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Many times when I start writing my papers I get stuck just at the beginning. I need more time thinking on what I want to write and usually by the end of the page I end up crossing most of it. I write down different ideas and in some cases I throw some of them out at the end. Sometimes my first drafts look really bad. They are many pages long, but most of the writing on them is crossed out. This article helped me realize that even the famous writers go through that kind of process and that my first drafts are probably always “shitty�, even when I think they are pretty good.
By writing a first draft I have the chance to leave it on the side for a day and then come back to it and correct the mistakes I haven’t caught earlier. It gives me the time to think more about what I have written and maybe expand my explanations and make my final draft better. It is a way to organize my thoughts and make sure that the reader clearly understands the message I want to send.

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Everyone has different knowledge on a given topic and it has influence on his perception. The things we know determine how we see the world around us; they shape our beliefs and thinking. In his article Berger presents to us the idea of how learning new information about a piece of art, a painting for example, changes our perception. His example is Vincent van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows. By giving us more details on the history behind the actual painting he makes us look even closer and question our own opinion. Suddenly everything makes sense-the dark feeling, the emptiness, etc. The fact that this painting was the last piece Gogh painted before he killed himself makes us go deeper into the image, appreciate and understand it. Through this example Berger points out how knowledge is a huge part of the way we look at our surrounding. What we have learned helped us build our understanding of how other people saw the world around them, how they felt and what they wanted. But that doesn’t mean that everybody sees the same image and story. Knowledge just gives us the chance to notice things we couldn’t before.

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