Limitations of our thinking implied by Allegory of the Cave:
-People were in the dark
- All we know is shadows
- Shadows are the Appearances of reality.
- No one sees reality with their senses
- "light" is needed to see true reality
- reality is seen through intellect.
- People fear the unknown and the known of what they thought they knew.
- Ways to solve our "darkness" is to gain knowledge.
Limitations of our thinking implied by No Exit
-people give each other hell
- Each are in hell for their sins
- There isn't darkness present
- The company of others is "Hell"
The difference between these is that in Allegory of the Cave the location is more of the hell, or the "dark side" where as in no exit the people are what create hell not the location.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Allegory of the cave sonnet
He sees what is presented before him,
Is this reality or an appearance that remains grim.
Shackled physically and shackled mentally.
The cave limits the thoughts and mind.
Freedom from the cave,
brings forth independent thinkers.
Who question and ponder
and let their minds wonder.
The man who sought freedom,
does not return,
For he has gained knowledge or reality,
while the prisoner does not learn.
Beyond the surface and the bare minimum,
see with your intellect and not your senses.
Is this reality or an appearance that remains grim.
Shackled physically and shackled mentally.
The cave limits the thoughts and mind.
Freedom from the cave,
brings forth independent thinkers.
Who question and ponder
and let their minds wonder.
The man who sought freedom,
does not return,
For he has gained knowledge or reality,
while the prisoner does not learn.
Beyond the surface and the bare minimum,
see with your intellect and not your senses.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Brain with 8 legs
We chose The Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. To discuss our book we decided to create a group message on Facebook to discuss summaries that we created of the reading, that way if one of us misses something the others can fill them in and elaborate. Along with these summaries we will have questions that come up during our reading. Our goal is about 40 pages a day in order to be done on time.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
We hang together
emphasize togetherness and dependence?
collaboration, alliance, interdependence.
We depend on others for survival.
No one can do everything all by themselves.
Be successful, must build relationships with people, and understand them.
communication
Taught from beginning, do not collaborate.
Do it alone.
what makes a hero:
the relationships he establishes with others.
Interdependence.
Shorter relationships.
But easier access to people.
Collaboration and interdependence more effective.
collaboration, alliance, interdependence.
We depend on others for survival.
No one can do everything all by themselves.
Be successful, must build relationships with people, and understand them.
communication
Taught from beginning, do not collaborate.
Do it alone.
what makes a hero:
the relationships he establishes with others.
Interdependence.
Shorter relationships.
But easier access to people.
Collaboration and interdependence more effective.
Allegory of the Cave**
1. According to Socrates, what does the Allegory of the Cave represent?
The allegory of the cave represents that we only see what we are allowed to see. It doesn't allow
2. What are the key elements in the imagery used in the allegory?
Key elements of imagery used in the allegory are the cave, shackles, the shadows, the fire. This elements set the beginning, how the prisoners seen things inside the cave, why they could only see it, and it sets a strange and somewhat gloomy. The sun is also another key element.
3. What are some things the allegory suggests about the process of enlightenment or education?
Like before, we only see what we are allowed to see. Its like we take whatever information we get without questioning it, and people are often afraid to seek out answers themselves. As if I told you the sky is green, and you just agree. Once the prisoner is free he is able to receive his own answers.
4. What do the imagery of "shackles" and the "cave" suggest about the perspective of the cave dwellers or prisoners? The shackles and cave suggest that they live under a rock, unaware of the outside would and oblivious to it due to being bound to inside the cave.
5. In society today or in your own life, what sorts of things shackle the mind?
In my own life, I shackle my own thoughts. I refuse to let myself speak out of I conclude that it isn't worth saying, it isn't important or if I believe its a "duh" sort of comment. I expect myself to be the best I can be, I hold myself back from my own potential to participate within class.
6. Compare the perspective of the freed prisoner with the cave prisoners?
Once you taste the freedom, you cannot go back. The perspective of the freed prisoner was like he finally seen day after years of night and he was stunned that the cave dweller wouldn't partake in the experience and freedom as well.
*7. According to the allegory, lack of clarity or intellectual confusion can occur in two distinct ways or contexts. What are they?
8. According to the allegory, how do cave prisoners get free? What does this suggest about intellectual freedom? They get free from leaving behind the cave, that doesn't allow them to be free. This suggests that intellectual freedom allows you to express the unknown, and question the questionable, lets you be different and creative.
9. The allegory presupposes that there is a distinction between appearances and reality. Do you agree? Why or why not? I think there is a huge difference between reality and appearance. Just as in hamlet, he appeared to be mad and insane to everybody else in the play but the reality was he was just able to put up different fronts to execute what he needed to be done, or elicit a specific emotion.
10. If Socrates is incorrect in his assumption that there is a distinction between reality and appearances, what are the two alternative metaphysical assumptions?
What you see is real, like the phrase seeing is believing .
