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

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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?


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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.