A New Prospective on Order and Chaos

Upon entering this new section of Core I really did not have a clear definition of what both Order and Chaos were. Even when we did an assignment in class and wrote out what we thought wat the two were I still really had no idea. Throughout the semester we have read various books or stories that have to deal with either both Order and Chaos or one or the other. With this class my views on Order and chaos have changed significantly. I now feel that I have a clearer understanding of what the definition of what these two are.

The word command and Military stick out to me because although they posses everything that would be characteristic to Order it can still cause Chaos. Within Night by Elie Wiesel this concept can be seen. Although the S.S. had command over the Jews in Europe their still was underlying Chaos within the government and the Jews. "My father was running right to left, exuasted, consoling friends, checking with the Jewish Counsil just in case the order had been rescinded."(Wiesel p.15). This shows both order and chaos because there is order within the community but also chaos because they are frantically trying to salvage what they have before they are transported. Structure and Religion also are identified as Order. In many ways these are because within religion you have structure and order. It is seen in the Book Of Job by Stephen Mitchell that there is order within Job's life with religion. " When the week of celebration was over, Job would have them come to be purified; for he thought,"Perhaps my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts."Job did this every year."(Mitchell p.5).

Perfection and Government can be seen as order due to that they keep people in line. This is seen in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. "By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying."(Marx p.89).

Within Chaos there are many examples that fit this topic. Destruction and War are seen as chaos and it is seen within the novel 1984 by George Orwell. There was war and destruction becuase a main power called Big Brother was controlling everything. "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,INORANCE IS STRENGTH."(Orwell p.4). Other examples of Chaos are disruption and natural selection. This can be seen within the movie "Blade Runner". Chaos is a main factor because genetically manipulate beings were made to be similar to humans and they begin to destroy much of Los Angeles in the year 2019. Special police called "Blade Runners" are sent to kill these beings and in turn this can cause chaos. These examples and books that have been a staple throughout this semester od Core has helped to broader and have a better understanding of both Order and Chaos.

Work Citied

Order and Chaos. FRS 1020. Elmira College.University Readers. Winter 2010

Mitchell, Stephen. The Book of Job. New York:Harpercollins Publishers, Inc. 1979.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York:Hill and Wang. 2006.

Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Penguin Group.1961.

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Dynamic systems and the Chaos Theory

On April 5th in Gibson Theater I attended Professor Jacobson's lecture "Dynamic systems and the Chaos Theory." I was out off at first about the lecture due to the fact that I know that it would have to do something about math being that Professor Jacobson is a math professor here at Elmira College. I really did not have any expectations going into the lecture being as I have no interest in math and figured I wouldnt know what he is talking about anyway. When it began I was saying in my head "oh God here we go." I was quiet surprised that comming out of the lecture that I learned alot of new information that I thought I wouldn't. I found that the most interesting section of the lecture was on the Chaos Theory. Going into the lecture I knew nothing about it i had only heard it being said a few times within classes in high school. I was very interested in finally learning what this theory entailed. I was very surprised when he talked about the butterfly effect. I never really knew that if something happens in one place that it could have an effect somewhere else in the world.

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A window into evolution

On Friday March 26th Dr. Kajar a professor here at elmira college gave a lecture on evolution. He was to explain evolution to the audience in a comical yet slightly sarcasic manner which due to his personality I knew he would do that being he is not only my bio professor but also my acedemic advisor. He expalained to the audience the miconceptions that are related to the topic of evolution. He stated that their was no process with evolution it was the evolution of gentics that caused it and also that evolution was not only subject to animals. One thing that I liked the lecture is that he related basically everything back to ants. Him being a ant biologist I did not find it surprising that he did hat but it was still interesting non the less. This lecture was very educational because you are able to see the other side of the evolution theory and you can see why it is such a touchy subject with the Catholic Church. His lecture was a big help to open the eyes to the sudents about the different theories and explanations about how many things came to be.

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Pink- Stupid Girl

I used this song "Stupid Girl" by Pink because I like the way she uses satire to show the stupidity that is going on with mainstream public fixtures. She opens peoples eyes up to the cracks in todays high standard to be perfect in society. With this song she is talking alot about female enpowerment. She is also showing that with todays society and the messages that women are constantly bombarded with many are striving to be perfect and taking extreme measures to do so. In this song she shows how with human nature people today strive for perfection when in many cases it is unitanable. How this song relates to order and chaos is that although these people who believe they are perfect the celebrities they look orderly to the rest of the world but on the inside they are intermoil because like mainstream americans who strive perfection so do these celebrities. They are put under a microscope and must look and act a certain way which could would be chaos within those persons.

(Pink. "Stupid Girl". I'm Not Dead.LaFace,2006.)

The art of speech

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Question 1:

Where I am from we have a very different form of dilaect from most. Although I am from one of the buroughs within the city the speech from Staten Island is considerably different. I say many things differently from most. When I say dog I elongate my o's and instead of water I say watuh. There are many things that I say that are different. Comming to EC where there are people from all different states it was a change to hear all of the different dialects. All of my friends speak differently than I do.

Social Interactions:

The interactions between my friends and I here at school are completely different than the interactions that I would have with my friends back home. A topic that me and my friends at EC had was whether we were going to go to the Hockey game on Saturday.

Setting:

The setting of this conversation was in the hallway of my dorm. The people that are present are my four friends ( all female) and myself. In this enviornment we are all completely comfortable and the conversation flows smoothly.

Key:

We were all excited to go to the game. The tone of the conversation was both happy and anxious being that we were worried about driving in the snow.

Genre:

The Genre of the conversation was one of purpose due to the fact that we were trying to figure out the plans for that night. Once everything was figured out we went on to talk about many different topic such one was relationships.

Brain Lecture

On Friday there was a lecture on the brain. One of the human bodys most complex muscle the lecture delved into it this muscle and the lecturer told many different stories about the brain. There were many different pictures that helped explain the different aspects of the brain and the different problems that some encounter with their brain. The lecture was a great at helping those who did not know much about the brain get more information on the brain. The students that sat in on the lecture got to learn alot of knowlegde whether they knew it already or not at all.

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Holocust Lecture

The lecture given by Professor Denis opened my eyes to many of the different aspects of life that the Jewish people and others captured by the Nazis in the Concentration Camps. Although i learned alot about this time period in my history classes it was new to me to learn that many that were held captive had the energy to still create art in their perdiciments. I learned many things about the Holocust that just added to knowledge that I already had on that subject. This did not change my relationship with Night.

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