Essays on Mind

1. My personal reaction to this video was that of total awe and admiration for Jeff Bozos, for being the visionary that he is. (Let us forget about those drones at the end. What is happening in the present is more relevant to us.) Here, I have to say that the automation system shown felt awesome to me. If you break it up, it becomes somewhat simple. Some people may say that conveyors, vacuum pads, intelligent ...

1. EDUCATIONAL THEORY

Introduction to Brain Based Learning & Eric P. Jensen

Principals of Brain Based Learning Eric P. Jensen’s home page is entitled Game Changers on other connected pages he offers Principals of Brain Based Learning, some of the principals he views as most important and other tools that might be important to someone looking into his theories on brain based learning. Jensen also has several pages devoted to his workshops books, and other presentation materials. It is primarily addressed to the general public, instructors and policy makers.

Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Revised 2nd Edition

Eric P. Jensen was considered a pioneer in brain based learning when he released the First Edition of ...

Each genre of literature have its own inimitable flavor. All literature leaves an indispensable portrait on reader’s mind that fashions mesmerizing circle of euphoria that knows no bound.Dramas sometimes are very personal; depicting very close view of the character. While reading it; you can immensely feel the sorrows, happiness and all emotions of that character.

When it inculcates more shades of the story and unfolds all the chapters; it becomes truly astonishing. Fiction stories are real page turners when they lead you to the edge and take you to a voyage with the pinches of suspense, thrill, romance ...

“Greetings old friends, this speech is written in honor of all the lovers of music from classical, RnB, jazz and other genres. I also dedicate this speech to my chosen composer who not only took time to compose a song for this occasion, but also willed to perform it himself. I have so many composers in mind and naming them would take forever.

Firstly, let me explain the purpose of my speech. I happen to be a niece of a proud uncle and well, he is a great lover of music. As a gift, I sought to seek assistance, ...

Darwin, Charles. “Natural Selection.” A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. 9th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 939- 43. Print.

Natural selection is a theory that was propagated by Charles Darwin. This theory states that change in evolution happens as a result of variation in production found in each generation while there is also struggle for species to exist. An individual in a given species can only survive if it is strong and fit and that it can survive in the conditions that they find themselves. The species also needs to produce ...

Make Sure Your Product Innovations Serve Consumer Interest's, Not Corporate Ones

In order to make an advertisement more appealing to the customer, the producers should keep a few things in mind: first and foremost important fact is that the ad should reach out to the consumers/customers. One should do a thorough survey, according to their product, and then brainstorm on advertisement ideas. Another secret of success is that the innovations should always be in accordance with the brand that you want to promote. The brain is a machine which can lead a thought to idea, by innovation, and whatever the innovation might be, the brand must always be kept in ...

Philosophy questions

- With reference to Locke's theory regarding ideas as well to the idea of primary and secondary qualities, breakdown and explain in Locke’s own terms what exactly you are perceiving when you perceive an object that you would identify as “a yellow banana”. In other words, what exactly are the primary qualities of this object, and what are its secondary qualities?

A yellow banana would be identified according to Locke’s analogy using various steps. The idea that the object is a banana to start with, is derived from learning and after the individual has interacted with bananas ...

Logical thinking is often called critical thinking or left brain thinking. Logical thinking is that type of thinking which allows individual to think based on what we know or knowledge, certainties and what we can prove. Logical thinking is persistent when we think and decide with provable and rationally definite information i.e. information we can be certain about because it has been established methodically. This allows us to make logical deductions. It is the type of thinking that we use in doing things with definite rules like playing chess, and solving puzzles with definite answer.

Out of several pros ...

I enjoyed reading Grey's chapter 3 of "The Mission of Art" called "Deeply Seeing". It is about how to truly comprehend a work of art. Grey talks about looking at things, making a difference between simple looking and engaging our minds in a transcendental form of existence where we can find a true deep meaning.

Grey says: "When deeply seeing, the object of our contemplation enters our heart and mind directly" (Grey 72). He means that we absorb the true message that the object conveys and we become united with it. We put our souls into analyzing or creating ...

Introduction

It was clear that something was amiss somewhere for a client with a perfect working environment to attain a medium score in the daily social life. Punctuality was one of the key subjects that the client strictly adhered. Although it was a chilly morning, the client seemed to be quite in a low mood state though he was not fully composed during the testing period. If asked, one could easily conclude that the client was having sleepless nights. The client felt agitated by some questions, which left him thinking for seconds before feed backing.

The clients proved to gain ...

