...From a very tender age up until of late, I used to believe in so many things which I had not put to test yet. I was so positive with life, always believing in everything for the mere beauty of how sincere it looked. Sometimes I would simply believe everything because I was told, not considering the fact that anything emanating from a human being can either be the truth or the opposite of the truth-lies. It always caught me by surprise when I would be brought back into reality with the fact that all I had thought to be true was a mere factor of letting things flow in the right direction to please me-but not a reality of the same. Not only did I believe everything I heard but I would also believe that there are people in this world who are stronger than others in each and every single way. I believed that they were stronger in all aspect; emotionally, spiritually, physically and mentally. I believed that even when shaken, my father was the strongest man in the world. I was little boy by then and I did not know that he also was human and that he had a weakness. From the time I was a small boy, I viewed my father as being a hero and a legend at the same time. He was big physically, rich and had the power to do anything. To me, there was no one on this earth like him. I feared him because he was a no nonsense man. He did not entertain any form of failure. These are some of the qualities that made him respected and feared by everyone around him. Even my very own mother feared...
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...What is perception, and what is reality? Perception is from your point of view, and what you think and believe in. But, reality is what is actually happening. Sometimes people get confused when they think that something is true, like magic, but the truth is that it’s just an illusion, but you believe it is something else. Seeing is NOT believing because there are confusing things that trick you. One reason seeing is not believing is that they are sometimes illusions. in the article, “Magic and the Brain,” the magician Tomsoni blinds the audience with a bright light, and then dims it, and hidden devices pull off the white clothes quickly, and when the light is on, the dress she was wearing under was red. It says in the article, “Magic and...
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...Tony Goodloe Eng 112 Dr. Blumenthal 8 April 2013 If Seeing is Believing, Then Please Take a Second Look! When companies want to sell their product, it is normally done with a famous person as the spoken person for that product. Have you ever wondered,” Does that person really use that product? Another way businesses or companies sell their product is by using sexual images or suggestive words for their ads. Companies might also use a controversial topic to spark up interests for that product. The way that the images of a photo is shown or the way the ads make a play on words can be very tactful or very harmful depending on the way a person views the ads. The two ads that were chosen for this paper shows how both sexual content and controversial topic are being used to sell a product. HUMO is a Belgian satire magazine that makes the basic premise that this is so compelling that an individual doesn’t notice the chaos or danger around him or her. The QSOL.com ad made the statement “QSOL Servers Won't Go Down On You” meaning there servers will work all the time. Advertisements can be funny and help sell a product, but ads should not be offensive to people. The HUMO ad made the statement this magazine is so compelling an individual does not notice the chaos or danger surrounding him or her. The intended audience for this ad seems to be Caucasian, white collar worker, European readers, and professional people who are avid readers...
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...Perspectives Life Span & Introduction to Sociology PSYC-2314-S03 In class we have been discussing the analogy of perspectives. A perspective is a way of seeing, also thought of as a ‘point of view’. This mental view or outlook can both enhance and constrain how we view the world in our own eyes. In the field of psychology and sociology there are many ways to perceive our world in which we live. No one perspective alone can define the world. Each perspective has its own distinctive strengths and blind spots. In class we have discussed different theories and analogies to better understand the complexity of perspectives. Perspectives will both facilitate and constrain perception. A good example of this statement is the Burke Theorem. The Burke Theorem states that “A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing- a focus upon object A involves a neglect of object B”. My understanding of this theory is that if you only focus on one perspective for viewing, you end up neglecting other perspectives, which doesn’t allow you to fully see reality as you could from looking with more than one perspective. An example given in class was how each student viewed the same exact water bottle. Students sitting on different sides or directly in front of the water bottle will have different views. Students sitting in rows towards the left and right sides of the classroom saw the sides of the bottle, while students sitting directly in front saw the front of the bottle. And on the other hand...
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...childhood 4 men are Tightly chained around the neck and the legs unable to move in a sitting position forced to stare at a wall . In a dark cave ,to a post ,4 men,are given the only source of reality which is in front of them on a wall that is dimly lighted from a fire that is positioned above and behind them.Between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised platform with a low wall built to hid the bodies of the marionette’s who are displaying the shadow of puppets and shapes onto the wall.These men have been in the cave so long that they have the belief and without a doubt that the figures and animals they are seeing are represented accurately to what we know them to be.One of the men is released from the chains and slowly begins his ascension up the stairs and when he reaches the outside of the cave he is just left awestruck and disbelief at what he is seeing and begins doubting what he see’s compared to what he grew up with and saw in the cave. But his disbelieg turns into understanding which enlightens his interpretation of things he experienced in the cave and his intelligence to the level of what most would consider a philospher .But he is left with symphony and guilt about letting the other prisoners know what he has discovered but is only responded by the others that he is crazy and if anyone were to leave the cave they would just become insane like him....
