Ex Machina

Many people often say "save the best for last" and I believe that my instructor Kristin Kaz did exactly that. In my opinion, Ex-Machina was the best movie that we were assigned to watch this semester for my English 114B class, this science fiction movie is one of the most interesting I have ever watched. There is not a lot of action, but there are a lot of concepts and questions that fly around throughout the movie and the ending leaves a huge debate question that is whether or not Ava would cause human beings harm or if she just acted on behalf of her safety at the end. Because the fact is that only Nathan and Caleb knew that Ava was not a human but an Artificial Intelligence robot acting as a person. Caleb was the one who helped Ava escape but she left him locked in Nathan's room most likely to die, so it seems that Ava was only acting as if she had feelings for Caleb in order to manipulate him so that he could assist her in her escape. Although she doesn't kill Caleb just for knowing that she is an AI robot, she shows mercy and asks him nicely to please stay in the room and just locks him inside. On the other hand, she kills Nathan-- the man who was keeping her imprisoned in a room in his home just because he was running tests on her. But doesn't that mean that she passed his test because he was trying to create a robot that knew how to manipulate her resources in order to accomplish her objectives? She did accomplish escaping even though she had to become a murderer while doing so, with the help of another AI robot who stabbed Nathan through the back meanwhile he was about to crush Ava into bits. It was a very good movie and I liked it very much overall, I would give it good reviews and recommend it to others.

Transcendence

This movie definitely makes a person think about our future with technology given the improvements that technology has already gone through so far. Transcendence is one of the most recently released Artificial Intelligence movies that I have seen and at first, I found it kind of boring because there was nothing going on, but after it set up the storyline for the big question on who the audience should side with, that is when it began to get really interesting. The ending was fascinating and left the story question wide open for audiences to answer, "was the AI system really intending to turn our world into a better environment or turn us into a massive army under its control?" In my opinion, that question was very interesting to put out in the world because it seems like the time will come when Artificial Intelligence will get up to this intellectual point, so this movie has provided a great discussion on whether our society should allow technological advances to get so far in progress. Also, if we do decide to allow technology to advance to such great heights-- we must ask ourselves, are we willing to give up the value of being human in order to achieve better environmental wellness? Because at the end of the movie it reveals to us that we would have had purified water everywhere that could be drank from whenever because of this super intelligent robot and how it would be controlling our every move and would not allow for people to pollute or cause any harm towards nature. The AI said that forests would be regrown as well full of trees and will be filled with beautiful greenery, factories would not be allowed to cause air pollution anymore so that the air would be cleaner, in other words, this AI robot had imagined this whole utopia for us but under the condition that we had to obey its orders. If this were to occur, the human race would be a hybrid species that when called upon by the AI must respond with its one command although humans would still go through their daily lifestyles when not told by this super power to follow its orders. This could be nightmares for but we must not allow these advancements to fall into the wrong hands that only wish for a malignant future for mankind, it must really be seen as a singularity that could happen if we choose to go down that path.

