Cassandra Curse

 When the scientists,(I forgot their names) were warning people about the permafrost melting nobody believed them. They tried to warn people who didn’t listen like when Cassandra, a person who could see into the future, but nobody would believe what she had to say. When the Greeks used the Trojan Horse Trick to get through the city of Troy,Cassandra knew as soon as they received the huge wooden horse it was bad. Nobody believed her and they decided to bring it inside the walls protecting the city. They brought the big wooden horse in, and the Greek men jumped out and attacked. Cassandra knew, but nobody would believe her because she did not have enough evidence or proof of anything. The scientists who are warning us about global warming are screaming at us! Most people probably don’t believe them because they probably don’t have enough evidence. This teaches a valuable lesson, it teaches that if you need to get an important point across you need evidence and proof.

Casandra help wanted

There were many deaths in the is time. A proper Casandra sounds very loud because they give speeches to groups and want to be heard . Villages were being burned day to day, rumor says they burned thirty hundreds of villages destroyed killed 2 million people. George W Bush was a christian. Andrew was a very successful person this president was very interested in this place Andrew is a very reliable person to Bush.  There is also a permafrost that affect the roads. If we don't attack this our only home will be destroyed if we keep treating the environment like this so please stop doing what we are doing. 

Are you in disagreement?

Many people disagree about things. If I had to try to convince someone to listen to me I would give them reasons of why I feel the way I do. I wouldn’t argue with them because that might make them feel defensive and make them feel even stronger about there side even more. When trying to make someone understand where you are coming from you have to talk to them not yell at them when they aren’t understanding. I would also find evidence. If you find evidence they are more likely to believe you then if were to just say what you believe and just leave it at that. How would you try to make someone understand where you are coming from?

IDK

If I were trying to tell someone they were wrong, but I still wanted them to believe me after, I would try to tell them that they had a good point. For example, I would tell them most people think that, but it is not right. Only a few people know the truth. I think it would be dumb to just let the person go on thinking that. That is the end. Was it good?

We Need Some Febreze!

We Need Some Febreze!

     

     I don't know if my thoughts would change about the Alaskan tunnel if I was able to visit it. The people on the podcast were really throwing me for a loop when they started to talk about the smell. Will air freshener change the smell? Probably for only like two seconds. I don't know about you but, I am not eager to smell a bunch of rotting organic material. At the same time, it could be interesting to see basically pure history! Yes, your nose hairs will probably burn off but it would be cool to learn even more about why this happens. You could think of it as a historic ice sculpture. Now all you need to do is buy yourself a plane ticket to Alaska (or drive I guess) and don't forget to bring your air freshener!

What Did You Say?

   

What Did You Say?

      While listening to podcast about the Cassandra Curse, I started thinking about how people listen to other people's opinions. Cassandra was predicting the future, but the type of language she spoke in (and many other reasons) made people not believe her. People would be confused on what she was talking about and people wouldn't take her seriously. I learned that you should listen to other people's opinions and think about them instead of being so self-centered.

Impact of ignoring warning.

      Monday and Tuesday, we were listening to Hidden Brain Podcast. It was about Cassandra's curse, and curse of Cassandra that applied to the present life. Cassandra could see the future, but nobody believed her. In the Greek myth, Troy and Greece had war. The war took so long. So Greeks made Trojan Horse. Cassandra warned to do not open the gate, but they ignored. They opened the gate, and  Greeks warriors destroyed the village. When Cassandra went to the Greece for the slave, she warned to Agamemnon about the wife's affair. But Agamemnon ignored it, and he got killed by his wife during the bath. Cassandra's curse applied in real world. There is a giant tunnel in Alaska. It is made of permafrost. When the permafrost melts, it emits extraordinary amount of CO2. Global Warming is getting worse now. The Global Warming melts the permafrost. And the extraordinary amount of CO2 that stored in the permafrost makes Global Warming even worse. Everyone say let's reduce the environmental pollution. But people don't care that much. It makes the Global Warming worse and worse. For the another example, in 1983 the Challenger starcraft exploded in the air because of the malfunction. It happened because NASA ignored the warning. And also Andrew Natsios who leaded the USAID, warned about the terror in Sudan. His warnings and advice had an impact, and U.S. supplied billions of dollars in aid to Sudan over the several years. So, listening to the warning carefully is very important. Since now, you need to listen carefully when somebody warning to you!

