When we look around us we do not even think about it, we check both ways before crossing the street, we admire the sunset early in the morning, or we read a book. But, we never think about how we see things, how does what we see get translated into things that we can understand? It starts in the retina, where the receptor cells are. There are two types of receptor cells, rods and cones, both are only sensitive to visible light. Rods are chiefly responsible for night vision and respond to only varying intensities of light and dark.…
Jackson’s paper, “ What Mary Didn't Know” , is about a scientist Mary, who learns all the physical facts within the world from inside an isolated black-and-white room through a black and white TV. When she finally leaves the room, she experiences seeing a red tomato for the first time, and learns new phenomenal truths about what it is like to see the color red. The argument being will she learn something from the actual physical experience of seeing red, or is her prior knowledge enough to dismiss this experience. The knowledge argue infers that, contrary to physicalism, the complete physical truth is not the whole truth. Therefore, claiming all the physical facts of a phenomenon, without actually experiencing it is not enough.…
Giovanni and Lusanna The narrative of Giovanni and Lusanna tells of an unusual situation in mid-fifteenth century Florence, when a bourgeois woman, Lusanna, took her forbidden lover, Giovanni, to court over the legal status of their secret marriage. The two had been covert lovers for twelve years before Giovanni publicly married an aristocrat woman instead of Lusanna. The chain of events was captured, by Ser Filippo Mazzei, as a notary of the court proceedings. These included court transcripts and witness accounts.…
Picture yourself walking up to a building; there are green trees decorating the walkway. You reach the metallic silver doors. While looking up at the sky, the snowy white clouds slowly caress the deep blue sky. You pull the metallic door open and enter the building. As the mundane walls around you start to collapse, your body goes cold and numb.…
This article will focus on illusory face perception which is finding faces that remind us of humans in things that have no face in them at all examples include faces of numerous religious icons in toasted food (Svoboda 2007) .There were two tests used to inspect the relationship between paranormal, religious beliefs and face perception. The key purpose of this essay will be to summarise and evaluate the article ‘ paranormal and religious believers are more prone to illusory face perception than sceptics and non believers’. Some people claim to see faces and figures of religious characters or other people in weird places such as clouds and even food.…
Death of Antigone This poem is written in the narrative free verse style. I chose this form because it does not give me a limit as to how I should write. It liberates the writing style and expression of the poem. The poem is about the death of Antigone.…
In the two plays Antigone and Trifles we see the characters in each approach laws and justice quite differently. Both plays center on a death, and in each there are two sides seeking justice after the death. I feel the plays present one group of characters who seek lawful justice and an opposing set of characters that want justice based on their opinion. In the first play, Trifles, a man has been murdered by strangulation and the primary suspect is his wife.…
In Bell Hook’s article, Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination, she further discusses how exploring whiteness through the lens of the ‘black imagination’ can help stimulate the thought of how whiteness really…
Blood is thicker than water communicates that family ties are indomitable when compared to other relationships. Therefore, I concur with Antigone, leaving Polyneikes unburied is a humiliation for herself and most importantly for him. Disregard people’s life choices I believe that the last we could for them on this earth is to bury them with dignity and let their souls rest in peace. In addition, Antigone says, “I would not welcome such a fellowship. Go thine, own way; myself to bury him.…
For many years, there has always been an equality gap between males and females. Males being the more revered and desired gender, while females were the more disregarded gender, as they were forced to do mundane house work. Researchers have studied and learned how of family dynamics work throughout history, their research include but not limited to, archaeology, documents, and literature. In the year 5th century, this was no different than anywhere else in the world. But many scholars at the time decided that in their writings that they would use female characters to play the protagonist as this was a way of challenging societal norms.…
How many ways can a person describe color? If someone were to ask you that, what you would say? How can you describe what turquoise or maroon feels like? There are many ways you can answer this. Colors can change the way people visually perceive an the environments that surround them.…
As the novelist Haruki Murakami wrote, “Now, though, I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts” (12). A work of literature is imperfect in the sense that it is more or less related to and restricted by the social context in which it is written and is a memory-carrier of its own culture. Sophocles’ Attic tragedy Antigone carries memories of sociopolitical concerns over the future development and fertility of the city Athens. Similarly, Antigona Furiosa by Griselda Gambaro, which is one of its adaptations, or, creative rewritings, responds to the genocidal Dirty War in Argentina. Both plays center around the eponymous heroine’s desire to bury her brother’s body regardless of the prohibition of the law.…
Indirect realism as the more plausible perception theory Indirect realism is a more plausible theory of perception than direct realism. Direct realism was first described by Aristotle. He described how a seer learns about an object by directly seeing it impressed on the eye. In other words, it is where external material objects are directly experienced, without sense-data (Bernecker, 2008).…
Is the Leader of their People a Dictator or a Savior? The article about gay marriage and the play Antigone both created decrees that people reflect on the outcome positively or negatively. Antigone is a memorable female princess that decided it was mishandled to not bury her brother, Polyneices, but King Creon sentences her to death for defying his law. The Supreme Court passed the law in all states that gay marriage was allowed, but only 37 states allow it. People were favorable about it but some people despised it as well.…
The color code is simply just a way to understand yourself and the people around you, better. It’s this quiz that you take and it shows you what color(s) you are. After you take the quiz you can read about your color(s) and it will tell you more about your own personality. Not only that…