Syllogism.

Syllogisms, which stem from deductive reasoning, are relatively simple forms of logical argument in which a conclusion is inferred by two premises. Aristotle, who established the foundation of formal logic, was the first to create a syllogism. Syllogisms are quite simple in structure. They consist of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. Each part of a syllogism contains 2 categorical terms and the conclusion has one term in common with each premise. Each premise, in turn, is in the form "some/all A belong to B," or "some/all A is/are [not] B," where A and B are both terms. Also, the premises and conclusion can be of four types.(it is way more easy when my lecturer taught me)

Aristotle concluded that there was 256 syllogisms, or as Aristotle called them moods. However, out of 256 only 24 are valid. Once all of the valid moods were determined Aristotle reasoned that we could obtain information about any discipline and eventually all human knowledge in the world. However, research in this area has proven that syllogisms require lots of cognitive effort. As many as 50% or more get the validity of syllogisms wrong. People have trouble with the negatives as well as with the particulars. Also, research indicates that spatial and verbal responders approach syllogisms very differently. Aristotle thought that this was the way humans logically processed information. Even though this might work for simple arguments it is far too difficult to apply to more difficult reasoning, which we perform every day.

While in the class with Mr. Mark, he gave us maybe I could say mini games in order for us to fully understand the topic, not to mention while we were wearing toga. The class turns out like we are being the actor who re-acts on the day Julius ceaser got killed. also for and interesting leaning you guys could also search for a cartoon julius ceaser where it is more interesting. 

As from what my lecturer told me, jack the ripper was the first ever serial killer cases happened in human history in Whitechapel London, which then what made it famous. Furthermore, the mysteriously missing of culprit till today also made many parties wonder on the case. However, from so, there were many opinion and interesting responses that we could find regarding it.

In jack the ripper murder cases, I have heard many responses in their opinion on who might actually be jack the ripper himself. One of it is, it actually done by royalty which is Prince Albert (eddy) to cover up their doing at the time where the prince actually happened to have sex with one of the conical five victims that they afraid they would appear to have offspring. He also suffered syphilis which said to be affected by his illegal mate, in so made him angry and suffered a mental damage that create a reason for him to kill the prostitute. 

The Knight theory, though interesting and entertaining in its own way, has been effectively debunked by many Ripperologists. Most notable was Rumbelow's refutation in his revised edition of Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook where Rumbelow provides evidence that Annie lived longer than Knight claims, spent time after 1888 in workhouses, and had Alice with her through some of this time. There are no marriage or birth records listing Eddy as Annie's husband or as Alice's father. Other than that, there was never any hard evidence linking Eddy to Cleveland Street, Annie Crook, or even Walter Sickert. The lack of evidence, conspiracy theorists purport, proves the theory because all evidence was destroyed! Regardless of the legitimate criticisms, the Royal Conspiracy remains one of the most popular theories with several movies, novels, and graphic novels built around it.

In the end, it is difficult to consider Eddy a serious suspect. Although rumored, there is no concrete evidence that Eddy had mental problems (either through syphilis or any other reason), he is reported being out of the country during the murders, and no solid evidence has been produced that links Eddy to sexual relationships with either James Stephen or Annie Crook. Despite these facts, it appears likely that (outside of serious Ripper circles) the theory of Eddy's involvement in the murders in some way will never completely fade.

I have been thinking of my own theory regarding jack the ripper murder cases. Since that I find that these cases could sometime trigger the feeling of curiosity that lay dormant within me (detective Conan).from my background reading, most of the suspect back then, I would say they were all bind to all that has tendency in doing something like so (killing people) or that have a record in doing so (got thing to settle with prostitute). For example, James Kelly, George chapman, Aaron Kaminski and other that lined up after them. Like what I said, we take James Kelly for an example, we could see same pattern being used, and for example, James Kelly’s motive is where he found out that his wife is prostitute, then certain investigator said that James Kelly has a knife skill that he possesses when he work as upholsterer which then he could use to slew all his victim (including the conical five cases).  

