Annie’s Site

Some people may say that art and science don’t really collaborate or have any kind of connection. However, I would say that they do. The way information is integrated in our everyday education is important. In order for science to fully develop and work it needs art. Just because the only articles we have read about are saying that it’s a great idea for them to beinterwinned, doesn’t influence my opinion in any way, I always thought their connection was very clear to see. Science and art offer unique differences and similarities when you’re talking about them as individual . fields. Just to be clear, there is a reason for why they collaborate well together, it’s because they only make sense when they are taught together, which is why some say it’s a good idea to have the STEAM cirriculum.

TREAC:  The relationship between science and art is without a doubt one of the most  important relationships,when we’re talking about education. It seems that now a days, technology is playing a huge role in our education.  The significance of technology taking over our education demands advanced curriculum in our education today. “It’s hard to believe that a work of abstract art might have actually affected the history of science” (Lehrer 1).  While technology affects science today in such an advanced way there are still some unanswered questions but we can only answer the unknown on our own.

Barclay:  Even though art and science are two completely different fields they work as a whole, one can’t work without the other.  The connection between science and art is so obvious to the eye, but only because we made those advances. In Yo-Yo Ma’s article hhee explains the relationship between art and science, and makes it so clear that art needs science, and science needs art.  Both these writers are certain of one thing, there is a clear connection between art and science that can be elaborated on more deeply by the advances of technology.

Yo-Yo Ma’s article was . very intresting. He talked a . lot about how he cares about the STEM program/cirriculum. He believes the arts and sciences are directly correlated and that everyone should want to be a part of the STEM cirriculum. I personally have never been to a school where they had this, but I think it’s a great idea for students who want to go into that field.

He mentions that it links directly with globalization and with other cultures, “empathetic understanding is vital” (Ma 58). HHe is trying to expres the point that all cultures should be involved with STEM and that parents and students need to go to a school wheree it meets the students needs, to help them prepare for the future.

What really stood out to me was when he was talking about “reaching equilibrium.” I didn’t know what that meant at first but now I know it’s about finding meaning and knowing your purpose. His view on thee future education for students is very intresting, and I believe he would be considered a role model for people who want to go into that field.

virtuous: having or showing high moral standards.

invigorate: give strength or energy to.

nonpartisan: not biased or partisan, especially toward any particular political group.

Everyone tells their own story differently.  An interesting quote that stood out to me was “It’s  in the late teens and early years of adulthood that story construction really picks up-because then  people have developed some of the cognitive tools they need to create a coherent life story” (Beck 5).  One point that I think Beck is trying to bring up is that you won’t have such an interesting and well put together of your life until you’ve actually lived your life enough.

I  think the stories that other people tell you influences your way of  you telling your own story. One point that Beck states is that not everyone has a happy ending, which is the truth, but I wasn’t expecting her to bring that up.  Not everyone has some sort of redemption story which was an interesting thing to actually think about. I personally believe that not everyone has a happy ending but I do  believe everyone gets an equal shot at redemption. You just have to want your redemption enough. As long as you never give up on trying to make things better I believe things can change and get better.

After reading “Shitty First Drafts,” I realized that the whole process of going through and having someone edit your paper several times is crucial for an even decent paper. This article or excerpt was nothing but the truth. You have to keep revising a paper until you get it to its full potential of being a great paper, it’s the writing process.

In my paper I hope to accomplish going more in-depth with thee quotes I have chosen from previous passages and link them to relationships between text world and self. My thesis definitely could b more specific, and I need to develop a conclusion eventually. It’s hard to pin point exact changes and go into specifics about what revisions I want to make, because the process is just getting started. All I know is that while I start going over revisions and rewriting and adding stuff to my paper, new ideas will spark, and I’ll know what to write about from there.

Incorporating other voices into an essay makes an essay stronger and helps the reader engage more and look closely at a text so they can form their own opinion about what they think about the writers work.  We are usually taught to write a simple five paragraph essay our whole lives, it’s what we’re trained to do. However, an essay should be more than that. Taking what other people say and comparing it to our thoughts, is essential to how we understand not only ourselves, but  others as well. 

“Bringing together what we know and what we don’t know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.” This line stood out to me in Geary’s Ted Talk, because metaphorical thinking to me means that you are coming up with an expression on your own, that conveys how you really feel about something. By creating metaphors and analogies everyday it helps us think of other ways to say or express our emotions.  By coming up with metaphors on our own everyday we’re taking our actual thoughts and comparing them to something else that can relate to our emotions.

Coming up with metaphors and incorporating them into our own essay makes it stronger, because you’re creating your own sentence, or phrase.  It’s important to not only look and add on to other people’s beliefs and ideas. Out of all the papers and transcripts wee read throughout the importance of metaphors Geary was definitely the least bias one.  It’s important to incorporate your own opinions in a paper but it is also crucial for you to include other people’s voices as well. One of the best ways to do that when talking about different studies is to back up your own opinions with factual evidence, which Erard and Khullar did a great job with.

In Khullar’s article he talks a lot about how he thinks it’s not a good idea to use “military language” around ill patients.  Now, even though I, as the reader may not agree with his beliefs, he backs it up with evidence and studies shown through his article.  “Patients who viewed their disease as an “enemy” tend to have higher levels of depression and anxiety, and poorer quality of life than those who ascribe a more positive meaning. More recent work has found that patients encouraged to “fight” may feel that they have to suppress their emotional distress and maintain a positive attitude to avoid upsetting family members-and clinicians” (Khullar 4). 

