Blog Assignment

“In equation form, Your Apparent Good Achieved minus the Good Your Counterfactual Replacement Would Have Achieved equals Your Actual Good Achieved”. The amount of good a person does should not be calculated it should be done out of kindness not competition. Being able to be replaced by someone who can give more and do more good deeds, does not make people want to stop suffering it takes the point out of doing good away. People express themselves and show they care and want to stop suffering in different ways.The Effective Altruism gives their lives to their cause but they could go about helping the people in better ways. Getting your hands dirty and being on the ground can be more beneficial then just donating money to a charity. Showing the pain of the suffering through media outlets and art is doing a good deed like donating money. 

“We can’t erase this history. It’s real. We have to know it. What I’m trying to do, what I’m trying to show you is how to shift your gaze just slightly, just momentarily. I’m trying to answer that question that my son had. Why do some have to walk”? Kaphar looking to the past helps gain knowledge on the present and future. Titus Kaphar wants to amend history and amend means to make minor changes more up-to-date. It’s possible that shifting focus may allow a person to to see the suffering of someone and they can figure out a way to help them. 

Blog assignment 

Although some people like, Yo Yo Ma believe that incorporating art with STEM is a good idea some believe the idea does not hold sufficient enough evidence that it will work. Using art with STEM is an unrealistic attempt to strengthen education. Education involving STEM is based on fact and innovation not emotions and feelings that art brings. Some people believe art has no basis being involved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics  while, Yo Yo Ma states, “the values behind arts, integration-collaborartion, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination-lead to the capacity to innovate”.  Yo Yo Ma believes that art and the values art spreads can help people become innovative. Yo Yo Ma’s ideals about art and education do not relate to one another that much because in the STEM fields using art will most likely not help people become more innovative, it could backfire and lead education down a bad path. Education and art together have many people conflicted over whether it will be a good idea to infuse them or not.

 

These two blog posts were homework assignments used to help me connect more with one of the readings we annotated.