Bicentennial Man Film Report

Watching Bicentennial Man gave me a new perspective on our constitutional rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It opens up a gateway to the warmth and happiness that nature affords us as we progress from being in infancy and developing our thoughts, motions, and feelings as they transfer into adulthood despite the origination of our existence.

The film has a very personal connotation. A very touching story of how the artificial intelligence "creation "loves all people and devotes his created life to serving others. He feels pain for losing those closest to him even though he's not enabled to die. One line that truly resonated with me was when Andrew expressed something that was dearest to his heart. He showed the emotions he felt for others and vice versa by saying, "it is torture that you can cry and I can't." Viewing tears as a privilege feels way beyond my reach. It is almost as though, not being able to bear those emotions are unreachable. I feel as though, despite something being created by man, if it has the ability to act and develop humanlike feelings and thoughts than the gift of humanity shall be granted to them despite the origination of their initial purpose and creation.

Social Media and Personal Expression

Technology today, especially through the platform of social media, creates separation between the way we express ourselves through writing, public speaking, and very personal intimate conversations with other people. For example, social media speech differs from that of a professional conversation with an employer or professor. Students and professional staff rely so heavily on social media platforms to express their inner thoughts and emotion using fragmented sentences. This form of language conveys unprofessionalism as a different form of socialization in media. This creates a bridge in the way people communicate and express themselves daily in the absence of social media. Four rhetorical approaches in media today include storytelling, writing, public speaking, and building history knowledge. These radical approaches enable to speak confidently. These forms of public speaking also involves immediacy. The uncompromising of body language, eye contact, voice inflections, and silences all help to create meaningful moments using person to person relationships. This collective experience creates a person to person experience rather than a virtual connection through social media. A challenging situation that forced me to analyze and respond to diverse communities and audiences include volunteering at the Ronald Mac Donald House. Exasperating count less hours with a non profit organization has enabled me to engage and interact with people of different cultures and different backgrounds. Being able to exercise patience and interact with people who are ethnically different than I am has allowed me to embrace different cultures and diverse communities. Without knowing how to communicate outside of social media, it is possible to develop speech anxiety when speaking in front of large crowds and engage in professional settings. That is why it is very important to exercise public speaking and conversation engagement outside of social media platforms including involvements with different organization to suffice for gain of experience with people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Social Norms : Rhetoric for Radicals

According to the Rhetoric for Radicals social norms are patterns of interaction geared towards adapting people to a life of a certain patterns and routines through pattern manipulation. For example, according to society, it is the women's duty to bear children and care for the home in addition to pursuing personal endeavors. This has been constituted as a social norm that restricts women's life choices. In like manner, it makes it possible to say that technology today might help us build a new inclusive social norm due to the fact that it changes and enhances our personal world of communicating by changing our of human communication using technology and social media. People use different forms of media daily to convey  their innermost feelings and daily dwellings which makes it easy to say that social norms have been determined as socially construed rather than inherently given. Therefore, it has become vital that people work towards the norms proven to be socially just and empowering rather than that of a detriment.

Despite how easy of a notion this might sound, media tends to ignore or falsify different movements of action due to given rises of anti-authoritarian activism which can cause distort and divide society to go against governmental or civilian powers. If the media or government feels as though they are creating a sense of rebellion and anti society behaviors than it makes it easy to falsify information to secure themselves. In rhetoric for radicals there are five contemporary challenges faced daily. The five contemporary challenges current activists face are intercultural exchanges, intercultural communications, culture specific rhetoric’s, translation issues and creating transnational rhetoric’s. These five challenges allows us to address and confront issues of diversity and inclusion in the sense that racial biases and slurs aren't a negotiating factor and neither is the ability to adapt to people of different ethnic backgrounds. Technololgy will definitely bridge these gaps between cultures and people because provides a intercultural sensitivity within social norms.

The Terminator Film Report

Although Artificial Intelligence has its beneficiaries as far as advancements in technology and military services, The Terminator was really frightening and showed another aspect that can occur as society furthers its developments in Artificial Intelligence. Being able to see a cyber or artificial intelligent "species" in humanlike form attacking civilians and causing uproar in the city makes it difficult to distinguish human from artificial intelligence. What caught my attention the most was the total disregard for humanity. Arnold "The Terminator" sought out Sarah because of the belief that the unborn child she beheld would seek out artificial intelligence, and then terminate its existence. The Terminator had no regard for human appeal " emotions, feelings, and thoughts" nor did he show any mercy for civilians. He was aimly fixed on murder and seeking revenge. He continuously went on killing sprees in hopes of achieving his wishes which were to prevent the extinction of his own existence. Infringing on someone's right to life no matter the reason is a violation of human rights and the pursuit of happiness.