When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails. Very likely it seems. Cause when you are limited to a hammer there is nothing else you could do other than pounding stuff. That’s what Abraham Maslow noticed. The use of “only” indicates limitation in the access to the other tools and “resemble” shows how all the problems are perceived as the same (even though they maybe different from what they appear to be) due to this limitation. Looking at the general behavioral and impulsive problem solving methods of people, this quote seems valid. But in the TOK world the question that arises is that, to what extent do the wok’s, when used independently give us a reliable solution to the problems faced. In order to address this we would be looking at: perception and reason as tools in the pursuit of knowledge using the natural sciences and religion. Also, it would be interesting to look at how these TOK tools can have alternative uses; using the same tool with different techniques (i.e. AOK’s) and how sometimes the old tool needs to be swapped with a newer and efficient one apply to our knowledge issue. The world that we live in is a very complicated one. There are many things happening at any given time as a result of which we are constantly exposed to the problems in our surroundings. Not every one of us is able to cope with such a varied stimuli of problems or have the patience to deal with the problems individually using different “tools” for each
Problems are apart of life, you cannot avoid them. You will face a different problem everyday, and how you react to your problems will separate you from others. We all learn how to deal with our problems in our own way. If you learn how to cope with your emotions, it will help you significantly with dealing with your problems. You should always keep your problems in perspective, they could be much worse. Just because your boyfriend/girlfriend breaks up with you does not make it the end of the world, you’re still living in a nice home, breathing, and healthy; Some people would die just to have a life like that. Problems are all around us, you live and you learn. Helping others can help solve your problems, by keeping yours in perspective.
Living in a wetico infested culture and being brought up in our day in age is sickening because we teach our young from a young age that you must have money and power and be rich in the future in order to be successful in life, which is not true. In my opinion in order to be successful you must do what you love one life and be happy and live life to the fullest. Our own wars and personal suffering comes from our own wants instead of our needs and this is grown and festered within us from the time were born for wanting more and more and more and beeing greedy once people understand and know this it will be a relief and a blessing for them for they will live a better life. The next problem that people must know about is that in our human nature competition is not natural and in reality we are programmed to love one and other. Since our birth we are told that we must be the best the alpha the leader of the pack but all this is a lie because it will not give you true bliss and happiness. The mirror neurone in other animals is now found within us as when we are around people who are happy and loving it will make us happy and loving as well that is true human nature, that also goes for the opposite when you are around angry people you become stupid and blind. In the end people need to truly see and learn about these things so we can make the world clear and better and help them live better
Many people are clues about the horrific thing that are going on in the world such as genocide more than 6 men, women and children are being murdered every minute of every hour of every day.
Q1A) In what ways does the biological constitution of a living organism determine, influence or limit its sense perception?
The first reason I feel the way I do on this topic is because there are a lot of things happening, and some of those things are happening because we have so much stuff provided to us that we don’t really think on how it affects others.
1. What are some of the changes we must make in our education system to expand the classroom walls?
The world is a strange place. People complain about others not taking charge but in reality they do not even make an effort to make change. Instead of caring for “things on which our very existence depends (ch1-3),” people would rather focus on terrorist attacks across the world and events that are eye-catching, not events that are taking place in their own backyards. Every day on television one hears of murders, robberies, and other tragic. When one hears of these tragic events they blink an eye as if they are normal. No one takes the precaution of preventing a break in, a disease, a school shooting, and the list goes on. If people started caring and taking more precaution, the world might make great progress instead of taking steps backwards.“If
Us, humans, are supposed to be there for eachother. If we see something happening that is bad and that we can stop without nothing happening, it shouldn’t be a problem to solve it. But this society, is very different. We need to realize that we live in a world with people who are very selfish so we shouldn’t based on an idea if everyone is not with
One could agree that it’s much easier to run away from an individual's problems rather than facing them. But facing problems head on and working through them allows you to grow and makes an individual stronger in the long run.
Family seems to be a theme that is heavily etched throughout the story. Sanders provides a symbolism in "The Inheritance Of Tools" that shows how important parents are when influencing their children. We see that the physical tools that are passed along from generation to generation, that there is also an underlying theme that these tools represent. Patience, care, hard work, and a loving attitude were abstract tools that each man possessed and were ever so willing to share through the lessons of carpentry. Perhaps this display was shown clearly when Sanders was willing to destroy a handsome wall as he put it, to rescue his daughters gerbils.
A lot of times, people will have issues, but we are good at fixing symptom but we really don’t get to the core of what the problems are and we put a Band-Aid on it not realizing that the issues still exist. Until we are willing to address issues head on, they will continue to exist.
Coping plays a significant role in our lives as the people and the environment surrounding us are constantly
how our society is, we have to work together as an human race and make change.
We live in a strange and puzzling world. Despite the exponential growth of knowledge in the past century, we are faced by a baffling multitude of conflicting ideas. The mass of conflicting ideas causes the replacement of knowledge, as one that was previously believed to be true gets replace by new idea. This is accelerated by the rapid development of technology to allow new investigations into knowledge within the areas of human and natural sciences. Knowledge in the human sciences has been replaced for decades as new discoveries by the increased study of humans, and travel has caused the discarding of a vast array of theories. The development of
All over the world, there is a cry, a cry for leadership, a cry for survival, a cry for justice, a cry for love. Furthermore, every community in the world is in need of something, whether it’s basic needs like food and shelter, or if it’s something deeper than simply physical existence. Surprisingly, even well-off communities suffer as people waste their lives away in selfishness and pleasure, only to discover that it only leaves a gaping hole in their heart. Our technological world today is more connected than ever before, but there’s little trust or genuine care. Sadly, the essential humanness which connects and defines us is slowly