Sunday, March 24, 2019

General Psychology

Racism

          I disagree with how little was said when race was brought up.  Mainly, they tested black people and found simple statistics.  I didn't think that the statistics were very significant.  They should have gone further.

          One big mistake people make when interested in racism is just pointing out blacks, when other races are the ones with more similar things to contribute civilization-style-wise.  A "ditzy" girl on TV around 2003/2004 once said and so have others insisted/emphasized and imprinted that there are merely 3 races, black, white, and Asian.  It's funny how people who aren't Italian/Latino have more trouble with the Italians/Latinos than the Italians and Latinos with one another.  People are bad, for whatever excuse or reason, therefore, and it's a much more interesting topic to me than whatever else they talk about.

          The book swiftly brushed over racial discrimination, that blacks have to live in the US and feel uncomfortable heritage-wise.  There is a picture in the chapter of some plants with nourishment and some without.  People get so fixated on black people feeling different, but they don't do anything big about it socially.  You might get Martin Luther King day, but that's a farce, not much talked about the Asians, neither.

          The book didn't notice that people actually believe in not letting other races "make it" because they are ahead.  That is certainly not a very Christian thing to do.  In 1 John 2:11, it says, "But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them."  I've always believed this strongly.  I don't believe people are really fair to other races because bad people are encouraged by countries like England.

          I think the book is racist because it doesn't touch on these issues really, just sorta mentions them.

Thursday, March 21, 2019

General Psychology

Student Answer:

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is clearly visible in sociology. Some sociologist study world social problems. This can range from hunger to education. Many studies show that impoverished countries have less education and less economic growth. Theorist and I believe Marlow’s Hierarchy of Needs can help explain why this is. In these improvised countries their basic needs are not met on a regular bias if ever. The struggle to survive consumes their daily lives, actions, and likely thoughts. The people simply do not have the time to even contemplate the formation of an education system let alone the resources to even do it. Unfortunately, a cycle emerges, impoverished people struggle to met basic needs, the children will then lack education, unable to function or compete in the world market the economic condition of the country grows even worse. As conditions get ever worse civil unrest breaks around the region, causing more lose and devastation. While Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs may help us to better understand underprivileged societies It does not help us solve the problems our world faces today or tomorrow. Perhaps the harder question is, how to help these people considering our understanding of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? While the answer may sound simple at first. Give them their basic needs. That causes another series of chain reaction that would not help in the end. To some point the people must find motivation with in to push the society out of the condition.


My Response:

Sociology is interesting.  Many people use it as a counseling qualification, too though, or do politics instead.  Me, I would chose sociology.

People who do not have the basic needs of life down need to forget about school for awhile, you're right.

You accurately hint that bad problems ruck "amuck" between leading nations, as well, in things like "funding for the arts."



Student Answer:

I think impoverished countries experience lesser levels of education because they are constantly in survival mode. They are always trying to find food or a means to get food or shelter. They must put this as priority number one every day. Most kids must do chores or find food as soon as they start walking. Parents aren't wanting their kid to go to school and give up their daily chores. They also don’t have the access or the resources that most countries have. Motivationally, I think this is a negative. These poor countries never have anything positive to look forward to in life, because they’re not educated to make a living and better themselves and their family. Like I said before, they just don’t have the resources that a lot of countries have. My mom is from the Philippines and growing up she didn’t have any kind of education; it just wasn’t offered to her. I think it’s a lesser concern also because, governments lack the financial and political resources it takes to meet the people's educational needs. Most of the teachers are unqualified and classrooms are probably too crowded for kids to learn.


My Response:

You're right, most families in some areas never make it to school.  The biggest problem seems to be that most schools don't offer orchestra but maybe band.  It's hard to learn a musical instrument later in life, in some ways.  My mom comes from a 3rd world country by the capitol of Indonesia.  She didn't get to nor like to eat much, and the pollution affected her.  She died in December at the age of 59, from cancers and the medicine making her stop eating and breathing eventually.  She knew for about 2 or 3 years and had it for maybe about 5 years.  I thought she was getting better.  She just didn't get her breasts checked, in time.

General Psychology

Assignment:

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and its relation to understanding those who are underprivileged with the basic necessities of life. Help your reader understand why impoverished countries might experience lesser levels of education and how this might impact motivation positively or negatively. Why might education be a lesser concern in poorer countries?


My Work:


Education (Maslow)

Tier 1 - Food

Actually, even the top in education are lagging in the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.  They may be at a top college, and are they said to struggle to eat more than a bagel, like maybe going to medical school.

In high school, students are confused about what classes to take and overwork and end up not eating lunch to finish assignments.

Many people do not stop at McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts on the way to work or school and may skip breakfast.  The only need some may fill is a drink of coffee, which may not be that bad but still not a "complete breakfast."

Tier 2 - Mental Security

Many people feel instable.  A race with poorer people is Asia.

High schoolers in the US primarily feel instable monetarily because it's "18 and out" normally.  They need a scholarship and some work.  High schools do not encourage everyone to follow their dreams, such as people in the creative and performing arts.  They only help in fields like healthcare and business.  They even make special arrangements to help in these fields but not including everyone still.  No one seems to know it's best to take the minimum requirements and to go ahead and graduate early, though that's just some areas probably.  If you linger and take extra courses, you might go amiss in your career path and college major for it.  Each class takes a lot of energy, especially the higher requirements,

Tier 3 - Love

Actually, in different areas of the country, people do not feel love.  If you live in Florida or somewhere in the US South, you should notice that only people with parents or ancestors from the US South get to "feel good."  You may never understand another culture.

Same with other countries.  I think Europe supposedly gets the most love and intended to be available to the US since we are the same culture, as a whole.

