...Professor: Course: Date: The Relationship Between What we See and What we Know is Never Settled Introduction The article describes that how we see the world, greatly influences the world we see. As our ideas of solid living change, so we start to take a gander at the things we consume in an unexpected way. The article explains that there exists a relationship between what we can see together with what we know. Our fantasies of our own and our youngsters' future shape the regular judgments we make, about work, about individuals, about the world that either empowers or hinders those fantasies. Day by day life in this present reality is additionally an envisioned life. The animals of our creative energy slither out of our heads, cross the boondocks in the middle of dream and reality, in the middle of the shadow and act, and get to be real. John Berger’s article on Ways of seeing", is extremely fascinating, though its applications is centered on general seeing and perception of seeing. It concentrates on workmanship through history, and perception was of less enthusiasm to me. The article is so useful because it helped me to remember a philosophical IB class I had on which comparable angles got examined. That could be because I had some major difficulty getting a handle on all dialects in the latter piece of "methods for seeing". I accept John Berger's principle explanation of how people perceive, and how they see, is an extremely captivating one. The thought of "particular...
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...jeans sitting on what seems to be a car seat. Anyways, he starts the car engine with his right hand and presses the accelerator with his right foot. Everything seems right until the time where this driver gets distracted by looking at the left where his daughter was situated. After taking a glance, the vehicle driver, holding the steering wheel seems to be desperate trying to make a right move. It appears to be a car’s accident. There is when it comes to scene his angel guardians as daughter and his wife. They both saved this feckless driver by holding him from chest to waist, from what it could have been a catastrophe. Then, the lights slowly start to loss its brightness just to give way to the words and logo. The ad’s setting takes place in a very organized living room of a common middle-class family. His daughter, a light-blue eyed girl, who is surely in her very young age is wearing a gold necklace and a pink dress. The driver’s ear to ear smile suddenly transforms into a huge traumatized look. The rapid closed-up toward the driver embraced the audience into any forthcoming event. The main character, with a bemused look tries to make a right move holding the steering wheel. Fortunately for this family guy, the daughter and the mother reach him. His daughter started saving him by putting her hands in a position of a seatbelt around the driver’s waist. Then, the mother comes in the scene placing her hands over the driver’s chest just right before, what it appears to be...
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...Can you see what I'm talking about? Heather E Harper BCOM/275 May 7, 2012 Scott Romeo Can you see what I'm talking about? Demonstrative communication is nonverbal and unwritten communication through things like facial expressions, body language and tone of voice. Just like anything else in life, there are a number of positive aspects as well as negative aspects to this kind of communication. Communication as such can either be effective or ineffective and positive or negative for both the sender and the receiver. Successful communication is not only the sending of a message, but also the receiving of that message the way it was intended. The use of unspoken communication such as facial expressions allows the receiver of a message to form an opinion on a number of things. For example, if a speaker is excited, passionate, or happy about what they are speaking on, it will be apparent by the look on their face. If that speaker is tense and pacing back and forth with their hands in their pockets, it would appear that he or she was nervous or anxious. Even the speaker’s attire can be a form of unwritten nonverbal communication. Let’s say the speaker is a pastor or a preacher, and it is Sunday morning and he is preaching his sermon in a T-shirt, cut off jean shorts, and flip flops. Opinions will vary in the congregation. Ultimately the preacher’s attire sends a message to his congregation without one spoken word. It is nearly impossible to avoid using demonstrative...
