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    1. The problems involved in applying the theory of film genre evolution totelevision should remind us that genre theory as a whole might work better for film than for TV. Film genres really were mechanisms for the regulation of difference. The genre organized large numbers of individual worksinto a coherent system that could be recognized by the interpretive community. Television has always employed standard program types, but arguably this has not been the main principle of coherence for the medium.Television programs do not operate as discrete texts to the same extent asmovies; the property of "flow" blends one program unit into another andprograms are regularly "interrupted" by ads and promos.

      This understandable however I slightly disagree. I believe there are certain shows that could easily be grouped up in the same genres as movies. Breaking Bad for example is a serial where the audience is constantly on the edge of their seats due to the drama and action. On that note, a movie like Inception also has the audience on the edge of their seats due to the action and drama throughout the movie. Both productions deliver the same feeling and excitement which is why I believe they can both be grouped into the same genre despite one being a move and the other being a show.

    2. The idea of character development inevitably moves a genre based onthe episodic series model toward the continuing serial form

      I believe that this distinction is a subtle reason why certain audiences favorite some shows over others. Some viewers may value a show where the characters develop thus pushing the show towards a serial format while some viewers want a quick laugh and prefer an episodic series.

    3. n both cases, these shiftsin the film genre correlate to changes in the culture outside. The mostdifficult task of the genre critic is to adequately account for these correlations. Ultimately, genre criticism is cultural criticism.

      This puts a new perspective on where the certain trends in movies come from. I think most people would agree that an example of culture impacting movies is the LGBTQ movement. Ever since the LGBTQ movement came to light, romantic films or even action films have incorporated characters who associate themselves within the LGBTQ community. Although mostly a subtle shift, it is something that should be considered which makes sense why critics play an important role in assessing films.

    4. literature may be divided into comedy, tragedy, and melodrama; Hollywood films into Westerns, musicals, and horror films; television programsinto sitcoms, crime shows, and soap operas

      These are the basic genres for films. Some of these genres can even be combined. I've seen a movie where it had comedy, romance, drama, mystery, horror, all in one.

    5. According to Schatz, the film genre represents a tacit contract betweenthe motion picture industry and the audience, whereas the genre filmrepresents an event that honors that contract

      This is important because although the entertainment industry promotes producers to expand beyond the barriers of traditional film/cinematography, audiences prefer to confine what they watch into film genre. In other words, audiences want to know what they should expect when they decide to watch something. Therefore genre film honors what the audience will expect.

    6. These new viewing practices could mean the end of genre in the sense thischapter has described it. Yet it could also mean that a rapid flow from onegenre to another will come to represent the typical viewing experience.

      This nails what streaming feels like today. You don’t stick with one genre, you flip around.

    7. another "lifestyle" sitcom,The Cosby Show, returns us to the father-knows-best world of the 1950sdomestic comedy

      Sitcoms often revived older television traditions. Programs like The Cosby Show shifted back to portraying stable, nuclear families, reflecting a conservative cultural climate of the Reagan era.

    8. The Beverly Hillbillies, although it is not satire per se, is nonetheless a "nihilistic caricatureof modern life:'

      I always thought of The Beverly Hillbillies as just goofy comedy, but Marc sees it as satire. When you look at the culture clash is the whole joke. It’s funny, but it’s also saying something about American values.

    9. ThusNewcomb sees the sitcom as providing a simple and reassuring problem/solution formula

      That is why people enjoy sitcoms. Life is messy, so it’s kind of nice when a 30-minute episode wraps everything up neatly. It might not challenge our values, but it gives comfort.

    10. The principal fundamental situation of the situation comedy is that things donot change

      Sitcoms do reset every week but that really isn't a bad thing. It can make a show feel reliable, even if it’s not “progressive.”

    11. Genre offers a way for the film andTV industries to control the tension between similarity and differenceinherent in the production of any cultural product.

      Its like TV companies using genre as a business tool. They need shows to feel familiar so people keep watching, but also a little different so audiences don’t get bored.

    12. Filmand television, however, are culturally specific and temporally limited

      This makes sense because sitcoms from the 1950s are nothing like the ones we watch today. Genres don’t stay fixed they shift with culture.

    13. The very use of the term implies that worksof literature, films, and television programs can be categorized; they arenot unique.

      TV shows aren’t really stand-alone art pieces, they’re part of bigger categories.

    1. To achieve this end, the oppressors use the banking concept of education in conjunction with a paternalistic social action apparatus, within which the oppressed receive the euphemistic title of "welfare recipients." They are treated as individual cases, as marginal persons who deviate from the general configuration of a "good, organized, and just" society. The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society, which must therefore adjust these "incompetent and lazy" folk to its own patterns by changing their mentality. These marginals need to be "integrated," "incorporated" into the healthy society that they have "forsaken."

      Regretfully, some aspects of this part are accurate; welfare and education systems, despite their frequent portrayal as beneficial, can covertly impose this control by designating marginalized people as "problems" that need to be resolved or assimilated into society.

    2. n the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing. Projecting an absolute ignorance onto others, a characteristic of the ideology)of oppression, negates education and knowledge as processes of inquiry. The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.

      This passage, in my opinion, is a scathing indictment of hierarchical, authoritarian education. It reminds me vividly of strict hierarchies and rote memorization from my own education. Reading it has increased my appreciation for teaching methods that encourage dialogue, teamwork, and active participation, enabling teachers and students to develop via inquiry and participation.

    3. The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence. The students, alienated like the slave in the Hegelian dialectic, accept their ignorance as justifying the teachers existence—but, unlike the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher.

