In rhetoric, chiasmus (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, "to shape like the letter Χ") is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism. Chiasmus was particularly popular in the literature of the ancient world, including Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, where it was used to articulate the balance of order within the text. As a popular example, many long and complex chiasmi have been found in Shakespeare and the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible.[1][2] It is also found throughout the Quran[3] and the Book of Mormon.[4][5]
Today, chiasmus is applied fairly broadly to any "criss-cross" structure, although in classical rhetoric it was distinguished from other similar devices, such as the antimetabole.[citation needed] In its classical application, chiasmus would have been used for structures that do not repeat the same words and phrases, but invert a sentence's grammatical structure or ideas. The concept of chiasmus on a higher level, applied to motifs, turns of phrase, or whole passages, is called chiastic structure.
The elements of simple chiasmus are often labelled in the form A B B A, where the letters correspond to grammar, words, or meaning. For example John F. Kennedy said, "ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country".
Square 4: A finite table of instructions that, given the state(qi) the machine is currently in and the symbol it is reading on the tape (symbol currently under the head), tells the machine to do the following in sequence (for the 5-tuple models):
Either erase or write a symbol (replacing aj with aj1), and then
Move the head (which is described by dk and can have values: 'L' for one step left or 'R' for one step right or 'N' for staying in the same place), and then
Assume the same or a new state as prescribed (go to state qi1).
In the 4-tuple models, erasing or writing a symbol (aj1) and moving the head left or right (dk) are specified as separate instructions. Specifically, the table tells the machine to (ia) erase or write a symbol or (ib) move the head left or right, and then (ii) assume the same or a new state as prescribed, but not both actions (ia) and (ib) in the same instruction. In some models, if there is no entry in the table for the current combination of symbol and state then the machine will halt; other models require all entries to be filled.
Note that every part of the machine (i.e. its state, symbol-collections, and used tape at any given time) and its actions (such as printing, erasing and tape motion) is finite, discrete and distinguishable; it is the unlimited amount of tape and runtime that gives it an unbounded amount of storage space.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a 1985 American/Japanese film co-written and directed by Paul Schrader. The film is based on the life and work of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, interweaving episodes from his life with dramatizations of segments from his books The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. It was executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas
In his book The Apocalypse Unsealed (1981), Robert F. Riggs lists the swastika as one of several variations of the quadratura circuli, other examples being oriental mandalas and the Latin cross with the circle of eternity (i.e. the Celtic cross). He notes that the Tetrad 4 (square, cross, or cube) symbolizes the world of man, and a circle (or sphere) symbolizes heaven, the realm of the spirit, and heavenly virtues. As such, the combination of circles, crosses, spheres, and cubes, as found in various forms of the quadratura circuli, symbolize the union of heaven and earth
Arthur C Clark along with Issac Asimov and Robert A Heinlein, is considered one of the best science fiction writers of all time. He is known for his Space Odyssey series which is four books
Square 1: 2001: A Space Odyssey — film and novel — produced concurrently and released in 1968
Square 2: 2010: Odyssey Two — 1982 novel, adapted as the 1984 film 2010 with screenplay by Peter Hyams
Square 3: 2061: Odyssey Three — 1987 novel
Square 4: 3001: The Final Odyssey — 1997 novel
Each of the novels are different. But the fourth is a lot different from the first three, the nature of the quadrant model pattern. Although they are all connected, which is the nature of the quadrant model pattern. Clarke consistently stated that each of the Odyssey novels takes place in its own separate parallel universe—this is demonstrated by the facts that the monoliths are still in existence at the end of 2010: Odyssey Two and that Floyd is no longer part of the trinity formed at the end of 2061: Odyssey Three. These parallel universes are a part of Clarke's retroactive continuity.
The monolith is different from that in the earlier novels. In particular, the 2001 monolith was capable of faster-than-light transmission, and was generally portrayed as both less malevolent and more of a thinking entity than the one seen in this novel (in particular, Dave Bowman's transcendence as a star child is now explained as a mundane case of being up-loaded onto a computer).
The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of
Square 1: Valinor,
Square 2: Beleriand,
Square 3: Númenor, and
Square 4: Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place.
