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In the articles I read by Victoria Vesna there was suggestion of this 3rd culture. This togetherness between arts and sciences. Furthermore another article by C. P. Snow continues to speak on how the scientists may dismiss the humanities as irrelevant the same way literary scholars may take pride on their ignorance of basic scientific concepts. I see this divide in the UCLA campus because while my arts classes have been on one side of campus where you can see the sculpture garden and my science courses have been on the opposite side of campus.

This perspective just continues to support that both of these groups are very interchangeable. Such as, throughout life there has been a separation of the sciences and the artists. In my life I would see this by the different ways that these two groups of people are viewed, one is viewed as something beautiful and the other is viewed as intelligent, however these are characteristics that are interchangeable between both. Last quarter I took an art class and I learned about Iris by Van Gogh, the intelligence in the color wheel and how to precisely make a piece flow is a big part of what makes him the large artist he is known to be. And the flow, beauty and patience in learning and applying science makes it much like art as well. 


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These perspectives will be something I continue to carry on with me throughout my time at UCLA because I think it is important for each person to try to collide these two groups of people again. There are many scientists that may be artist as well as artist that can be scientist. As David Bohm suggests, true creativity comes when breaking free from the ideas that society has instilled in you already but thinking beyond that is what is most freeing. 

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