Tier 4 - Reputation

A lot of people aren't ready for high school because other people are ahead of their time but not well-behaved.  So, in the US, a lot of people don't feel like they're worth anything because they weren't prepared for college.  Asia is mainly good at math, but it's sad they are not as welcome in other fields.  They don't have as good of resources in classical music as countries like Germany.

Tier 5  - Identity

A lot of people go through life not knowing they have to do things like connect to their ancestral heritage dating back to Europe.  They are in places that are hot spots for issues like the US and just go through the motions.  A lot of people on the streets waltz around like they're all that, but they're really homeless.  It's strange they feel so egotistical without the base needs met.

Tier 6 - Art

Some people come from a normal family with nice houses decorated, but some people come from poor or less decorated houses, for example.  People tend to threaten you socially for what your family is like in this way, in how they treat you, again considered innocent just going through the motions.

The US a lot of it is not as aesthetic as cultures like Europe, again.

Tier 7 - Self Worth

People do not feel fulfilled because a lot of them wish they could do things they can't, like playing a considerably more difficult instrument like the violin.  People who do are probably "hanging on for dear life."

Tier 8 - Helper Traits

People in the US don't even care when you offer to help.  They might accept it but think you're just getting attention.


People having poor education is bad because it was such a big part and determination of life.   Europe will probably be on top for all it has culturally and all it is said to provide to those who can seek it out.

The fact there are poor people, in school makes the teacher drill in our heads to "feed the poor."  We will always have to worry about people being mad they didn't get a chance.  It is best to worry about problems that the privileged face because they are harder to solve, than putting a meal in front of someone, if we go to college to learn more than that, things that are more important in the hierarchy or advanced.

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Intermediate College Composition

Rough Draft - With an Argument Style


Violin in School

          People indirectly underestimated the importance of violin in school, while overestimating the importance of other things, however.  One of the issues in modern Music Education is what country you come from or what area of the US you come from.  Second, it all starts out with General Music Education, whether or not your elementary school has music class, that is.  Thirdly, it becomes important in junior high if you want to continue in music as a professional.  In the end, most people are uneducated in music, like the failure of "No Child Left Behind" regarding things like reading.

        Sometimes, people do not realize how important things like heritage or ethnicity/race is to them, and it affects the education system and opportunity in things like classical and orchestral music, later in life, as well as crippling those who have no knowledge base for such skills.  Everyone knows by experience and "word of mouth" that Asians are a non-European race that are considered skilled at music, but not many people have found out that they actually have a strain in resources for classical music today.  The United States of America, in some areas music education is considered unethical like if schools forced children to dance, and places where normal people live and expect to get a decent education there is no easy opportunity and children do not know that young that they want to be a musician instead of other things they get told are out there that are so great that they cannot yet know; at least that's the feel of things in the United States today.  Mooney is said to say in the summary that "kids ages 12 to 15 focus on the definition of globalization;" when I was in school, I felt more beat down and "sheltered" from connection to the outside world in things like music and chosing some language, like Dutch, Norwegian, or German.  Sowell is said to hint that schools today, probably stressing in the United States, are deceitful to their students' well-behing, habits, and education; I also know that teachers in the United States like to "dumb it down" and say that students etc. in the US need to focus more on saying hello and goodbye and just focusing on baby things like that that they never learned and never to advance in life career-wise as a possible focus, as they can't compete with rival nations like in Europe in feeling good and being relatively successful.  So, there is evidence popping up all over the world when significant on the meditative and hypnotic topic of what other countries are like, when it all boils down to what young and middle aged adults think of classical musicians their age, in relation to their peering out of the corner of their eye at other countries to compare and "be the judge" of.

         Some schools don't even have general music class, and many actually do not offer school orchestras and some do not even offer band.  Schools believe that it is easy for kids to have access to music instruction, but the reality is that private lessons can be impossible for some kids' lifestyle or budget and they really don't know whether or not they want to do it when they grow up!  Now, you're going too far if you're asking about Suzuki lessons for kids at age 3, as Einarson suggests easily possible and makes me ponder, that people develop a lot until age 5 and that simple nursery rhymes are a farce in comparison to how they feed the ego of German children with classical music, learning not to get bored/behind in concert and to be more and more charming as the generations and time goes.  Garland is said to say that even in low functioning mental states, people roll out music education again to save the day; in music classes, I know from experience that people made fun of it suggestively and were reluctant to participate, but apparently they need it, not sure where they learned to do this.  So, basically, some schools have limited music programs, but the ones that do have kids sky rocketing in ego and being snobby to anyone who didn't get the opportunity they'd hoped for, simply, as kids.  Choirs cheat you out, like they are all innocent, but it does not lead to a successful career in music, as I know being in church choir age 8-18 and told I didn't fit as a music major after a year of mostly successful study and good behavior.  It was so hard for me to pick my way out as a kid and come to know classical music, though I was never addicted to pop music.  So, it's hard and apparently desirable to have a solid education in music, but sometimes people just don't know about that and being bored with extra time and maybe for some in some cases money needs, while other people in music seem to taunt those who wish they did it but had a harder time than them.

          It's important to know as a child if you want to do music because it gets competitive in junior high and mandatory to be active if seeking success by high school.  Another personal experience is that I moved when I was 12 and didn't have as good a reputation in piano as I did before and had a hard time finishing homework late, felt like I was secretly being disliked and put down and therefore not as "good" at advanced music but still "talented" in my love for music and what I could play already from before I moved, which showed me how tragic and spiteful the world of music can be.  How would you like to reach high school and find it's too late to become a classical/orchestral musician?  I mentioned that things like your country and the way your school feels can alter your path.  You would then be fresh out of luck.  I am actually a typical case, started piano at age 9 but lucky enough to have been in choir and learned to read music notes in music class.  I was considered talented before junior high, but I moved to New Orleans and found they had more professional, worldly resources, with things like the Talented Arts program in the suburbs and a slew of arts schools in the city; I even got the highest achievement award at the big one in the summer but still felt unsure of myself, maybe because I secretly wanted to play violin and not piano, which I am doing violin now and was chosing between other things too before.  I almost made it.

