Post by Vivian on Sept 15, 2015 7:43:07 GMT
Vivian Torres
Professor Lane
Phil8- code: 999
14 September, 2015
Quiz #2
1. By watching the YouTube clip, “We are all Scientists” I’ve drawn to the conclusion that you do not have to wear a lab coat or have a PhD to be an actual scientist. Everyone has guessed or questioned a situation or idea and came up with some kind of solution or result within their life time. I, myself for instance, was in a terrible situation in my freshman year of high school. I was home alone cooking dinner for my family and I was cutting some potatoes on the cutting board. I had oil heating on the stove and I dropped the sliced potatoes on the frying pan and I did not realize that I had the fire so high, and the moment I dropped the slices in, a rain of small droplets of oil started to shoot up and burned my arm. I would say that it was considered second degree burn. I looked in my house and we had no creams to relieve me from the pain. My family wasn’t going to be home until a few more hours. So, I remembered that we had an aloe vera plant in the kitchen and I remembered how to cut it and apply it on cuts and burns. If I never learned how to apply the aloe on my burn I would have suffered a really bad burn. Another time I thought scientifically and analytically was when I came home from work and I headed to my room. I heard something up stairs as I walked up and it came from my room. My room is always locked so I could not understand what was in there. The noises sounded like something was banging itself on the walls. My mom was home but she never heard it, so I told her and she did not understand what the noise was either. She was home the entire day and it was hard to believe it could have been an intruder. So we went to my room door and I banged on it to see if I would hear anything to react towards it and nothing. So as scared I was, I thought to myself perhaps I left my fan on and the frames that are on my wall are banging the walls like that. I slowly opened the door and it turned out that I left my window open and a poor bird flew in and was stuck in my room. I caught it and eventually set it free.
2. In my life I’ve used a “magical formula” when I was younger with my older sister. My father used to practice the religion Santeria, this religion is practiced by all of my Cuban family, for many people in Cuba practice this religion. It derived in Africa and reached its way to the Caribbean and Cuba. My sister and I were very young and we never fully comprehended what my dad would do and why he would chant. So, being children, we copied our dad and play around and do chants and little dances to see if what we wished for would happen. Of course, my sister and I were disappointed because we never got what we chanted for but to us it was very much real. One day we did a chant and dance together and wished for ice cream. Moments later my mom came home and she had a huge tube of vanilla ice cream. My sister and I looked at each other and smiled. We believe it worked. When I now look back on it, I do not believe in Santeria. I believe in coincidences and I think about that day and what might have been the most logical reasoning to why that may have happened and it clicked in my head. I remembered the day before; my mom told us if we cleaned our rooms spotless she would buy us ice cream at the end of the week. She surprised us by doing it the next day, but it was not because of the chants but because we simply earned it.
3. What I took from Calvino’s shuffle metaphor is that many observers can interpret many different views or ideas simply from one subject. This is very important because a true critical thinker would want to weigh every possible option, and that requires looking at the subject in every possible angle. Calvino’s shuffle metaphor should be a guiding principle when claiming something for certain because you would want to weight the options prior to giving someone an absolute answer or conclusion. You would want to look through every possible outcome that any situation can come from and see thru which is the best and most logical explanation with the most proof.
Professor Lane
Phil8- code: 999
14 September, 2015
Quiz #2
1. By watching the YouTube clip, “We are all Scientists” I’ve drawn to the conclusion that you do not have to wear a lab coat or have a PhD to be an actual scientist. Everyone has guessed or questioned a situation or idea and came up with some kind of solution or result within their life time. I, myself for instance, was in a terrible situation in my freshman year of high school. I was home alone cooking dinner for my family and I was cutting some potatoes on the cutting board. I had oil heating on the stove and I dropped the sliced potatoes on the frying pan and I did not realize that I had the fire so high, and the moment I dropped the slices in, a rain of small droplets of oil started to shoot up and burned my arm. I would say that it was considered second degree burn. I looked in my house and we had no creams to relieve me from the pain. My family wasn’t going to be home until a few more hours. So, I remembered that we had an aloe vera plant in the kitchen and I remembered how to cut it and apply it on cuts and burns. If I never learned how to apply the aloe on my burn I would have suffered a really bad burn. Another time I thought scientifically and analytically was when I came home from work and I headed to my room. I heard something up stairs as I walked up and it came from my room. My room is always locked so I could not understand what was in there. The noises sounded like something was banging itself on the walls. My mom was home but she never heard it, so I told her and she did not understand what the noise was either. She was home the entire day and it was hard to believe it could have been an intruder. So we went to my room door and I banged on it to see if I would hear anything to react towards it and nothing. So as scared I was, I thought to myself perhaps I left my fan on and the frames that are on my wall are banging the walls like that. I slowly opened the door and it turned out that I left my window open and a poor bird flew in and was stuck in my room. I caught it and eventually set it free.
2. In my life I’ve used a “magical formula” when I was younger with my older sister. My father used to practice the religion Santeria, this religion is practiced by all of my Cuban family, for many people in Cuba practice this religion. It derived in Africa and reached its way to the Caribbean and Cuba. My sister and I were very young and we never fully comprehended what my dad would do and why he would chant. So, being children, we copied our dad and play around and do chants and little dances to see if what we wished for would happen. Of course, my sister and I were disappointed because we never got what we chanted for but to us it was very much real. One day we did a chant and dance together and wished for ice cream. Moments later my mom came home and she had a huge tube of vanilla ice cream. My sister and I looked at each other and smiled. We believe it worked. When I now look back on it, I do not believe in Santeria. I believe in coincidences and I think about that day and what might have been the most logical reasoning to why that may have happened and it clicked in my head. I remembered the day before; my mom told us if we cleaned our rooms spotless she would buy us ice cream at the end of the week. She surprised us by doing it the next day, but it was not because of the chants but because we simply earned it.
3. What I took from Calvino’s shuffle metaphor is that many observers can interpret many different views or ideas simply from one subject. This is very important because a true critical thinker would want to weigh every possible option, and that requires looking at the subject in every possible angle. Calvino’s shuffle metaphor should be a guiding principle when claiming something for certain because you would want to weight the options prior to giving someone an absolute answer or conclusion. You would want to look through every possible outcome that any situation can come from and see thru which is the best and most logical explanation with the most proof.