Lucien Levy Bruhl was a French trained scholar in philosophy who wrote about the primitive mentality in his work titled How Natives Think. He speculated of what he believed to be the operating mindset of mankind namely the primitive and the western mentality. He went on to describe the primitive mentality as one that makes no difference between the supernatural and reality. On the converse, he argued that the western mind makes use of logic and speculation. He also believed in the theory that there was a historical evolution that evolved from the primitive mind to the western mind. ...

Many people are unaware that they are a living magnet. They attract everything around them. This includes people, ideas, lifestyles, and other circumstances (Evans, 2006, p. 26). “I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, and often enough it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet” (Evans, 2005). This famous quote by Nicholas Evans explains that ...

Social inferenceWhen I got admitted to college, I found it very difficult to share a room with anybody of Arab origin. I a well built belief that Muslims are terrorists and are merciless people. I can remember praying to my God severally after watching how many innocent lives were lost on September 11th. By then, I was not old enough to understand what terrorism was but I could not withstand the pain of losing so many lives then some people claimed responsibility. This really disturbed my peace and wherever I walked in felt scared. Sometimes, I could dream of ...

John Locke’s argument is based on refutation of the notion of existence of innate ideas in the human mind. He argues that all ideas existing in the human mind came about because of particular experiences and encounters. The concept of a yellow banana, if it was to be analyzed in terms of John Locke, would entail deep mental analysis and synthesis and prove that its inception is not as simple as it seems. We have to analyze the concept of a yellow banana in terms of its primary qualities and its secondary qualities. Primary qualities mainly entail the ...

I participated in the first activity which involved travelling in the train. It was quite an interesting experience. Initially I had to make a conscious effort have a focused mind because a lot of thoughts were running through my mind. The guard announced the stops but because of my lapse in concentration, I barely heard all the stops. My only saving grace was that I was lucky to hear my own stop. Also, throughout the trip, I also had to battle with analysing all the different sound and noises around me to try and make sense of them. This ...

How does the human conscious and unconscious mind and the external bio-social forces adapt in the process of development? What then is the role and significance of psychoanalysis? Researchers in the field of neuroscience have made great findings on the effect of the biopsychosocial perspective on child development. They have already accentuated on the fact that the interaction of infants with their neurobiological predisposition and interpersonal social and environmental experiences influences the development of the psyche, a concept earlier on stated by Freud in his ‘Project for Scientific Psychology’ (Sasso 2009). The development of consciousness is evidently ...

‘The Psychological Legacy of Slavery’ is the title of Chapter 1. The chapter discusses a type of slavery that is invisible but very powerful. The author Dr. Na’im Akbar explains that slavery lasted three centuries and still affects contemporary African Americans. I agree that for the psychology of people something as traumatic as slavery must leave psychological scars on the group of people who were slaves, even several generations after the legal end of slavery. After the Civil War nothing was done to help the former slaves adjust to their new lives as free men and women. Nothing ...

Computers have been developed in a manner that they function in a similar manner as human beings. They have been developed in a manner that they support most of the human activities. Like human beings, computers have been extended to exclusive memory. The memory aids the computer to conduct several roles. However, the operations are influenced by excellent programming that a human being extends to these IT systems. Computer devices may be divided into three main sections; input device, storage device or output device. Each of these sections plays a unique role in advancing the overall role of computers. ...

Part IV is perhaps the most important part of René Descartes’ Discourse on the Method. This part of the Discourse contains a description of the results of Descartes’ meditations following the method that had been previously established by him. In contrast, earlier when Descartes was doubtful, he had taken upon himself to act conclusively and definitively. Now he acts oppositely, and considers everything that may in anyway be doubtful as false. He does this to be certain that the things he holds on to are impossible to doubt. He completely gives up all ...

Affiliated School

Identify the major schools of thought in psychology and examine their major underlying assumptions.

Psychology is founded on the premise of schools of thought structuralism and functionalism. These two schools were the first and are based on introspection and breaking down of mental processes. Behaviourism is yet another school that states we are products of nurture and not nature (Rad, 2010). We become accustomed to reacting to the stimuli that surrounds us in our lives. Psychoanalysis was started by Freud and it states that the behaviour is influenced by unconscious mind.

Humanistic is also another school and it is ...

The manifestation of Josephine’s attitude is a lack of trust. She is self-sheltered, comfortable in her own company. And she is apathetic, unresponsive to the humanness of others. The natural way to treat this is by inviting her to get-togethers but it is highly unlikely she will commit to them—and may possibly be overwhelmed by it, and so, disappear. Smaller parties will be necessary, talking specifically to her is necessary. This way, Josephine being present for gatherings will not be missed, and she will feel empowered. The only way to unpeel Josephine’s lack of expression is ...