When getting a point across it’s important to make sure how you word it, because you want a line to stand out in your essay. “But it’s when we start testing our metaphors for their social and cognitive usability that design can become really powerful” (Erard 2). It’s very clear the point that Erard is trying to make here, that it’s important to have meaning behind a metaphor, when designing one.  It’s the same with writing a paper, to design and form your own opinion, you have to be clear as to what your trying to explain to the reader

1. I don’t know what else to add on to my paper for the body paragraphs, I’m struggling. What other points or evidence can I go off of?
2. Is my paper getting off topic once I start writing my body paragraphs?
   

Incorporating other voices into an essay makes an essay stronger and helps the reader engage more and look closely at a text so they can form their own opinion about what they think about the writers work.  We are usually taught to write a simple five paragraph essay our whole lives, it’s what we’re trained to do. However, an essay should be more than that. Taking what other people say and comparing it to our thoughts, is essential to how we understand not only ourselves, but  others as well.

Throughout Khullar’s article he expresses that “Using military terms like “battle” and “fighter” to help patients conceptualize their illness can sometimes harm more than it helps” (Kullar 1). I believe Khullar questions whether or not using metaphors to help the “fight the battle” will give them false hope. He establishes that some people suggest that viewing cancer as a fight can encourage emotional suppression. Khullar also expresses, that ultimately no metaphor is good or bad. At the end of this article he tells his audience that, whether or not his patient viewed her illness as a battle, it was her decision to fight in the end.

In my opinion, I think it is crucial to use military metaphors when you are treating a cancer patient. If you think about it usually the cancer patient doesn’t want to talk to their family, and express how weak they feel. The patient needs someone else to talk to to express how they’re really feeling, defeated. One study that was mentioned in this article said that physicians use metaphors in almost two thirds of their conversations with patients. This resulted in patients feeling more willing to fight.

“Patients who viewed their disease as an “enemy” tend to have higher levels of depression and anxiety, and poorer quality of life than those who ascribe a more positive meaning. More recent work has found that patients encouraged to “fight” may feel that they have to suppress their emotional distress and maintain a positive attitude to avoid upsetting family members-and clinicians” (Khullar 4). This quote from the article is not . only powerful, but backs up evidence that it’s important to view cancer as a battle.

I noticed throughout annotating this article, that I can see some similarities to Geary’s viewpoint and Erard’s viewpoints on metaphors. On one hand, Erard mentions the business side of metaphors, and mentions how metaphors are designed. “But it’s when we start testing our metaphors for their social and cognitive usability that design can become really powerful” (Erard 2). It’s important to have a meaning behind a metaphor when you’re designing one, and that’s the point that Erard is trying to convey. Throughout this article doctors are designing metaphors and analogies for patients who are fighting cancer. Erard’s article mainly focuses on the linguistic side of metaphors and how to make a metaphor actually mean something. Referring cancer as a fight or battle, means something. The doctor is designing a metaphor, so the patient feels like they can accomplish something in the end, if they choose to fight.

Throughout Geary’s article he stresses that metaphors are used in everyone’s day-to-day life. “Metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal” (Geary 4). Geary mentions pursuing a goal in this quote and that’s influential. Listening to an article, like Khullar’s, can not only have an impact on other people, but it can influence more patients and families to defeat their loved ones disease.

I never would have thought that using words like fight and battle when you’re trying to conquer a disease would be viewed as metaphorical phrases or words. I always kind of thought when talking about cancer, it just the norm to associate those words with a serious illness. I feel as though people don’t realize when they’re actually using metaphors or analogies, but really we use them everyday. “I don’t know how she ultimately fared, or whether she came to see her illness as a battle, journey, marathon, rollercoaster, chess match-or none of the above. But I do know it wasn’t my decision to make” (Khullar 5). This quote is very powerful in my opinion, because at the end of the day it is the patients choice to decide how they want to go about their illness. Not only is it the patients decision to fight, but it’s the doctors choice to either believe or not believe in their patient. The only way for a patient to survive is if their doctor believes they can overcome their illness.

In class we discussed how the author s aiming for the audience to be more of a young adult/adult audience, because the author seems to be talking about businesses a lot. I thought that I could better understand this article after rereading it. However, although reading it again helped me to better understand the article, I had already annotated a lot earlier, so it was hard for me to annotate more. I figured what I could do to help me think of some annotations is to think of connections (text to text, text to world, text to self). The first thing I did was read Geary’s transcript again, to get ideas for connections.

Geary’s style of reading is a lot different, just because I think the audience that he’s trying to get at is from like teenagers and up. After reading his transcript and annotating, I realized that there weren’t really any words that were hard to understand. However, reading “See Through Words” was definitely meant for a much older audience, because the language was so complex. For instance two words that I still was not clear about: bottleneck and aptness, so I looked up the definition…

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bottleneck?s=t

Bottleneck in this case, applies to a narrow entrance or pathway. When Erard says “English is not bottleneck,” I now know he means it’s not straight forward.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/aptness?s=t

In this case, Erard uses aptness I think in a sense where he is wondering how long is it going to last that we are just able to understand metaphors on our own, and perceive them however we want?

What I seemed to pick up on the most I think after re reading it was that this article is meant for an older audience, that maybe has a background in business, because it talks about designing a metaphor. I couldn’t really reflect on a text . to self connection, but I did pick up . on how the text can relate to the world. While rereading, I noticed that when the author says “Maybe the best metaphor needs know furniture” (Erard 6). What this means to me is that maybe the best metaphors need know explanation. That can apply to the real world everyday, for instance something that I like to believe is that everything happens for a reason, meaning you don’t always need an explanation for what happens or why it just does, but it works out in the end. That being said, that philosophy that I like to live by, relate a lot to what Erard says. Maybe metaphors don’t need an explanations, you’re supposed to go about them your own way, they never need an explanation.