arts blog

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Capricho42(detalle1)_Goya.jpg

intention of the artist: Francisco's intention was to open the people's eyes by making a satirical critic of Spanish society in the 19th century
quality of work: It is a piece of art that is simple, but from one of the most famous artists in that epoch.
Response of the Audience:He was censored by the Spanish Inquisition.

Imitation: The work of art came from Spanish realism. Goya is a realistic artist.
Communication: Through this piece of art he showed his perspective about society. Goya compared the clergy and nobility with two happy donkeys that are carried by the peasants.
Education: Goya tried to open the eye's of his society through these series of drawings called "Los Caprichos".

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_caprichos

Human Sciences Blog

The Stroop Effect
This experiment was conducted by John Ridley Stroop. The desired outcomes for this experiment was to find out whether a person's attention can be divided in two different tasks. A series of three stimuli were presented to the participants. The first one demonstrated a sheet with color words in black ink, the second one was the color words with their corresponding color. The participinats were asked to read this as fast as possible. After they did this, the third condition was presented. There were color words with unmatching colors and the person had to read the color instead of the word presented. The outcome was that the average of the third condition lasterd much more longer and had more mistakes than the first two conditions presented. This proved and showed the world that attention can not be divided in two different tasks at once. The brain gets used to things such as reading, and therefore it becomes automatic and if a different thing is asked, it is harder to accomplish.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpge6c3Ic4g

Women's Rights

In 1979 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), described as an international bill of rights for women. The first 16 Articles call on states to take appropriate measures to ensure women's civil, political, economic and cultural rights, and their legal equality. *1

-Many middle-eastern countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Qatar, Sudan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates, have completely ignored the Convention. *1 Mostly due to religion and tradition, gender discrimination is common in these countries, where woman are even punished by law if seen in public.

- Other countries, such as Australia and Belgium, have expressed objections to the Convention. In Belgium, a bill is being passed which prohibits women to use "burkas". *2

-The United States has not ratified the convention because of right-wing Congressional opposition. 1* Job discrimination is still latent in this country.

I believe that every human being, regardless of his/her age, sex, race, or religion, should be treated equally. Woman shouldn't be discriminated anywhere in the world, and women's rights should be put to practice in every single country.

Image: http://iheartdaily.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553a9bcad88330120a527f390970b-pi

1*http://web.archive.org/web/20040423160533/http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/mar98/unwomen.html

2*http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/31/belgium-public-ban-burqa-niqab

Historical Analysis

http://images.google.hn/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sikhspectrum.com/092002/images/racist_cartoon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sikhspectrum.com/092002/survival.htm&usg=__NqYc7tkGjFF7L57YZOCr_bKtDVg=&h=534&w=360&sz=42&hl=es&start=9&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=kvocN0FunolQKM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3Duncle%2Bsam%2Bcartoon%26um%3D1%26hl%3Des%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1

Origin: The Library, University of California, Berkeley. The name "Randall" that appears in the cartoon informs me it might be from the American perspective.
Purpose: To inform how the USA views immigrants and to express their racism.
Value: IT is important because it expresses the discrimination of a culture.
Limitations: We don't know the origin of the author, we can only assume. We do not know personal background of the author.

Mathematics

The peacock's feather patterns demonstrate the self-similarity of each fractal.

http://208.106.181.133/_media/imgs/articles/a302_f1.jpg




This video shows the broad variety of fractals that exist in nature, which the area of mathematics cannot explain with their precise and plain formulas.

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

Mathematics

Natural Sciences

LITTLE ALBERT EXPERIMENT

The experiment was conducted by the father of behaviorism, John Watson, who wanted to test his hypothesis that behaviors are innate or gave a response. His experiment consisted in showing little Albert a series of stimulus that would create the feeling of fear for him.

This experiment is considered unethical because first of all, Little Albert was only 9 months old and did not have his consent because of his age. But the most unethical part of this experiment was that the child was psychologically traumatized because he was under a situation in which fear was trying to be taught to him.