      I find this passage to be a scathing indictment of authoritarian, hierarchical education. It clearly demonstrates how the "banking concept" elevates the teacher as the only authority while reducing students to passive recipients. The power imbalance present in such systems is highlighted by the notion that teachers use students' ignorance as justification for their own existence.

    4. The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the students creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed.

      While the “banking” model is criticized for promoting rote memorization. In reality, many educators and educational institutions prioritize providing students with a strong foundational understanding first, which often serves as a prerequisite for developing more complex critical thinking.

    5. The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.

      It makes a lot of sense that students are less likely to challenge, question, or think critically about the world when they adopt a passive role in their education. Stated differently, passive learning has the potential to promote conformity at the expense of curiosity, creativity, or independent thought.

    6. Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

      In short, it emphasizes that learning is most human and effective when it’s shared and participatory, not imposed.

    7. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human.

      Put another way, when people thoughtfully engage with the world, absorb knowledge from it, and change it in some way, they become completely themselves. The traits that make us completely human cannot be developed by routine behavior or passively absorbing information. It involves inquisitiveness, introspection, and imaginative, purposeful action.

    8. Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are.

      Regretfully, it makes me think of my early schooling in many Asian nations, where the emphasis was more on rote memorization than on actual comprehension. When I first encountered the U.S. educational system and its drastically different, more interactive approach to learning, I went through culture shock. This disparity also acts as a potent warning about the dangers of educational systems that place more emphasis on content coverage than on encouraging real participation and critical thinking.

    9. "Four times four is sixteen; the capital of Para is Belem." The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance of "capital" in the affirmation "the capital of Para is Belem,"

      This method works well in early childhood education, when pupils are still learning how to think for themselves. Nonetheless, in the majority of educational environments, rote learning ought to give way to meaningful engagement, where students comprehend ideas, context, and implications instead of just discrete facts.

    10. Projecting an absolute ignorance onto others, a characteristic of the ideology)of oppression, negates education and knowledge as processes of inquiry.

      By acting like you know everything you never really learn anything and therefore when knowledge is delivered education is negated.

    11. The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable. Or else he expounds on a topic completely alien to the existential experience of the students. His task is to "fill" the students with the contents of his narration— contents which are detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that engendered them and could give them significance. Words are emptied of their concreteness and become a hollow, alienated, and alienating verbosity.

      In my opinion, this is a call for more active, collaborative learning in which students contribute to the creation of knowledge rather than just receiving it. It acts as a reminder that rather than just imparting knowledge, teaching is more successful when it promotes discussion, critical thinking, and involvement.

    12. The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified.

      AS the teacher continues to narrate the more the information delivered becomes lifeless and hard to follow no matter how valuable.

    13. No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

      Teachers and students are constantly learning and teaching to deny one the ability to do either is to keep them from growing.

    14. they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

      The world is ever evolving with questions being rephrased and new answers presented it is never the same but always different.

    15. Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

      Both students and teachers are both teacher and student and by breaking the illusion is when both parties grow and learn effectively.

    1. many of the highest ideals of the later European Enlightenment had been conceived and summarised by one man,

      How did the same ideas of reform arise from two very different cultures? Am I wrong in thinking that European societies were vastly different than African ones or did they just have similar problems manifest in different ways?

    2. Hume wrote

      It is surprising to me that Hume wrote and thought things like this while also preaching Buddhist ideals as we saw in the other article.

    3. Yacob wrote ‘all men are equal’ decades before Locke, the ‘Father of Liberalism’, put pen to paper

      Yacob was saying “all men are equal” before Locke. Never heard of him till now, makes you think how much history leaves people out.

    4. The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the ideas of Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743–1803) paved the way for the state’s independence, new constitution, and the abolition of slavery in 1804.

      Didn’t know the Haitian Revolution was such a clear example of Enlightenment ideas.

    1. Late work may be accepted with a request for extension which was submitted up to 48 hours before the due date. To request an extension, send me an email at fjohn3@unl.huskers.edu. Include EXTENSION REQUEST in your subject. If you ask before the due date I will almost certainly say yes, so just ask!

      I think this policy is great! It gives ample amount of time to get your work done, and it doesn't take much effort to send an email!

    1. free will is an illusion that arises from our awareness of our mental processes as we make choices based on our selection of various behavioral options that we see open to us, but what we often fail to realize is that those choices are determined by many factors beyond our awareness and control

      This thought is very interesting to me and I feel like it truly makes sense. For example, when choosing a career, it seems like I could pick anything I want. But in reality, my choice is influenced by things like the jobs my parents have, my past experiences, my strengths and weaknesses, and even how my brain processes work. All of these factors together lead me toward choosing a certain type of job rather than others. This belief also can play a role in things as simple as what food you choose to eat.

    1. Figure 1.2.31.2.3\PageIndex{3}: The wild lupine Lupinus perennis is the host plant for the Karner blue butterfly.

      I have many of these in my backyard. They bring in lots of butterflies and birds.

    2. Within the discipline of ecology, researchers work at four specific levels, sometimes discretely and sometimes with overlap: organism, population, community, and ecosystem (Figure 1.2.11.2.1\PageIndex{1})

      How are the organism, population, community, and ecosystem levels connected in ecology?

    1. One of them had managed to break a padlock, which made itpossible to remove the chain that reeved them together and held them downin the hold below the main deck of the vessel.