Tolkein is considered one of the best writers of all time and his writings are seen to have highly religious significance.
In Tolkien's cosmology, Arda (the Earth) is at first created without the Sun and Moon to illumine it, and its earliest history is measured in Valian Years (V.Y.). After the creation of the Trees of the Valar, a new tally of Years of the Trees is begun in V.Y. 3501. In about V.Y. 4550, at the First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar begins with the Awakening of the Elves.
The four ages of Tolkeins' books fit the quadrant model pattern.
Lord of the Rings by Tolkein is consider one of the greatest works of fairy tale in history. Four types of beings fight against the evil Sauron in the book. Sauron is represented by the eye that a lot of people associate with the illuminati. They are
Square 1: elves. The elves are very spiritual and mental and kind of weird like the idealists.
Square 3:dwarfs are superficial and like gold like the artisans and are bad asses
Square 3: humans are rational and there are some though who are like elves and some who are like dwarfs. Some even descend from elves but some act more like dwarfs. The wizards are humans that are very powerful like Gandalf.
Square 2: hobbit. The messiah Frodo comes from the hobbits. The hobbits are simple and pleasant and good like guardians.
Square 4:humans are rational and there are some though who are like elves and some who are like dwarfs. Some even descend from elves but some act more like dwarfs. The wizards are humans that are very powerful like Gandalf. The other creatures are fictional. Humans are different.
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his work Twilight of the Idols, perhaps primarily known for the immortal maxim: "Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.", pointed out the four great errors which we constantly use to misinterpret reality and thus create many illusions that are used to show the world in a more convenient light for us.
Square 1: The first error, which is also the most dangerous one, is mistaking the cause and effect, or in another words, mistaking the effect for the cause; an error that is the most recent and yet the most ancient habit of humankind, as Nietzsche says. This error is even praised by people as religion and morality, which always try to limit them with encouragement or prohibition of certain actions. Religion and morality supposes that man is, for example, ruined by certain vices like luxury or alcoholism and regard them as the cause of his downfall. But that is actually only the effect of his psychological deterioration, because he didn't have the strength to overcome or resist the hardships in life which he faced, so he instead turned to stronger and more frequent bodily stimulations to avoid confrontation with them. This inability to handle the unpleasant things in life is really the cause of his state of mind, and those vices are merely the effects, i.e. the actual representations of the cause.
Square 2: The second error is that of a false causality. People, in their insecurity about themselves when compared to a far more greater and intricate system in which they live in, tend to invent causes that they think are behind their actions. This is especially evident in the "inner facts", as Nietzsche called them, which include the will, the ego and the spirit. Nietzsche argued that there are no mental causes whatsoever (causes that originate from will) and opposed the above mentioned human tendency which viewed the world through mental causes. With these "inner facts" humans project their subjectivity onto the world through the multitude of subjects (doers) from which every doing follows. This has led them to consider ego as the concept of being (thus creating the illusion of "being") and they have put spirit as the cause, instead of reality, thus establishing a measure for that reality, calling it "God".
Square 3: Instead of courageously going into the unknown and facing whatever lies there, we invent imaginary causes in order to feel better about ourselves and to drive away anything that could shake our familiar and boring shell of existence, but at the same time destroy any excitement and adventure in life.
The third error is the error of imaginary causes, which originates from one of the strongest and oldest emotions known to man: fear of the unknown. It is this fear that forces people to always try to explain everything that happens around them as something they have control of. When faced with something that has an unknown cause, we immediately draw from our memory some earlier familiar cause and apply it to the current situation, thus making the unknown into familiar, and since we have been doing it for so long, this application of imaginary causes became habitual process which obstructed the exploration of the real causes. Nietzsche explains this as our psychological need to drive away anything unknown which could force us to doubt our current mindset and start looking at things from a new perspective. This gives us comfort, feeling of relief, happiness and power as well. We don't want to be confronted with things that could shake our beliefs so we look for the easiest method for getting rid of them. That which is unknown is not considered as the cause, instead we convert it into a familiar imaginary cause which over time becomes dominant and turns into a system of beliefs, dogma, i.e. morality and religion. These imaginary causes conveniently explain "bad" things as death, pain, suffering as punishment for not comforming with the rest of the herd, and the "good" things are considered as "faith in God" and "a good conscience". So Nietzsche concludes that morality and religion constantly confuse cause and effect; truth is confused as the supposedly true effect and the state of consciousness is confused with its causes.