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...Enterprise Odisha Even after 62 years of independence, Odisha our beloved state is still developing. With thirty districts it is the 9th largest state in the country (155,707 Sq Km) and population wise 11th (36,706,920). It is a state which is rich with all kinds of resources right from minerals, fossil fuel and ores to rich history and culture. The land is fertile and has the capability to produce many Rabi and Kharip crops. Now if we scan the country and try to name the prosperous states, we can count them on finger tips. Among which Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab and Goa may be the front runners. Odisha may not even appear in the first 10. So what makes these states economically better than us despite the fact that we are far wealthier than the others in terms of Natural Resources, history, culture and intelligent brains? To find out let’s have a closer look at the simple strategies adopted by the prosperous states. My father always said, owning a gold brick does not make you rich. You will be rich only when you learn to make a fortune out of it. It is that simple. The prosperous states have done this. Only that in their case, the areas of their strength was their gold brick. Gujarat is strong in entrepreneurship and business sense, Goa is rich in natural landscapes and Punjab is rich with fertile agricultural land. These states have worked on their strengths to develop themselves. When I say the states have done it, I mean the contribution of both government and people...
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...In the past, I had a challenge where I had to get my grades up in weeks. To overcome this, I had to give up all the fun activities I had plan with my friends and family, I also had to do extra work to make up for the work I did not complete in class. It was a Friday afternoon, I was in my English class when the classrooms phone began to ring. As I was completing my work, the teacher called my name saying,”Chenelle pack your things you're going home.” When i was walking out the room I started to remember that it was my dad’s birthday. As I approached the front office, my father did not look so happy, then he said, “Look at your report card and tell me what you see. “Before I could get a word out i was grounded just like that. A few days had gone by and my weekend was dead. The night before school I called my friends to set up a meeting at lunch. It was 12:45pm that is the time for lunch. My friends and I were walking to the table that we sit at every day .They knew that something was wrong with me because I did not talk or eat my food. As lunch was about to be over I had spoken like a ghost coming out of nowhere I said,” I have something very important to tell you and if you don’t like it than we can no longer be friends.” All of them gathered around me like a pack of dogs eating food. I said, “The grades that I have now is not acceptable, so in that case I will not be going out to the movies or the mall any time soon, so I’m saying...
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...were able to crash their plane before it reached its unknown, but surely, life-devastating destination. These were ordinary people were able to overtake armed, savagely trained terrorists. They were empowered by the hope of saving lives, which they did through their brave sacrifice. This kind of hope inspires many emotions and feelings. It allows people to convince themselves that what they want to happen will happen. This effect travels far beyond the mind. As hope strengthens ones mental ability, it allows a person to fully utilize him or herself. This hope is both a drive and inspiration. It works for positive and negative causes, but it does work to strengthen and empower a person. In the novel, Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown, several characters are empowered by hope; a hope that is the inspiration that causes people to be all that they can be. Robert Langdon, a scholar of religious symbology and professor at Harvard University, made a life changing decision based on hope. Langdon was phoned by a total stranger in the middle of the night. This stranger, Maximillian Kohler, was demanding to see Langdon in person. Langdon rejected this demand, but he soon changed his mind after being sent a fax of a dead body. Branded on the dead body was an eerie symbol both unknown and familiar to Langdon. Langdon recognized the symbol to be the symbol of the ancient brotherhood of the Illuminati. Langdon, and other Illuminati experts alike, have spent centuries trying to find this ancient...
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...controversial financial institutions in the world. Since the inception of the modern Bank in 1943, the Vatican Bank has faced a series of scandals relating to its role in the Second World War, accusations of money laundering and its role in the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982. However, what makes these scandals and accusations particularly interesting is that the Vatican Bank operates within the Catholic Church, an organization with its own tradition of financial ethics developed over multiple centuries. Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate represents the most recent expression of Catholic thought relating to financial ethics. This article considers whether these scandals directly contradict the ethical stance of the encyclical and whether this in turn undermines the Vatican Bank’s ethical standing. The Vatican Bank: What is it and how does it work? The name ‘Vatican Bank’ is a somewhat misleading name as it implies the Vatican Bank is heavily integrated into the Holy See (the microstate consisting of Vatican City). In fact, the Vatican Bank is a privately held bank, rather than a state-owned bank, and therefore its assets are not directly connected to the Holy See. Despite the Vatican Bank’s position as a private financial institution operating within the Vatican, the Bank is managed by a council of cardinals and the Pope is the Bank’s sole shareholder. The Bank is also officially monitored by the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority and any profits...
