Blog Assignment #2-Quote Practive For Essay #1

The author states, "She believes that if some parts of the brain are faulty or defective, others are highly developed" (Sacks 16). In this quote, we see how Temple Grandin knows for a fact that despite having autism where she is denied a few things, she still has highly developed parts.

Temple Grandin suspects that the positive aspects of her autism, go with the negative ones.(Sacks 12). In this example we can see that Grandin is aware there are negative things that come with autism but also positive. Such as the fact that she puts everything into visual images where she finds it easier to connect and understand.

-The aspects of Temple Grandin's life or mind these quotes help to explain is the fact that she knows that even though there are things shes deprived from, there are still other things in which us normal people dont have. We dont normally visualize everything to understand something. Visualizing helps Grandin figure out complex questions in which solving it normally would be impossible for her. Temple Grandin knows this is a way in which she can connect with people and animals.These quotes will help prove my thesis by showing that you do not need emotions to connect with humand or animals, you can find another way to connect with them. In Temple's case, she pictures herself as the cattle in order to get a better view and clearer understanding.

Research Paper Topic Freewrite

 The research topic idea im interested in purusing for my research paper is Research Paper Idea #4-Portraying Human Minds in Film. A lot of films where people have extraordinary minds and sometimes mental illnesses. Soem examples of movies where characters have illnesses are, Enduring Love which is about Obsessive love/stalking and A Beautiful Mind which is about paranoid schizophrenia.

ENG 101 Assignment #1 Brainstorming

          Temple Grandin's story had me more interested, so I'll be using the prompt on Temple Grandins story. I think i will be agreeing  with the quote that "Human beings do not really need emotions to connect with other human beings or animals or to behave morally with a sense of right or wrong." Grandin's story helps prove this quote. She didn't really need emotions to connect with humans or animals. Instead she just imagined herself as an animal and in that way she could understand how they felt when they were about to be slaughtered.

Blog Assignment #1- Introduce Yourself/ Are you a Science or Humanities Person?

                     It's officially been a week of experience as a college student here at LaGuardia. I guess I'll say I will be learning about Brains,Minds & Consciousness. I'm extremely satisfied to be placed in this cluster for the fact that I am certain I want to learn everything that has to do with this these particular topics in my future. Goals? Everyone has them. Before summer i actually wished to study Police Studies. I'm not sure if I want to become a police officer anymore. During the summer my sister made me read a Philosophy textbook she had. After reading that, i became very interested in Philosophy.
                I'd say I'm more of a humanities person. Reason for that? I can't really explain. I just don't really like the idea of a scientist figuring out everything using tools and stuff. What attracts me to the way a humanities person is the way they can think deeply and try to find answers instead of relying on tools to figure out things for them. According to Plato as said in the text 'The Philosophers Way' by John Chaffee, 'Most people do not experience genuine reality: Instead, they are restricted to seeing images created by others, designed to shape their minds and manipulate their thinking. In many cases, people passively accept the information they are given.' That's what i dont like, even though something might be proven true through science, it's better in my opinion to actually be thinking about it first and rousing questions. Bertrand Russel says something that I agree with. "As soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science". I feel like thats what science is. Something where you can answer right away because it's already been proven(definite knowledge)...I'd rather spend time doing some deep thinking :).
               Most people in the U.S. are scientific today. Most people rely on science to get the answer to their question. Everything to them should be scientifically proven, so that way they'll be satisfied. Where did the curiosity go?  If I heard something was scientifically proven I would still be curious as to why something is the way it is. From this cluster, I hope i can figure out what i want to do for my future, what i would like to learn. I'm hoping from this cluster I learn more new and exciting things like I had this summer.