...help us uncover our mental models : The Ladder of Inference & The Left Hand Column Ladder of Inference To share a non-work scenario first - Case Scenario 1 - Part 1 A taxi driver had a son who is serving national service in Lim Chu Kang and he usually checks in by 2359hrs, or just before midnight. One day, he decided to send his son to camp. On the way back, after he dropped his son, the taxi driver had to pass by a cemetery just up ahead from the camp. When driving, he saw a lady wearing a red dress and let down hair, extending her hand, seemingly calling for the taxi to stop. She was alone. The taxi driver, thought, why would a lady, some more in red, at that moment in time, doing on the road side near the cemetery? Without giving a second thought, he quickly decided to drive off. Case Scenario 1 - Part 2 1 week later, the taxi driver received letter from his company of a complaint by a lady for not picking her up. She had snapped the license plate number and lodged a formal complaint. Apparently, she had followed her boyfriend back to Lim Chu Kang camp in his bike, and after she booked in, she wanted to take a cab along the roadside near the cemetery, thinking it’s easier to get one. (Show ladder of inference) – Only shoe Observable data + Actions. Use icon as per video....
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...Midnight in Paris is a film written and directed by Woody Allen and Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder. The film tells the story of a screenwriter named Gil who visits Paris with his wife and while roaming the streets at midnight is transported back to his “golden age” of the 1930s. Wilder’s play, on the other hand, tells the story of a small New Hampshire town, Grover’s Corners, focusing on the lives of the Webbs and Gibbses families, specifically George Gibb and Emily Webb. While there are strong differences in the experiences of the characters, the lesson learned in Midnight in Paris and Our Town is very similar. Both Midnight in Paris and Our Town utilize time and space to teach the characters the lesson. In Midnight in Paris,...
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...celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. They see death as a friend and also make death humorous; in the film they showed different articles where they even made fun of the president. In the film they also showed famous murals for this occasion such as Diego Rivera’s famous mural dedicated to the day of the dead. Flowers also play a key role on this day; many people use yellow flowers, they say the yellow flowers have the smell of death. Before the event the women prepare food to take to the cemetery for their loved ones that are gone, many believe they come back to cemetery on this day. On November 1st , they light thousands of candles and incenses to help guide the dead to the cemetery. At midnight the dead are supposed to be there. The Day of the Dead, is celebrated during the same time frame as Halloween. Both events are centered on tradition rooted in paying respect to the dead. Though mostly different, a few characteristics of both holidays make them similar. Both Halloween and the Day of the Dead use food as part of the celebration. Halloween involves trick or treating where children knock on doors to receive candy, sweets and treats. Though food is also used during the Day of the Dead, the food is placed on alters at the grave sites of those being remembered during the holiday. In the days and weeks before the Day of...
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...Day of the Dead & the Sugar Skull Tradition The Day of the Dead and the Sugar Skull Tradition starts on the November 1st and 2nd. This holiday is held in Central and Southern Mexico. They call this holiday in Mexico, Dia de los Muertos y la Tradición del Craneo del Azucar, which means Day of the Dead and the Sugar Skull Tradition. On October 31st, they believe that the gates of heaven will be opened at midnight and everyone that has passed with reunite with their families. Everyone with have beautiful altars made for their passed loved ones. They have in them baskets with flowers, candles, many things of fruit, peanuts, and the Day of the Dead bread called Pan de Muerto. In the alter there is also soda, water, and hot coco. For the...
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...Lisbon suicide, a group of neighborhood boys recalls the events of the past thirteen months. It is June in suburbia, school is out, and summer has begun. Cecilia Lisbon, who at thirteen is the youngest of five cherubic Lisbon sisters slits her wrists while taking a bath. Her life is saved, but the hospital psychiatrist recommends that she be given a social outlet outside of school. Mr. Lisbon and Mrs. Lisbon allow the girls to throw a chaperoned party, at which Cecilia seems oblivious to her sisters and to the neighborhood boys who come as guests. Just as the party's awkwardness begins to abate, Cecilia asks to be excused. Ascending to her bedroom, she jumps out the window onto the fence below, and dies instantly. Since the local cemetery workers are on strike, Cecilia cannot be buried, but is given last rites and taken to the mortuary freezer. The shocked community tries to come to terms with her death, the first death in the boys' lifetime. The tragedy only makes the remaining Lisbon sisters more fascinating to the boys, who manage to obtain Cecilia's surprisingly mundane diary and read it aloud obsessively to each other, imagining themselves into the girls' lives. Yet they can neither find nor intuit a ready explanation for her death. Unsure of how to console the reclusive Lisbons, the neighborhood women send flowers, while the men organize to remove the fence on which Cecilia landed. Neither act receives much response from the Lisbons, but the neighborhood feels...