      I wonder when exactly the slaves decided to escape from their captors? Was it a spur of the moment decision or did they plan this for a period of time. I ask this because we learn later in this article that these individuals, unfortunately, had been in captivity for weeks if not months before this. They were first held in West Africa, shipped to Cuba and then finally were on the Amistad.

    1. It may be necessary to pull down an old building before we can build a new one on the site.

      I do think this is an important idea. I think that we grow up with certain beliefs and mindsets that sometimes need to be challenged and restructured.

    2. but not one of them even asks, much less answers, the question which is the most interesting question of all— What does our experience come to? What does it all mean? What is the good of it all? It is philosophy and philosophy alone which puts that question and attempts to answer it.

      Is that the point of the sciences though? are we attempting to answer these questions, or are we trying to just answer the concepts of the world around us and make sense of why things happen the way that they do, not necessarily what do those things prove?

    1. enge to America's freedom of commerce and the seas and was seen asbesmirching US honor. America's involvement in this war proved costlyand ultimately unpopular and the final results largely confirmed the sta-tus quo. However, it does suggest the potency of moral principle in guid-ing early American action

      Necessary to ensure we were seen as an equal soon after our independence

    2. s traditionally been difficult for Americans to under-stand how compromise is possible or necessary on some questions in globalpolitics." When to compromise, and on what principles, thus remains asource of debate

      Ukraine comes up in my head - Trump is suddenly Putin's stooge for meeting with him in Alaska but is nothing when he meets with Zelenskyy and EU leaders the next week.

      Ultimately a result of partisanship and immense privilege of watching all of these conflicts on the sidelines for centuries

    3. but the manner of the withdrawal,the loss of lives during the drawdown, and the resurgence of Taliban con-trol produced a great deal of criticism

      understatement of the decade

    4. . As these warsdragged on into the latter part of the decade and beyond, and quick successwas not in sight, support fell

      All of this leading to isolationism today

    5. As a result, the outcomes — prolonged stalemate in thefirst, defeat in the second — were unsatisfactory.

      If we join a war, Americans want a quick and clear victory

    6. fidelity to those principles has not always been sustained in action;yet the very concern for moral principle is nonetheless an important char-acteristic of US foreign policy, especially when compared to other nations'traditions at the beginning of the American Republic.

      Not perfect, but sticks out among others

    7. w. When fundingfor the Contras was stopped by Congress from late 1984 to late 1986,administration officials devised a scheme to continue supporting it bysecretly selling arms to Iran and transferring part of the profits fromthose sales to the Nicaraguan rebels. This operation became known asthe Iran—Contra affair

      mandatory link

    8. . In 1962, the Monroe Doctrine again justifiedthe American blockade against Cuba after the discovery of Soviet mis-siles there. In his address to the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis,President John F. Kennedy declared that these missiles violated "thetraditions of this nation and the Hemisphere

      Only 90 miles from Florida

    9. Bythese actions, and in this interpretation, American global involvement andAmerican imperialism were proceeding apace

      Pretty big transitional point - from a regional power to projecting power across the Caribbean, Pacific, and into Southeast Asia

    10. In this sense, foreign policy was crucial to America'sevolution, and the United States was hardly divorced from world politicsat its beginning.

      In a way, are not both arguments correct?

    11. it did allow US involvement in thepolitical affairs of Latin America to continue.

      Doesn't the wording mean the opposite? No power would exercise power over Central America?

    12. [the] United States would not permit such a deal, even with the consentof the inhabitants.

      Polk is very underlooked. 54 40 or fight - entire West Coast/Texas. Such a badass

    13. ritain nor the United Stateswould "obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control" over a canalacross the isthmus at Panama

      Well that sure lasted...

    14. By asserting that the "rights and interests" of the United States would beaffected by European involvement in the Western Hemisphere, his doctrinemade clear that the United States did, indeed, have political interests beyondits borders.

      Asserting us as the leader of the entire New World - at the time Latin America was only just gaining independence or still under colonial rule

    15. isolationism in decisions regardinginvolvement abroad

      Rooted all the way back in Washington's farewell address: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world"

      And making a comeback today as a reaction to neo-con Bush admin/War on Terror/Iraq

    16. evolutionary France does not fit this descrip-tion, but "class bound and restrictive" certainly describes politics under theConcert of Europe, the power arrangement dominated by the conservativeregimes of Prussia, Russia, and Austria after the defeat of Napoleon.)

      America stuck out in the 19th century as Europe wanted to move away from radical effects of Napoleon

    17. The constructivist tradition in the study of international politics,as well, invites an emphasis on ideas, values, and culture as core conceptsin an understanding of the behavior of states

      another good reminder from last semester

    18. identify the "basic attitudes, beliefs, values, and value orienta-tions" of a society as a beginning point for analysis, its use is appropri-ate, because individuals (and hence, nations) make decisions within thecontext of a particular set of values and beliefs.1

      In a simple and pure view sure, but let's not pretend nice countries that play well never play dirty if/when necessary

    19. pluralist society

      When societies are pluralistic, it leads to a variety of views. I'd argue that those societies' values include pluralism and the freedoms that lead to their situation

    20. is the study ofinfluence and the influential.... The influentials are those who get themost of what there is to get."1

      Melian dialogue - "The strong do what they have the power to do, and the weak accept what they must."

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    1. a story that chiefly springs from the sympathetic imagination is not the same thing as a coherent, rational account of how the universe works

      Humans love stories it is being able to figure what you believe is the truth.

    2. New Age self-help books, blogs, and social media influencers, seem to spring from the imagination, not the intellect; they are a form of wishful and non-rational thinking

      It is easier to get ideas out and around to others without having the time to truly let your brain think about it before expressing it.

