Historical Analysis

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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.

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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.