Arts Blog

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The intention of the artist is to transmit his point of view about abortion, rather than to create an a art piece that has an aesthetic value.
The quality of the work is high because the painting is really well worked and the difficulty of such work seems elevated.
I think this painting could have an audience depending on the aundience stand point towards abortion. Even so the audience could also focus only on the artistic value of the painting.

This painting is an imitation of the nature of a mother an her baby as one.
This painting can communicate a anti abortion message being a way to express a point of view
This painting can be used as an education tool to stand against abortion and to make a point agaisnt this theme.

Human Sciences

The Asch Conformity Experiment

In psychological terms, conformity refers to an individual's tendency to follow the unspoken rules or behaviors of the social group to which he or she belongs. Researchers have been interested in the degree to which people follow or rebel against social norms. During the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a series of experiments designed to demonstrate the powers of conformity in groups.

In Asch's experiments, students were told that they were participating in a 'vision test.' Unbeknownst to the subject, the other participants in the experiment were all confederates, or assistants of the experimenter. At first, the confederates answered the questions correctly, but eventually began providing incorrect answers.

Nearly 75 percent of the participants in the conformity experiments went along with the rest of the group at least one time. After combining the trials, the results indicated that participants conformed to the incorrect group answer approximately one-third of the time. Participants were very accurate in their line judgments, choosing the correct answer 98 percent of the time however preferring the majority’s incorrect answer. These results suggest that conformity can be influence both by a need to fit in and a belief that other people are smarter or better informed. Given the level of conformity seen in Asch's experiments, conformity can be even stronger in real-life situations where stimuli are more ambiguous or more difficult to judge.

http://psychology.about.com/od/classicpsychologystudies/p/conformity.htm

Ethical Blog

Child labour

1. With official estimates of 12.6 million children in hazardous occupations, India has the highest number of labourers in the world under 14 years of age.
2. In the UK a child age 13 can have a part time work. WorkSmart from the TUC shows that the type of work is restricted to light agricultural or horticultural work or as allowed by-laws.
3. In Honduras approximatively 360,000 children between ages 5-17 are involved in economic activities.61.2% of these children occupy jobs without own profit, meaning they work yet the money is for others.

I personally think child labour is unethical because the childhood of a little boy or girl disappears due to the burden of having to work to survive. Poverty drives families to use even children as a income. Labour enables children from going to school furthermore limiting their future and opportunities. Child Labour is prohibited by the UNICEF laws however 1 of every 6 children has to work.

http://white.oit.org.pe/ipec/documentos/hon___sintesis.pdf

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

http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html

Source Evaluation

http://www.toonpool.com/user/496/files/socialism_418755.jpg

origin: the origin of this cartoon is during the Obama government, probably of an American newspaper that is against Barack Obama.

purpose: the purpose is to show how people think Obama's policies and ideas have socialistic bases.

value: This is an important resource because it gives a completely different point of view of what most of the world would think of the president of the most capitalist country in the world.

limitations: it gives no explanation why Obama has socialistic ideas

Mathematics Blog

This is a picture of a river. It is an example of a fractal in nature beacause it is follows the principle of self-similarity.












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This video explains the firsts attempts of explaining pattern formations by mathematical biology. More specificlly morphogenesis of cells.

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

Natural Science Blog

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

http://www.chewednews.com/Pictures/drugTests.jpg

http://www.covancecruelty.com/gallery/600-SickInjured3.jpg

Unethical experiments : Monkey Drug Trials

The experiment was intended to study and understand the effects of addiction and drug use. In this experiment, a large group of monkeys and rats were trained to inject themselves with an assortment of drugs, including morphine, alcohol, codeine, cocaine, and amphetamines. Once the animals were capable of self-injecting, they were left to their own devices with a large supply of each drug.While animal experimentation can be incredibly helpful in understanding man, and developing life saving drugs, there have been experiments which go well beyond the realms of ethics. This experiment is highly unethical for the effects drugs had on the animal’s behavior. The animals were so disturbed that some tried so hard to escape that they broke their arms in the process. The monkeys taking cocaine suffered convulsions and in some cases tore off their own fingers, one monkey taking amphetamines tore all of the fur from his arm and abdomen, and in the case of cocaine and morphine combined, death would occur within 2 weeks.

Perception Post

Perception Post

1. Humans are curious by nature, they will question current knowledge and will want to understand everything. Doubt of what we think we know is the cause for the curiosity that brings us closer to new knowledge. We perceive everything around us differently, and somethings that seem true and correct for some may seem false or incorrect for others. It is our doubt of what we think is true that really makes us more knowledgeable.
2. It really impresses me how different cultures have doubts about something while others don't. For example Muslim cultures would never doubt of the existence of God, they perceive and they believe. In Most the western hemisphere, the existence of God is doubted because there is no prove of it, people base what they perceive in knowledge and scientific proves. Atoms, electrons, protons and neutron have never been seen. It is a assumption of scientist that this particles exist yet the world does not doubt this knowledge in the same way they doubt the existence of a supreme being.
3. In school there is always gossip and rumor going on. there are certain people who believe everything that they hear. The key in this situations is to be able to doubt even what seems more true, because if you doubt it, you will be able to prove its veracity by yourself and consequently be able to judge correctly on such issues.
4. A personal example from my life that reflects the Persian proverb is the following: One time in chemistry the teacher gave us some examples of chemical reactions we had to balance. I had some prior knowledge on this subject yet i was not sure that one example was stated correctly. I doubted of the teacher's certainty on the correctness of the example. My doubt lead me to search for knowledge that would aid me prove if the example was correct. The fact was she had done a mistake and me doubting her lead me to have more knowledge.