Are some types of knowledge less open to interpretation than others? 932 words Anglis, Jaclyn. “'My Wife and My Mother-in-Law' Optical Illusion Explained.” Woman's World, 6 Jan. 2020, www.womansworld.com/posts/entertainment/my-wife-and-my-mother-in-law-166601 My wife and mother in law by William HillMy favorite optical illusion, created by William Hill in 1915, has been popular for over a century. When viewing the drawing some see a young woman; others see an elderly woman. Viewers often have trouble identifying both images. They have a tendency to only see the image they first identify. This drawing is appropriate for this exhibition because of the multiple perspectives with it. Different viewers see a different image. Also, I found that what others see can influence what people see first. When I said “Look at the old lady in the picture” to people, they more often saw the old lady first. Almost as if someone else’s personal knowledge influenced others. My personal knowledge in some ways became shared knowledge. Additionally, our preconceived knowledge of what a young lady and old woman should look like also affects what is seen. If you aren’t used to seeing a young lady with a fancy hat like that, you’ll have a hard time seeing her in the image. In our time period, fur coats are rarely seen unless it’s by a celebrity. This also could influence the viewer. I couldn’t find a lot of context as to why WIlliam created this. All he said was “ both women are in the picture. Find them.” A study in Australia asked 393 people which person they saw first and concluded that the younger group saw the wife first and the older group saw the mother-in-law first. The area of knowledge, art, is very open to interpretation. Art can be interpreted in many different ways. Some nowhere near what the illustrator intended. Softball rulebook- Reports, From Staff. “Rob Shannon Softball Tournament Turns the Big 5-0 This Weekend.” The Daily Journal, Vineland Daily Journal, 16 Sept. 2021, www.thedailyjournal.com/story/sports/2021/09/16/rob-shannon-softball-tournament-turns-big-5-0-weeken d/8370654002/ Softball, created in 1877, started out as just indoor baseball. Since, many of the rules have changed over the years to the sport we know today. The rule book was published in 1994 and has left little room for interpretation. It is commonly known that after three strikes, you’re out and three outs means that you switch sides. A lot of rules are black and white, but some rules are left for the individual team to decide. For example, how big the field is & the umpires strike zone are things left up to interpretation. A way of knowing, reason, can be linked to softball because the umpires call strikes and balls based on what they think the zone should look like. I’ve been playing softball for six years, so I wanted to tie it to my exhibition. This book relates to the exhibition because it's an example of knowledge that leaves little room for interpretation. When writing the rules, the authors had no intention of the rules changing later. You could connect the rulebook to some of the ways of knowing like language, reason and memory. It connects to language because there are many terms that softball players must know. Some are well known throughout softball and some are made individual for each team.If you get the ball, make sure she's not going home and if she isn’t, throw the ball to first. There is also an unspoken language in softball. This includes signs that let the players know how to put the ball in play and if they're on base, whether to steal or not. Reason connects to softball because you need good judgement when there’s more than one person on base. You should always try to get the lead runner out, but if that doesn’t work, you need to know where to throw the ball. Memory is key in softball to remember all the signs, language, and how to play your position and what to do in certain situations. Constitution Somin, Ilya. “Opinion | Public Ignorance about the Constitution.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 23 Oct. 2021, www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/09/15/public-ignorance-about-the-constitution /. The constitution was created in September 1787 to create a strong federal government for the United States. After debate and revision, the first constitution started off with 12 amendments and 10 of them were the bill of rights. James Madison didn’t believe the fundamental amendments would change, but he knew more would be added. For example, he wanted a bill of rights that would prevent both federal and state from violating basic liberties that weren't there at the time. This is now what we know as the 14th amendment. His values and beliefs altered how he wanted the constitution to be interpreted. This Constitution ties into the exhibition because it's an example of knowledge that varies with interpretation. If we go back to the first time that the interpretation of the constitution was challenged, we see that Alexander Hamilton and the federalists supported the loose interpretation, while Thomas Jefferson believed in strict interpretation. Their differing perspectives affected how they saw the foundation of the American government. To this day, the constitution is left open to interpretation by judges and lawyers and is skewed by their reasoning, faith, and perspectives. These three themes are all ways of knowing. For example, the eighth amendment is very controversial in court. This amendment prohibits the federal government from giving cruel and unusual punishment to criminal defendants. The Hudson vs. McMillian case in 1992 was about a prisoner who was handcuffed by two officers and beaten until his teeth were loose. Seven supreme court justices ruled that this was cruel punishment, while Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas disagreed. Their morals and perspective on the situation led them to believe that the punishment the prisoner got was nothing to be alarmed of. These two justices were originalists, so they believed that the constitution should have the same meaning currently that it would have had back when it was written. The ways of knowing ; reason, faith, and perspective, all determine how different groups of people interpret and apply the constitution. Object 3 "National Constitution Center." National Constitution Center – Constitutioncenter.org. Web. "Eighth Amendment." Court, Punishments, Punishment, and Cruel - JRank Articles. Web. Calabresi, Steven G., Richard R. Beeman, Jeffrey Rosen & David Rubenstein, and Robert Post & Reva Siegel. "On Originalism in Constitutional Interpretation." On Originalism in Constitutional Interpretation | The National Constitution Center. Web. Object 2 International Softball Federation Playing Rules Committee. 2014, https://www.baseball-softball.de/wp-content/uploads/Softball-Rules-2014-2017-English.pdf. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021. Object 1 Anglis, Jaclyn. "'My Wife and My Mother-in-Law' Optical Illusion Explained." Woman's World. 06 Jan. 2020. Web Nicholls, Michael E. R., Owen Churches, and Tobias Loetscher. "Perception of an Ambiguous Figure Is Affected by Own-age Social Biases." Nature News. Nature Publishing Group, 23 Aug. 2018. Web. "My Wife and My Mother-in-law. They Are Both in This Picture--find Them / Drawn by W.E. Hill." The Library of Congress. Web.