Square 4: The fourth error is the error of free will. Nietzsche argues that the concept of the free will is an illusion, "the foulest of all theologians' artifices", as he said and that it was only established (invented) for imposing guilt on somebody, i.e. for the purpose of punishment, which morality and religion so zealously use as means of control. This is the psychology of making humans "responsible" and therefore punishable according to the ways of the priests, which act as God's hand on this world.
Goethe is considered one of the greatest authors of all time. included aesthetic qualities in his colour wheel, under the title of "allegorical, symbolic, mystic use of colour" (Allegorischer, symbolischer, mystischer Gebrauch der Farbe), establishing a kind of color psychology. He associated red with the "beautiful", orange with the "noble", yellow to the "good", green to the "useful", blue to the "common", and violet to the "unnecessary". These six qualities were assigned to four categories of human cognition, the rational (Vernunft) to the beautiful and the noble (red and orange), the intellectual (Verstand) to the good and the useful (yellow and green), the sensual (Sinnlichkeit) to the useful and the common (green and blue) and, closing the circle, imagination (Phantasie) to both the unnecessary and the beautiful (purple and red)
Issac Assimov is a celebrated science fiction author. He had four laws of robotics in the book i robot. The book was later adapted into a movie. They are
The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws, quoted as being from the "Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.", are:
Square 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Square 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Square 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Asimov also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others:
Square 4- the zeroeth law. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
The Three Laws, and the zeroth, have pervaded science fiction and are referred to in many books, films, and other media.
John Crowley has a book called Egypt tetralogy where he writes four literary books. Crowley constantly rehearses the phrase dogs, stones, stars, and roses, mentioning these four things. Some have suggested he is alluding to the four phases in the Magnum Opus on alchemy. I say that he was just rehearsing the quadrant model four. The tetralogy itself reflects the quadrant model pattern.
Northrop Frye was a renowned Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.In Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, he says that literature criticism is systemically separated into
Square 1: Rhetorical
Square 2: Historical
Square 3: Archetypal
Square 4: Ethical criticism.
Each of these criticisms he proclaims corresponded to theories of
Square 1:Genres
Square 2: Modes
Square 3: Myths
Square 4: Symbols.
Picatrix is the name of a 400-page book of occult magic and astrology originally written in Arabic under the title Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm. The book takes on the structure of the quadrant model. It is divided into four books, fitting the quadrant model pattern. The first two parts deal with the manufacturing of a talisman, emphasizing the right material and the appropriate moment (under a lucky star) in a suitable environment. The first two squares are a duality.The third part was connected with the material world (stones, plants, animals, etc.) compared with the star-signs. The third square is always physical.The fourth book, with the same theme, described the purification and ends with an address to the stars.
The Four Agreements is a very well known book that was featured on the Oprah show. Many people believe this book changed their lives. The four agreements are said to be founded on Toltec wisdom. The agreements are
Square 1: Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Square 2: Don't Take Anything Personally.
Square 3: Don't Make Assumptions.
Square 4: Always Do Your Best.
The author had a sequel to this book called the fifth agreement where he added
Square 5: 5. Be Skeptical but Learn to Listen.
There is always the questionable fifth
Four Treasures of the Study, Four Jewels of the Study or Four Friends of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in Chinese and other East Asian calligraphic traditions.
Asians are the first square race and are associated with being very mental and into study.
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The most famous joke of all time is the anti joke, "why did the chicken cross the road". It is an anti joke because you are expecting a creative answer, but the answer given is obvious "to get to the other side". Things are funny when they surprise you and are unexpected. I think this joke is so popular because it has the word cross in it, which is the form of existence.
The Toynbee tiles are a mystery and very famous phenomena where somebody, who is unknown, put tiles in the street. Documentaries have been made about this happening. The tiles fit the quadrant model pattern. They were four lines.
