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Friday, February 29, 2008

The Heisenberg principle of uncertainty

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) was one of the inventors of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg was the leader of Hitler's atomic bomb project during World War II. After the war, he claimed that he had deliberately sabotaged the Nazi bomb effort. Heisenberg was an astonishing physicist. After World War II, he admitted to sabotaging the success of the atomic bomb for Germany. If he did indeed sabotage the bomb, it may have drastically altered the outcome of the war and history as we know it. However, the validity of his confession is a bit sketchy in that why would he sabotage the sabotage something that he dedicated years of blood, sweat, tears, and research to for the enemy? He announced his "uncertainty principle" at age 26. The Heisenberg is also known as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle or Indeterminacy principle. No matter how autodidactic a person is, it takes a superior mind to read between the lines of Heisenberg's mathematical non sequiturs.
"I have tried several times to read and although I think I understand quantum mechanics, I have never understood Heisenberg's motivations for the mathematical steps ..." acknowledged the Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg.
According to physist Thomson Gale, The Uncertainty principle is a fundamental postulate of quantum theory used to describe the behavior of energy and matter on atomic and subatomic scale that states that two complementary properties of a system (i.e., the position and momentum of an electron) can never both be measured exactly. In this regard the Uncertainty principle established a limit to the accuracy of measurement. Moreover, the Uncertainty principle specifies that the measurement of a system alters the system.
The affect of the Heisenberg Principle is the increasing of accuracy on measurements of an observable quantity, thereby amplifying the uncertainty with which another conjugate amount may be recognized.

Friday, February 22, 2008

RAW REPORT RESEARCH

To find information about my topic I went to the source. I referenced you tube as well as viewed the Shawty Lo edition of Raw Report. On YouTube I searched Shawty Lo and his Raw Report edition immediately came up. Since I had already seen the DVD numerous times, I looked up information I did not already have prior knowledge of, mainly the directors. I then took notes and wrote down key points about the directors. I decided to look on YouTube because I deeply feel that there is no source greater than the direct foundation. It is most hard to find new information about something that you are already pretty well familiar with prior to doing an assignment. I also followed link after link until I found myself in the midst of a place I had never been, the official Raw Report web site. Here I found even more data which I took notes on. I took notes on the real purpose of the Raw Report DVD series which has been manipulated. The perception is that it puts forth a image of violence and illegal activity there by unconsciously permanently burning there still images into the heads of urban youth however, the site states that it was first made up to promote the business, legal , political, and social aspects of the Hip Hop world. The advantages in looking directly at the source you are making an argument about are that you get the greatest supply of information. I also used other sources to gather facts about my topic. I looked at other rapper’s Raw Report segments and compared and contrasted different things, such as environments, influences and methods of explaining past events. My research helps my ethos appeal because it strengthens my argument by gives my paper a foundation.

Friday, February 15, 2008

The Author, Why He is credible, Why It Interests Me

The source that I chosen to explore was the phenomenal book under the title “Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations” which was a co- written book by the great Ronald L. Jackson and Elaine B. Richardson. I chose this book over all of the others because it offers a comprehensive survey of African American rhetoric within a broad historical context. It also explores the major cultural and theoretical issues that we face all throughout society. The authors of this incrediable book use great ethos by inputting the general thoughts of scholars on these certain topics such as Charles Hurst, Molefi Asante, Jack Daniel, Dorthy Pennington, Lucia Hawthorne and Lyndrey Niles, thereby increasing their credibility immensely. Throughout the few opening pages of the book, the authors tell about how the issue of African American rhetoric has long since been abandoned and is no longer taught to the younger generations. The counter to this alarming increasing problem according to Ronald L. Jackson and Elaine B. Richardson is to teach nommo to graduate students in the form of Malcolm X’s teachings and works. Nommo is the generative power of spoken word.