Daily Question: 2/17/11

 Why do people write a record of their past? How does what happened yesterday in your life affect what you choose to do today?...or does it? Do we all see yesterday the same way. Choose a material object--get your digital camera... take at least 25 photos of it all from different angles or vantage points. Team up with a class member and have them photograph the same object -- compare and contrast your photos on a blog post. How do different human beings view the same object? - from Norman Constantine


There are many reasons why people would write a record of their past. First, many people probably recorded their history unknowingly because of contests or something that happened and they have symbols for it. For example, the cave paintings in France that we talked about a couple weeks ago were most likely to show some of their very productive hunts. They recorded it because they wanted to show the animals they caught (almost like a trophy), but they probably didn't know that people today would be looking at and examining them. Also, people probably had stuff written down for their use but were found and used as artifacts today. For example, a student in ancient Greece could have written on a tablet and people today could have found it as an artifact which we examined. What happened yesterday in my life could affect what I choose to do today because something could happen, then another event could happen today as a consequence from the first event. So something could happen from the first event. I do no think that we all see yesterday in the same way because people have different perspectives and point of views. There could be a game or event that one person won and are happy about, but the person or group that lost would probably not be happy. People see yesterday in different points of views because of what they think or feel about the event. Different human beings could view an object differently because of what they see in their perspective. For example, one of my old teachers would hold up this cards with shapes or images on them, but they weren't any specific image. The class would have to come up with as many images as they could see in that one picture. People would see something that I took a a little while to find. I thought it was very interesting seeing so many different pictures in one image.