In class on Friday we listened to a podcast of an interview between Mark Matousek and Leonard Lopate, watched a TED talk by Eve Ensler and read a paper by Paul Graham. I can’t really see the link between the TED talk and the other two. But on the whole, they all talked about [...]
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I found on the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that rights are “Entitlements (not) to perform certain actions, or (not) to be in certain states; or entitlements that others (not) perform certain actions or (not) be in certain states” From this, I think that this is too broad of a definition to [...] Utilitarian Approach A According to the utilitarian approach, abortion should be legal because the pregnant woman may not be ready to take care of a child and should have to option to abort. The child may lead a disadvantaged life as well because the mother is unable to take care of the baby. B [...] In the stroy we read today, it is very easy to start feeling indignant for the character we most sympathize with who is usually the same gender as ourselves because we are more likely to think in that perspective. However, if we try to understand the situation from each person’s perspective we see that [...] http://music.yahoo.com/photos/yoko-ono-s-wacky-to-the-light-art-exhibit-slideshow/a-photo-1340137861.html TOK day was one of my favorite TOK lessons all year. We learnt about the arts, more specifically music and visual arts. We had a presentation on each subject and completed some activities that helped enhance our understanding of each. In the music presentation by Mr. Birse, we tried to [...] The first difference that I thought of between bias and opinion is that bias seems more stubborn and unwilling to listen to other people’s views whereas opinion is just one person’s view on a certain topic. I think this would where the negative connotations associated with bias comes from. I think that in order [...] How is math beautiful? In my perspective, math is most beautiful when the answer is simple or the formula to find the answer is very simple. For example a simple formula can capture a whole idea or concept in just a few symbols because it shows how even though we think elements in nature [...] Today we started by talking about how we would start talking to an alien if we saw them on the street. The alien could speak a completely different language as well as not understand our social norms so it will be very difficult to communicate at first. Someone said that we could talk about [...] In my opinion it does. Because from my limited understanding of math, it seems like rules and formulas are placed where natural things occur that may or may not be there. For example, the golden ratio. Does that occur naturally? or do people just seek to find things that fit into the golden ratio? [...] After watching 15 presentations and doing one of my own, I finally learnt the importance of making it interesting and keeping eye contact with the audience. Without a real connection with the audience it gets boring quickly. I felt that the best presentations were clear and precise and talked about their knowledge issues in [...] I think that mathematicians view the world in a different perspective than some other people in the sense that they can find ways to fit Nature (such a complicated concept) into summaries using numbers and graphs. In that way, artists and mathematicians are similar. They try to express nature in their own ways. The [...] Math is one of the subjects that I have the most difficulty with in school. However, I understand the importance of it as a whole in general society and everyday living. We use math when purchasing or selling things, as well as seeing elements of it in nature. We learnt about the golden [...] The question our group answered in class today was question 5. We came up with some points for discussion. • Creative process is important • In the author’s subconscious, he or she could add certain parts of their emotions and thoughts into their work. • It also depends on the readers to interpret it [...] After the discussion, I felt like the definition for storytelling was really loose and covered a lot so I guess in that sense it could be an important way of knowing. I think that storytelling should include a plot and a conclusion. But not everything has a direct plot so not everything can be [...] 1) Amy Tan Boulevard She is someone I look up to and think would be a good role model to many girls so she can be named after a Boulevard. 2) Helen Keller Street She is such an amazing person because she accomplished so much and had such faith in herself when she [...] We identified the person from his student card and this is highly likely but there is no guarentee. We traced his movements by writing it all on a timeline and we found out that is actually quite busy but there are many gaps in the timeline so it is a little hard to track [...] In class we discussed whether history should be considered an art or a science? I think it is part of both because you can say that by interpreting certain pieces of evidence and stories from secondary or primary sources. Also translating certain pieces of work from the past is considered as history too. But [...] Today we started the history topic and tried to define it. We said that it could be things that happened in the past either seconds ago, centuries or thousands of years ago. Somehow we got to talking about about Mr. Macknight brushing his teeth is unimportant. But, I don’t think its unimportant. I think [...] My first impression after reading this article was that it seemed to describe a more uncivilized community but at the same time I could see how there were parallels between this place and our modern day world. Well, of course, now I know that it’s because the author is actually describing America in new [...] We read about the observer’s effect today and how we act differently when we know that there are people that are watching us. I think that in modern day, this effect is more observable because of the lack of privacy that surrounds us now. Due to the digital age, there are security cameras and [...] “If our brains were simple, we would be too simple to understand them” Right now, our brains are complicated and we still can’t understand even a small percentage of everything that goes around us. Well, I (very stupidly) thought I understood everything I had learnt so far in my classes. Then I walked into [...] I can’t really say exactly where I would live because I haven’t been to every city, town or village in this world and it would be really difficult to say because I haven’t travelled to enough places to say. However, I would decide where to live based on the weather and the “definitiveness” (is [...] 