An Assortment of Life

 Artificial intelligence has been growing in popularity over the last few years. What seemed like science fiction decades ago is now very much a reality. Artificial intelligence or AI has taken a step into so many facets into the online world. There is software that can create images, whether or not what they create is actual art or not is another debate in itself. What I wanted to talk about is the AI software Chat GPT and the many uses that it has, because it can be used for more than just writing essays for you, if you use it like that. Chat GPT is an AI software that can write out anything if you give it a certain prompt. This can be either writing stories, essays, paragraphs, or anything of the like. One unique feature that I saw is the use of Chat GPT as a dungeon master for Dungeons & Dragons. Dungeons & Dragons requires at least one dungeon master who runs the game, they create the story that the players experience along with many other managerial uses. The overall ...

According to Arizona's previous governor Doug Ducey in a 2016 article if more Arizona's workforce had a better education then our economy would be better. An increase in education would result in more jobs, better wages, less poverty and much more for our economy. While all of this sounds great, is it true? Would an increase in education actually improve our economic society so vastly? Well this may not be the case. This article came out nearly 7 years ago, and our economy certainly doesn't seem to be in a better place than it was in 2016. Is this all because of people who didn't pursue an education with either colleges or trade skills? Well that couldn't be the cause of it because there are many factors that affect how the economy works, and it doesn't solely fall on those who chose not to purse higher education. According to The Balance there can be many causes of a decreasing economy, such as higher interest rates or the loss of consumer confidence in the m...

 I wanted to tie in the concept of rhetoric and appeals with my interest in media including movies, games, and shows. Today I wanted to look at the new Scream movie that released on March 10th as well as the rhetorical appeals that I believe that I saw while watching this movie. I will try not to go into anything very specific as to avoid any spoilers, mainly I will avoid anything that was not in the trailers leading up to this movie.  To start, I have been a fan of the Scream franchise for quite a while so I was excited when the 5th Scream movie was announced and then released last year. So naturally, I was excited to watch the 6th installment of the series when it arrived in theaters. Ever since I watched it in theaters a couple days ago I have been thinking about it, and I have thought about the rhetorical appeals that this movie would have in it. So, I thought it would be interesting to look at how horror movies, specifically Scream 6 handles and displays rhetorical appeal...

     Slanted reporting, or biased reporting causes a lot of misinformation to be sent all across the internet. When someone inputs their own biases, directly or indirectly, it can easily shift the tone of what they are reporting. Suddenly when biases are found it can make people question the truth behind the subject, it puts credibility into question. Some biased reporting can be relatively easy to find depending on the source or author you are looking at. Image Source      When looking at any online news source it is very easy to find something that is biased or slanted towards a certain perspective. Take a look at this article by Fox News that is clearly biased. This article pokes at the "radical left" and is very clearly created to create controversy and maintain conversation on the internet. Any political article will be written with biases, that comes with the nature of politics. With article like these they are very clearly made to make the reader ma...

 Opinions are obviously a very natural thing to have. We as people have always loved to express our own opinions, and that was made much easier to do because of the online centered world that we live in today. It seems today that everyone loves to share their opinions, and too often online these opinions can become a bit too nasty. If you have ever looked online and looked at people "discuss" with each other about their opinions it very quickly turns into an online fight between two people, and often times many other people join in with their own opinions. What I am getting at is that opinions are important to share, however people very easily criticize others for sharing their opinion on something just because they disagree.  A research study was conducted in 2021 that looked at how our emotions impact what we feel towards certain things and for how long that can last. This was reported by the  Science Daily  and found that emotion based attitudes and opinions can l...

Entry #1 Reboot - Is There Such Thing as Wasted Time?  When I am not at school, not working on school work, and not at work what do I like to do? What do I Kalen Mullenix like to do with my free time? Honestly the answer is pretty simple, when I have free time, I like to indulge in various types of media, meaning either watching tv shows or movies, or playing video games. More often than not I will choose playing video games. To most people playing video games can be seen as a waste of time, which can make sense to a degree, but I don't believe that all time spent playing games can be a waste.     Video games are just like any hobby, and anyone can view it as something that is interesting or something that is boring and a waste of time. But what really is a waste of time? Just because others don't see or agree with the value behind playing games in your past time doesn't mean that it is completely a waste of time. For example, I like to play video games that offer a chall...

Blogs have been a popular form of uploading information about people's lives, whether it's our personal lives or it's information about a celebrity that we know little about. Blogs are used in many different audience is targeted for each and every blog. Some blogs give information and news in proper and interesting ways, while others do not. It is important to distinguish between blogs and what they do correctly or incorrectly.  Obviously blogs do not have a "right" and "wrong" like assignments would at school, but there are certain things that a blog can do that interest a reader immediately, like the blog  Fast Company . In particular the one blog that was linked did an interesting job at hooking the reader, writing towards and audience, and using a format that keeps the reader interested. There are some articles that could leave you feeling like you are reading a wall of text. However, this blog does not do that, it's format keeps the article inte...