Essays on Illusion

Simply stated, an optical illusion is something that fools an individual’s mind and eyes into perceiving reality falsely. Optical illusions can be found everywhere in photographs, drawings, unusual solid objects, holograms, as well as natural phenomena such as mirage. I have had an experience with a number of optical illusions which include mirages, holograms and a drawing known as the Hermann Grid Illusion.

When taking a walk along the road on a very hot sunny day, one will tend to see a puddle of water at a distance. However, this is not water to quench thirst but rather an optical illusion known as mirage. ...

1 The short story A&P, by John Updike is in consideration for the essay. The story unfolds in a lazy Thursday afternoon, at a departmental store by the same name. Three young girls, in differently colored two-pieces, visit the store, and cause quite a small turbulence in the lives of the store workers. In particular, the narrator, Sammy causes a whole ruckus in the store, for something that isn’t worth much, in the first place. Or maybe he breaks free of the shackles binding him. The actions of Sammy can be interpreted both ways, and the further discussion of the story ...

Having the chance to do a painting on your own is a form of expression of your being and your imagination. Sometimes, it creates an illusion for its viewers and to engage them with the painting itself. In terms of art medium, oil on canvass would be the most efficient coloring medium to utilize. It can bring vivid colors and transform the painting into a realistic image of a garden. The colors can easily be mixed together to produce a combination of bright and warm colors. Since, it depicts a patch of wall from a garden, the palette includes yellow, rosy pinks, blue against a majority ...

The Allegory of the Cave describes the shadows on the cave wall, which was taught to the prisoners as he reality since birth. It also depicts humans as prisoners of their own body. Plato wants to tell us that the prisoners who were inside the cave believed that what they see on the cave wall is the reality that in fact, it was just the reflection coming from the fire and objects behind them. When one of the prisoners was released and witnessed what the reality looks outside the cave, he realized that shadows were just illusions. ...

In order to represent ideas and imagination well, art and design professionals need to study and understand communicating these visually. Whether the image is as complicated as the paintings in art museums or as simple and direct as a street sign, all these images are first formed using the basic element of lines. Lines are always used as a foundation to any image or design. When lines are effectively used, they can signify orientation of an object, suggest direction or enhance it even more by suggesting continuity. If lines are formed in a group, they can create complex forms using Actual ...

Instruction

Introduction Araby is one of the most fascinating works by James Joyce. It is about a young lad who narrates the story and who leads a blithe life in a Dublin surrounding. The boy falls in love with a friend’s sister and watches her steps every morning. Hen the boy and the girl finally spoke, she mentions about a foreign bazaar right in town. The speaker later became obsessed with the plan of buying the girl presents from the bazaar. One major theme in the Araby is disappointment. The narrator is eventually faced with realism when he visits Araby and finds ...

Artist of OP Art

Artist of OP Art

Introduction

Op art refers to the artwork that involves the paintings and sculptures based upon illusion. It is described as an “Optical Art” that revolves around movements and directly attacks an eye. It uses optics and by having an immense use of disorientating and optical effects, the paintings are finalized by using brilliant colors, geometrical shapes, and different patterns. OP art is mainly an abstract art in which forms, lines, and space play a major role of bringing out a painting of ambiguous nature. In other and simple words, an op art is an illusion of movement meaning ...

Essentially, the concept of charter schools that perpetuates the ‘rhetoric of choice’ appears to be an ideal system to facilitate equal access to educational opportunities. Nonetheless, the discussion in the article illustrates the illusion of choice. The arguments in the article present historical and current evidences that prove the illusion of choice in charter schools. Historically speaking, one of the earlier concepts of choice in education was desegregation. Desegregation, however, offered individuals limited choices. People made their own choice but these choices were influenced by other factors such as existing policies. This aspect of the discussion reveals that the ...

Hindus consider the Vedic texts as sacred. Adi Shankra is a 9th century Hindu mystic and commentary of the Vedic texts that explain the philosophical view of Advaita Vedanta. Different authors debate on Shankara's intent of writing concerning Oneness of Brahman and Atman and the interconnection between them. The main discussion in this essay is to explicate and qualify the truth based on Shankara’s writings. The paper will investigate whether Shankara exaggerates delusional nature of the external world as well as how one comes to know the connection between Atman and Brahman. According to Shankara, direct experience is ...