Square 1: tonybee idea. The first square is always mental
Square 2: in movie 2001
Square 3: resurrection of the dead. The third square is related to action. Here is the action of resurrection.
Square 4: on planet Jupiter. The fourth square always points to a broader context.
It is thought that whoever puts these tiles on the ground is saying that he believes the resurrection of the dead will be a scientific phenomenon that occurs on the planet Jupiter, although it is a mystery.
Some believe it is a form of culture jamming. There are four emotions that activists say they want to inspire to bring about social change. They are shock, shame, fear, and anger.
Harry Potter is one of the most popular modern novels. The houses in Harry Potter fit the quadrant model pattern. They are
Square 1: Gryffindor
Square 2: Slytherin
Square 3: Hufflepuff
Square 4: Ravenclaw
Harry Potter is a sort of messiah figure who goes on the "heores journey" described by Joseph Campbell.
Nostradamus is one of the most famous seers to have lived. His works and prophecies are made up of quatrains. Quatrains are poems consisting of four lines, bringing to mind the quadrant model. Quatrains are rhyming poems. The traditional quatrains are
Square 1: AAAA
Square 2: AABB
Square 3:ABAB
Square 4: ABBA
007 was a very popular game in Nintendo 64.
GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. It was exclusively released for the Nintendo 64 video game console in August 1997. The game features a single-player campaign in which players assume the role of British Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond as he fights to prevent a criminal syndicate from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown. The game also includes a split-screen multiplayer mode in which two, three, or four players can compete in different types of deathmatch games.
The screen was usually split into four screens, forming a quadrant image.
Diddy Kong racing was another game that was usually split into four screens as four friends would race each other
Star Fox Adventures was a later Star Fox game for Game Cube features both the established four main characters of the series—Fox, Falco Lombardi, Slippy Toad, and Peppy Hare, although Falco does not appear until near the game's end—and a host of new characters.
Crossover: Change directions by pushing off with the "outside" foot and dribbling the ball low and hard with the corresponding hand over to the opposite dribbling hand.
Spin Move: Change directions by reverse-pivoting off of the "inside" foot to perform a reverse pivot. The quickest way to do this is to start the pivot when the "inside" foot is forward. That way, the "outside" leg is already part of the way to the new direction. If you start the pivot when the inside foot is back, then your outside leg has to cover far more distance in the spin and it will be easier for a defender to get a back tip. As you reverse pivot, pull the ball with your dribbling hand over into position to be dribbled by your other hand. The more you can get the ball pulled over toward that hand and protected by your body, the less chance there will be for a back tip.
The spin move has the disadvantage of being more vulnerable to blind double teams than other change-of-direction techniques, but it can be an effective weapon when used with adequate court vision.
Behind-the-Back: Change directions by dribbling the ball the ball behind your back. Footwork is critical here. The behind-the-back dribble begins as the outside leg is back and just beginning to move forward, and the ball needs to be dribbled all the way over to the opposite hand. The key to an effective behind-the-back dribble is to continue moving forward rather than just dribbling sideways. For this to happen, the arms and legs need to be coordinated so that the ball can get where it needs to go. This is an advanced skill, but most effective point guards have it.
Between-the-Legs: Change directions by dribbling the ball between your legs to your other hand. There are two ways to do this:
You dribble the ball backwards between your legs while your inside leg is forward. This move will create some space for you to change directions, but it will slow you down a step or two, too. This is by far the most common form of dribbling between your legs.
You dribble the ball forward between your legs while your outside leg is forward. You will push off that same leg in the new direction. The ball is momentarily exposed in this technique, so it is best used when you have a good cushion from the defender. With this technique, you don't lose forward momentum. Though it has limited applications, this move does allow for an element of surprise.
These are the four main moves of basketball
The Surfer's Cross is used by surfers as a talisman to distinguish the surfer from the rest of society. Its origins are in 1960s surf culture and the most common design is based on a German Iron Cross and features a surfer on a board in the middle of the front side of the cross. The German military decoration was co-opted because young surfers would wear their fathers' war trophies as an anti-establishment statement; eventually, the genuine Iron Cross was replaced by one manufactured for that purpose. The famous custom car designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth sold various "surfer accessories" in the 1960s that were based on WW 2 German items, like his "surfer's helmet" that is a plastic copy of a German helmet and he also manufactured his own Surfer's Cross. By 1966 Roth claimed to have sold 51,800 crosses and "that Hitler did a hell of a public relations job for me."
