Based on what I learned in class and now that I have presented there are minor changes that were made on my part. The color blue where it says " The love within is portrayed in different ways" was changed to the color yellow , since the background is black. This made it easier for the color to be seen and my personal quote to be read. Also, playing around with where the words where was another change because of the fact that on my first slide it seemed like there was a lot of empty space, which attracted people more to that space than to the words on the actual slide. Last, the fact that the words had effects to them made it seem unprofessional. (For this the one with the changes is
This is my updated keynote. Before i had too many pictures spaced out along with many words. I felt as though the pictures were a huge distraction, so i decided to make a collage.
Why changed my slides? My first slide was more words and less me. I didn't to bore people with words so I made my slide so it can just get to the main point. In the old slide I tried to balance out my slide using from what presentation Zen said. In my new slide I used ideas from presentation Zen to made it simple trying to make 1 point. I changed the background to make my images and text to stand out more. I spread out all my information so it wouldn't be so crowded.
Reciprocal
altruism is described as when one animal acts for the benefit of another animal
and in doing so decreases its own fitness. It is in an organism’s best interest
to behave altruistically, because that increases the chances of an organism
returning the favor – thus enhancing its chances to pass on it’s genes. This is
true in organisms, from humans to vampire bats. Most social organism can
benefit from behaving altruistically.
It is the
foundation of evolution that organisms have the need to pass on its genes. Without
it, we would all go extinct. Friends don’t keep providing favors to another
friend, if the other friend never reciprocates, businesses stop providing
services to another business if that business is about go to bankrupt. It’s
human nature to do what’s in the best interest for you.
Vampire
bats also provide an excellent example of altruism amongst organisms. Vampire
bats require blood meals every night. Due to the nature of their diet, they
begin to deteriorate after merely two days of missing a meal. regularly
regurgitate blood and donate it to other members of their group who have failed
to feed that night, ensuring they do not starve.
The
cliché “nice guys finish last” has been disproven throughout the years. By
behaving altruistically, an organism reduces the number of offspring it is
likely to produce itself, but boosts the number that other organisms are likely
to produce. So why would an organism behave in such a manner? The reason for
this behavior is because in the future the giving animal expects to be able to
receive that same service in its own time of need.
Citations
Axelrod,
R. and Hamilton, W. D., 1981, ‘The Evolution of Cooperation’, Science, 211:
1390-96
"Biological
Altruism." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2003. Web.
Mesterton-Gibbons, M. a. L. A. D.
(1992). "Cooperation Among Unrelated Individuals: Evolutionary
Factors." Quarterly Review of Biology 67(3): 267-281.
Over the years writing has been a tool people would
use to communicate with others. Where did writing come from and how does it
have an effect on humans now. It started from roman numerals, which were carved
in stone they were backwards and interpreted in this way to many who wrote it. [1].
Over time had passed the writing got thicker and started to look very script.
By the 5th century there were capitals, this was a different
direction from where it started and added a different style to writing. [2]
During the writing, pictures started to form. They
began from the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Many other religions had their own ways
of writing and eventually this later led to Cuniform, Chinese pictograms and
also Mayan glyphs. [3] People could communicate in their own writing. The only
pondering thought left is how was the writing for communication revolutionized
over time? The answer might be
that over the years writing is changed in put into different arrangements
because it revolutionizes itself. The process of writing is still going on and
who knows when it will end. Writing is a form of evolution. [4]
Think
81 years ago, on the island of Bathurst off the coast of Australia Indigenous
Australians hunting and gathering, daily struggling to survive.As a child you a born into poverty,
famine, and danger, dealing with animals and an environment that could take
your life.In your first few
years, all you know is your family, your mother, who birthed you, your father
who protects you, and your elders who support you, who else would know better
how to survive.Underneath these
selection pressures, children who would not obey, would die, so obedience as a
trait survived.
Other
hostile environments in different areas instill obedience to a degree of
loyalty, trust and brotherhood.In
war torn areas children are recruited from young to join rebel militia.They pillage through villages stealing
people’s children, killing children who seize to obey.Obedience is pounded into their mind
from young, and if that trait does not sustain, eventually the child will be
killed.
Even
as adults in a modern society obedience to authority prospers.When you disobey the law, you go to
jail, loose connections with the world, and are unable to procreate with the
opposite sex.Adults, who don’t
obey the “rules” loose their job, loose their house and suffer fines and
penalties, which are unpleasant.