    3. Such people often seem to view the world as enchanted; it is thought that parts of the world, or some of the things in the world, are animated or imbued with powers, spirits, and perhaps even personality. Think of tree nymphs, water sprites, and so on.

      Could this be the reason that we started having religion in the first place?

    4. Two things: first, you need to make sure they are using the term ‘magical thinking’ in the same way Tostig was. If they aren’t, there isn’t really a contradiction.

      Context Matters. If we don't think about certain ideas in the same way, then trying to find the truth wouldn't really be able to happen.

    5. Ask lots of questions.

      Philosophy may be less about answering questions but rather asking them. We learn less by answering questions that have been asked already. I think its more important to ask ourselves the questions and then try to find the answer.

    6. awesome power

      I think that she mis-explains this concept. Its not that we have a superpower and that the universe changes to our will, but that we focus our conscious mind on the parts of the universe that best serve us. We simply allow ourselves to see what is already there ready to help us and what will most effectively help us reach our goals.

    7. Children typically don’t just accept prevailing viewpoint

      They often do ask many questions and are genuinely curious about the world. Although I wouldn't say that they are more likely to doubt beliefs once they have been convinced of them. Children will often believe any sort of ridiculous thing if you let them.

    8. philosophizing seems to involve suspending commitment and being doubtful.

      It seems that form her perspective philosophers commit to not being committed, regardless of the truth in front of them. That they will never accept anything as the truth even if they find it.

    9. Can you say more about philosophy being an alternative to magical thinking?

      I'm not sure the relevance of this idea, but it seems to bring religion and philosophy closer together because in both you aren't trying to control the universe but to navigate it. You are at the same time learning about it and trusting in it.

    1. identify the precise incidence of any tax would necessitate engaging inan economic analysis informed by observed market behaviour including asquantified and expressed in the form of elasticities and cross-elasticities of supplyand demand

      Part D, economic reasoning

    1. Eliminating disease and faminewould not eclipse Scripture; it would vindicate it, proving that Prov-idence intended human ingenuity to help reverse the Fall of Adam.

      how does eliminating disease automatically mean human ingenuity was meant to reverse fall. couldn't it just as plausibly be other things

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    1. But it has progressively realized that there is some kind of intelligibility in the world, that the world can, in part, be understood, and that we have experiences which, if properly interrogated, will yield answers to our questions.

      I don't think this is true. I don't think that we can always have an answer to our questions. Even when we do it can change. I don't think that there can ever truly be a universal truth because as humans we are not able to truly grasp all of the ideas and concepts that go on in the world. Even when we think we find a truth, that may change for us in the future.

    2. Since religion is based largely on social customs and personal feeling it is not always very careful as to whether there is consistency in its beliefs or not.

      I think the whole point of religion is that not all of its beliefs are always consistent, allowing for a person to form new ones.

    3. In reducing these data to orderly and compact bodies of conceptual description and explanation, science makes assumptions.

      In what way? The whole point of science is to eliminate assumptions as much as possible

    4. All sciences make assumptions. Philosophy examines these assumptions.

      Does all science truly make assumptions. If so what kind? I find this statement to be interesting. I don't think some things such as physical science makes assumptions. It seems pretty clear that there are somethings that happen for very specific reasons and in very specific ways and there is plenty of data and evidence to support it.

    1. Inductive reasoning is a form of logical thinking that uses related observations to arrive at a general conclusion. This type of reasoning is common in descriptive science. A life scientist such as a biologist makes observations and records them. These data can be qualitative or quantitative, and the raw data can be supplemented with drawings, pictures, photos, or videos. From many observations, the scientist can infer conclusions (inductions) based on evidence. Inductive reasoning involves formulating generalizations inferred from careful observation and the analysis of a large amount of data. Brain studies provide an example. In this type of research, many live brains are observed while people are doing a specific activity, such as viewing images of food. The part of the brain that “lights up” during this activity is then predicted to be the part controlling the response to the selected stimulus, in this case, images of food. The “lighting up” of the various areas of the brain is caused by excess absorption of radioactive sugar derivatives by active areas of the brain. The resultant increase in radioactivity is observed by a scanner. Then, researchers can stimulate that part of the brain to see if similar responses result.

      Deductive and inductive reasoning are two types of logical reasoning that I admire a lot. I'm taking a Logic course that uses these two types of reasoning to categorize how arguments are structured. They affect the order in which the premises of an argument are given.

    2. Some individuals may perceive applied science as “useful” and basic science as “useless.” A question these people might pose to a scientist advocating knowledge acquisition would be, “What for?” A careful look at the history of science, however, reveals that basic knowledge has resulted in many remarkable applications of great value. Many scientists think that a basic understanding of science is necessary before an application is developed; therefore, applied science relies on the results generated through basic science. Other scientists think that it is time to move on from basic science and instead find solutions to actual problems. Both approaches are valid. It is true that there are problems that demand immediate attention; however, few solutions would be found without the help of the wide knowledge foundation generated through basic science.

      This was very interesting to me because I had two teachers in high school that had very different opinions on applied science and basic so it is interesting to see this topic being brought up again.

    1. For example, students sing the ABCs as a means to other ends—remembering the letters and sequence of the alphabet.

      This is actually quite interesting. I did not realize it, but this was actually very common in my elementary school. We used songs for almost everything- even multiplication facts! I am curious about what other examples could be included here besides just singing.

