Friday, November 6, 2015
You Don't Know Like I Know
Continuing our examinations of the impacts of perspectives, please select and describe a moment of knowledge from one of your classes. Examine the ways your perspective as a knower shapes your knowledge, then compare that to a different knower's perspective on the same moment. Please share this by 9:30 Sunday evening.
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Moment of knowledge: When I read The Things They Carried , I tent to skim through it and make my own summary on the book, because it will save time and make everything easier. (Reason)
ReplyDeleteMy perspective: Read a book as quick as possible, and we can take notes when we review the book and reinforce our knowledge.
Other perspective: Various, for example, some of my classmates would read slowly and try to understand what each sentence means.
KQ: How does the method with which a knower extracts information affect how well it is ingrained in the memory?
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DeleteThere are different ways that the knowers can extract information from knowledge, these will affect the memories toward the knowers. Certain knowers prefer to read out aloud, and certain knowers prefer to listen quietly. In this way, the knowers will ingrained remember the events, but in different ways. For example, I can remember the book by taking notes, and what I can remember is just the book without any sentiments; contrarily, my classmates would like to read slowly, which they can remember with more emotion, and there is no need to read repeatedly.
DeleteMoment of Knowledge: In History class, there was a picture of spears and a plow that represented apartheid in South Africa. Depending on the way it was interpreted, the meaning of the picture changed. This made me think about how our interpretation of images affects our perspective of their meaning.
ReplyDeleteMy perspective: The plow was coming toward the spears and therefore they were lying in wait to sabotage the plow (which could represent the apartheid government).
Other perspectives: The plow was going away from the spears and therefore the apartheid government was planting the seeds of revolution and dissatisfaction within the society.
Knowledge question: Can evidence interpret with sense perception on area of History?
DeleteTo what extent can evidence, inderpreted with sense perception, influence the knowledge of an area of History?
DeleteEvidence interpreted through sense perception can influence the knower's knowledge of an area of history, because a difference in sense perception changes the meanings of pictures or texts related to that area of history. Because of this, two knowers may interprete the same picture of apartheid differently; causing one to think that society revolted against the government and the other to think that seeds of revolution were sown in the society...all because of the percieved direction of the plow.
DeleteThrough sense perseption, the knowledge of an area of History can also change depending on the way the knower personally interprets the pictures or texts. Furthermore, this can influence the way that specific area of History is interpreted by others. As we tend to go along with other's perspectives so as to be part of the crowd, one person's interpretation of historical evidence through sense perception can change others' perspectives as well. You never know, because of one person's opinon we may all start believing that, because of the direction of a printed plow interpreted through sense perception, the apartheid governement of South Africa was ambushed by angery citizens instead of sowing the seeds of revolution in the society. But then again, if you think about it, history is a series of facts about which people have percieved the facts. In my opinion, the way one person uses sense perception to influence their knowledge of an area or event in history is not necessarily wrong when compared to another person's application of sense perception to interprete the same area of historical knowledge.
Moment of Knowledge: In English class, we discussed in what way McCandless should be remembered.
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-I held the opinion that McCandless should be appreciated and valued for his commitment to his principles. I found his daring existence exciting and moving. However, it is possible my conclusion was shaped by my biased perspective: I too have an affinity for living rough and on the edge, for instance in some of previous travels.
-Others believed that Mccandless was nothing more than arrogant and hypocritical, some one who tempted fate with the pompous confidence that he would win; a miscalculation that cost him his life. This perspective could easily come from a knower who based their conclusion on the emotional side of the story as told by his family. This knower would see McCandless’s action as hurtful to his family and inherently selfish and wrong.
Knowledge Question: To what extent does personal bias shape one's evaluation of Chris McCandless's adventure?
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DeletePersonal bias plays a significant role in one's evaluation of Chris McCandless's
Deleteadventure because this is a very subjective evaluation. There are many different ways to interpret or evaluate McCandless's story and there is no correct answer. This means that the specific angle or perspective that one is viewing his story will be highly influential in the conclusion drawn. The evaluation made is not going to rely as heavily on reason as let's say a math problem, making it more reliant on less certain and subjective processes of evaluation, granting a larger role for personal bias. For instance, when I read Chris McCandless's story I view him as virtuous because he followed through on his belief system and my personal tendency to like those who strive for lofty ideals contributed significantly to this conclusions. Additionally, the lack of one correct answer means numerous evaluations can be made, and the differences between these evolution are caused by personal bias. Everyone is viewing the exact same material, however they are still drawing different conclusions meaning personal bias must be what is influencing them to draw these varying conclusions.
