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After reading the play Oedipus Rex found in your text book, respond to ONE of the following questions with a thorough 800-1,000 word response. Your response must be typed, double-spaced, using a 12 point font, and 1” margins. Full credit reading responses will include a brief introduction with a clear thesis statement, a well-developed response using specific references to lecture material and/or the text, and a logical conclusion. Include a word count at the end of your response.

 

Did Oedipus deserve his fate? It’s not his fault that Jocasta and Laius tried to outsmart fate and dispose of him. In trying to run from this prophecy, did he really do anything any other person, given the culture, wouldn’t have done? Is Oedipus a victim of fate or is he responsible for the choices he makes? What does Sophocles suggest? What do you think? Use specific references from the text in your response.

 

Imagine you are going to portray the character, Oedipus and prepare a Stanislavskian character analysis of him. Include the ten system steps in your response. Describe Oedipus’ given circumstances, the magic if you would have to apply to play him, his super objective and three smaller objectives, and his through line of actions. What objects and/or people would you have to endow in order to play him and what images would you use in your performance? Lastly, consider your own physical tendencies, what external adjustments would you have to make in your performance of the character?

 

Aristotle believed that Oedipus was the perfect model for classical tragedy. Explore the text and identify the various parts including late point of attack, exposition, several key incidents, climax, catharsis, protagonist, antagonist, hamartia, anagnorismos, metabasis, and perepetia. Do you feel this play fits the model? Why or why not?

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recognition systems. The proponents state that the systems gain enough security relative to the loss of privacy. It can help to prevent crime and detect criminals, thus people feel safer. But the opponents state that there will be too much loss of privacy, the technology can make errors and can be misused. This makes people fearful.
There should be made strict guidelines concerning privacy when using facial recognition to prevent everyday crime. Furthermore, the technologies should be checked very well, so that there are no chances on false positives.

5. Conclusion
Facial recognition systems can be used in various ways to prevent crimes. One of these ways is using FaceIt. FaceIt is a face recognition system that can search through a crowd for a face and match this face with the mugshot history of this specific person. It is considered to be the most accurate facial recognition software as of today. Other results are: matching faces from live security images, face recognition in photographs and face recognition from sketches. These are all methods in which a face (of e.g. a possible criminal) is compared to a face in respectively live security images, photographs and sketches, to see if there is a match.

The facial recognition system is far from perfect. There are still a lot of dangers that need to be considered. Some of the risks that facial recognition brings are: the increasing of crime opportunities, the possibility of falsely accusing innocent people and a loss of privacy.
From this paper can be concluded that facial recognition creates a lot of opportunities to help prevent crime. However, there are still a lot of difficulties that can cause problem when these techniques are used in the real world.

Further research
Further research can be done in different ways. There are still a lot of ethical questions that need to be answered. A trade-off between privacy and the security of facial

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