This one is another interesting matter that I found in the internet not too long ago as that time in search for the defense attorney in the class. Here is some bibliography on her; Trow was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales. He went to Warwick School from 1961 to 1968. In 1968 he went to King's College, London, to read history. After graduation he spent a year at Jesus. In 1973 he married and in 1976 moved to the Isle of Wight where he works as a teacher of History and Politics at Ryde High School. Trow is a member of the Society of Authors and of the Crime Writers' Association. He has worked at Ryde High School for many years and is a well-known teacher and historian, and his old classroom has been renamed the 'Trow Suite' in honor of his teaching career at the school.

Trow is also known in some circles for his work in theatre and dramas, organizing and participating in many performances. He is known keenly for his impressions, dry wit and takes any chance to make fun of the French. He also jokes about the Welsh, despite being born in Wales.

Mei Trow used modern police forensic techniques, including psychological and geographical profiling, to identify Robert Mann, a morgue attendant, as the killer. His theory, the result of two years intensive research, is explored in a Discovery Channel documentary, Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed.

Trow's research is rooted in information from a 1988 FBI examination of the Ripper case, which had worked up a comprehensive criminal personality profile. The portrait drawn up of Jack was as a white male from the lower social classes, most likely the product of a broken home.

It was also thought he would have had a menial job but with some anatomical knowledge, something like a butcher, mortuary or medical examiner's assistant or hospital attendant.

a piece of my thought........( one that should not be everyone)

Hello again, on this next post I would like to express my own thought toward the movie I watched before and the articles The Jews and their deceits. First of all, I want to talk about the movie screening from Dec (4 A) The Pianist. I would like to thanks them because of their hardship in screening the movie.

 A little bit explanation about the pianist is this movie is about. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) who is a gifted pianist who specialized in played Chopin pieces, which he did over Polish radio. He played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. He and his family, including his father (Frank Finlay), his mother (Maureen Lipman), his older brother Henryk (Ed Stoppard), and his two sisters Regina (Julia Raynor) and Halina (Jessica Kate Meyer), are all captured and sent to the Warsaw ghetto. The Nazis then decide to exterminate some of the Jews in the ghetto, so they begin deporting them to the concentration camps. As he and his family are being loaded up on the trains to be shipped away to the camps, a former friend named Itzak Heller (Roy Smiles), now a Nazi collaborator working as an auxiliary police officer, saves him by pulling him out of the line. He spends the next couple of years moving from hideout to hideout, helped by Jewish sympathizers, including a cellist he had met earlier named Dorota (Emilia Fox), and a singer named Janina (Ruth Platt) with her husband Bogucki (Ronan Vibert.) He might have had a romance with Dorota, but the war got in the way. After he can’t make it to any more safe houses, he spends the last part of the war in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. It is there he is confronted by a music-loving Nazi soldier named Captain Wilm Hosenfeld (Thomas Kretschmann), who helps Szpilman ride out the rest of the war after an impromptu performance given by the pianist.

Though I enjoy watching this movie with the plot gradually up towards the climax, still, I did saw one by one student start to leave the hall, which due to the length of the movie (cafeteria did close a little bit early time by time with just a little choices of food at night, so many student need to queue up early to get the food). This then result in postponing the movie to the next day.

Before, from what I learn from the culture I raised up in my hometown, I did think that Hitler did a very good job by eliminating many of the Jews. However when I watched this particular movie, The Pianist, I realize that, every society/religion consist of many interlocking parts. Which means every single of them may vary from one to another. Just for example, we take our religion which is Islam; all of them are Islam but not all of them really being an Islam themselves. Though there are Muslim does not mean they are good, however it also does not mean there are bad. Eventually, everything actually depends on our self with who we want to be. The very same thing can be applied to both of Jews and Nazis. Both of them might consist villain and they also might consist one that nearly to be an arch-priest.

 In the end I would say that in order to determined someone or some society our own mind must be ready to accept and learned from all sided before we made a conclusion towards them.

What was it again? The next.

Hi again, this time again I want to talk a little on what tolle said as life under the power of ego.  There were couple of point that he enlisted in his writing about it though.

