Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Rosa Park carton shows her at the gates of heaven. How the cartoon shows logic is that is that she is wearing somewhat clothing to what she wore when she refused her seat to the white man. The cartoon also shows the year 1955 which is the year that the accident happened. How the cartoon shows ethos is that she had the guts to stand up to a white man. That’s why St. Peter says that they already have a seat waiting for her. This cartoon’s purpose was mainly for humor. Its intended audience is basically anybody.
Albert Einstein’s purpose is to explain whether or not god really exists in a simple way. His audience is a twelve year old girl. How ethos is applied is that the girl chooses to write to him because supposedly he is one of the most intelligent individual’s in the world. The thing about this letter is that he contradicts himself several times in answering the letter. He also loses the purpose of the letter when he begins using lengthier words, which most like a pre-teen wouldn’t understand. He begins to also base more on his opinion than actual facts.
Iroquois and Pina
The Iroquois and Pina were two Native American tribes. One common things that they had in common was that they had the same purpose of wanted to preserve their culture. People of Europe often wrote down the Native American cultures, since it was logical that they couldn’t. One story that they share though in a very different version, is on how the earth got started. Some factors of both stories aren’t very logical. One example is that the moon and sun felled in loved and they had a wolf as a baby. That is just not logical. Two objects can’t fall in love and less likely have an offspring that is so different from the original genetics. One aspect that the Pina story shows is ethos by Juhwertamahki. Juhwertamahki shows that he is a perfectionist since he is always killing the human race if it shows an imperfection. He desires a perfect world. Another way that he shows that he is a perfectionist is that when the sun, moon, or stars didn’t work, he will keep at it until everything went according to plan. How the Pina story appeals to pathos is also by Juhwertamahki. He is lonely and he doesn’t really have anything to keep him company. Thus he creates the earth and mankind to give him a place to rest and the humans to keep him company. The Iroquois story has also many illogical inferences. For one a turtle can’t propose an idea since it can’t speak or interact with other species but itself. Another thing a baby can’t survive without its mother, so the babies will have most likely died. Also a human mind can’t create the whole wide world such as animals and plants. It’s just very illogical. How the story applies to ethos was that the good mind wanted to do well for earth. It was just natural to him while the evil mind had the need to cause mishaps. The stories have similar things such as that the person or thing creating the earth is doing it for the basic of creating something new and good. But they are often faced with several obstacles that don’t want this task to take place. Their differences are that in the Pina there is only one person but in the other there are two. They also created the earth and human race in different methods. Another similarity that the story share is that there is always a taking animal. Both Native American tribes had different cultures, thus resulting is different stories. One thing that these two tribes had in common was that they wanted to conserve their heritage and culture. They were also taken over by European cultures. They culture is also written for them by the same cultures that conquer them. The reason that they have such different stories is because they were located in different regions in the Americas. Thus resulting in very different yet similar stories.
The Iroquois and Pina were two Native American tribes. One common things that they had in common was that they had the same purpose of wanted to preserve their culture. People of Europe often wrote down the Native American cultures, since it was logical that they couldn’t. One story that they share though in a very different version, is on how the earth got started. Some factors of both stories aren’t very logical. One example is that the moon and sun felled in loved and they had a wolf as a baby. That is just not logical. Two objects can’t fall in love and less likely have an offspring that is so different from the original genetics. One aspect that the Pina story shows is ethos by Juhwertamahki. Juhwertamahki shows that he is a perfectionist since he is always killing the human race if it shows an imperfection. He desires a perfect world. Another way that he shows that he is a perfectionist is that when the sun, moon, or stars didn’t work, he will keep at it until everything went according to plan. How the Pina story appeals to pathos is also by Juhwertamahki. He is lonely and he doesn’t really have anything to keep him company. Thus he creates the earth and mankind to give him a place to rest and the humans to keep him company. The Iroquois story has also many illogical inferences. For one a turtle can’t propose an idea since it can’t speak or interact with other species but itself. Another thing a baby can’t survive without its mother, so the babies will have most likely died. Also a human mind can’t create the whole wide world such as animals and plants. It’s just very illogical. How the story applies to ethos was that the good mind wanted to do well for earth. It was just natural to him while the evil mind had the need to cause mishaps. The stories have similar things such as that the person or thing creating the earth is doing it for the basic of creating something new and good. But they are often faced with several obstacles that don’t want this task to take place. Their differences are that in the Pina there is only one person but in the other there are two. They also created the earth and human race in different methods. Another similarity that the story share is that there is always a taking animal. Both Native American tribes had different cultures, thus resulting is different stories. One thing that these two tribes had in common was that they wanted to conserve their heritage and culture. They were also taken over by European cultures. They culture is also written for them by the same cultures that conquer them. The reason that they have such different stories is because they were located in different regions in the Americas. Thus resulting in very different yet similar stories.
