{"id":12586,"date":"2023-04-07T02:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T02:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/weve-all-heard-that-a-million-monkeys-banging-on-a-million-typewriters-will-eventually-reproduce-the-entire-works-of-shakespeare-now-thanks-to-the-internet-we-know-this-is-not-true-robert-wile\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T02:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T02:04:59","slug":"weve-all-heard-that-a-million-monkeys-banging-on-a-million-typewriters-will-eventually-reproduce-the-entire-works-of-shakespeare-now-thanks-to-the-internet-we-know-this-is-not-true-robert-wile","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/weve-all-heard-that-a-million-monkeys-banging-on-a-million-typewriters-will-eventually-reproduce-the-entire-works-of-shakespeare-now-thanks-to-the-internet-we-know-this-is-not-true-robert-wile\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. &#8212; Robert Wilensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our next essay is an open-ended assignment that asks you to reflect on a quotation<\/p>\n<div>and develop a thesis in reaction to it. Choose one of these quotations, decide what it<\/div>\n<div>means to you, and respond to it in a well-organized essay of at least 450 words. You<\/div>\n<div>can choose more than one if you can find a way to relate them to each other.<\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million<\/div>\n<div>typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of<\/div>\n<div>Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.<\/div>\n<div>&#8212; Robert Wilensky<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next essay is an open-ended assignment that asks you to reflect on a quotation and develop a thesis in reaction to it. Choose one of these quotations, decide what it means to you, and respond to it in a well-organized essay of at least 450 words. You can choose more than one if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=12586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}