Bibliography
http://listverse.com/2008/09/07/top-10-unethical-psychological-experiments/
http://www.highestfive.com/wp-content/uploads/little-albert.jpg
http://www.bdrum.com/p130grp5/images/image014.jpg

Perception Post

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

In my opinion, this proverb is true since to gain knowledge, doubt is likely to appear because there are many different opinions and it also leads to curiosity, which leads to knowledge. A cultural example for this would be religion. In many societies, people have different beliefs and ideas (ex. Catholic Church, Lutheran, Muslims, Jewish, etc.) These different "knowledgeable" religions cause uncertainty to many people and make them develop curiosity, therefore knowledge would be acquired when being exposed to all of these. In school, doubt arises in mostly all subjects, such as history where there are always 2 sides to every story, such as the Mexican Revolution. There is the point of view from the USA and from Mexico. Then, when knowing both sides, the student can have more knowledge about the revolution. In my personal life, there have been disputes between my family about economical situations that could harm my future. Both of my parents enrich me with two different perspectives of who is right and who is wrong. Since I am no lawyer, I have been doubtful about how it works, therefore I acquire knowledge by hearing about what my grandfather thinks, since he's a lawyer.

Emotions

HAPPINESS



This causes me the emotion of happiness because it makes me laugh every time I feel sad or angry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru6yEYMQBCc

SADNESS




This causes me the emotion of sadness because the thought of my boyfriend leaving the country in a couple of months makes me very sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fDIIOuSYc

FEAR

One of my greatest fears are earthquakes. Ever since the last strong earthquake in Honduras I fear upcoming earthquakes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcFVxl8oclY

Historical Reasoning

French Revolution

The French society wanted to take monarchy out and let democracy rule instead; they succeeded, but there were various deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

Crusades


The crusades were all about restoring the control of the Christians. The pursue of anti- Catholics was made and they killed various people just because of religious beliefs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades

Discovery of America

It was good because we discovered a new part in the world we didn't know existed. It was bad because the Indian population was exploited, mistreated, and enslaved, decimating their population.

Origin of my Name

The origin of Jessica:

Origin: Hebrew

Meaning: God's Grace

The origin of Paola:

The meaning: Small

Origin: Italian

The origin of Mendoza:

Definition: One who came from Mendoza (cold or high mountains); from the Basque root "mendi" suggesting son of the mountain dweller. An ancient surname in Vizcaya, Navarre, Aragon, and Castile, Spain.

Surname Origin: Spanish

Alternate Surname Spellings: MENDOSA

The origin of Morales:

Definition: 1) "Son of Moral," a given name meaning "right and proper." 2) Dweller near a mulberry or blackberry bush. 3) "From Morales," the name of several Spanish towns.

Surname Origin: Spanish, Portuguese

Alternate Surname Spellings: MORALEZ, MORAL,MOREIRA.

Jessica Alba

My parent's reasoning for choosing Jessica:

My mom has always liked the name Jessica and because of a famous actress that she admired named Jessica Lange.

http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/findresults.asp?name=Jessica

http://genealogy.about.com./library/surnames/m/bl_name-MENDOZA.htm

http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/m/bl_name-MORALES.htm

http://www.babynames.com/Names/name_display.php?id=3141

Important Aspects of my Life

I love cheerleading and consider it to be very important in my life. Here's the actual cheerleading squad of 2009-2010.




In this picture you can see the cutest and funniest baby ever! He's my nephew and I love him very much! His mother is my cousin in the picture below.

Here is one of my closest cousins! She is very important to me because she's always been around and we have a great time everytime I go visit her.

I love traveling around the world to get to know new places and its cultures. In this picture, Regina and I went to a cruise in the Caribbean for our 15th birthday. It was a memorable experience I'll never forget.

Here is one of my bests friend, Eileen. My closest friends are Susana, and Regina.

This is my family. My mother's name is Digna, my father's is Jorge, and my brother's is Alex.