The excerpts of The Dhammapada are considered as the simple and comprehensive representation of Buddhism. This paper discusses some of verses in The Dhammapada.

Verse 2 speaks of having mind precede objects around us. Combining this with verse 6 – which talks about self-control – presents a perfect match. Self-control is never common for any man. Drawn with anger, people’s way is always to resort to quarrel. However, these verses imply that if only one would think and see that there are better ways to resolve things than quarrelling, quarrels will not happen at all. Although feelings and situations may ...

Many people in the world suffer from mental illness, but far fewer can be called insane. Severe and ongoing anxiety is a mental illness. In the venn diagram, mental illness is the larger circle and insanity is a smaller one within it. Insanity is a detachment from the reality of the present and real world. In John Gilbeaut’s article “A Matter Over Mind.” This was the central question presented being argued in the case. No one disputed that Eric Michael

Clark was mentally ill as he was documented as having paranoid schizophrenia. What the judge was implicitly stating ...

Introduction

Depression is a condition of the mind or a feeling of hopelessness, unworthiness and losing interest in what one enjoyed most in life as a result of continued pressure over a given period (Diamond, 2005). This may be due to changing of events in life (loss of a loved one/death), failure to understand teenage moods, lack of funds and unemployment. Depression affects the character in terms of feelings, behavior and thinking. If it persists, may lead to loss of energy, related illnesses such as heart conditions and also death.

Life Experience in Depression

Life requires tactics or strategies in order to move on ...

My lifestyle in the last five years could be best described as arbitrary. I wasn’t necessarily here or there when it came to balancing the intrinsic efforts with extrinsic values. It was as if I hadn’t fully convinced myself, or was overly committed into a certain type of thinking in which all of my characteristics agreed with one another on both the inside and out. For instance, I’m impulsive, capricious, which makes me very moody and rather stubborn. Yet, with this variety of energy going on, there was hardly a show of true feelings. Crying, regardless ...

The behavior exemplified by Russell Crowe in this clip from the movie The Beautiful Mind is consistent with a manic condition. The character in question also portrays the chorea condition where a patient usually has his feet and legs move involuntarily. The patient makes sudden quick movements with the limbs. These movements are consistent with psychomotor agitation which can also be referred to as hyperactivity (Ronningstam, 2005).

The patient also portrays some elements of hallucinations when he begins speaking with an imaginative person in this case, the character Charles. The patient’s eye movement especially in relation to the ...

Blindness as a form of illiteracy is a subject that has featured most in the article. This can be termed as ignorance, which distinguishes the wise from the foolish and the young from the old. There is however no ultimate for knowledge and hence making people to die before they are informed of all the mysteries of the world. Learning is a process whose rate and speed depends on many factors. One of the factors is need, the other curiosity and exposure. All this process takes place in the mind, which will process events and finally come up with ...

A syndrome relates to a blend of signs and symptoms that show that a person is suffering from a particular ailment, disease or disorder. A syndrome based defense is thus where a defendant uses an ailment or disorder to escape criminal liability (Schmalleger et. al, 2010). In such case, though they admit doing the offence, they argue that either they lacked criminal intent or that the action was involuntary. An important aspect of a syndrome based defense is that the disease complained of must either be a disease of the mind or affect the mind.

Syndromes may thus be ...

Defense mechanism is a way in which the mind compromises solutions on things that it is incapable to solve. It is an unconscious process of coping from unacceptable situations. It can be both positive and negative in a certain way. The mind has that ability to alter the current situation in order to gain acceptance of the unpleasant stimulus. And in turn, the person would be able to easily cope with the situation. Defense mechanism offers a protection to the individual and may manifest in different ways. Repression is a type of defense mechanism wherein the person experienced a ...

English

The idea that an adult can recapture child mind and live completely in the present without abstract thought about the act, and the future is a philosophical and psychological idea that holds little meaning to most people. The mindset of an adult is primarily influenced by experiences that the adult has gone through. It can, therefore, be argued that the current mindset of any given adult is a collection of different paradigms of mindsets that resulted as a result of experiences that the adult has gone through. The concept that an adult can adopt the child mind and live ...