Pool balls are used to play various pool (pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball, nine-ball and one-pocket. In North America, they are sometimes referred to simply as "billiard balls" (except among carom players), and in the UK they are commonly referred to as kelly pool or American balls. These balls, used the most widely throughout the world, are considerably smaller than carom billiards balls, slightly larger than British-style pool balls and substantially larger than those for snooker. According to WPA/BCA equipment specifications, the weight may be from 5.5 to 6 oz. (156–170 g) with a diameter of 2.250 in. (57.15 mm), plus or minus 0.005 in. (0.13 mm).[11][12] The balls are numbered and colored as follows:
1. Yellow
2. Blue
3. Red
4. Purple (pink in ball sets for televised competitions, for improved color contrast)
5. Orange
6. Green
7. Brown or maroon (tan in TV ball sets)
8. Black
9. Yellow and white
10. Blue and white
11. Red and white
12. Purple and white (pink and white in TV ball sets)
13. Orange and white
14. Green and white
15. Brown, or maroon, and white (tan and white in TV ball sets)
• Cue ball, white (sometimes with one or more spots)
This is the 16 squares of the quadrant model
The term quadrille originated in 17th-century military parades in which four mounted horsemen executed square formations. The word probably derived from the Italian quadriglia (diminutive of quadra, hence a small square).
The dance was introduced in France around 1760: originally it was a form of cotillion in which only two couples were used, but two more couples were eventually added to form the sides of a square. The couples in each corner of the square took turns, in performing the dance, where one couple danced, and the other couples rested. The "quadrille des contredanses" was now a lively dance with four couples, arranged in the shape of a square, each couple facing the center. One pair was called the "head" couple, the adjacent pairs the "side" couples. A dance figure was often performed first by the head couple and then repeated by the side couples
A square dance is a dance for four couples (eight dancers) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances were first documented in 17th-century England but were also quite common in France and throughout Europe. They came to North America with the European settlers and have undergone considerable development there. In some countries and regions, through preservation and repetition, square dances have attained the status of a folk dance. The Western American square dance may be the most widely known form worldwide, possibly due to its association in the 20th century with the romanticized image of the American cowboy. Square dancing is, therefore, strongly associated with the United States of America. Nineteen US states have designated it as their official state dance.
Couple numbering in a square dance set usually begins with the couple nearest the head of the hall (the side of the room containing the musicians and caller, or in the pre-caller era, the royal presence or other hosts or important guests). This couple is the "first" or "number one" couple.
If most of the figures are danced between facing couples across the set, as in the 19th century quadrille and dances derived from it, the couple opposite the first is the "second couple". The first and second couples constitute the "head" or "top" couples (or the "head and foot" couples); the third and fourth couples are the "side" couples. In the 19th century quadrille, the third couple is to the first couple's right. In Irish set dances, the third couple (sometimes termed the "first side couple") is to the left of the "first top couple" (the couples facing the first top and first side are the "second top couple" and the "second side couple" respectively).
If most figures are danced around the set, with one or more couples visiting the others in turn, the couples are likewise numbered around the set. In 17th century England they were numbered clockwise, with the second couple to the first couple's left. In most present-day American square dance traditions, the couples are numbered counterclockwise: the second couple is to the first couple's right, the third couple is across from the first, and the fourth couple is to the left of the first. The first and third are "head couples" or "heads" (or, in older parlance, the "first four"); the second and fourth are "side couples" or "sides" (formerly "side four" or "second four"
During the first millennium BCE in India, many texts were composed which attempted to codify aspects of daily life. Bharata Muni's Natyashastra (literally "the text of dramaturgy") is one of the earlier texts. It mainly deals with drama, in which dance plays an important part in Indian culture. It categorizes dance into four types - secular, ritual, abstract, and, interpretive - and into four regional varieties. The text elaborates various hand-gestures (mudras) and classifies movements of the various limbs, steps and so on. A strong continuous tradition of dance has since continued in India, through to modern times, where it continues to play a role in culture, ritual, and, notably, the Bollywood entertainment industry. Many other contemporary dance forms can likewise be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dance.