Twenty-First Century Radical Rhetoric

In the current 21st century there are ten observations for understanding the rhetoric of contemporary activists which are our rhetoric; is anti-authoritarian, promotes diversity, is idealistic and prefigurative, is multi-historical, is anti-representational, privileges complex interrogation, is symbolically powerful, is confrontational, is visionary, and it is self-righteous and self-critical. For our rhetoric to be anti-authoritarian it means that there are to be no hierarchical power structures. Promoting diversity is beneficial both individually and collectively because individually we mix multiple experiences, knowledge, and actions; and collectively a more diverse community standing side by side to each other is more productive and powerful. It is idealistic and prefigurative because it embraces social justice for everyone not only white men and what we do and say try to bring things upon ideals that currently do not exist. It is multi-historical because we all have different sets of heritage which allows us to have multiple narratives and experiences not only one source. It is anti-representational because we can see that no one person's stories can represent another's past experiences. It privileges complex interrogation because that way we get full details rather than simple answers in order to challenge one another's viewpoints and make us reflect. It is symbolically powerful because one's actions can motivate others to do the same and take into consideration the purpose in order to take similar action. It is confrontational whether it is aggressive and upfront or subtle and laidback but it is about speaking truth to power and confronting all forms mistreatment. It is visionary because we believe that we can be a better society, a better person, and a better world and we can see these realities in our hearts and minds. Our rhetoric is self-righteous and self-critical because we want to change the world and we think we know how but our answers are specifically just for our time and place and there are others that must revolutionize their own realities.
There are five suggestions to mending the rhetorical gap which is to; specify your audience, make adjustments, name and explain your rhetoric, make more observations, and take personal responsibility. First, specify your audience because the general public is too broad and to talk to address certain groups helps you create more effective actions and messages. Second, make adjustments because this allows you to fit the wants and needs of your audience which increase the chances of people actually taking an interest in your saying. Next, name and explain your rhetoric because people often fear what they do not understand and it is better to be clear so that your full audience will comprehend. Also, you must make more observations than the ten named above because they are not the final word and more observations should be made. Finally, take personal responsibility because when we take personal responsibility for our action we eliminate the need for rhetorical leaders.
Network Rhetoric is a paradigmatic figure if contemporary activists. It is composed of three parts which are multiple and decentered messages, dialogue among those messages and the formulation of public statement, and message or action. Some examples of network rhetoric could be Indymedia, social forums, and protests.
There are three basic steps that can make your network more appealing and intelligible which are to create a rhetorical frame, use categories to manage the connections, and to strive for clarity and accessibility. To create a rhetorical frame you must summarize the connections among the different issues in a single word, phrase or title that is catchy and general to catch the attention of wide audiences. Using categories to manage the connections helps you maintain the focus of your audience and not let them tune out because it specifies and doesn't keep going on forever so that you could test people's patience. Striving for clarity and accessibility is essential because confusion alienates people and draws them out instead of making them intrigued by what you're saying.
The new form of activism is neo-radicalism which has five guidelines for developing a neo-radical agenda which is: neo-radicalism is based on the idea that human beings create their realities through communicative processes, neo-radicalism asks you to walk toward your innermost political desires and create whatever realities you so choose, neo-radicalism believes that every reality should be accepted, respected and appreciated so long as one reality does not impede another reality, neo-radicalism seeks to establish social systems that enable the free creation of our desired realities; this involves investigating, confronting and uprooting any social system that hinders this process, and lastly this struggle continues indefinitely, for even if we create a world of truly decentred realities, there is no guarantee against the reemergence of obstructive, controlling and oppressive forces.

Moon (Spoilers)

Many people in today's society fear the future of technology because the bad connotation of future more advanced robots might take over our world and make us less superior. I choose not to believe in this manner because although that may be a possibility technology has just served us beneficially so far and I like to believe that the more technology grows it will only improve on our own knowledge and research. In the film "Moon" there is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot named Gerty who I liked because it had little emoji faces on a screen to display the emotion that it was trying to convey and I thought that was pretty cool/funny. The robot displayed a helpful and compliant to the owners orders rather than showing a robot who only does human beings harm and intends to beat the human beings who control it. In the movie Gerty told Sam (the human who Gerty responded to) "I'm here to keep you safe, Sam. I want to help you" and it was true, all the robot did was help Sam. He helped him type the correct password to get into Lunar's (the company that they work for) files, also when Sam began to eat his meal Gerty asked him if he wanted sauce for his beans, and when Sam asked Gerty if he (Sam) was a clone-- Gerty replied to him by changing the subject instead meaning that he was a clone. It was pretty funny and touching because the robot was kind of offering Sam its condolences when it broke the news to him, by trying to pat his back with its robot hand. The movie was pretty interesting and I can say that I enjoyed watching it, I liked the AI robot most of all and this film goes to prove that AI robot may not want to do us any harm just serve us beneficially. 

The Power of Language

Language is an idea that many human beings take for granted, but without the use of language in a society, there would be chaos because no one would be able to understand one another. So language is a powerful tool that has been created and language can also be manipulated to persuade an audience or change their minds on a certain topic. Language is the method of communication between two or more people that use words to express thoughts or feelings to each other. The media is a social institution that lives off of the manipulation of language in the way that they present new ideas and concepts to our understanding. Through the media we gather different perceptions of things all around us, but only the things that they would want us to know because they do not tell us everything and sometimes they break up stories to add in details in order to make us think or feel a certain way. The five guidelines to language and communication are; to be accessible, to be clear, to be respectful, to be provocative and to be interesting. The majority of this generation do not tend to follow these guidelines either because they do not know how to or just because it is not in their personality to do so. Although, there are some individuals that do follow these guidelines without even knowing it probably because they like to spark up conversations and not be left in a moment of awkward silence. In the novel "1984" by George Orwell, the quote "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength" is telling the people of this society how to think on these subjects. It is telling them that through war they will acquire peace when in reality it will only bring on more destruction. It is saying that all the right things to do are in fact the wrong things in the real world and it is being rhetorical. The language on social media is influencing us the same way by telling us if this trending celebrity said it, then it must be correct to use; but in reality celebrities get paid to say what other organizations and groups want the public to hear which may not always be true. The media introduces the world to propaganda and since the media has a strong presence in our society, this biased information is usually heard by most. Although, the information provided to the world may sometimes just be junk, some people may believe the false information that some media outlets provide to us.

