Historical Analysis Post

ORIGIN: Philadelphia Press. Because of the Press company, we can see that it is point of view from the United States. Created in 1989.

PURPOSE: Is to demonstrate to people that the United State was a world power at that time, and it shows its imperialism and spheres of influence. Different symbols such as the eagle are used to represent the USA.

VALUE: This was important at that time because with in the US, it showed other people how their power was increasing. Few ways of communication existed at that century.

LIMITATION: It was created from a US press, so it might be biased. Many point of view can be drawn out of this cartoon. There is nothing that says that it comes from a reliable source.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/10kMiles.JPG

Mathematics Blog

LIGHTNING This are types of fractas that can be seen in common nature. This strikes of the lighning are examples of fractas since other strikers branch out from rhe original one and also those strikes are broken down into smaller ones.





This video shows how fractals in nature have existes fow years way before that mathemathics was a language. It can clearly be seen why ligning is a fractal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_74hDSlBbxM&feature=related
http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/

Natural Sciences Blog

1. The Monster Study (1939)

2. Children were put together into control and experimental group. Half was given speech therapy, praising their fluency, but negative speech therapy yo the other half, making fun of their speeches and telling them that they were really bad at it. Many of the normal speaking orphans that received negative therapy suffered negative psychological effects and had speech problems for the rest if their lives.

3. First, it was unethical because none of the participants were told what the experiment was about before they participated in it, and believed that they were only to receive speech therapy. Also, the experiment was kept hidden and was not said to the public because Johnson did not want to ruin his reputation.

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5. http://www.highestfive.com/wp-content/uploads/wendell-johnson-monster-study.jpg

http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/humanexperiments/300px-Project_4.1_figures.jpg

http://www.ttmib.org/viejo/JOHNSON1.JPG

Perception Post

"Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in Perception?

-Opinion:
This is true in perception because every single person may doubt about different things, as also, people perceive things differently. Doubting makes people go and investigate things by themselves, as well as for personal experiences. This are ways of gaining knowledge.

-Cultural example:
People in America live in a completely different culture than those in Africa. Most of the time, American people do not know how things are in the other side of the world, how they live and what their beliefs are. For this reason, people would go and investigate, because this whole concept of doubting and not having an 100% sure answer is taking over their minds. Finally they investigate, and of course, some knowledge is gained. This whole thing of doubting is due to their perception of the other people's culture, as knowledge is gained when you perceive something something completely out of the blue that catches you attention.

-School example:
History class is a perfect example. The role of perception is really important in this class, since there are some people who agree and disagree with the events that have happened through out time. As you gain your point of interest in the class, there is no way you are going to know about the event that happened 300 years ago, so some research is needed, so then you would have no doubts about the reason of the war.

-Personal example:
Religion is an important aspect in my life. I have my perception about things and no one can make me change decision. Still, with religion, nothing is completely proven, so there are millions of doubts passing through people's minds. So, as new discoveries are made and new predictions are done, people is gaining knowledge.