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Misinformation are similar to rumors. Rumors are said to be dangerous and false information given out from people to others. Misinformation is dangerous because it can cause someone to die and lose the image of another. In this Ted talk, Mr. Aral gave an example that Syrian hackers gave a tweet that Obama was injured by 2 explosions. there were 4,000 re-tweets in less than 5 minutes. This is really crazy and is dangerous and maybe ruined Obama’s image in being a president. The rumor was spread really fast because the title caught attention to many people by its title.

Many rumors that are spreading through social media can be done by bots, professionally programmed. If these bots continue to spread misinformation, the people that are the topics, may be harmed and be a victim of cyberbullying. For example, if the title, “Jeff Bezos is identified as a rapist”, some people may believe this and hack into the amazon system. Mr. Bezos’s life could be in danger.

The more misinformation spread, the more famous people will be emotionally injured. Having these bots/people spreading these cause harm to humanity’s environment, some people may even take it far enough to commit suicide. Everyone should be careful and always do their research before confirming the news.

In the story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the main character, Walter, is subservient to his wife. He doesn’t act like it, but he doesn’t really want to be obedient. He fantasizes about being a lot of things he isn’t, which shows how he really feels. Over the course of the story, he has five daydreams, each different from the other. In the first daydream, he is The Commander, who is a pilot. He charges right into a hurricane, and it ends with the crew saying how they trust him and how competent he is. He is independent and commanding, which is what he wants to be in real life.

In the second daydream, Walter is a surgeon, one of the best in the world. He is famous and is operating on a millionaire. He successfully saves the millionaire’s life by using a pen to substitute for a piston in a machine. This shows that he wants to be recognized and for other people to look up to him. In the third daydream, he is a criminal who is being convicted with murder. His attorney said that he couldn’t have committed the crime because his right arm was in a sling, but then Walter says that he did, and he can shoot accurately with his left arm from three hundred feet. He confesses and admits that he did kill the victim. He doesn’t try any trickery, and is noble about it. This shows he wants to be skilled, but his subservient side is coming out. In the first two daydreams, he is a leader, but this time he is a captured criminal.

In the fourth daydream, Walter is a captain in the military. He is about to go on a suicide mission and is drinking brandy. He seems calm and casual about it to the others with him, even though he would at least be a little scared. This shows that he wants to be tough and not show his emotions, but also he is starting to be more resigned to his fate of being subservient to his wife, just like the captain knew he was going to die. In the fifth daydream, he is a criminal again. Walter is about to be killed by a firing squad, and he takes off the handkerchief covering his face. He faces the firing squad, and accepts his fate. This shows that he has accepted the fact that his wife has power over him. At the beginning, he wanted to be defiant and rebellious, but at the end he knows those are things he isn’t.

In the story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, daydreaming plays a very important role in giving the short story its “feel.” Walter Mitty, a married man, daydreams out of nowhere, which makes him appear to be like like a person going insane. Walter’s daydreams are triggered by events that happen around him, such as if he hears a certain word or sees a certain object.

The feel that The Secret Life of Walter Mitty gives to the reader is that Walter is either dissatisfied with life, or is going crazy. His seemingly random daydreams make the reader uneasy, feeling that he is an unstable man.

The feeling of instability of Walter is shown greater when the story reveals he has a wife. The reader is left to wonder, how dies his wife deal with this? Does Mitty ramble about when daydreaming? If so, how does his wife put up with this? Another unsettling fact uncovered when Walter daydreams about being on the receiving end of a firing squad. This may say that he is either depressed or doesn’t care about being extreme.

All in all, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a puzzling story that leaves the reader to worry and imagine about Walter and his future. Thoughts such as, how may this get him into trouble? Stories like these what makes them so enjoyable, even hours after reading.

I bet we all have daydreamed and wished we could do or be something. In today’s short story, we follow a man named Walter, who daydreams all the time. He wants to be in the military, a feisty person, etc. But too often in our society, just like Walter, we only dream, not follow.

Time and time again, Walter hears about something, and then daydreams about being something great or having an amazing adventure. He keeps on being on daydreaming and not acting on what he is dreaming about. Becasue of his behavior he is the same boring guy who never does anything special.

But next let us look in the example of Michael Jordan. We all know him as perhaps the best basketball player of all time. But he started from humble beginnings. First he barely made the high school team, then told he wouldn’t be able to make the college team. But he would not let his doubters stop his dreams. So he persisted, and you know what? He became the NBA player he is now. But if he had given up, he would not have achivieved his dreams.

We looked at how in the example of Walter,in how he dreamed, but did not persist and failed. But in the example of MJ, in how he tried, failed and tried again. And that is what we need to do. We may not be able to fix our entire society, but we can do our part!

Walter Mitty is an ordinary guy, but he is never in charge it is always other people telling him what to do. He day dreams a lot, and I think that he always wants to be the guy that is in control. I also think that he wants to be a special person that is known everywhere and is the superior one because he is unable to be that person in real life.

During Walter Mitty’s mundane life he is controlled by others, like his wife. His wife tells him what to do and Walter says nothing and does it. He seems scared that if he forgets something his wife would get mad at him. In his dreams he is always the one controlling people and he doesn’t care what others think of him. He is always telling people what to do.

Also he just kind of wishes that he could be the superior one but he doesn’t have the guts to say anything against what his wife wants. He is to scared to say anything bad to others. In his dreams he is able to tell everyone what he wants them to do without anybody saying anything. He can really do anything he wants since it is his day dream.

Walter Mitty is a very mundane and boring person. He isn’t able to talk bad to others because he is scared of the outcome. When he has his day dreams he is able to belittle anyone because he is more superior than others. He is the smart guy and he is better than all the others. He just isn’t able to do any of this in real life because of his personality of being a passive person.

