Should the failure in high school sink us into depression and sadness?

“Only those who dare to have great failures end up achieving great successes.”

(Robert F. Kennedy)

Usually these questions are asked in the youth stage. Specifically in study life, where the great majority of humans suffered at least some failure. But let's go back in past. There was a stage in which suffering and failure were accepted as part of everyday life. We are talking about existentialism, and great exponents like Sorem Kierkeegard asserted concepts such as that happiness does not exist, and it is only a state of less pain.
Authors such as Sartre, Camus and Cioran raise similar concepts. These were talked about failure and acceptance of it. The feeling that prevailed was pessimism and pain, the latter being recognized as the only true feeling.

We are all different, therefore we have different types of intelligences. There are eight types and they are the following:

Linguistic intelligence.

Logical-mathematical intelligence.

Space intelligence.

Musical intelligence.

Body and kinesthetic intelligence.

Intrapersonal intelligence.

Interpersonal intelligence.

Emotional intelligence.

That is why not everyone can be perfect in everything, and each stands out in different classes when it comes to studying. Some are good in math, others in arts, and others in science. For this reason when we fail in some we begin to feel bad. But the failure is much more common than we think, great figures illustrious at world level failed in great however they managed to surpass themselves for example Einstein, Hemingway, Walt Disney, Warhol, etc. Be in summer classes to take the recovery exam is the most common thing to feel sad. But it is a new opportunity to demonstrate that we can learn. There are several reasons why we can fail. Among these are: Do not pay attention most of the time and engage in friendship with people in the classroom. Leave things to the end and fail to organize study time. Or simply dedicate the time of study to the performance of other types of activities that do not reinforce our knowledge.

We can avoid such situations if we study from the first day of school. But in the case of not exceeding the expectations of study in spite of the effort we must organize our time better, talk to the teachers and ask for reinforcement activities. Failure is not bad, to fail is to emphasize the small things that we must improve. And there is no reason to feel sad or depressed, we no longer think in an existential way. We can overcome obstacles as long as we worry about studying and overcoming ourselves through the types of intelligence we have.

Bibliography:

·         Sorem Kierkegaard, 1847, Om min Forfatter-Virksomhed, Dinamarca, Tomo.

·         Albert Camus, 1947, The Plague, Modern Library.

·         Types of Intelligence, 19 may 2014, https://www.thoughtco.com.

·         How to Bounce Back from Failure - College Info Geek, 18, December, 2015,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3U1EuJeuc

HAVE YOU EVER IMAGINE HOW WILL BE THE EARTH IF YOU DON’T BORN?

“For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”

Benjamin Franklin

What would happen if humans on earth simply doesn’t exist? Well, maybe a large part of nature would remain in good condition and several endemic species would be safe. A lot of questions appear when something like a fact or a decision change world's history however many people live life without a pause and these thoughts only are another ideas rounding their heads. When all of these ideas are on a curious mind they are the causatives of thousands and thousands of existential questions. Why clouds take different forms? , Why landscapes have different colors?, These series of nonsensical patterns have a theoretical explanation, dramatic changes have a mathematical definition who is fractals and this fractals are part or “Chaos Theory” proposed by Edward Lorenz.

In the film Mr. Nobody, starring Jared Leto and produced by Jaco Van Dormael we can see a series of conflicts and decisions that affect the future of the person who make them. This has much to do with indeterminable mathematical patterns. Fractals are materials that have unique behaviors and are extremely complex to understand. While science studies what is predictable chaos theory proposes to look beyond the obvious and establish logic to the behavior of certain objects in the world. Both the weather and the stock market are unpredictable things, and yet we have found estimated results none of these sounds totally true. It is said that the flapping of a butterfly can produce a tornado on the other side of the world. This is the famous "Butterfly Effect". This is a metaphor to represent that small changes can produce big differences in events after this.

Maybe we don’t think about it often but it would have happened if our parents hadn’t met? Or, what were the facts for them to know each other? Why they met? And what happen if someone doesn’t like the other. Small things like arriving on time to the first date between both influence so much in the future, for example with your birth. If your mother dislikes unpunctuality maybe she wouldn’t have taken another date with your father. Many people organize their lives, make their goals, and pursue a career after several long years of study but what is the result if one of these people doesn’t feel satisfied? Maybe he or she make the wrong decision and that ruined his life. Every action we do has a reaction, therefore we need to be meticulous when we make any process, Koontz (2004) on “The Corner of His Eye” affirms: Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. (pag.33)

The butterfly effect or sensitive dependence on initial conditions is the property of a dynamical system that, starting from any of several decisions and facts without specific order. When Edward Lorenz present the theory was a smack on science world, because nobody can explain in that way the complexity of the patterns of fractals and the indeterminate behavior of fractals. Lorenz. (1983) “When I was a kid I was always interested in doing things with numbers, and also fascinated by changes in the weather.” (pag.12)

While Lorenz’s Butterfly Effect theorems never talked about the time being linear, there are many variables in a real world scenario, which are difficult to compute in order, for example: The 9/11, Berlin Wall, Second World War, ISIS. All of them are part of a series of facts which determinate the rise of these events.