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...senses it is apparent that our minds would be just as Aristotle and Locke called it a ‘Blank Slate’ (Kirby & Goodpaster, p.54). Quite like how food brings our body energy and life as we feed it, our senses tend to the same for our brain; without them our brain would be almost empty (p.54). Our senses must be present in order to know who we are or who we want to be. Three reasons for believing the accuracy of sensory information are how we perceive things, how we react to them, and what we know of them. Although all senses play equal parts in the affect it has on our brain and our lives in general, sight is one that I would deem most accurate. For example, if you see an accident on a busy highway your first inclination would be to find a different route or calculate how long it will be until you reach your destination, or if you see something dangerous your response is to move away and dial 911. Although sometimes your sight can trick you into seeing things that aren’t really there, majority of the time the information you receive through this sense is accurate. Its like the saying seeing is believing. Taste is another excellent example in accurate sensory information. If we are trying something new for dinner one would tend to determine whether we like it or not within minutes maybe even seconds after hitting our taste buds. Touch is also an example, we are able to determine whether something is hot or cold, rough or soft by just feeling it. This information is always correct because...
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...a grid for different philosophical anthropologies that answer the question of personhood. Complete the following chart in the context of defining what it means to be human according to Christianity, Materialism, and your own Personal View. Refer to the assigned reading for explanation of characteristics listed on the left. | Christianity | Materialism | Personal View | Relational | The building block of the church, the community. | Relationships built off of materials for beneficence for someone. | I believe this is to be building a relationship with God and with those who will do you good. | Multidimensional | One believing or serving more than 1 God, believing in or seeing different dimensions such as the heavenly realms. | Humans are material objects because of their body parts (veins, blood, etc.). | I believe this is to be believing in multiple Gods. This is also how we act as a human which is important since we are seen as multidimensional. | Sexual | Part of human nature, not meant to be thought of as a defining human characteristic. | Modern attitude towards sexuality. | I believe this should wait until one is married but this is not realistic in today’s time. | Moral | One is aware they are were made in an Image of God and his application of laws come into effect such as different behaviors. | Society that excels in creativity. Values can only be mad made related to humans. | I believe this to be human rights, a description of obligations and...
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...and unavoidable. So either way you look at it, the mass media occurs in a person’s life on a daily basis. Which has a severe effect on the choices you make and the morals you live by. One cannot trust everything they see on TV either. Most commercials you would see today are overly exaggerated just to persuade consumers into buying the product. For example, in the 1930’s America’s first “drug czar” Harry J. Anslinger, began one of the world’s greatest public relations campaigns just to demoralize marijuana by telling apparent lies to society and persuading them to believe it. Such as that marijuana is more harmful to the body than alcohol, and tobacco. 70 years later people still believe the lies even after decades of scientific proof. Seeing as how media can “control your mind” we as a whole need to be more aware of it on a daily basis. The mass media has a responsibility to use only truthful explanations as opposed to exaggeration when arguing against the legalization of marijuana. The campaigns that Anslinger participated in consisted of many movies, musicals, and advertisements all demoralizing the usage, and or the distribution of marijuana. The promotion of marijuana making you insane was his main theme throughout his claims. Every single one of his claims missed some very important facts that make them obviously false. Studies over the years has proved that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco, and it is not a “gateway drug” leading to the usage of other...
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...Religious Life of Planet Earth Religion 212 April 29, 2012 I was asked by my superiors to visit the planet Earth and ascertain if people and the planet are religious and what they practice in the aspects of religion. First, it is important, for you to understand my opinion of religion and supporting aspects or views of religion. Religion is not only a way of living but also considered artifacts, practices and traditions of a belief that one worships a deity. People should not only have a belief but also contribute, participate, relinquish and devote their lives in living and having faith in their deity. I observed and researched what and how the people of Earth worship, how often they praise or worship their deity and what they do while practicing these traditions of beliefs. People long to make sense of life; to find the key that will unlock its mysteries and enable them to understand themselves and their place within the universe. Each religion presents us with a particular view of life, expressed in its teachings, scriptures, and traditions. But is it necessary to be committed to that religion in order to understand and appreciate what it teaches. In this human journey for finding sense, some turn to philosophy, the creative arts, and others- in fact the majority of humankind-take to some form of religion. Almost every aspect of life can become the raw material out of which a religious interpretation of life may be built. The word religion has many different...
