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Senses: Sight: I saw the scenery on the way to Dubai as I was in the car for 2 hours and therefore spent most of my time looking outside of the window, as the scenery changed. Touch: Touching the puppies at my friends house. It was very relaxing and soothing. They were extremely soft. Hear: Listen to music on the way to Dubai and on the way back. Taste: Tasting the food that my friends mother made at her house. It was very tasty. Smell: At my friends house there were three different candles that were lit, one was vanilla, one was berries, and one was citrus. Knowledge Claim: I could smell each different candle as I approached the position of the candles. Knowledge Question: Did the scenery change as you drove by Abu Dhabi into Dubai.

Website: http://longnews.org Salt Crystals and Selfies: Curiosity after the Seven Minutes of Terror This article talks about "rice shaped salt crystals" that suggest a past cycle of wet and dry conditions required for supporting microbial life. The rover, Curiosity, also takes a selfie. This event will still be viewed as important as research conducted towards Mars will continuously improve and more things will be discovered, therefore every step of the journey will be deemed important as it has affected findings relating to Mars in some way. It could potentially be viewed highly important by NASA scientists or individuals really interested in space and astronomy, however not as highly important by individuals who lack an interest in this field. Therefore they would be less emotionally inclined to react to this piece of information as well as have a lesser amount of faith in this operation and not be able to imagine life on Mars.

History by definition is "the study of past events, particularly in human affair." Nevertheless, is so much more. It is an insight to how life was when we as individuals weren't in existence and analyze life then and now. The ways of knowing for the theory of knowledge include, reason, sense perception, emotion, faith, intuition, imagination, memory, and language. When it comes to the branch of study of history, the significant ways of knowing associated with history are memory, language, sense perception, and emotion. There might be slight aspects of imagination incorporated through the study of history, however this field is more factual and conceptual based and therefore only consists of hard facts.