          So, people don't realize how whether or not a school offers music in some way can stunt your life if it's not exactly what you need, like violin instead of just band.  It all starts with national pride, like you may have seen with countries like Germany and their classical music, to have the knowledge of what to do growing up to have options as a adolescent and young adult, feeling on top of the rest of the world.  It's important to scope out your resources at school, which is not something a child normally would do, and to see if music is worth your while.  The most critical issues comes up when you're chosing a profession and wish you could play classical music, like waking up naked in the middle of a crowd.  So, education of musical resources and opportunities should be introduced to a child as opposed to seeing defying feats as an adult with maybe only some hope in piano or something yourself or having to start at the beginning to feed your ego in music.  "All in all," it is basically very important to know your options as soon as possible so you don't find yourself in an unbelievable situation, where musicians are considered yay important like sliced bread for those interested and you're not "in" or like you "got out of the wrong side of the bed."  I stressed violin because a lot of schools only have band, and violin is an important instrument many people would like.


References:

Mooney, Carla. Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events. No Publication Location: Nomad Press, 2018.

Sowell, Thomas. Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers. No Publication Location: Hoover Institution Press, 2017.

Einarson, K. “Early Experiences Elevate Everything What does a pediatrician want Suzuki teachers to know?.” Dec. 2018, https://suzukiassociation.org/news/early-experiences-elevate-everything-what/. Accessed Mar. 2019.

Garland, Teresa. Hands-On Activities for Children with Autism & Sensory Disorders. No Publication Location: Pesi Publishing & Media, 2016.

Saturday, March 16, 2019

New Testament Survey

Student's Post:

I think one of the most exciting things to read about Paul's eschatology was his love for the church. Paul did not go around planting orphanages, homeless shelters, or food kitchens. He saw the mission of the gospel beginning and ending with the church, it's health, and it's multiplication. My heart burns with passion for this focus Paul shares. As I look out over the masses of people who've yet to know Christ here in South Asia, I know that only a healthy church can radically change the many social and humanitarian needs they are overwhelmed with. That's why I find great joy in partnering with Christ through the gospel to plant His church. I have a great burden as well that generations coming up in our western culture will love the church as Christ does. 

My Reaction:

Yes, the Jewish people and later the Christian people felt very involved personally in Jesus and other Jews/Christians.  It was like the Latin American / Spanish celebrating El Dia de Los Muertos or how they function constantly.  Imagine Jesus was your race and the fellow followers like a part of your immediate or extended family.  It's not like that today, but that's probably how they got by.

New Testament Survey

Assignment:

"In chapter 17 of our text, our author does a nice job of giving us an overview of Paul's life. Beginning on page 240, we encounter a discussion of several topics related to Paul's theology (pages 240-251). For the forum this week, each student should choose one of those theological topics and describe how this section helps them understand Paul better."

My Work:

The Theory of One, All-Powerful God

Paul says who and what God is and who and what God isn't.  He signifies that God is one, single being that knows everything about everything.  He goes on to say he is everything about everything in every way.  This is an Old Testament type of preaching, in that the text does not discuss "what" is not God, things like sin and the devil.  Then, he further prays and says we are to worship God, that is God alone.

He says God is there for other races with other religions.  He shows off God by saying He can reach out and bring dead people back to life.  He pretty much goes on to saying God is everything and can do anything for people.  Like, he says God is in Heaven.

He goes on to deny polytheism, Stoicism (where different beings and things are worshipped or seem to be an entity encompassing one feature of Godliness,) and the pagan belief.  He simply goes on that God is better because He is One.  This is like technically saying God is more efficient because he is more powerful than all the other beliefs.  He doesn't sound very organized or mature in these early days, the way the Old Testament was nastier than the New Testament as far as teaching beliefs go, like "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

Intermediate College Composition

Student:

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Me:

"Millennials: The Worst, Most Entitled, Most Spoiled Generation in the History of Humankind?"

Yes, it's true!  Baby Boomers are the evilest for being "deceptive" - "giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading."  (Link.)  They keep acting like we have to do something more, but they don't.  In the end, they have no relationship with us younger people.  It's all about teaching us and nothing about having affection from other people, for racial issues or whatnot as false excuses all around.  They also don't respect us.  I'm not trying to go crazy in this reply, but it is funny and something I've been posting about on my blog today and at school, online.

Friday, March 15, 2019

Intermediate College Composition

Student:

A fallacy is an attempt to sway an argument by using information that is not true evidence.  The information may be errant logic, or pull at emotion, or it may be the misuse of, or attack of, someones character.  These fallacies may be purposeful or done out of ignorance.  The result is the loss of credibility for the arguer.  The danger of fallacies is creating an atmosphere of fear or anger, or swaying popular opinion from seeking the best solution to the solution that suits one person or group the best.

Me:

People like to sugarcoat ideas, like the ways movies seemed to used to be more well-respected and in the end it was just a trick with nothing there, like it was to lead to the Wizard of Oz or something, which didn't lead to anything, neither, though there are a lot of books in that series.

Intermediate College Composition

Student:

"Fallacy" regards to an invalid argument, misconception, or an illogical statement. Fallacies, when used in arguments, can make someone sound unintelligent and incompetent. Fallacies show someone's lack of knowledge or interest and people are less likely to take someone seriously because of their illogical statements. The picture below displays an example of a fallacy and contradictions. 

