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For this presentation, Oday, Mohamed, and I joined together to form a group. We started off by researching several topics and real life situations. It was quite hard to decide on our idea as it would influence our future actions, or in this case presentation. After thinking of several ideas, we finally decided to go with "stem cell research" because it was an interesting and ongoing scenario. We then had to look for a real life situation and we found several ones. We chose to talk about the conventional protests in Denmark regarding the restrictions of embryonic stem cell research/development. The next step was to decide on which two Ways of Knowing and one Area of Knowing we were going to use that were appropriate for our topic stem cell research. After researching and looking further into the topic, we came to the conclusion to use reason and emotion as our Ways of Knowing and ethics as our Area of Knowing. Afterwards, we were asked to create a knowledge question. Each of

Reason allows us to justify our actions and our thinking. There are two types of reasoning: deductive and inductive reasoning. Deductive Reasoning Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the in accordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. It is often referred to as top-down logic. Deductive reasoning is a type of logic where general statements are used to form a specific conclusion. Example:  -All oranges are fruits -All fruits grow on trees Therefore, all oranges grow on trees. Inductive Reasoning Inductive reasoning is a logical process in which multiple statements, all believed true or found to be true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion. It is often used in applications that involve prediction, forecasting, or behaviour. Inductive reasoning helps us come to a conclusion that is based on experience, or observations. Example: "Look at how those people are behaving

Is it possible to experience an emotion, a feeling, an attitude or sensibility that cannot be expressed in language? Can an emotion, such as love or grief, have its origins in, or be shaped by language? I believe that concepts such as emotion and feelings can not always be expressed in language. For example, the phrase ''I am too happy for words to explain...'', can become valid in this context. It is impossible that everything can be categorised or defined. Language allows us to communicate with one another as well as define things. Emotions and feelings are obviously different for each individual. Often times, there are occasions in which it is possible to experience an emotion without being able to express it through language. Emotions are felt from within oneself, and feelings can not be put into words. It tends to be difficult when trying to find the correct words when speaking out about emotions or your personal feelings. For example, from personal experience

Emotion "An emotion is a complex psychological state that involves three distinct components: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioural or expressive response." (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2007)  People often tend to use the terms 'emotion' and 'mood' interchangeably, but there certainly are differences between the two. An emotion is usually short-lived and can be very intense, and are caused by definite situations. For example, after disagreeing with a friend on something, you might feel angry but you will most likely only feel this way for a short period of time. However, a mood is usually much more 'mild' than an emotion, but it tends to be longer-lasting. Also, it can be difficult to identify what has actually caused the mood to occur. For example, you might find yourself feeling sad for a few days in a row without having any reason why.  Primary emotions In order for us to understand what emotions exactly are

Are other systems of communication language? I believe that people consider any form of a communication systems as a language. In fact, I believe a language can be thought of as a system of communication that uses symbols to convey deep meaning. Symbols can be words, images, body language, sounds, etc. The deaf people use sign language to communicate with one another. Each and every person has the ability to create its own system of communication, whether this purely includes sounds, secret words, or images. The letters used to form our formal written and spoken language can be considered as symbols, which are now considered a form of a communication system.  Is body language actually a language? I do believe that body language can be considered as a real form of language communication. In fact, statistics state that 93% percent of all daily communication is nonverbal. It is the physical behaviour, as opposed to words, that is used to express feelings. Such behaviour includes

During today's class we were thought to reflect on our understanding and use of sense and perception and begin to consider its limitations. Since perception is the active, selective, and interpretative process of recording or becoming conscious about the external world through sense experience, our experiences should be examined and critically evaluated. Perception can be powerful and we often forget about the reality of it. Our senses are our primary sector of interacting with the world. Long before we have even learnt about language, and how to control emotions, we are able to make use of our senses, or about how our senses actually work. There are five sense: 1. sight  2. hearing  3. taste  4. smell  5. touch. Our senses allow us to understand and process the information around us. For example, when you place your hand in hot water, your brain will process the information of the heat in which you describe the sensation you feel as being 'hot'. However our senses also com