Saturday, June 11, 2011

Female genital mutilation..... ETHICS.


“Female genital mutilation is immoral because it inflicts pain or girls and removes potential for pleasure”

Even though cultures are thought to have to be respected hundred percent, there is no way one can accept and see as moral to make a “partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons”. It is a brutal act to a human being no matter its culture, nationality, age or sex. We, as humans, are naturally empathetic and so it is impossible for us to see this act as something normal, sane or fair.  Therefore, it is seen as immoral. The idea that stands up the most is the fact that a woman, as well as any other living organism, owns its own body.

The main immoral fact of female genital mutilation is the lack of consent of the girls who get it done. It is almost, practically always, the decision of someone else. Plus, this procedure is not safe most of the time and has long term consequences. Every woman in the world should have the right to decide what to do with their body, whether there are Asian, African, American or European. No one else should have the power to inflict such pain to a girl against her will, plus taking away a potential pleasure if they wished. It is immoral for one to have the power on someone else´s body, no matter the social, economic or cultural baggage.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

History paragraph

'The study of history is so important that it should be a compulsory IB subject.'  To what extent do you think this is true?

The importance of things  is absolutely relative to each person. Personally, I believe that history should not be a compulory IB subject because it means giving priority to one subject over another that is not mandatory either, such as phsyical education, art or geography. I dont believe that history is not important at all, however, I think it is something that can be taught in hand with other subjects. For example, in A1 and A2, history is taught when it is relevant to the subject, which is constantly. Geography also studies a lot of concepts or conseuences, both physical and social, which many of them are due to historical events. Therefore, the main ideas of the historical event is taught or discussed. I do agree in the fact that it is important to know sometimes the past for not making the same mitakes. However, the same history has shown that the most powerful people in the world are the last ones to look back and reconsider certain ideas. In my opinion, it is better to make other subjects compulory to the IB, such as PE, art and geography. The first two because they are very healthy four your body and mind and geography becasue it teaches you about the past, present and future in topics of human and global importance. It makes you a more conscious person in the moment you live, the present, where you can change things and make a difference, where as in history you cant do anything else apart from changing it for future generations.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

To what extent does emotion affect your point of view?


Generally, we can see how different factors affect our sense perception and therefore affect everything in our daily lives. It is determinate even to the decisions we take, no matter the subject or the magnitude of importance for us or everyone else.  If we think about emotions, it is sometimes difficult to define them, in other words it is hard for us even to see the difference between  to  what extent is something having only an emotional approach and when only a reasonable one. This happens a lot due to the interception of these two ways of knowing in many occasions. 

So, if we think about just emotion, how could it be defined? Yes, it is hard to find a specific definition for it but, why? It is right here where sense perception starts being affected on what we think something is a way or another. For example, in the simple definition of emotion, there could be millions of people thinking completely different ways to define it. Most of the time, it is also this decision linked to our personality and our character; in general to the way every single person is. Meaning being a very emotionally lead person would probably end up giving a definition that within it shows much more the importance of emotion in our lives. For example, this person could say that emotion is the union of feelings that we can get due to a circumstance that will most probably end up determining the way you react to it. Maybe, another  person that is commonly affected by emotion could say that emotion is the natural way that every single human being should feel when you go through different moments in your life, whether it is love, fear or happiness within all the other emotions. On the other hand, there could be people that are most of the time very calm when it gets to reacting to something or that do not get affected us much by emotion. This people could define emotion as: an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, etc, is experienced. We could also meet a very scientific person which due to the way he things and the ideas he has to be researching all day long would end up answering that emotion is a strong feeling state, arising subjectively and directed toward a specific object, with physiological, somatic, and behavioral components.

As different circumstances occur all of these people, which are just four examples of the many that could exist, they will as well most probably react to them differently and in the same paralleled way. Whether it is an action that has to be taken or just a natural point of view that has to be given, people will most certainly react following the same idea of what emotion is. So, for example, portraying a situation where one family member of these four people has just been diagnosed a terminal sickness. Even if all of them were shocked at the beginning, throughout some time, they would most certainly see the situation differently depending on the emotional impact each of them had after receiving the news. The most emotional people would probably see it as a tragedy and would cry and say it is one of the worst things. They could even get into a strong depression and will stop their daily life routine, since they are so affected. On the other hand, the two other people even though they were affected by the news, once the shocking emotion passed, they would see it in a more realistic, less emotional point of view. These people would then express themselves as to think that it is a natural thing to happen, that it is the cycle of life, and that one way or another, the situation has to be confronted and therefore, there is no point in crying or making the problem bigger than it is. 

In conclusion, it is clear that emotion affects our point of view towards basically everything in our lives, even if we do not notice it. As simple as defining emotion it can change from one person to another, depending on the personality, character, culture and context, among other factors. Defining emotion depends on the point of view of its meaning and this same point of view is depending on the natural emotional factor of human beings.

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

To what extent does emotion affect our sense perception?

Define: sense perception
           emotion

           

Explain their relationship, meaning the three(or more factors) affect a certain decision or point of view at the same time.


daily life examples.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Creative Knowledge Issue

Level
Given that it is mandatory for most of the countries, the process of schooling, to what extent does it determine whether or not someone is a reasonable and intellectual person?
Good
Should school be a mandatory process for children?
Intermediate
What is the importance of schooling process in children?
Poor
Why should children go to school?
Not a KI
When do children go to school?
Real life
Children go to school

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Level
Examples


Good
To what extent can wearing jeans at school be favorable or damageable to the philosophy of the school?
To what extent do paranormal claims affect our way of living?
To what extent are the effects of swine flu really affecting our society as a whole more than personal?
Intermediate
Which are the cons and pros to wearing jeans and why?
Should we believe paranormal claims?
What is the importance of controlling the epidemic swine flu?
Poor
Why do students want to wear jeans at school?
Does the paranormal exist?
Is swine flu likely to kill millions?
Not a Knowledge Issue
Wearing jeans in school
What is the sixth sense
What do we mean by epidemic?
Real life
An interview with Miss Anne
A film on haunting
A new report on a new swine flu