.” (1) This theory enables autonomy and encourages my students to work at their own pace as they gain knowledge. With the implementation of the Common Core State Standards...
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...Components of Curriculum Components of Curriculum I. Objectives and Goals: English is the world's second largest native language, the official language in 70 countries. English can be at least understood almost everywhere among scholars and educated people, as it is the world media language, and the language of cinema, TV, pop music and the computer world. Goals: To improve the learning experiences that is more meaningful and appreciable for student’s wisdom and knowledge by providing to them more activities. To improve the English language among the students who are not aware to the second language that we have. To improve the speaking skill, reading skill and writing skill of the each students using the English language as a Universal Language. Objectives: * Provide learning experiences that increase the learner’s awareness, knowledge and self- confidence of every students in society; * Develop the skills, attitudes and values essential for personal development, a productive life and constructive engagement; * Promote experiences that develop the learner’s orientation to the work and prepare the learners to engage in honest work; * Prepare the learners for college; and * Prepare the learner’s in the work field. II. Subject Content Unit 1 First Quarter: * Intonation * Using SVC Pattern * The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) * I am a Filipino (Carlos Romulo) Second Quarter: * /I/ and /iy/ * Using SV and SVO Patterns ...
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...daily problems. * List four common causes of project failure. 1. Not enough resources are available for project completion 2. Project expectation are not clear 3. Not enough time has been given to the project 4. Adequate project planning is not used * What are the three common ways to classifying a project? 1. Classifying by size. 2. Classifying by timing of project scope clarity. 3. Classifying by industry * List and describe each of the managerial and associate role. * Managerial Role: 1. Project manager = “the person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives” (Kloppenborg, T. J. 2012). 2. Functional Manager = Are the departments heads, in charge of how the work is going to be accomplished and can negotiated who does the work. 3. Facilitator = assist the project manager with the process of running meetings and making decisions. * Associate Roles: 1. Core team members = Does most of the planning and makes most of the project –level decisions. 2. Subject matter expert = temporary members used in an as-needed basis. Chapter 2 * Describe three different ways decisions makers might selects projects while considering both financial and nonfinancial factors. 1. Financial analysis = primary means which projects are selected and management merely tempers this with informal inclusions of nonfinancial...
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... Socrates, who was Plato’s mentor, was ‘committed to a life that cultivated wisdom’. (Lecture Notes) The pursuit of Truth (The Allegory of the Cave) is one way in which we become wise. I agree with the Allegory to a certain extent. I do believe that people can have a fear of the unknown and can therefore remain static or ignorant as it were. However, I also believe that many people, and in particular children, are naturally inclined to explore and question and therefore further their knowledge, which is at odds with the prisoner as presented to us in the Cave. The first thing that must be done when discussing Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is to ask ourselves what it represents. Firstly, it’s important to point out that it is told by Plato in the context of education. The Allegory is a metaphor for the journey people must take on the road to true enlightenment or in order to gain true knowledge. He utilises the Allegory as a way to explain his theory of forms and his differing views of illusion and reality. The prisoners are living in a world in which they ‘can only look straight ahead of them and can’t turn their heads’. (Plato, 1955, p.256) In this sense, we see what we are told to see and we believe/accept it without ever questioning it. We have beliefs but we don’t understand why we have these beliefs. Similar to the prisoner in the cave or Neo in the Matrix (Wachowski Bros., 1999) movie, which is loosely based on the Allegory of the Cave, this poses a major psychological difficulty...