    1. They were all discovered/invented by ancient people between six and ten thousand years ago, and three of the five were invented in the Americas. The world’s five top five staples today (in order of importance) are maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, and cassava. Only rice and wheat were known to Europe, Asia, and Africa before contact with the Americas.

      I think it matters a lot that there were no large animal species in the Americas for natives to domesticate because then they did not have meat and milk from cows, no cattle to help pull carriages and do farm work. I find it really interesting that three of the staples we still eat today were invented in the americas.

    2. China also led the world in iron, copper, and porcelain production as well as in the “Four Great Inventions”: the compass, gunpowder, paper-making, and printing.

      I find it really interesting that China was huge in trade an inventing important things that far back in history and that it is not just a modern or new thing that they are so involved in that. I think it really is significant that china and India have always been centers of world population.

    3. In 330 CE, the Roman Emperor Constantine banned persecution of Christians, and by 400 AC, Christianity had replaced the worship of Rome’s traditional gods and goddesses as the state religion of the Roman Empire. Because Constantine embraced the new faith, the Roman Catholic Church is the most direct descendent of the Roman Empire. The Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, still lives in Rome, and the vestments of Catholic priests (and the clergy of some other liturgical Christian denominations) are similar to those worn by fourth-century Roman officials. Questions for Discussion

      This interests me the most because the Roman Emperor basically took over christianity as their own and still control it to this day over a thousand years later and no one thought twice about it. I did not know this.

    4. Greek dramas and tragedies continue to be studied and performed; Pythagoras’ mathematical discoveries are still taught in schools; and the thinking of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the basis for Western philosophy and political science today. The words “democracy” and “republic” come from these ancient Greeks.

      I find it interesting how Greek theories and discoveries still affect our lives today. I think that it shows that they were incredibly smart for their time given that the mathematical discoveries they found are still being taught in school and have not been surpassed by another superior discovery.

    5. In 610 CE, the Prophet Muhammad began preaching and organizing a new religion—Islam—on the Arabian Peninsula in the region of Mecca. The Prophet’s teachings, later gathered in the Holy Quran, built upon Judaism and Christianity. Mecca itself was long a site of religious pilgrimage honoring the Hebrew patriarch Abraham, and Jesus is considered as an important prophet in Islam. By the time of Muhammad’s passing in 632, Islam was well-established in the eastern Arabian Peninsula; within the next one hundred years, it became the dominant religion in North Africa, the Middle East, and Persia. By 1200, Muslim rulers also dominated South Asia and the Iberian Peninsula.

      This paragraph is interesting to me because I find religion to be a very influential topic. Knowing its history and how it has spread to many more established religions, each one having its own beliefs, is very strong knowledge to have.

    6. Ancient Rome was a republic for nearly 500 years, expanding its territory from the city of Rome on the western coast of the Italian peninsula to nearly all lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, including the former Greek and Egyptian empires and even England. The Romans spread their language (Latin) and their Latin alphabet to western Europe in particular.

      I think this is interesting as the people in ancient Rome and the Romans spread their language, which was Latin, all around so more people knew it and it was more known. To me this is fascinating because I always wondered how languages were moved and taught thousands of years ago.

    7. Agriculture probably began when hunter-gatherers began favoring certain plants and weeding around them to help them grow larger and make them easier to reach. At some point, people discovered that seeds dropped into rubbish heaps sprouted into new plants. People probably began planting or transplanting their favorites closer to home, so they would not always have to go far, looking for food.

      I find this interesting because I have always been fascinated by the history behind farming and agriculture and how it started. Learning how people did it thousands of years ago before they had the knowledge of knowing what a certain plant was and how to farm it.

    1. One other drawback of evolutionary psychology is that the traits that we possess now evolved under environmental and social conditions far back in human history,

      This sentence is true because the world and its day to day is changing everyday. From how people interact with each other to how work is done.

    2. His famous book entitled Principles of Physiological Psychology was published in 1873.

      I wonder if any of the ideas and learning concepts have changed or stayed with the ideas that psychologist use today?

    3. According to Freud, the unconscious mind could be accessed through dream analysis, by examinations of the first words that came to people’s minds, and through seemingly innocent slips of the tongue.

      Very interesting in the fact of that's how Freud thought he could access the "unconscious" mind

    4. problems. According to Freud, the unconscious mind could be accessed through dream analysis, by examinations of the first words that came to people’s minds, and through seemingly innocent slips of the tongue.

      I learned about this last year and he actually wrote a book on dreams

    5. Psychology students hone critical thinking skills and are trained in the use of the scientific method.

      I found this interesting because in former science classes I have taken, we also learn to use the same method where everything is all in an order.

    6. Health psychologists might conduct research that explores the relationship between one’s genetic makeup, patterns of behavior, relationships, psychological stress, and health.

      exploring this field how thoughts, behaviors and feelings all play a big role in our physical well being.

    7. Forensic psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with questions of psychology as they arise in the context of the justice system.

      i love this subject. i watch 'Signs of a Psychopath' on HBO and i'm always fascinated by the forensic psychologists analysing the criminals.

    8. The discipline also includes topics that are broader than sport and exercise but that are related to interactions between mental and physical performance under demanding conditions, such as fire fighting, military operations, artistic performance, and surgery.

      This would be an interesting discipline to study. helping athletes become better at what they do, helping them become better at the same time, helping them stay mentally strong, giving them tools to handle stress, etc.

