Pride and Pathos

First off let me just applaude Sojourner Truth for what she did. The mere fact that she stood up (as a woman of color) and talked in front of the crowd of white me and women before slavery was even abolished! There obviously must have been deep rooted emotion in her words. Her emotions come out as she's talking of being a mother and witnessing her 13 children get sold into slavery. The thought of that is just heartwrenching. This is a very good form of pathos. She shows ethos which correlates with the same situation. Her credibility (ethos) is that she herself was a slave, adn she even said, " have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! " her logos comes into play as she starts talking about how a person's intellect cannot make or break said person's rights in society. This is my first encounter with Sojourner Truth, and for this, i think extremely highly of her. What a powerful woman, with even more powerful words.

Robots? more like Shmo-bots!

In this essay by Ellen Ullman, 'Dining With Robots', she really goes in-depth in her metaphor, " a computer program is like a recipe. It's a set of instructions." Ms. Ullman dives into recipes trying to explain what is and what isn't like computer programming She begins talking about how sauteed beef is a quick to make meel for important guests, and how she coudln't explain that to a computer. She then adresses how artificial intelligence is a really hard problem to solve because it is not just a recipe. She claims that the professors had no idea how to cook. Honestly, i really feel overwhlemed by her essay, halfway through reading it i just had to look away from my computer screen for a few minutes and take a deep breath. Her words feel to me like a rusty machine feels to a mechanic, clunky. It seemed as Ms. Ullman lost herself in her writing and just began rambling. The essay was quite confusing. All she does is restate obvious, unanswerable questions, and then keep moving into the next one. How could she make a robot understand why there are different wine glasses, or why its important to eat, or sit, or anything. Ullman just becomes a bit redundant in her writing. She does use a very good vocabulary, but she could of for sure wrote for a broader audience. With a little time myself, I could've wrote in a more intriguing style than her.