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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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Here are the comic strips I plan on doing for the project. My theme is how expectations affect our happiness. The below is the strips and the points for each slide. A link to the pictures are also there for anyone who is also doing the strips.
ReplyDeleteStrip One:
-High Expectation of Euphoria
-High expectations sometimes lead to disappointment
-Be happy with what you have
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BymN11VxX0i2OF9waTJVaGtVdUE/edit?usp=sharing
Strip Two
-Do not lower expectations to mediocrity.
-Sarcastic Language used throughout
-How good self-esteem is to be obtained
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BymN11VxX0i2TXh1UHBLS3dpLVE/edit?usp=sharing
Here's the information for my slides. Jaime, I also have pictures but when I tried to email them to you, my computer wouldn't let me, so I'll have to give them to you on Sunday during our group meeting if I can't figure out my email before then. . .
ReplyDeleteCalvin
• 6 years old
o 1st Grade
o Too intelligent
• Powerful imagination
o Alter Egos
o Hobbes
• Still has kid’s personality
o Self-Centered
o Stubborn
o Strong Willed
John Calvin
(1509-1564)
• French pastor and theologian
• Second generation of Protestant Reformation
o Martin Luther’s successor
• Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Reformed Church and impacted Protestantism
• Geneva
o Violence
• Calvinism
• Predestination and Absolute Sovereignty
Jaime, I just fixed the problem and sent you an email with both my information again and some pictures. Sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteHere's the info for my slides as well. Sorry if they're a little late.
ReplyDeleteHobbes:
A stuffed Tiger or not?
Friend and Foil
Tiger Pride
Hobbes' "reality?"
Link for pictures to use:
1. http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1300000/Hobbes-calvin-and-hobbes-1395518-2000-1503.jpg
2. http://bensbargains.net/thecheckout/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Calvin-Hobbes-best-friends.jpg
3. http://tifr.us/storage/post-images/Calvin-Hobbes-Real-Life-__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1272500861834.jpg
(2 and 3 are fanart, I'd like for them to be on the same slide please if you put them on different slides. :D)
4. http://www.toon-into-reading.com/uploads/1/2/5/6/12564774/945875945.gif
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679)
English Philosopher
Political Philosophy
Time in Paris and English Civil War
Leviathan
Hobbesian Trap
Connection to Hobbes the Tiger
Links for Pictures:
1. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Thomas_Hobbes_(portrait).jpg
2. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060616223434/uncyclopedia/images/7/77/Hobbes.JPG
3. http://thecomicninja.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/7016_173975958372_542678372_3677014_4942473_n1.jpg?w=640
I know there are a lot of images, if spacing is a problem you can take out the images that aren't as relevant to the presentation.
Sorry I'm late as well. Here are my strips and the general talking points that I plan to follow. They have a fairly loose theme of the way people perceive things in the world through kind of a dual lens. Everything is either one thing or another, and we react to the experience, object, or whatever else it may be based on what and how we perceive it to be.
ReplyDeletestrip 1.)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1eLzIp6WGU8/TyQcfa70Q6I/AAAAAAAADso/MtIlja47Yec/s1600/425962_357663300912644_100000069315293_1437985_1975026862_n.jpg
-duality of the world
-the cultural tendency of people to classify things that are different as "better" or "worse", and to act on those notions accordingly
-the relativity of values in society, and the contrast of that to philosophies such as Plato's theory of forms
-the implication that this relativity of values plays on self betterment
Strip 2.)
http://i.imgur.com/weKNM2x.jpg
-again, the duality of the world. people tend to classify things as "either this or that." in this case, funny or really scary
-humor is used as a sort of coping mechanism for the nonsensical aspects of life, and is our way of reacting when we don't know how to react
- in a way, this also goes back to the idea of emotional control popularized by stoicism. It ends with the decision to feel that something is either funny or really scary. two opposing ends of the spectrum
I'm sorry I can't make it to the library tomorrow, but I have to work from 12:30-9pm. Feel free to text me if you guys need me to do anything, or if you have any questions for my part of the project. Layton should have my number. I might not respond immediately, but I will get to it as soon as I can. Wooo for Team Why Not!
Here are my questions from the A.P. readings. . .
ReplyDeleteFQ: What is the name of Posner's book about the philosophy of law? ("The Problems of Jurisprudence" AP pg. 118)
DQ: What is law? What makes it effective or ineffective? How far should the law be able to reach? What limitations should be placed?
Link: Here's a brief commentary by Posner about his personal philosophy. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYa5y8IkUMk
Okay so im really late at posting this so im really sorry but here is what I have compiled for the midterm report
ReplyDeletehttp://dlazechk.dl.funpic.org/mergedsledphilosophy12.html
- I am going to talk about Pyrrho Skepticism
http://dlazechk.dl.funpic.org/mergedsledphilosophy13.html
-I am going to talk about Pyrrho Skepticism
http://dlazechk.dl.funpic.org/mergedsledphilosophy15.html
--I am going to talk about Pyrrho Skepticism and then transition to Epicurus thoughts on overcoming fear of death
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/408945/80791583.jpg
- Im going to use the comic about the field and happiness to talk about Epicurus thoughts that the simple things can bring happiness.
FQ, AP: T/F: According to Dworkin, most people believed the abortion debate centered on a polarizing question, "Is a fetus a helpless unborn child with rights and interests of its own from the moment of conception?"
ReplyDeleteDQ: Does America think that this is the main question when arguing about abortion?
Link: http://faculty.fullerton.edu/mring/Dworkin.htm
This link talks about Dworkin's views on abortion.
FQ: What did Hobbes call "an agreement to give up some of their dangerous freedoms for the sake of saftey"?_________ "Social Contract pg. 59 LH
ReplyDeleteFQ:What is the name of Hobbes most famous and important book? ____ "Leviathan" pg. 59 LH
DQ: What are your thoughts on Hobbes' oppinion about society and soverignty?
DQ: What do you think life would be like without rules and laws?
DQ: Do you agree with Thomas Hobbes that all people are selfish?
DQ: What are your thoughts on Thomas Hobbes idea that without laws we would live in a "state of nature"?
Link: This is a pretty cool link about a letter written by Thomas Hobbes that was found in 2012 that could have had an effect on the English Civil War! http://www.livescience.com/18648-thomas-hobbes-letter-england-civil-war.html
Link: This link itslef is not that intresting but the idea behind it I found to be really unique real life application and example of Hobbes idea on how people will act in the abscense of law. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/thomas-hobbes-and-the-crisis-of-authority-in-new/3369722
FQ: who believed that "art can be externally dictated to, in terms either of fashion or of politics, but internal dictation by the pulse of its own history is now a thing of the past." Danto pg. 122
ReplyDeleteFQ: According to Danto Post-historical meant_______________ because in an age of extreme aesthetic pluralism. post-narrative pg. 122
DQ:Is there anything that defines art anymore?
After the End of Art: by Arthur C. Danto
Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5911.html