Cassandra

I learned that you should really take in consideration what other people tell you because it could lead to bad things happening that you could've avoided if you'd have took the advice from the people. I find it fascinating that people loved to give the higher people advice and help of how to do things.

Cassandra Effect

I think we should listen to warnings because bad stuff could happen later because Cassandra said Troy would fall if they let the horse enter but they did and they all died. So the permafrost will release Carbon Dioxide because of global warming.

Alaskan Tunnel...

In the episode I learned that a "cave" in Alaska has a large amount of fungus and moss, it is releasing carbon outside the cave. The cave contains almost two times as much as the carbon that is on Earth. In the episode, they mention that "permafrost" is affecting the world, permafrost is when a frozen organic matter is starting to thaw (melt) because of the temperature change. If I could go to the cave I would see if the thawing is getting worse and if the fungus is releasing more carbon than before. Do you think that the permafrost and the carbon releasing from the cave will get worse?

CaSsAnDrA cUrSe

What I learned from the Cassandra Curse was that you should always listen to people if they are trying to tell you something. You can get people to listen to you by doing good things and being trust worthy. The Cassandra Curse is a very important lesson to teach people to trust others. When you don't listen to others bad things happen. Like with global warming. People choose to ignore it so the problem just get worse. So we have to do something about it.

Listening to the warning...

              Cassandra could tell the future, so why do people not listen to her? I mean I know I probably won't listen to her to but heed her warnings. Isn't being Cassandra great, everyone thinking you are crazy and having no evidence to prove your fortune telling. One of the things I learned is to listen to warnings. I mean lets see how did the NASA rocket go, or even the horse that was a "present." If people would have listened then this might not have happened in the first place. I mean what would you have done if you were Cassandra or even a person listening to her?

the casandra effect

Casandra was a lady who was cursed her entire life. No one would believe her. She would also speak weirdly. No one could understand her. One night her husband was getting stabbed to death and she started to speak but no one belived her.

Cassandra Effect

I learned that it is important to listen to people's' warnings in a big situation. Like the mistake in N.A.S.A., they launched a rocket without listening to the warnings. It killed about nine people in the rocket. The only reason it exploded is because N.A.S.A. didn't listen to a warning. It is like Cassandra, the other people wouldn't listen to her because she was too far in the future and the other people didn't like that.

ThE cAsSaNdRa EfFeCt #2

How I might have someone listen to me is to get evidence that I said or did it. I would be like a crime scene. Bring some new evidence. If they still didn't believe me I would probably just leave them and say, "If you won't listen to me than bye." At least in my mind that's how it went. Then maybe I would move onto someone else and try to convince them to my thing. The thing that i'm trying to prove would be difficult to convince but maybe someone would believe me.

WHY WON'T ANYONE LISTEN TO ME?????

Cassandra’s Curse… No one would listen to her, but why? Andrew has the answer! You can’t just go around to people saying something bad is going to happen. You need proof, you need to convince them. One way of doing this is your connections with other people. For example, ties with important people like the president or celebrities will get you some points. Or better yet, if you are a celebrity! People will listen to others who are well educated, have personal ties and others’ trust, and who make legitimate sense. Andrew did all of these by providing proof which shows he is well educated. Using his ties with the government to convince other people as a way of showing his personal ties. And finally, by making sense in his way of showing the future or predicting what will happen. Unlike Cassandra, Andrew spoke in a language that people can understand; politics, English, and pictures. He used the present to predict the future instead of being ahead of everyone and just saying things like Cassandra. These are all ways to convince and show people what is happening. Don’t be Cassandra. She’s too confusing! If you’re logical, you’ll know what to do! Now all you need to do is ask yourself, am I Andrew or Cassandra?

This is Cassandra...          It's too confusing!!!