One example of butterfly effect was Charlie Wilson story.

An old dog enters the yard of City councilor, Charles Hazard. Out of spite, Hazard feeds the dog with food mixed with broken glass which results in the dog’s eventual death. The dog belonged to a 13 year old boy who decides to take revenge by campaigning in the elections against his neighbour. He gathers 96 voters to vote against Charles Hazard, who loses the council election by just 16 votes. The young boy gets hooked and becomes active in politics from young age - becoming a Senator from Austin, Texas at the young age of 27. Boy’s name was Charles Nesbitt Wilson, but people called him Charlie, Charlie Wilson

Chakraborty, Naman. “Charlie Wilson Story” https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-greatest-examples-of-the-butterfly-effect-chaos-theory-in-history#czSyx

In conclusion the butterfly effect is closely related to us, every destruction, every step, every idea that the executed sea has a consequence for the future, we are not product of chance.

The human being exists for several events and takes of autonomous decisions of the fractals. If we had not been born perhaps some other species had developed and evolved, that is to say we are always in constant change, in constant lives without pause where every action we have has a strong impact on our future. I think that human life its not concidence.

Although humans are not a series of positive decisions here we are.

Bibliography:

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmGs63A3KPM

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWsy3yDtsIU

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjYKwHxa01U&app=desktop

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WepOorvo2I4

·        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VaO1509JHY

·        http://www.fastweb.com/student-life/articles/essay-tips-7-tips-on-writing-an-effective-essay

·        http://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-fractals/

·        http://blog.adw.org/2011/09/the-probability-of-you-existing-at-all-is-almost-non-existent-a-brief-refelction-on-the-contingency-of-our-being-based-on-a-recent-math-article/

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Reflection

Self-Reflection  (24-03-2017)

Esta semana terminamos el trabajo que antes era un borrador sobre la dramatizacion y el profesor nos corrigió, hoy es la fiesta del colegio, por tanto el profesor fue asequible con nosotros y nos permitió publicar nuestra reflexión hasta el día domingo. Por motivos de salud no la pude publicar en dicho momento. Estoy contento porque estamos aprendiendo algo que nos va a servir a futuro, como es el contestar a preguntas capciosas de los entrevistadores de trabajo. Siendo así que nosotros nos tenemos que estar en la piel de entrevistador y entrevistado.

Con todo el conocimiento que nos brindo el profesor, ademas de el material como los videos que nos presento, logramos alcanzar casi el mismo nivel de preguntas y respuestas, y también el uso e condicionales y verbos específicos para ciertas preguntas.

Reflections

Self-Reflection (17-03-2017)

Esta semana nos unimos en grupo y hablamos sobre el trabajo en equipo. El profesor nos presento un video en youtube sobre como presentarnos para las entrevistas de trabajo. Me designaron ir con Juan Carlos Mejia, y nos organizamos demasiado bien poniendo en practica lo que aprendimos la semana pasada. Nos designamos responsabilidades y empezamos a trabajar en una dramatizacion para buscar un trabajador que en nuestro caso decidimos que sea para enseñar idiomas a niños pequeños.


Esta preparado un borrador y estamos esperando para que el profesor nos lo corrija para continuar con la siguiente actividad que es grabar un video con los diálogos que sean corregidos. Es una gran oportunidad para hacer algo divertido siendo así una actividad distinta.

Reflections

Self-Reflection  (10/03/2017)

Me pareció una semana muy entretenida porque nos dividimos en nuevos grupos para comenzar un proyecto de entrevista de trabajo, siendo así que primero diseñamos el esquema de preguntas para indagar acerca de la persona que contrataríamos, ademas que realizamos el logotipo de la empresa en la que buscábamos aspirantes. En mi grupo estábamos Julio, Christian y yo. No nos fue muy bien, pero es una oportunidad para aprender a organizarnos mejor como grupo y permitirnos desarrollar destrezas para este tipo de trabajos.

El profesor nos explico paso a paso, sin embargo nos siguieron surgiendo dudas porque es algo nuevo para nosotros la actividad de buscar personas con características especificas para un trabajo y la realización de preguntas capciosas que son tan típicas de las entrevistas de trabajo.

The drone inspired by a dragonfly

Meet Skeeter, the first of a generation of animal-inspired mini-vehicles that could revolutionise drone technology — and save lives.

