1/18/19 Daily Blog

Today's class was on a 2-hour delay schedule so there was not as much time for research and organization as there has been in the past week. However, when we get into class today we were all handed a notecard. This notecard is to be used to help organize how we write our senior paper. This chart was on the board to help us visualize how Mr. Rivers suggests we use the notecard for organization:

Cinematic Evidence	Academic Evidence
Choice	Direct Quote/Statistics
Theme	Argument/claim
Symbol	Discovery/Conclusion
Scene

Mr. Rivers also reemphasized the importance of not trying to write the synthesis from start to end linearly. Instead, he recommends that we write the synthesis in bits, then connecting them to each other in the final draft. 

We also got another reminder that if we have not watched our movie yet (or have not watched it in a while) we should watch it as soon as possible. He also brought up the point that even if the last time we watched the movie was before taking the class we should still rewatch the movie because we have learned so much about film since the beginning of the year. We may be able to pull more evidence from one scene in the movie then we realized before taking this class by focusing on specific characters in each scene. 

For my personal research paper, I thought of another show that I could use for the synthesis portion of the senior paper. The HBO show Westworld deals with the worst case scenario for an AGI and how it could possibly affect humans. There are several episodes of this show that I would like to rewatch as they deal specifically with several ethical implications of an AGI which is the topic of my senior paper. One of the major questions the show addresses is whether or not an AGI can feel emotion. The show also implicitly deals with what the singularity would look like. In the show, the robots outsmart the humans in their quest to free themselves from their human overlords.

The skills we are learning in class will be used all throughout college when writing formal essays. Learning how to format an essay in APA will also help with this. The APA formatting will also come in handy if we decide to go into a science field, or any other field that uses APA.