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Brittany Russell

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 Brittany Russell

 

 

[Brittany+Russell's+"Who+am+I"|who am i]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability

 

To me sustainability comes across as an eternal state of mind. It seems to me that the meaning of this word is for example, when a person is in a certain state of mind for a long period of time, hence the prefix, sustain. It appears to mean manageable or maintainable.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community

 

I chose this communtiy link because it was the first link that I saw. It is a positive word. I like positivity. I am an optimistic person.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisms

 

I love animals and when I think organisms I think animals. Why? I don't know. But it kindof reminds me of plankton in the sea.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organs

 

Organs!!!!! Gross. I am not an organ donor, I don't believe I should be, bcause when a heart transplant patient is in the room next to me and I have at least a 25% chance to live they plan to take my heart. NO EFFING WAY!!!!! Well, so rumor has it, that that is what they'll do.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language

 

I picked this word because I really want to be in a sorority ans USF St. Petersburg doesn't have GREEK life. This word made me sad!!!!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell

 

In this article there should be an exert about how human beings can give plasma, such as giving blood. But taking plasma consist of removing the blood from your body in order to retrieve the white blood cells. Without putting the blood back into the body. There should be information on how it can make you weak for a few hours after. It should explain why you have and need white blood cells. It should give information on what can damage white blood cells. White blood cells are important to the human body, this article fails to explain the importance of our white blood cells. It's non informative, it shares very little information about the dangers of losng or even killing your white blood cells. This article should let readers know that our white blood cells are a defense mechanism. Aides reduces white blood cells. White blood cells are also known as T cells. It doesn't provide the simple information as to why they are white blood cells other than the obvious part of the name.

 

My Essay, Topic: Abortion

http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/Brittany%27s+Essay?SearchFor=Brittany%27s+essay&sp=1

 

My Portfolio

http://sustainableidentities.pbwiki.com/Brittany%27s-porfolio

 

 

 

Brittany's Midterm Reflection

 

 

 

 

 

My Causal Argument: The Importance of Voting

 

Voting should be important to every american citizen, as well as for every american citizen.

You don't vote, you have no reason to complain about what may or may not happen

to our society, economy, or even with our civil rights. Why wouldn't an american citizen

want to vote? It gives you the oppurtunity to be involved and matter in the grand

scale of things. I believe it's our duty as citizens to go out and vote for who we

feel might be the most worthy candidate. You're vote really does make a difference.

The government is our government, they have control over so many things that

we wish they didn't, you're chance to agree or disagree and to show whether you agree

or disagree is to head on down to your precinct and vote for your president and your

representatives. Theres kind of a flip side to that because I don't agree with voting

uninformed or even because another close to you wants a certain candidate to win. If

you do choose to vote, educate yourself, familiarize yourself with the candidates, so you're

aware of the likes, dislikes, certain bills passed, and the rights you will have and might not have.

We're in war right now, everyone has their opinion of this war. Learn each candidates exit strategy,

learn their plans for our economy. Be informed if you choose to vote. People always have things to

say to a group, class, or even a debate team about what they think about the presidential candidates

but will turn right back around and say they are not voting this election. Your voice might have been

heard to your group of people but i surely didn't count. If you want to be heard and you want to

talk about our government with pride or without, then go place your ballot. If you don't place a

ballot on election day, that gives you absolutely no right to speak up about our government.

So if you really do want to make a difference, go out and VOTE!

 

First sentence repeats itself. The paper is slightly repetative but I agree with your ideals. It is a little short and you could add more detail because it feels like you are preaching. If that was your goal, its great. It is a good idea with the voting that just happened. I like it, shine and polish it and it will be a well done paper. -Zach

 

Final Project!!!

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Brittany,

 

Should we work from this page? Let me know what I can do to help.

ShareRiff

 

 FINAL PROJECT!!! 

