Brand New World #1

1. What is the World State's Motto?

Community, Identity, Stability
2. Please describe Bokanovsky's Process. Why does The Director call it the "major instrument of social stability?"

The Bokanovsky's Process is a type of egg that will bud, proliofaye, then divide into a range of 8-96 buds. So ninety-six adults will grow out of what would have normally only produced one adult. This is done by a series of arrests of development. The eggs would have to go through processes of x-rays, chilling, and alcohol. The director calls it the 'major instrument of social stability' because now there can be 96 identical people doing 96 identical jobs. Creating the same people, not having any differences in society to worry about.

3. Why did the doctor wish to keep the Epsilon "embryo below par?"

The doctor wants to keep the Epsilon embryo below par because all people have their set place in society. Since the Epsilon is lower then the Alphas in society they should not have the same abilities as them so that they do not try to 'break the ranks'. "Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?"

4. What does Mr. Foster mean when he says: "We condition them to thrive in heat...that is the secret of happiness of virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."? How does this connect to what is happening in Rack 10?

Mr. Foster means that they introduce elements to the embryos that they will have to experience in the life they are pre-determined to lead. By introducing them to these things it will automatically make them feel comfortable in their future jobs because they are now surrounded by things that have been with them since birth. Almost like a baby will like similar things to what their mother ate or listened to when they were in the womb. This connects with Rack 10 because in Rack 10 are the next generations chemical workers. They are being trained to tolerate lead, caustic soda, tar, and chlorine. Since they are being trained to tolerate these elements it is also becoming they are something that they are comfortable with. Because they are being trained to be comfortable with these things from before birth they are going to not only be able to tolerate these chemicals but will also automatically like what surrounds them.

Carr What is history?

Positivists- belong to cult of facts, saw history as a science, empirical strain of studying history

Empirical, common sense of history, concerned with facts. As soon as biases come through, it is not history, but it is opinion, reaction, perception is passive

Carr's View-active, not important if it is recorded, is only history when a fact is 'removed from the page' and interpreted

Carr's view basically expressed how facts are useless unless they are evaluated. Also he expresses how perecerption plays a major role in our ability to judge history and say what history is

Essay Question 7

“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing.

THESIS: Due to PERCEPTION, EMOTION, LANGUAGE, and REASON we as an individual view the world in our own distinct way. As humans we connect ourselves with certain groups, or as an outsider. How we are raised, the people we are around, and the environment surrounding us directly effects our views on the world whether or not we are conscious of it. We perceive everything that we see or hear or induce, because of this perception we are unable to see things directly as they are, but an automatically biased view based on past experience that formulates in our minds.

PERCERPTION/EMOTION:

Perception- Interpret sensations, reconstructive process

· Our senses grow less responsive to unchanging stimuli

· We are very sensitive to change

o What is the function of sensitivity to change?

· Deprivation (in an all white building)

o Many subjects felt edgy & grumpy

o Many left

o Is deprivation always bad?

· Selective attention

o Ability to focus on some environmental factors and block out others

Inattention blindness

‘Seeing As’

· Past experiences

· Knowledge by authority

· Innocent eye- doesn’t exist

· Past experiences

· You cant see or know it unless you’ve seen it before

· You perceive things as you have seen before.

Empiricism- Six senses, induction.

LANGUAGE/REASON:

Idea of tourists- ‘us’ and ‘the other’

· Someone we don’t know, they have to have something different than what you have seen or heard from ‘us’

o ‘us’=similarities

· Systems we create to keep ‘the other’ out. Neighboorhoods? Oppertunities?

· What would the system be revised?

Law over Irish Language-

o For:

§ Limits the language

§ Isolates it

§ Language is culture= no language no culture

§ We were here first, nationalistic implications

§ Lose the EMOTION connected to it

§ Tradition lost

o Against:

§ Descrimination, human rights implications

§ Melting pot

§ Preserving culture shouldn’t be forced by government, parents responcibility?

§ Language not equal to culture

Able- “through meanings requires words, they are not identical to words.” (pg. 68)

o To make meaning you need words, but not all words have meaning?

o Words are ambiguous but meaning doesn’t change

o Meaning is the interpretation not just letters

o Words use denotation, reference. But meaning deals with connotation (sense), emotions, and feelings.

o You need words to organize reality, although words are random

COUNTER CLAIM:

o The world understands everything as it is but makes the conscious decision if they may or may not agree with it.

§ Perception

§ People are not effected by outside influences if they do not want to be.

§ Blank slate idea?

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SHIVA

Shiva (pronounced /ˈʃiːvə/; Sanskrit: शिव, Śiva, IPA: [ˈɕivə]; Hindi: [ˈʃɪʋə], meaning "Auspicious one"), also known as Rudra (the "Feared One") is a major Hindu god and one aspect of Trimurti. In the Shaiva tradition of Hinduism, Shiva is seen as the Supreme God. In theSmarta tradition, he is one of the five primary forms of God.^[2][3]

Followers of Hinduism who focus their worship upon Shiva are called Shaivites or Shaivas (Sanskrit Śaiva).^[4] Shaivism, along withVaiṣṇava traditions that focus on Vishnu and Śākta traditions that focus on the goddess Devī are three of the most influential denominations in Hinduism.^[3]

Shiva is usually worshipped in the form of Shiva linga. In images, he is generally represented as immersed in deep meditation or dancing the Tandava upon Maya, the demon of ignorance in his manifestation of Nataraja, the lord of the dance.