During COVID-19, mental health was in crisis and physical health was no longer important (for this article.)
Schools closed, Theaters were shut down, everything social, gone. And closing everything was recipe for disaster.

On April 27, scientists surveyed adults for how much mental distress they had. And the adults surveyed for serious mental illness was 20%! 1/5 of America. And some people were suffering more than luckier ones. They found out that parents with children we’re having a harder time because they had to do work AND take care of the kids. While the ones that didn’t have kids just needed to go to work.

I think that if you need help taking doing everything at once, maybe you should focus on giving the children a big task for the day. That way, the kids will be busy and you can work. Another way is that if you have a teenage son or daughter, you can ask them to take care of the kids. (in return for money. lol)

In the story of Walter Mitty, Walter daydreams wherever he goes. For example, when he was driving, He was daydreaming that he was the pilot of a hydroplane. The wife shook him out of that dream when she said that he was driving too fast. Also, when he went to the hospital He helped out but while he was curing a patient, he started to daydream again. 

I think that the wife may be undermining Walter because she tells him to put on his gloves and he does but once she leaves, he takes them off. The wife also told him to get overshoes when he doesn’t want to. She tells him that he is not a young man any longer so he should get some.

I assume that is ok to daydream but try not to daydream while you are doing something that can lead to something bad. Such as daydreaming while driving a car or helping a patient. 

Every second, every minute, and everyday we’re in isolation, 

Not knowing how long we’ll stay like this.

So friendly faces forgotten and so many lives lost,

I don’t even know what is happening.

Beyond this world of wrath and tears, 

Even if there’s a tiny bit of life and hope waiting for it,

We shall grasp it firmly with no doubt.

Don’t be defeated, everyone shall be in this together,

Though our head is bloody, we shall stay unbowed.

Imagine living in a futuristic world full of intelligent robots. One’s robot could cook for them, drive for them, help defeat video game rivals, and much more. These AI would be based off powerful machine learning software and many other concepts. Although this may seem like a paradise, one first has to consider the possible consequences of machine learning before taking action. Machine Learning is dangerous because it can outsmart humans and has its own mind.

The TedTalk How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation spoken by Sinan Aral mentions the significance of machine learning when spreading information. A very powerful aspect of machine learning is GAN, or a general adversarial network. A GAN is made up of two parts, a discriminator and a generator. The generator’s job is to generate false information. The discriminator decides if the information is true or false. If the discriminator thinks its false, the generator will generate more realistic fake news. The machine slowly improves itself in this endless loop. The speaker explained how these machines were used to trick many people. When false news seems so real, not even a machine can differentiate it from the truth, humans stand no chance. A machine is far smarter than a human. In 1997, the chess machine DeepBlue even defeated former chess world champion, Gary Kasparov. Today, technology is far more advanced than 1997, and machine learning is on the rise. Many machine learning robots today defeated world champions of different mind games over and over again. With this powerful ability, machine learning will learn to manipulate and control humans, which could lead to the extinction of mankind.

Not only are machine learning robots extremely smart, but they also have their own mind. AWS DeepRacer is a recent invention of the intelligent toy car built from machine learning. This robot learns to follow a track with immense accuracy and also travels at considerable speeds. Additionally, the car’s ability to quicky race on a track improves due to the GAN system. In a video introducing the robot and an AWS DeepRacer racing competition, many of the developers explained how the robot has its own “mind”, so it might not behave the way it is instructed to do so on competition day. At first, this seems as if the power of machine learning has been downgraded, but the exact opposite happens. Since the machine has its own mind, it can ignore the human influence and decide to perform its own actions suitable for itself. When this ability is combined with its intelligence, it creates an independent society of beings far more intelligent than humans. These independent robots have their own thoughts, which can possibly cause all machine learning to unite and attempt to rid the Earth of humanity. All of this seems to fake to be true, but it could become reality one day.

Machine learning is a powerful intelligent creation of humanity. Their high intelligence allows them to outsmart humans and manipulate mankind. These robots also have their own independent minds with their own thoughts, which allows them to act as they wish to. Machine learning can be disastrous when used incorrectly.

COVID-19 has been very deadly. People are dying and getting infected. There are some ways to prevent that from happening. Those ways are. Always sanitize any package someone gets. Always wear a mask when near strangers. Most of all stay healthy and be quarantined and at home

When getting a package most likely that package has been touched by someone that got infected or tested positive to COVID-19. She or he will never know what is on that package. The best way to ensure that there are no more diseases on the package is to sanitize it. By spraying rubbing alcohol or anything that contains rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizer also works.

The second way to prevent getting infected is to always wear a mask outside of the house. From getting groceries to playing at that park. Even though some people already wear masks. The others half won’t Which is why more and more people are getting infected every day. Some dangers in wearing a mask is, when it is a really hot day. The mask might become more yet because of the sweat on her or his mouth and the mask might soften up, as in the fabric might start thinning. This leads to whole in the mask which is never a good thing. Not all people wear fabric masks. Wearing Cloth mask is also good. But just always keep in mind that wearing a mask is better than nothing.

That last and final way from not getting COVID-19 is also a very important thing to do, as the other two. The last way is to be healthy and mostly stay home. Being healthy is a very big part of not getting sick because. If someone gets infected, and is not eating healthy food. He or she will probably get even worse. Which is always not a good thing. Also when someone is infected and not staying home where it is safe. They won’t get the amount of care they are supposed to need which is not good.

Now that the three ways of preventing COVID-19 are covered. People all around the world really need to follow them orelse more and more people are going to die or get infected. 

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