Module 7: Supportive Logic “Deduction vs Induction”

Module Seven 

Induction and Deduction are just directional values on the manifold of knowledge relationally connecting the Specific to the General in Time-Space:

All arguments have two parts. The initial stated part is commonly called a premise. The premise sets the stage for the argument to begin in support of the conclusionary statement. The Conclusion is often a hopeful solution to a problem that will require additional testing. This methodology gave birth to the modern Scientific Methodologies used to discover much of what we know today. From the problem statement to the initial premise then to the conclusion presenting a solution for the problem statement, each writer must be able to use two forms of reasoning:

1. Inductive Reasoning
2. Deductive Reasoning

 What are the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning? The beginning of any journey is the plan for the first step. DR- Deductive Reasoning… IR- Inductive Reasoning are symbiotic twins conjoined within our cognitive process used to discern truths as we seek solution space for our discovered problem set in time-space.  Reasoning that flows from the general to the specific is DR. Reversing that process direction involves processing from the specific to a general solution or theory yields IR. So, we answer the question with a statement concerning reasoning process which yields a solution from cognitive space such that  specific knowledge exists at one end of the manifold and the general knowledge at the other end:       

 Knowledge is both Specific and General in nature. Solution Space is potentially populated majoratively either by S or G. When a conclusion exists in S & G space then one may conclude solution is not normal, rational or is in some fact flawed.

1.   Specific<= |entry A|>> reasoning process =>General|exit A|          would be DR as accomplished by Newton
2.  |exit  B|Specific<=  reasoning process<< |entry B| =>General          would be IR as accomplished by Sally
3. |DRexit|Specific<= |IRentry|>> reasoning process<<|DRentry| =>General|IRexit| your entry point determines your form of resoning and the partition of knowledge you will arrive at with your conclusion.

Deductive example- Sally deduced that she was held on the Earth by Gravity after learning Newton’s Laws. Her DR process used accepted beliefs she was taught as laws or theorems from which she then related to specific aspect in her own existence why she did not float away from the Earth.

Inductive example- Newton used inductive reasoning to formulate his discoveries about motion, acceleration, and forces after seeing an apple fall from a tree. Newton’s example was one of IR process that he had studied, journals  observations with measurements, and experimented to then make an insightful leap that gravity existed. His further work elaborated on force, mass, accelerations, and how these related with relation to mass with Gravity explained the weight of an object.

An enthymeme includes omitted premise (assumptions) disclosing two statements [introductory premise & conclusionary solution] that leads the audience to a decision point accepting a desired position of the enthymeme’s author. For some, this would be an improper syllogism aka deductive argument in three parts,  an argument that to be true must in the eyes of the audience who hold as true an unstated factoid supported by the circumstance of the presentation. The assumption need not be true except in the mind’s eye of the audience. Testing of the factoid for truth will explain why the quick conclusions could be wrong. Insufficient logic is seductive for many who fail to understand the hidden dangers of such available poisonous fruit packaged as truth aka “factoids”.  Western literature has immortalized Socrates as being mortal. This in part is due circulation of translations with discussion of ancient Greek works.

All mortals are human is an unstated truth as one is quotes, “Socrates is human!” then states in a eureka moment, “therefore, Socrates is mortal.” Incomplete arguments should never be considered true until vetted by more thorough examinations.

Major premise:  Jose Cuervo drinks will attract the people you desire…

Minor premise: the recipe for your success is in how you order the drink at the bar must include the brand name “Jose Cuervo”

Conclusion: you will relax and find satisfaction with the new company that you will attract … and there are no ill effects from their product …

Note: Sadly there are great ill affects to the use of alcohol and relational expansion or social entertainment that can lead to poor judgments. Being less that diligent when examining arguments can cost lives and social impacts that communities can least afford today.

Visual reinforcement are made throughout the video found online at You Tube … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiV0vvFvl1M

What are the advantages of examples? The example in many argument can and often do reveal subtle truths needed by the audience to form a decision based on the conclusion presented.

 The drawbacks?  the example in many argument can and often do reveal evidence against the conclusion. Using the rules of evidence, it is the responsibility of an attorney to argue for their clients best interests. To do so requires active listening skills and a swift structured come back to show the flaws in any wrongful conclusions suggested by the examples from the opposing side.

Either form of reasoning can have or demonstrate an argumental premise that is unstated. Such elemental argument components are often called assumptions. The existance of such premise being unstated does not mean they are not present or not presented. They can exist in the audience experiencial knowledge sets {S,G} or in some other sensory material {Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic that is not a part of spoken/signed language system}. Such unstated elements can and often do invoke a neurolinguistic response that suspends reality checking and expressively drives the thinking audience to a destinations that is beyond sound judgement.

In formal analysis, serious review should attempt to declare such assumption with the given variables, formulae, axioms, theorems, constants, or influence suggested through other than a single sensory input.

Induction and Deduction are just directional values on the manifold of knowledge relationally connecting the Specific to the General in Time-Space. The reasoning style chosen establishes our direction of traveling through problem knowledge space to the valid solution in knowledge space. The soundness of the arguments relationship to the proof-concluded requires completeness of the reasoning step wise process. Accepted conclusions can then be added to the General to be called upon to be used as axiom for future arguments to explore new connections from the P-TimeSpace to S-TimeSpace. These should consider the modern assessment that we are in an immediate 4-tupal space … Time-Space {x,y,z,t} when seeking more advanced conclusions. Best practices of reasoning to resolve rhetorical argument are ones that require precise language agreed upon by largest group possible. Problem Solving is all about designing solution by clarifying the argument. Use of language gives the reader proper cues as to what is a premise and what is a conclusion. Relational rationales require proper use of induction/deduction directional values to reach sound connection that span [ Specific knowledge <==> General knowledge]. Standard solution exclusively  exist in one or the other. Where special cases exist, a solution can be consider to exist in both sets. For the most part the direction of reasoning demands the destination to be exclusive. I hope will open further areas of this topic for more argumental evaluations or debate.