Labors of Multitude

In today's society, technology has had an astounding impact on us both beneficially and harmfully. It creates an easier access to information we want to search up and it facilitates our communication with loved ones or business co-workers. In addition to technology proving to be beneficial for us, it just as well does us bad in the aspect of making us lazier, not allowing us to have an in-person conversation, and if we lose this technological device we lose a lot of things because we tend to store so much information in one little gadget. Social media is the biggest benefactor from the disadvantages that technology provides for this generation of human beings since social media gives us everything that is trending and popular out in the world. If a certain catch phrase is popular at a time most people begin to use it in their vocabulary and say it wherever it is thought to be appropriate. Also, people speak with slang through social media and with so much use of that slang it begins to stick to them and I have seen some people incorporate it into their writing and school work. Social media creates a barrier between us and getting the courage to do a public speech and in person conversations with one another. In the book "Rhetoric for Radicals" the author says that there are four rhetorical approaches which are persuasion, argumentation, storytelling, and invitation. Persuasion is the act of convincing another individual of an ideology that they may not believe or have a mindset on. Argumentation is the act of debating with the use of a claim and providing evidence to support it. Storytelling is the use of stories to get a point across. Invitation is the welcoming of different people to learn from past experiences that have happened. The media manipulates all four of these approaches to either inform people of different information or try and change their view on a certain subject since the media is where we get most of our information, if not all. One challenging situation that I have faced that forced me to respond to diverse communities was once when I was completing my community service hours for high school at a diverse middle school that I attended. I witnessed the discrimination of an African American student who was accused without any evidence of a wrong-doing just because he was at the sight of the incident meanwhile there was also a white student nearby the incident also. The African American student was falsy accused because "he was closer" when in reality both students were the same distance. I did not see who did it, but I had to sit with both students to try and figure out who really did it. I could not come to a conclusion, but it ended up being the caucasian student. This goes to show that there is still discrimination out in the world and it was the teacher who falsy accused the boy, so adults still haven't grown out of that stage of discriminating against other people with different ethnicities.

Bicentennial Man

 Some individuals fear the concept of being overrun by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the future as technology keeps progressing but in the film "Bicentennial Man" it shows the public another possibility of something that can occur with the on-going development of AI consciousness. I found the movie very interesting and it captivated me how it incorporated ideas to make it comedic while still displaying beneficial ideas for the production of AI in the form of a human with human characteristics. The movie was able to give us an insight of a probability that AI robots walking among our society could serve as us favorable to perform our daily tasks and may even give us more time in abundance to do the things we like to do not only chores that we must complete. The film revolves around an AI robot named Andrew who instead of being normal and obeying orders of household chores, he is unique and grasps new ideas of how to feel and think in a different way than all the other robots while still performing tasks that it is commanded to do. Andrew adapts to these unique features that he has and in doing so he begins to realize that he would much rather be considered a human with human features than to be a robot with an eternal lifestyle. He finds an engineer to change up his outer features in order to look more human where he can express his feelings with his one of a kind face and body type, but this not enough for the court to consider him a human being because he has an infinite life and this would cause envy in other human beings who must die as the cycle of life goes. So he also changes this "unusual feature" but before he is announced a human--he sadly passes away. This goes to show us that future robotics may not want to do us harm but instead be more like us and will give up anything to be considered a normal human being and walk among the environment without any criticisms. In addition to wanting to be more like us, AI could also provide us with better improvements in medical research like Andrew did in the film. 

