...development of our minds. Using our memory from the past, we now see things for what we are and not as they are. For instance, I remember when I was a child that my sister would stay quiet when she is having a bad day or when she is in a bad mood, I use that memory and relate it to the future events in a sense that whenever I see someone being quiet, I see them as if they are in a bad mood. This is because we, as human tend to classify and isolate certain ideas to our liking since we are wired to do what comforts us the most, we are likely to understand only what we expect or want to see or hear and neglects any other possible details that are not familiar to us. From another’s perspective that quiet person could simply just be a quiet person without any reason at all. Since we cannot change the world around us, we change what we believe the world to be to fit our own standards and our own beliefs and defend these through the use of our memory from the past. When I was on my holidays, my whole family went to the United States to spend our Christmas and New Years. One night, we all wanted Indonesian food, so my...
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...on Nature, Emerson explores the relationship between humans and nature. He asserts that the beauty of nature can be understood by people only when one is in solitude. The true understanding of significance of nature is hindered by the hustle and bustle of daily life. Emerson is of the view that we take nature for granted. For example, we take the stars for granted because we know that they will always be there. However, although they are “accessible” in that they are visible to us, they are also inaccessible due to the distance between us. We can never physically touch them. However, there is an inter-connectedness among the nature, soul and the divine that we miss. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” He feels that we must view nature from the eyes of a child. A child sees things in new an unbiased ways, untainted by any previous judgments. Emerson then rejects the analysis of the ancient historians and ancient theories. He suggests that divinity is in all of nature. Nature is never “mean” or unpleasant in any way. Like the Stoics, Emerson believed that Nature could be the basis of moral principles as well as well-being. But, humans in their present state do not really “see” nature. He...
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...processes things in our everyday lives. There are two types of perception visual and auditory. Visual perception is as it suggest, the seeing and viewing of things through the eyes. Whereas auditory perception is the perception of hearing things and understanding how close they can be. Perception is used even when we do not believe we are using it. Understanding visual perception is not complex, but I always try to think of things in a different manner. Ironically, I see visual perception as a sort of streaming process that allows the eyes to pick up all kinds of details and situations. The eyes are very complex, but we only see the things the brain believes to be important. The brain tells the eyes to compress...
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...The human psyche is more complex and nuanced than we could ever imagine. The lives we live and the experiences we have heavily impact the people we turn out to be. But because we all have different lives, it can be hard to fully understand those who have had one unlike yours. You will not always get an opportunity to speak to those vastly different from you, which means stories can be one of the best ways to understand them. Through books and varying types of literature, thousands of people’s stories can be told and consumed to help us better grasp other people’s lives. Stories can also help us understand our own experiences better and put words to what we are feeling. In “Facing It”, we see a veteran experience grief and guilt while at a memorial for his fellow soldiers who passed away in the war. It gives us insight into what veterans go through and how they exist in our world. In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” we follow Connie, a...
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...individual, it proves to be quite daunting. To try to whittle down such a meaningful word to just eleven words to describe it seems ambiguous and takes away from the reality and just puts it into facts, stating itself, the truth. Understanding how truth plays a large role in war and compares to it, brings a larger perception of war to my mind and how truths can sway from one side to the other. Recognizing that truths can be viewed from different aspects makes me more apt to understanding the meaning of war. So how is truth defined? Of course, there’s always the simplified dictionary meaning, and then there is the more in depth one that I have deduced from readings of texts like All Quiet on the Western Front and a chapter excerpt from The Things They Carried gives much more insight into the reality of war and the effects of being told the truth, and telling it. One idea I have taken from both those documents is that truth can be defined as a statement about the way the world actually is, but the way it actually is can only be defined by more truths that...
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...From the time we are born we have expectations in society to abide by. Girls are put in “girl” colors; boys are put in “boy” colors. If you ask someone why those are “girl” colors or “boy” colors the response is generally “because they are”. Who decided that those colors have a gender preference? Who even decided those are those colors? This class led me to question society itself and realize we give things an identity based on what we are told. The most important thing I learned was the inverted spectrum. I am going to define what the inverted spectrum is, explain what it is, and provide examples how it applies to everyday lives. Then I will explain that the inverted spectrum is important to me because in reality no one can understand my mental state no matter how I explain it, I learned to think for myself, and perception is our reality even though it may be completely false. I will then explain some counter arguments against my reasons such as knowing someone’s mental state because of a similar event or emotion and that we believe what we believe based on facts that are then passed down from person to person. Then I will explain how the counter arguments are incorrect. Finally, I will conclude my argument. The inverted spectrum suggests things are not just input, output because of our own experiences. We do not learn through input and output such as mathematics but our experiences. What this means is someone could pick up a pink crayon but see black but are always told...
