Whats a Point of View?

Answer 1

Point of View is all about perspective from one person, whether the perspective is a visual one, meaning what can be seen from that person's range of view, or even an opinion, such as one person's take on a situation, and how they "see" it all, compared to another person's "point of view".

Answer 2

It's your own opinion or thought or view of a subject like a body or a thought. For instance you could be for or against "hanging for murder". Also suppose somebody writes the number 9 on his page and you are looking at it from the opposite side, so to you it will appear to be 6 and you will both be correct depending on your "point of view".

Answer 3

In literature, or in life, it is a situation as a certain person sees it. A teenage girl discusses getting a cellphone with her mother. To her it is a social neccessity that all of her friends have, and that she will be handicapped and mega-dorky without. Mom may know this, but also thinks of the possibility of huge roaming charges, homework distraction, unknowing involvement in scams, and other dangers.
Mom and daughter have different points of view. In life, if they can mentally put themselves in the other's place, understanding occurs. If they argue, it doesn't.
An arguement is basicly insisting that your POV is right and the other person's is wrong, and though common, adds to tension and lessens understanding.
Different POVs makes for dramatic tension in literature, and divorces in real life.
Okay?

Answer 4

My point of view to people asking for other's to do their homework is that it is wrong and unethical.

Answer 5

The position from which something is seen. Commonly used as a literary term.

Answer 6

the way you or somebody else see something like your side of the story

Answer 7

An opinion.

Answer 8

One of the primary ingredient in Relativity.

You are on a moving bus and there is a hole in the bottom of the bus and you drop an object down that hole. From your point of view it drops straight down.

From outside the bus, on the sidewalk, paraelle to the bus, while standing still, that ball is droping down while moving forward with the bus.

In a moving vehicle it looks to be dropping straight down.

If you are moving faster, it is going down and backwards.

Looking at it from behind or in front, it looks like it is going straight down.

Different people from differenent advantage points describe the event differently.

All these observations are true to the point of view of the observer.

This, however, is where the two end.

The Relativistic point of view also takes into account the Earth is rushing around the sun at a given speed, the Sun is rushing through space at a given speed

BUT, no one can pin down exactly what those parameters are because there is no such a thing as a point of reference with NO motion.

That's deep thinking.

You get into an elevator going UP and as the car starts moving you drop that ball it moves to the floor at a different rate than when the car starting moving DOWN and you drop the ball.

A differential of inertia. As the car starts to move the BALL is at the inertia of the speed of gravity. As the elevtor moves downward that speed of SPACE around that ball changes and the ball goes slowly down or might even stop or move upwards slightly.

That's point of view in Relatiavistic time and space.

Which has nothing to do with what you are writing about, but it does clarify point of view.

But does the BALL actually move UPWARDS or is it just falling at a lower rate of speed as inertia and gravity have become sepated.

The elephant parts concept is similar. Three blind men standing at different places around an elephant trying to describe the animal by what they feel.

What we see is based upon agreeing on terms.

The sky IS blue. Not pink.

We could have called the sky pink, but we didn't.

Some languages name the color after an object of the same color. Turquoise, for example.

Shakespeare said: "That which we call a rose, by any other name, would still smell..."

I won't finish it, because "sweet" is a point of view. Of course, if you don't have a sense of smell it wouldn't smell either, but the throns would still prick you, even if it called a Rose a Fluffy Pillow!

Semantics is playing with words to alter meanings of things.

Terrorist
Freedom Fighter

Explorer or Traveller
Trespasser

Homesteader
Squatter

Apple Picker
Plunderer or Theif

Liberator
Colonialist or Revolutionary or Imperialist

Free thinker
Radical

Conservative
Patrarichial

Freedomist (I know, it's not a word, but it makes a point)
Anarcist

In cinematic terms a low angle looking up at someone, makes them taller, fearcer, more dominate.

That's why Judges sit high up in a court looking down at little old you.

When you shoot doward it make the person smaller, more humble, less fearful.

Point of view requires a reference. In cinema there is an invisible line on the stage and you can't cross it without losing your audience because they have no refrence point.

Hence you must give them a reference point. A different angle. A different point of view with elements of the first point of view included.

You enter a big room through a doorway. Someone is standing at a window outside of view.

You change angles (point of view) to show BOTH people and the doorway and the window.

NOW you can cut anywhere you like on both people.

Another way to do it is to have the person outside of view speak and the other person turn their head to face them. Now you have set the stage.

Without a point of reference (that point of NO MOTION in relativity) you don't know which way is up, down, left or right.

In realtivity light is the point of reference, a constant.