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...IFSM 304 – Ethics in the Information Age Learning Portfolio Assignment Descriptions Here are the detailed Assignment Requirements and Summary (Reflection Paper) that comprise activities for a Learning Portfolio for IFSM 304. These activities, along with class discussion and any other assignments your professor may require will enable you to achieve the course objectives and demonstrate knowledge of key concepts and apply this understanding to real-world digital ethics topics and situations. Understand that your work will comprise a Learning Portfolio for the course and these assignments are linked! You will be faced with work that advances with a progression from a general basic framework for decision making to more specific analysis and critical thinking about more complex ethical issues. Current Events 5% Conference Posting of articles on IT-related Ethical Global issues (multi-national corporation) The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a current event article on global ethical issues from a multi-national corporation perspective. This assignment is designed to increase your knowledge from a corporate viewpoint and enable you to analyze ethical issues from a current GLOBAL situation or event. This will also enhance your research and writing skills and your critical-thinking abilities. Select a current topic (2010 source or later) and find an appropriate article on the topic. Provide the persistent URL (one that anyone can click on to read the...
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...Divine Roles Across Cultures Matrix Select one common divine role that recurs in world mythology. Possible options of divine roles include the following: father or mother divinities, divinities of war, home or hearth divinities, divinities of love, divinities of wisdom, divinities of medicine or health, divinities of the wind, divinities of agriculture, divinities of the sky, ruler of all the gods, and so on. Identify the role in the title of your matrix. Select two myths, each from a different culture, in which the divine role appears. Identify the divinity names and cultures in columns A and B. Complete the matrix by answering each of the five questions for both selected divinities. |Title: Divinities of Love and Beauty |Column A |Column B | | |Divinity Name: Aphrodite |Divinity Name: Freyja | | |Culture of Origin: Greek |Culture of Origin: Norse | |How is this divinity portrayed? |She was portrayed to be the goddess |She was the goddess of love, lust, | |Describe the divinity’s role within the|of love and beauty often shown |fertility and magic. According to | |myth. |smiling. She is the daughter of Zeus.|Freyja (1996), she is believed to be | | |Some myths also say they daughter...
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...The Orion Shield Project Analysis Shruti Patel University of Maryland University College AMBA640 Executive Summary Any and every project or program requires a plan to be implemented and documented to ensure its success. The Orion Shield Project is an example of a project without such a plan in place, and an inexperience manager as lead. Gary Allison was impulsively appointed to the position of Project Manager for the Orion Shield Project by Henry Larsen, the Director of Operations. This paper will analyze the the technical, ethical, contractual/legal, and program management related issues that Gary Allison encountered while managing the Orion Shield project. The paper will outline the history and specifics of the project but it will mainly focus on the actions and reactions of Mr. Allison, and what steps he could have taken to result in a different outcome for the project. Gary’s lack of management experience and lack of ethical judgement led to a failed project mission, which could have been easily avoided. Introduction The Orion Shield Project has the mission to improve the structural capabilities of NASA’s Shuttle Launch booster by 3 years. Research found that the Booster showed signs of fatigue failure after six years in the field, where as the desired and originally specified time was nine years. This project was by NASA to find/create new materials that can support a longer life in the field for the Shuttle Launch Booster. Since the DoD/NASA contracting criteria...
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...chooses me." (Roth, 373). The science fiction aspect is expressed throughout the whole book especially as they describe truth serums and a faction-based city. Allegiant's genre is very similar to when I watched the Matrix. The Matrix is a science fiction movie where Neo and his crew are attempting to break the barrier between the real world and a fabricated one. The Matrix also has a romance aspect between the main character and the lead female role, who is his love interest. So to summarize, both pieces have relative genres; romance and science fiction. One of my most cherished characters from the Divergent series is Tobias "Four" Eaton. He is a troubled and damaged man who comes from an abusive past . His father abused him and his mother faked her death to get away from his father and possibly him. He is my favorite character because I understand his personality inside he is a caring and amazing person but on the outside, he comes out as violent and impetuous. His persona reminds me of another one of my beloved TV personalities, Niklaus Mikaelson. Klaus and Tobias are both considered damaged but most people don't see the depth in them which makes them a great connection. Lastly, the plot of Allegiant is a complicated story that involves betrayal, conspiracies, war, and most of all figuring out whose side you're on. Tris and her friends are tasked to find out the truth about their world but every time that they get even remotely close someone has lied to them or disaster strikes. In...