The allegory of the cave represents that we only see what we are allowed to see. It doesn't allow
2. What are the key elements in the imagery used in the allegory?
Key elements of imagery used in the allegory are the cave, shackles, the shadows, the fire. This elements set the beginning, how the prisoners seen things inside the cave, why they could only see it, and it sets a strange and somewhat gloomy. The sun is also another key element.
3. What are some things the allegory suggests about the process of enlightenment or education?
Like before, we only see what we are allowed to see. Its like we take whatever information we get without questioning it, and people are often afraid to seek out answers themselves. As if I told you the sky is green, and you just agree. Once the prisoner is free he is able to receive his own answers.
4. What do the imagery of "shackles" and the "cave" suggest about the perspective of the cave dwellers or prisoners? The shackles and cave suggest that they live under a rock, unaware of the outside would and oblivious to it due to being bound to inside the cave.
5. In society today or in your own life, what sorts of things shackle the mind?
In my own life, I shackle my own thoughts. I refuse to let myself speak out of I conclude that it isn't worth saying, it isn't important or if I believe its a "duh" sort of comment. I expect myself to be the best I can be, I hold myself back from my own potential to participate within class.
6. Compare the perspective of the freed prisoner with the cave prisoners?
Once you taste the freedom, you cannot go back. The perspective of the freed prisoner was like he finally seen day after years of night and he was stunned that the cave dweller wouldn't partake in the experience and freedom as well.
*7. According to the allegory, lack of clarity or intellectual confusion can occur in two distinct ways or contexts. What are they?
8. According to the allegory, how do cave prisoners get free? What does this suggest about intellectual freedom? They get free from leaving behind the cave, that doesn't allow them to be free. This suggests that intellectual freedom allows you to express the unknown, and question the questionable, lets you be different and creative.
9. The allegory presupposes that there is a distinction between appearances and reality. Do you agree? Why or why not? I think there is a huge difference between reality and appearance. Just as in hamlet, he appeared to be mad and insane to everybody else in the play but the reality was he was just able to put up different fronts to execute what he needed to be done, or elicit a specific emotion.
10. If Socrates is incorrect in his assumption that there is a distinction between reality and appearances, what are the two alternative metaphysical assumptions?
What you see is real, like the phrase seeing is believing .
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
brains with 200 legs
2. For the CMAP the design seemed simple and easy to use, but it looked so bland I couldn't help just to skim only due to the unappealing appearance.
3. We can all contribute to the mind map by sharing one thing we particularly know about very well, if I had to write about all the things I know how to do or what I know I can probably write pages about sony vegas pro 12, editing, hacking, photoshop, sai paint tool. Various things I know about but not everyone does. This can be correlated to our studies, different writing styles help some learn better one way and another style can help another. Starting off with one person doing what they know, then similar ideas can mesh.
4. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm
The article talks about visuals with mindmaps and how effective they can be.
http://thinkbuzan.com/ The pictures catch my eye and the different kinds of bubbles!
Monday, November 11, 2013
A POETIC INQUIRY
How I searched:
Looked up losing innocence sonnets on Google to find a majority writers just sharing their sonnets on a forum. So I tried looking up sonnets about youth to find sonnet 96, but then tried looking for a sonnet about growing up and found sonnet V where the last line stuck with me, "Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet." Meaning looks deteriorate but character does not.
Looked up losing innocence sonnets on Google to find a majority writers just sharing their sonnets on a forum. So I tried looking up sonnets about youth to find sonnet 96, but then tried looking for a sonnet about growing up and found sonnet V where the last line stuck with me, "Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet." Meaning looks deteriorate but character does not.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Sonnet Analysis # 1- Sonnet V
Sonnet V
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet
Unclear words-
Tyrants:a cruel and oppressive ruler.
Doth: archaic third person singular present of do.
Confound: cause surprise or confusion in (someone), esp. by acting against their expectations
O'er:archaic or poetic/literary contraction for over.
Distillation: the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.
Bereft:archaic past participle of bereave.
Bereave: be deprived of a loved one through a profound absence, esp. due to the loved one's death
Pent: closely confined or held back.
Leese: To lose
My interpretation:
The time that structures
the eye that stays
will it be like the tyrant?
Which it unfairly continues.
Time never rests during summer,
to the bad winters, confuses him there.
Questions/unknown: Confusing on the weather, flowers and seasons tie into growing old.
Progressing seasons means time is moving forwards.
Growing older, your substance meaning personality still remains concentrated, even though the outer part of your being continues to wear thing.
How it relates to my big question: It relates to my big questions since it ties into growing older and losing the exterior looks but remaining the same interior.
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet
Unclear words-
Tyrants:a cruel and oppressive ruler.
Doth: archaic third person singular present of do.
Confound: cause surprise or confusion in (someone), esp. by acting against their expectations
O'er:archaic or poetic/literary contraction for over.