Comments are welcome!

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Module X: Marks the spot “A Call For Action Now!”

 

Module X: Marks the spot “A Call For Action Now!”

Our country and our nation’s people are at a cross road that can lead to greatness or more shame of the abuse found in our homes, streets, communities, and in Congress by our elected officials. You to find your own greatness need to Register to vote to Prepare to become a leader,  explore college to become a calm assertive leader of the next generation. Please ask your elected officials to vote green with best interests of the people not their private interests overseas. And it is my great hope you shall ask President Obama to bring our children home now! Visit Congress.ORG to learn how you can be the tipping point for greatness in this new moment in history. Read and consider signing the Wind Energy Petition below. Until there is a better plan… promote T. Boone’s Plan… If you find a better plan … please share it here.

Be the Greatest, 

Liam James Beistle

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNzwgaYkff4 Think to Grow Richer™ In All You Do! Be Green with environmental envy, get powered by Solar/Wind Energy~ be truly Greener by 2012… Please share this petition with your friends and colleagues so we can reach our goal of 85,000: https://awea.wufoo.com/forms/sign-the-awea-res-petition/

 

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Module 6: Encounters of a Critical Juncture

Underconstruction New Writers in Training …

Great minds are in training every time there is an encounter of a critical juncture. Such moments in time are your nexus for success and future new headings as you navigate toward your chosen destinations of success.

Based on this week’s class reading and my own experience, what are the characteristics of good feedback?

• Precise language with examples of how others have met similar challenges
• Positive dialogue with the intent of targeting both what met the planned goals and which fell short (in a non-judgmental manner).
• Kind, honest, giving insight to the author what the reader experienced while being focused on the element of the writing being reviewed. Annotate the work, identifying the element and how they did or did not support, fit, or accomplish the elemental role. Balance the good with the bad. Ensure the review is to promote better more polished version or work in the future.
• Automated system often are abrasive in their presentation that are less than positive or motivational. Such examples of system design failures exist even on modern university where there are no established standards for Human Engineer. Such systems can be a great resource for administrators to bully their clients. Today, there are many studies on gatekeeping and bullying styles exemplified by such systemologies. Raider Writer would be an exemplar of bad feedback presenter that adds noise into the process for the student client, the instructor trainees, and the responsible Professors of the courseware.

When your work is critiqued, what are some of the things you hope to see in that critique?

• My great hope in any critique is to find constructive use for it. Knowing “what does or does not work” expands my conceptual toolsets for the next encounter. Did the work meet the specification of the original charter? How can it be improved or expanded to better fit the curve estimated in the original project estimation? Did it meet the return on investment? How can I use this experience to help others? These are all questions I use to resolve any critique whether intended for good or for harm.

What grammar rule(s) confuse/irritate you the most?

•  split infinities especially gerund infinities e.g. “dedicated to entertaining”  … Often I reverse my logic … by excluding a negative term or omitting my targeted objects …

What have you had marked on papers that you still don’t understand?

•  I always ask when I do not understand. I can say I am always searching for understanding … specifically, I am still catching up from not having audio textbooks that can visually be view 200% or larger; I do not have First Year Writing Text book that is all that accessible. The scanned xml is still not complete with a great number of errors.
• Section needed are missing or corrupted greatly preventing proper converstion to audio. Pearson stated the problem of releasing their PDF or doc files formatted content required a legal release signed by Texas Tech University ENGL department … something that is not expected to be forthcoming. At this juncture, I can and must do it myself, hopefully to find an online copy of Correll’s work and crack the code … or just accept failure … I do not choose the formulae for failure.
• I am on the phone discussing this with my mentors and those who encouraged me to go to law school. Their legal training is far superior to mine… and they know more than I do about intellectual rights and responsibilities on both sides of the globe. I was directed to some docx filese that are more complete but still riddled with errors from the noise injected by scanning a document textbook that was never formated for such use or readability issues.
• Both Pearson and TTU are accountible for such choices. The physical printed textbooks is on poor quality paper using a  poor low quality ink contrast for most any readers. The textbook exists but only to add to the cost of an education. It was not edited or published to facilitatie direct use by students or teachers.
• As for marks on the papers? Do we in fact have papers online?
•    … the short semester being what it is … I still do not know if I will overcome the obstacles. This is not for a lack of initial effort, I planned to avoid this snare by starting in March 18, 2010 to prepare to be outfitted in advance to prevent what took place. The systems in place were not adequate to prevent where I am at this criticle  jucture.

Thoughts of the Day About Understanding Marks on a Paper … there is no paper here or is there?

 I am trying to understand obstacles… that need to be overcome, gone around, or bulldozed. I am not shy about such matters or about the need to circumvent obstacles. Automated systems make poor replacements for human relations, responsibilities, and control. When you remove the HU-element from the equation, you lose more than the human. You lose humanity! At the end of the day, I am not sure I don’t understand… I just have no clue what others understand.

Encounters of a Critical Juncture can inspire or defeat any who are not clear in their objectives. You cannot wait for opportunity but instead one must go out and seek that moment in time-space. I seek to resolve these issues such that there will be a benefit with a learned experience that will add empowerment to my future academic work. The failure of systems is to be accepted or at least expected. Failure in people is not acceptable!

I stand by these statements with available documentation to support my brash position on this textbook for any who might be able to resolve such matters. The rush to press for any author, editor, or agency can cause sacrifice in mission goals. I believe there is a limit to any such failures that can or should be ignored.

Comments are welcome!

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Module 5: Synergy of Review

Synthesis decomposes into  Syn*the*sis where syn is found representative of the Sun … Humans associate the reckoning of time with the Sun …  the Sun was used to synchronize in solar time-space coordinating action of objects … the is more tied to a construct of tying together … linking … sis is from sez was to compound, intermix, as sound in music, or material to create anew …

Begging a little freedom from you the reader, tradition root word analysis, consider that Latin word lysis is to tear apart or to let it loose … synthesis then is to in time-space at the appointed place in time together combine different objects into a new form as if something new. Roots of the*sis as  thesis would be the tying of objective elements together in an order.