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...Book Review ANGELS AND DEMONS I. 1. Bibliography card a. Title: Angels and Demons Author: Dan Brown Publication Date: May 2000 Publisher: Pocket Books b. Checked out from school library on February 1st 2. Summary card a. The Vatican City is about to explode. Eyes of the media and the people from all over the world are watching in horror. And in the critical moment something nobody expects happens… p 593- 600 b. I would rate this book 5 out of 5 II. 1. Characters Robert Langdon – a Harvard professor of religious symbology, that becomes a witness of the resurrection of an ancient secret society known as Illuminati. A very intelligent, sharp-minded, and a warm –hearted person. I really like this character because of his ability to understand the situation and try everything to help others. Quote: “Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage… an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand the divine.” (p 108) This quote represents one of the views on religion in this novel. As a man, that studied different kinds of religions all his life he looks at it only like another myth, but respects it’s influence on people. Vittoria Vetra – A beautiful particle physicist working in the world’s greatest nuclear research facility – CERN. She and her father had a goal to connect science and religion, by scientifically proving that God exists and almost succeeds in it. She helps...
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...Vatican Denies Accusations About Diplomat For my religion in the news report, I have selected an article titled "Vatican denies sinister motives behind diplomat's transfer". I came across the article after browsing through Yahoo's religion section. It was written on February 22, 2013 by Reuters . The article details news of the pope directing a senior official of the Vatican to a new post in South America. In light of these actions, many call foul play due to the recently leaked papal papers which may be incriminating to many in Vatican City. There is speculation that the visit to Colombia was linked to blackmailing the pope. The Vatican countered the claims, alleging that the diplomat was scheduled to go to Latin America weeks in advance. There is no way to prove this considering the Vatican has virtually no transparency. All of this is following the pope stepping down last week, stirring rumors and very important unanswered questions. The pope reasoned his health had deteriorated to the point where he cannot hold the position. This seems rather odd considering all popes are typically elderly and vulnerable. It seems The Vatican theoretically can do whatever they please - which shouldn't be the case, especially if your the symbol of Catholicism worldwide. I have a very strong opinion regarding the Vatican but I digress. The article relates to our class in many ways. The pope is the leader of the Catholic ...
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...The threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States during the early 1950’s. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was the man who exploited those fears. CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his producer Fred W. Friendly decided to take a stand by challenging McCarthy. They chose to expose him for the fear monger he was. Even though their actions took a great personal toll on both men, they stood by their beliefs. In turn, they helped bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history. This important story in American history and politics is shown in the film, “Good Night and Good Luck.” It is directed by George Clooney, written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and stars David Strathairn, George Clooney and Patricia Clarkson. As mentioned before, "Good Night, And Good Luck" takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950's. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations. With a need to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom – rebel to corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and fear mongering tactics carried out by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts.’ McCarthy claimed that there were over two hundred card carriers in America. An awfully public argument develops when the Senator...
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...supporting the “Unhate” foundation that contributes to the creation of a new culture of tolerance. While I am fully in support of this cause as our world definitely needs more tolerance in today’s era of hate and rivalry against each other. But still I find the ads offensive. The concept of unhate do not involve world leaders kissing each other on the lips. Maybe a kiss on the cheek would have been served the purpose more effectively than on the lips. Moreover I don’t think that the concept of unhate can happen while criticizing the beliefs of two of the world’s biggest belief systems by having the Pope kiss the Sheikh of Al-Azhar. Or maybe they want to show that tolerance starts with respecting the other person with different belief. I see the controversy in the idea. Moreover Benetton is a good quality clothing company of fashion industry. So I think this ad has been used by the company as a tool for fashion statement as company’s brand image and the cause they are supporting are not alligned to each other or compatible to each other. It's easy- it's marketing. They knew this would get people talking so they took advantage of the situation. It's not like their primary goal was to spread love and peace...well, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. All the pictures displayed were fake and not real where world leaders were shown kissing each other. It is disrespectful to photoshop images to create a 'marketing' campaign.It aroused serious protests in some countries like vatican...