Image result for willy wonka meme

Me:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) was one of my favorite movies.  It was about as important as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971.)

These kinds of movies can be mysterious and last well into the future.
I think that this movie relates in that it draws everyone in and somehow appeals to them hypnotically and everyone ends up fighting over who more embodies the spirit of things like this movie popping up, but then it goes under and the movies don't matter as actively, anymore.

I actually did a lot of studying and posting online of Sweeney Todd (2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3.

Intermediate College Composition

Assignment:

In at least one well-developed paragraph (5-sentence minimum) discuss in your own words what fallacies are and why they are bad.  After this paragraph, try to locate one example of a fallacy (in a meme, a brief video, an ad, etc.).  Provide the link or the reference and discuss what fallacy it demonstrates and why.  For the time being, please restrict yourself to obvious fallacies and avoid stepping into overly sensitive or politicized territory; this is not the time to pick a fight.


My Work:

Fallacies and Generation XY

Paragraph Defining Fallacies

Fallacies are a way of indirectly directing the reader to believing what you say in a bad way.  There are 3 main groups with subgroups.  The first groups is "logic," when you use facts and insensitive tricks to appeal to an audience, to sway their belief towards yours or at least offend them for a glorious moment.  The 2nd method named was "ethos," when you try to affect someone's feelings of morality to be convinced towards yours, making them first feel a pang of guilt in hopes they will somehow be hypnotized over towards your success, in some way.  The 3rd way is "emotional," when they act sort of like a "Hufflepuff" way, trying to appeal to someone like you are small, sweet, and innocent, to gain sympathy to get them to believe you in something you are trying to convince them of for some reason.  All 3 ways attempt to poke and hit at how things are a certain way but in a bad way, which can either seem desperate or innocent.  It is probably practiced very much in the way people live in day to day lives and in concrete examples such as in articles online or in politics.

Example of a Fallacy

I was hoping to find some reference to Generation Y, roughly 1986-1996, but they call people born around 1980-1995/2000 Millenials.

I found this article:

"Millennials: The Worst, Most Entitled, Most Spoiled Generation in the History of Humankind?"
https://www.alternet.org/2013/06/millennials-generation-y/

I know from experience that Generation Y, sometimes called Millenials, get by undetected.  Baby Boomers are simply fixing up their mess by saying Generation Y was treated unfairly, though it is their fault, and by making Generation XY, which came right before, feel worse.

This article discusses the issue but in an unsuccessful way.  They are using tricks of "logic" unsuccessfully.  They are discussing the bad things about this generation, simply.  They mention that they are unhealthy and at risk sexually.  I think they are trying to impress their Baby Boomer parents by saying nothing is impressive, to side with them, and in the end they get the attention over Generation XY trying to live their life.

They did give a false idea that people of this age have people monitoring their lives since high school and maybe suggest some parents in older families haven't been as close.  The idea is noticeably underdeveloped to me, and it seems that they are stating a fact rather than helping in more active, streamlined ways.

So, this article has a good topic but supports it in a wishy washy way.  It's very important, and they are just being kind of meek in attitude but more like an "emotional" fallacy.  However, I still think they are right, though others clearly don't.  Maybe, they were just being too negative, in general, as this topic seems to go.  You have to be more mature and convincing.  I don't think they went far enough, neither.  The article was a lot of work to read, when it should be more fun like a debate, so these articles are suspicious and watery, like they care but have no power nor enough background to turn on about it, like a regular person trying to blog but not really having the professional prowess then in that situation to make it appealing enough, neither.

General Psychology

Assignment:

Post two replies by Sunday to your peers'  discussions using any of the following ways:
  • Ask a probing question 
  • Share an insight from having read your colleague's posting.
  • Offer and support an opinion.
  • Validate an idea with your own experience.
  • Expand on your colleague's posting.


Student:

Thinking, what is/are confirmation bias, overconfidence, and belief perseverance?
Confirmation Bias - This is when someone searches for information that supports their understanding, despite evidence that says otherwise. There a many examples of this type of thinking. If we have any preconceived view on something, we will defend our view despite what new information surfaces. 
Overconfidence - This is when people think they are right even though they are wrong. There are many overconfident people in this world and it is not hard to see. This type of thinking is more common I think in modern times. You can pull up YouTube and find all kinds of videos of people debating confidently about a topic that they believe they are 100% correct about, when they are wrong. 
Belief Perseverance - This is when despite the overwhelming evidence that your view is wrong or you should adjust your views, you still cling to your view without adjustment. This is one way of thinking that could create conflict between two opposing views. 
I believe you can see all three of these ways of thinking on a daily basis, look around and pay attention to others. The way people think is fascinating and being able to identify these different types of thinking would be easy. I think it is crazy, while reading this I was like " ah hah" I know many people that fit into all three of these.  


Me:

Lately, I have wondered...  Do you think that Baby Boomers suffer thinking they deserve everything emotionally and are always right?

I think you are right that these 3 concepts exist but that they are flawed.

So, basically, I am thinking this applies as relevant to Baby Boomers.  They were spoiled rotten kids and had nutcases as kids they didn't pick up after.  So, in relation to the material for this class, they already went through their opinion once and said they would always be right as individuals and bind as a force sexually, they are overly "confident" that it stays that way and anyone who opposes is wrong, and even when proven wrong they have "belief perseverance" in their thinking that they still have to be right.

Good post.  I agree the text seems a bit Mickey Mouse and am grateful for how you presented this application.  It's not mathematically in check, but a series of rambling thoughts published for attention, maybe to please people like Baby Boomers.


