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attached. She put it back on later then he removed it and put it far from her so she could not reach it and told her to leave it off for a while. He had told her the leg was what makes her different than everyone else. “She was as sensitive about the artificial leg as a peacock about his tail. No one ever touched it but her. She took care of it as someone else would his soul, in private and almost with her own eyes turned away" (page 9) Hulga was not comfortable with the idea of not having her…

It continually floods social media, websites, and the news that teenagers are only capable of doing bad things. There are, however, a few, out of many, teenagers that say otherwise. Those teenagers are Zach Sobiech, Yash Gupta, and Easton LaChappelle. Zach Sobiech was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. This is a form of cancer. He was diagnosed in May of 2012. During this time of struggle, Zach turned to his friends, family, and guitar. Zach Sobiech began writing songs as a way to say goodbye to his…

External influences can have negative and positive impacts in society. For example, technology is advancing every year, things are getting more complex. New phones are being made, new computers, new things are being invented and advanced as we speak.Soon in the near future we won’t even have to walk, we’ll have robots that will do everything for us. There are positive things, and disastrous things that come with the advancement of technology. External influences in technology have more…

A prosthetic device in substitution of a heart that is usually used to create more time of life until a transplant can be performed, also known as an artificial heart. An artificial heart creates more time to a heart transplant but it can also be a permanent substitution of the biological one. An artificial heart is very hard to receive, a patient must seriously be ill or about to die before it can even be considered. It is a very costly procedure and the whole transplant itself is very…

Have you ever worked on a group project before? If so, you know how important it is to have a strong team. Joshua Davis, author of La Vida Robot, and Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, certainly think so. They both believe that in order to have a strong team, one must use their unique skills to contribute to their team’s success. In La Vida Robot, Davis describes a high school robotics team who use their combined talents to create a robot. This group consisted of four members: Lorenzo…

In the article, Let’s Stop Freaking Out About Artificial Intelligence, Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun support the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and motivate the audience to accept the growth of artificial intelligence and to not be afraid of how technology will affect people’s daily lives. Schmidt and Thrun compare humanity’s way of learning to self-driving cars’ by stating, “[humans] rarely learn from mistakes of others” and “these cars can learn faster than people” (Par. 3). This…

The artificial pollinator is the brainchild of Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan. It entails attaching horsehair bristles to a remote-controlled drone the size of a power adapter, and coating the bristles with a special gel that allows them to gather pollen from flowers and distribute them as a honeybee would. March- Now, for the first time ever, an artificial intelligence program has beaten…

This paper is about Douglas Engelbart. He invented the mouse which we still use today and is said to be one of the fathers of technology and the development of the computers we use today. The point of my paper is to explain how Douglas Engelbart was and is one of the fathers of technology. Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925 in Portland, Oregon. After finishing high school in 1942 he was drafted in the U.S. Army to fight in WWII as it came to an end. After that he returned to Oregon…

ing For my job shadow, I went to my dad's job General Motors that is located in Romulus, Michigan. The name of the job shadow was Kenneth Swint. We observed the work of an Electrician as well as workers who make the vehicles. We focused more on the Electrician part, so the tasks that they usually complete involve the functioning of robots. When they run into problem, they seek help from their supervisor. The working environment that he works in, is inside the General Motors factory building.…

3-D Printing Prosthetics by Cameron Norman There are between 10 and 15 million amputees in the world. People who go through the hardship of losing a limb go through an incredible amount of pain each day. Not only this, but attempting to get a prosthetic limb that may allow them to function as they used to, is not only a difficult, costly process but it also does not lessen the emotional pain of having to live without a limb. With 3D Printing becoming an increasingly popular new technology,…