Moment of Knowledge: In English class, we were discussing how we thought of Chris McCandless's actions
ReplyDeleteOthers Perspective: Some people in my class thought of Chris as hypocritical because he helped others who were poor financially by donating food and money. He, himself was from a wealthy background and had decided to give up everything and go into the wild as if he had nothing(poor). Since he helped others, but he, himself, became poor, it seemed to other people that he was hypocritical because he helped the poor and then started to act as if he was a part of that society.
My perspective: I thought that Chris wanted to fulfill a life endeavor and whether or not he was rich did not really give a solid justification to call him hypocritical. He helped others which is a totally selfless thing to do. He decided to give up his wealth and adventure out in Alaska and simplify his life. I believe there is nothing wrong with that. In the book it states, "He wanted to prove to himself that he could make it on his own, without anybody's help"(Krakauer 159). Since he was well taken care of and nurtured in his childhood, it suggests in this quote that he wanted to be alone and free and have the avaliablility to make his own life choices. Him going out into the wild and giving up his wealth is not a hypocritical trait, I believe that it is the pursuit of his dreams. If that was what he wanted to accomplish and it did not interfere with the lives of others, he had every right to especially because he was an adult and was capable of making his own decsions. Just because he helped others and became somewhat poor does not make him hypocritical, but it makes him someone who has a goal and is willing to achieve it.
Works Cited:
Krakauer, Jon. Into The Wild. New York: Random House, 1996. Print.
Knowledge Question: To what extent does unconscious hypocrisy of the knower limit their abilities to properly comprehend new knowledge?
DeleteWhen, for example, someone is unconsciously hypocritical, they are not aware of themeselves or their actions which make them hypocritical. They lack the knowledge of fully understanding their personality/background in comparison to the actions they work out. which, can be argued, is the basis of how one attains new knowledge. Some believe that knowing who you are enables you understand different things because you have a solid stance upon yourself. If that is absent, they are lacking the ability to fully understand their own actions and how in relation to their own background, how those two aspects resonate.
DeleteUnconscious hypocrisy is when someone's background or personal beliefs contrasts with their actions and it can be viewed from a Marxist, feminist, or postcolonial perspective. When someone believes in something, but does the exact opposite for their own reason, it is their actions that should not have an effect on what the way they attain new knowledge. People's actions are done because of why that person wants to do that action. For example, if someone is black, but they participate to segregate whites for their own reasons, they may not understand the hypocrisy because those acquired beliefs have made them segregate, but from another perspective, it may look like they are hypocritical unconsciously but it may be that they are doing something that they believe in.
DeleteMoment of knowledge: In English class, we discussed about whether we sympathize Iago from the play Othello or not.
ReplyDeleteMy perspective: I do not sympathized him at all. Because he takes advantage of innocent people around him to get his own purpose. However, my conclusion is based on my own bias on moral. I personally hate person who uses others to get his or her own purpose.
But there are people who think there is nothing wrong for Iago to use whatever resources or people he has. And he didn't threaten any of them, all of those innocent people are willing to do things Iago asks them to do. So they think there is nothing wrong with him using others.
Knowledge Question: To what extent does our personal moral bias affect how we understand or perceive ethical situations?
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DeleteOur personal moral bias affects how we perceive ethical situation to a great extent. Because people with different moral biases analyze the same ethical situation differently. Some people think it's right to do a certain thing, however, it may go against other's moral principal. Just like the moment of knowledge I wrote, I don't sympathize with Iago using people around him. However there are people think it's a right and smart thing for him to do. So moral bias strongly affect our interpretation of ethical situation.
DeleteMoment of knowledge: In french class we are reading a novella called "Le comte de Monte- Cristo", in this novella a woman gets poisoned.
ReplyDeleteMy perspective: I believed that the person who poisoned this woman was Mme De Villeforte, because she wants her inheritance.
Other people in the class believed that maybe her granddaughter poisoned her for the same reasons.
To what extent does one's perspective affect reasoning?
DeleteOne's perspective affects one's reasoning in the way that subconsciously or consciously we are allowing past experiences and knowledge to affect our emotions. These inevitably are connected to how we reason and the conclusions we make. One's perspective affects one's reasoning to a large extent.