The light on the nose of a plane does not travel at the speed of light plus the speed of the plane. It travels at the speed of light.

Once you have that fixed point from which to draw, you can then start to make some conclusions on what you see and know, relative to your point of view or some point of view.

Real world examples. Vietnam and Iraq. The cases are the same.

The people have lives, homes, jobs and do things.

In Vietnam they grew rice, harvested it to eat and maybe to sell.

In Iraq they made falafal sandwhichs.

They could care less who is in power, what idiology is in play. So long as they kept to themselves they could live life and survive.

Now people start fighting over idiology and burn your rice patties, kill your oxen, destroy your falafel store and they have to worry about car bombs, snipers and things they didn't worry about last year.

Yeah, sure a Sadam might come and take someone away or maybe 200 people would vanish here and there.

Now it's happening all the time and from both sides.

So, from the POINT OF VIEW of John Doe, average citizen, what does the American Liberator look like?

This is NOT the same as it looked to Nazi Occupied France or Holland or Austria, where the American or British Soliders RESTORED their previous way of life, even though the buildings were destoryed and oxen were killed.

The people in Iraq or Vietnam KNEW new previous way of life. Life was what life was and now it's vastly different and not for the better.

That's a point of view.

In Iraq and Vietnam, they look at Americans like the Italians looked at the Germans at the end of the war, when they blew up tanks. German tanks.

Point of view. You have to imagine the world from their angle of view.

Some old farmer in Vietnam who's lived there all his life and didn't even know there was a war going on, one day has American or North Vietnames soldiers trampling on his rice, shooting at each other, shooting at him, shooting at his animals, splling blood and dead bodies into his rice.

Does he love either side!?

YOu just ruined his food supply for half a year!

He hates you both!

And the Americans and North Vietnames are both telling him they are there to make his life better!

In a pig's eye, is his point of view!

Point of view

Another look at relativistic thinking.

You are on the Earth. You stand still. It seems motionaless, except for some winds. The sun, Moon and Stars all go past you. Obviously, it is THEY they must be moving, for you are standing still!

Point of view.

Galelleo points a telescope up at the moon and see craters and see a black line move across them, a shadow.

He looks at Venus, which only goes up so high and then goes back down again. He see the same shadow.

Ah, venus and the Moon must be traveling around the sun. But, why is Venus not out all night. Maybe it's because it is closer to the Sun than the Earth and the Earth also travels around the sun.

But what of the moon? It's out all the time. Maybe it travels around the Earth.

A point of view when observing from a different perspective.

Get a paint program and make a large RED circle a solid color.

It's a circle, right?

How select the color white, make a smaller circle and use the AIR BRUSH setting then make a smaller circle near the upper right limb.

Now you have added and illusion to that circle that makes it look like a sphere!

You ahve "shinned" a light on it and made it look ROUND in all directions.

It's an illusion, however. A fooly.

But, by changing from the XY coordinate system to the XYZ coordinate system, even on a flat field, you have given DEPTH to the object.

Go outside and walk 4 miles down the road. Are you walking on a flat surface?

The road seems flat, but how come you can't see your house anymore.

IF we were to build a sidewalk that encirlced the Earth you would walk out the door and walk and walk and walk and eventually return to your home without ever turning around and goiong back.

We're back to Relativity again.

Were you walking straight?

Point of view.

You see the ant on the beach ball but the ant only sees the horizon and ball beneath their feet.

The world is how you preceive it.

Point of view.

Elephant parts.

All things are relative to your position in the universe.

Your point of reference.

Might as well give Religion a nod.

One wise man said.

How can you remove the cinder from someone's eye, where you have tree limb stuck in your own eye!

That's a metaphor.

YOu can't see what is moving, the Earth or the Sun and stars, until you widen your grasp of the universe from just one point of view.

That's relativistic thinking at it's most simplistic levels.

One final example. I have a bad eye, hence I see with one eye. Hence, I can't play Tennis because I do not see an XYZ world, I see an XY world. My point of view.

I could NEVER see the strike zone for baseball when I was up at bad.

NEVER.

I live in a flat world.

I am able to drive a car, because I never let the bumper of the car in front of me vanish below the hood of my car.

That is how I judge distance.

I have NO concept of how YOU judge distance with two eyes, because I've never know that point of view.

It was a psychological handicap to me that made me feel inferior because people would laugh as I swang wildly at base balls and tennis balls.

When you're 10 or 12, that can be devistating.

It wasn't until later adulthood that I realized I live in a flat world and most other people do not.

That's how point of view affects you and your perception of things.