Student:

As far as non-creative and non-emotional intelligence, I believe in Thurstone’s idea of intelligence. I do somewhat agree with Spearman’s idea, but I believe that people who overall have a high intelligence can also lack in a certain area. Some introverts can have great ideas and perform well in school, but they never really have been able to verbally express themselves. They may be a very intelligent person, but they don’t perform as well in language ability and can come off as unintelligent. Also, there are many intelligent people who don’t perform as well mathematically. This doesn’t mean they aren’t intelligent, they just lack in that department. This is the reason I lean towards Thurstone’s theory, but I do partially agree with Spearman’s theory that most people have a general intelligence level. Of course, including creativity and emotional abilities, Gardner's theory is the best theory to describe all intelligence. 


Me:

That is very nice of you to actually go out and notice and say that a lot of Generation XY growing up experienced sadness and being left out and draining of not being accepted socially like Late Boomers and spoiled Generation XY children moreso than them.  Do you agree that a lot of Generation XY didn't get to learn to communicate, as schools took away recess and wasted time telling bad kids to shut up?

I agree.  I think that with the lack of popularity of what was once "sliced bread" has brought everything down, like Myspace losing popularity somehow to Facebook.

Thursday, March 14, 2019

General Psychology

Assignment:

Post by Thursday a discussion on one of the concepts covered this week. If you have chosen Thinking, then discuss what confirmation bias, overconfidence, and belief perseverance are. If you have chosen Language, then discuss verbal/nonverbal behavior and child language development. If you have chosen Intelligence, then discuss what theory you tend to agree with the most (Spearman, Thurston, Gardner).


Work:


The Theory of Multiple Stereotypes


In the theories of intelligence, I agree with Howard Gardner because, since I was 12 years old, I was already into personality quizzes and know the MBTI well and the Enneagram, as well as catching onto some other systems.  I have a strong affinity for typing, personality types.  I see Gardner's theory as the most entertaining of the 3 psychologists.


Linguistic - This theory is much like the concept of language, pretty much communication.

Logical-Mathematical - It's people who are fascinated with things like patterns and figuring out the relationships between different things.  They get turned on by this probably in an artistic or romantic way.

Musical - Music is motion, and these people are good at dealing with fascination with the flow of things physically that produce a sign through sound.

Spatial - These people are gifted in synesthesia and like visual art, which is something people all venerate those with such skills of.

Bodily Kinesthetic - It is a general keenness towards things that have to do with a person physically, like dancing or things that involve physical props one maneuvers or utilizes with the body in a way that gives then satisfaction.

Intrapersonal - This is kind of like the thinking type in the MBTI and things along those lines in the Enneagram.  You are interested in people in a way that deals with topics of intelligence.

Interpersonal - This specifically attracts people who like exchanging feelings with people.  You have high emotional intelligence and practice this with joy.

Naturalist - These are people who are connected to the physical world, especially ecologically.  They feel the rhythm of life and the rest of nature and perhaps the connection to life itself.


I took a test and found I was 100% social and next a tie between musical and body movement.  That makes some sense to me because I enjoy learning to be a professional musician.

Though I agree with Gardner, I also disagree that these are not stereotypes.  I also disagree with other systems.  It's hard to make some things seem attractive yet not rebellious when they are not traditionally as popular, but the tests speak for themselves.


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Sunday, March 10, 2019

General Psychology

Assignment for 2 Student Posts:

Ask a probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleague's posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Validate an idea with your own experience.
Expand on your colleague's posting.


My Work:

Student:

"One of my favorite memories is when I went to the beach with my family. I was 13 and it was the first time I can remember going to the beach. I Can remember how the warm sand felt on my feet. I Can still smell the saltwater in the air, and I can feel the warm sun on my face. I can hear the waves crashing on the shore, the birds chirping in the sky, and kids laughing as they play in the sand. I enjoyed ocean so much, I didn't want to leave. Whenever I think about the beach, this memory comes to mind."

Me:

1. I was wondering if you liked the beach or the mountains,
2. I miss the beach greatly since we moved away.
3. Different places have different benefits, like by a Great Lake, in New England, etc.
4. I know that German is the biggest percentage of an ethnicity in the US.  They must have a different experience, maybe visit the beach like you did.  I personally don't know of family by the sea, but otherwise I was born in and mostly grew up in Florida, on the beach.  I have some German, I think.  I really like it and appreciate my heritage in different ways as an adult.  So, I'm not used to the sea by New England but also grew up in New Orleans and so am used the water in hot climates, something fun.  I learned to appreciate the sunshine, too, and feel comfortable about the heat in general, even if it were a dessert.
5. I personally would wear beach shoes at the beach because I don't care to step on whatever I used to step on, plants, etc., and worry about it.  I live in Orlando now and it feels like home to be back in Florida, since 2005/2006 with my parents.


Student:

One of my fondest memories was the night I got off the bus at Great Lakes, Illinois, the location of the Navy recruit training center. It was in April of 2005, a very cold night around seven o’clock. I’m with about forty other people, all bunched up in a little bus. As soon as I get off, the cold air just crushed my face. But I didn’t have long to feel cold, because I had a Navy RDC screaming at me to get in line. It was one of those moments when you think, “what did I get myself into?’. I’m a long way from home and I’m going to have to deal with this for 9 weeks. It was a long night that night, a lot of processing stuff. I got head my shaved, had to take a urinalysis test with a guy staring at me, got a c-bag full of goodies and marched down to the coldest building ever (which happened to be my barracks).

This memory was definitely life changing for me. I was an 18-year-old kid. First time being away from home like that. I got thrown into the fire of becoming a man. I will admit, I was pretty immature before I joined the military. It made me become a respectful man quickly. This memory helped me realize that to become something I want to be, I had to go through a tough time to get there. Things aren’t going to be easy in life. If I didn’t have this memory, I’d forget how far I’ve come since my youth, that that night I crossed over from being a boy to becoming a man.

