Peacock: it has fractal in the shape of its feathers; they are self similar, symetric and very well organized.
Nature is made of fractals!! This video shows how, with beautiful fractal images.
domingo, 21 de marzo de 2010
martes, 9 de marzo de 2010
Monkey Drug Trials
The experiment was conducted in 1969 and it was meant to test that animals such as monkeys and rats would look for the injection by themselves of drugs such as morphine, alcohol, codeine, cocaine, and amphetamines, after being trained to do so. The experiment concluded that the animalswent crazy and some of them died.
It is very unethical because no one should treat animals in such a horrendous way and also
that t
his experiment could be tested in another more ethical ways. 
domingo, 7 de marzo de 2010
Perception
"Doubt is the key to knowledge”. To what extent is this true in Perception?
1.This Persian Proverb is in some way true when talking about perception. When we know something, we sometimes start doubting if it is true or not, we must have enough arguments and evidence in order to believe it, there is when perception comes into play. With our perception, we decide whether what we are arguing or acknowledging is completely true, how we associate the subject to our mind and then taking out our doubts according to that subject.
2. A cultural example could be in El Salvador. People there use to eat their national meal (Pupusas) with the hands. What happen if a foreigner comes into a restaurant and eats Pupusas with fork and knife; we would be seen differently. That person would start doubting about if what he is doing is correct or not, and when he ask someone from that country we would now know about that cultural custom.
3. One example from school can be in math class. If I didn't understand a problem the teacher was explaining it can be because maybe I was not mentally prepared to it. So I will start questioning myself how can I do that problem. Then is when I will finally ask the teacher to teach me one more time in order to know how to solve the problem.
4. In my personal life, one example could be when I'm driving my car and the traffic lights are not functioning. Another car may just continue his way, not stopping for caution and at the end nothing happen to him, I may start doubting whether just continue driving not stopping to see if other car is approching. There is where my doubt would teach me later that what the other car did was wrong, because that would be reckless driving.
domingo, 28 de febrero de 2010
Emotions
Happiness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yv_OZmMn2E
This video makes me feel very happy because its my favorite team (FC Barcelona) celebrating the league title in its stadium. Watching the players dancing, singing, the fireworks, and the cup in their hands make me feel extremely hap[y.
Sadness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41izUzo25u4
This video makes me feel very sad because one of my favorite animals, the tiger, is being mistreated. In general, there is a group of tigers that are chained and not treated as they are supposed to be. The tiger being focused on is being forced to move and grabbed with very rough ways. This makes me feel very bad, abusing animals, in this case the tigers.
Fear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-TkpvKPl0
This video makes me feel really nervous and scary. Since I have lived an earthquake and now how scary and terrifying it could be, and the video shown transmit to me a felling of fear because of all the people running and shouting and watching all the things moving. It is really scary for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yv_OZmMn2E
This video makes me feel very happy because its my favorite team (FC Barcelona) celebrating the league title in its stadium. Watching the players dancing, singing, the fireworks, and the cup in their hands make me feel extremely hap[y.
Sadness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41izUzo25u4
This video makes me feel very sad because one of my favorite animals, the tiger, is being mistreated. In general, there is a group of tigers that are chained and not treated as they are supposed to be. The tiger being focused on is being forced to move and grabbed with very rough ways. This makes me feel very bad, abusing animals, in this case the tigers.
Fear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-TkpvKPl0
This video makes me feel really nervous and scary. Since I have lived an earthquake and now how scary and terrifying it could be, and the video shown transmit to me a felling of fear because of all the people running and shouting and watching all the things moving. It is really scary for me.
domingo, 21 de febrero de 2010
TOK IB Assessment Blog
Topic: Discuss the role of language and reason in history
Support 1:
http://www.gmixer.com/uploaded_images/Language_Barrier_by_lynxie06-756677.jpg
In this abstract image a human is expelling through his mouth a series of visual figures. The interpretation that I have in relation with language and reason with history is that every person has a different perspective of the world and with the language you can transmit feelings and thoughts to society, and later on that society may interpretate it the way they perceive it. There is when history and the reason of society comes into play by acknowledging the ideas of someone through communication, in this case language. In the image, that person is giving ideas and thoughts in the different kind of geometric shapes that may be the language of that person, and then this type of language is transmitted to someone who would have to think and reason what this person is trying to say, and at the end they would have created a short story of what they thought, creating the basic form of history.
Support 2: 
The best example of the role of language and reason in history is the interpretation of the mayan language by humans. The mayan civilization had a cultural language that only they could understand. When they no longer existed, the modern humans discovered all this mayan hieroglyphic language and through reason they made a big discovery of the history of mayan civilization. So the mayan language was interpretated and analyzed by humans in order to have knwoledge of the mayan's history.
lunes, 8 de febrero de 2010
Historical Reasoning
The genocide is another historical event that was marked by an insignificant reason. Two extrimist armed groups were killing innocent people just by the fact that they were not part from his group. Both killed each other meaningless, just because they were opposing groups. At the end this caused international intervention cause this really wasn't necessary. The picture reveals an african group guarding hundreds of african skulls from the people killed.
These are some of the millions of jews that were ostracized and persecuted during the reign of Hitler. They were put into concentration camps where they starved to death of were burned aive. Hitler thought that the jews were an inferior race and also that they should all be exectued so that the world become a better place. This caused many countries to declare war against the nazis. This was an insignificant reason by the nazis to kill all jews they could find, just by thinking they were superior.
http://philosopherpoet.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/040708-0352-concentrati3.jpg0708-0352-concentrati3.jpg
Another important historical reasoning that caused a big impact was in El Salvador. During the civil war from 1981 to 1992, armed groups from the FMLN (political party) started coming against the government. In the picture, two armed men shooting against soldiers from the government. The so called "guerrilla", thought that by having armed power and putting themselves in government was going to be the only and unique way of having equal rights and democracy, but this was just an act of desesperation and caused the entire country to stop its develpment for all those years. At the end, the past year the FMLN came into power in a solid and fari democratic presidential elections.
jueves, 4 de febrero de 2010
Origin of my name
Meaning of Jose
Origin: Spanish
Meaning: The Spanish name Jose means - Derived from the Hebrew name Joseph, which means "he will multiply."
Meaning of Miguel
Origin: Spanish
Meaning: The Spanish name Miguel means - A form of the Hebrew name Michael, meaning "Who can compare to God." Miguel Asturias won a Nobel Prize for literature; Spain's greatest-ever cyclist, Miguel Indurain, won the Tour de France five times
Meaning of Orellana
Origin: Spanish
Meaning: Habitational name from either of two places in Badajoz province, probably so called from Latin villa Aureliana ‘estate of Aurelius’
Meaning of Barahona
Origin: Spanish
Meaning: Habitational name from a place in Soria province.
My dad's reason for choosing my name is the followin: "Jose" because I was born in April and April its the month of "San Jose" (Saint Joseph), and "Miguel" because he is called Miguel and his father is also called Miguel. After letting this know and according with my mom she agreed and both were decided that Jose Miguel should be my name.
Famous person
Jose Miguel Insulza. He is the general secretary of the Organization of American States. He is the most representable person of the organization and is also known as the president of it.
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