Blog 14

1) They are the most basic way of humans to be thinking. It is most evident in young children.
2)The way a word sound in a particular language that gives it meaning. Lalling is speech that is hard to understand.
3) A possession because it can be had.

4) Because it can be interpreted in many different ways, depending on who is listening.
5) They both exist in all schools and need to be addressed differently because the two groups think and learn differently.
6) College campus, Learning environment, open, sometime old looking and sometimes modern.

Blog 13

Bacon:
1) The word idol, to Bacon, meant phantoms or illusions. It is a good word to use because it represents the tinys things that represented the people of that time.
2) The Idols of the Tribe represent the true human nature and The Idols of the Cave represent how the walls of the cave will change the true nature of things. Not one Idol is more important than the other because they all rely on each other to represent everyone.
3) Intercourse is represented by Idols of the Marketplace and Individual reflection is represented by Idols of the Cave. No because the Idols give freedom. He would be more free the more he socialized.
 
Darwin:
1) Survival of the fittest means that the strongest, most capable individuals will survive and the weaker individuals that can not support themselves will die off. Examples are if unattractive individuals in any species are unable to reproduce then the ugly ones will die off, leaving only attractive individuals to reproduce and create a more attractive society.
2) Breeding is more direct. Natural selection is more chance. Breeding is more efficient. Natural selection is more important.
3) Cloning goes against Darwin's view because it is duplicating an individual whether they are fit to survive on their own or not. Cloning does undo natural selection because there is not supposed to be the same individual twice.
4) Human social policy ensures that the smartest and hardest working individuals will be the most well off, however the ones that cannot do this are protected from dieing off because of the social policies in place. Yes because they ensure everyone lives, healthy or not and make the human species as a whole less fit and less successful.

Blog 12

Plato:
1) Sensory knowledge is not as unreliable as Plato believes. He believes that it leads to ignorance and destructive social consequences. This can be true in some cases and sometimes the logical path is more reliable, however, listening to one's senses and gut feeling will lead to a better decision more times than not.
2) Yes because everyone will have a different gut feeling and this leads to heated discussions about what is a right move and what is a wrong move. An alternative would be to put a logical viewpoint into the mixture and have both sides evaluate that with their sense feeling.
3) The world would be very opinionated because everyone has a different sense feeling and sometimes does need a logical point of view to even the playing field.
4) Feeling in one's gut when a decision you made will lead to good or bad things.

Freud:
1) Yes because my dreams are usually events that I either want to happen or something that I fear will happen.
2) The ones that seem far fetched, then end up happening.
3) The dreams that frighten me are the ones where you feel like you fall and then jerk awake in your sleep with a racing heart.
4) They forget them because they happen and then a bunch of time passes before they have time to say them and remember them. I can usually remember my dreams if they happen close to when I wake up.
5) Yes because it happens in the brain, however it cannot be controlled.

Blog 11

1) Woolf constantly refers to woman in her essay from multiple perspectives. She talks about them being slaves of the men, but also talks of the educated ones attending universities.
2) It reveals that even women with brains and wits were not able to contribute in all these significant events.
3) The most important changes would be things like men showing respect for women and listening to what they had to say. It would also be letting them think for themselves and not be told everything to do. Talent can make her situation more difficult because she has skills but they are going to waste because the guys would not allow them to be shown.
Mead
1) Men: dominance, bravery and aggressiveness
Women: objectivity and malleability
2) They lose diversity and the ability to get the most points of view in order to make the best decision for the masses.
3) The opposite sex has to pick up where the other sex slacks, leaving holes where an individual may not be able to provide.
4) They should be aware of them so that we do not make the same mistakes today, that we have made in the past.