...Paul Tillich addresses faith on what is and what it isn’t. One way for me to really understand a concept is to fathom what the concept is not. Combing through the course reading I was able to accumulate what faith is not from 3 key distortions Tillich brings out about faith. In the Intellectualistic Distortion of faith he says, “The most ordinary misinterpretation of faith is to consider it an act of knowledge that has a low degree of evidence”. From this concept I gather that many deduce faith down to merely having a cerebral belief or knowledge, rather than faith itself. Trust in an authority is one way a person can gain knowledge of faith. Many will accept a proposition as faith given by an authority such as a minister or pastor with little to no evidence. Oftentimes our trust in an authority would be just enough to believe. Without this trust we hold for good authorities, our awareness and perception would be significantly smaller. With that said, acceptance of a proposition validated from an authority is not faith. Tillich barrows from Thomas Aquinas who states “the lack of evidence which faith has must be complemented by an act of will. This describes the sentiment of the second distortion called the Voluntaristic Distortion. This speaks of one having the will to believe as the basis and only that. I think that many people hinge their faith on moral interpretations of religion by creeds and commands. Commanding...
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...the employee could improve for the benefit of the business. Even so, performance appraisals have a major flaw in that they are not completely objective. Six major factors cause distortions in performance appraisals. 1. Stereotyping * People usually can fall into at least one general category based on physical or behavioral traits, and performance evaluators sometimes let stereotypes associated with those categories sway their employee appraisals. For example, a boss might assume that because many Asians excel, an Asian worker who doesn't meet a performance objective simply isn't working hard enough, even if the worker tried his best. Similarity * Often, people tend to seek out and rate more positively those who are similar to themselves. This tendency to approve of similarity may cause evaluators to give better ratings to employees who exhibit the same interests, work methods, points of view or standards. A major problem with this cause of distortion is that it can stifle innovation in a company, as "different" people must struggle to rise in the ranks. Leniency * Leniency, sometimes referred to as inflation, is the tendency of evaluators to give employees higher marks than deserved across the board, usually because of the desire to avoid conflicts. The issue with this distortion cause is that a person's qualifications and successes are misrepresented, with sometimes undeserving individuals getting pay raises and other perks. Related to this concept is...
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...Full Bright Scholars • This poem is about when he first saw Plath • Use of first person, draws us in. painstaking his own memory • "Where was it, in the strand? A display"- Questioning his memory. • "A picture of that year’s intake....."- Follows up with a series of statements. • "You" become the addressee • Very tightly Structured • Veronica Lake- actor • "Your Veronica Lake bang. Not what it hid"- Plath had a scar on her face • "It was the first fresh peach.....- returns to his own memory for the day. remembers an image • "It would appear blond. And your grin........"- change of tone • Events, feelings of memory are filtered by perspectives • "Was it then I bought a peach?"- England was coming out of the war, fruit was imported. • 1955- Plath arrived in England with a scholarship to Cambridge • She wanted everything to be perfect= writing. *Last four lines are structured around Powerful, alliterative, central imagery. The poem moves from uncertainly to certainly. • This poem is a formal address to Plath. eg Letter, Journal • Plath is the all American girl, capable, confident • Memory forms our perspective. memory is a partial truth • We only remember what is important. Therefore what memory we find is a partial truth • Photographs are also a perspective. They are often limited and distort. • In a photograph, it presents a mask, distorting the truth, perpetuating a perspective (happy and untroubled) • An essence, we don't really know what is hidden...
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...Defensive behavior, in short, engenders defensive listening, and this in turn produces postural, facial and verbal cues which raise the defense level of the original communicator. Defense arousal prevents the listener from concentrating upon the message. Not only do defensive communicators send off multiple value, motive and affect cues, but also defensive recipients distort what they receive. As a person becomes more and more defensive, he or she becomes less and less able to perceive accurately the motives, the values and the emotions of the sender. The writer's analysis of tape recorded discussions revealed that increases in defensive behavior were correlated positively with losses in efficiency in communication.(1) Specifically, distortions become greater when...