In some Hindu denominations^[which?], Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva represent the three primary aspects of the divine, and are collectively known as the Trimurti. In this school of religious thought, Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the maintainer or preserver, and Shiva is the destroyer or transformer.^[5]

Hindu Belief Notes

Hindu religious traditions cluster around two concepts:

Dharma-"it it necessary to uphold, preserve, perpetuate, and refine the physical world generally, and human society specifically."

Moksha-"It is necessary to find ultimate release from the world."

• The hindu tradition has been able to preform with uncompromising force the truth that humans is both a social animal lead by physical needs who must live with other humans, and a uniquely spiritual and solitary animal who at some point yearns to transcend all physical and social limitations.
• The dharma tradition is deeply rooted in Vedic Literarture.
• Expect the Upanishads, Verdic religion was concerned primarily with insuring the contiued fertility and well being of the world.
• Verdic religion- human existence in the world, when concerned with life and death it described an afterlife that was a continuation of earthly life.
• Bhagvad Gita- term dharma is used to refer to the orderliness of human society and to each person's dty to uphold that order through every action.
• Each person, doesnt matter how low born, has an obligationto preform his or her ascribed social function for the welfare of society as a whole.
• According to the Gita, every action is a ritual having cosmic consequences if properly understood and undertaken
• Human society is characterized and ranked by castes (circumscribed social groups) when a person is born.
• Each caste has a traditional occupation: agriculture, business, or building. Each serves and upholds society by dutifully preforming this occupation.
• Rank is ascribed at birth and not achieved by merit.

Plato Notes

Book I:

Pg 21.

343b

Justice/Injustice

Injustice rules the just

“The just man everywhere has less than the unjust man.” The unjust man has no morals, no limits.

Juvenal
“What I want-I take- let my will take the place of reasoned argument.”

Justice: virtue, prudent, good, knowledge, wise, happy

- the soul’s virture is to purse the good

Injustice: vice, thoughtless, bad, lack of knowledge, ignorant, wretched

Book II:

Pg. 35

Cityàfollow justiceàMust be led by guardians

The Guardians:

- Swift

- Strong

- Philosophical king

Speech=Logic/Reason

Most important subjects for the young:

o Gym for the body

o Music for the soul

“what I want I take, let my might take the place of reasoned argument” –Juvenal

Justice-virtue-prudent-good-knowledge-wise

Iinjustice-vice-thoughtful-bad-lack of knowledge-ignorant

Homer must not be accepted in the city

415a (94) book 3

Guardians-gold-wisdom-smallest %

Calculating (reason) Super Ego

Auxiliaries/soilders-silver-courage-strength

Desire (irrational)-courage ID

Farmers/merchants-bronze/iron

Spirit Ego

Moderation

All three working in harmony = just city

Book3:

Gods don’t rape, cheat, steal, lie

Book 4

106-> 428a

430a “don’t think we devised all that for any other purpose than that …”

Group 4 Reflection

1. What was your Hypothesis?
How does the salinity levels, distilled water, and Ph levels of the water effect plant growth in an estuary?

2. Explain your experiance in gaining and testing the evidence? -Examples? Evidence?
My experiance was very good. We had some issues with some of the equipment however. Originally we were going to mark the gps coorodinates of each spot we measured, however the gps device on the logger pro was not working, so we were not able to do so. Also we found that measuring distilled water was taking way to long so we decided not to use that in our experiment. We took a sample of water from each area that we marked off and measured the salinity in it. Then we took a sample of the mud from the same spot. Each time we movedto a new spot we tried to find an increase in plant growth. There was no where near drastic increases like we thought there would be so it became very difficult to choose which spot to measure next. Also it was very inconvient that all the mud we were collecting was in the water under the plant life. The more plant life there was the muddier and grosser it got. I was the one who had to go into the water and get the mud, and it was extremly gross. My shoes smelled.

3. How was working in a group? what went well? What didnt?
Working in a group was interesting. For our experiment there was almost too many people working on it, becuase of this issue we decided to split the into two for some of the experiment. While one half of the group measured the salinity the other half went to find a new spot and collect the mud. By the time the mud was collected the rest of the group had finished up salinity and was ready to move on to the new area. This plan worked out really well. However in my group we deffinatly had some personality issues. It wasnt that we disliked eachother there wa just a lot of clash in intrests and ideas, which made it very hard to collaberate when things went wrong. However spliting the group in two solved this.

4. How do you know that you gained scientific knowledge?
I know that I gained scientific knowledge because I noticed that as the salinity levels in the water changed the more the plant life changed (Emperisism). I know the instruments work because of authority, like Mrs. Gallo. I know that this was true becuase before the experiment my group did reaearch that told us that the salinity levels would effect plant life. The results shown on the logger pro that Mrs. Gallo told us worked were in accordance to what the research showed.