Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

A mirror is for transformation. The word of God is like a mirror, and the transformation is to make us like Christ.

According to feng shui, if you aren’t sleeping well, a mirror in your bedroom could be the culprit. Mirrors are thought to bounce energy around the bedroom, which may result in restlessness and amplify worries. It’s especially important not to hang a mirror on the wall opposite your bed.

he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.”

A mirror is a story that reflects your own culture and helps you build your identity. A window is a resource that offers you a view into someone else’s experience.

Multicultural literature serves as a powerful tool in enabling students to gain a better understanding of both their own culture and the cultures of others. Students therefore develop greater cognitive skills as they learn to engage with and critically evaluate the texts that they read.

Ramanujan Papers archived at the University of Chicago, this book illustrates how Ramanujan absorbed the multiple aesthetic contexts and particulars in his life and work, and how these are reflected in his writings as a way of thinking and as a nurturing force behind his creative self.

Literature as windows allows a reader to stand safely in her own identity while exploring a world beyond her current view. When books serve as windows, readers have the opportunity to consider new ideas and new ways of thinking and to see themselves as part of a larger community.

As Rudine Sims Bishop, Professor Emerita of Education at The Ohio State University and Chair of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury, states, “When children cannot find themselves reflected in the books they read, or when the images they see are distorted, negative, or laughable, they learn a powerful lesson about …

Books mirror your identity. Books serve as mirrors that reflect your culture and help you build your identity. But when every storybook you pick up features a face different from your own, that makes mirroring books much more difficult. That means children of color rarely see role models in books.

A sliding glass door book was described by Rudine Sims Bishop as a book that “readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author.” These books surround us in what it is like to be a person we are not, and brings a newfound empathy to a situation …

The study of texts that reflect their own identities, experiences and motivations (mirrors) and also provide insight into the identities, experiences and motivations of others (windows) can move students toward more nuanced perceptions of the world around them.

Learning a Different Story A good book can help you understand what it’s like for people who don’t share your race, religion, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status. Diverse books teach empathy, says Erika Long, a middle school librarian in Tennessee.

Children’s literature is important because it provides students with opportunities to respond to literature; it gives students appreciation about their own cultural heritage as well as those of others; it helps students develop emotional intelligence and creativity; it nurtures growth and development of the student’s …

Literature allows a person to step back in time and learn about life on Earth from the ones who walked before us. We can gather a better understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of them. We learn through the ways history is recorded, in the forms of manuscripts and through speech itself.

Contents

• 5.1 Poetry.
• 5.2 Prose. 5.2.1 Novel. 5.2.2 Novella. 5.2.3 Short story. 5.2.4 Graphic novel. 5.2.5 Electronic literature. 5.2.6 Nonfiction.
• 5.3 Drama.

When students study Literature, they learn to appreciate words and their power. They travel to other realms and times through the texts they read. They understand about their own culture and others’. Importantly, they learn to consider multiple perspectives and understand the complexity of human nature.

It teaches us about life by exposing us to the lives of different people through their stories, and from these vicarious experiences, we learn important lessons and values. Literature teaches us humanity – to be sensitive and empathetic towards others.

The study of philosophy helps us to enhance our ability to solve problems, our communication skills, our persuasive powers, and our writing skills. Below is a description of how philosophy helps us develop these various important skills.

It helps us solve our problems -mundane or abstract, and it helps us make better decisions by developing our critical thinking (very important in the age of disinformation). It illustrates by linking influential ideas to mundane activities, such as waking up with Descartes and going to the gym with Heidegger.