There are numerous and outstanding philosophers who have contributed to the field of philosophy and in particular on issues relating to religion. Sigmund Freud is a man who has been variously described by other scholars. Peter Gay in the biographical introduction of ‘The Future of an Illusion’ describes Freud as an atheist, who is fully convinced about the idea, and demonstrates a high degree of consistency and aggressiveness in atheism. In his book The Future of an Illusion wrote in 1927, Sigmund Freud describes various aspects relating to religion, its origin, development and the future. In essence, Freud observes religion as ...

When I was a child I set all my efforts to find out how the world was working. I believed that there were invisible bonds between every creature. Consequently, I spent hours on end trying to investigate whether animals could talk, and where my elderly neighbors disappeared. The most precious thought for me was that on the other side of the planet there was the same person as me. I had an illusion that somewhere in another county the boy of the same age was living in the same house. He also went to school, ate ice-cream at the park, ...

Introduction

Individuals hold different ideas regarding ‘reality.’ People base these concepts on sensorial perceptions, which mean that some of the experiences one holds about the world revolve around a deception, which prevents them from understanding the truth. Plato dug into the idea of sensorial deception in “The Cave” and “The Matrix,” which mimicked the story and explored realism of deception.

Question 1

The matrix raises questions relating to reality, which resemble those asked by Plato in “The Cave.” Plato asks readers to envision human beings as captives who live in a dark cave located underground. Furthermore, he insists that individuals live in this cave ...

Summary of Chapters 1& 3

Chapter 1 deals with texture, defining it as a quality on the surface of a work of art that affects the senses of touch and vision. There are three types of texture in art: physical texture that refers to the actual texture of surface and materials, visual texture, which is illusionary and invented texture, which is also based on illusion by using seemingly irrelevant shapes to create a recognizable ensemble. When creating texture an artist should take into account the texture of the material itself as well as that of the surface in which he/she applies it. The creation of visual ...

The St. Louis Arch is a large commemorative sculpture located on the west bank of the Mississippi. Its form is an inverted, weighed cantenary curve (Grigonis, 2011). A centenary curve is the shape that a chain forms if it is allowed to hang from the two ends by its own weight. In order to replicate the curve of the St. Louis Arch, the links in the middle chain must be of lighter weight than the links at the end of the chain, thus the curve is described as “weighted.” The designer, Eero Saarinen, chose this type of curve to give the ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk This video exhibits a simple optical illusion, but an extremely impressive one. It tricks our mind at the moment when we are pretty sure of our cognitive capabilities. Our mind, being a highly sophisticated machine, records history and past experiences within the neural circuits of our visual system. This learning, embedded in our minds, helps us to interpret what we see. We usually interpret any three dimensional object based on the simplified prototypes or models that exists in our neural library. When images are carried from our eye to our brain, it undergoes a complex system of processing the information ...

Literature :

The Perfect Poster The poster is a pictorial and striking representation of the Susan Laurie-Parks ’ attempt to make the audience understand the novel message given by her in “The America Play”, wherein she uses the look alike of an iconic president to draw the interest of the audience. This poster too focusses on the foundling father’s image to catch the eye of the viewers. Just as the dramatist uses repetition as a tool to highlight how history can be interpreted and reinterpreted,the mirrors in the poster shows endlessly repetititive images. The audience love sensational aspects of the lives ...

Bram Stocker’s Dracula is a movie based on novel which is based on an illusion of existing creatures. Hughes points out that, the movie creates an illusion that vampires and humans can live together taking into consideration the fact that vampires can transform to humans (12). The creation of the movie is aimed at making the audience creating a mental picture of non existing creatures and the relations to the human life. Additionally, the vampire abilities in the film are imaginative creations aimed at depicting the extra ordinary abilities of the creatures. In an argument by Hughes the film also ...

