In what ways do values affect the production of knowledge?
Themes:
Knowledge and the Knower
Knowledge and Technology
Stethoscope
Evidence: An example could be me. My dream of becoming a doctor has led to me to pursue a lot of knowledge in regards to medicine and it has made me a lot more passionate in learning more about health professions.
Justification: This stethoscope represents the dream of becoming a doctor for numerous people across the globe, including myself. Furthermore, it demonstrates the amount of hard work and knowledge required to be a successful doctor or physician.
Context: The stethoscope has always been a symbol for medicine and health professions. Numerous people associate the stethoscope with doctors and physicians. Personally, this stethoscope represents my childhood dream of becoming a doctor and this dream is what led me to gather more knowledge about medicine.
My ACT Black Book
Janssen piano
Interpretation: Values do affect the production of knowledge by offering a different perspective that completely changes how people learn and gather knowledge.
Links to prompt and themes: This object links to the prompt because many people value becoming a doctor. This value for becoming a doctor makes them want to learn more about medicine, thus, affecting the way they gather knowledge about medicine. This relates to the theme Knowledge and the Knower as it relates to how people gather knowledge about how medicine works in the world. Furthermore, this object also relates to the theme of Knowledge and Technology because there is a lot of technology involved in medicine that people will learn about when learning more about medicine.
What role does imagination play in producing knowledge about the world?
NASCAR figure
Context: This object was a gift from my uncle. I would always love cars and racing. Many other people, like me, are fascinated by how fast racecar drivers go when racing
Links to prompt and themes: This object links to the prompt because it shows how drivers' values affect how they learn how to drive. Many racers don't value safety as much as others and, thus, those racers tend to drive faster. This can be seen as many NASCAR drivers tend to prioritize winning a race over stopping to help another driver in need of assistance. This also relates to the theme knowledge and the knower because it relates to how people learn how to drive.
Justification: Numerous people, including myself, really enjoy racing. However, many racing fans do not realize the consequences of high speed races. Numerous catastrophic accidents have happened due to there races. These races have a very significant impact on the world that must be made aware of.
Evidence: Many catastrophic accidents have happened in NASCAR in the past. Also, when other racers were in trouble, many racers would continue on in the race without stopping to help, demonstrating that many racecar drivers prioritize winning over safety and this is leading them to gather knowledge about driving fast.
Projector Screen Circuit
Links to prompt and themes: This object relates to the prompt because it demonstrates that our value of saving our family's hard work led to me gathering a lot of knowledge about circuits so that I could fix the circuit. This object relates to the theme Knowledge and Technology because it relates to me learning a lot about technology so that I could fix the projector screen.
Context: In April of 2020, my family worked really hard to set up our home theater. However, a year later our projector screen circuit fried. Installing a new screen would require us to cut a big hole in the wall again so we thought it would be easier to fix the circuit. It took a lot of time and learning but we eventually fixed the circuit.
Justification: My family and I worked really hard to install the home theater. I didn't want a major portion of that effort to go to waste. Therefore, I spent numerous hours doing research and gathering knowledge on how to fix circuits. Thus, this means a lot to me as I worked hard on it and I saved a lot of time and stress for my family.
Evidence: I did lots of research for numerous hours to gather knowledge on how to fix circuits. I watched many Youtube videos on how to fix circuits as well.
Context: I had a certain goal to reach twice and I constantly used this book to study. Thanks to this book, I reached my goal both times.
Context: I have been playing piano for 11 years. Playing piano lets me relax and relieve a lot of stress. It allows me to forget everything and enjoy playing the music. Similarly, many other people enjoy playing piano and frequently use piano as a stressbuster. Furthermore, my goal has been and still is to get all superiors on my exams. So far, I have been accomplishing this goal.
Links to prompt and themes: This object links to the prompt because my value of getting all superiors led me to constantly learn more advanced pieces when playing piano. It has completely changed how I learned more in piano. This object relates to the theme of Knowledge and the Knower because it relates to my knowledge of my piano pieces.