1. What does it mean to synthesize information?
   1. In my estimation the real meaning to gleam is from the root words themselves. In real time to gather together connecting and bonding objects with related modifiers into something uniquely new{without a recipe} or desirably familiar {with a recipe.
2. What does this mean for  literature review?
   1. To gather from all the component elemental objects available and to bring them together in a timely ordered fashion to form something anew. In a literature review, that would be to gather the material, read it, do analysis, discover the hierarchy of the work under review; then in an ordered methodology present the information you gleamed from reading and analyzing the literature chosen for review. This is my recipe to review.  
3. What is the most important thing that you want your audience to understand about this information?
   1. Why this is of interest to them.
   2. How the topic will touch or affect their lives.
   3. What decision they will need to make.
   4. Call to action to explore the subject eve to experience it… see it… do it… etc. 
   5. For my own research, how to lose the fear of the once unknown while standing tall as a leader to adopt new knowledge for the skills and abilities they will obtain for their future needs.
4. Describe two possible ways to organize the information for your literature review. Consider what information will be emphasized in each method.
   1.  Trend centers on the research around the topic thesis showing and elaborating on the relationships of the dependent variable to the independent variable. How this has evolved and why it is significant now! What is the historic view with current trend for contrast. List statistical or theoretical supports for you statement and a clear supportive factual statements and a  conclusion restating the original thesis.
      1. thesis
      2. intro
      3. body
         1. define the trend
         2. prove it exists
         3. discuss the cause
         4. discuss the effects or the predicted effects
      4. conclusion
   2. Thematic that is structured around topic or an issue. Uses anecdotal short statements to support the theme.
      1. An introduction
      2. thesis
      3. plot summary
      4. analysis of the elemental of the topic or issue
      5. A conclusion to answer the bottom line questions.
   3. Research report combines the first two… includes reviews with discussion of journal articles (basis APA style)–
      1. title
      2. author
      3. abstract
      4. introduction
      5. literature review
      6. materials & methods
      7. results
      8. discussion
      9. references

Draft Comments, they are welcome to flesh this out for future use … 

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Module 4: Wind Energy: Green Boundary Limits

Wind Energy: Green Boundary Limits

Research topic will be about the aforementioned title with focus on exploring is ” Wind Energy Green and fully renewable?” Social impact of Wind Energy industry with large scale expansion of the nation’s Mega-grid system does not consider all the potentials or many alternatives. Where should America go considering the T. Boone Plan “WE & Natural Gas” a centralized plan or “Photo Voltaic hybridized with a Hydrogen Economy” that is decentralized from the national grids. I have not declared yet but I am taking WE 1200 and WE 2300 this summer. My research will continue on this topic even in law school.

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Assignment Preface— [aka notes to self]

Analytical decomposition of language via a literature review to recompose an ordered acquisition of knowledge on a topic can be a joy ride interloping field theory via English.

I chose this specific area to explore the use language of Physics QET as expressed in English with available standard notations and rich-media. And to look for adaptations of secondary use of words due to the lack of natural words to convey the meaning discoursed in the dialogues of professional literary works.

“Advancement in complex modern field theory requires an increase in use of sensory pathways and visualization process needed to analyze both the problem-solution manifolds in Time-Space.” Liam Beistle

1. summarize
2. assess
   • a)   relevance
   • b)   accuracy
   • c)   quality
3. reflect

SA[RAQ]R… aka Sar²aq!

I abandoned the first topic on Wind Energy because much of the material available was a hero centered PR campaign for Pickens and his Army. While I support the plan for lack of a better one, I am not going to engage in PR for Pickens, Gore, or others in any oligarchy who would leverage the masses without full disclosure. Primarily, content found in my search was more about Natural Gas than Wind Energy.

I see real challenges from this review of works that are dubbed “scholarly” as being limited to ancient traditions, profit based publishing standards, and personal satisfaction that affect how knowledge is preserved and passed onto others. Until this changes there is a real challenge for modern virtualization of the classroom and expansion of new knowledge.

BGS is a balanced major in the study of art and of science. This all applies to the goal of mastering the presentation aspects of the printed or virtual page as the courtroom of the future will employ such virtualization as in the rules of evidence, appellate briefs, variations of the arguments based on altered perspectives to find and to express the truth to the jury and other officers of the court, members of the Press, and government agencies. English Language has become a gateway of expression with the necessary notations and imagery to express complex notions, thought, and arguments. Plain Language standards will ensure that auto-translation by AI will not diminish or alter the intent of any author and will not obstruct access to any reader from any background or with any needs.

I hope the following page suffices for the assignment on annotated bibliography. I will copy and paste into Raider Writer while sending a complete copy via email in docx format. In addition, I have added this to my class journal. As I understand the role such work provides, not every entry needs to be annotated. When integrated back into the final work, annotations may provide some value but traditionally are very limited or mostly removed. The final work should speak to the use of the sources cited more so than the bibliography. An exception would be alternative links online to find more on the cited work with a comment on why this link is of value[in color, rich-media, audio/visual, or additonal file format]. The cut/paste into Raider Writer clearly adds noise to the online classroom experience. I have printed and screen capture of the problems for a future work on this problematic system implementation of various open-source similar scripts formed into what would appear to be an attempt to create a variant of moodle [LMS] & Php-Nuke [CMS] component structures to leverage document review and the creation of a student e-portfolio of delieverable assignment works. Until these alpha and beta issues are removed there is a real problem that remains to be address in the ENGL 1302 for this summer semester. I hope and trust the deliverable path is accepted via this email. I will also be submitting a journal with all deliverables embeded in the journal next to the associated module and the associated assignements. As seen in this “cut/paste” process into WordPress there is a loss of MLA format;however, unlike Raider Writer application there is not deletion or addition to the content text. Only the format here is affected not the actual text typed. Raider Write does modify the pasted text and substitutes broken links image rather than a text url as submitted. This is an error within the application code. A common mistake in first generation code prior to alpha testing. Even more mature code as seen in the EBSCO can have problems with font conversions embeded into the cited work’s citation where font is substituted for an image. This error was discovered after the assignment was turned in via email and corrected in this version below.