Change is one of the things that is most constant for every living being in the universe. This is seen in the personality assessments taking place, as it reflects the conditions of change and the influence of human behavior on the concluding state of affairs within an organization. There are certain determinants of behavior that should dictate the choice of data, and these are important in the evaluation of certain procedures vital to the study and assessment of behavior. These are being reflected in the correlational studies applied on a variety of inventories, such as the Beyond-Personality Inventory of John ...

Jay Gatsby was a mysterious man who was seen to create himself, or at least some sort of illusion of himself that he wanted people to see. He was self-conceived because of a dream that he had, yet in the end, he was crushed by reality. The story written by Fitzgerald shows the visions people had for America. It represents their struggles through characters. The story shows that there is no such thing as the American dream, and that the dream should stay a dream forever. Gatsby, as a character, suggests that once the dream is realized, it becomes bitter and ugly. The ...

‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” starts with Peyton Farquhar standing on bridge, with his hands tied behind his back and a noose around his neck. His execution is near and he diverts himself from reality and focuses on his imagination in which he is with his wife and children. Again he opens his eyes and sees driftwood in water below. Soon he imagines himself as the driftwood floating and escaping from water, away from his executioners and near his home. He finds his way home, travel throughout the day and when he is about to embrace his wife, the ...

In the world of today’s cinema, 3-D technology is making a comeback. No longer a kitschy gimmick used in the 1950s to bring extra ticket sales to monster movies, it has turned into a phenomenon that turns normal 2-D movies into stereoscopic blockbusters. 3-D films such as the 2009 film Avatar rule the box office, creating landscapes that pop out at the viewer and take them into a new dimension. To this day, more and more blockbuster films are adapting the Avatar model and releasing more and more movies in 3D, mostly due to new technologies and methods for delivering crisp, realistic ...

Introduction

According to Jowett & O’Donnell (1), propaganda is a method of communication which tries to elicit a response that propagates the desired intention of the propagandist. The art of propaganda has been studied in an array of multidisciplinary researches in the fields of journalism, sociology, history, political science and psychology. To study the art of propaganda as history means examining propagandist practices as distinct events and the resultant events as likely effects of propaganda. Nazi films were predominantly propagandist in that they aimed at influencing attitudes on life in a given context, and in terms of particular people and events. Perhaps the ...

Death of a Salesman is a story that represents the real and contemporary American society and their dreams and aspirations. It is a story of the common people and their dreams. The title itself reveals the tragic end of the protagonist Willy. As far as the tragic flow of the story is concerned, it can be studied as the modern version of the Aristotelian tragedies, though it can be a comparative analysis with some resemblances and some differences. The story fulfils many parameters of the tragedy. Only the difference is that unlike the typical Aristotelians tragic hero, Willy does not belong to the ...

Race and concepts of racism have changed from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries in various ways. Concepts of race have continually transformed and progressed in various ways. According to Dr Cooke’s lecture, in the early sixteenth century, associations of race surfaced with breed, families and lineages. It was important to trace the bloodlines and tracing genealogy. From then onwards especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, more emphasis on race was more on religious descents than on biology (Dr Cooke, The Historical Roots of ‘Race’). For instance, the works of Carolus Linnaeus and Comte de Buffon on ...

Poem analysis is usually done according to the author’s perspective. The analysis of the poem is done to project the real motive behind the author’s piece of art. When analyzing a poem, there are two approaches that are applicable. One focuses on the outer view of the poem which uses the actual view and characters used by the author. The second approach looks at the poem in an angle of the author’s sentiments. In this paper I will review three poems; Mountain Boomer, Bodacious and Firetread The Last. The three poems have almost similar themes but with ...

Richard Bach’s Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, published in 1977, is the memorable follow-up to his extraordinary bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Unlike Bach’s earlier offering, Illusions did not receive mass audience admiration, but rather became a cult classic. There is a proverb, a quote, a saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” That is what happens in Illusions when Richard Bach, a renowned author from the West, encounters Donald Shimoda, a self-proclaimed ‘messiah’ from the East, who ends up becoming Bach’s spiritual teacher, and teaches him that everything in the world that we interpret as reality are actually ...