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...The article I chose suggests that Roman Catholics in the United States hope that the next pope could be younger and lead the church in a more liberal way regarding issues, such as birth control and same-sex marriage. The statistics is based on the latest New York Times/CBS News telephone poll conducted on landlines and cellphones from February 23 to 27 with 1,585 adults nationwide. Three-fourths of interviewers thought Pope Benedict should step down because he did a bad job dealing with sexual abuse. The poll suggested that many American Catholics are not confident about the church’s hierarchy since the bishops and cardinals do not understand their needs. The sample of telephone poll was randomly selected to ensure that each region of the country has almost same share of all telephone numbers, so it seems justified geographically. However, there is uncertainty in the survey because the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4% for the 580 Catholics. An effective way to reduce the margin of error is to increase the sample size. There is also nonresponse error in the survey because some people do not answer calls from strangers, or refuse to answer the poll. In addition, due to selection bias, the opinions of those who agreed to be interviewed only reflect a certain part of the population. The article did well in analyzing from a series of data, mainly on the percentage of sample size. For example, the poll showed that 40 percent thought the pope is absolutely...
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...Goodnight and Good luck In the film, Good Night and Good Luck, director George Clooney takes the audience back to the days of 1950s television. To be more specific, the film focuses on the news team responsible for the CBS public affairs program See It Now (1951-58). This film shows the audience the semi-fictional recreation of the near-destruction of civil liberties and freedom of the press and self-expression. The cast recreates the great "debate" between Edward Murrow, and Joseph McCarthy. Murrow was a television news broadcaster and McCarthy was A U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin. In the 1950s, McCarthy had publicly called for the removal in government offices, the career field, and basically society, of all citizens who had ever been a or associated with the communist party, even though it was not illegal. McCarthy used the power of his position to attack all those he disagreed with by hiding his attack under the appearance of patriotism. Murrow, as a TV news broadcaster, fought against McCarthy’s techniques and successfully challenged and eventually discredited the senator on his show. Murrow first defends Milo Radulovich, a man from Dexter Michigan, who is facing removal from the Air Force because of his sister's political leanings and because his father reading a newspaper. Murrow attacks McCarthy on one of his shows. A very public issue stems when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. The film is outlined by Murrow’s speech to the Radio...
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...In “Our time”, John Edgar Wideman has responsibility of telling the story of the boy who went into prison. The boy is Wideman`s younger brother, Robby, who is a black sheep of the family. Wideman uses three voices tell his brother`s sad story to explain what caused Robby “went bad”. The three voices are his brother Robby, his mother and himself. Wideman has many purposes for telling the story of Robby. First of all he is trying to understand him. He tries to learn his terms. In other words tries to comprehend why his brother is very different. While he does, this he can also reflect and learn a lot about himself. Wideman has many struggles in accomplishing all of this. He is trying to tell the story of his brother from a neutral perspective. He believes if he only tells it from his point of view, he could not tell a true Robby’s story. It is very hard for him to hear his brother story without listening to himself. This struggle can be seen in this essay, “The hardest habit to break, since it was the habit of a lifetime, would be listening to Xu 2 myself listen to him. That habit would destroy any chance of seeing my brother on his terms; and seeing him in his terms, learning his terms, seemed the whole point of learning his story” (672) Because of this Wideman has to use different views to show the true story of his brother Robby includes...
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...In the afternoon the students in the classroom get again in small group, this time they had an activity where they need it to finish a card for someone special since it was Valentine. Each student was called one at a time, while the student was waiting for his turn; he sat down on the carpet and grab a book to read. I did ask the student if he can please read the story to me “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See”, he was able to retell the story by looking at the picture. During this time I was able to hear him clearly when he spoke, through the course of the day I notice that many of the things that he was saying it was a little bit hard to understand, many times the other students restated what he was trying to say, or ask him several...
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