Works Cited

Aftalion, Amandine, and Qiang Du. “The Bifurcation Diagrams for the Ginzburg–Landau System of Superconductivity.” Physica D 163.1/2 (2002): 94. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Amandine, Aftalion, and Serfaty Sylvia. “Lowest Landau level approach in superconductivity for the Abrikosov lattice close to Hc₂.” Selecta Mathematica, New Series 13.2 (2007): 183-202. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Berti, Valeria, Mauro Fabrizio, and Claudio Giorgi. “Gauge Invariance and Asymptotic Behavior for the Ginzburg–Landau Equations of Superconductivity.” Journal of Mathematical Analysis & Applications 329.1 (2007): 357-75. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Chen, Y. Y. “Nonsymmetric Vortices for the Ginzberg–Landau Equations on the Bounded Domain.” Journal of Mathematical Physics 30.8 (1989): 1942. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Precise review of the aspect of the vortices as described by the GL Equations. A step by step derivation of the state to be discussed is provided in the expansion table list of equations steps. Works cited included the original work in 1950 by Ginzberg & Landau. This work fails to provide any visualizations or cross sectionals typical of the era in which it was published. This seems stereotypical for the publisher and the works presented in the 1980s. Even then the capacity existed to provide visual constructs in color with traditional two dimensional or pseudo 3d presentation images. The intended audience for this most likely was linear in their expectations at the time for this style of analysis. This is a basis for why progress and discovery are limited by the evolution of the language and the advancements of how knowledge is framed and published using Language of Physics “Field Theory” as expressed in English.

Comte, Myriam, and Myrto Sauvageot. “On the Hessian of the Energy Form in the Ginzburg–Landau Model of Superconductivity.” Reviews in Mathematical Physics 16.4 (2004): 421-50. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Stability study of degree d for the GL Model of Superconductivity is presented via this work. The authors begin with a re-statement of the traditional GL Equations and then develop their analysis. In this work there is great balance of  language expansion and introduction to the symbolic notations used. Citations have a balance of primary and secondary references. I agree with their proof. Unfortunately, one sees in this work the authors hold to the century old traditions of investigators to limit their primary use of language and notation to the non-geometric imagery and the total lack of graphics other than the notations used in the actual equations. This hold over from the 17^th Century seems to be embedded in the pedagogy of the sciences and the language arts; but more so in the sciences. I can see a need for changes in how we pedagogically pass knowledge on to the reader. The great expansion of knowledge that is continued to double at an ever decreasing period will soon have to address the multiple intelligences aspect of all who would benefit from the literary work. Clearly in this work, the authors are using the advancements in publishing fonts, calculus notations, and improved Plain English standards but have not explored rich-media for the electronic page or for the printed page. 

Du, Qiang, R. A. Nicolaides, and Xiaonan Wu. “Analysis and Convergence of a Covolume Approximation of the Ginzburg-Landau Model of Superconductivity.” SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 35.3 (1998): 1049-72. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Great analysis of the GL Model of Superconductivity presented here by authors and Siam. Work cited include some primary and mostly secondary works. I agree with the conclusions of this author and his team. This example work includes a couple of graphical 2d/3d exemplars to aid in the English descriptors of the symbolic notations used in the equations presented. Again, the last part of the 20^th Century scholarly works for QET had yet to exploit rich-media as late as 1998. Private knowledge systems have been using rich-media techniques since World War II. Migration of rich-media to the public access to knowledge base is still in its infancy. Clearly this work should be further reviewed once I have access to a math simulation package and animation tools.

Giorgi, T., and D. Phillips. “The Breakdown of Superconductivity Due to Strong Fields for the Ginzburg-Landau Model.” SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 30.2 (1998): 341-59. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Well formed discussion on the breakdown of superconductivity with primary reference citation to the early evaluation of the J-gates and the associated tunneling vortices for the super conduction quantum state connections of two dissimilar conductors. The majority of the works cited are also without imagery with the exception of the cited item [14]. Again this work suffers from the publishing standards retained by Siam. This work uses classical QET developed during the last half of the 20^th Century. Formalisms used are accepted by the majority of applied mathematics professionals. I plan to revisit this work when I have access to a math package for visual simulations. This again shows a great potential to expand and express more with rich-media had the publisher or the authors chosen to allow is as a part of the work.

Sauls, J. A. “The Order Parameter for the Superconducting Phases of Upt(3).” Advances in Physics 43.1 (1994): 113. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Detailed review of existing models concerning super state conduction and discovery of a match to special case orbital configuration 2D representation. Brilliant review but is specialized use of Language subclass for Physics and related Field Theory Phenomena. Tables and imagery is limited due to the constraints of the day when produced. 1993 was prior to rich-media technologies in publishing on the standard desktop. References are well chosen for this review and reflect forward thinking by the author. High temperature superconduction is still not a reality but Sauls states a possible avenue of research with direct tests of the residual symmetry group of the ordered parameters. Desktop publishing and simulations of Fermi-liquid theory are now possible. Advanced use of existing off the shelf personal supercomputing can be express in rich-media.

Shijin, Ding, Liu Zuhan, and Yu Wanghui. “A Variational Problem Related to the Ginzburg-Landau Model of Superconductivity with Normal Impurity Inclusion.” SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 29.1 (1998): 48-68. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

More modern document published post desk top era with rich-media platform available. Noted that the presentation is geared to the mathematician who can only think in black and white notations. Siam during this period was just beginning to expand into more imagery with some works. As late as 1998, this article is not more evolved than the prior five decades that preceded it. The great aspect of this work would have greatly benefitted with rich media even a simple 2D cross section with exemplars of the normal impurity inclusion. Nuance to this problem variation suggests vortex stability is the critical factor to raising the temperature of the super conduction state occurrence. The works cited are limited and do not support all that is presented in the authors’ work. 

