Controversial Artwork

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Reading Criteria:
Intention of the artist: The artist is saying that peace is not being followed and war is taking over peace.
Quality of the work: The work is done in a very good quality because it has a lot of details even though it is painted in a wall.
Response of the audience: People that see this artwork realize that peace is needed to continue growing as a whole.

Art and Knowledge Criteria:
Imitation: The white bird and the leaves are used in every part of the world representing peace, and the red aim is used to represent peace.
Communication: It communicates every person passing throigh that wall and makes them think about peace and war.
Education: It educates people because it is a clear example of how their should be peace in the entire world.

Human Sciences

The Stroop Effect

The desired outcome of the experiment was to proove that humans tend to focous on the details like the colors or shapes things are done with.

John troop performed an experiment that tested the reaction time of a person to read different sets of words. He gave sets of words to different people that were names of colors and one of the set of words had colored ink that did not conquer with the word that was being read. He timed the same person on the different tasks and saw that the words that were colored with the same color as what the word spell were read much faster than the words that had their color changed.

The outcome was that every human notices the colors and shape things are made of first and then they notice what their meaning is. In this case they had trouble saying what the word spelled because they first noticed the olor in which the word was spelled in.

Ethics

Animal Testing Dilema

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• The people taht are ill believe that the animals should be tested with new medicine before they use it with humans.
• Muslims reject animal testing because their religion is against any killing or torture of any living thing.
• An animal protector says that animals should not be tested because they get very injured and sometimes get killed.

My personal opnion is that animals should only be tested when it is really nessesary. Ither tests sshould be preformed in labs with different equipment. If the technology doesn't help we should test the medecine in animals.

Historical Analysis Post

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Origin: The United States. It tells me that its from the point of view of people that are against the war.
Purpose: To give a visual representation of how the war is killing a lot of US citizens, and informing people how George Bush is just ¨playing¨ instead of working.
Value: This is a point of view that is not offten seen and represents all the bad aspects of the war.
Limitations: We do not know from which country did it come from and it is bias. The boxes with the flags could also represent other things rather than a coffin with a dead soldier in it.

Mathematics Blog: Fractals in Nature

Fractal in nature: Trees are fractals because of the way their branches divide sinve the bottom of the trunk.

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This video shows how we used to belive that trees grew and changed over time because of the different climates, but we never watched how trees are composed from fractals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bUDylndVoY&feature=related

Monkey Drug Trails

http://listverse.com/2008/09/07/top-10-unethical-psychological-experiments/

One of the most unethical experiments in the history is the monkey drug trails in 1969. It consisted of a large group of monkeys that were tought how to inject themselves different types of drugs. After the monkeys had learned how to inject themselves they were left in a cage with large amounts of different drugs. The monkeys after a certain time were highly disturbed and the majority of them tried to harm themselves by breaking their, arms ripping hair of, or suffered of severe cunvulsions. This experiment was ment to understand the effects of adiction and drug use. It is considered unethical because of horrendus way the monkeys were treated to find out things that could've been found by common sense or by making other experiments with a more controled variables.

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http://www.pestiside.hu/entry_images/drug-monkey.jpg

Perception Post

"Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in Perception?
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In my opinion this persian proverb is is very true when we talk about perception because when you see something you have to doubt it and then learn more about it to gain knowledge.

1. Cultural example: Having to believe in one God is a good example for the persian proverb. When we were first introduced to a certain God we first doubted about it and then started to read about it and started to gain knowledge. If we have not doubted about it we would never have had gain that much kowledge about the God.


2. School example: When we are presented with a weird math formula we always doubt about it and ask how it works. When we doubt about the formula the teacher explains it to us and that is when we gain more knowledge aboout math and formulas. Asking is a way of representing doubt and a way of gaining knowledge.


3. Personal example: When I was a little kid I believed that babies came from Storks. When I was growing I started doubting about this story, so I went and asked my parents. That was when they told me from where babies come from. If I have never doubted about from where do babies come from my knowledge about that topic would never had grown.