Cinema
What is important to note is that the fields of inquiry, science, art and religion, and philosophy are very interlinked. For instance science and art are very connected. During the time of cubism, Einstein was coming up with his theory of relativity. Cubism explored the relationships of space and time like relativity does. When fractal mathematics was becoming popular in science, a famous painter Pollack would make drip paintings that featured fractal patterns.
Religion has always shaped artistic expression.During the middle ages, art was shaped by Christian theology. As religious ideologies change art changes. Where religion is different, art is different. For instance, there was a split between the eastern orthodox church and the western church, and the eastern orthodox church was against idols. So the Eastern Orthodox Church destroyed art associated with religious images. During the Renaissance, individuality became expressed more, and also the return of classical tropes and Greek mythology into art.
Islam has never allowed the depiction of Muhammad blessings peace be upon him or God, so Muslim art has always been about geometry. Science shapes religion. In the Muslim world there has been less scientific achievement than in the Christian world, it has been hypothesized because Islam offered a worldview that was less conducive to scientific exploration. Jewish artists have purposefully tried to avoid imagery of the cross. Even in Jewish synagogues, if there were buttresses that were in the shape of a cross, a fifth line would be added in order to mask the symbol.
The cross has been a central component of artwork. Crosses have always been a central feature in art throughout the world. In Christian societies pictures with Jesus on the cross have always been prevalent. In Buddhist society there are pictures of the maitreya, the Buddhist version of the savior figure, sitting with his legs crossed. Even ancient cave paintings figured depictions of quadrants, and one famous cave painting shows a shaman falling into a trance like state and his legs are crossed. Modern art features a lot of crosses.There is a modern art painting that is completely black, but if you look close enough, you see a cross in it. A postmodern artist has depicted crosses with feces on them, demonstrating disenchantment with religion. Van Gogh was more of a secular painter. But Van Gogh built upon religious painting of the past. For instance one of his paintings is a sort of modern copy of an old religious painting, but in the place of the window with the quadrant form, he has a windmill. Dutch painters often made landscape paintings and a central feature to them were windmills, and windmills are of the shape of a quadrant.
Also the motif of the quadrant model permeates famous paintings. For instance Picasso has a painting, which represents three figures standing near each other, and a fourth that is different. Then there is a fifth in the background. This layout of figures portrays the quadrant model pattern. Another famous painting by Monet shows three figures in the foreground and one in the background. This composition expresses the quadrant model pattern.
South Park is a famous cartoon comedy show that features four main characters. Kyle would be the first square, Stan who is the most normal, the second, Cartman, who is mean but funny and does a lot, the third, and Kenny, who would die in every episode (the fourth square is death) would be the fourth.
Dance
Sword dance: In some cultures, and notably in the Scottish tradition, two swords are laid out to create quadrants -- as in the table above. The dancer shifts between the quadrants in a complex sequence of movements, emphasizing one or more quadrants over the other.
Sports also represent the quadrant model pattern.Sports are a form of dance. In baseball there is four bases. In basketball the court is shaped like a cross. The foul line is sort of the cross. I described that sports are kind of a sublimation of sex. The foul line in basketball and three-point line can also represent a penis going into the womb. In tennis there is four squares on a tennis court; the same with volleyball. In pool there are 16 balls, bringing to mind the sixteen squares of the quadrant.
Movies often take on religious themes. In the movie star wars Luke Skywalker is a sort of messiah figure fighting against the evil empire like Jesus in the gospels fights against the evils of the Roman Empire. Some could argue that this represents the flow fighting the ego. George Lucas, the director of Star Wars,claimed to use archetypes of the subconscious to create his movies, demonstrating that theories of science and art also related. Sigmund Freud argued that religion developed when a group of early humans killed their Dad who had a harem of their mothers and sisters so that they could get access to the harem. After killing their Dad the brothers felt guilty and began to worship him. In Star Wars Luke Skywalker has to kill his Dad in order to save his people.