Shomar, Towfic L. “Phenomenologism Vs. Fundamentalism: The Case of Superconductivity.”  Current Science (00113891) 94.10 (2008): 1256-64. Print. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.

Module 3: Social Factors & Ideology

Ebbs and Eddies of time-space bring about the recurrence of human events because choices were made without judgment or foreknowledge. The “lessons-of-the-past-not-learned” play a role in this cycle of the rise and fall. Wisdom or mere chance will be at the heart of future debate over freewill or destiny of fate. Social Factors & Ideology plays various roles in our approach to including or excluding beliefs.

From Hollywood pundits, movie critiques, talking head of evening news, to activist journalist: each making observations with an agenda laden articulated stream of jargon aimed at getting your back into their audience and a member of their own ideological camp. Orwellian “New Speak” taken to the next level in every avenue of the new digital domains dedicated to entertaining you until death do you part.

It never ends till you do. The global digital frontier, GDF, has become more than a digital drug dictating your attention 24/7/365. GDF is for some their partner for life and more jealous of your time than any lover. Transactional history exists of every aspect of what you click, if you buy it, did you look twice, and much more…

When in need of great movie fix, I have discovered the best spot on the Net is at Www.IMDb.Com ™ . A simple query dialogue at the top of the page to search for your favorite digital dining pleasure. For my example I selected a series, Harry Potter. The excitement of it … yes even when you are a Grandfather wanting to find a family movie or just some late night reviews this is the singular gateway site.  My result selected was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — Trailer #1. This new computer requires an add-on from Apple called QuickTime®. So there was brief and painless trip to the iMac store.  A free version is fine but the Pro has great tool to be sure for any rich media projects. Now back to the action to find the review for this class project.

When viewing the trailer that is just what they want you to see. The real meat of the search is in the special tool at IMDb® navigation bar on the left. Selection from the query results page will take you to a main page for your select film. Again this is on your left, under main details, there is an Awards & Review list. Select external reviews. This the location for the serious review buff to travel too. Any reputable, and recognized review site is listed here. No more rotten tomatoes, just prime ribs and the best of those who try to warn, recommend, or even shame us into watching their most recent film to see if you agree or disagree with their metrics. A great pipeline of traffic for the industry now goes through IMDb’s® portal each day. The industry itself prides this a secret tool for those wanting the learn more about the business of writing, directing, producing, or hiring staff for your own project team. Being an old-guy, I still rely on Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times. And of course, one my first love was the Rolling Stone’s reviews that worked so well for over 35 years. The newcomer to the stage is Rotten Tomatoes … 264 on the list … not top-cut fresh produce for certain gourmet palettes. 

Well, the gig for both reviewers seems to be to warn us in an enlightened way: this is a two part story that will force you back to the theatre again to finish the last of 7 books brought to the screen (2d & 3d). Yes, I did try the suggested website but chose a more risky approach to stick closer to what I know best.

Can you tell what criteria the reviewer is using? Yes, Ebert has dedicated most of his long life to telling me and  you if the movie sucked. In his book, Your Movie SUCKS, he reveals a bit more than most will want to know about his approach with advice to any who watch, make, or write movies. I trust his opinions.

For this new movie … he encourages me to watch it first but does not say that directly.  The blow by blow is given here but Ebert tells you it won’t spoil the plot for you. After all, Harry Potter Plots are the same and ongoing, eternal. I was not as impressed with the Rolling Stones this time. They were more kind than normal for their spirited commentaries of the past about HP (Harry not the PC guys). Moreover, the Stones review seem an echoic replica of Ebert’s Review.

I blame that on the corporate brass and just the shear immense amount of money that is riding on this finale. Like George Forman, these boxers are not over yet. I fear there will be yet another last lost book of Harry Potter. The trailers and the reviews queue me that this is huge tourist trap about to build in EU themed after Harry Potter Series … The full boat of high tech FX and the latest in magical intrigue, one would think the Church of England may expand their curriculum to more mystical arts in the next near future. For my part, I will enjoy the fictional tales of Harry and his team. I will encourage my grandkids to be over 12 before watching these to final movies.  What movie reviews did you look at? I reviewed all the old and the newest Harry Potter Movies. Could you tell what the beliefs and values of the reviewer were? Yes… for over 35 years I have trusted Ebert’s commentary. How? I read his book mention above. And yes, many movies suck. The last in the franchise of Star Trek was a great example of a movie that truly was not worth the great expense to make or to experience.

Yet Avatar was something fresh and yet old. If it’s a movie you’ve seen, do you agree with the assessment? I will have to say most of the time I do agree with Ebert. Why or why not? I will leave that mystery until you read his book about movies.

On to the more serious stuff… or not so serious… perspectives must be open minded before assuming how serious is serious. I worked at several large corporations and spent several decades involved with so called mandatory equality with opportunity hiring eras. For the most part the transition worked. Many who fought for and demanded equality in the work place forgot the aspects of privileges they may abandon for this level playing field.