Future Questions?
If the government becomes
lenient with there laws will that create more disobedient children?
Does being disobedient or
rebellious make you more attractable?
Citations
Dahlman,
Christian. "The Difference between Obedience Assumed and Obedience
Accepted." Ratio Juris22.2
(2009): 187-196. Advanced Placement
Source. EBSCO. Web. 12 Nov. 2010.
Passini,
Stefano, and Davide Morselli. "The obedience–disobedience dynamic and the
role of responsibility." Journal
of Community & Applied Social Psychology 20.1 (2010): 1-14. Advanced Placement Source. EBSCO. Web.
12 Nov. 2010.
Walcott, Damon
Muir, Pat Cerundolo, and James C. Beck. "Current analysis of the Tarasoff
duty: an evolution towards the limitation of the duty to protect." Behavioral Sciences & the Law 19.3
(2001): 325-343. Advanced Placement
Source. EBSCO. Web. 12 Nov. 2010.
I changed my slide because there were too many words on it. I needed to make it simpler, so I did. On the new slide, I took what I thought was the best line from the old slide. Then, I put my name in white to contrast from the red and black theme. Also, I made the words bigger to pop out.
The reason why I had to changed my slide is because i had to many pictures and words. But with the new slide it uses a new element but it has the same mine set that it is simply easy to understand stand.
I didn't make many changes because my original incorporated a lot of important artistic elements, and the idea of making the viewer "look left" to inspire their action and a large "REMEMBER THIS" sign would help the viewer remember it. The changes that I did make was to get rid of the "Me" text at the top, because it distracted from the slide itself. I also removed both exclamation points from the other two text boxes, as they weren't necessary. I also made "REMEMBER THIS" larger, and added a color shadow to make it pop out more. I kept the top two pictures because they have a nice contrast to each other, and to the background. I also changed the length and space between the letters of "LOOK LEFT."
The evolutionary paths concerning
vegetarianism seem to be less a matter of biology as they are an issue of
cultural ideals.Physically,
humans have the internal organs, systems and other mechanisms for meat
consumption.However, it has
become a growing trend in society to opt out.Some people today choose not to eat meat because they are
morally against mass-market animal slaughter.Others do it because it goes against religious values or
simply because they believe it to be a healthier life choice.However, it’s hard to go back and
pinpoint one specific turning point that “began” vegetarianism.
Back
in the day (talking thousands of years,) people got sustenance through “hunting
and gathering.”This required a
fairly nomadic lifestyle, traveling around to wherever the food source
went.By this process, early man
spread across the continents.The
food that was eaten was not always about choice, but more about availability.If meat was scarce, then less was
eaten.However, it is unlikely
that people lived a fully vegetarian lifestyle.
Many
scientific researchers agree that humanity would not have developed as it did
without a meat-laden diet.According to N. A. Barnicot, “It is virtually certain that diet, as a major component of the
human environment, must have exerted evolutionary effects, but researchers
still have little good evidence.”Meat and animal products do contain vital proteins and nutrients humans
need, especially fats for brain growth.Many believe that this is the primary reason our brains grew to what
they are today.Scientists have
additionally stated that our teeth would not have formed the way they are if
humans were not meant to tear through meat.
Though it is disputed that animal-product nutrients can be found
elsewhere, meat is often the “best” source.According to Dr. Stephen Byrnes, “Vegetarianism and veganism are neither natural nor healthy
diets…and it is not primarily meat-eating which is responsible for
the spread of cancers and heart disease.” There is cause for concern with
vegans, who are often malnourished in essential vitamins and minerals such as
B12 and iron.People need these to
survive and develop, and it is usually not recommended for children to be
vegan.Some argue that the same
goes for vegetarianism.
Whether
or not someone believes vegetarianism is the right step, the idea developed in
society as a choice.Once people
learned how to farm and grow their own food, they had more options.As agriculture grew, so did population
size, and with it religion.Today,
vegetarianism is still highly connected with religious values, especially in
Buddhism, Jainism and devout Hinduism. According to Daniel Lazare, “Vegetarianism is most
fundamentally about the importance of not taking life other than under the most
extreme circumstances.”