Karl Marx argued that a proletariat revolution of the workers would ultimately destroy the upper class and create a new world order system. It has been argued that this theme has inspired zombie movies, in which zombies are the disenfranchised and alienated proletariat rising up against their oppressors. Again there is a connection between Marx’s political science and art. The fields of inquiry are all interconnected.
In Ayn Rand’s famous book she describes 16 trains. Many very famous novels are permeated with the quadrant model pattern. Beethoven’s ninth symphony which he claims was given to him by God is full of a series of four notes. Greek art was divided into the geometrical, archaic, classical, and hellenistic periods, based on the quadrant model pattern. Mozart was famous for his quartets, reminiscing the quadrant.. Art throughout history has reflected the quadrant model pattern.
The man who invented the television was homeless. The first image he presented through the television was the cross. Crooks cathode ray tubes for television had a cross in them.
Avatar The 'Last Airbender is a show about a boy who can bend air. The show features four peoples who represent each of the four elements.
The movie Pi is a cult classic movie about a man named Max who believes that he has found a secret code that underlies all of existence and especially the Torah, and he believes that this pattern can transform the world. However people are out to get him because his finding is so powerful. People are after him and out to kill him. The question someone from the outside would ask is, is this guy schizophrenic and crazy, or is he for real that he has found this hidden pattern of nature. The main character in the movie reminds me of myself. In the movie the character says a fourfold quadrant.
He declares his assumptions
Square 1:mathematics is the language of nature
Square 2: everything can be understood through numbers
Square 3: if you graph any system patterns emerge. This is the doing square
Square 4: Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature
The movie also features a scene where Max is visiting a mathematician who believes that reality is random and too complex to have any simple pattern underlying it. He does not believe in God. Max, the protagonist, disagrees. The mathematician believes that Max is crazy, perhaps schizophrenic, but he seems very defensive, betraying his insecurity that he himself may be wrong and Max may be right. Who is the real crazy one. The mathematician uses the Go Board to represent his vision of the nature of reality, which he sees as random and chaotic. He says that the Go Board is based on probability and was used as a metaphor for the Japanese of the nature of the Cosmos. The ironic thing is that the Go Board is made up of iterating quadrants. So if I were Max I would point out that ya things seem random, but underlying everything is one pattern, the quadrant model. In the end of the world Max finally finds his discovery of the pattern underlying reality overwhelming in that it is causing people to try to kill him. Like Jesus who is killed after being labelled crazy by the people around him who wanted him dead, Max ends up drilling a hole in his head so that he can forget his finding and go back to living in ignorance. Jedi Mind Tricks, a popular rap group, featured Max's four assumptions at the end of one of their raps, speech cobras. I saw this movie my sophomore year of college Religion class at UCSD and earlier that year I had discovered the quadrant model. I didn't realize the quadrant model would almost get me killed like what happened with Max.
Marshall Mcluhan was world renowned for revolutionizing communications theory. He is one of the most famous modern philosophers. Timothy Leary is famous for saying "Tune on, tune in, drop out", but originally it was said by Mcluhan. Mcluhan is also known for the phrase that he coined "the medium is the message", arguing that as technologies change, the message that they convey change. McLuhan summarized his ideas of the media in what he called "the tetrad". The tetrad fits the quadrant model. There are four laws of the tetrad. They are
Square 1:Enhancement (figure): What the medium amplifies or intensifies. Radio amplifies news and music via sound.
Square 2: Obsolescence (ground): What the medium drives out of prominence. Radio reduces the importance of print and the visual.
Square 3: Retrieval (figure): What the medium recovers which was previously lost. Radio returns the spoken word to the forefront.
Square 4: Reversal (ground): What the medium does when pushed to its limits. Acoustic radio flips into audio-visual TV.
Mcluhan was also inspired by Finnegan’s Wake.
In the classic The Wizard of Oz, there are four characters, fitting the quadrant model pattern.
Square 1: Scarecrow wishes he has a brain. The brain is the idealist who is smart
Square 2: Tin Man wishes he has a heart. He wants to make connections with people. Relationships is the guardian.