With almost half century of perspective to review, I found the article written by the author well formatted but out of tune with the real issues of working men and of working women in America’s office place or in the industry of their choice.  I hope to have a copy of this report that is both magnified and in audio so I can further exam and respond to a peer’s query to clarify my statements about :

Informal Review of–

This study presents an experimental evaluation of a model that describes the constraining effect of cultural beliefs about gender on the emerging career-relevant aspirations of men and women. The model specifies the conditions under which gender status beliefs evoke a gender-differentiated double standard for attributing performance to ability, which differentially biases the way men and women assess their own competence at tasks that are career relevant, controlling for actual ability. The model implies that, if men and women make different assessments of their own competence at career-relevant tasks, they will also form different aspirations for career paths and activities believed to require competence at these tasks. Data from the experiment support this model. In one condition, male and female undergraduate participants completed an experimental task after being exposed to a belief that men are better at this task. In this condition, male participants assessed their task ability higher than female participants did even though all were given the same scores. Males in this condition also had higher aspirations for career-relevant activities described as requiring competence at the task. No gender differences were found in either assessments or aspirations in a second condition where participants were instead exposed to a belief that men and women have equal task ability. To illustrate the utility of the model in a “real world”  

“Constraints into Preferences: Gender, Status, and Emerging Career Aspirations”

 ~Shelley J Correll

American Sociological Review; Feb 2004; 69: 93– 113; textbook pg. 392

I would agree with this author that both men and women are influenced by an oligarchy of outside patterns of assessment to make evaluations that do herd them into career paths. Such agencies of society include the academic environment of K-12 and our modern University College Systems found in all fifty states. I do not see where she addresses the sources of such influence. She does show the conflicts in how not only men and women make gender decision but how she also is influenced in her choice of language with stereotypical uses of gender labels.

I do not agree with her arguments about segregation as she misses the issue of the mechanism of segregation is a social bias used by controlling agencies to herd the masses into job supply system. Segregation has for all of history been used with a selection of markers as to what constitutes the class being segregated to be many. Race, Creed, skin color, religion, nationality, ancestry, sexual preference, or gender selection are meant to polarized and to manipulate large and small groups using peer pressure, community pressure, and global pressures to limit choice by individuals.

Due to the lack of time afforded me in this task assignment, I was forced to access this document online and to use extraordinary means to convert it to audio and visual display at 200%. My apologies aside for any access not intended; I chose to do so for academic purposes and plan not reproduction of this source document referenced above.

I further state the use of such publicly funded research projects should be freely available and not subject to purchase. The choice of this article for this course I would argue as a poor one for several reasons, the document is not readily available in a real way for all students and this document is also limited from those who cannot afford to purchase it.

The editorialized version in the Texas Tech First Year Writing Textbook is altered in such as manner to obstruct accommodation for those who require OCR to further convert to audible or visual expansion to high contrast display. This leads to inequalities to access and to participations in this class task. I would refer the reader to the comments by Shelley J. Correll own arguments about gender would also apply beyond gender status to those with learning disabilities and other access handicaps. This can create predicted behaviors into how such student clients are treated by evaluators who would then grade or weight the content in this online blog. I believe Correll could find her a better area of research but would hope she in the future will make publically funded research to be available free to the public and academic researchers.

~ Finé ~

Module 2: Greeks, Topoi, & Apologies

 ”Ideology is the study of any body of beliefs, doctrines, values held by a single individual or by a group or a culture.”

The textbooks are what they are … new snapshots based on less than perfect translations of old things. I propose any difference existing of the ancients with today’s society would essentially be that we are just catching up with the prior state of the art or science of past epic days.

Ideology can as a word be decomposed to understand its elemental meaning.

“Ide” has been forged out of forgotten Endo-European tongues that bind the construct of more modern words:          Idè ->

• idea
• ideal.

In some vague intuition, I believe this is more about self-thought “cognition” at the first moment one ties together correspondence to any object real or virtual.

The terms would also break down further into   Idè -> both “i” one being part of who you are on the surface with e being the eureka part of the cognition while “ id” as self  and the “id” suggest something more Freudian in our subconscious.

Let us not forget the “ology” … more straight forward … the study of some category of things, people, methods, or just a sandbox of thought you choose to master and investigate.

Philosopher would review this as ideologies are what a class or a group of people would hold as their basic shared basis for a culture. Many philosophers misuses the term “ideology” to a degree that most in academia would accept todays use rather than what the Indo-European roots would suggest.

The Greeks are often credited with the art and science of Rhetoric. I was shocked that the modern academics would not look further back along the forensic timeline. Ancient Greeks gloried telling their stories with arguments to teach their young leaders how to accomplish control their tongue first, then how to use the tongue to control others. This was tradition of societies who trained their future elite for over five thousand years prior to the Greek city-states.

Even to the courts of the Pharaohs, the Emperors of China and the Emperor of Japan, the methods of how a topic was to be touched, written, spoken, argued, and apologetically argued further to promote polite warfare with words well-spoken to scratch the ears of men.

I do not see a difference in how the ancients or moderns differed much. The classical approach to rediscovery by Western Academics is the initially present a biased seed that it all began in Greece. We know of societies much older were in the Americas. Iconic structures some once only associated with Egypt have been found all over the Earth. As ancient languages have become decode, there is clear evidence of advance math, science, chemistry, medicine, rhetoric, government, language development, and much more.

I have been a computer programmer and hardware designer most of my life. I know 21^st societies are rediscovering, remastering, and reconnecting the dots on language, history, and all other knowledge areas. When I wrote my first instructional Nano code or discovered how to write a virtual Turin Machine to solve a problem for Gulfstream Aerospace, the realization that we must treat words as power was breathtaking.

The age of object oriented program languages was just begun in force during the 1970s. Software students viewed this language advancement as a bold step into the future but it was actually based on concepts found in India among the ancient writings dating thousands of years. Linux was founded on the construct of recursion and recursive algorithms.

The energy in that power put to work is the thought we convey. Shocking this is not a discovery. There are primitive examples in history that goes to Chinese, Hindu, and more younger societal ancient writings that the word themselves could do more than change the hearts or minds of men or women but the mere face of existence itself.

Greek foundations in Rhetoric rest on the meta of languages and of the lost languages that we have inherited from our own ancestors that go beyond our own tongues claimed at birth.

Regardless of whether you believe ideology is the study of thought itself or the classification of societal boundary by their common foundational beliefs is just a word game. 21^st Century English is not the language of just a few short decades ago. Because of epic dark ages that repeat themselves during the rise and falls of global governments, so we will see this discussion again in a few hundred years. There is little under this Sun any man or woman can lay claim to that is original. 

