Blog #9 - RLS: How to kill a mockingbird


In what ways does this engage with Reason and emotion as ways of knowing?
The reason as a way of knowing engages with the reader when the text often includes elements of context throughout the text. The idea is so that the constant use of factual historical evidence “same language that concerned the school system in 1984” appeals to our logic that the text is credible and knowledgeable in the subject matter. As seen tied in with the United States history “we could illustrate in the history of the U.S. censorship with countless other books” Therefore, our reason leads us to believe that the article is true.

Emotion is directly engaged with the reader when the text uses harsh terminology like “yanked from an eighth-grade reading list”. This appeals to emotions as the idea of provoking someone as young as an eighth-grader something as innocent as a book creates an immediate scenic of prejudice against the school district for doing such. 

What knowledge claims seem to be at work in this text? 
There seems to be a lot of first-order knowledge claims, where the writer puts a lot of factual claims that seems to make the reader feel that the writer is credible in the subject matter and effectively backs up the text factually.

There also appears to be a range of second-order claim that is met to serve as a framework as to how we should approach comprehension of the first order knowledge claims. “the n-word, which this newspaper sensors and which Harper Lee potentially did not when she wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel about racism in the United States”

Hoes does your understanding of reason and emotion as WOKs and arts as WOKs help you understand this RLS. 
Form my understanding, simply we can look at an RLS from two angles, one that is from an emotional viewpoint, although that in it’s self is not tangible, you can’t take it anywhere. It simply is very for an individual to think for themselves. We rely on reason to elaborate on our emotions to an extent that makes it tangible and possible to explain our emotions. Often times understanding the main causes of an emotion is the best way to feel emotion as of in the shoes of the person in question.

Write a KQ that you could use for a TOK presentation in regard to this RLS?
To what extent can we predict the future implication of anything based on the past?

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