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...attributed to how we perceive our social world. Priming Priming is when our mind picks up on certain things. For instance you may hear someone say something about food and you did not really pick up on it. However you may hear someone say pizza or ice cream and that is something that may interest you and you pick up on it right away. Perceiving and Interpreting Events Perceiving and Interpreting Events is how we see and understand things that we see or things that may be going on around us. Our mind at first look may make an opinion or understanding of what we think of something and most of the time we may be correct but we may not fully understand what we may see or what is going on around us until we get a better understanding about it. Then we can fully make a correct decision based on better understanding of the circumstances. It is like the saying that you should not judge a book by its cover. You will have to read the book in order to get a better understanding of the book once you have read Belief Perseverance Belief Perseverance is when ones belief out ways the actually truth. It is when someone has a belief that something is true no matter what facts may show or what someone tells them to be true. Their minds and what someone strongly belief in will out way any and everything even if there is proof to back it up. It is like telling someone that breast feeding will cut down on a child become sick, forming allergies and other things if you breast feed...
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...Shakespeare was around during the sixteenth century, however, about four hundred years later we are still watching his plays, reading his poems, and analyzing his works in schools. He has reached global fame, and his works can appeal to everyone, from the common man to the highest aristocrat and most powerful leader. Why has Shakespeare been able to reach the pinnacle of fame and remain relevant to literature and culture centuries after his death? The answers are simple, yet the average person may overlook them. One of the biggest reasons Shakespeare is able to remain omnipresent in our literature and culture is the fact that he keeps his themes simple and accessible. He is able to take conflicts in the stories, that while they may seem to...
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...Shallows” they are correct. The Internet is the most powerful technological tool ever created. It is changing the way we perceive things, ability to understand, and disables our ability to think and reason. Our ability to think and reason is becoming extinct , we go to the internet for our answers and can not figure it out ourselves. We come across a problem and our first instinct is to look to the internet for our answers, we have lost the ability to reason. We don't try to think for ourselves, we try to think of what we can google to find the answer. Plato talked about how written work helped us learn and understand better. We have drifted away...
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...To all the things that we do not perceive but are there for us to see are call Environmental Stimulus and we call Attended Stimulus to those things in our environment that catch our attention, the things to which we pay attention. One’s a perception happens we recognize the object or situation another proses began to transform this information into action according to our knowledge. This one is always influence by our knowledge, colors and interest. This information brought to a situation can be something learned time ago or knowledge gained by events previews to the present event. In this subject there are some tools that help us perceive they are call fundamental quintiles. They work thru our knowledge and help us recognize position, mass, or displacement. Example on a play perception of the audience is different than what goes on behind the séance. Behind the séance there are so many thinks going on that we are not aware of. On the other hand for someone when is on the audience and has work as on a play would have a different perception then everyone else, he might see the nerviest from the actors, or would see details that no one else can see. This is because our knowledge changes the perception of what we see or hear. In this example we see that the Environment stimulus is all thinks that we can potentially perceive like the trees or flowers. Aon the other hand the attended stimuli would be the bear. The process is constantly repeated all the time, our body gas sensors...
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...inform the community that we the people should start a charity to help fundraise and build the community so that it can become a well structured environment for the kids. Also in this process it should help the communities stop what we call “violence”. We will name this “Stop the Violence Movement”. I. First I will begin and break down the term “Violence” and where did the “Stop the Violence Movement come from”. This will give the people a little insight and some background of how Violence got to be so bad that African-American men took charge and stood up for the community so that the poor communities could become better places to live. II. Furthermore as we continue to the stop the violence trait we understand that if the parents and children see that we are trying to do the community good, they will see that and want to join in and volunteer and the way we work we could “BUILD AN EMPIRE”. All we need is a little support and hard workers to campaign and we could change that way things are in the neighborhoods. III. On the next topic we will begin to see that advertisement has a lot to do with what how the kids go about their ways of life. We should advertise the good instead of advertising the bad. Seems like when we turn on the news we see nothing but bad things and that is caused because no one steps up and takes charge in anything and it’s time to make a stand and stand up for the community. The Transition: I will teach how if we save the community how many...