Above: Skeeter as visualised in a 3D-printed model

By John Garth

Ever since Leonardo da Vinci, we have dreamed of mimicking natural flight. Neither fixed-wing nor rotor-driven aircraft quite fit the bill — but now an Oxford University spinout is making it a reality, inspired by the flight of the dragonfly. The drone being developed by Oxford University spinout Animal Dynamics is the stuff of science fiction, but its military potential is equalled by its humanitarian possibilities.

Skeeter will have four independently flapping wings, a camera and microphone, and will fly at up to 45 kph. Yet it will be no more than 12cm long and 30g in weight. Adrian Thomas, Professor of Biomechanics in the Department of Zoology, says Skeeter will be more manoeuvrable and able to fly further and more cheaply than any comparable vehicle. Its wings are extremely light and require far less energy than rotors, are more robust, and handle buffeting winds far better.

Helicopters have fundamental problems. To carry heavy loads requires very fast rotation, which eats up energy and limits their endurance.

Dragonflies can flap, twist and curve each of their four wings independently. If a dragonfly loses a wing, it can cope simply by increasing the amplitude of its flapping. ‘If you take one rotor off a quad copter, it falls out of the sky, but a dragonfly can cope with that rather well.’ Skeeter will share these capabilities.

Skeeter will be ideally suited  for flying in ‘urban canyons’ — that’s just military parlance for streets, laughs Thomas. They also mean it will be able to explore disaster areas. Whether it’s covert surveillance in enemy territory or locating survivors in earthquake zones, Skeeter will scope out what’s going on.

Five years ago Skeeter would have been impossible. So what’s changed? ‘It’s all because of mobile phones,’ says Thomas. Big technological strides have been driven by mass demand for pocketable phones with cameras, long-lasting lightweight batteries and inertial measurement units – the components that tell phones which way up their screen displays should be.

The concept design has been funded by the MoD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, known as Dstl. Skeeter has been introduced to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon (above) and has now won further Dstl funding, plus support from the MoD’s newly launched £800 million Innovation and Research Insights Unit, or Iris. The Ministry of Defence says it could have ‘a huge impact on intelligence-gathering in future operations in complex urban environments.’

One goal has been to build the drones down to a price, so they can be thrown away, ‘so you can sacrifice them by flying them into hazardous zones when you wouldn’t want to put a person in there.’

The flapping-wing principle makes for a much safer device, too. ‘A conventional quad-copter can leave you with horrible injuries — it’s essentially a flying lawnmower.’

These elements add up to something with real humanitarian potential, argues Thomas. Talks with humanitarian relief organisations are driving the spinout’s work on other drones that could deliver a payload of 10kg and potentially even larger devices.

The inspiration ultimately comes from his work in the Zoology Department when he ran the Animal Flight Group. ‘We would not be building these things if I hadn’t been able to do absolutely blue-skies research about dragonfly flight funded by the research councils.’

Animal Dynamics’s work is not confined to the air. Also in the works are water vehicles propelled by whale-like tales, and a legged off-road wheelchair that can negotiate stairs.

But the phrase ‘the sky’s the limit’ has never seemed more apt. Irrepressibly enthusiastic, and a national paragliding champion four times over, Adrian Thomas also talks of Animal Dynamics’ work on remote-controlled paragliders that can be launched from the back of a car to carry a ton of equipment or supplies across inhospitable environments. Costing just a few thousands pounds, they too could be sacrificed if need be.

Similar drones modelled on animal flight could save lives in disasters like the April 1915 Nepal earthquake, says Professor Thomas

‘We’ve got these devices that can cope with the problems they had recently in the  Himalayan earthquake, when they couldn’t deliver supplies to people they could see on the other side of the valley,’ he said. ‘And the whole thing is scaleable. We can produce everything in between 30g vehicles and things that can deliver a tonne of supplies.’

‘If anybody says, “Who’s ever heard of anything with wings delivering anything?” — well, pigeons are always delivering things, and more significantly storks are always delivering nine-pound packages!’

All these ideas should benefit from the technologies being developed for Skeeter. Animal Dynamics aims to have a fully operational prototype of the dragonfly drone in the air this year.

‘The MoD are aware that there’s a synergy of other things being produced at the same time. And for us it’s great. We make little surveillance drones for the Mod, and we make devices for delivering medical packages to people who are otherwise inaccessible.’

Beneath this there is another motivation — the pure motivation of craft, engineering, and design. ‘The convergent solutions that biology has evolved all end up being the most beautiful things to look at,’ finishes Thomas. ‘When you watch dragonflies fly they are the most beautiful things. The aim fundamentally is to make beautiful things inspired by nature.’