Then it hit me that the shots I was hearing weren’t hunting shots. At first I didn’t think anything of it because here in Montana when you here a shot go off it’s usually somebody hunting in a nearby farm. We were just sitting out in her yard on evening, and in the hour that we were out there I probably heard eight gun shots go off that weren’t close to us but they were towards the main part of the city.
While I was there I saw how crime is a really big issue in larger cities. Then I took a trip to Phoenix Arizona one summer to visit my aunt. I used to think that crime was an unusual thing that never happened here in Montana. It is kind of weird to think that just by changing something as insignificant as graffiti will have an effect on something as big as the crime rate.
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I thought it was interesting how he talked about the crime rates declining in New York City just because of a subway car being cleaned and not full of graffiti. It is really true that if the building you are in or the classroom that you have to go to will make you not want to go to it just because of how it looks. In the short essay “Power of Context” the author Malcolm Gladwell did a good job in showing how people will act differently in curtain environments. This is what I got from the essay which was kind of hard to understand.
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There was one book that nobody could ever find that contained hints on how to decode the books and man was always looking for this book but could never find it. The information that was in the books was the key to how the universe works and how to live a successful life. In this essay, man was the librarian of the library and was trying to decode the books. There were an infinite amount of books that were all written with the twenty five orthographic symbols. There was a book in the library that would be written exactly the same as another but with only one microscopic difference.
In the library there were books that would only contain curtain letters that would be in a language that couldn’t be understood, or it would repeat a curtain set of letters over and over. In the short essay, “The Library of Babel”, was a comparison of a huge never ending library that had hexagonal floors with a stair case, and the humans trying to figure out how life and the universe works. And they did this without seeing what they were doing or being told how to do it. It was crazy that they put the cemetery as far away from the colony as they could and also as far away from their trash pile. It shows that they respect their dead just as humans do. I also thought it was interesting how the ants had a cemetery for their dead. When really they are just doing these things by instinct of what their genetic genes tell them to do. It is weird that the ants do these jobs without being told to do them and that everything all seems to have been organized by the governing ant such as the Queen, who made the plans for the jobs or that, controlled the colony. Because of a joined team effort they all get food. Such as the example of the ants all doing their little jobs that may seem worthless but without the ants doing these jobs the colony won’t survive. It is so true how every part of a complex system has its own way of working and it doesn’t need any one or thing to tell it how to do its job.
“The Myth of the Ant Queen” by Steven Johnson was an interesting essay on complex systems.
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