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...Distortion Master A Hungarian born photographer, Andre Kertesz, is known for his innovative collection of photojournalism that first began to fully develop in Paris. His collection named Distortion came to be discovered and developed when Kertesz photographed a man swimming underwater. This photo named Underwater Swimmer taken in 1917, more than slightly distinguishes what his distortion collection consists of. As seen in the photo the water morphs the body; some parts are enlarged, for example the swimmers shoulders and others are not as seen from the waist down. This un-proportional effect caused by the water developed his ideas of what and how he came to create his series of distorted photographs. In 1933, Kertesz began to work for a magazine called Le Sourire. Le Sourire was a “magazine known for its piquant illustrations of undressed girls” (Andre 18). That today would be considered a playboy type of magazine. Kertesz approached this task by photographing nude women but transformed the photos into distorted photos. He did this by using fun house mirrors to provide him the effect he wanted to convey though his photos. The fun house mirrors shifted the body, stretched, squeezed, and of course distorted it. The photograph that best exemplifies his distortion collection is Distortion #70. As mentioned before these photos were taken for a nude magazine. So, here all you see is a woman’s breast and much of her torso when you first look at it. The model’s face is morphed out...
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...portraiture. His base layer of paint consists of more typically know skin colours (e.g. brown and cream tones). However, colours such as green, yellow, pink, orange and hints of blue overlap this layer using more vigorous strokes. While exploring this technique, I also came to realise that Paul Wright also uses a range of tones for example very light green in some areas compared to very dark green in others. His brushstrokes are dynamic and rich in energy that generally imitate the outline of features of the face. The size of his strokes vary, with smaller ones near delicate features such as the eyes compared to large, less restricted strokes for the hair. These were the first steps I took in exploring the relationship between portraiture and distortion. At this stage I am mainly looking at the technique used to create a distorted image, rather than the photograph itself. Born in 1971 in Devon, Russ Mills graduated from Leeds Met University in 1995 after completing BA in Graphic Art and Design, specialising in Experimental Film and Animation. His current work is a clash of styles from pop sureealism to focusing on the human form and elements of nature....
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Modern trends and the local traditions What is the thesis statement of the essay? The arrival of the modern attitudes and the movement is characterized by the gradual shift in the subject matter, application of the new styles and most importantly the change in the outlook of the artists in looking onto the arts. The visible signs of the modification are depicted by the tastes of the artists to distort, exaggerate, or eliminate selectively specific parts for the common or normal existing forms or to deviate from the established style in the work based on the realism. However, the school of realism unlike elsewhere has had a relatively short history and remains impressive and powerful (Nepali Art 147). This has taken roots especially with the arrival of the two pioneers Tej Bahadur Chitrakar and C.M Mackey with the art education of the western in Calcutta. How the thesis statement is supported by the arguments and major points In the context of the Nepali art, since the ancient times to present, Kathmandu Valley has in many cases remained a hub and the center of all the creative exercise of the entire country. With the emergence of the modern western education on art, Lainsigh Bandel, who is a domicile Nepali from the Darjeeling hills in India having no roots in the valley of Kathmandu when he appeared when he make an appearance with the distorted forms of humans described as the inspired form the past impressionistic influences...
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...Assignment 1.1 Chart one Who was the sender? Friend | | Who was the receiver? Myself | | What was the message? To meet up at southland mall at 7pm in the parking lot. | | What channel was used to send the message? Verbal channel was used | | What was the misunderstanding that occurred? The miss understanding happened during the decoding process | | How could the misunderstanding have been avoided? The miss understanding could have been avoided if I would have paid more attention to the end portion of the message. | | 1. What did you learn about the communication process from this activity? What I learned about the communication process in this exercise is the complexity of the communication process steps. Every step is important to the complete success of the message leaving the sender and arriving to the receiver. In this example the message was distorted by distractions or noise that cause me to miscode the message during the decoding process. 2. What seemed to be the main causes of the misunderstandings? The main causes of the misunderstanding was the fact that I was excited and in a hurry to meet up with my friend that I didn’t pay enough attention to the details of the message and missed understood. Chart Two Who was the sender? Myself | | Who was the receiver? Coworkers | | What was the message? Grab large packages off the belt before they jam in curb. | | What channel was used to send the message? Verbal channel...