Distillation: the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.
Bereft:archaic past participle of bereave.
Bereave: be deprived of a loved one through a profound absence, esp. due to the loved one's death
Pent: closely confined or held back.
Leese: To lose
My interpretation:
The time that structures
the eye that stays
will it be like the tyrant?
Which it unfairly continues.
Time never rests during summer,
to the bad winters, confuses him there.
Questions/unknown: Confusing on the weather, flowers and seasons tie into growing old.
Progressing seasons means time is moving forwards.
Growing older, your substance meaning personality still remains concentrated, even though the outer part of your being continues to wear thing.
How it relates to my big question: It relates to my big questions since it ties into growing older and losing the exterior looks but remaining the same interior.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Hamlet REMIX ** progress
New one here v and above! ^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFYOUovKt0
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Hamlet Essay
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the readers perceive young Hamlet as indecisive, with a hint of madness mixed into his character. Since the beginning of the play, Hamlet had set out on avenging his father. Although he never swore to carry out his act of revenge on Claudius, what Hamlet says and did we're completely different. His self-over hearing affects Hamlet's character in the sense of expectations. His words are powerful to Hamlet himself and other characters such as Gertrude or the simple actor. Just as my own self-overhearing defines who I am.Self-overhearing is what we say and act on or in Hamlet's case what he says and does not act. Hamlet defines himself through his multitude of soliloquies demonstrating his inner feelings of sorrow.
Performative utterance is demonstrated when the ghost appears before Hamlet and Hamlet swears to remember but never swears to kill his uncle Claudius. Since Hamlet did not swear on this deed, he is not bound to his word. Hamlet never pursued the act. Hamlet's words affect his actions throughout the play, since he determines how, where, and when is he going to kill his uncle. When one does not follow their own word it leads to lack of trust by others, or disappointment in one's self. When someone I know makes a promise about doing a favor for me, I hold them accountable, but if they never swear I simply cannot.
Self-overhearing is present when Hamlet performs the many soliloquies where he speaks of him losing it, or suicidal moments. His thoughts make him believe he is delusional perhaps, mad. His words demonstrate a little madness and therefore the expectation to go mad just as everyone else describes mad or dangerous. Although his madness only derives from one of his personas like many of us have. He has one of madness, one of wit, obedience and the casual around friends. The words Hamlet said shape his way of thinking as well as my own words shape my thinking. "I'm going to type my essay before 11pm." There's an expectation now and this expectation is now intertwined with reality since I may carry out my action or choose to do the opposite.
In Hamlet, performative utterance and self-overhearing shape Hamlet's way of thinking as well as his actions. His words are so powerful people around him believe in his madness that is seemingly true at first glance. His own words lead to his expectations and a possible reality by his own action. These are present in my life too.
Performative utterance is demonstrated when the ghost appears before Hamlet and Hamlet swears to remember but never swears to kill his uncle Claudius. Since Hamlet did not swear on this deed, he is not bound to his word. Hamlet never pursued the act. Hamlet's words affect his actions throughout the play, since he determines how, where, and when is he going to kill his uncle. When one does not follow their own word it leads to lack of trust by others, or disappointment in one's self. When someone I know makes a promise about doing a favor for me, I hold them accountable, but if they never swear I simply cannot.
Self-overhearing is present when Hamlet performs the many soliloquies where he speaks of him losing it, or suicidal moments. His thoughts make him believe he is delusional perhaps, mad. His words demonstrate a little madness and therefore the expectation to go mad just as everyone else describes mad or dangerous. Although his madness only derives from one of his personas like many of us have. He has one of madness, one of wit, obedience and the casual around friends. The words Hamlet said shape his way of thinking as well as my own words shape my thinking. "I'm going to type my essay before 11pm." There's an expectation now and this expectation is now intertwined with reality since I may carry out my action or choose to do the opposite.
In Hamlet, performative utterance and self-overhearing shape Hamlet's way of thinking as well as his actions. His words are so powerful people around him believe in his madness that is seemingly true at first glance. His own words lead to his expectations and a possible reality by his own action. These are present in my life too.
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Instructions for WMM (using windows 8 WMM):
-Open your WMM
-There is a button that says add video/photo click on it
-box that pops up, where you can search for the video/photo file
-you click on desired picture
- the desired item appears on the right side where it is automatically added to your video
- double click the picture and the edit tab pulls up, this is where you can change how long the file appears in the video.
-in the top part of the screen it says DURATION you can change it to how long you want it to be 30 secs. 10 secs. REMEMBER IT IS IN SECONDS.
SAVING YOUR VIDEO
-click file
-save movie
- another small tab opens with various options click FOR COMPUTER
- a window pops up that says SAVE AS TYPE, make sure you change it to WINDOWS MEDIA VIDEO FILE.
then you upload the video to youtube.
Anymore questions just ask!:D
hope its helpful