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...Our Town. However, Scout Finch learns just the opposite. She learns that we all are trying to be good people, and we just have a few blind spots. Scout and Emily notice very different things throughout their lives, Scout notices that most people are good while Emily notices that we are all blind; Scout notices that we all have different circumstances while Emily notices that we all live the same life; and Scout learns to focus on the big picture while Emily notices that we should focus more on the small things. While Emily is learning that we are all living life blind, Scout discovers that we all have good intentions and a few blind spots. From Mr. Cunningham to Boo Radley, Scout learns from her father and from experience that people are only acting in their own self interest with good intentions. Mr. Cunningham shows her that even people who are doing bad things generally have good intentions. Boo Radley shows her that even people who seem evil can be the nicest people in the world. People are only acting in the best way they can, and we can’t understand them unless we walk in their shoes. On the other hand, Emily notices that all people are blind to...
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...person. We looked at his finances, his work, his spirituality, the way he handles sensuality and the way a woman ought to be. Today we want to take a look at his relationships. Now although we are half way through the series it’s important to understand what we mean when we say Christ centred. We don’t just mean that you say you believe in Jesus claims or that you attend church regularly. When we understand this word centred it will define our understanding of Christ centred living. We understand what makes up our solar system by what revolves around the sun in the solar system. Similarly a Christ centred life can be identified by how everything about it revolves around Christ. When we strive for that kind of life it becomes one which is dripping with purpose. God not only breathes life into our spirit when we come to Him, he offers to breathe a living purpose into every aspect of us and our life. Today we want to understand how he does that to our relationships. We will be looking at 3 books in scripture to understand this concept and will be looking at 3 areas of relationships for a believer in Christ. 1. Relationships at home: Genesis 2:18-24 Now I realise a lot of you are not married but I also know that most of you have the desire to be married. We want to understand it means to be Christ centred in marriage as well. I have spoken on this topic before and so if you’re hearing it for the 2nd time maybe God really wants to get a point across to you. If we look at...
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..., para2) is the ability of recognizing, managing and evaluating our emotions, we have four branches of emotional intelligence are the following: perceiving emotions, reasoning with emotions, understanding emotions and managing emotions. Perceiving emotions is the first of the emotions involved body language. Example: In school 6 kids are friends one day 5 of them are sitting together and the other 1 kid is sitting by his self and watching the others. We need to know why this kids is alone is he sad, mad, terrified. Reasoning emotions is the second of the emotions encourage our thoughts and mind, also help us for our attentions, reaction and our emotionally responses. (Recognizing emotions) Example: Why certain things got my attention? (Using emotions). Understanding emotions is the good or the bad emotionally reactions. Example: one day my mom acting mad I need to know or understand if she’s mad from me, or from something else. Managing emotions is the most important in emotional intelligence branch because managing emotions is how to manage our emotions, how can we control our emotions, and how can hurt or respect others emotions. Example: If I’m mad or angry I have to manage or control my reactions to not hurt anyone or to not get hurt emotionally. Emotional theory was arising by Peter Salovey and John Mayer. We have 5 components of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-regulation, internal...
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...in its suchness; it is the way that it is, and in this suchness its emptiness, and the way that it connects with all other things, can be found in the same way as it can be found in human beings. In the beginning of The Heart of Understanding, Thich Nhat Hanh gives us the definition for a word, a word not yet in the dictionary. This word is “interbeing”. In his explanation of this word he describes how everything that we see here depends on something else to be what it is. To use his example: without the logger, the sunshine, or clouds, the paper upon which we read would not be able to exist. At the end of this description of the word “interbeing”, Thich Nhat Hanh states that “The Heart Sutra seems to say the opposite. Avalokiteshvara tells us that things are empty.” (p. 4) Thich Nhat Hanh continues to speaks of the piece of paper, and how if we only look at it from the outside, we are separate from it and we will not fully comprehend how everything is interconnected: “If we only look at the sheet of paper as an observer, standing outside, we cannot understand it completely”. (p. 9) The idea that speaks to me from this is that if we are transcendent to this idea of interbeing then we will not truly understand emptiness or suchness, and along with this we will not truly understand Buddhism or any of its concepts. We need to be immersed in this idea; we must “be a cloud, be the...
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