Religion is defined as a belief. It is associated with discipline, either in mental, physical or psychological (Howe 1). It is identified as what underpins logic and emotions in everybody. In recent years, the place of any religion in the society has significantly been contentious. Unsurprisingly, there have been factions that compete within the religion that is contained in the society. Whatever the form, religion may have major social impact in certain societies. This can either be evil or good (Howe 1). In fact, religion plays a role in the world today since there is no person who does not need ...

In “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces a strong theme of Puritan religious beliefs. His narrative vehicle for this is Satan who, throughout the story, destroys the protagonist’s faith. “Young Goodman Brown” is of the more well-known stories exploring 17th Century Puritanism and, even on a first read, it is clear why. Hawthorne depicts the chosen situation carefully and convincingly to the reader, not only entertaining them but also informing them as well. Certainly the element of this story that stands out the most dramatically is that of Satan and the means he adopts to manipulate the protagonist. Numerous strategies have ...

Luis Alberto Urrea’s book, Into the Beautiful North can indeed be described as an expedition novel in the grand tradition, despite substantial inexistence of some factors within its plot layout in the pages. Undeniably, the author set the novel in the contemporary times, as characterized by the extremely electric realm of the United States and Mexico border expanse. Nonetheless, it is worth noting that the novel attempts to follow the hero’s journey as adduced by The Hero’s Journal Outline. This is so since the novel substantially satisfies some of the elements of the outline, with the ...

While both Hinduism and Buddhism are rooted in the same cultural tradition and Buddhism is considered to be an offshoot of Hinduism, and hence there are lot of similarities between the two religions, Buddhism makes a radical departure from Hinduism on the question of the status of the individual. Buddhism denies the existence of individual soul and of the first cause (God), while the Hinduism cherishes the idea of individual human soul (Atman). Moreover, Brahman, according to Hinduism is the one and only Supreme creator inseparable from the individual soul or Atman in contrast to Buddhism that denies Supreme Soul ...

One has to comprehend that the question of realism comes into play in regard to the domains of aesthetics, ethics, causation, science, modality, semantics, mathematics, and also the everyday world of human existence. Philosophers across the globe are either realists or non-realists regarding various topics. As such, many of the philosophers are realists about the realm of macroscopic objects and also the properties that they entail. However, it can be so that there is no straightforward choice between being a proponent of realism or non-realism. It has to be reckoned that the very question of the plausibility and nature of ...

The question as to the continuity of personhood is a question that has been addressed to Buddhism since it’s beginning. In Henry Clarke Warren’s Pali translation of select passages of Buddhist Sacred Books, “Buddhism in Translations” there is a scene where a between The Buddha and a wandering ascetic who demands desperately for an answer of the Buddha to his question, “Whether or not the Saints exist after their death?” The Buddha saw this as a dualistic question, and gave him a nonduelist answer which stemmed from the basic phenomenology of Buddhism. The Buddhist answer the question of whether the saints live after ...

The continuous technological innovations have been changing the society ever since and covers a broader aspect of the existing technologies used by humans. The television and film mayhem which continued to bring fun and entertainment into the faces of the movie goers is constantly undergoing a process of change and innovation. In the early years since the invention of the camera and television, many filmmakers and producers have tried to produce films for the society’s entertainment and also as a replacement for the traditional vaudeville and theater plays. Cinema had become a greater advantage since it attempts to portray the real world ...

Organization

Arthur miller's award winning play death of a salesman where Willy loman is the salesman driven by the emerging values of post war capitalism and materialism and wanted his sons to adopt the same. The conflict arises when his sons cannot do the profit or money-making. The play becomes of what was popularly known to be the American dream. This paper aims to analyze this over reaching theme that explicitly critiques. The paper also aims how the play impacted the American public considering it was published when capitalism was booming. It is important to understand how the people responded to ...

Caravaggio’s influence has been felt within many different pieces of art. Caravaggio implemented the idea that idealized beauty was not essential to making interesting or popular art. Caravaggio moved away from traditional styles, making even religious subjects look like common people. Dramatic lighting and high contrast were also important aspects of his art work. Caravaggio’s use of naturalism created a new movement away from idealized beauty. Caravaggio’s style typically had less complicated iconography and a more straight forward naturalistic approach to telling stories. Caravaggio certainly took a different approach to the painting of religious scenes when be painted “ ...