Justification: My piano is very close to me as it relieves a lot of my stress. Furthermore, it allows me to accomplish my goal of getting all superiors by allowing me to practice everyday.
Evidence: I practice my piano every day for about an hour. Also, I go to piano class every Monday. to further develop my skill.
Links to prompt and theme: This links to my prompt because my value of reaching my goal led to me using this book to study which changed my way of gathering knowledge on how to succeed on the ACT
Justification: This book has helped me, and many others, immensely in achieving my dream score by changing the way I studied. I don't think I would've got the same score without this book
Evidence: I read this book many times. I took lots of notes from this book. I looked at a lot of explanations to practice problems from this book to help me understand.
Themes: Knowledge and the Knower, Knowledge and Technology
Interpretation: Imagination further connects people to the knowledge motivates them more to gather more knowledge of the subject.
Projector Screen Circuit
Evidence: I did lots of research for numerous hours to gather knowledge on how to fix circuits. I watched many Youtube videos on how to fix circuits as well.
Justification: My family and I worked really hard to install the home theater. I didn't want a major portion of that effort to go to waste. Therefore, I spent numerous hours doing research and gathering knowledge on how to fix circuits. Thus, this means a lot to me as I worked hard on it and I saved a lot of time and stress for my family.
Links: This object relates to the prompt because I had to visualize and imagine how the circuit worked in order to fix it. This object relates to the theme Knowledge and Technology because it relates to me learning a lot about technology so that I could fix the projector screen.
Context: In April of 2020, my family worked really hard to set up our home theater. However, a year later our projector screen circuit fried. Installing a new screen would require us to cut a big hole in the wall again so we thought it would be easier to fix the circuit. It took a lot of time and learning but we eventually fixed the circuit.
Stethoscope
Links: This links to the prompt because many people need to actually imagine the process of being a doctor to actually succeed in being a doctor. This relates to the theme Knowledge and the Knower as it relates to how people gather knowledge about how medicine works in the world. Furthermore, this object also relates to the theme of Knowledge and Technology because there is a lot of technology involved in medicine that people will learn about when learning more about medicine
Justification: This stethoscope represents the dream of becoming a doctor for numerous people across the globe, including myself. Furthermore, it demonstrates the amount of hard work and knowledge required to be a successful doctor or physician.
Context: The stethoscope has always been a symbol for medicine and health professions. Numerous people associate the stethoscope with doctors and physicians. Personally, this stethoscope represents my childhood dream of becoming a doctor and this dream is what led me to gather more knowledge about medicine.
Evidence: An example could be me. My dream of becoming a doctor has led to me imagining what it would be like to be a doctor which in turn motivated me to learn more about it.
My ACT Black Book
Links: This book taught me to imagine as if I was taking the actual ACT. This is what allowed me to gather the knowledge to succeed and reach my goals on the ACT
Justification: This book has helped me, and many others, immensely in achieving my dream score by changing the way I studied. I don't think I would've got the same score without this book
Context: I had a certain goal to reach twice and I constantly used this book to study. Thanks to this book, I reached my goal both times.
Evidence: I read this book many times. I took many practice tests to imagine what the real test would be like. I looked at a lot of explanations to practice problems from this book to help me understand.
Janssen piano
Links: In order to succeed in learning piano pieces, I would have to imagine what it would be like to play them. This is what allowed me to learn them so well. This object relates to the theme of Knowledge and the Knower because it relates to my knowledge of my piano pieces.
Justification: My piano is very close to me as it relieves a lot of my stress. Furthermore, it allows me to accomplish my goal of getting all superiors by allowing me to practice everyday.
Context: I have been playing piano for 11 years. Playing piano lets me relax and relieve a lot of stress. It allows me to forget everything and enjoy playing the music. Similarly, many other people enjoy playing piano and frequently use piano as a stressbuster. Furthermore, my goal has been and still is to get all superiors on my exams. So far, I have been accomplishing this goal.
Evidence: I always imagine how a piece goes before playing the piece. I practice my piano every day for about an hour. Also, I go to piano class every Monday. to further develop my skill.
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