Perception and Its Effects
As we grow older we learn new things and start to build new opinions about them. It is not necessary that every one has to share the same opinion. As a child I was taught in school that every story has a fixed moral and that is the one that the teacher talks about in the class. We have to agree to it whether we like it or not. I believe this was one reason for my loosing interest in school. I hated sitting through classes that were pre planned and the teachers disliked me and complained to my mother for having a misbehaved child. My mother always kept worrying about this and so did I. I was under the impression that I would never get along with the children in my class that my teachers would never like me. It was not until I reached the 10th grade that I realized that I was not wrong, I just did not want to agree with the fixed opinion that was put down by the teachers. As I began to read I started to analyze everything and understand it better. This improved my perception and ability to interact but it did not help me in writing. I still see things differently from others though I don't know why. But I have made an adjustment with my perception. Jane Tompkins talks about perception and post stru
The quote that I am putting down is a way of explaining the complicated relation between perception, past and the present and the biases contradiction of all that we have been thought to believe in. "After a while it began to seem that there was something wrong with the way I formulated the problem. The statement..., but the judgment couldn't be made because all possible descriptions of what happened were biased, seemed to contain an internal contradiction... facts. The seeing of the story as a cause for alarm rather than a droll anecdote or a piece of curious information is evidence of values we already hold, of judgments already made, of facts already perceived as facts." (731) The two words that I found of interest in the quote were biased and internal contradiction. The word bias alone is such an effective word that it is enough to cause riots in between people. The denotation of bias is prejudice. The most commonly face problem by every one in the world. Race, caste, color, and status every thing constitutes toward prejudice, anger, hatred, and violence. Tompkins has specified in the reading that "the statement that the materials on European-Indians relation were so highly charged that they demanded moral judgment, but that the judgments couldn't be made because all possible descriptions made were biased, seemed to contain and internal contradiction." It is true that history changes from country to country or place to place only because hatred or difference of opinion. Like the September 11th attack that caused a chaos in U.S.A changed the opinion of all Americans towards a face of color. The suspicion increased and so did the violence. The ways Usama Binladin and his people saw this act of violence and terror as JIHAD the war for religion. Thus, when this day goes down in history so U.S.A it will go down as the day when the twin towers the asset of New York was torn down by two planes that killed thousands and brought upon the cloud of dust that became a fear and permanently settled in the hearts of Americans. But for Usama it will be triumph since he aimed at the heart and created the awareness that he wanted to create. This treacherous act has left nothing behind according to me in both of the countries except pain and loss of people. The other thing that is important is "the statement implied that in order to make moral judgment about something, you have to know something else first namely, the facts of the case you're being called upon to judge." Moral judgment mean
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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