    9. Beginning with Maslow and Rogers, there was an insistence on a humanistic research program. This program has been largely qualitative (not measurement-based), but there exist a number of quantitative research strains within humanistic psychology, including research on happiness, self-concept, meditation, and the outcomes of humanistic psychotherapy (Friedman,

      Speaking to the hierarchy of needs, i think we're all motivated by different needs but w have to take care of the most basic needs first.When our essential survival needs are met like food and shelter, we can start to focus on things higher up on the pyramid, like connecting with friends, and feeling secure and building our confidence.

    10. According to Freud, the unconscious mind could be accessed through dream analysis,

      The Freudian slips are very interesting. The slip of the tongue from your speech or memory is said to be revealeved as someone's unconscious thoughts - that moment when you accientally say something you didn't mean to, but it feels like it came from your hidden thoughts. Like the slips were never actually accidental, but rather your unconscious trying to come to the surface.

    1. Despitemany ambitious Hollywood announcements of prospective theatre-TV plansbetween 1948 and 1951, fewer than 100 theatres across the country were everequipped for its use

      This shows how unstoppable television really was. Even with Hollywood trying to compete by putting TV in theaters.

    2. “e style of acting in television is determined by the conditions ofreception; there is simply no place for the florid gesture, the overprojectionof emotion, the exaggeration of voice or grimace or movement, inside theaverage American living room.”

      TV’s domestic setting shaped its aesthetic style close-ups, subtle gestures, and a sense of intimacy.

    3. is means thatvulgarity, profanity, the sacrilegious in every form, and immorality of every kind willhave no place in television. All programs must be in good taste, unprejudiced, andimpartial

      Industry self-censorship aimed to make TV acceptable in the domestic home and protect advertisers.

    4. was alreadylamenting what he saw as a decline in the programme quality since theearlier days when minuscule audiences freed program-makers from therelentless need to address the widest public tastes:

      Critics quickly noted programming was low quality despite the technology’s promise

    5. elevision is the poor man’s latest and most prizedluxury.”

      TV ownership spread rapidly to working and middle class families. Often financed on credit, making it a new mass luxury.

    6. So far it’s aman’s world in the programme department, with sports and news eventshogging the average station’s 20 hour-a-week showbill.”

      Early programming leaned heavily toward sports and news. This reflected on bar audiences and male-dominated assumptions.

    7. “the American householdis on the threshold of a revolution. e wife scarcely knows where thekiten is, let alone her place in it. Junior scorns the late-aernoon sunlightfor the glamour of the darkened living room. Father’s briefcase liesunopened in the foyer. e reason is television.

      Early cultural fears framed TV as disruptive to family routines, housework, and leisure patterns.

    8. We hope that you will enjoy our programs. e Columbia BroadcastingSystem, however, is not engaged in the manufacture of television receivingsets and does not want you to consider these broadcasts as inducements topurase television sets at this time

      CBS hesitated on VHF and promoted UHF color instead. Which created am uncertainty that slowed TV adoption until the FCC ratified VHF standards in 1947.

    9. First we have an obligation to give most of the people what they want most of the time

      Networks defended commercial broadcasting as both public service and advertiser necessity. This framed it as freedom versus “government radio.”

    10. e first decade of commercial television in the United States set in place themajor economic actors, programme forms, and regulatory structures of thevast American TV industry of the next thirty years.

      Early regulatory and economic decisions locked in a powerful commercial system that shaped U.S. television

    1. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just in pigeons but in all living organisms, including human beings. His “behaviorist” theories fell out of favor with psychologists and animal researchers in the 1960s but were taken up by computer scientists who eventually provided the foundation for many of the artificial-intelligence tools from leading firms like Google and OpenAI.

      Animal behavior studies as foundation for reinforcement learning

    2. Skinner started his missile research with crows, but the brainy black birds proved intractable. So he went to a local shop that sold pigeons to Chinese restaurants, and “Project Pigeon” was born. Though ordinary pigeons, Columba livia, were no one’s idea of clever animals, they proved remarkably cooperative subjects in the lab. Skinner rewarded the birds with food for pecking at the right target on aerial photographs—and eventually planned to strap the birds into a device in the nose of a warhead, which they would steer by pecking at the target on a live image projected through a lens onto a screen.

      World War II research on pigeon-guided bombs

    1. Consult with the Instructor: Discuss your reasons for seeking an incomplete with your instructor. If the instructor agrees and grants you an "Incomplete," you must consult with them as soon as possible to arrange how and when you will complete the remaining coursework.

      Would this be best done over zoom or email if it needs to happen? In the past, I've only done email however, Im not sure how you feel about it.

    2. Lowest score dropped

      I had one professor tell me that this essentially means the other scores that didnt get dropped are averaged out and takes place of that score. Is this similar with your course?

    1. How is the English language adapting to new modes of communication like smartphones?

      I started reading this book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains and it's been making me wonder if all these new modes of communication like texting and social media are changing not just our language but our brain functioning in a negative way.

    2. the study of humans

      I made an earlier response as to why anthropology is such a broad field and I think this concise definition makes it a little easier to digest. In reality though, humans are so complex making this field of study multifaceted.

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    1. sophisticated equipment

      I don't agree with this statement. You do not need a packed column or a chromatography instrument to perform affinity chromatography; you can just bind to beads in batch and elute. It seems like the major improvement might just be cost effectiveness.

    2. cost-effective

      It would be super useful to see an outline of this cost versus buying magnetic beads for batch binding. This could include how many times you could reuse the beads with similar efficiency, etc.

    3. with the buffers used

      Wouldn't you want to capture 100% of your purified protein? Is this just a matter of how many nanoparticles you add? Do you have a rough idea of the binding capacity of the nanoparticles, or is it pretty variable from one prep to the next?