Square 3: The Lion wishes he has the nerve. He wants to be courageous like the artisan
Square 4: Dorothy is the transcendent fourth character who wants home, who wants to transcend that world.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show had four characters that fit the quadrant model pattern. They were
Square 1: Leonardo- he is melancholic
Square 2: Donatello- he is phlegmatic
Square 3: Leonardo- he is sanguine
Square 4: Raphael- he is choleric
The fantastic four, made by Stan Lee, is a superhero team made up of four characters. They are
Square 1: The Invisible Girl- related with the first square element air
Square 2: Mr Fantastic- related with the second square element water
Square 3: The Thing- related with the third square element earth
Square 4: The Human Torch- related with the fourth square element fire
RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") is an American animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth Productions that is set in the fictional world of Remnant,filled with supernatural forces. The four main characters of the show fit the quadrant model pattern.
A Vision by W. B. Yeats is the focus of a large amount of scholarship for a book on the occult. In the book Yeats discusses the four faculties. They are
Square 1:Creative Mind.
Square 2: Will
Square 3: Body and fate
Square 4:Mask
Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1927-8, it contains about 20 saints, and is in at least four acts.After the chorus sings a prelude, the first act takes place at the Ávila cathedral; it is titled "St. Teresa half indoors and half out of doors". Act two, "Might it be mountains if it were not Barcelona", involves a telescope and glimpses of a heavenly mansion. Act three, "St. Ignatius andone of two literally" is a picnic and contains Ignatius' famous aria "Pigeons on the grass alas". It ends with a tango-like ballet. The brief fourth act ("The sisters and saints reassembled and re-enacting why they went away to stay") is set at the garden of a monastery. Before the curtain falls the Compère announces "Last act", and the chorus replies "Which is a fact".
While it is called four saints in three acts really there is four acts and the fourth act is brief and different from the previous three, reflecting the quadrant model pattern.
The tetralogy Aliens was a very popular series of movies.
Square 1: Alien (1979)
Main article: Alien (film)
On its return to Earth, the U.S. commercial starship Nostromo is diverted to a desolate planetoid after receiving a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. While exploring the alien ship, one of the Nostromo 's crewmen discovers the remains of the ship's pilot and also a large chamber that contains thousands of egg-like objects. One of the eggs releases a creature that attaches itself to his face and renders him unconscious. The others break quarantine to bring him back aboard the ship. The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly fine. Soon afterwards, an alien organism bursts from his chest and grows extremely rapidly into a terrifying eight-foot (equivalent 2.5 meters) tall creature that starts killing off the crew.
Square 2: Aliens (1986)
Main article: Aliens (film)
After 57 years in hypersleep, the sole survivor of the Nostromo, LT Ellen Ripley, awakens aboard a medical space station orbiting Earth. Her story of the Alien terror she encountered is disbelieved and she learns that the planetoid from the first film (now designated as LV-426) is now home to a terraforming colony. When contact with the colony is lost, Ripley accompanies a squad of high-tech Elite Colonial Marines aboard the spaceship Sulaco to investigate. Once there, they discover the colonists have been wiped out after they had found the derelict alien ship (and its deadly cargo) from the first film.
Square 3: Alien 3 (1992)
Main article: Alien 3
Due to a fire aboard the Sulaco, an escape pod carrying the survivors of the second film is automatically jettisoned. It crash-lands on the refinery/prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161, but Ripley is the only one to survive the crash. Unbeknownst to her, an alien facehugger parasite was also aboard the ship. Before long, a full-sized Alien is then loose in the prison, killing the inmates one by one. Ripley also discovers there is an Alien queen growing inside her, and must not only kill the rampaging Alien but also herself in order to save humanity.
Square 4: Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Main article: Alien: Resurrection
Two hundred years after the events of the previous film, Ellen Ripley (and the Alien queen she was carrying) are cloned. The Alien queen is surgically removed from her body as the United Systems Military hopes to breed Aliens to study on the spaceship USM Auriga, using human hosts kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries. The Aliens escape their enclosures, while Ripley 8 (a clone who contains some Alien DNA herself) and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches its destination, Earth.
In movies X marks the spot is a place where you find treasure An x is the quadrant.
The peace sign employed by hippies has four sections
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