domingo, 28 de marzo de 2010

Political Cartoon



Origin:This cartoon makes me think of an arabic country, also reminds me of muslims

Purpose: To show the people that Muhammad's ideas are not the correct ones, such as kidnapping and suicide bombings

Value: This is important for the muslims and to their perception of Muhammads ideas

Limitations: Shows the point of view of those who are against Muhammeds, biased

http://www.aavw.org/images/muhammad_cartoon17.gif

domingo, 21 de marzo de 2010

Mathematics


On this picture you can see various ferns. Ferns are a great example of fractals because they are self-organizing and the they repeat over and over again.

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/define-ferns-1.jpg



Fractals always seem to mimic oceans and plants and planets and atoms and internal organs and art. This video shows a great variety of fractals demonstrating the different forms or figures they have.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrATc5WVCvQ

sábado, 13 de marzo de 2010

High altitude Experiment- Nazi




> In early 1942, the Nazis came up with various unethical experiments. Prisoners at Dachau concentration camp were used by Rascher in experiments to aid German pilots who had to be released at high altitudes. This was used to simulate conditions at altitudes of up to 20,000 m. There were some rumors stating that Rascher performed vivisections on the brains of victims who survived one of the first experiments. Of the 200 people, 80 died outright, and the others were executed.
> The experiment created by the Nazis is really unethical because no scientific knowledge is worth a human life and specially is its going to be used for war or for selfish purposes. Also, because it is extremely painful and violates the human rights, so obviously it can not be done.
https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/access/content/user/ecy1/Nazi%20Human%20Experimentation/Pics/highalt1.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation#Freezing_experimentshttp://images.google.co.cr/imgres?imgurl=http://heritage-key.com/HKimages/013/egypt_nazi9.jpg

domingo, 7 de marzo de 2010

Perception

1. I believe that doubt is the key to perception because if there were no doubts, we would never question anything so then we would never create our own opinions or a sense of perception towards something.
2. A cultural example of this is the perception of other countries towards Honduras. There are people form various cuntries in the world, which dont know where Honduras is until they noticed about the political problems we have here and how insecure it is. Once I met some people in the other part of the world, and when they heard I was from Honduras, they were amazed. First of all, some of them asked me where was such country located, and some of them thought it was a little country somewhere in Africa while others said it was a such dangerous and poor country somewhere in America. Unfortunately, this is how people think of our country, but as mentioned it is incredible what the foreign people's perception of Honduras is.
3. Everyday in school, we are constantly doubting things in order to prove them and to create a certain idea of what that and try to be 100% percent of it, especially a sense of perception on every subjects. For example in Math, we are constantly doing group works for practicing hard problems, so we always doubt before turning in the work we did because we were not sure about many things. This is a situation of doubtness commonly seen in such subject, math, because it is a very hard subject to always be 100% sure of every answer. So, without doubtness there would be no knowledge.
4. A personal experience would be when I was told that a friend was saying bad things behind my back, I would not believe it because I had known her all my life. But, then I started to doubt this because even though I had known her my whole life I did know she tends make bad coments about her other friends and many people. This is because I perceive she is a good person but still proved me wrong.