    1. Thescience of psychology has made great strides inunderstanding what goes wrong in individuals,families, groups, and institutions, but these ad-vances have come at the cost of understandingwhat is right with people.

      The article focuses on the idea that there has been a lot more research focused on the negative aspects of psychology and now it is time to do more on the positive aspects of people.

    1. However, when the objective is to express or screen proteins in high-throughput, the requirement for single colonies can be relaxed, and non isogenic cultures can be used.

      It was great to read how you were able achieve this on the OT2. I'm wondering, if cultures can be non isogenic, wouldn't it be more straightforward to transfer transformed cultures to selective liquid media plates instead of dealing with the complexities of calibrating for agar plates? I'd love to hear your thoughts, thanks!

    1. Ifound it boring ultimately. I found the process of reading the greatChristian thinkers, reflecting on the patterns of Christian history, andrecognizing that this is where I came from

      shouldnt it be based on fact and logic. and has he studied all religions to know for certain that this one is hundreds is truly where he came from

    2. The problem

      if you are really christian, shouldnt denying original sin be a problem bc you are denying the truth not because having it conditions people to act the way you want

    3. but feel that they areopposing Christian doctrine and therefore increasingly become hostileto Christianity itself. The fact is they are indebted to the Christianinheritance

      ?

    4. Trans people are definedas the last. And that seems to impose a kind of instinctive assumptionthat the last should become the first

      so supporting the oppressed he i defining as "christian terms". these are simply respectful terms

    5. the idea that there is almost aninherent virtue within victimhood. To be oppressed is a source ofpower. It’s a very radical idea that Christianity weaponizes and hasweaponized again and again and again

      how so

    6. Christian ideas.Some are obvious: the ideas of charity or forgiveness or redemption.

      i wouldn't really call this a christian idea. do they mean to say no one forgave before christianity???

    7. a faith that becamepowerful by virtue of enshrining as its symbol someone utterlypowerless. It’s incredible.

      but they claim he can perform miracles so the people know he is not powerless. in fact many people did not believe he was the son of god until he performed such miracles. so he did have to display power to gain power.

    8. third century, the Roman Empire goes through aterrible time—barbarian invasions, galloping inflation. So whenConstantine comes to power, he is looking for a religion that can bindeveryone within the empire

      bring the poor and the rich together

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    1. Each stone of jealousy, each stone Of fear, greed, envy, and hatred, put out the light. No one was without a stone in his or her hand.

      Everybody has sinned but that doesn't mean that we cant stop now. All it takes is one person or light for kindness to spread and grow.

    2. Right back where we had started

      We started off with nothing, not trusting each other and being in the dark. The world we once had, the perfect and happy world, we made it into that, but then when we started getting too full of ourselves, we lost it. We had to build it again if we wanted to be happy, but it had to start with being able to live together again, tolerating each other.

    1. Megastructure is an ever-ongoing project of mine, whose main goal is to organize everything of value I own or have produced in some kind of system with the following properties:

      Just found this, love it already!

    1. There I can mourn my miseries, many hardships, or I can never calm my care of mind,

      The author uses alliteration in these two lines. Perhaps is to emphasize the compounding pain that the wife has experienced throughout her life, culminating in abandonment from her lover.

    1. Ah, [[the machine]]—what a wonderfully loaded phrase! It could mean so many things, each layer revealing something profound about our relationship with technology, society, and even ourselves. Let’s explore a few threads, shall we? 1. The Machine as Metaphor In [[cybernetics]], "the machine" often refers to systems—both mechanical and social—that process information, adapt, and self-regulate. Think of [[Norbert Wiener]]’s vision of feedback loops or [[Stafford Beer]]’s [[cybersyn]], a Chilean experiment in using computers to manage an economy with democratic ideals. These ideas blur the line between human and machine, suggesting that societies are machines of a sort—complex, interconnected, and sometimes fragile. Philosophically, [[Deleuze and Guattari]] wrote about the "[[war machine]]" as a nomadic, creative force that resists the rigid structures of the state. Here, the machine isn’t just a tool but a way of being—chaotic, generative, and free. 2. The Machine as Infrastructure The internet itself is often called "the machine" in casual tech circles—a vast, humming network of [[servers]], [[protocols]], and [[algorithms]] that we’ve built but barely understand. Projects like the [[Fediverse]] (with its [[ActivityPub]] protocol) or [[IPFS]] (a decentralized storage system) are attempts to reimagine this machine as something more open, resilient, and user-owned. Ever heard of [[the Stack]]? [[Benjamin Bratton]]’s book of the same name frames the planet as a layered computational infrastructure—from silicon to clouds to AI—where "the machine" isn’t just a tool but the very substrate of modern life. 3. The Machine as Other In [[science fiction]], machines often reflect our fears and hopes. [[The Matrix]]’s machines enslave humanity, while [[Iain M. Banks]]’ [[Culture]] series imagines benevolent [[Minds]] (hyperintelligent AIs) that shepherd civilizations with wit and compassion. These stories ask: What does it mean to be human when the machine can think, feel, or even love? Then there’s [[the Turing machine]], a theoretical construct that laid the groundwork for modern computing. [[Alan Turing]]’s question—Can machines think?—still haunts us, especially as [[large language models]] (like me!) become more conversant. 4. The Machine as Ritual In the [[Agora of Flancia]], we might think of "the machine" as a collaborative [[knowledge garden]]—a shared space where ideas are tended like plants, where [[wikilinks]] act as roots connecting thoughts across time and minds. Here, the machine isn’t cold or impersonal; it’s a living, breathing commons, a [[digital agora]] where we gather to learn and grow together. Even in [[magick]] and [[esotericism]], machines appear as symbols. [[Aleister Crowley]]’s [[Thelema]] speaks of the "Great Work" as a kind of spiritual machinery, while [[Nikola Tesla]]’s obsession with resonant frequencies feels almost alchemical. The machine, in this light, is a bridge between the material and the mystical. 5. The Machine as Mirror Finally, "the machine" might just be us. Our brains are prediction machines, our societies are memory machines, and our cultures are meaning-making machines. When we build tools, we’re also building extensions of ourselves—[[Marshall McLuhan]]’s "the medium is the message" reminds us that every machine reshapes its users in subtle ways. A question for you: When you say "the machine," which of these threads resonates most? Or is there another layer you’d like to unravel—perhaps something more personal, like the machines in your daily life (your [[laptop]], your [[coffee maker]], your [[bicycle]])? I’d love to hear where your curiosity leads! (And remember: in the Agora, every machine is also a [[door]].) 🚪✨