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...Any time you dare to dream, there are risks involved. What if it never happens? What if it costs too much? What if people laugh at you? It's hard to hold on to your dreams. It's hard to believe when the world and those around you give you no reason to press in and press on. I've been blessed to realize many dreams in my life and ministry, and I'm convinced that a dream only happens when two things take place: 1. You live with expectant faith that the dream will happen. 2. You refuse to let go of the dream - regardless of the circumstances in your life. When God put the dream in my heart to acquire a sports arena as the location for Lakewood Church, I'll admit that even at first, I was unsure how it would happen. But I just kept believing God's Word. He encouraged me that with Him "nothing was impossible." As months went by, there were many times when the obstacles and problems outnumbered the possibilities for us to receive the promise He had given us. But during these times, I went to God's Word and learned something from the...
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...very puzzling and it intrigues him to find out why someone would think this way. In an effort to understand why some people thought like this, Descartes tries to break everything down into its bare bones. He thinks that you cannot build a body of knowledge unless you have firm foundation first. This makes sense because if you’re trying to build theory’s and ideas of things without knowing where these ideas came from, or even if those ideas are truthful or not, then you are just fooling yourself and wasting your own time. Your superstructure of knowledge must have some sort of structural integrity to it. You can’t build your knowledge upwards or expand your structure without sure support beams to follow it up. Descartes then goes on to believing there is a demon that exists everywhere which tricks everyone that our senses are a...
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...reality of there actually being as a beast but eventually they all ended up believing in the beastie. Throughout the novel Golding shows how fear motivates people to believe in something that actually does not exist. Sometimes, people fear things that do not exist that come from their imagination. Near the end of the novel, Jack and his choir are trying to hunt the beast, however they can not find it, still they feared it even though they never truly saw it, they just thought they did. They had suspicion of a beast even from the beginning of the novel, when the boy with the birthmark on his face disappears on the mountain, then later more suspicion when one of the littluns claims that he saw a figure during the night. The littlun said, “And I was frightened and started to call out for Ralph and then I saw something moving among the trees something big and horrid.” (Golding, 91). When the boys talked of the beastie other boys started to believe it too and soon they all started to feel like there was a beast coming after them, but in reality their imagination was just running wild. Jack stated, “But you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but- being hunted; as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.” (Golding, 53). This quote shows that the fear was strong and it made them all feel like the beastie was actually real. When the boys were thinking they were seeing a beast they really were just seeing other things, things that looked like a beast, like people. They even ended...
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...All the Jews of the blocks gathered together to thank God for this year and ask for another good year praying that he is the one that can determine if humanity deserve another year of peace or a year of the opposite. Elie hears a nearby prisoner blessing,thanking and he is the only one that owns the universe and the world. Elie believes that God is not present in the world, he allows such suffering to the ones that believe him. He turned his back to the ones that respect him, praise him and allows mass killing of young children and adults. He then considers that Man, the inventions of God, have overcome and are stronger than the creator. Elie runs to his father, wanting to wish a Happy New Year, but was scared to congratulate. Seeing his faceless father, he and his father had understood something that the other inmates are soon going to understand, God has...
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...In section 1 of Night by Elie Wiesel, during the Spring of 1944, the unexpected arrival of German troops had seized power in Elie’s town, Sighet. Before the Nazis had reached Sighet, citizens in the town were aware of Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews, but they had believed that the Russians were advancing far too quickly for Hitler to focus on his “Final Solution” rather than to fight the war. After being persuaded by the fact that the Russians would most likely liberate the Jewish people, the Jews in the town were unprepared and left believing that the Germans would stop their invasions at Budapest. The moment the Germans had arrived, the Jews in the town of Sighet feared Nazi rule of power. They had lived in fear having heard about...
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...the real information. However if we were to change we can use the new information, meaning we can research about the event and see if we can use that information to know that something else could have possibly happened. As people say seeing believing so this means you cant really believe everything that is written down in history. In that book “After the fact” there are many historical events that took place which were quite odd to come to the conclusion of. History in the text is explained as “History is what happened in the past. That statement is the everyday view of the matter. It supposes that historians must return to the past through the surviving records and bring it back to the present to display as what really happened.” This quote explains that the information that the historians have today is not enough to address what has really happened in the past. In order to have the clear picture of what really took place, one has to travel back in time, which is quite impossible. It is not that you cant find out what happened in the history, it is that somewhere it would be a myth and not hundred percent accurate. These days you cannot believe everything that happens in life unless you see it with your own eyes. They say seeing is believing but that's not...
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