This artifact represents the gift of happiness. It shows how the train, the well, the water and the idea of Christmas all interrelate to form this one structure which is the gift that one had of feeling joy. Our smiling faces show happiness.
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Descartes philosophy was that you cannot truth your 5 senses because the outcome of your 5 senses are sometimes incorrect. However, according to Descartes, the fact that you are thinking is an irrefutable truth. The image shows a person thinking about what they are seeing, a cloud. However, what the person actually sees with their eyes is rather different than what the person is thinking that they saw. When you see an object, another person might be see the same object as you as something different than what you see, this is the same with hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. This is why Descartes strongly believed that you should not truth your senses.
Our abstract art represents Influence. As you can see, there are many colors. The dark blue outlined with dark black represents the bad influences while the light green and the pink colors represent the good influences. As you may notice the two colors are blending together as a way to show how bad influences and good influences fight one another. The moon shape thingy represents our own beliefs and how they impact our lives, our lives being the big colorful circles. On the left you can see the big blob of light pink and yellow, which represent our thoughts how they are always "next to us" as in thoughts are constantly coming at us. In my perspective, this quote implies to be false. I know that when Descartes said this quote he was questioning his existence and came to the conclusion that because he had the ability to think, he therefore must exist. I know that when people think that they are a certain way in reality it turns out to be the complete opposite, therefore the quote implies to be incorrect. However I also know from past experience that when people think they are not something they turn out to prove themselves wrong. An example would be when a person doesn't think that they are "smart" it turns out to be that they are smart but they didn't believe so because of other reasons that don't include self intelligence. I believe that the quote is untrue. Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset Due to psychological and systematic research over time, many contributions have been made over the ideas of a fixed and a growth mindset. The idea that some people were just born with a natural ability, a fixed mindset, has been around for a while now and many of these ideas have adapted towards others over time. In an animated video titled Growth Mindset Animation by Cameron Lisney and John Rankin-McCabe it shows how the hare was so convinced that he would win the race for his “natural ability”; therefore he didn’t put any effort in. However the tortoise put so much effort in and was so determined even while knowing that he wasn’t as fast as the hare he still kept moving forward resulting in the tortoise to win the race. This gives us a great representation on how the growth and fixed mindsets are different and how the outcome turns out to be when you show no effort towards something because of how you set out to see things vs when you put effort no matter how long it’ll take you to reach your goal. As this new idea of a growth mindset keeps spreading onto more people, others find this as a way of changing their way of thinking, which affects the way that they live their lives. How I see it, before my generation, more people believed that they could be anything they wanted to be, but as the internet became more and more popular, people started doubting their capability and it started affecting their way of thinking. Many people that have a Fixed Mindset who try to achieve for a goal end up giving up once they are faced with a difficult challenge because they are afraid of failure. People with a Growth Mindset who want to achieve a goal, see failure as a way to learn from their mistakes. Children now are stuck with the idea that if they solve one problem wrong they are not good at that subject and they feel dumb so they give up. Another reason for this is when the kids who get an answer correctly or they do something right they get prized and the other kids who got it wrong start giving up because they aren’t as good as those kids. In Carol Dweck´s speech she says,¨We recently teamed up with game scientists from the University of Washington to create a new online math game that rewarded yet. In this game, students were rewarded for effort, strategy, and progress. The usual math game rewards you for getting answers right right now, but this game rewarded process. And we got more effort, more strategies, more engagement over longer periods of time, and more perseverance when they hit really, really hard problems.¨ Rewarding those kids that do well causes the other kids who didn’t do so well to give up or doubt their intelligence and their capability. Many teachers add to this type of thinking by not making sure that their students know that it’s okay to fail here and there. The mindset theory made lots of contributions in the way we see why people do certain things. Some people believe that basic qualities & traits are inherited and instead of working on improving themselves they just believe that they were born with a certain talent. This affects on how much effort they put into the things that they do. Studies have shown that the mindset that you have now affects how successful you become in the future, that is why it is important that you start having a good mindset at a young age. For our visual presentation, we decided on creating a poster board with two heads, one being the person with the growth mindset, and the other with the fixed. To represent the growth mindset, we are using the left head. In there is a vibrant brain, with a plant that keeps growing. I think this represents a growth mindset because like a plant, with having a growth mindset, you strive to learn which expands and grows your brain. To represent the fixed mindset, we are using the left head. In there is a dull brain trapped in a cage. When I think of a fixed mindset, I envision this because your brain is locked in a cage where it has stopped growing and is trapped. "I think therefore I am""I think therefore I am" is Rene Descartes quote that proved everybody's doubt in existence. According to Descartes, he claims that if you are thinking about whether you truly exist or not then you do exist because you have the power to think thus proving your existence. Descartes philosophy helped many people who doubted their existence to know that they truly exist. Descartes philosophy was based off epistemology which is the study of knowledge. The proccess of which one thinks about something is an irrefutable truth.
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