Essays on Visual Imagery

Personal Stress Management Plan

I would like to enhance my physical and emotional well-being. I need to get more fit and tone up my body. I need to enhance my psychological wellness by restricting the measure of negative data that influences me. I will enhance my physical wellbeing by practicing each day and calculating the calories I eat. I will enhance my psychological wellness by utilizing stress management techniques consistently. I will adhere to this calendar and include extra stress management techniques and by including physical practice when I find that I have additional opportunity to work out. I will gauge my result ...

The chosen song is Sounds of Summer by Dirks Bentley. The song makes me think about the beauty of summer and the vibrant activities that come with it. Summer time is a beautiful time. In my childhood, even though we had a lot of fun playing in season including winter, summer came with so much joy and one thing that is identical with summer is vacations. Many of our vacations happen during summer; we take time to enjoy the beautiful weather and participate in many activities. During this period, we also get to is it family and attend several ...

Introduction

he literature has always used specific instances about destruction and damage caused by the act of humans to violate and misuse the natural life cycle processes. Instances of the disastrous consequences when humans use their illegitimate powers to manipulate the natural life form are given with respect to the prevalent cultural themes of the respective eras. Shakespeare's ‘The Tempest’ involves the use of magical prowess in manipulating the normal human characteristics and subsequent creation of the man-made devil, named Caliban. Similarly, Mary Shelley's ‘Frankenstein’ explicates the violation of the natural life cycle be creating a life from the remains ...

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most beloved poets. She wrote of nature, love, and death. It is said that Dickinson wrote 1800 poems, the majority of which were untitled. Dickinson was known to be somewhat reclusive and introverted throughout her life. These traits, however, did not preclude her from observing and appreciating even the simplest forms of her natural surroundings. One of Dickinson’s poems involving nature is “A Bird Came Down the Walk-.” It is this poem that will be discussed here. Dickinson’s poetry is of a personal quality, not only to the poet, but ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic, and a representative of the literary movement called Romanticism. He became popular thanks to his dark and grim short stories. Poe is considered to be the founder of the detective-fiction genre and psychological prose in literature. He is immediately recognized by his famous poem “The Raven.” But the writer proved his ability to create dread and fear not only in poetic lines, but also in prose. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” that takes an honored place in Poe’s gallery of nightmares and horror accurately ...

My reaction to the video is that am amazed by the people who can memorize hundreds of numbers by looking at them at a glance. From my previous understanding I would say that these kinds of people are talented to some extent. This is contrary to what Joshua Foer says in the video. The ability to memorize something depends on how we pay attention to the situation at hand and how we engage our minds to enable you create images of what you want to memorize and determining their meaning (Foer, 2012). I think it ...

Katsushika Hokusai’s work of art titled “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa” is off his woodblock print paintings is contained in the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. This woodblock artwork belongs to the Edo period. The substances of the paintings are highly visual, and visual language has been used to define the scenario in the painting. The view of Mount Fuji is distinct in the background of the canvas, and the background of the painting demonstrates a powerful imagery of the power of nature. Waves are shown crashing against two fishing boats (Dewitte, Larmann, and Shields). One ...

Psychology

The study of the brain and how it functions, aside from being the ultimate paradox, is the most complex, most challenging branch of science there is. It deals with the most fragile organ of the human body and touches the foundation of human existence. Of its many specifications, cognition evokes the bigger questions, arousing the interests of scientists, theorists, and behavior analysts. There are many theories as to how man processes his response to his environment through thought, experience, and senses. One of which touches the perplexing area of imagery, perception, and their relationship. The vivid images that ...

[Interpretive Question: Why does Adrienne Rich enjoy her moments with her lover when she seems to be against the practice of cohabitation?] Adrienne Rich’s poem, “Living in Sin”, explores her viewpoints regarding cohabitation, or the mutual decision between lovers to share a single house even if they are not yet married. This poem is not only romance-based, but also suggests implications on the problems concerning cohabitation and having sex outside of marriage, more particularly from the side of a female lover. These conflicts involve the poet’s belief on society’s discrimination against cohabitation, her own sense of moral ...

