PABLO PICASSO

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Intention of the artist: to show people about maternity and human reproduction
Quality of the work: abstract -oil painting. It is really creative because Picasso uses shapes and different colors in order to make this unique masterpiece.
Response of the audience: I really like this artpiece because it demonstrates the big responsability of motherhood. I like the background and how he makes stand out the mother with the baby.

Immitation: He doesn't immitate another drawing. Instead, he immitates a mother with its child.
Communication: Pablo Picasso tries to communicate "REPRODUCTION" in humans. Since the baby is painted almost the same size of the mother, it might mean that having a baby is a big responsability.
Education: Through this painting, I learned that motherhood is really important and also a joy in a woman'a life. It teaches how humanity reproduces.

SOLOMON ASCH EXPERIMENT (1958)

1. In 1951 social psychologist Solomon Asch conducted this experiment to test the extent that pressure from other people could affect one's perceptions.

2. Asch showed bars to college students in groups of 8 to 10. He told them he was studying visual perception and that their task was to decide which of the bars on the right was the same length as the one on the left. Asch asked the students to give their answers aloud. He repeated the procedure with 18 sets of bars. Only one student in each group was a real subject. All the others were confederates who had been instructed to give incorrect answers on 12 of the 18 trials. Asch arranged for the real subject to be the next-to-the-last person in each group to announce his answer so that he would hear most of the confederates incorrect responses before giving his own.

3. To Asch's surprise, 37 of the 50 subjects conformed to the majority at least once, and 14 of them conformed on more than 6 of the 12 trials. When faced with a unanimous wrong answer by the other group members, the mean subject conformed on 4 of the 12 trials. Most of the participants did not really believe their conforming answers, but had gone along with the group for fear of being ridiculed or thought "peculiar." A few of them said that they really did believe the group's answers were correct.

*This experiment allowed us to see how humans are manipulated by peer pressure and how we follow what others do when we are in an awkward situation. Most of the time we do this so we are acepted and seen as normal while doing a task.

http://www.experiment-resources.com/asch-experiment-figure.html
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/asch_conformity.html

http://www.experiment-resources.com/asch-experiment.html

RACIAL SEGREGATION

1.The Nazis considered Jews, Gypsies, Poles along with other Slavic people like the Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs and anyone else who was not an "Aryan" according to be subhuman. The Nazis rationalized that the Germans, being a super human race, had a biological right to displace, eliminate and enslave inferiors. Some 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

2. In the US, various ethnic groups such as African Americans, Latin Americans, and Muslims are prejudiced by the "whites".

3. Many football Australian League clubs have been formed based on ethnic and racial associations and there have been instances of people of other groups not getting fair opportunities in football employment.

*I am against racial segregation because humans are all equal. We might have different physical appearance between some cultures but that is not a reason to descriminate someone that looks different. Everyone has the right to follow a certain religion or tradition without being descriminated in society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_association_football
http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/racism.asp

HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

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ORIGIN: -U.S.
-educated US citizen (publicist)

PURPOSE: -to criticize how President Bush passed on all the problems in the US to Obama and obligating him to find a solution for them.

LIMITATIONS: -bias towards Obama because he might not be able to handle every major issue in the US


VALUE: -created by an American who knows abut his or her country and knows what he or she is talking about

FRACTALS..

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This picture shows three types of fractals: clouds, coastline, and a pineaaple. I picked this picture becasue it shows various examples of fractals that surround us.



I liked this video basically because it shows many ways in which fractals are present in nature and proves that we are surrounded with math.

THE MONSTER STUDY

http://www.highestfive.com/wp-content/uploads/wendell-johnson-monster-study.jpg


http://listverse.com/2008/09/07/top-10-unethical-psychological-experiments/



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Wendell Johnson conducted the Monster Study at the University of Iowa in 1939. He used 22 young orphans. One of his students, Mary Tudor, was chosen by him in order to conduct the experiment and Wendell would only supervise her research. The purpose of this study was to find the cause of "sluttering".

The orphans were divided in 2 groups. For the first group, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children and congratulated the fluency of their speech. For the experimental group, she gave negative speech therapy and criticized the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. This was unethical because some of the kids from this group suffered negative psychological effects and others had speech problems throughout their life. People were horrified that this test was preformed on young orphans. Later on, The University of Iowa appologized.

http://listverse.com/2008/09/07/top-10-unethical-psychological-experiments/

Perception Post

"Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in Perception?


http://www.tektonics.org/af/doubt.jpg

Each person will percieve this statement differently, but in my opinion I think that our doubts teach us in certain ways. Doubts are present in our daily life and sometimes our perception of new things allow us to learn. When something is unfamiliar to us, we constantly ask questions and try to understand it. Our enviroment and experiences allow us to learn many things that are not known. Doubts make us analyze things, and later we are able to achieve more knowledge. I think that without doubts, we wont be interested in certain topics that intrigue us and maybe we wont have the interest to learn about them.

