" I know the Truth, so don't bother me with facts"
In the article " I know the truth, so don't bother me with facts" by Jeffrey Kluger, the autor is explainning how easily people believe in rumors that they even know where it come from. I believe that people should learn more about facts, as a result people should avoid being labeled as dupes, also would be less exposed, in addition they would be never manipulated by the system.
In fact, people should avoid being labeled as dupes, also should had more access to reading and get informed, so they would hardly believe in rumors.Moreover, whem we study and read books we can easily respond to rumors and explain to others the reasons why this is a rumors based on facts that they read before.In my work place (Queens), one person spread the rumors that the owner of the school was opening a new school in Broklyn and many people would be transferred, as a result of believing in this rumors, many people were fired, because they were talking about something that wasn't truth.
Furthermore, people should be less exposed, also when we believe in rumors we get exposed to the changes that it would make in our lifes and opinions about facts.In addition, people get vulnerable about decisions to make about some project in life and hold plans for the future, all these because of a simple rumors.I personaly have a friend that postponed getting pregnant by rumors of an alleged promotion.
Moreover, people would never be manipulated by the system, also we should never sticked on inflamatories quotes.Moreover, some of that may be simple ego, that we should learn how to delete from our brains.In Brasil long ago granmothers use to tell their daughters and granddaughters that they couln't wash their hair on the first day of menstruation or otherwise they could turn crazy people. Can you believe it?? Many young girls believe on this rumors for decades and even today in small towns still have people who pratice this habit.
In conclusion, rumors are a important topic to be discuss about, because it has the power to change future and people behavior. I wish that the investigation and studies of the brains continue, and the investigators continue looking deeper to figure out if we have some scientific solution for that then we could power down the situation.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Blog #4
" I know the truth, so don't bother me with facts"
Claim: I believe that people should learn more about facts.
Reason 1: People could avoid being labeled as dupes.
Reason 2: People would less exposed.
Reason 3:People would never be manipulated by the system.
Thesis: I believe that people should learn more about facts, avoinding being labeled as dupes and less exposed, also they would never be manipulated by the system.
Claim: I believe that people should learn more about facts.
Reason 1: People could avoid being labeled as dupes.
Reason 2: People would less exposed.
Reason 3:People would never be manipulated by the system.
Thesis: I believe that people should learn more about facts, avoinding being labeled as dupes and less exposed, also they would never be manipulated by the system.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Blog 3
" The Allegory of the Cave"
Sumary
In the article " The Allegory of the Cave" from the Book VII of The Republic by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Socrates is trying to teach and show that people see the world in many diferent ways.
When we born everything is a new beginning and we start to see and learn things, and all those things make us as a person. Moreover, our parents at the beginning of our lifes are responsible for who we are and what we learn. Futhermore, when we reach a certain age (18 to 21), we supposed to leave our "caves" and live by ourselves and having the responsability to discorver a new world. In addition, we open our minds to a new world and we change as a person, and it is hard to go back to the same place that we use to live or being the same person that we use to. As a result, when people open the door for opportunities and to learn new things, people change and you can never go back because people may don't accept you the way you are now and even you nay not adapted to the old place that you use to live before.
In my opinion, the cave means our blind or confortable zone and at this point of my life i am not there any more. I am from Brazil and when i came here 10 years ago, i wans't feeling confortable at all, i didn't know anything, sometimes simples tasks was hard to solved because of the language barrier. In New York i got married, became a mother of two boys, learned English, found a job, and i change as a person. In addition, I would like to mention that in 2007 i went to Brazil to visit my family and all of them notice that i was dressing, talking and acting diferent, i was suprised to hear all these comments, because for me i was the same, but of course i couldn't be the same person after all these new things that a saw and learned. Moreover, the traffic in Brazil are not organized like in New York City and i got sad to realize that a never notice that before. Furthermore, when i made the comparison, my family got upset with me and that i was criticizing my on country. They really miss understood what a meant.As a result, a think that is hard to go back when we give ourselves the opportunities to learn new things in life and we never will see the world in the same way.
Sumary
In the article " The Allegory of the Cave" from the Book VII of The Republic by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Socrates is trying to teach and show that people see the world in many diferent ways.
When we born everything is a new beginning and we start to see and learn things, and all those things make us as a person. Moreover, our parents at the beginning of our lifes are responsible for who we are and what we learn. Futhermore, when we reach a certain age (18 to 21), we supposed to leave our "caves" and live by ourselves and having the responsability to discorver a new world. In addition, we open our minds to a new world and we change as a person, and it is hard to go back to the same place that we use to live or being the same person that we use to. As a result, when people open the door for opportunities and to learn new things, people change and you can never go back because people may don't accept you the way you are now and even you nay not adapted to the old place that you use to live before.