Brittany Russell
December 4, 2009
Dr. Trey Conner
Appearance or Reality—Can We Dig It?
            Most humans develop through their stages of life with five senses that pertain to expanding ones knowledge of surrounding events. These senses give the holder a naturally accepted view to the appearance of such surrounding events. But is reality that much different from our perceived notions that are deducted from our senses—senses which will soon be deemed to yield a blinding appearance? To begin to answer this question one must break a new barrier and search outside the natural and set paradigms of our accepted realities. Three such philosophers took this approach in the effort to try and differentiate between the power of appearance and the essence of reality. The prestigious philosophers all have their individual ideas and reflections about the correlation of appearance and reality; John Locke, Rene Descartes, and Bertrand Russell all develop their own reality of this topic in a very conspicuous yet convincing way.
            The necessary tool needed to undertake this investigation of human understanding begins with the definition of appearance and reality; simply and austerely put, Bertrand Russell suggests the definition “…the distinction between 'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and what they are.”Locke developed a hypothesis about the instillation of idea within us—“All ideas come from sensation or reflection….Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself.” (Locke). Locke is insistent upon the idea that humans begin life with what can be analogized to a blank slate, in the sense that none of human comprehension is apparent at birth, but rather it is accumulated through sensation and reflection—otherwise known as experience. The cooperation of sensation and reflection begin with our senses conveying knowledge to our minds and the knowledge is reflected upon, thereby initiating another set of ideas. Without the presence of sensation and reflection, a true understanding cannot commence. Rene Descartes created his ideals on the same guidelines that Locke had established with his idea of understanding, and Descartes deemed it necessary (if he wanted to delve deeper into this idea), that what he has come to experience and understand throughout his lifetime, need be eradicated to form a more judicial ground of study for this sort of experiment. His “manifestly false” perceived ideas came from senses and he adopted the idea that senses cannot be indubitable trusted;
“All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes misled us; and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived” (Descartes).
The thought parallels to Socrates suggestion that people view reality (in a metaphorical sense) as shadows on the wall of a cave, and the truth of reality is beyond their reach because reality is the sun at the top of the cave reflecting the shadows upon the wall of the cave, but nonetheless unsighted by the bystanders in the cave. Our senses infer that the reflections on the wall (although it may look like a human body moving about) may not actually be what they appear, and it is at this point that our appearance can deter us away from the truth of reality. That is Socrates’ perceived view on human understanding, and it is this idea that transforms Descartes testing into one that cannot begin without the subtraction of preset notions provided and accumulated through his senses. Although, Descartes does feel some things are upon the point of disbelief—such as the idea that he is a man and the objects around him as well as his actions are beyond doubt. Yet he continues to state that if the accruement of his experiences he tended to perceive as reality are, in fact, be an elaborate dream (as dreaming is common in people) then it would result in the contradiction of his “beyond doubtable” truths. Discernable truths are a reality in themselves though, shown by the continuance of the Descartes Meditation;
“Nevertheless it must be admitted at least that the objects which appear to us in sleep are, as it were, painted representations which could not have been formed unless in the likeness of realities; and, therefore, that those general objects, at all events, namely, eyes, a head, hands, and an entire body, are not simply imaginary, but really existent.” (Descartes).
The corporeal sense of reality appears, and is deemed, as actually existent. This idea seems to lack continuity, but it is still one fundamental idea of reality. There is still hope that human understanding can contain a certainty (regardless of all the faulty certainties we thought we knew) through “general objects”.
“Arithmetic, Geometry, and the other sciences of the same class, which regard merely the simplest and most general objects, and scarcely inquire whether or not these are really existent, contain somewhat that is certain and indubitable.” (Descartes). The application of mathematical processes developed by humans looks as if a common ground of truth can be established in at least one form. It appears that Descartes has answered Bertrand Russell’s opening question from his Appearance vs. Reality inquisition—“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?” (Russell).  
Russell tries to establish another (more paradoxical) idea for discovering a concrete truth. Russell speaks about the Philonous and Hylas argument in which Philonous debates Hylas on whether matter is actually existent or not, and in this reference to Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, Russell manages to show that the power of debating against a seemingly concrete truth that is “capable of being denied without absurdity” instills an array of questioning concerning concrete truths. Debating whether matter exists is no easy task, and this accomplishment by Philonous looks as if it abruptly defies Descartes belief that math (or science and matter) is a truth, because how is it possible to escape a paradigm to try and prove such a thing—and then do it so well? Russell goes on to state, “Such an idea has the required permanence and independence of ourselves, without being -- as matter would otherwise be -- something quite unknowable, in the sense that we can only infer it, and can never be directly and immediately aware of it.”, and this continues to, further than the extent Locke and Russell suggest, impress upon the idea that senses cannot be trusted; for if such a thing as the existence of matter can be questioned, how can we even base the intake from our senses as valid resources to interpret reality? Is matter something that is simply an inference to us, something that may be seen in a different light by any given spectator?
The extent of human understanding continues to take a staggering course to an inconceivable place of such high doubt regarding how much we understand…. and how much we are capable of understanding. With the continuation of finding areas in which our senses prove to be inadequate or unreliable, it seems that our intake of sensation (reflection) could only become less dependable. If our knowledge is based off the interpretation of such a defective tool, then our one and only resource we have at hand is ineffective in providing us any sort of understanding—or at least beyond any understanding than what we already know. It seems the only course left to take in a search for human understanding is escaping the paradigm that believes our one resource is in essence ineffective, and then continuing to find a way to increase our comprehension and understanding in a form not so skeptical. In more simple words, we need to determine the course of action Socrates took to release himself from the captivity of the cave of false realities, and follow directly in his footsteps to see true reality and develop our capability of understanding from that point. In this way, maybe a true understanding of knowledge and other pertaining factors can be attainable.

 

 

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