This
is not to say someone can’t be a perfectly healthy vegetarian.In fact, Einstein said, "Nothing will benefit human health and increase
chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian
diet."I just wouldn’t choose it for
myself.The convenience of
modern supplements has made it easier to make the switch in a healthier fashion.However I’d argue that if there
suddenly were no more animal products, humanity would be weakened.Even if I’m wrong and it isn’t
evolutionarily disadvantageous to not eat meat, I don’t think it’s advantageous
either.
Human Eye The most commonly used argument against Darwinism and for
Intelligent Design is the human eye and it’s complexity. How did the human eye evolve? How does this change the strength of
the argument of Intelligent Design as a scientific theory?
There are currently two competing theories as to how life on Earth came about,
Darwinism, evolution and natural selection, and Intelligent Design,
some great architect creating life. The most promising evidence for
Intelligent Design had been the human eye and the argument that the
independent pieces (the retina, lens…) had to have come about all at
once for organisms to see. However, scientists have a theory as to how
the eye evolved, creating a disturbance in the most prominent argument
of Intelligent Design. Diagram of Evolution of the Human Eye
Here’s the theory for the evolution of the eye: the
original “eye” was a collection of cells on the skin (that curved
inward like an eye socket) that helped organisms to “see” light,
helping it to “see” if any other organism was in that direction because
of the break in the light that
the organism saw. Eventually the amount of light that the cells could
detect was narrowed to give organisms better direction. And from this
the cells became a retina, which helped the organism see even more
clearly. Finally, the eye grew a lens that helped the organism to see
even more clearly. We can even see these different stages of eye
development in living species today.
And so, due to evidence of the evolution of the human eye, Intelligent Design loses its most promising argument. If there had been any disagreements as to whether Intelligent Design was a scientific theory, we now see that by ripping apart it's best argument it leaves us with a new term for creationism.
This
is the question that has been bothering me for the past month.If the theory of evolution is so
troublesome to the school district, why aren’t greek myths?Is it not true that both Greek myths
and the theory of evolution deal with the theme of how life was created? Could
they both not potentially influence student views on creation? What makes them so different?
After
much research, I have discovered that a myth can be apart of a theory. Myths
are stories that are created as an explanation for why certain things
exist.These tales date back to
the early history of people.A
theory can be used to explain why myths exist all over the world.There is actually a theory known as “The
Jesus Myth Theory” that poses the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a
historical person, but a fictional character or mythological archetype created
by early Christians.The idea that
Jesus was not real but was a fictitious figure is apart of a larger theory that
explains this myth.
According
to Religion Compass, “Myths are prose
narratives which, in the society in which they are told, are considered to be
truthful accounts of what happened in the remote past.”Theories serve to explain why
these myths are created. However, myth theories that are taught in school, such as the Greek myth of Zeus, are taught in such a way that makes it obvious that the stories are fictional.
Evolution is a complicated process, but it basically happens
like this. When one species separates into two groups and eventually turn into
two different species is what is called speciation. As these two groups acquire
different traits from each other, they are going through what is called natural
selection which they go through in order to adapt so they would be best fit to
live in their environment. When these two groups have finally become different
species, they have evolved. A perfect example of this is from looking at a
certain kind of bird that has two different kinds of traits. One group of this
bird lives in the west and is white. The other group of this bird lives in the
east and is black. Right now, they are a part of the same species, but since
they do not mate with each other and live in different locations, they will
eventually become two different species because they will be passing different
kinds of traits on to their offspring.
This is what happened with humans and
chimps. What I want to know is if humans and chimps evolved from the same
species, why did humans become so much smarter than chimps? A long time ago,
humans and chimpanzees were the same species. Lets call this species A. It is
likely that species A had more chimp like traits than human like traits. Nobody
knows for sure, but it is probable that the reason why humans have become so
much smarter than chimps is because humans have had more changes in traits from
species A than chimps have. It is likely that when species A was separated, the
group that evolved into chimps did not move to a highly different environment
from where they already lived and the group that became humans moved far away
and they were required to have bigger brains in order to survive in their new
environment.
I changed my slide because I thought all the words took away from the pictures. So I kept the pictures but added one word to explain what the slide was about.
Based on what I learned in class and now that I have presented there are minor changes that were made on my part. The color blue where it says " The love within is portrayed in different ways" was changed to the color yellow , since the background is black. This made it easier for the color to be seen and my personal quote to be read. Also, playing around with where the words where was another change because of the fact that on my first slide it seemed like there was a lot of empty space, which attracted people more to that space than to the words on the actual slide. Last, the fact that the words had effects to them made it seem unprofessional.