A Call To Rhetorical Action (Group 1)

There have been many great advancements in technology over the years and it has all lead up to where we stand today with such wonderful improvements in technology. The technology that we come face to face with on a daily basis has proved beneficial for us in many ways and our society would not be the same without it. One way that today's technology can help us build a new inclusive social norm is by fulfilling tasks in our day that would prove to be much more difficult and time-consuming without the use of technology. For instance, the use of automobiles is a normal presence in our lives, but we don't take into consideration how much technology has gone into automatic transmissions and the motor of a vehicle. Without the invention of automobiles and vehicles, we would not be able to get around the city as fast as if we were walking or cycling, which is one way that technology in this era can help build a new social norm. Although technology has offered us a lot of great assistance, it also has given others the potential to lie to the world and make them believe certain things that may not always be true. For example, the media falsifies or ignores our movements and actions most of the time; now that a lot of people own a television or have access to  radio--the media has much more power than it used to have in the early 1900s. But, the media is ruled by the government and if the government tells them to inform us about a certain issue then they can, but if the government tells them to obscure an issue from the public then we have a big limitation to where and how we may find out what is really going on in the world and our country. So in the book, "Rhetoric for Radicals" by Jason Del Gandio, he makes it clear to his readers that we must change this form of leadership to better ourselves and to better the world around us. Del Gandio tells us that activists face five contemporary challenges in today's generation which are, "creating decentered movements, developing new forms of leadership, learning to communicate across contexts, building transnational alliances and dealing with the media juggernaut." (p. 29) The technology provided to us today can help us overcome these five  challenges by allowing us to better understand each other and granting us the opportunity to become one voice that can be heard all around the world. Although, some people may oppose one another's beliefs-- there will most likely always be a majority of people who rule in favor of a democracy where everyone has a say in their society and dictatorships will fall. Technology allows us to express what we feel and communicate across different types of contexts and overcome the lies the media provides us with.

The Terminator (AI)

The future existence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) frightens some people who concern themselves with the idea that the AI systems may have the capability to make the human race go extinct. In the film "The Terminator", Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the AI robot who has so many features and characteristics of a human being which makes it difficult for other people to distinguish them from normal human beings. The AI robot is trying to kill Sarah Connor who has a son that teaches the future individuals to fight back against the AI systems. In my opinion, it was a very interesting movie, although I had not thought much about the series before I had watched them since they never caught my attention with the previews I always thought they were boring and did not want to waste my time on watching them, but after watching the first Terminator I realized that they are pretty fascinating and I would like to keep watching the ones that follow to see how they kept going with the film series. At the end of The Terminator, it seems as if there is nothing to worry about anymore for the future since the AI robot was crushed, but they have already come out with Terminator 2, 3... so I would like to see how they continued to produce the thrilling story.

Blade Runner

The future can hold many great surprises and inventions that were not present during the past decades, but as well as being remarkable--the future can be a potentially dangerous place. In the science-fiction film "Blade Runner", the future of Los Angeles is told in the year 2019 from the perspective of a man named Decker. Decker has an occupation as a blade runner and blade runners are people that hunt down and put an end to Replicants. Replicants are Artificial Intelligence that have the physical form of a human but do not portray empathy. Decker is sent on a mission to kill off four replicants who have killed human beings on Earth and are beginning to rebel against their makers. In the end of the movie Decker wants to run off with another replicant that he fell in love with during his mission, but in reality they may not be so distinct from each other given that Rachel (the girl he falls in love with) has no real memory of her childhood. In the plot, it never gives any information about Decker's childhood either and he instead remembers a spider story that Rachel also has implanted in her brain; this meaning that they have a memory of the same thing. We know that Rachel is surely a replicant signifying that Decker may also be a replicant in the disguise of a human. Also, he found a unicorn origami at the end of the film while he was escaping with Rachel away from potential Blade Runners who could be after them and gives off a little smile once he sees it up close. His police companion would make a lot of origami pieces at the scenes where replicants had killed another human. This is significant because Decker had a unicorn dream in the middle of the film and his companion named Gaff may have let it for Deckard to see so that Gaff could let Deckard know that he knew he was a replicant. Gaff knew about it all and he let Deckard get away with his replicant partner since they had helped the police defeat the real danger which were the other four replicants. Deckard and Rachel were no real threat to society, the government only benefitted from the good deeds that they did and Deckard's smile at the end was the moment of realization for him that he was also a replicant like Rachel.

What Could Be Coming.

