IS IT REALLY ARTWORK?

 I believe this controversial art-piece can be acknowledged as artwork. The artist intended to produce an emotion in the public that praised it. It also proves the skill of the artist for its creativity and realistic characteristics. Personally my reaction was appraise. The artwork is realistic, creative, and it has controversial beauty. I believe it is modern and exhibits different reactions in the viewer for example laughter, sympathy, or even irony. 

When I see this work of art I sense it imitates or represents events we see in life, which would make it art. I see for example and old man with a lot of money that is completely surrounded by young ambitious women. The artist communicates to the spectator an ironic situation. You don't often see an old bald man covered in kisses. I think this artwork educates me in the way I see the fact that this man could be being ripped off in a humorous way. Maybe he enjoys being around beautiful women and doesn't care they are taking his money. But I'm 17 and see things differently, someone else might think he is and old man being cherished and loved by his wife, children, and even grandchildren. 

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POSITIVE EXPERIMENT RESULTS.. human sciences

The Loftus and Palmer Experiment:
-The experiment was designed to prove that long-term memory could be influenced by leading questions as well as the motivation to give the questioner the answer he/she is looking for.
-A group of college students were chosen as subjects. They were shown a video of a car collision and then handed a paper with a single question asking the speed approximation of the car. What they didn’t know is that the questions handed randomly varied in verbs. The verb’s ranged between strong and not as strong, this was meant to influence the speed average given by the participant.
-The outcome proved the hypothesis right. The highest speed approximation matched the strongest verb and the lowest approximation matched the least powerful verb. The result helped understand that leading questions in a courtroom could affect the eyewitnesses memory of the event.

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ETHICS.. EUTHANASIA

PRO- ASSISTED SUICIDE

 VS. PRO- NATURAL DEATH

-       The Christian Catholic religion strictly forbids the taking of a life by human hands. This includes assisted suicide. Even if the sickness is terminal (which is a demand of the euthanasia process), only God can take the decision as if to when the person shall die and how.

-       Secular humanism states that under the conditions of a terminal disease or extreme suffering, a persons “quality” of life decreases causing the person a great level of discontent. With contentment or happiness as the standard, some lives are deemed to have such low quality that it is reasonable to prefer death.

-       The US currently doesn’t adapt euthanasia nation wide like Netherlands and Belgium. They have decided to take the matter state by state because an exact guideline is needed to make the process useful without violating human rights or involving murder. For example the term of euthanasia, when and how it applies, to whom it applies and how the procedure will take place.

I believe euthanasia should be applied around the world when the patient falls under the conditions. Whether its voluntary that the person choses the procedure, or involuntary when the person is in no conditions to continue living or chose their future. If the disease is terminal and a lot of suffering is implied why ignore a patients dying wish and make him/her endure pain during their last instances in this world?

 

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/In_what_countries_is_euthanasia_legal

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HISTORICAL ANALYSIS- WWI

Origin: New York World, USA indirect involvement in the WWI perspective.

Purpose: To mock the famous promise during 1914 “the war will end before Christmas”, to burst peoples bubble pointing out that the war would extend for more time.

Value: The satire is very direct. Also the “prohibition” of Christmas spirit was something people around the world could identify with.

Limits: Only people in certain places of the USA could she the picture. It made people more desperate to stop supporting the war or made people more eager to contribute and stop the war once and for all. 

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/cgo/lowres/cgon419l.jpg 

Mathematics in Nature Blog:)

This is the inside of a cave, the towers of rock are fractals because we can see how they are built by a repeated pattern. 

This video shows how some caves and their walls are formed, but not how fractals help us describe these repetitive and un-geometrical shapes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzi5f7evhE

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NATURAL SCIENCES: The expense of science

THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT:

The Milgram experiment falls under social psychology, and it was conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. It was meant to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure that instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. What made the experiment unethical weren’t the hypothesis, but the means in which it was performed. 

It consisted of a learner (victim), experimenter, and a teacher that is the only participant and is unaware of the experiment setup. The experimenter was placed in the same room as the teacher who had to ask a series of questions to the learner. The learner was a contracted actor who stood playing the role in another room. Through a communication device the teacher (participant) starts asking questions; if the learner can’t answer the question a button the participant has to press shocks him. As his incorrect responses increase, the force of the shock increases. The teacher listens to the actor pretending to be shocked scream in pain, but the experimenter asks the teacher to continue with the process. The teacher did not know the scream was a fake and that the real person in the other room was not being harmed.

First, the experiment is unethical because the participants were deceived. Not only by the trickery in conducting the experiment, but they were not told the true nature of the experiment. They thought they were hurting the person that had to answer the questions. After the shock level had reached a maximum and the screaming seized the participants believed they had killed the learner and were affected emotionally. The person giving the shocks was forced to continue by the experimenter, he was not allowed to leave at will.  The one ethical consideration the scientists did follow was debriefing the participants after their participation had ended.    

PERCEPTION

"DOUBT IS THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE"- To what extent is this true in perception?

“Doubt is the key to knowledge”, refers to curiosity. With curiosity, people search for the truth or a reasonable perspective of something. Truth is relative, so I believe that doubt is something personal that pushes the person to develop a perspective that fits with their way of life.

• People have a perspective based upon their believes. When it comes to evolution or Adam and Eve or even other theories, people chose to see the one that fits with them. The doubt of creation causes people to search for an answer whether it’s scientifically or based on religious believes.
• When it comes to education, the base is inquiry. Children can be taught but if no true curiosity to learn the material is irrelevant. If your curiosity leads you toward history instead of English your perspective will change toward that subject and its components.
• I love to watch movies. Fiction in real life simulations with adventure and comedy is the perfect mix for a movie. I am always curious for what would happen if weird things were to occur. For example if vampires were real, what would be of the World. Movies give me that perspective of things that are not real but an alter reality that lasts for around 2 hours.