Christmas represents a time for family, cheer, happiness, and of course, presents. Santa Clause represents the most exemplary giver, and a young child’s belief in Santa Clause brings much joy. Children eagerly await to hear the mystical sleigh bells and always leave out cookies and milk for the jolly good fellow. On Christmas morning, these kids hurry down the stairs, excited to see what Santa had left them. Late at night, on Christmas Eve, children sleep and dream of sugar plums. Yet, imagine a child creeping down the stairs. He or she peeks around the steps and catches a glimpse of their mom and dad carrying presents, labeled “from Santa.” They wonder, what happened? Was Santa sick? Did he forget about their house? The next morning, they
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Anthropologist, Louis Leakey, hired Goodall to spend two years studying chimpanzees for the very fact of her ignorance. Goodall hesitated to take this job. She did not consider herself an expert in this particular scientific field. However, Louis Leakey had faith. Goodall persevered and took this job. In the end, she conveyed her results in a creative manner. In the process, Goodall learned so much about chimpanzees and grew to absolutely love them. Ultimately, Goodall and Leakey both came to understand that if Goodall had known all of the existing theories, she never would be able to observe and explain so many chimp behaviors. Goodall was not blinded by existing beliefs and simply interpreted her results. There is a stark comparison in that Leakey needed Goodall’s ignorance, and Goodall needed Leakey’s knowledge. Comparatively, ignorance helped to spark the creation of Play-Doh. Every child, at one point or another, loved making doughy shapes out of this modeling clay. However, most people often over-look the creation of Play-Doh. Kay Zufall’s career involves a nursery school teacher and mother. In 1954, two years before the creation of Play-Doh, Zufall would often use a similar modeling clay solid in her home and classroom. She found this modeling clay too tough for little hands to mold shapes. Zufall took action. She joined with her brother-in-law, Joe McVicker, …show more content…
In this case, the ignorance is a state of mind. At birth, one does not consider their ignorance, nor intelligence. Instead, the conditions he or she live in and the ways in which the brain processes this information, creates the state of mind. Perhaps a strange creak in the night or a tapping tree branch, prompts him or her to believe what the mind imagines. Similarly, from the October 2015 edition of Quotes about Ignorance, John Lennon states that “living is easy with eyes closed.” When one shuts their eyes to the outside world, it persuades the brain to think on an unintellectual level. Life does not demonstrate difficulty. No struggle and no suffering result. However, people decide to either close their eyes or to keep them open. Either from the environment or the conscience, people bring on this ignorance. One is not born ignorant; one simply becomes ignorant. Uniquely, St. Paul, the holy fool, represents a central motif in the Christian imagination. He takes on the form of various disguises in the literature of Christendom-from Cervantes’s Quixote to Dickens’s Mr. Pickwick. The Christian holy fool represents religion, and therefore happiness. Since St. Paul represents happiness, he also represents ignorance. Others believe St. Paul represents luck, since being ignorant, he does not concern himself with outside struggle. At birth, St. Paul did not possess
Anthropologist, Louis Leakey, hired Goodall to spend two years studying chimpanzees for the very fact of her ignorance. Goodall hesitated to take this job. She did not consider herself an expert in this particular scientific field. However, Louis Leakey had faith. Goodall persevered and took this job. In the end, she conveyed her results in a creative manner. In the process, Goodall learned so much about chimpanzees and grew to absolutely love them. Ultimately, Goodall and Leakey both came to understand that if Goodall had known all of the existing theories, she never would be able to observe and explain so many chimp behaviors. Goodall was not blinded by existing beliefs and simply interpreted her results. There is a stark comparison in that Leakey needed Goodall’s ignorance, and Goodall needed Leakey’s knowledge. Comparatively, ignorance helped to spark the creation of Play-Doh. Every child, at one point or another, loved making doughy shapes out of this modeling clay. However, most people often over-look the creation of Play-Doh. Kay Zufall’s career involves a nursery school teacher and mother. In 1954, two years before the creation of Play-Doh, Zufall would often use a similar modeling clay solid in her home and classroom. She found this modeling clay too tough for little hands to mold shapes. Zufall took action. She joined with her brother-in-law, Joe McVicker, …show more content…
In this case, the ignorance is a state of mind. At birth, one does not consider their ignorance, nor intelligence. Instead, the conditions he or she live in and the ways in which the brain processes this information, creates the state of mind. Perhaps a strange creak in the night or a tapping tree branch, prompts him or her to believe what the mind imagines. Similarly, from the October 2015 edition of Quotes about Ignorance, John Lennon states that “living is easy with eyes closed.” When one shuts their eyes to the outside world, it persuades the brain to think on an unintellectual level. Life does not demonstrate difficulty. No struggle and no suffering result. However, people decide to either close their eyes or to keep them open. Either from the environment or the conscience, people bring on this ignorance. One is not born ignorant; one simply becomes ignorant. Uniquely, St. Paul, the holy fool, represents a central motif in the Christian imagination. He takes on the form of various disguises in the literature of Christendom-from Cervantes’s Quixote to Dickens’s Mr. Pickwick. The Christian holy fool represents religion, and therefore happiness. Since St. Paul represents happiness, he also represents ignorance. Others believe St. Paul represents luck, since being ignorant, he does not concern himself with outside struggle. At birth, St. Paul did not possess