Characters:

MITCH, an alcoholic JUDY, his starving girlfriend [JUDY sits at diner counter, nursing a cup of coffee. MITCH charges in. She has a visible bruise on her face.] MITCH: There you are, you ungrateful bitch! Just hiding here behind a coffee cup when I’m going out of my mind with agony! How can you live with yourself when I’m suffering, I’ll never know. I hope I never know. I don’t want to be like you. I would never treat you the way you’re treating me now. I would give you the money whenever you ...

Six word memoirs pose the ultimate challenge for the verbose and a win-win game for the succinct, with every expression précised very neatly to create an indelible picture on the reader’s mind. Who can format Earnest Hemingway’s pearl “For sale: baby shoes, never worn”, without hesitating over the pathos: that wrench on the soul of the parent who placed this advertisement – selling off eagerly bought shoes of a babe-yet-in-the-arms. What does "Followed rules, not dreams. Never again" suggest? To my mind, it is a warning: that rules will not allow you to achieve what you set ...

Originally, Sigismund Schlomo Freud, Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia, Austria. His father, Jacob, is a former widower and a Jewish merchant. His mother, Amalia, is the second wife of Jacob. Freud is the first born, among the eight children of Jacob and Amalia. He is the favorite child of his parents; thus, giving him all the educational opportunities. He attended high school at Leopoldstadter Communal-Real-und Obergymnasium, where he already exhibited excellent intellectual prowess. At the age of four, his family moved to Vienna, where Freud would spend most of his life. In 1881, ...

The first approach to whistle blowing condemns whistle blowers as people who rat on their own organizations or companies, thus, undermining the authority’s hierarchy and teamwork (Martin, 402). Although an approach, Martin feels that corporations should note that for employees loyalty to the organization is not an absolute moral principle, and thus, it is the role of the public to protect whistleblowers. The second approach suggests that although whistle blowing is a necessary evil and at times tagged admirable when it happens, all around it is always bad news (Martin, 402). This is simply because it disrupts and ...

Part I: Descartes, Hume, and Kant

Question One Descartes conceives the self by application of the principles of dualism. He says that, the self cannot exist on its own. He believes that, the understanding of human beings has a direct link with God. Human beings are as a result of metaphysical events that relate the mind with the idea of God. Through God’s intervention, people are able to identify themselves. The human mind makes decisions that are directly proportional to the inspiration from Gog and the cognitive responses that follow the directives from God. In essence, Descartes goes on to add that, at no ...

Numerous studies have been conducted regarding features that allow people to be classified and categorized to belong to or thought of having particular personality characteristics. Scholars and experts, therefore, have conducted research to determine the reasons why people give certain attributes or associate certain appearances with certain character. As the adage goes that a picture is worth a thousand words, the same idea has been applied by some in defining ad describing people and, therefore, categorizes them. There are many elements and attributes that experts have pointed out shape and determine personal characteristics and, therefore, their personalities. They include, ...

Descartes believes that human beings have priori knowledge of the unreal proposition, which means that knowledge does not rely on sense experience. He argues that human beings achieve knowledge through knowing certain realities naturally, and also through a type of rational insight that allows humans to take hold of certain realities rationally. He also argues that the fake knowledge human beings achieve through reasoning or naturally cannot be achieved in any other manner. He starts by asking how he can be sure of anything. He then builds up all types of imaginative and strange reasons as to why he ...

Human beings (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) belong in the same order of primates and the Hominidae family. This is because they have common characteristics that lead them to be grouped together in this order. A number of similar biological aspects make human and chimpanzees to be grouped together. Both chimpanzees and humans have highly flexible limbs that end up with five fingers. These limbs for both limbs and hind limbs enable this order of animals to perform various activities such as climbing trees and the use of tools. Human beings and chimpanzees have flexible shoulders and joints ...

However much the Gospels speak of Jesus in a manner that shows he was remembered as a human being, they still, make it clear that he was more than a human being; by the way, he used to speak with a lot of authority. The council of Nicaea was present at the time when Christianity moved from being an illegal religion to the time when it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The doctrine of incarnation means that God became a human being through Jesus. This can be interpreted as the fact that God was able to ...

Philosophers customarily described virtue as the morally good habit such as honesty, honour and benevolence among others. Ethicists essentially failed to offer specific definition of the idea of virtue since the term often assumes controversial meanings in different situations. Hume is one of the renowned philosophers who have considerably developed the knowledge of the idea of virtues. Hume assumes a different perspective from the traditional view of the concept of virtue in reference to both the moral significance and the quantity of virtues. In his moral writings, Hume stretches the idea of virtues to include values such as wit, ...