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...Death flies in with the Bird It is believed that superstitions began with Neanderthal man, because they were the first people to bury their dead. It is said that they believed in an afterlife because they buried the dead with food, weapons and other items to be use in the afterlife. Superstitions surrounding death have always lurked in my mind as far back as childhood. My Grandmother was the family member that filled my mind with the fears that still haunt me to this day. She would tell me things like if a bird fly into your house it had to fly out the same way that came in; if not then someone within the family would die. We had this happen once when I was about 9 years old. We didn’t have air conditioners back then and we would leave the windows and doors open with a big box fan in the windows and on the floors in front of the open doors to cool the house. We were having a birthday party for my baby brother, Tony, when a bird flew in through the front door. My grandmother screamed out for everyone to close all the windows and door except the front door; leaving the bird with only one way out. The bird flew towards me, and I ran to the back door thinking that the bird was after me. When I went out the back door, the bird did too. My grandmother was very upset and she told me the reason why it was not good that bird flew out the back door. I didn’t really believe her, but within two week my mother received a phone call informing her of the death of my uncle. Right away my...
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...Death flies in with the Bird It is believed that superstitions began with Neanderthal man, because they were the first people to bury their dead. It is said that they believed in an afterlife because they buried the dead with food, weapons and other items to be use in the afterlife. Superstitions surrounding death have always lurked in my mind as far back as childhood. My Grandmother was the family member that filled my mind with the fears that still haunt me to this day. She would tell me things like if a bird fly into your house it had to fly out the same way that came in; if not then someone within the family would die. We had this happen once when I was about 9 years old. We didn’t have air conditioners back then and we would leave the windows and doors open with a big box fan in the windows and on the floors in front of the open doors to cool the house. We were having a birthday party for my baby brother, Tony, when a bird flew in through the front door. My grandmother screamed out for everyone to close all the windows and door except the front door; leaving the bird with only one way out. The bird flew towards me, and I ran to the back door thinking that the bird was after me. When I went out the back door, the bird did too. My grandmother was very upset and she told me the reason why it was not good that bird flew out the back door. I didn’t really believe her, but within two week my mother received a phone call informing her of the death of my uncle. Right away my...
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...places, especially the United States. The Day of the Dead is becoming very popular in the United States. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family members and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and to help support their spiritual journey. The Day of the Dead is a two day celebration. The Day of the Dead occurred on November 1st and ended on November 2nd. The Day of the Dead celebrations start on November 1st but the actual holiday occurs on November 2nd. The first people to celebrate the Day of the Dead were the Aztecs but the holiday has spread throughout the world. It has become a national symbol and is taught in the nation's schools as well. People believe the dead open the gates of heaven at midnight on October 31, and the spirits of all children are allowed to reunite with their families for 24 hours. On November 2, the spirits of the adults come down to enjoy the festivities that are prepared for them. All Saints day is the day after Halloween. Both Anglicans and Roman Catholics celebrate All Saints day by holding a festival to remember all holy saints. The All Souls day is usually the day after the All Saints day. The All Souls day is all about praying for the souls of the dead so they can leave purgatory and go to heaven. The Day of the Dead has holding festivities for their loved ones that they have lost in common with the All Saints Day because they hold a festival for their loved ones. The Day of the Dead has praying for the...
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...HOWL For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machin- ery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene- ment roofs illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burn- ing their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall, who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York, who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine...
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...Robert Johnson Robert Johnson laid the foundation for blues rock. After Eric Clapton, world-renowned guitarist, heard Robert Johnson for the first time he said, “I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man’s example would be my life’s work.” It isn’t only Clapton that believes Johnson to be one of the best guitarists of all time. Spin magazine, Rolling Stone, and Guitar.com all rate Robert Johnson as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He has inspired legendary musicians such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix and others (4). If, in today’s world of hip-hop and heavy metal, a person knows of only one country blues artist, odd are it is Robert Johnson (3). Let’s explore how this young man’s life impacted blues and rock music. Robert Johnson was born on May 8, 1911. Although there are differing dates on documents, this is the date that is most commonly believed to be correct (1). He was born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi and spent much of his early life in levee camps and on plantations. In 1918 his stepfather sent him to a plantation by Robinsonville, Mississippi. This is where he started playing harmonica and meeting older blues musicians such as Willie Brown, Charley Patton and Son House. He eventually moved back to Hazelhurst and met his wife but she died rather quickly after getting married (5). After his wife passed he went back to Robinsonville and met back up with his old blues musicians and friends...