Plato spent a great deal of his time trying to reconcile Heraclitus and Parmenides who held divergent views on identity and being. This is the problem that logically, one thing cannot change with time and remain identical or the same. Parmenides’ view is that being is at rest while Heraclitus’ view is that being is changing. Heraclitus maintained that reality was constantly changing. On the other hand, Parmenides insisted on the unified and changeless nature of reality. The antagonism between Heraclitus and Parmenides, two philosophers who lived in the pre-Socratic age, provoked a lot of arguments which at some point seem ...

Hinduism is an ancient religion. A Hinduism religion is dominant in the countries like India and Nepal. Hinduism is a religion with no founder or the date of origin is unknown. In addition, there is no single scripture and the set of teachings is not commonly agreed. Hinduism is derived from the word “India,” refers to variety of religious traditions and philosophies that have developed in India over thousands of years. In the world, Hinduism is the oldest living religion. Conceptually and historically, it is associated with the other religions like Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism. It includes wide variety of ...

Keynesian and Monetarist Policies in Macro Economy

In the macro economy, there are policies, which are employed to control the economy of a country. The policies are the Keynesian or demand sided policies and the supply sided policy, which is also referred to as Monetarism policy. Monetarism is currently classical economics and Keynesianism is Mercantilism economic policies. These policies have various differences on how they are employed to control the economy. Keynesian school of thought claimed that the Classical thought is rigid in their assumptions in that they advocated for price flexibility and full employment, but, on the other hand, they were rigid in their advocating for ...

The makeup, diet product, and cosmetic surgery industries spend billions of dollars each year advertising their wares and services to women, and profit even more because their advertisements are so successful in convincing women that they truly need these items or procedures. Advertisers have many methods used to seduce women into buying products, including creating the illusion that there is an “ideal” beautiful woman, providing testimonials about their products from celebrities, and promising impossible results with altered, deceitful images retouched with computer graphics programs like Photoshop. The most obvious method that advertisers use to persuade women to buy ...

It is more important to discover new ways of thinking of what is already known than to discover new data or facts. To what extent do you agree with that statement? Daniel J. Boorstein once said, "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it's the illusion of knowledge." Life is about discovery; as we move through our days, it becomes important to absorb, synthesize and assimilate knowledge in whatever form we can. In this way, we can understand how better to life our lives and do what we will with our given faculties. There are two ways ...

Philosophy of consciousness, undoubtedly, takes a leading position in Anglo-American philosophical thought of 20th and the beginning of 21st century. Numerous publications, devoted to the problems of consciousness are an indicator of that. Philosophy of mind is a branch of analytical philosophy, which studies philosophical aspects of consciousness problem. The central theme of philosophy of consciousness is relationship between consciousness and brain. In this context brain poses a problem of mind-body, while consciousness is understood as either the aggregate mental states, accessible only to the living being experiencing them, or as a state of monitoring internal processes by this subject.

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Some of the Ways Belief in the Paranormal May be Shaped and Influenced by One’s Cultural Context

Parapsychology may be defined as the study of apparently anomalous organism-environment interaction. This is a negative definition as it situates parapsychology in opposition to orthodox science. In consequence, it loses research topic whenever they become understandable within the framework of orthodox science. Therefore, some critics have recommended an alternative approach that parapsychology be redefined as an interdisciplinary science that would study paranormal beliefs and experiences from historical, experimental, clinical and socio-cultural perspectives (Hess 1993). It would appear stating the obvious to claim that paranormal beliefs are to an extent a product of the sociocultural environment of the believer. For instance, a child ...

Article 1: Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge

The study shows the effect that the internet has on cognition. The study shows how searching the internet for explanatory knowledge creates the illusion that one knows a lot or that they have recall for a lot of information when this is not the case. The study has the backing of nine experiments that show that searching the internet for information leads to high self-assessed knowledge. Individual believe their brains to be more active than they are as is depicted by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The study arose from the observation that people use transactive memory systems. People unconsciously divide ...