For five months, I have been practicing meditation almost on a daily basis. I started my meditation practice last year in October, driven by the fact that I was experiencing sleeping disorders, which made me feel unbalanced, cranky and tired. My first meditation sessions started out with mixed feelings. I was determined to do something about my sleeping problems, and I did not want to become a slave of medication. A friend of mine advised me to practice meditation to calm myself, indicating that this might have effective results for making me feel more relaxed and for losing my ...

Now days there are many diseases that are spread worldwide. Among these diseases, there are some which have become chronic. These chronic diseases if not administered on time results in many severe problems. There are many types of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, asthma and many more. These all disease if prevented in its initial stages then they can be recovered, if not treated on time leads to numerous problems and health hazards. Among these chronic diseases, one is the obesity. Obesity is very common and long prevailing disease. Obesity means one who gets overweight and fat. ...

Introduction

Among the numerous relaxation techniques, mindfulness meditation is applied when an individual is trying to achieve a mind that is calm and stable. Mindfulness meditation allows people to discover that harmony and calmness is actually a natural mind aspect. It is believed that, with the practice of mindfulness meditation, individuals strengthen and develop their mind, before they reach mind peace, and be able to stay in that peaceful state of mind without putting too much effort in it. Unlike what some people may thing, in mindful meditation the individual that applies it is perfectly aware of everything going on ...

Introduction

The purpose of the following essay is to explore the fundamental aspects of the Descartes` theory on the distinctness of mind and body as formulated in the Sixth Meditation of a philosophical treatise ‘Meditations on the first philosophy’, as well as to present the objections against the Descartes` statement that the mind is distinct from the body. I would also like to briefly summarize the main points of the Sixth Meditation in regard to the existence of material things and the relation between the imagination and the pure intellection. In the Sixth Meditation “Concerning the Existence of Material Things, ...

Psychedelic rock is an important element of rock music and in Jimi Hendrix’s songs we find this style completely at one with the mood of the time. Essentially, although psychedelic rock consists of several distorted and original sounds, it is intended to put a person into a trance and make you forget all the woes which are consistently troubling us. I have considerable experience in psychedelic rock, having listened to various albums from the late 1960’s including those by The Doors and later those of the Australian band, Rush. The influence of drugs such as LSD and ...

Introduction

It is not surreptitious that one who is a good leader is a good communicator. In order to move forward in life, one needs to be a good communicator and have effective communication skills. Even in this electronic world the base line or the key factor of personal and professional successes the effective interpersonal communication skills. It is a dynamic process and is the root for many successes (Arnold, 2005). As Jo Ann Shemwell is a new first-line supervisor so she needs to be an effective communicator so that she can make understand her problems, needs, requirement related to ...

1. Descartes famously begins his Meditations on First Philosophy by considering so-called “radical doubt.” What is radical doubt, and what are the three phases in the argument that lead him to it? What does he believe is the idea that is fundamentally resistant even to the deepest of doubts? And why does Descartes begin his epistemology like this, anyway? Rene Descartes propounded his theory of radical doubt where he insisted on the systematic process of doubting one’s beliefs in a bid to determine or ascertain that which is indeed true. Descartes, in his radical doubt, advocated for doubting ...

The mind and body problem has originated with Rene Descartes. The function of the mind is to think while the body occupies space. The mind as a thinking matter and the body is the extended matter, respectively. There are two ways between the two distinct types of matter; certainly, the mind affects the body through action and the body affects the mind through perception. In information philosophy, the mind is viewed as immaterial information in the brain, an information processor biologically. For example, the hardware is the brain and mind is the software. It implies that the mind is ...

Introduction

The Socratic argument for reincarnation arises out of a discussion amongst Socrates with Pythagorean philosophers who had gone to visit him while in incarceration. The discussion arose as Socrates faced death through execution. He reasoned that philosophers ought to look forward to death rather than fear it. The ultimate act of death meant that the philosopher would finally rid his soul of the body, which is a major distraction in the soul’s quest for pure knowledge unaltered by the deception of our senses. Since our senses are imperfect and deceive us, Socrates advances the argument that the best ...

Socrates and Descartes are some of the greatest Greek philosophers of their time as they greatly impacted western and modern day thoughts or philosophy. They are known as fathers of philosophy as a result of their philosophical inquiry which forms the basis of modern day thoughts. Socrates was an inscrutable individual and one of the philosophers who demonstrated enigma during his lifetime. He changed the manner in which philosophy is conceived, although he did not write anything. The Socratic teaching method or elenctic is one such thought that survived throughout several years. Descartes, on the other hand, started his ...