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...morning as the limousine, drove into the cemetery and parked on the grass. From her limousine, Mary Anne watched as eight men carried the casket across the grass before she got out and walked with the mourners. There were several chairs in a row, she sat down and stared at her husband’s bronze casket. During the last few days, her family, and friends said she amazed them by her strength and the way she dealt with Gerald’s sudden death. According to the reports, someone shot him during a burglary, but she knew the truth. The mortuary attendant said, “This concludes the service for Gerald Stone. The family will be serving lunch at his parent’s home and you’re invited to join them. I have directions to the home.” He handed...
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...I won’t leave you, don’t worry. We’re friends right? We’ve got to stick together. She could still hear his voice and see the reassuring grin that his face bared when he told her that. A lone tear escaped her eyes as she looked at the tombstone before her, trying to stay strong. He hated it when she cried, he said. Not that it mattered if she cried or not, the heavy downpour of the sky did the job for her, the sky mourned with her. It must‘ve known… known that it wasn’t his time to die yet, that he should be alive, here with her. Alexander James E. Devin She had read the words engraved on the newly polished stone several times already and she still couldn’t believe it. He was gone. Her best friend was gone just like that. “You said you wouldn’t leave me!” She shouted suddenly out of frustration, the sound of the rain muffling her yell. Lea finally broke down into a sobbing wreck and knelt down on the ground, crying. “Alex… Alex, you git…!” She bawled, pressing her palms to her eyes in a futile attempt to stop her tears. Despite cursing a dead person, Lea is mostly angry at herself. Actually, she is angry at herself. She was so selfish, so goddamn selfish that just thinking about it was absolutely revolting. For the past month she had been ranting and venting so openly to Alex about her life problems. About how she finds the idea of taking away her life so appealing every day and he’ll be there to comfort her. Always. Without fail. They were always together...
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...metro lines (A, B, and C or green, yellow, and red, respectively). • The three stops that transfer from one line to another are Můstek (green/yellow), Muzeum (red/green), and Florenc (red/yellow). • The metro comes approximately every 8-10 minutes, but it runs slower on the weekends and faster during rush hour (every 2 minutes). Either way though, you’re never caught waiting for long. • The metro stops running at midnight and starts at 5AM, I believe. • As far as the trams go, they’re a little more complicated simply because there are a TON. But they’re easy enough to figure out once you know how to read the schedules. • There are timetables posted at every tram stop, the columns are: Pracovní Den (work day), Sobota (Saturday), and Neděle (Sunday). • Tram 22 will get you to the Prague castle, just get off at stop Pražský Hrad. • Tram 22 is also known as pick-pocket express, so be extra cautious while riding it • Also, Czechs are very quiet normally, so just keep that in mind while taking public transportation • The night trams start at midnight and go until 5AM and run about twice an hour, so if you’re staying out late, I suggest checking what times the...
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...How African-American Culture Conceived Jazz Near the beginning of the twentieth century, Jazz was a new style of music being invented by African-American musicians who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city of New Orleans during the beginning of the twentieth century was loaded with individuals of different ethnicities and backgrounds. Before the early twentieth century, New Orleans was colonized by the French and Spanish. When the French and Spanish colonized New Orleans, they brought with them their slaves from various regions of the African continent; mainly, the slaves came from West Africa. In the book The Story of Jazz Marshall W. Stearns states: …the various stages in the development of the slave trade had a decisive influence on what part of Africa the slaves came from... the majority of slaves came from the West coast of Africa…inter-tribal raids and dynastic wars in West Africa led to the selling of kings and priests into slavery, people who were specialists in their own tribal music and rituals (16). When the French sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States, the slave trade existed until it was banned sometime in the early nineteenth century. However, even though the trade was banned, slavery in the United States existed until after the Civil War. Within the confines of slavery, a new tradition was made from a mix of African and American traditions. The mix of African and American traditions started when the slaves were brought...
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...Comparing Vampires and Werewolves Star Koning Com/170 January 12th, 2012 Karen DeVries Comparing Vampires and Werewolves Vampires and werewolves are ravenous demons that haunt our dreams, and dwell in the dark murky shadows of the night. They like to creep around in the dark, and will attack when least expected. These creatures of the night can live within the human population. They could be your neighbor, your local bank teller, your pastor, your local store clerk, or even your best friend, and in most cases they are never even noticed. That is until one is breathing down the neck of an unsuspecting victim. Vampires are not born, they are human first. They have to be bitten by a vampire who drains their blood, and then they must feed on the blood of a vampire. They then must go through the transition of changing from human to night-creature, and will be in pain for a few days until they become a full blooded vampire. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_vampires_born). A werewolf on the other hand, must be bitten or scratched by another werewolf. It has also been said that werewolves have been known to interbreed with humans and wolves to increase their population. When a werewolf child is born, it is born into the same form as its mother. If the mother is human at the time of the birth, the child will also be born in a human form. If the mother is a werewolf at the time of the birth, the child will be born in a wolf form. (www.weavercraft.org/…/werewolves.html)...
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