-school: when I don't understand how to do a process in a math problem, I usually ask someone else to explain to me how to do it, and later I will know how to do it.

-culture: normally, when people are driving in a new city, they ask pedestrians how to get to some place. By getting an answer, they clear their doubts and now, they know how to get to their destination.

-life: when I have doubts in my personal life, I ask my mom or friends. For example, when I want to know if the boy I like is a player, I ask people that know him so I am aware of his personality.

Emotions

FEAR




I chose this video for fear because I am really scared of spiders, especially tarantulas. they give me goosebumps with only thinking of the.

SADNESS




This video makes me cry because it's hard to see all the damage that the earthquake made in Haiti. Many people died and some are still suffering. The ones left do not have a home and anything to survive.


LOVE



I chose this video because Hercules is one of my favorite Disney movies. I like the scene shown because it talks about love and affection for someone else. Love is my favorite emotion because it makes me happy at the same time.

HISTORICAL REASONING

EL "PORFIRIATO"

El Porfiriato was the period of time in which Porfirio Diaz was president of Mexico (35 years). He was considered to be a dictator. He promoted prosperity by encouraging foreign investments. During this time, Mexico was going through positive modernization. Factories sprung up, railroads were built, agriculture and live stock export products expanded, etc. Even though Porfirio Diaz tried to improve land reforms to benefit people, a lot of the land that belonged to the peasants was taken away. The economy depended in foreign whims. Social classes were divided into upper and lower class. There was too much unemployment. Land remained in the hands of the few, 95% of the rural population owned none. Only people from the upper class were benefited with the actions done by Porfirio Diaz, while the lower class suffered of economic problems. They would not have enough money to survive and many died of poverty.
http://www.jmolds.k12.nf.ca/Web%20files/povertyboxhouse.jpg




IRAQUI FREEDOM


Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003. Since then, the US began to help Iraq elect their new government. Meanwhile, US forces were being attacked by supporters of the old government as well as some people related to Al Queda. Since the Shities and the Sunnies had different opinions about this issue, theybegan to fight violently against each other and turn everything into a present civil war.

http://www.historycentral.com/freeIraq/Index.html
http://whitehouser.com/img/iraq/iraq_freedom.jpg







GENERAL "BUTCHER'S" CONCENTRATION CAMPS

The spanish man, Valeriano Weyler, known as the Butcher, was sent to Cuba in order to put some order in society during the Spanish-American War. His role was to restore the island to political order and Cuba's sugar production to greater profitability. While the Spanish troops marched in regulation, their opponents practiced hit-and-run tactics and lived off the land, blending with non combatant people. General Butcher came to the conlcusion of dividing the society by putting the civilians in the consentration camps that were protected by Spanish troops. He created 300,000 reconcentration camps. Even though it was a success to divide the people, it was hard to mantain them; many people died of starvation and diseases were spread along the population in the camps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriano_Weyler
www.latinamericanstudies.org/reconcentrado.htm

Art Work *extra credit :)

This piece of art titled, THE FIRST DOOR is a graphic painting containing many frases and vulgar images. I think that the "door" represents the way our mothers deliver us when we are born. For this reason I think that the baby is at the middle of the woman's reproductive organ. I liked this art work because it is very unique and most artists do not paint things like this. It seems to be a unique painting with a significant meaning. There is a contrast between the background and female organ. Its an original painting.

GILDA RADNER :)

ORIGIN OF "GILDA":

-old english; meaning: golden, gilded.

ORIGIN OF "MARIA"

-latin; meaning: star of the sea

ORIGIN OF "MERCEDES"

-spanish; meaning: mercies

ORIGIN OF "MONTES"

-spain; meaning: elevation of natural land

Why "Gilda Maria Mercedes"?

*to begin with, both of my grandmothers are named Mercedes so both of my parents wanted me to have that name. Then, they needed a basic name that would go before Mercedes so I wouldn't sound simple. Both liked Maria because it came from Vigen Mary. During my mom's pregnancy every one called me "m&m" and would give her many baby things of the m&m logo. However, my dad's grandmother was named Gilda and no one from his generation had that name so he discussed it with my mom and she didn't like that name. But, the day I was born, my dad registered me as "Gilda Maria Mercedes" without my mother's consent. She then got angry with my dad and both of my parents would not talk to each other for a week. Finally, she accepted his decision and now everyone calls me Gilda.

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Gilda

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Maria

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Mercedes

http://www.surnames.com/apellidos/montes.htm

(8)volveremos a celebrar juntos...

STURGIS Trip '08

manana's 18th birthday :)

september 5/09 ......(L)

new years '1o