1) Isn’t the scientific method praised for being reliable and unbiased? In the beginning of the presentation, you said that “science is true because it comes from facts, and facts comes from evidence and in turn evidence comes form observation, experiment, assumptions, and interpretation.As time passes, technology improves and so does evidence.” But observation, [...] The movie we watched today was very interesting because I never realized before today what a big impact public relations has on a country. It seemed to me like it had more power than the president or maybe even the big corporations that appeal to consumers and our desires. The example of Edward Bernays [...] Today, we watched a video on Stephen Hawking and his theory of information paradox. Hawking’s found that black holes gave out radiation and is at a constant high temperature. Whereas previously, physicists believed that black holes were cold. We then learnt about the many people that opposed Hawking’s theory. The video then concluded that [...] Even after reading this article, I struggled to understand the aim of this supposed science. He wants to know everything about uunbrellas but what about them? Is he trying to udnerstand the mechanics? or the way people use them? or why people use them? or just generally everything there is to knwo about people [...] Today we discussed the reasons why people assume that there must be a scientific explanation for it to be true even though there are others “ways of knowing” I think that this is because people respond to authority and want to look towards something to confirm. We see all the fancy and long scientific [...] Today we discussed the subtle differences between the two statements, “Science doesn’t explain everything” and “Science cannot explain everything.” I believe that science cannot explain everything, because some things like miracles and some religious aspects can’t really be explained by sicence. I think the difference is that when the word doesn’t is applied it [...] The card game we played in class yesterday at first seemed slightly pointless but then I realized that Mrs. Connah was trying to show us that sometimes even though our actions seem completely random without planning, it actually isn’t. We were choosing cards according to the ones that we thought would give us a [...] Today in TOK, we discussed intuition and whether or not it can be used as part of our knowledge and whether or not we can use it as a way to find more knowledge. I believe that it is part of our knowledge and will sometimes help us find more knowledge. I believe that [...] Today in TOK, we discussed whether emotions are a good thing or a bad. Personally, I usually think they are a good thing. It’s what bonds us to other people and allow us to make judgements and whether or not something is good or bad. Whenever I don’t think emotions are a good thing, [...] Today, we were attempting to define emotion and feelings and with it we attempted to find out the differences between the two. We realized that we could feel emotions but we couldn’t emote feelings if that makes any sense. In my opinion, feelings are more vague and include happiness and sadness but at the [...] We learnt today that inductive reasoning according to Sparknotes is defined as “The process of arriving at a conclusion based on a set of observations.” Whereas, deductive arguments are defined as “”one in which it is impossible for the premises to be true but the conclusion false.” (as defined by http://atheism.about.com) Firstly, I think [...] On the worksheet, that we were given last class. There is a sentence that says, “An argument is VALID if the conclusions follw logically from the premises.” It’s very similar to what we learnt in psychology that if an experiment is valid then the conclusions show what the aim of the experiment is. In [...] Watching this video was scary in its own way because, he mentioned that we are not the person we were years ago, or even seconds ago and not because our experiences change us but because the atoms that make us up are constantly changing. This is scary, in my opinion, because it seems to [...] After reading about John’s visual agnosia, it seems to me like he was taking a small piece of a big world and trying to interpret it in his own way and in my opinion, everyone does this. No one can know everything and so they take the experiences they have had and the lessons [...] Is perception reliable? Yes and no. Yes in the way that we depend on our senses, touch, taste, smell, hear and sight to understand the rest of the world and how it effects us. For example, how can we know that fire is bad if we can’t feel that its hot and gets hotter [...] I think this is really similar to Truman in the sense that we don’t really know for sure or not if we are in a ‘real’ world or if we are just a ‘brain in a vat.” What my point is, is that does it matter if we are a brain in a vat [...] Today we discussed whether or not a language should be able to change with time or whether it should stay fixed, like Latin. I think that it is very important that a language has the ability to change. As time changes, everyone’s culture, way of thinking and lifestyle will also change. Therefore the meanings [...] After reading this, I feel that I can kind of understand why parents would lie to theri children but at the same time, I can understand the children’s perspective of wanting to know the truth. From my point of view, as a child, people would tell me that “oh, you just don’t understand,” or [...] After reading the four articles, I thought the most interesting part was when Martin Lindstrom responded to the negative responses. His response was irresponsible, in my opinion, because he didn’t answer directly to the problem that people were complaining about but skirted around the topic and then continued to place the blame on the [...] After reading this article, I realized that a lot of adjectives and colloquials we use prove this theory that we associated some feelings with actual physical things. For example, feeling uplifted has a similar meaning to feeling happy or joyous and when a person says that they are feeling down, it means they feel [...] After reading the text, I found out that language is actually the thing that makes communication more difficult because sometimes words don’t have the same connotations as what we are actually thinking so when the words are said or written then it doesn’t really mean the same thing. Some sentences that are directly translated [...] From the movie I think that Truman used to believe his life was as real as what we believe our life is like. Ibeleive this is because he doesn’t have another life to compare it to and so he doesn’t really know what ‘normal’ life is like. Even though, as we learnt in class, there [...] I think that in some way’s Truman’s life is fake because his whole life is planned out and even little detail even the weather is fake and so Truman’s life isn’t ‘real’ in the sense that it is natural and not predetermined. I don’t think that Truman is fake but because none of his [...] |
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