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Digital Receipt #10/Digital Receipt #10

digital recp #10

Posted by Tanvir Youhana on

When watching Her, at first, I was confused as to what was happening as I am usually like when watching any movie. It took me some time to realize that this person lost his wife to a divorce and that he has found love with an artificial intelligence. It has always come across my mind that can a human being ever fall in love with an artificial intelligence. I have come across many stories online of people getting married to their cars and other materialistic objects. What I learned from a movie is that falling in love with someone is easy but letting them go once you’re in love with them is hard and can destroy a person. It can leave them in a bad mental state where they feel like their life has ended and that they will never find anyone else. At the end of the day though I still don’t trust artificial intelligence as they might be the reason to the end of humans. They will outsmart humans and dominate the world.

-Tanvir Youhana

Reflection #2/Reflection #2

Reflection #2

Posted by Ming Hin Cheung on

On my second project, I wrote about the technical description about graphics card – types, ports and functions. I think I did slightly better in this one than the last lab report, because it’s much easier to get the information about graphics card on difference source websites than testing the results by myself. In this project, I did lots of research on each type of video cards, and clearly stated it on my paper with pictures, I think I deserve 96 on this project.

Reflection #2/Reflection #2

Project #2 Reflection

Posted by Tanvir Youhana on

I think that I did well on project number two because I was able to meet all the requirements for the task and more. I think I did well describe the mouse and its functions. I thought I would take it one step further and see if I could include some visual as to better clarify my description and label the parts of a wireless mouse as well. This was what made my project stand out and clearer to the reader. I also thought about if I needed to include some background information that was needed to better help the reader understand where the mouse came from and why it is used today. So, it can be said that I was pretty good being able make my writing as clear as possible. I struggled with finding good images to show each part of the wireless mouse. To overcome this, I realized that I had my own mouse that was wireless, and I took pictures of that to show the different parts of a wireless mouse. With all this in mind I think my paper is worth a grade of 98.

-Tanvir Youhana

Reflection #2/Reflection #2

Jaspreet Jaswal Reflection #2

Posted by Jaspreet Jaswal on

Throughout the second project, I feel as if I did an ok job in terms of describing my item. My item , known as Runite blade, pertained to the game League of Legends in which multiple players verse each other using their own champion. Initially, I described my object to be something as rough since the sword Riven carries is broken. The Sword however revives into a full blade when the ultimate is activated and I also described the transition to how the sword went from a rough texture to a smooth texture with a sharp peak when the special is activated. In terms of describing how much damage the sword is able to conduct, I feel as if I also did a good job explaining how various inventory items can boost up the attack damage of the sword. Overall, I feel I did a good job conveying my audience the purpose of Riven’s sword and it’s attributes. I think I deserve a grade of 97 on this because I feel like I hit the main points, but for some reason I feel as if I missed some small points as there is not much description about the sword online.

Week #9 Response/Week #9 Response

Jaspreet Jaswal Backpacks vs Breifcases

Posted by Jaspreet Jaswal on

Backpacks Vs Briefcases by Laura Carroll, discussed the significance of rhetorical perusal while simultaneously discussing how we play over rhetoric in our everyday lives. In the text, Caroll initially brings the conversation of rhetoric by implying how we are quickly able to judge another person based on their appearance and style of choice. Carroll goes into detail further on when talking about the media and how their tactics impact us on daily basis- “Understanding rhetorical messages is essential to help us to become informed consumers, but it also helps evaluate the ethics of messages, how they affect us personally, and how they affect society”. Carroll initiates the conversation about ethos, logos, and pathos and correlates those concepts to the idea of rhetoric.  I myself practiced rhetorical analysis throughout my life since I have also been following sneaker trends and fashion trends as the media portrays it. In High school, you were not considered one of the ‘cool’ students if you didn’t have the latest releases of jordan retros.

Week #9 Response/Week #9 Response

Geetangalie’s Weekly Response #9

Posted by Geetangalie Goberdan on

“Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Towards Rhetorical Analysis” by Laura Bollin Carroll explains the necessity of using rhetoric in everyday life. Understanding rhetoric is a principle part of being a well-informed consumer as we are not simply being brainwashed by the media. Taking the time to analyze situations, whether it be why or how the matter relates to you and its importance, provides us the ability to not give in to the persuasion of these creators without purpose. Laura Carroll also addresses how we as humans make rhetorical analysis so routinely, that it has become habitual. Just like the example Laura Carroll continuously refers back to in this article with the meeting a new teacher for the first time, I had done the same with my current best friend. Occurring in practically the same classroom we have our English class in, this last summer semester we had our first college class together. On the first day of class, as everyone piled into the classroom I had scanned the room to see what my peers were like. Being my first ever class at the City College of New York I wanted an insight on what my next four years would be like. As I looked around the room, I noticed a lot of diversity within my fellow classmates, not only limited to race but personalities. When I had first seen Reem, my best friend, I had judged her based on her looks. From the way she dressed to her body language, she had come off to me as a stuck up and arrogant. I analyzed the way she spoke to the professor and her shyness came off as being rude from what I could hear. It wasn’t until we sat next to each other and started talking that I got to know her for who she really is. Therefore, we must not always use the judgments we made off of rhetorical analysis as solely our understandings of things.  

 

Week #8 Response/Week #8 Response

Geetangalie’s Week Response #8

Posted by Geetangalie Goberdan on

The Black Mirror episodes “San Junipero” and “The Entire History of You” were both a mind-bending experience. San Junipero was based around an alternate world where people have a choice of their end of life experience. When you have reached your final days you get to experience what it is like being youthful again in a place called San Junipero. Such is achieved when a device is attached to your head that brings your mental state to a false world. In the end, you get to choose to spend the rest of eternity here or move on to the afterworld. San Junipero reminded me of how we as humans try to escape the terrors of reality and live in a temporarily euphoric world. There are various ways we try to achieve this, whether it be how some people use drugs and alcohol or others go into depressive phases where they sleep excessively. We get so caught up in this alternate reality we do not want to go back actuality, this is where it becomes toxic. “The Entire History of You” depicted a society where you can implant a chip in your neck that stores all of your memory. This allows you to relive every moment you have seen, it also permits you to delete certain memories and through the technological advances analyze other conversations you have seen. While watching “The Entire History of You” I related it to the human infatuation with nostalgia. As humans, we are shaped by all the experiences we have made and constantly relive those moments in our head. Our bad habits including focusing on all the good memories we have with bad people and forgetting or neglecting the bad ones. A society like the one present in this episode would only lead to a community of people who could not move on from the past. Also, because people can always have the chance of rewatching your own memories and we lose that privacy, we would become cautious and lose the genuineness of conversations with people.

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