Me:

1. Do you feel that there are other activities that give a similar experience as the military?
2. It made me think in the end how I changed to a Catholic high school and was in church choir as a child and teenager.  I felt it prepared me to enjoy life, but later I was picked on somehow.
3. I agree it was a good idea, not too late at 18.
4. I was in Army JROTC for a year in high school, and I became popular then, too, a good experience, though I was pursuing the creative and performing arts and could not stay.
5. It seems like people got out a lot when they graduated high school and are proud of it as life goes on for some reason.  Some people try to become models and actresses, and they say high school is a good time for that, too.  For me, I wish I posted online sooner, but I was so busy and did use e-mail, though people didn't like IM-ing me nor wanted to webcam then.  Later, strangers I didn't particularly like wanted my time and to do that.

Personal Evangelism

Assignment:

How would you alter the professor's summary of the gospel? What support do you have for your position? (It is okay to disagree if you can support your case biblically and theologically.) If he is correct, why do you think so?


My Work:

Finding Overtones

I think the professor is okay, but I think it doesn't matter and that there are better ways to summarize the significance of the gospel in human history.

I agree that God and people say divine aliens make their presence known on earth at different intervals throughout time.  Even if Jesus is accepted, it doesn't mean God's miracles have ended.  Most people are too asleep, as Asians would seem to think, too distracted and preoccupied by sin and the importance of things like a racial consensus emotionally as a people.  People want to preserve their race, and some people are mixed of certain either majority or minority races or heritages.

I had an interesting revelation in my New Testament course this week.  I caught that the reason the New Testament is different from the Old Testament has to do with that Jesus may have been especially familiar with religion, the Jewish religion.  The New Testament is friendlier than the Old Testament.  The Old Testament speculates on "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."  I think the New Testament can be backed up as being friendly to appeal to other races of people, like Europeans and Asians.  The professor said the significance of the gospel is to understand we get punished for wrong things and that there are steps and categories of how this is, like we surrender to Jesus's way of life in the end after repenting and believing.  I think that's obvious, but "the cat's out of the bag" in that I caught that Europe and Asia were brought up mostly a little in the beginning of the Acts of the Bible.  I think Jesus meant to spread the word to Europe and Asia.  I think it is more of a focus than looking at it like it's about spreading the news in general, like it's more of a geographical journey, like evangelism is emphasized today to be about following history and spreading the news throughout Europe mostly.  I noticed that Asia and the Middle East other than the Near East where Jewish people are from is out of the picture.  Evangelism today is more about how exciting it was to spread through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, for example.  That's also when classical music seems to have been formed, like long group works of music, with a lot of it dedicated to religion if not initially.  True, music was important, like with King David in the Bible.  Europeans tired endlessly to record information, probably religious information.  So, basically, the professor is focusing on religion itself, whereas Evangelism as the focus of this course too means it is more about how the New Testament is made to appeal to Europeans.  It's a very cultural thing.  That's why Jesus makes everything sound so friendly, rather than "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."  See, in the Old Testament people were closer as it was more about the Near Eastern culture, sort of like the Ancient Greeks and Eurasians, for example.  Russia is partially Eurasian, I think, too, in addition to Germanic.  So, in the Old Testament, people were closer emotionally and therefore got into stronger arguments, too, so that's why it was so harsh in the Old Testament and more sentimentally of one's own race and heritage, rather than applying to others more.  The people were already close, like Jesus was said to know much about the Jewish religion, so that they had a feeling of togetherness to get through hard times and put more meaning into each thing they did.

The professor concentrates on a more negative aspect that is necessary in religion, like focusing on our sin and how hard it is to focus on converting others.  I think that times say that people who are difficult to deal with are not to be given attention as much as those who are nice.  It's sort of unfair.  Being an Evangelist is therefore more like being a police, where you care about the bad people.  It's true that England and Germany following it and maybe Russia in their own way tend to scope out the bad people.  Americans do it, too.  Ever hear over and over throughout our lives that the bad people get all the attention?  That encourages them.  People pretend to care about the underdog, but instead they focus on the lost sheep.  They ignore people who are good and deserve reward from God and pay attention to people who are causing trouble.  The professor doesn't notice any problem outside of saying Jesus is that good and God is that true and he doesn't apply it to all the modern world issues that people usually know about.  Perhaps we are all good, but it is definitely a problem I've often blogged about that it's true there is a problem that there are people who are treated badly because bad people feel embarrassed and want to say that good people are really channeling negative energy that puts them under pressure, makes them go out of control, and makes them unable to stop being annoying, like by talking in class and making others feel guilty for not being perfect, like they are more to blame in being bad somehow.  My experience growing up was that people were always onto you like you have to all make sure you are being good, not about being saved in general.  Bad people tend to get away with it because it's true that people were too critical religiously, but it left the good people in the dust to worry about nothing.  Then, we get told we are bad for being preoccupied with this and that other people know that to be good you need to do other things that we were too busy feeling bad about to think about to do, like to think more about what people we know want, ways to meditate on our own, the fact we can go out and help others by organizing poor food, etc. etc. etc.

The professor seemed to mostly talk about facts and elaborations on the ice breaker of religion.  He had it organized in different ways.  He explained the handouts.  It is what you basically need to know that some people may have not grown up with as much.  He puts it in a positive light.  You can think about it more and feel bad about Jesus dying, but I don't believe it's wise to say it's our fault as we weren't really born yet, like Jesus wasn't born until Christmas.  It's like how the New Testament is made over the Old Testament, and people today would not do what they did before.  It's like when animals evolved, they don't usually devolve.  True, though, dolphins are descendants of something like a rodent on land, for example, if you relate that example.  I also think that the professor described it like people describe religion mainly at Christmastime.  They say it over and over, like it's special but sometimes people making it seem like they are so much smarter and better than the people who are there listening, like teachers, priests, grandparents, relatives, etc. etc. etc.  It's very easy to grasp.  It's like music in that you listen to a song and are so excited you think you always have it there for you and you find you get bored of it, but if it's good enough you come back later, changed, but hungry for it again.