English

Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” and JFK’s inaugural speech both are a masterpiece of verbal and nonverbal communication. Devoid from the rhetorical devices the speeches of these presenters might not have been as memorable as they have become. Both speeches were for a completely different audience and were made on a strikingly different occasions and contain divergent messages. Yet, both presenters were masterfully able to employ the devices of verbal and nonverbal communication rightly suited to their respective occasion and for their respective audience. King strengthened his speech by using a very interesting analogy. He described the reason to ...

English

Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” and JFK’s inaugural speech both are a masterpiece of verbal and nonverbal communication. Devoid from the rhetorical devices the speeches of these presenters might not have been as memorable as they have become. Both speeches were for a completely different audience and were made on a strikingly different occasions and contain divergent messages. Yet, both presenters were masterfully able to employ the devices of verbal and nonverbal communication rightly suited to their respective occasion and for their respective audience. King strengthened his speech by using a very interesting analogy. He described the reason to ...

Writing across the curriculum and studying text

In this chapter “Writing across the curriculum” writing is portrayed as a platform to comprehend and internalize one’s thoughts about a certain subject. It explains the link of writing to the reading culture. - While reading and writing, writers are involved in a continuous, dynamic process of composing a meaningful statement. These two aspects can’t be ignored since the reader extracts sense from the text as the writer communicates his understanding. - Explorative writing enables students to realize the missing link between n their previous reading and the current .highlighting these loopholes through writing is essential

Personal reaction

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Right brain vs. left brain

The theory of the function and structure of the brain implies that the brain consists of two sides that are different and they control the brain. The longitudinal fissure is what that splits a human brain into distinct cerebral hemispheres that is the right and the left side. These two hemispheres show a not complete but a strong bilateral symmetry in the ways they both function and how they are structurally made. Generalizations that are widely being made in the field of popular psychology suggests that these sides have characteristics that are labeled to them. Normal myth is that the left side ...

Group art therapy with mothers of sexually abused children

This article aims to highlight the benefits that psychotherapy brings forth to the mother of children who have been sexually abused and the resultant positive effects this form of therapy has on the family plus the victim who is the sexually abused child. The null hypothesis of this form of therapy is: HO: Due to psychotherapy, the issues relating to sexual abuse that affects the mother, child, and family will not be fixed. This is tried against an alternative hypothesis: HA: Due to psychotherapy the issues relating to the sexual abuse that affect the mother, child, and family will ...

In the book, “On Killing”, the author utilizes a set of various themes to explain his ideas. The author mainly describes the psychological aspects of soldiers in the battle field and how it affects their behavior. The author describes to his elite audience the psychological concepts using different literary skills. He uses different intonations and perspectives to convince his audience. He also cites other researchers’ views to help deliver specific nuance and meaning to his audience. The author explains why soldiers develop a love for one another and the desire to protect and help each other when they work as a group ...

Advertisers use various, sophisticated appeals to persuade customers/ consumers to buy and consume the products and services, which they produce. Companies use rhetoric strategies in order to promote strategies of an advert in the consumers’ mind. Such strategies include gender appeals, based on femininity and masculinity notions (Hammond et al. 579). Advertisers like using gender so as to persuade consumers.They do not care explaining the health implications of consuming the product. The research will analyze persuasive appeals used by cigarette companies. The cigarette product in this case is Virginia Slims “purse pack” cigarettes. These cigarettes are quite slim as ...

1. Abstract With eth advent of computing devices, there has been a phenomenal growth in the adoption of electronic displays. There has been adoption of electronic displays in these environments. Even as the evolution of electronic devices is seen to be on the increase, there is a need to ensure that the electronic display devices are friendly to the environment and efficient for personal use. Emphasis is seen to be put on safety and green computing. There is also an emergence of hand-held devices which are being adopted at a fast rate and the use of electronic displays is highly adopted ...