thought to the knowledge of how we know? What allows us to understand the world around us? How can we explain behavior and our cognition itself? We are always set to think that what we see, hear, experience is certainty. What we experience day-to-day is reality, and there is no other form of it. However, can I be too certain that how I see things is always how others will as well? With a little outside-of-the-box thinking, the answers to these questions lie in the basics of our existence. In the book The Tree of Knowledge, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela explain this idea of perceived reality and the theory of the cognitive thought by breaking down the concepts of biology, evolution, and the impacts structure…
On the 7th of December in 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The following year, in the middle of February, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that allowed for the relocation of all those living in coastal Washington, Oregon, and California with Japanese ancestry. Those living on the West coast were relocated to desolate places far away from the Pacific Ocean and placed in camps with other Japanese Americans. There were a few reasons for the relocation of Japanese…
advantage of the opportunities presented to him, like reformed film festival circuits and new methods of distribution, Almodovar has developed into what Epps and Kakoudaki refer to as a commercial auter. As stated previously, Almodovar’s auteurism engages in frequent use of elements such as, vibrant colors, female heroines, homosexuality, and sexual perversion. These themes are all characteristics representative of a socio-cultural era in Spain, known as La Movida. La Movida translates to “The…
Francisco Franco played a very large part in Spain’s military and government history. From his early years, Franco was involved in the military and climbed the ladder to eventually be general and dictator of Spain. At the highest point in his career, Franco lead the Nationalists rebellion against the government which eventually resulted in his position as dictator of Spain. Eventually adopting the name of “El Caudillo”, Francisco Franco would lead Spain into what is now a democracy. Francisco…
The first thing the newly elected Spanish government did was draft a constitution. However in this constitution the government wrote some controversial things. They passed acts that stripped power from the military, church, and property owning elites. Many people opposed these acts throughout the countries. Included in these people were military officials, who began to discuss a coup that would overthrow the government. They determined that the time was not right, and they wouldn’t be able to…
Francisco Franco Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as General Francisco Franco is a Spanish military commander who was pro-monarch. He ruled his country through the Spanish Flanque or Phalange Party with an iron fist at the end of the Spanish civil war which took place in the 1930s, he was the first to form such kind of party, he established close relationships with fascism and Nazism during World War II. The man was subjected to international isolation after the war in which he…
Since Francisco came to the throne of Spain the number of Europe tyrants became 3, "Hitler, Mussolini, Francisco" And the strange was that despite the help of the communism and the participants for Francisco to reach power, they were the first that he got rid of them after he reached the judgement, and like Hitler and Mussolini he had made himself a leader and father of Spain and decided to choose a nickname for himself like, ( Hitler," the Führer "and Mussolini" Ducci ")Francisco took the title…
After the game against South San Francisco we had a record of 6 to 2 while South San Francisco had a record of 8 to 0. In the 8th grade year there are championships and our team was able to make it to the final round where we faced the one and only South San Francisco again, but this time it was for the championship. I remember that game at Parkside Middle School at 6:30. This game was the most important game of the whole season. Before the game Chris came up to me a said, “We beat you twice…
is ranked #2 in Seafood production in the U.S, Over 600 million pounds from over 60 species harvested. California is #1 in tourists visiting in over 150 state parks, national parks and monuments. Important Events The great American gold rush happened between 1848-1856. The person who spotted the first piece of gold was James W. Marshall. The gold he found attracted over 300,000 gold seekers. They were called the forty-niners as in 1849. California is the thirty first state. Which means it was…
Jack London was an American writer, author and journalist who lived from 1876 to 1916. Some of his famous works include The Sea Wolf and Call of the Wild. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, he was raised in Oakland, California, by his mother and stepfather. Jack London is considered to be a great writer. In his teenage years, he worked many different jobs. In his spare time, he read travel books and novels at the library. Eventually, he told his mother a story of what happened one day…