Term Presentation

Definition: Evoking strong emotions, painfully affecting the feelings.

When I was a child, Titanic was the first poignant film I watched. This song still brings back strong, melancholy feelings.

Thinking Outside the Box

Both Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Satre's "No Exit" display the limitations of the human mind and our thinking, and how we often do not want to step outside our private comfort zones to achieve new ways of thinking. With the cave, the prisoners were isolated because of their chains and when one was able to free himself and see the world outside, the others refused to believe him. Comfortable with their ignorant bliss, they chose to keep their chains rather than face the unknown. The characters in "No Exit" were isolated as well and had only what each other and those surrounding them knew as knowledge. If we are ever to evolve oour thinking any higher we must listen to others besides those right next to us and not be afraid to break our chains and think of something differently even if it is uncomfortable.

Big Question

What constitutes the world of dreams and how does that influence our view of reality?

What I've Learned Thus Far...

One thing that I have taken away from this class so far this year is a sense of reality. This is my life and I'm almost ready to go out in the world and face it. This class has opened my eyes to this fact more than anything else so far and has lit  fire under me to get going on the things that I want and need to do with my life. This video ties to this because this is the project that I've been working on this year which really is following a dream I've had since I was in seventh grade. I have gotten the final push towards inspiration in getting what I want to do in my life going.