There is plenty of Artificial Intelligence (AI) used in today's society even if you have not noticed we come in contact with at least one object of AI on a daily basis such as our phones, ATM machines, or even automatic vehicles are just some examples. So technology surrounds us most of the day, and social medias are a great example of popular artificial intelligence since it includes surfing the web in addition to using a technological device in order to access the Internet. Social medias such as Facebook use a great deal of AI because it recognizes patterns that we create on site and introduces us to topics that are relatable to the things we usually interact with. The use of AI in this kind of manner makes it easier for us to see more of the items we enjoy and less of the things that do not interest us, this makes the social network more appealing to us so we would want to be on it for greater amounts of time. In my personal experience, besides Facebook, I have seen that Panora does this also, and Youtube. This reality that we live in aligns itself perfectly with the argument that we are already functioning as Post-Human individuals because we as human beings are acting as robots acting in a way of regularity and letting these forms of artificial intelligence control our lives instead of us.(http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Hayles-Posthuman-excerpts.pdf) Which is why I believe that Facebook is still a social network of people, but only the people that have been sorted out by AI to meet your desires in your profile. In the article "5 Very Smart People Who Think Artificial Intelligence Could Bring The Apocalypse," a mathematician and fiction writer by the name of Vernor Vinge invented the term "the singularity" to illustrate "the inflection point when machines outsmart humans." In that case, the singularity is the world after human-rule where AI becomes the dominant species. I think that this idea is not too far-fetched in our world today because AI is everywhere and in some instances AI has already found ways to outsmart the best human beings and once we create a true physical robot with the AI to outsmart us human beings, that will be the end of the human race.

Apple v.s The F.B.I

In my opinion, I believe that Apple should keep their stand against the FBI's request to have a back door into their customers devices. I have this mindset because it is our right to privacy as American citizens to not have the FBI interfering in our conversations and data. Also, if Apple leaves a back door for the FBI to "search for terrorists" then it will most likely be a back door for hackers to also get into our apparatuses and steal our information or be able to watch us at any moment. But if Apple decides not to comply with the FBI then I think that they will be in serious trouble because that is the law and I believe that the court will rule in the FBI's favor. The FBI uses the argument of being able to stop terrorists from committing another act, but  I think that if the terrorist would like to commit an attack then they could do it with other resources. If the terrorists really wanted to take action it could happen at any moment and without the source of devices or the Internet. In conclusion, we have the right to keep the FBI and potential hackers out of our private lifestyle and what we choose to do every day on our phones, we should not have to be afraid to have a conversation with another person and have limitations to what we can or cannot say because of other people butting into our gadgets. The FBI is not entitled to snoop in on our conversations and daily lives with the access provided by cellular companies, but once opening that door for the FBI to be able to see what we have who knows if they will keep their word about not looking through our stuff. They will always use the excuse of terrorist acts but we are not all terrorists, we are not all the same but could be treated the same if we give this pathway.
http://www.cnet.com/news/court-to-fbi-no-spying-on-in-car-computers/

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Post

I believe that robots can prove to be beneficial to the society and the country but I also fear that things may go wrong with the robots because humans do make mistakes and I think of the possibility of humans making one mistake on a robot that could end us all. If in the future the artificial intelligence does have a conscience, there is a possibility of having an absolute catastrophe that we may not be able to come back from. In my opinion, artificial intelligence does violate the Martens Clause, from 1977, because I feel as if artificial intelligence could have the potential to dictate its own public conscience if it were to be fooled around with and made to function improperly. Stuart Russell a professor of computer science from UC Berkley, also said in the article that current AI systems were impossibly incapable of satisfying Martens Clause. I define "meaningful human control" as humans being the alpha dogs and being able to control things such as robots/artificial intelligence that we have created. That here are four conversations in this article, the first conversation talks about debates upon whether AIs should be allowed in all the countries and warfare but is most lenient towards not having them. The second conversation speaks of the researchers point of view and how they intend to inform the public of the AIs. The third says they could benefit our society by proving to be useful in the medical field and helping doctors with electronic health care records and genomics. The fourth one states that these robots that were created still need our assistance and lack the ability to function on their own so we should be supportive of these new ideas and not vote them out of our future. I feel as if most fields would be impacted but mostly the business field would be impacted by AIs because they would get the most benefit from them, and the businesses that are not able to compete with the higher more economically funded businesses will fall and cease to exist. So I believe that the monopolies will have the most profit from the AIs. For example, Google has already engineered a self-driving car that can detect obstacles in the environment and people/cars around it. It is always accompanied by a human being behind the steering wheel but has the potential to drive itself around with our command. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/20/433000643/how-close-are-we-really-to-a-robot-run