The “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in 1884, and it has become Samuel Clemens’s (Mark Twain’s) most successful novel. The issue that lies centrally at the core of this epic novel is racism; the book is about racism. Throughout the book, we read about we encounter the plights of Jim and Huck, two of the most important characters. These two are traveling down Mississippi River. The characters in this novel have a varied understanding of race and racism. When confronted with racism, they also act or respond differently. Moreover, the character’s definition of what race ...

Analysis of line

Horizontal lines dominate the painting; for example, the artist draws ground, raft, and the sea using these shapes. These lines mean that there is a sense of calmness and comfort in the picture. The lines on the sea and the raft show that these factors are calm and comfortable; the water is still because there are no waves, and this makes the raft stand calmly in the sea. The shape of the ground is horizontal to mean that the place is a plateau. A plateau is a flat land where there are no highlands; they are common near the sea like the ...

Nathaniel Hawthorn’s tale, My Kinsman, Major Molineux , discusses social and political themes of not only have time but also of the contemporary society. His views on both social views can be examined by a careful insight into his exploration of various social and political issues. One of the most outstanding techniques that he uses to present his facts is the utilization of the stylistic device of allusion.

Grayson, Robert C. "The New England Sources of 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux.'" American Literature 54.4 (1982): 545-559. Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Winston-Salem, NC. 3 March 2008.

In this article, Grayson dwells on the historical and topographical description of Boston, Massacheuts that is used by Hawthorne in ‘My Kinsman, Major Molineux. ’He uses accurate and well illustrated ...

Literature Review

Given the nature of this paper, the literature review will be divided into themes and the relevant literature will be analyzed accordingly. There is a huge body of work from diverse sources related to this topic as it has had a lasting impact not only on the Middle East but also on world diplomacy in the past 40 years. The greatest legacy of the war was its shaping of people’s perceptions of the two sides of the faction. The ideas of underdog and top dog have dominated the conflicts in the Middle East for decades. After the creation of Israel ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man That Was Used Up” is an astounding dramatic farce involving the search for truth of an unnamed narrator to discern the true secret of a distinguished war hero, General John A.B.C. Smith. Along the way, Poe illustrates a Civil War-era society that brims with a very specific type of cultural revisionism and American exceptionalism that belies the true ugliness of the nation’s atrocities underneath. Looking at this story in the context of the Jacksonian era, in which Indian removal was a very prevalent cultural practice and the upper class lionized military might borne of a ...

Human body is made of senses that humans use in everyday activities to determine perception of data and hence make decisions. The perception has several reasons that help the humans to belief in the accuracy and inaccuracy of the perceived data. There are five reasons of believing in the accuracy of the data. These include, touch, and smell, hearing, taste, and sight. When one touches something, the sense determines the perception. This can either be cold, hot, rough, smooth, etc. the message is automatically sent to the brain for interpretation. The brain then determines the mode of reaction ...

Among the saleable list of material items romance has been included both as a commodity and as an exchange means for other commodities. Taking advantage of the feebleness of humans’ inability to control their appetite and conspicuous growth in that weakness, the media has assisted immensely in fueling the concept of love as an idea, a mere delight for entertainment or a clown for the circus. The needs of just one man are unlimited and as he evolves, as years pass by, there is an expansion in the list of things to buy. Off which most are irrelevant to his existence. But ...

A young Prince is haunted by the spirit of his murdered father. The son has hardly slept or eaten since he heard the news. Stunned with grief he will not be counseled by his lover, family, friends or ministers of the military or the court. He prowls the castle nightly, a somnambulant lost in the coma of his will’s paralysis. At last the smoldering embers of revenge burst into flame and he wakes to restore justice and order to his world. His decision is swift and unequivocal: War on Denmark! This, of course, is Prince Fortinbras whose quest ...

