How could you read “Slaughterhouse Five” with anything other than a dedication bordering on obsession? There are horribly written books in my library, but they are the best I’ve been able to find on particular subjects. I’m prone to zooming in on enthusiasms. My interest in exploited ...
Billy Pilgrim inSlaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt Vonnegut: Billy's passive approach to life, time-travel-induced indifference towards death and suffering, and his role as a war survivor make him an antihero. Antihero Examples from Film and TV Serials Walter White inBreaking Bad: Walter's transformation ...
In Vonnegut’s classic, “Slaughterhouse Five”, the hero is wimpy guy who goes in and out of time and space and in the middle of it all, experiences the slaughter of Dresden. Despite, time travel and space travel, Slaughterhouse Five is ultimately a memoir that breaks all the rules. But...
Slaughterhouse Five, By Kurt Vonnegut The mind has always lived in four dimensions and investigating the possibility of the absence of the fourth dimension is challenging to the mind, since the mind has never sought the answers to such a question ever before. Human lives are structured with time...
The world is slowly becoming a high-tech society. New technologies like computers, robots have changed the way most of us live & work. While life turns easier in some way, technology has had terrible consequences for many people. In other words, people are suffering the changes brought by ...
Work in a slaughterhouse. Kill cute pigs, cows, and other farm animals for a living. Strong stomachs required. Be a trial lawyer and only defend criminals. The worse their crimes, the more satisfied you are when they walk off free. Be a mall cop or a security guard. Find a tiny king...
The rights of animals are a very broad and complex subject, but Schlosser touches on this as he describes the slaughterhouse floor. He describes animals in various states of disembowelment. Sometimes the animals were dead or stunned; sometimes they were thrashing about wildly in the last throws ...
AIs can also perform judging tasks, weighing evidence and making decisions, probably not in actual courtrooms, at least not anytime soon, but in other contexts. There are many areas of government where we don’t have enough adjudicators. Automated adjudication has the potential to offer everyone...
“How do I reduce the amount of time that it takes to make a car?” At that time, it took 12.5 hours to build a car. When one of Ford’s engineers was visiting the slaughterhouses of Chicago, they observed something very interesting. In the early 1900s, when they woul...
Bart and Lisa attend "Kamp Krusty" but it is nothing like they thought it would be; Homer's hair grows back and he loses weight while the kids are away. A Streetcar Named Marge (1992) Marge stars in a musical adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, but is angry with Homer's lack ...