So, while I think the professor is to be respected, I'd mainly say most leaders and people are wrong in that religion can be made to make sense in a lot of important issues not to be complacent about, as Jesus said, like racism, age-im and generation-ism, prejudices among peers etc., how people feel about different kinds of careers and paychecks and things that seem to matter, things like feelings and just living day-to-day, making goals applicable to life such as a "bucket list," etc. etc.  So, instead of just saying it's about Jesus dying on the cross and turning to God again and again that you could be more specific and applicable to topics most people are uncomfortable about, it seems sometimes.  You can even be academic if you notice things like that the New Testament is made to be more friendly than the Old Testament because Jewish people were in pursuit of Europe, to get them to follow Christianity.  There are probably lots of things like that to notice, but this might be a big one.  If you don't notice those things, I still think the professor is coming from a place I don't know.  He did say that it's a summary of much work and translating the fine print to come up with the themes that God gives readers through the Bible.  People even might have started schools in general, like Europe/America, in order that people learn to read the Bible.  I think he basically did what he was supposed to, but if you're into all that gifted stuff maybe you'd come up with more personal things rather than a harsh description.  Another important point I noticed was that it was about spreading Christianity, but there wasn't description of what it was like before for Europeans and how this changed their lives, how they did it and why they are not as personal with it as the Jews if they follow it so much.


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"Blow the trumpet at the new moon. At the full moon, on our feast day." -Psalm 81:3

"Again I will build you and you will be built, O Virgin Israel! You will again be adorned with your timbrels [small one-headed drums] and go forth in the dancing [chorus] of those who make merry." - Jeremiah 31:4

(I mentioned some things about music, and music is an important highlight of Biblical history, like the angels, and modern celebrations, also something that Christians strive to enjoy more and more, at church.)

Intermediate Composition

final draft

some interesting changes


Christina Barrett
Professor Geoffrey Richard Reiter
ENG 152 N3
10 March 2019

A Cultural Famine or Like When the Dinosaurs Died Out

          Modern culture went down like the Titanic in the late 1990s, an irretrievable mess occurring.  Trends that were very special became unpopular as the 2000s crept around the corner.  Culture can be found significant in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the Late Boomers were born and went through childhood.  Adulthood for Baby Boomers can be seen as the 1980s and early 1990s.  Children of Early Boomers did not experience much love and are now grown up with culture that sunk like the Titanic.  We should try to touch base on this issue by covering the bases that apply.

          According to Gordon, a big influential factor of even the 1960s was concentrated from England (no page numbers specified in the ebook.)  This is an important issue because even today England has released a lot of its feelings via the U.S., encouraging us in our pop culture to be more expressive.  For example, the Beetles, an English legend of a band, became popular in the 1960s, and even today kids are still dazed over them, in some way they can't seem to handle, as of yet, like life just isn't as sweet as it was for Baby Boomers or Late Baby Boomers.  Gordon also accredits the U.S. to folk music, like being integrated into pop and maybe how it is involved the style of new age music, and mentions the strikingly acclaimed city of New Orleans to spice things up some.  These are all obvious suggestions as to the sentiment Gordon has concerning the 1960s.  Then, he ends the chapter on music with references to popular icons in classical music, like the late Pavarotti.  So, Europe and music are important factors into what gave people the expectations they had of people who were born by the beginning of the 1960s.

          Schwartz says something big that changed the world in the 1990s was in the 1980s when computers were coming out (15.)  The 1990s are also known for the Cold War being fought off (64,) and war with the Middle East seemed to come to permeate the atmosphere.  Terrorism was another political term of the 2000s because of 9/11 in 2001; George Bush Jr. often spoke into the mid-2000s of our children coming  home.  Schwartz also posted a picture of the Spice Girls for the chapter on 1997 (309,) which was a big year as it was when modern PCs with the internet hit, which looked more like the TV screen than a calculator or old Pac Man game.  The kids from the 1980s and 1990s were happily sent off to have their own lives via work (404,) if all went well, or to follow our dreams in college or from childhood and for some the ability to do "anything you set your mind to."  In some ways, that wish came true, but in its intended sentiment it seems not to have, for some reason; people are competitive and want to hurt others before they settle down and decide not to fight anymore and don't care about other people.  So, there is an obvious descent of culture, like we had conflicts to represent our heyday and a sending off in bittersweet-ness, in accordance to what our lives were like.

          There are occurrences in life that are important that are affected in important times, all people being important, too.  One example is to think about Europe in the face of racism in the US and the musical skills had by the US and obviously certain countries in Europe, even as early as the 1960s, which shaped the world as Baby Boomers grew up then.  The 1980s kindled interest in computers and the online world, and the 1990s itself was a war between culture clashes and the stress of technology.  The end was that Baby Boomers grew up and lost responsibility and that people who grew up in the 1990s were hopefully sent off with well wishes as they entered independence and adulthood.  The experience of going through the 1990s was a tumultuous sequence of entertainment and the comforts and glorification of technology, which mainly ended up leading to bittersweet-ness and nostalgia from the past.
     

References:

Gordon, Dee. The Little Book of the 1960s. No Location, No Publisher, 2011.

Schwartz, Richard Alan. The 1990s. New York, Facts on File, 2008.

