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    The way the education system is set up in this society, we learn to be skeptical through our educational experiences with science, math, English, and history. It is not only science that teaches us to be skeptical through the use of the scientific method process. Carl Sagan argues that people should be more skeptical of things that cannot be proven, things for which there is no evidence, and that a way to do this is by learning the art of real science: a science that gives you empirical evidence for human existence and all the things that go with it.

Non-Fictional Prose Course

Anne Dalke

Paper #3

       In our dictionary exercise, one of the definitions that I found particularly interesting, was the OED definition of reality: The quality or state of being real. What I found to be most interesting was how the words used by the OED to define reality could themselves be defined in multiple ways. I found this aspect of definitions to illustrate how it is that language is limiting in that one words cannot fully explain or describe something. Quality as pointed out by one of our class members, can have multiple meanings depending on the context. For instance, “quality”, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, can be defined as the “degree of excellence”.

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    I plan on doing an online journal made of letters in which I use pictures , related to one reading, one movie, and an outside talk that I went to see, that revolve around women and the struggle/ fight against the negative view enforced upon us as inferior. My main focus will be sex work and feminism’s and society’s perception of it as oppressive and demeaning.  I plan on having a section on Bryn Mawr people and their thoughts on the sex industry. Another section will include quotes from my different sources and  small journal entries of my thoughts. My ultimate goal is to develop a collage of opinions and beliefs that illustrate the abundance of diversity in the world.

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this image was taken from:

www.ddsg.org.uk/taxi/medical-model.html

This video was so compelling  the first time I saw and I thought it illustrated how we "fall into a game", the game of everyday life, and either end up winning or losing, or sometimes not moving at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdv4o0jSX4s