CUNY Academic Commons | Alexander Rao | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/alexanderrao/activity/ Activity feed for Alexander Rao. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 4f1cf281054d39f254ce2ccd5beb4580 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1540 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:32:08 -0400 Her – Quite a strange film. The different thoughts about what a loving romantic relationship is are interesting and a bit concerning. The person in this movie is quite clearly damaged in his view of other people […]

]]> c0af8ed05e8bad5ad6066cb92239071f Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1536 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:53:24 -0400

]]> 34eda785ea3c5bc4bbaeb8b7b74d77a9 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1532 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:39:28 -0400 Our rhetorical analysis can make us see the same person in VERY different manners. We have many good reasons to judge a book by it’s cover when the book gets to choose it’s cover for itself.

]]> fd5bac06184e7ed0cc10f35d68ca0839 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1262 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:45:58 -0400

]]> b4804f80b71bcd5f6c1fd5160e58506b Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1260 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 02:43:34 -0400 I don’t need to tell anyone just how terrifying the realities in these two Black Mirror episodes are. The concept of eternity in these episodes spooks me the most. In San Junipero, your entire life is eternal o […]

]]> 2841628cf8d571d56a66103626337a54 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1168 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 01:34:38 -0400 This episode of Black Mirror is one of my personal favorites. It is on a different level of disturbing. It is painful to watch Lacie struggle with maintaining a superficial version of herself to advertise to the […]

]]> 5d1acf09322dfec14f3236184411f149 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1136 Mon, 18 Mar 2019 01:28:53 -0400 Upon reflection,

 

This lab report assignment was quite useful to me as one who is going back to school and hoping to study engineering. This kind of work is not something that I have done in a long time, […]

]]> ab6299a2cd580dde73b9ec9c25bc2df8 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=998 Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:04:59 -0400

]]> df38c2b9b716bb7fe3e8cc2e784eae3e Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=996 Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:58:22 -0400 Data had no one with experience to help him into sentience, but Lal has Data. Data is considered sentient but he does not feel, Lal does eventually. What is the difference? Maybe it is that Lal has another like […]

]]> 64c246b64bcfa53d18dd05103ef8a507 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=841 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:05:20 -0500 Ex Machina- Many interesting layers in this movie obviously. A few that stick out to me…

Firstly, I love the betrayal of Caleb by Ava. It is so elegantly represented. Caleb wakes up from a daze and Ava only […]

]]> 2c20f90bdd7b65f95b4a30c694bc0b92 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=822 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 04:38:13 -0500 When I was a kid, I was in the Boy Scouts. One of my favorite things as a kid was the Pinewood Derby that we had once a year. I love racing, cars, and building things. I never made it nearly as technical as I am […]

]]> 317ef65757f748edcaf57263d4746730 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=692 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:04:51 -0500 I have been remembering a lot of my elementary science experiments and imagining the reports being done with the detail level of a college lab report. I have not been in school for a while so I am drawing on […]

]]> 424d1af9588f4472a6c40ae4da93e031 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=638 Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:16:34 -0500 Claims of the Internet being racist are ideologically flawed. Technology takes on the characteristics of its creators, and simply because it’s creators are racist, sexist, bias, etc does not mean that the t […]

]]> 520b247381067bcdf7effaf108a78109 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=583 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 05:02:28 -0500 The most funny page in the graphic in my opinion…

 

]]> 885fb378014bb452bf9dddc6baf8fddc Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=578 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 04:51:58 -0500 CHECK THIS OUT!!! I am really interested in the technology behind entertainment. Intels new drones are one great example. Watch the vide in the link here to see what I mean. The picture below is one drone. […]

]]> 57e2c86e9740a6742592371171e21bb7 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=472 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:22:09 -0500 Intel’s Shooting Star drones to get star-spangled for 4th of July aerial light show

This article about Intel’s Shooting Star drone light show for Independence Day 2018. It is a great example of the use of r […]

]]> f73c630c00a6852b1f643c5f8ae51371 Alexander Rao wrote a new post on the site Star Trek, Google, & CFPs: Multimodal Writing for Engineers https://writing4engineers2019.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=470 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:12:52 -0500 The graphic novel on rhetoric makes a good point that I feel is not one naturally thought by many types typically drawn to STEM fields. That is, that the story surrounding a project is why it happens in the first […]

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