Room 205

  Bacon uses the world "idol" with a different meaning behind it. He claims that idol is an error made in society. We get the errors from ourselves, culture, false teachings, etc. I do not think the term "idol" suits this well at all. When I think of "idol," I think of something positive. An idol is something you look to for what you want to be like or look like.      Bacon’s uses the word “idol” meaning that these are the false images in which a person has an error; they idols are errors in man.  We have the tribal idol that symbolizes our natural human errors as a group. The idols of the cave being our own errors that arise from our own minds and the idol of the marketplace represents errors that come from others; a marketplace idol is like hearing something false from someone and telling others of it, sort of like a rumor. I believe that the least severe idol is the idol of the tribe; we constantly come up with new information as to not ba...

  Unlike Plato, I believe that our senses are important. It is much easier to learn with  all of  the senses, as well as to understand the world with your senses. Of course, someone missing their hearing, like me, can still learn just as much and more than a person with all senses. However, because I lack a sense, I  have to  try 100x harder than a person with all five senses. Even people, like me, rely more on the other senses to know and to better understand.       Although I do not think that praising sense perception is materialistic, there are alternatives to solely valuing sense experience. Using knowledge, logical facts, common sense, and critical thinking would be quite helpful.     It would be unlike anything we are used to. I believe that it would be a world without anything, no noise, no sight, no texture, no taste. It would be plain and unrecognizable.      If I had ...

Virginia Woolf knew that her targeted audience was women and the difficult things they used to go through. She talks a lot about how different women and men were and how women now should be grateful for what they are able to do   It reveals concerns about the women life and how the men treat the women on a daily basis. She thinks women should have a room for a hobby she enjoys, which for Woolf it would be a room to write in. A woman could have a amazing talent but it would be very difficult for her to expand it as well as explore more of it without a place of her own. The temperamental traits of both men and women are aggressive, unforgiving, and sexually driven.   In today's society, women are expected to deal with their own problems and to be emotionally and financially independent. In our society today women are supposed to be proper and to live with their emotions but women who live more like men and act emotionally distant are rej...