Saturday, March 9, 2019

General Psychology

Visual Power Point Presentations #20-#26
Disagreement of an Extraction of a Our Personally Chosen Concept

Lacking Depth and Significance in a Great Time and Efforts

          I grasped overall that all the material was based on things like learning and specifically on how memory works overall biologically but on lose terms, an overarching series of lessons branching off from such an idea.  I disagree with the nature of this concept being significant to this extent of interest.  It seems as though it is all saying that we learn and how much we have to apply our critical thinking to recall memories.  I will discuss influences from the modules, but my main idea I'm getting at is how I noticed that it should be more about religion in that it means having exchanges that are either good or bad in ways that are significant to life, not a topic of psychology to discuss over all these examples; it isn't a scientific application in the end, and there's no experimental question/topic of something important to solve.  Simply put, it is too fancy but not especially well-organized, making it a challenge for the viewer to keep up more than necessary or seemingly significant, maybe for people who aren't interested in psychology or who don't have to take it as a major.

          It seems like it's a shying away from discussing hypnosis.  They keep talking about how we learn automatically and how things come as second nature, "like breathing out and breathing in."  They even seem scared to discuss it, and it's scattered all throughout the material, all "hokey pokey" but maybe in an interesting magazine sentiment for some.  This is probably a layer above instinct, like animals knowing so well somehow to have sex and then care for the resulting babies, like turtles walking to the water for the first time.  They also emphasize youth.  Don't pretend we all didn't see that, the picture of the little baby from Europe or Russia being surrounded by adults crying.  I noticed they presented this showing that people in Europe are more emotional and that people seek out to be emotional, though the US isn't in Europe.  I saw the picture of the American baby with the 2 ladies, and the boy didn't look as affected and the women looked cold emotionally to the baby.  They also didn't look as healthy, though they were skinnier at that time.  They showed that children just copy adults, to show they are innocent, but they didn't talk about that.  They just reiterated the fact that the children copied the adults, like we are to draw our own conclusions about that in between the lines as we read along.  Most of this session dealt with animals, the next step, from adult to baby to animal.  They did something basic about eating as the way to interact with animals, like food means something "extrinsic."  They controlled the animals by feeding them after they do what they want, sometimes for study and sometimes for work but always fun.  They went further too here with the animals and made it more complicated to get the food.  This goes into another topic of Operant Conditioning.

          Humans must be a patchwork quilt or hulk of Operant Conditioning and less instinct.  One topic that was discussed was discrimination.  People can't seem to focus on that, but it's anti-hypnotic; it seems the material hinted at racism because that word can mean that, typical of Americans to think something like that, some "what if" moment.  A lot of anti-development has been taking place racially with all the insecure white racism of people who couldn't contain themselves about their jealousy of people like who live in Europe and are also racially European.  Sort of the opposite of a success, they seem to just keep going doing educational science experiments with animals like a little magic trick to show preschoolers or small children, like instead of doing different things they keep repeating the same kinds of experiments.  It seems there's not much people want to do with animals other than raise them for a dog show, possibly, which sounds like an incentive to own a dog.

          They speak of "punishment," which can be translated as a way of doing evil conditioning, to animals or people.  They even think jail is a type of conditioning.

          You might want to bring up race when you talk about things like "discrimination" and "punishment" at an advanced level.  Most people are mixed, and most countries seem to be mixed race.  The US seems to be excessively Italian, hence they want to mark if someone is Latino or not, though they may be the same race.

          Intrinsic and Extrinsic Conditioning are an important concept they did not have much to teach about with all they said.  It happens emotionally, socially, and in important social interactions/meetings if you believe that.

          It also talks about intensity, like pain and helping.  This is also something smart to talk about that they might discuss in an honors or Ivy League class.

          How long memories last sounds sentimental, but they didn't state this opinion, makes me wonder what they're doing, maybe too high order thinking to discuss.  That's just some of the nature of my disagreement of these sections.

          A lot could be said of mnemonics, which is like the popularity of emojis and emoticons.  Then, it goes into deep meaning, like "sex" of ideas.  It is the joining of something popular, like emojis, with higher order thinking.

          Explicit and implicit memories were a little confusing, like it meant facts or procedures.  Explicit is simple, and implicit is more cognition.

          Memories can trigger certain feelings.  It gives meaning and helps us and signals more in our brains overall.  Again, the material doesn't say much about it psychologically but expects us to remember the little animal experiments.

          The slides tried to say we remember for school but didn't talk about how to memorize lectures and accomplish hunks of reading in shorter periods of time, in classes outside of our major interest, be it music or something else.

          Things like brain damage are natural excuses that exist in life.  Drinking, lack of sleep, and some injuries.

          "Passwords" is interesting, like a symbol that only you or a few know, too, like a social situation when you and a friend are on a rapport over others, which I've seen happen in a discriminatory way and sneaky and dishonest too, like a lazy trap as the result of an expected continuing friendship, which sets you off wondering how it is possible to get away with that and which leaves you open to get in more trouble somehow.  Who matters, anyway?  This is a basic psychology issue or religious question.  Yet, people are complacent to it and on the evil side.

          "Implanted memories" and "abuse" are similar or different in that it is a sign of some outside factor that you read into.

          So, basically, there's all this social drama and things like animals and how people look and think and race and such.  However, it's mostly finding filler information no one will remember.  Apparently, if it were important and not complacent you would already have this in your mind.

          Well, I took a look at Revelation again.  Chapter 15, verse 1 says, "Then I saw in the sky another mysterious sight, great and amazing.  There were seven angels with seven plagues..."  It seems this book and the slides are complaining like this.  Then it says it was the last, and it makes me wonder if people will ever be able to get anything done in the way they are, like it's the Tower of Babel.