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...ODI Case Exercise Daniel Garrison, CEO of Optical Distortion, Inc (ODI), asked Roland Olson, marketing VP of ODI, to develop a marketing plan for the firm’s new (and only) product—a contact lens for chickens. A surprising idea? Mr. Garrison explained: Like so many other great discoveries, our product concept was discovered by accident. A chicken farmer had a flock of chickens with severe cataract problem. He separated the afflicted birds from the rest of the flock and subsequently observed that the afflicted birds seemed to eat less and were much easier to handle. So dramatic was the difference that a poultry medical specialist was asked if the affliction could be spread to the rest of the flock. The reduced vision from the cataracts has proved not possible to reproduce chemically or genetically, but a chicken wearing ODI lenses has its vision reduced enough to obtain the same good behavior observed in the cataract case. This behavior has important economic implications for chicken farmers. Chicken Cannibalism Like many other fowl, chickens are social birds with clear social structure. Chickens self-select a ranking by 8-10 weeks of age with a complete pecking order by the age of sexual maturity. Birds can identify other birds and, through fighting and pecking, establish a hierarchical social organization. It is believed that the comb on the head of the chicken is key to recognition. Dominant-type chickens carry their heads high; submissive...
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...MKTG 701 CASE STUDY 1 Optical Distortion, Inc. Alexandra Generales & McCown Bridges In 1962, Ronald Olson, a farmer in Arizona, found a strong correlation between poor eyesight in chickens and a decrease in the amount of food eaten and their mortality rate due to cannibalism. Olson was so impressed by his findings that he began to seek a way to intentionally impair the vision of his chickens, so as to duplicate the results he found. Twelve years later, Olson, along with his Optical Distortion, Inc. business partner, Daniel Garrison, tested and marketed a product that they had developed: contact lenses for chickens. While it may sound unconventional, these contact lenses provide a needed alternative for farmers seeking to decrease chicken cannibalism without the negative effects of the alternative, debeaking. Chickens, like many animals, have a social hierarchy that is adhered to by all members of the flock, called a peck order. Pecking can occur if a submissive bird enters a dominant bird’s territory, and submissive birds are pecked immediately if they raise their heads. Pecking can cause the submissive birds to eat less food and thus produce less eggs. Pecking sometimes continues until the chickens become cannibalistic. Cannibalism amongst chickens is higher when the birds are kept in cages and thus becomes a major concern for farmers. According to our farmer analysis the cost of debeaking per 10,000 chickens...
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...OPTICAL DISTORTION, INC. ESTRATEGIA DE MARKETING RODRIGO DE LA MAZA V. SECCIÓN N8 CONTEXTO El caso presenta el desafío de la empresa Optical Distrotion, Inc en el desarrollo del programa comercial para el único y nuevo producto que esperaban lanzar al mercado. El consistía en unos lentes de contacto para gallinas ponedoras que les cegaban parcialmente la vista lo que daba como resultado el menor consumo de alimento y un manejo más fácil de estas debido a la eliminación de las jerarquías sociales y por ende del canibalismo que se producía en los corrales. Como muchas otras aves las gallinas son animales sociales y por ende tienen una jerarquía social que empieza a manifestarse y desarrollarse a medida que las aves crecen. Este orden social es el resultado de la capacidad de las aves para identificarse unas a otras, lo cual se demuestra por picotazos y luchas que establecen un orden social jerárquico. Mediante el reconocimiento de la cresta se podía establecer la jerarquía social ya que identifica la posición de la cabeza. Las aves dominantes llevan la cabeza alta en cambio los sumisos la mantienen baja. Si un ave sumisa levantaba la cabeza o entraban a un área donde vivían aves dominantes eran víctimas de picotazos que llegaban al canibalismo. Esto significaba que las aves sumisas estaban menos tiempo en el comedero y producían menos huevos. Adicionalmente el reemplazo de las aves muertas generaba otro problema por la alteración que se generaba en la jerarquía...