Ebbs and Eddies of time-space bring about the repetition of human events because choices made without judgment or foreknowledge. The “lessons-of-the-past-not-learned” play a role in this cycle of the rise and fall. Wisdom or mere chance will be at the heart of future debate over freewill or destiny of fate.

Knowing the cultural neighborhood in the current times we live is of course important. So important that before even becoming a tourist, one should research the destination to avoid conflicts or heartache. Ideologies are fundamental to academic success. Ideological wars brew every year a new tempest that young leaders (and old ones) must prepare to address in the best voice possible. Failing in this task brings at each tick of the clock a future world to rest on the brink of an argument with a potential to bring about chaos in our newest global order.

Communications rests in the hands of all who can speak, write, or song: addressing to find solutions to the arguments that divide us. To that greater view, I hold there is little difference today than at any other era when one must use Rhetoric to muster the apologetics of the moment. Good manners with sound thought to use rhetorical constructs in many languages that could attract new friends and turn away any angered enemy is my goal in learning to master writing at Texas Tech University.

If you were off to the community Forum today that would bring you here to my blog-place and beyond in the blogosphere. Comments are most welcome!

~~ Fine’ ~~

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Finally, I got to read/hear the text today (July 27, 2010)… reflection well, a bit belated -> I was shocked at the discontinuity of the overall structure of this chapter with the rest of the textbook. As often happens, editors who integrate large context from different sources can omit critical factors when cutting and pasting to create something new but not from their own inkwell. A view of the world changes greatly when one gets older. So one must disclose I have seen over a fifty years of various textbooks and computer aided courseware. The introduction of the concept for Rhetoric, Ideology, and construct of thought perspectives that define Ancient, Renaissance, and Modern Thought with a framework in Philosophy built upon a foundation of human nature. This task in reading this and the limited time to append my original module one will require  some forgiveness as I read and try to be focused on the text as a segment of a work that is not provided.

The Module one sub-page as it is defined in the Module page of our Distance Blog Guide lends its tasking to a glorious “to do” list. So with some delay, I am at it here to attach, append, and amend this post one last time.

 After reading the chapter, my initial response to the reading was really not printable! I am now extremely interested in this course, the time and resources that generated it and what is the real ultimate goal of TTU First Year Writing. Especially WIIFM aspects as an older student, as a consumer, as a future law student, and as tax payer how this new online digital portfolio will advance my learning to write better. I am confused why the methodology would be so invasive to the actual subject matter for this course. Learning to write at a college level should include how to form arguments and to respond to position or the dissertations of others for the betterment of the community at large. Online methodologies should not distract from the process of acquisitioning new knowledge with the related skills and abilities to demonstrate that knowledge was in fact embraced and incorporated into the student. This course tells us about ideologies… the study of ideas and the related social roots they are connected. Understanding the cultures over the time-line gives us a perspective of what is the motivation and impact of changing paradigms looking back through history. Since the dark ages and possibly further back in epic periods, this current age of learning is only just now rediscovery what was forgotten for a very long time. The essence of the art and science of rhetoric has driven this process of rediscovery and the reawakening of dead languages [Latin, Egyptian, Mayan, and others].

The beginning of the 21 Century we see a new emphasis of academics bantering how we have come a long way “Baby”. True, we are just that “babes” relearning what others before us have mastered. Are there classical demarcations formally defining what we should accept as modern or ancient. Yes, the book tells us how to perceive this deviation. But my own reflection is I do not really accept it as written and that is why I am here in College to research and to hone new skills to tackle the artifacts that are now available online to examine digitally and to transliterate into modern plain English. Rosetta Stone products will be my passage into the past by learning the offspring languages of Latin and eventually other languages that were spawned from the Indo-European language commons. The so called inventions of thought from Greece, Rome, and Alexandria clearly are resurgence of prior cultures. Even in the articles in Chapters 9 & 10 we see the influence of change to the US culture as multicultural embrace of our Modern English presses it into new forms with the creation of new words, sounds, and music. Language can be representative as Locke would have us believe. In addition, language can evolve via enumerations as is accomplished in computer science. Computer Languages are mere subsets of English and English is a variant of more ancient languages that have recombined over the past four hundred years.

It is unclear where our language will arrive or when it will stop mutating. It is my belief language as we now use it is a limiter. There was a time when all was passed down by those who were described as the remembering ones. Some who academically wrote on this mistakenly believes this was just merely an oral tradition passed on from generations to generation. Since History by conquering nations often required the destruction of these persons, little of this practice is really known today. With the advent of hierarchical text with graphics and rich media

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we may once again rediscover new “old” aspects of being a rhetor and becoming a person who can orally promote knowledge through the thoughtful process of apologetics. Understanding the people in their shared beliefs as attributed to a locale or to a race or to a people committed to a central shared religion in necessary to know how to truly understand them and to solve problems together via diplomacy of leaders trained in Rhetoric. As modern people we tend to claim we embrace truth first, but we are more like the ancients than we would like to admit. The book stated that Ancients valued the language, the oratory, the methods of influence over the masses, and they were not willing to be limited to the truth. The ancients could be said to practice NLP and mass suggestion to control their culture within their society. As Orwellian it may seem, modern warfare has brought back to the current day these same practices via global news agencies and political movements in the past 100 years. It is the words that create memories or reawaken old ones. The language we choose is used to express and direct our energy to accomplish work in the ears, hearts, and minds of people that will read, reflect, and relate to our constructs of thoughts. 

Topology of the places in history where people have chosen to live can become and create markers in the spoken or written languages. When historical events encourage or force migration, then we can see over time demonstrable changes in the language both in intonation and detonation. The technology of publishing the written words also brings about the changes of evolving fonts, graphics, and today even animations. Some have in the past and today accepted that some words in our language evoke something beyond the mere enumerations associated with it in a dictionary. The modern studies of the brain has revealed that the chemistry of the person is affected by the frequency, repetition of context, and the manner in which it is displayed or conveyed to an audience. For the past thirty years this rediscovery of language “affects” can be seen demonstrated at Rap, Rock, Country, and Gospel events.