DeleteMoment of knowledge: We are reading Othello in Ensligh and we discuss the book and the characters every day in class. One day we had a discussion on weather Emilia is a bad person or a good person.
ReplyDeleteMy perspective: Emilia is not a bad person because at last, she revealed Iago's guilty plan to everyone even though Iago was threatening her with a sword.
Other student's perspective: she is a bad person because she took Desdemona's handkerchief, but when Othello was mad at Desdemona because she won't give him the handkerchief, Emilia didn't tell them that she took it.
Knowledge question: To what extent do ethics shape your emotions and opinions on wether or not Emilia is or is not a bad person.
DeleteEthics shape our opinion to a big extent. Some people's ethic tells them that a person is a bad person because he or she did one bad thing to one other person, no mater how many good things that person did. Just like some students in the English class, they think that Emilia is a bad person because she did not tell Othello or Desdemona that the handkerchief is with her husband, therefore she is a bad person. On the other hand, some people feels like that if a person did some small bad things but they do more good things, they are a good person. I'm like that because I think everyone make mistakes, for many reasons. However, if the person do more good things, like how Emilia revealed Iago's plan to everyone even though she knows that she will be killed by Iago, that person is a good person.
DeleteMoment of knowledge:
ReplyDeleteThe topic of our final essay for English class was "what did we learn from the play, Othello".
Perspectives:
I chose jealousy as the theme of my essay but my friend chose trusting. Even though we read the same book, we had different things we learned from the book. It is because we applied different perspectives.
To what extent does the meaning of a text depend on the perspective of the perspective of the knower?
DeleteAnswer to the knowledge question:
DeleteThe meaning of a text depend on a person's perspective a lot because each person has different ways of understanding based on their perspective. The reason why I chose jealousy as my essay topic was because my perspective was focused on Othello's negative emotion. On the other hand, my friend's perspective was more focused on the relationship between Othello and Desdemona. We understood the book differently because we noticed different points with our perspectives.
Moment of Knowledge: In English class we were having a discussion on Into the Wild on the decisions that McCandless made going on his adventure based on his previous personality.
ReplyDeleteMy Opinion: I thought that based on McCandless' previous life decisions and that he was so passionate about helping the less fortunate that it seemed like an out of character and selfish decision to leave and be no longer do the things he seemed so passionate about.
Other Person's opinion: Another person in my class disagreed because she said that McCandless had the right to go out on his own and that he wasn't hurting anyone by doing it.
Knowledge question:
DeleteTo what extend do people's perspectives effect on their beliefs?
Answer: My beliefs about McCandless' character where changed by the new perspective I got when reading about his childhood. Before I read about his child hood I thought he was just an adventurous person but after I knew what he was like as a child I realized his actions were uncharacteristicly selfish.
DeleteMoment of Knowledge: During English class we discussed McCandless’ uncharacteristic lapses that became so common they became part of his character. One lapse was his acceptance of help from others along his journey.
ReplyDeleteMy Perspective: I thought that he was not holding himself to his own ideals that he shaped from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. By accepting help he was betraying the strict system he lived by. Or the system he held others to but could not hold himself to. My view is perhaps shaped by my bias for doing something completely or not doing it all.
Other Perspective: Another perspective had a different reason for his lapse. It was that he accept help from people for whom it was alright to participate in society so McCandless can live off society through them. This view could be shaped by a view that McCandless would purposefully ignore something so it was possible for him to survive.
Question: To what extent does reason and emotion affect a knowers actions?
DeleteTo what extent does reason and emotion affect the way a knower goes against his primary beliefs.
DeleteMoment of knowledge:
ReplyDelete- In English, we discussed whether or not Chris McCandless' life should be celebrated and remembered.
My perspective:
- McCandless' adventure should be seen as a lesson for others who want to take radical measures to "find themselves" without being fully prepared for what the outcomes will be and that the only people that have the right to remember him should only be the who have spent time with him and personally knew him. I do not think that people should admire him and his adventure because he acted on instinct and did not think the adventure through. My perspective could be geared by my own morals.
Other perspective:
- He should be admired for his dedication and determination. He stuck to his intents and did not back down until things became unbearable and he health and sanity was in danger. Others see him as memorable person because he was focused on his dreams and was not afraid for being defy the norms of the society around him and his father.
Knowledge Question: How does a knower's knowledge of ethics affect their perspective of the actions of others and the reasons behind those actions?