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...As illustrated in the Chapter 3 of Bauer and Erdogan eBook, “perception may be defined as the process with which individuals detect and interpret environmental stimuli.” As explained, it is not rational, it is influenced by each one life experiences. Moreover, perception is an interpretation of information according to individual values, needs, fears and emotions. During my reading of Chapter 3, I could easily relate to situations in my daily work activities in the Army. There are many types of perceptual distortions where I work. I can describe a situation where a peer undervalued her capabilities in a self-effacement bias. She was asked by our new supervisor to be an instructor in our daily physical training session. She refused saying that she didn’t know how to do it. She put herself in a negative light and everybody, except the new supervisor, knew that she was perfectly capable of conducting PT, as she did many times before. Self-fulfilling prophecy often created by stereotypes can be found in my company. In this case, the stereotype is “Asians are smart.” Therefore, a Asian coworker is always being selected for training and competitions. He normally does well because of hard studying an dedication, but all other soldiers that could also be participating alternatively are left behind. The perception that Asians will do better remain and end up self-fulfilling by soldier passing all trainings and doing well in the competitions. Selective perceptions also occur frequently...
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...As an eye witness of a crime and studying this unit, there is one trick for giving your memory a boost, Is to use mnemonic devices to encode items a special way. Three popular techniques is the Method of loci, peg words, and acronyms. There are other reasons for memory distortions, for instance epinephrine and cortisol are natural hormones in the body that affect the amygdale. The powerful effect of these hormones produce what is known as “flashbulb memories”, flashbulb memories are memories that are produced with surprising or emotional events in life. Another reason that could affect memory is the sleeper effect. The sleeper effect is like when students cram for a final the day before. Trying to memorize a lot of information at the same time really doesn’t help your memory it actually impedes it. You wouldn’t learn or remember as much unless you did a distributed practice which is spacing out you learning, you tend to retain more information a little bit at a time instead of trying to remember all at once. [4] If, I was a juror and I knew about this information then I would definite bring it to light, the fact that we create our own memories to make life more efficient. There are numerous ways that people forgot information without even realizing it. Elizabeth Loftus did studies on manufacturing memories to bring this topic to light because a lot of people were serving time in prison because of these types of memories. She did a study about people visiting Disney World and...
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...Has Constitutional Distortion Become Common Practice in the Mexican-American Border region? The Unites states has implemented permanent Inland Immigration Checkpoints on all major roads leading away from Mexico in the southern states. Are these checkpoints Legal? Can you refuse? What are your rights? Does the law agree with them? These questions are important and mostly left unanswered. The research shows a major dividing line between literal interpretation of the fourth amendment, and the government’s insistence on distorting the constitution, vital to ensureing our national security. Inland immigration checkpoints provide a vital role in ensuring the safety of the United States. Their existence although a minor inconvenience to many motorists, is crucial in stopping the trafficking of drugs and illegal immigration. The U.S. Border Patrol, a component of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), aims to apprehend persons who illegally enter the United States between official ports of entry, including potential terrorists, aliens, and contraband smugglers, thereby deterring or stopping illegal activity.(DHS 2012). The Supreme Court first approved of law enforcement roadblocks in a case involving the Border Patrol’s practice of stopping traffic on major highways to prevent the trafficking of illegal aliens. (U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte). The Court also first introduced the idea of a balancing test for roadblocks...
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...family together”. There are phrases, which are cognitive distortions in client’s speech. They are: “My daughter never comes to visit me”, “I am totally on my own”, “I will never get over it”, I have failed in all aspects”, “Everyone at the streets…”. These phrases have many sings of distortions, such as magnifications (I am totally on my own, I will never get over, Everybody at the streets seems to know that I have failed as a mother, my daughter never comes to me); generalizations (never, totally); all or nothing thinking (I will never get over it if…); emotional reasoning (I feel so out of place, I’m beginning to think they are avoiding me, Don’t you think that a mother deserves more than this?); labeling and jumping to conclusions (my daughter probably think I don’t care); and making an accent on negative. These cognitive distortions are not based on real facts. They exaggerate negative sides of the problem and speak nothing about the good points. At the same time it is necessary to remember that these distortions make the part of core cognitions of the client and make a part of her picture of the world. She does not realize negative effect of these cognitions and the task of the councilor in this case is to help the women to recognize these ruining cognitions. In our case we must acquire our client with cognitive distortions, which are presented in her way of thinking. In the most of the cases these distortions are not recognized by the client and we should put effort...
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