эффект кассандры или то, что я не слушал

So The Cassandra Effect (aka the people don't care effect) is down it's most basic of definitions is where someone (or a group of wild someones) won't listen to what you have to say. Now this can be actually a very big problem, in the grand scheme of things, you know especially if you're considering the fact that even if you have to say is backed-up by facts and reasoning no one's gonna listen to you if there's no proof of you having past experience or are of a higher authority (which can be very annoying sometimes).  Ya' hear that folks even if what you're saying could saves thousands of peoples lives, you'll never be listened to unless you're a prominent figure.

Now I've never heard about The Cassandra Effect before, but I had heard about what it is. So really doesn't that just prove another point, in where people will know and understand something but never what it's called or what it stems from.

But now this raises a question, how do you get people to listen to you? Well you can use what I like to call The Puppet Effect, which is where you convince someone that things you came up with or told them was their idea instead of yours. Now this may seem complicated but really it's simple physiology, people are more likely to act upon something if they believe that they played a part in the creation of the idea, object, plan, etc. So yeah mind manipulation is a pretty decent way of getting your point across, even you have to use others to get it.

Mm what do I put after this? Oh I can end it here. Cool. The end I guess.

Mistrusting Mistakes

I learned how important it can be to trust someone in a big situation. But it can be really hard to know what they are saying is right. Nobody believed Cassandra because she was not an insider and she was too far ahead of everybody else. But people believed Andrew and he was able to convince President Bush. I think Andrew was better at talking and explaining then Cassandra. If I was convincing someone I would have done what Andrew did and have some evidence or information to help support my side. We need to try really hard to convince someone in power to take action. We would need to be really convincing and explain what would happen if we didn't take action. I would list the consequences. It would be hard to explain to people how there is the Alaskan tunnel and the things that are down there. It would be hard to convince people about it. This is because I doubt anybody knows about it. But someone still needs to try to convince people to take action there. Will you try and convince someone about something bad to happen in the future?

The Right Way To Success

In my opinion, Cassandra’s Curse taught me many lessons.
However, one lesson that stood out to me was the fact that
you can convince others by the way you behave, the types
of people you know, and the way you talk to them. At first,
I just thought that knowing what you have to tell them
would be enough, but I later found out that people are more
easily convinced by many other reasons far beyond the
words you say. For example, Cassandra was always ahead of
everyone and spoke very confusingly, so it was extremely
difficult for people to follow along with what she was
saying. However, Andrew, who managed to convince
Bush, knew many presidents, got real charts and pictures,
and was different from Cassandra overall in behavior.
So, one could never get their point across and make
people believe in them while the other could easily.
Now, how do you convince others, and does it usually work?

The Curse is Real!

You know those times on the subway where you get on the E line when you're supposed to get on the D line and you end up going the wrong way? You tell your parents many times in advance, but they don't listen, and by then you're already really far away from the destination? Well, you might have the Cassandra Curse! It originated in Greece with a woman who already knew about things in advance, but nobody would listen. You can apply this in real life to the example, or to when the Challenger space shuttle explosion. In 1986, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after taking off. You know that rubber ring at the cap of your water bottle? That's an O-ring, and it is used to keep the water from leaking. If it is cracked, then it would leak. It is similar the the Challenger incident. In this case, the O-ring leaked gas. People tried to warn about that it would be safer to replace the ring, but instead the mission was given the go-ahead. Here's a question for you: are you cursed? 

BONUS: Since we have super undeveloped transportation, here's a more relatable example. Say that you and a friend having a good time in Downtown and you need to cross the street to get to the IceCream Store. You go to a crosswalk, and the signal takes forever to change, and it is stuck on the Red Standing-Still Man. Your friend says, "Let's just go, it'll take forever to change," while you say, "Come on, how dumb are you!? You need to wait for the Green Walking Man to appear or else it's jaywalking and you'll get run over by something." Your friend ignores you, and crosses anyway. He says, "I see those all the time on TV." Annoyed, you say, "...those are anti-jaywalking PSAs." Just then, a big tram (wait I thought we had bad transportation and our trams look super ugly anyway) and your friend gets run over. That shows how bad the curse can be. The End.