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...Tara Peters, Ph.D. October 28, 2015 Abstract Through our writings for the group assignment, we will detail the emotional intelligence of one main character. We will be expressing contrasting approaches in which two characters exhibit from the chosen movie, "The Matrix". Lastly, we will touch on the additional course concepts from the psychological contract piece of the readings and tell how it was represented, in the movie, through Cypher and Morpheus. Introduction In the movie, The Matrix, several characters make up this thought provoking movie. The focus takes place between a ship inhabited by humans who are fighting against a computer program. This program simulates what appears to be very realistic lives of people that live on earth. However, early in the movie, it is revealed, “the machines’ and computer programs called “agents” are a real threat to the remainder of humanity. The primary set of characters takes us through the past, present and future of humankind’s war against technology. Technology that is being used to oppress rather than empower. The following characters this paper will focus on are: Trinity, Neo, Agent Smith, Cypher and Morpheus. Trinity is a hacker who escaped from “The Matrix.” Agent Smith is the most unique of the other agents. Smith is doggedly determined to maintain and uphold the program, as he believe it keeps the necessary balance to control humans. Morpheus is a passionate inspirational leader and a teacher who strives to influence...
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...had the ultimate say so on what the functional manger could and couldn’t do. Upon program authorization or contract award, upper management should have issued a program directive to Gary. A directive contains the statement of work, the program schedule, the Work Breakdown Schedule WBS, the amount of appropriated budgets and other specific requirements as needed. This would have been helpful because personnel that were assigned to the project were later moved to another project. Because Gary did not have the program directive; it made it easy for the functional supervisors to do as they pleased with their personnel. This created a huge communication gap and it was something that Gary had little understanding. Communication played a big role in this project, the team’s ability to react to the changes in the project was severely hampered through little or no communication. It was evident that from the beginning that ethics also...
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...single central dominant core while complex systems of interacting objects. Detecting network communities in protein–protein interaction (PPI) as well as communitiesVgroups of objects that often correspond to func- product copurchasing networks have small overlaps and form tional modulesVis crucial to understanding social, technolog- many local cores. ical, and biological systems. Revealing communities allows for | Community detection; core–periphery structure; analysis of system properties that are invisible when consid- KEYWORDS ering only individual objects or the entire system, such as the identification of module boundaries and relationships or the ground-truth communities; networks classification of objects according to their functional roles. However, in networks where objects can simultaneously belong to multiple modules at once, the decomposition of a network into overlapping communities remains a challenge. Here we present a new paradigm for uncovering the modular structure of complex networks, based on a decomposition of a network into any combination of overlapping, nonoverlapping, and hierarchically organized communities. We demonstrate on a diverse set of networks coming from a wide range of domains that our approach leads to more accurate communities and improved identification of community boundaries. We also unify two fundamental organizing principles of complex networks: the modularity of communities and the commonly...
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...Chapter 10 Idea Judgment The role of the Judge Judge: critical mindset; impartial (is this possible?); find the best idea based on evidence and principles; consider the risks involved in all possible solutions; What is Good Judgment? Although good judgment comes from experience, we can learn from the mistakes of others; a good judgment must detect errors, flaws, risks, consequences and uncertainties Values, Presuppositions and Bias “Judges are required to do much critical thinking. However, critical thinking is not taught well in schools., where only the analytical aspects of logical reasoning may be introduced. But effective critical thinking and decision making are whole brain processes.” -experience is important -to be good judges, we have to be cognizant of our personal biases (e.g. religious, moral, ethical values; ethnic customs and values, cultural bias and prejudice; values based on personal experiences, etc.); we must be able to think beyond the limits of our own “tribe” -so, be aware of our personal belief systems (egocentrism and ethnocentrism) -“Teams” can help prevent some of these personal biases Ethics In Engineering -Engineers must ensure the health, safety and welfare of the public -Do businesses in general operate according to this general principle of ethics? -Whistleblowers may be necessary to take a stand against organizational corruption Critical Thinking -see table 10.2 on page 242 -Argument skills: informal...
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