Shamans also knew this in the ancient past and more modernist like Norman Vincent Peale knew the power of the positiveness of words and the tonality of the language to bring about changes in our lives. The native language was an integral part of cultural identities. That is why military conquest required the process of killing the language of those who were considered to be strong enemies. This was a practice of the Churches in Europe and of the military in conquest of indigenous people for the past 200o years. USA even today obstructs the old languages of First Nations People and would have many believe such languages were somehow defective. Language can be both a dialect and a tongue. A tongue would be French, Japanese, or Dine’. The dialect would be something in the way the tongue is delivering the words that flavors it to a region, tribe, clan, or period in time. All of this is integral to the identity of ancients and of moderns though a modern person may be in denial of this truth.  

Virtualization has shown how we can as communicators change the perception of our realities. As we learn this in the 21 Century, I am reminded of the ancient texts that spoke of word that could create something out of nothing. From Hollywood to our desktop computers or game boxes, this is more true than ever before as best one can tell. Wow! Both then and now we as Human accept that words can harm, heal, help, or hurt others expose to them. Words in any language can begin or stop conflicts. Words alone are not enough to truly communicate our thoughts. As of this writing there is a new age of communication upon us in the 21 Century. I am excited to discover more about it.

Ancient Cannons of Western Rhetoric:

• invention~ deciding assess your position and the premise perspectives you will present
• disposition~ Flow… ordered sequential construction by design
• expression~ calculate choice of words and response the words will create
• memory~ establish cognitive recall naturally or practiced
• delivery~ orally or via rich media

Module 1 : Introduction

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Josh Conner, my youngest grandson, was just born in Borger this past week … today was the first time to hold him. A future Red Raider he could become!

Working to accomplish peer support for Left behind parents  has illuminated for me what is required to end domestic abuse of children taken improperly without legal means by a taking parent. For those who do not know, I have embarked on a journey academically to practice law by 2016. My great handicap in the past has been my writing skills. The goal of being a student writer is acquire the knowledge necessary to build new skills out new found abilities. All of my kids are out of high school now except the caboose, Tre. Tre was blessed with my old compute as I just got a new computer equipped with new voices to assist me in reading/listening/visualizing my studies.

I hope you will visit often and observe as I learn to crawl then walk in this new media & newfound knowledge of rhetoric to practice apologetics required to provoke social change. My goal to end domestic violence against families with children will require building a consortium of grassroots. Such past campaigns proved a team approach will bring notice to our elected officials change is mandated by the consensus of families with children. I enjoy many things, chess, music, science, discovering the missing piece to a puzzle… and now I am learning Spanish with Rosetta Stone.

My Blog space will soon have a ES version to select. I am working to remodel this site. Construction should go quickly this week. I chose this simple theme to more readable to others. My background in research and rhetoric is limited but interesting. I have had the privilege to work as engineer. Engineering experiences at Digital Equipment Corporation, Federal Express, and Gulfstream Aerospace involved using what I was trained to do by the US Navy to support, maintain, and to modify advanced flight platform control systems. My work as a social advocate began over the past two decades.

More recently to work promoting acceptance the Amber Alert Process in the USA and around the Globe. I was privilege to work with a consortium of groups to initiate Jessica’s Plan that became law throughout much of the USA. My great hope remains that mandated sentencing for this particular area of law can be advanced by a Federal Statute reforming sentencing for predation crimes against children. I learned quickly in the first decade of the 21st Century that my old hat methods were inadequate to fight effectively at the national level without a return to the University Quad.

 I am here  to retrain to become successful in my future mission plan. My degree plan will help in part to rehabilitating  an old warhorse. I just finished Library 1100 at Texas Tech University. Since I had only recently learned how to cite and to write academically, Library 1100 was a part of refurbishing my writing garage with new tools. Wow, everyone should take that course online or on campus. Well worth time and the effort to ensure you cite it right the first time.

Please… Visit often and do leave comments. I do read them:~)

~ Finé ~

Rhetoric and Composition

In great need for the 21st Century, Netizens must rediscover how words, their use, topoi, and delivery influence the reception of the message or campaign. I have accepted the challenge to become a member in excellent standing with those in the Bar who hold such influence over the real decision of the rights of the child and the child’s right of access to their parents, culture, heritage, and language.

I have entered college with the purpose to have my bar license by 2016 based on academic honors. This goal is not a destination but a brief stop along the way to build my arsenal as an advocate deployed to argue for the child’s future estate.My first semester in Clarendon College established I am on my way to this gateway goal. I am now at Texas Tech University to further this process at the university level. I will study at the University College of London in 2011, in preparation for Law School at Texas Tech University. My advocacy will be primarily Pro Bono for left behind parents. It is my goal to overcome my lack of formal training in writing.In my technical career at Digital Equipment Corporation, I had been a part of the grand globalism of the WWW when I first maintained a DARPA ANTS node of the fledgling global net at Aberdeen PRG, MD. I was a part of the first wave of blogging as the World Wide Web took on a new posture with real standing in journalism.I quickly learned how less than progressive some educators and collegiate cultures were toward this new form of communication. Main stream America was not yet ready for this technology at the corporate office. A recent urban myth circulated that claimed,” All writers in the blogosphere were plagiarists and pirates!” Such mongering is convenient banter by those who feel threatened by any free speech forums. After more than a decade of blogs, it is clear that great writers write everywhere and anywhere. As a painter would wield their rainbows so does the writer master his art with toil over what word, font, rich media, image, graphic, or song to mix into the electric canvas.  Blogger are here to stay.It is my goal to establish my formal credentials. I am dedicated to profound use of technology to deliver the arguments to spread a viral call to action via the virtual quad of the new forum for thoughtful argument.I welcome all who read this post for any reasoned debate that is intend to be constructive for the rights of families with children. Web-trolls and other hate-mongers will be blocked. Adult content will not be allowed. I reserve the right to block any who violate TOS or decency.