Presentation

I thought that the presentation went well. I got some ideas and someone mentioned the myth busters episode. After doing some research on the episode I found out that it was given a "plausible." I figure this is good because that means I could argue the overall idea that our physical and verbal language actually affects those around us. The results stated that they could not confirm that it was true based on their results. Other than that presenting also helped me grab a little more of a foothold in my idea. It was just an idea I was spitting around after I gave up on the politician approach and people seemed to like it and helped me grind out some details of what to argue and that for sure gave me more of a comfortable feeling with my question. Overall I think my idea is more refined now and it should be a lot easier to find more research now that I like the direction my project is going.

Research so far:

http://www.ted.com/conversations/6244/what_is_the_difference_between_6.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/12909/how_do_you_manipulate_yourself.html

"Focusing more on situations most people are familiar with."
- Positive/negative thinking because expected negative/positive outcome.
- Shifting someone's opinion/emotions because of emotional expression.
- Sneezing and biological manipulation.

This I Think

Thoughts on writing.

QUOTE: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago everybody knew the earth was flat, and fifteen you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

This quote from Men In Black is a very powerful one to me personally. One of the biggest downfalls of human kind is our belief that we know everything. Many hold dear facts of science and law under the assumption that they are absolute truths because they are told so. The truth is that we can't know everything and things we knew yesterday might be undeveloped thinking 20 years from now. We must always be willing to adapt to new knowledge and peoples closed off ideas that facts are never wrong holds us back. That is what this quote means to me; we are not perfect and we cannot know it all. The writer of the scene uses the word "know" many times in order to beat it into our head. Tommy Lee Jones even draws out the "knows" when he says them in order to really drive the point home. They do this because the point is that we don't know. We use the word "know" in place of the word "assume" because most people don't have and don't want to have the capacity to think beyond our hollow truths.