Monday, August 24, 2009
In Google Making Us Stupid?
Is Google making us stupid? Technically, no. We’re not becoming stupid; we’re just becoming more dependent on technology. But it is not only goggle that is at fault. It is also things like texting and even instant messaging. We live in an era where everything is basically technological. But this advances in technology; it seems have been affecting the way we think. Now with just a clicked on the button we get the answer instantly versus reading long books or texts that take a larger amount of time.
My mind will get caught up in the narrative or the turns or the arguments, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, and begin looking for something else to do (Carr, Pg. 18)
Technological advances are also affecting the way we write. Most computers or Word programs correct our grammar mistakes. So by these machines automatically fixing our errors we don’t ever get the chance to correct them. Not only do they also automatically fix errors they also have the ability to change the tone of the writing.
Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter-a Malling-Hansen Writing ball to be precise…But the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche’s friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. “Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom,” the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his “thoughts” in music and language often depend on the quality of pen and paper”(Carr, Pg. 20)
Why are we becoming more dependent to these technological advances? Is because our brain in adaptable. Many people believe that the human brain stops growing when it reaches adulthood, but the truth is that it doesn’t. The human brain is constantly changing into ways that may or may not benefit the person.
People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neutrons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case. James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Madison University, says that even the adult mind “is very plastic”. Nerve cells routinely break old connection and form new connections. “The brain” according to Olds, “has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions” (Carr, Pgs. 20).
Goggle and other technological advances aren’t making us stupid. It’s just that we are becoming more dependable. Our brains are becoming so dependable on these aids that it doesn’t really require itself to think since the answer is always placed in front of it. There is no challenge or need in learning anything new. The computer database is huge with tons and tons of questions. Not only that but Word, texting, instant messaging, etc. has made the task of writing even easier than what it used to be before. This problem has existed forever, not only today but also in the 1800’s. So it is not a new trend. Tasks become easier with more technology.
Is Google making us stupid? Technically, no. We’re not becoming stupid; we’re just becoming more dependent on technology. But it is not only goggle that is at fault. It is also things like texting and even instant messaging. We live in an era where everything is basically technological. But this advances in technology; it seems have been affecting the way we think. Now with just a clicked on the button we get the answer instantly versus reading long books or texts that take a larger amount of time.
My mind will get caught up in the narrative or the turns or the arguments, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, and begin looking for something else to do (Carr, Pg. 18)
Technological advances are also affecting the way we write. Most computers or Word programs correct our grammar mistakes. So by these machines automatically fixing our errors we don’t ever get the chance to correct them. Not only do they also automatically fix errors they also have the ability to change the tone of the writing.
Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter-a Malling-Hansen Writing ball to be precise…But the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche’s friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. “Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom,” the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his “thoughts” in music and language often depend on the quality of pen and paper”(Carr, Pg. 20)
Why are we becoming more dependent to these technological advances? Is because our brain in adaptable. Many people believe that the human brain stops growing when it reaches adulthood, but the truth is that it doesn’t. The human brain is constantly changing into ways that may or may not benefit the person.
People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neutrons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case. James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Madison University, says that even the adult mind “is very plastic”. Nerve cells routinely break old connection and form new connections. “The brain” according to Olds, “has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions” (Carr, Pgs. 20).
Goggle and other technological advances aren’t making us stupid. It’s just that we are becoming more dependable. Our brains are becoming so dependable on these aids that it doesn’t really require itself to think since the answer is always placed in front of it. There is no challenge or need in learning anything new. The computer database is huge with tons and tons of questions. Not only that but Word, texting, instant messaging, etc. has made the task of writing even easier than what it used to be before. This problem has existed forever, not only today but also in the 1800’s. So it is not a new trend. Tasks become easier with more technology.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
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