In my opinion, the cave means our blind or confortable zone and at this point of my life i am not there any more. I am from Brazil and when i came here 10 years ago, i wans't feeling confortable at all, i didn't know anything, sometimes simples tasks was hard to solved because of the language barrier. In New York i got married, became a mother of two boys, learned English, found a job, and i change as a person. In addition, I would like to mention that in 2007 i went to Brazil to visit my family and all of them notice that i was dressing, talking and acting diferent, i was suprised to hear all these comments, because for me i was the same, but of course i couldn't be the same person after all these new things that a saw and learned. Moreover, the traffic in Brazil are not organized like in New York City and i got sad to realize that a never notice that before. Furthermore, when i made the comparison, my family got upset with me and that i was criticizing my on country. They really miss understood what a meant.As a result, a think that is hard to go back when we give ourselves the opportunities to learn new things in life and we never will see the world in the same way.
blog 2
"I know the Truth , So Don't Bother Me with Facts"
According to the article “ I know the Truth , so Don’t Bother Me with Facts”, the author Jeffrey Kluger wants to show how Humans are easily deceived by rumors and lies. Also, researchers shows that people get stick on false beliefs and it is hard to make them to forgot it or change their minds. A recently study with 750 people who believe at least in one rumor, did these people expose the rumor and what would make them change their minds. As a result, the assistant professors of communication (Garret and Nisbet) came to a conclusion that it is easy to manipulate people’s beliefs and a fewer were willing to reverse their positions. Garret also shows, that some people refuse to change their minds even if they see documents that prove the opposite, people respond by sticking to their prejudices even more strongly. The Professors are still studying to find a better explanation for that behavior .
Blog 1
Hype
Today most of the people feel visually and mentally squeezed by the pollutants, from the first moment that we wake up in the morning, until night when we go to sleep, there are marketing messages everywhere we go.The increase of advertising is growing so fast that people still don't realize the danger it can cause in our brain.
There is nowhere to run, any where your eyes look at, there are a comercial about something, for example, if your kids are wacthing T.V. they are attacked by commercials about new video games, candy's, brands of clothes, sodas, sneakers, places to travel, sites to visit that teach the kids how to play games online. This is to much for kids that sometimes even know the price of all this things.
Furthermore, i know one mother that bought a X-Box for her son to play with other kids alive, so she used her credicard number to pay the registration allowing her son to starting playing. Between each game appears commercials and her 9 years old son innocently bought a lots of thing using her credicard number that was in the system, cousing problems for his mother that had to call all the companies explaining the situation and canceling all purchases.
Moreover, it is worrisome how our childrem will grow up without knowing that it is possibly have fun without all this tecnology.
In school teachers give to the kids sites to search, that makes easy to complete a project or homework, but when these childrem visit the site, there are commercials from T.V. show that make the student losing the attention of they supposed to do.
In conclusion, i truly believe that the advertising company should make a reavaliation of the topic to reduce and limit to many commercials every where we go, it is really not neccessary.
Today most of the people feel visually and mentally squeezed by the pollutants, from the first moment that we wake up in the morning, until night when we go to sleep, there are marketing messages everywhere we go.The increase of advertising is growing so fast that people still don't realize the danger it can cause in our brain.
There is nowhere to run, any where your eyes look at, there are a comercial about something, for example, if your kids are wacthing T.V. they are attacked by commercials about new video games, candy's, brands of clothes, sodas, sneakers, places to travel, sites to visit that teach the kids how to play games online. This is to much for kids that sometimes even know the price of all this things.
Furthermore, i know one mother that bought a X-Box for her son to play with other kids alive, so she used her credicard number to pay the registration allowing her son to starting playing. Between each game appears commercials and her 9 years old son innocently bought a lots of thing using her credicard number that was in the system, cousing problems for his mother that had to call all the companies explaining the situation and canceling all purchases.
Moreover, it is worrisome how our childrem will grow up without knowing that it is possibly have fun without all this tecnology.
In school teachers give to the kids sites to search, that makes easy to complete a project or homework, but when these childrem visit the site, there are commercials from T.V. show that make the student losing the attention of they supposed to do.
In conclusion, i truly believe that the advertising company should make a reavaliation of the topic to reduce and limit to many commercials every where we go, it is really not neccessary.
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