DeleteA knower’s knowledge of ethics is based on how they have grew up and what they were exposed to in their lives. They can use memory and sense perception to remember how situation were dealt with and how or why actions were carried out in their past. Therefore, if they have to analyze another person's actions and reasoning, they can only depend on their pasts experiences in order to judge others.
DeleteMoment of knowledge: In dance class we were studying Pearl Primus and how Africa transformed her and her style of dancing,
ReplyDeleteMy perspective: I believe that through Pearl's journey to many places in Africa, she was able to find her roots and admired the diversity of cultures. She learned to love the places she visited and therefore when she came back to the US, she began adopting many movements of African tribal dances to stay connected to Africa.
Other perspective: Other people believed that she lacked imagination and therefore copied dances from Africa instead of creating her own.
Knowledge Question:
Delete- To what extent does knowledge of the arts allow authenticity?
To a certain degree, knowledge of the arts can limit one's authenticity. In this case, a dancer may copy someone else's authenticty by using their dance moves; the choreography will come from someone else's mind instead of their own. However, to a larger extent, I think knowledge of the arts will be more beneficial than limiting as this knowledge will allow the dancer to be more open minded. Due to this, he/she will be more inspired and may learn more techniques which can open more doors to oneself's creativity. Through this process, the dancer will know themself better and therefore will live by there discoveries, and as a result, will enable more authenticity.
DeleteMoment of Knowledge: In English class we were discussing Into the wild, and if Chris McCandless had a death wish, or was just foolish and expected that he could make it out alive.
ReplyDeletePerspective:
While I thought that he expected that he could make it out alive. Other people thought that he had a death wish. Others believe that if McCandless was expecting to survive in the Alaskan bush, he would have prepared himself better, due to the fact that he was well educated and understood that it was a genuine possibility that he could die. I thought because he was young, he did not fully comprehend that death was a reality and could happen to him. This is because Krakauer states that while he was young he didn't fully understand death, and that it could occur at anytime. I believe that that statement can be applied to McCandless as well.
To what extent has imagination influenced the scientific knowledge about death?
DeleteTo a great extent imagination has influenced how science understands death. Throughout time, science has not fully understood what occurs after death. Imagination has allowed for people to speculate the possibilities of the afterlife, i.e. heaven, hell, limbo, or just ceasing to exist. If Chris McCandless were to imagine that there would be a world after life, that could have been a large determining factor in his preparation, or lack of, for the Alaskan bush. Like many other religions have pictured a paradise, McCandless in his ventures could have believed that after he died, there would be an ultimate paradise, and his perfect world after his death. In addition, Chris McCandless' high level of education would effect how he thought of the concept of death, and what it logically meant to him.
DeleteWhile listening to the speaker last Thursday night, I realized that I could connect to her identity struggles better than most other people in the room. Being multicultural, and of two of the same cultures, I was able to better relate and understand her story. My perspective, as a multicultural Indian shaped the way I heard the speaker’s story. I understood her story by emotion, reason, memory, and intuition, whereas others lacking this background would only have known it through reason only.
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DeleteTo what extent does shared versus individual knowledge shape our understanding of indigenous knowledge systems?
DeleteCulture is perceived differently from outside perspectives versus people with individual knowledge of the culture. In this moment of knowledge, Indian culture is understood differently by Americans and people from the culture. In this situation, the shared knowledge of other people regarding Indian culture did not significantly affect my understanding of the indigenous knowledge system because personal knowledge often is more valuable than shared knowledge
DeleteMoment of knowledge: In English class we discussed the how McCandless's life was either a waste, or if he should be celebrated and remembered.
ReplyDeletePerspectives: I thought McCandless went into the wild because wanted to find himself and branch away from his sheltered life. While reading about his childhood the reader could infer that there was foreshadowing about him going away and making a new life for himself. Others thought he was on a suicide mission because he did not prepare himself well, and made many small mistakes which ended up costing him his life. I believe both opinions are valid and McCandless's journey can be interpreted in many ways, unfortunetly we will never know why McCandless really did go into the wild.
To what extent do societal norms hinder individual’s understanding of introspective knowledge.
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DeleteTo a large degree societal norms can effect a knowers understanding of introspective knowledge. Mccandless wanted to escape the pressures of society and the only way he saw he possible was completely get rid of all ties he had to his family and his life. Without society my opinion of Mccandlss would not exist because he would not have felt the need to leave society.
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