Team is a group of two or more individuals who, in order to achieve a certain goal, coordinate their actions and labor force. There are three key components in this definition. Firstly, to create a team at least two people are needed. Sometimes organizations consist of big teams but, as a rule, their number does not exceed fifteen individuals. Secondly, team members regularly interact with each other. Third, the work of the team members is aimed at achieving a certain goal, whether it is developing a new tablet, vehicle or writing a textbook. Students, for example, are often grouped together in the classroom to perform various ...

Philosophy

Introduction In many ancient civilizations, it was a firm belief that the sun revolves round the earth and nobody dare to doubt the belief for centuries until Nicolaus Copernicus, an astronomer of the Renaissance period doubted on this age old belief and put forward his revolutionary work stating that it is the earth that revolves round the sun. Lawhead has rightly stated that “Doubt stimulates us to action and seeks its own elimination by means of inquiry, which is a process of finding the way to a new and more adequate belief” (p.495). Actually, people refrain from doubting landmark and well-accepted ...

Since time immemorial, philosophers, scientists, theologians, and laypeople have inquired about the nature of "God" and the possibilities of a transcendent realm from both a scientific perspective as well as a religious perspective. Their answers are nebulous, as the lack of evidence of an Omniscient being, or a loving "Creator" can be construed as the absence of the ability to know this realm. Any knowledge of such a realm must be taken on faith alone, as it is not scientifically provable, which either proves that science has its limits, or that the knowledge of God operates beyond the realm of scientific empiricism -- and ...

Of all kinds of entertainment, movies are, by far, the single most popular type. People are so used to watching films cablecast on TV that they cannot envision the time when no sound was to be heard coming from beyond the screen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine soundless motion pictures, which used to be a reality more than 100 years ago. Cinematographic was an infant industry in the second half of the 19th century. However, in the early 20th century, experts created the first movie with a synchronized sound coupled to image reproduced on the screen. Actors and film directors ...

For example Elizabeth L. Angeli, Department of Psychology, State University.

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant Program. Angeli, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 55555 Analysis of Case Study John Canon is a graduate of the prestigious American west coast university. He has majored in International business. After his graduation, he became a very successful biotechnology marketing analyst very early in his career. He became an expatriate in Germany working for IML (International Medical Laboratories). He is appointed by IML to become marketing product line manager for cardiovascular instrumentation. ...

Religion cannot be defined by a particular set of words due to its complex nature. Different philosophers, scholars and theologians have held different opinions on religion, some which are radical. Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud stood out for their unique views on religion, which have been studied for centuries. They both rooted for the abolition of religion. Religious instinct is a part of human existence. Every society has something that would be classified as religion by modern scientists. Human beings have formed a strong inclination towards religion since time immemorial. Marx described religion as the ‘opium of the people’, a quite controversial and popular ...

Naif Alsultan

Introduction The vaccine-autism controversy came into limelight in 1998 after a UK-based gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield published a paper linking the MMR vaccine to autism using inappropriate and false research techniques (Gerber & Offit, 2009). The theory was later disproved. Yet, some parents still felt that the reason for their child having autism was vaccine. This is primarily because the human mind is inclined towards reasoning, questioning and pattern perception. As Chabris and Simons point out in their book, this very drive for stamping on reasons for every occurrence and coincidence leads to the Illusion of cause theory (2010). According to ...

Caravaggio’s Innovations in the Art World.

Caravaggio’s works have long influenced many different arts. His naturalist ideas clearly served to move away from former art movements. Caravaggio worked to avoid idealization and thus make subjects more relatable. Most of his subjects looked like everyday people that anyone could relate to. Caravaggio often achieved this through the use of strong lighting and high contrast. Caravaggio usual focused on telling stories through his art. One article describes his style as, “Although chiaroscuro was used long before Caravaggio came onto the art scene it was he who defined the technique and darkened the shadows. The artist's observation of ...

The video gaming experience has long been marred by controversy and debate as research and current events show that video games have the capacity to induce behaviors that are violent in nature. Opinions regarding this matter are divided as some groups argue that not video game titles in the market are violent and explicit in nature, they are even beneficial in terms of educational and cognitive development. Research had also proven this benefit in video gaming, however, other groups had argued that this benefit is often not seen since only a few gamers prefer these educational titles and most, if ...