2001: A Space Odyssey (Film Review)

First of all, I want to start by saying that the movie was very boring in my opinion. It had so many moments throughout the film that were left in blank and I as a viewer was left with a sense of not knowing what to do. Don't take this in a wrong manner, I did like the concept of the movie a lot but the film itself caused me to feel drowsy. For example, in the beginning, when it has two minutes of pitch blackness, I was wondering when it would end and would start feeling desperate. I like the idea of the movie as to thinking "what if" a future robot were to malfunction and disobey its maker's commands, how would we get back in control if we were put into Dave's situation with HAL. Dave's situation was a fictional event but if in reality that were to happen I am pretty sure that some would not know what to do and would end up dying. I liked how Dave traveled through light years and it seemed like if he was learning about things no human had ever seen before, such as different planets that have never been discovered and what seemed to be the big bang. But I believe that robots can be a very useful tool to have, as well as being useful they can be expensive and difficult to operate.

Post-Human

Human beings have come a long way since the cavemen era, but just as we continue to strive in technological  advancements the younger generations are taking a huge hit. Not only the young but also most adults have come to a point where it is necessary for them to stay close to their phone and/or cannot find it in themselves to leave the internet. It is true that these factors facilitate our lives but these objects also take over our lives. In N. Katherine Hayles' book, How We Became Posthuman, she talks about the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics and how they found a new way to look at human beings, which was as 'information-processing entities' who take in resemblance of intelligent machines. She defined the term humanism as having an identity and the freedom to flourish one-self into something greater. I would say that humanism is the ability to feel remorse and the ability to be unique unlike everyone else's mind set. She also set forward viewpoints on the posthuman, such as it would 'privilege information over materialistic objects' and that the posthuman 'controls humans so that they can be formed into intelligent machines.' I would have to agree with her and say that the posthuman is the extinction of the human race and what ever takes over after, will have total say on what to do with our remains. These terms differ in the fact that one is in the era of human beings and the other is after the humans are gone. I feel that I am posthuman to the extent that my life has been a sense of repetition in one way or another. I always have to wake up early in the morning either to go work or go to school, I have to eat everyday in order to stay alive, and there are so many other people that do the same thing I do it is like we are all a society of zombies headed in the same direction, doing the same thing. It is like if my life is scheduled already and there is no irregularity in it to shake things up. So when Hayles' says in Chapter One of her book "We do not see a world (out there) that exists apart from us. Rather, we see only what our systemic organization allows us to see", it made me think about my regular lifestyle and everything out there in need to be discovered. With so much potential and resources, and all we have come to is robots trying to become us. But it is true, we only stick to what we are told to do, already enacting the lifestyle of robots because we never choose to search outside the box for other information or something else outside of our standard, boring, ordinary life.

 

Human Rights v.s Civil Rights

I believe that there is a difference between human rights and civil rights, they are not the same in my opinion. Human rights are rightfully granted to a human being once she or he is born, on the other hand, civil rights are granted to an individual by the government that rules the society in which they are located or currently pertain to. There is a significant difference between the two, because human rights are lawfully provided to each human being by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although in some cases these human rights are not allowed to be exercised by every individual whether it is because of their race, sex, or beliefs in which occasion the government of those certain states decide to rule them out, these are what we call our civil rights. This occurs because of the discrimination that, “Full-blooded Americans” have against certain groups of people, and believe that things should return to the way they were back in the days when Caucasian males had most of power in the country of the United States. These people are mostly Caucasian males of course, whom think that they were in this country before anyone else and that their ancestors own these lands first. Cough, Cough,  Donald Trump Cough. They should not be considered different because if one is granted certain human rights once they are born, I do not think that it is right for a government system to take these rights away only because of what they believe to be true. These rights are set in place for a reason when we take our first breath and no one should be allowed to take another’s legitimate rights, at least not in the United States although it still occurs.

Hi my name is Kevin Erazo studying engineering here at California State Nothridge. I am a first year student and do not really like to read. I have read a few books in the past such as Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk assigned to me by Pofessor Kristin Kaz. I have started reading The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris and I do enjoy it. I had a great first semester and hope to have an awesome second semester for my first year here at CSUN.