Separation

According to Tolle, "creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments and definitions." These mental builds the currency with which the mind operates, and the ego relates to these builds rather than directly to the realities they represent. And so he says that this "opaque screen" both "blocks all true relationships" and "creates the illusion of separateness."

Resistance 

 Reality is frequently at odds with how the mind believes things ought to be. As a result the ego has to counter constant challenges to its identity and its hopes for fulfillment. This gives rise to the ego's defense mechanisms, and becomes a "habitual resistance to or denial of what is."  For example we believe that we at disadvantages because this one person said that he got a lot of fantastic stuff. Then our ego would react like,” so do I have”.

Emotional Pain 

 Tolle describe 'mind' to include not just thoughts, but also emotions, the body's reaction to those thoughts. He also claims that every emotional pain we experience throughout life leaves behind a residue of pain which becomes lodged in the mind and the body, and which acts as our reactions to further experiences.

He refers this residual pain as "an invisible entity in its own right" and calls it "the emotional pain-body"."Most of the time this 'pain-body' lies dormant, but anything that resonates with past can trigger it into an active mode. At that point it we may act irritated, impatient or depressed or we may want to hurt someone. Habitual resistance

Loss of Being

 Most people have known times of inner stillness, when the mind has been made "speechless" by some experience of great beauty, or wonder, or even great danger. "And within that stillness," says Tolle, "there is a subtle but intense joy, there is love, there is peace." But these natural states of inner connectedness with being are lost as soon as the mind begins to think about them. I am sure most of you did experience it before too.

As for now this will be a little bit of my interpretation of what Tolle’s said both in thinking folly and his book. Though there is a lot of other interesting things that being mention in his writing.

This is what I says, thinking without need to be.

This is what I says, thinking without need to be.

I had focused my interest in reading thinking folly, by Eckhart Tolle.   Before I start, any further here a little bibliography about the author. Eckhart is a spiritual teacher and author who was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of 29, a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey.

( http://www.eckharttolle.com/about/eckhart/) here is the link if you want to know a little lot about him . As in study guide, It only displayed only a portion of what it is supposed to be in the real book, The Power of Now. If you had an interest in knowing what it is, the book is cast in a question and answer format, and originated in Tolle's work with individuals and small groups over a ten-year period, these made the book really interesting.  Most of the questions arose while he was teaching and counseling.  When or while you read this article or the book it will slowly draw you into this new consciousness as you read. In the article that you can find in the study guide, there were a lot of sentence that made you think....   ‘ohhh....  it’s like that huh?’ for me, after i read this article i have been thinking that, if what based on his thinking, we could  said that  most misunderstanding, quarrelling were actually caused by our mind itself. In the book, Tolle traces out various consequences of having a self-awareness (an ego) which is identified with the thinking mind, saperation resistance, emotional pain, lost of being and Externalisation.

opinion that i assume to be one.........

         Last week, I and my group which consists awang ezam, marwina zamri and ummi fatien (actually all of my classmate) have been given a task about word art exhibition in need of responding from 4 articles: land diving, hijra, bride kidnapping and male plastic surgery. 

          I really interested in land diving, therefore I had a further reading on it and come to a conclusion that maybe bungee jump actually tried to impersonate this culture actually. The concept used in both is a little bit same though the land diving perform by vanuatu's people were actually dangerous. Similarly to its name land diving, the jumpers actually going to touch the land itself when they jump differ than any other jump, which means death shall come with minor mistake. For example, the calculation of the length of the vine's used, if the vines slightly long then it supposed to be, the jumpers might die. Then, the ladder that they used, were build using small wood that reach the height of six storey building, so if only one of the chosen wood broken, the jumper will reach heaven in no time and need not to care about incoming sickness. 

       From my own opinion, I think that, this kind of cultural were not as healthy as they assume there is. First and obvious it could cause meaningless death. Then, if we think from other point of view, their mind might not be able to grow up. This is because; the objective for them to perform the jumping is to take precaution from the sickness. However from the world globalization, we realize that there are a lot of diseases that evolve and most of them can be cured by only by modern treatment. So, it is better for them to start in learning a bit by bit about modern medicine without only hoping in the jump only.