As I watch my reflection in our window glass my young mind is joggling a lot of questions, questions that typically run inside a young mind’s brain. Whenever I see them playing that ball skillfully, I asked. Will I be able to have such talent in playing football? I often see these teenagers playing football during weekends when I was a child. The back of my mind may have been unconscious that time, without knowing that I am starting to like this ball game. In fact, I am starting to love it. Whenever I see my father watches ...

This text helps the bodhisattva put into practice all the teachings of Buddha and this eventually leads to supreme happiness that comes through the medium of enlightenment. The bodhisattva is described as an elevated Buddhist who can attain nirvana but actually delays such an attainment due to his compassion for the suffering beings. This is an exhaustive covering of the essence and foundation of the bodhisattva’s way of life. The text is divided into three major parts - How the text is introduced - How the text is explained

The Pre-eminent Qualities of the Author

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The aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections drawn upon the term ‘Androgyny’ and the relationship which was developed on behalf of the writer Virginia Woolf with the concept of this term. The essay will review the article entitled ‘Virginia Woolf and Androgyny’ which was written by Marilyn Farewell and first published in the journal Contemporary Literature in 1975. It will highlight the main statements as stated and supported by Marilyn Farewell in her effort to realize and analyze the term ‘androgyny’ as defined by Virginia Woolf herself and the way it has affected the ...

Personal Narrative: A Life Changing Situation

The day had finally come, my most awaited day. I was moments away from walking to the podium and receive my diploma. It was a moment like no other. I have never understood why I was so excited. Was everybody else receiving their diploma as thrilled as I was? As I waited in the queue, images and thoughts swirled rapidly captivating my mind. I was simply in a trance. I was recounting the many days and sleepless nights I spent studying for me to reach this moment of my life (Birch 17). All the time turned around and gazed ...

I must confess I have no personal hero, no man whom I could call that. But in this essay, I would like to write about who is a "hero of our time."

"Hero of our time - who is he?"

The word "hero" can be understood in different ways. On the one hand, it is - an event participant, on the other - is a special individual who stands out from the crowd with an outstanding quality of personality. In Russian literature has known Lermontov's novel “Hero of Our Time." Lermontov said that "Pechorin - have title of the work," no matter what it was. It's no ...

Growing up in New York City I have been afforded many opportunities that the average person has not experienced. New York City has a lot of culture and diversity to offer. I feel like I have learned more about people and life living here than if I had grown up in Kansas or Nebraska. Even though there is much to see and do here, I am far from knowing everything there is to know about being a complete person. I still have a lot to learn. Such an incident occurred last two years ago, when I learned the difficult ...

The image of the evil demon does not arouse the thoughts and use power over people to accept the things that are not true. Instead, the evil demon is a device which is a way by which Descartes thinks everything he used to think true to be false. It leads him to all his doubts he has acceptably raised regarding those things he regularly held to the truth. The acknowledgment that the understanding that he had gained on false grounds is at best uncertain and leads him to make up his mind to overturn all those things that he ...

Introduction

Art exhibitions are presentations of various works by different artists. They aid us in analyzing the unique styles in works of art done by individual artists. This exhibit includes both three dimensional and two dimensional works by Jammes Joffe, Mary Morrell, Theresa Northway and Melanie Rush Davis among others.

James Jofee

The exhibit collection by James Joffe includes a number of paintings. These images are two dimensional expressions of the craftsmanship of this artist. James Joffe’s works reflect a clear and focused mind that is attentive to nature. His use of color is also effective in expressing different emotions to ...

In the book, The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz explores the concepts of the increasingly important elements of modern life that is characterized with the high numbers of choices and the effect of the choice made on one’s psychological state and development. In contrast to other scholars who emphasize that choice is good, Schwartz insists that availability of many choices is detrimental (Schwartz 57). This paper reviews Chapters 3 and 5 of this book to identify some of the important concepts proposed by the author that are applicable in the modern life. In Chapter 3, Deciding and Choosing, Schwartz ...

It simply takes opening of the mind's shutters to let in the sunshine and colour in life. Many people spend an entire lifetime searching for happiness. They shop, they achieve, they run blindfolded -- however, the key to happiness cannot be found. Ask most of the successful people and their answer would be the same -- unless they achieve more, they will not be happy. Farther they go, farther they want to go. So where is the end? No one has answer to that; accept that the answer lies right outside their windows. In the race to be the ...