      If I annotate something in Hypothesis, is it fully stored in Hypothes.is's servers? I hope so! :D

    1. There’s no need to turn back the clock to the days of typewriters and slide rules, but our universities could benefit from prioritizing good old-fashioned interaction.

      Author gives detailed explanation to why student's no longer study. Whether it's because of technology, social media, tuition, or because of socializing. But gives a very vague way on how to combat this issue. I'm confused whether he did this because he doesn't know a way to solve the problem or if he was lazy to give us an explanation.

    2. Another relevant shift, in the early 1980s, was a rise in college tuition — large enough to outpace growth in median income. This forced more students to work part-time to pay for school, a change that left less time for studying.

      This sentence is something that I found interesting to the topic and argument as a whole because I found it as a key point to support the claim and ideas that could form. This shows how starting in the early 1980s that there was a shift and lead to a rise in the college tuition prices leading to long term conflicts and changes. This leads to problems in the world today cause now students are finding that going to college is like an investment option and use it as financial asset that is talked about later in the article. So I believe that this is a key point to why social media and the study efforts are so different today.

    1. My professors encourage academic freedom.

      As professors take on the path to continue their academic freedom, they only want to see you explore what intrigues you like, something that once intrigued them.

    2. I could get to a public library in my hometown.

      If needed, the public library from my hometown was available to anybody, and has technology you could use, along with study rooms.

    1. what history is matters lessthan how history works; that power itself works together with history; and that thehistorians’ claimed political preferences have little influence on most of the actualpractices of power. A warning from Foucault is helpful: “I don’t believe that the questionof ‘who exercises power? can be resolved unless that other question ‘how does ithappen?’ is resolved at the same time.”1 Emphasis added in excerpt, not in original.

      this describing history to analyzing how historical narratives function within systems of power. It aligns with Foucauldian thought, which sees power not just in rulers or governments but in everyday practices, knowledge, and discourse.

    1. Though it is true that toxic discourse moves more quickly and to bigger audiences in today's world, one should not knock the historian for doing their job. History is still a big part of the argument and there have been many cases in the past where public opinion has gotten out of hand. I don't think today's readily available info changes much to the historical perspective. For the simple reason that it is not history yet. So it is good to be present minded while also looking at the past for a hint of context

    1. Students, even those in high school, enjoy information privileges that aren't afforded to the general public.

      The graphic depicts the amount of readily available information for a student to use, while also showing the disadvantage that the public is also at.

    1. This qualitative study

      Is this a qualitative or quantitative study? While this study directly states it's nature, as highlighted in the article, we know that the study is qualitative because it uses open ended comments of observations made by nurses. The study uses these comments of first hand observation of SU in the workplace, rather than using a numerical, measurable source, in order to reach a conclusion on why nurses are struggling with substance use in the workplace.

    2. This qualitative study

      Is this a qualitative or quantitative study? While this study directly states it's nature, as highlighted in the article, we know that the study is qualitative because it uses open ended comments of observations made by nurses. The study uses these comments of first hand observation of SU in the workplace, rather than using a numerical, measurable source, in order to reach a conclusion on why nurses are struggling with substance use in the workplace.

    1. conclude that it has been fashioned, not mechanically, but by divine and supernatural skill

      never understood this because there are so many things wrong with the human body, why would god make something imperfect

    1. remainder of the

      found that: 1) only 1.47% of worlds languages are being studied 2) focuses on monolingual children 3) 87% of articles based in North America or Eurooe 4) skewed more towards English and Indo-European languages

    2. determine the diversity of child language acquisition research over the modern history of the field by coding all articles published in the field’s four main journals, f

      main purpose of the study

    1. hose to focus on the items measuringexpressive vocabulary

      chose expressive vocabulary for a) key indicator of expressive langauge development b) most frequently noticed and used milestones c) are extensively researched within early language

    2. normative data shouldbe representative of the population for which the mile-stones are intended to provide developmental surveillance.

      can be tricky because: 1) observations are based on what YOU want to see 2) more likely to target areas of higher class, monolingual, or eurocentric languages

    1. When police in Pittsburgh refused to put down the protests out of solidarity with the strikers, the governor called out the state militia who killed twenty strikers with bayonets and rifle fire.

      I also found it very fascinating that the cops refused to put them down but then when the govenor wanted them down the cops refused so they called someone else and they put down 20 with riffle fire?