Mirror Essay

empathy is experienced, it is important to consider at the kind of movement displayed on screen, in the first instance boxing and dance are different kinds of movement, although they both require training and precision. Landay in her article ‘The Mirror of Performance . . .” argues that humans make sense of the world they inhabit through their bodies, therefore what the audiences see performed reflects this, through kinaesthetic empathy. The spatial and psychological space of the cinema…

MWA #1 In the article, Success: Entering the Mirror Maze, Dr. Hightower, an experienced high school teacher of 19 years, expresses his opinion on people’s incapability of having a growth mindset and their inadvertent retainment of fixed mindsets. During the period when the competitive society only appreciates obvious successes, Dr. Hightower believes that the society and the aspiring and passionate people who constantly strive to achieve their dreams have concluded that success is virtually…

Penetration theory. I have picked these terms because the words match the show I watched. The show I have chosen to watch is Black Mirror. I particularly watched the Waldo moment and White Christmas to write my response. I have chosen this T.V show because I have heard a lot of good things about it. Including from you, in class you mentioned that we should watch the Black Mirror. I enjoyed watching Waldo Moment because it reminded me of how Trump run his campaign. He mocked the politicians and…

"How Social Media Is a Toxic Mirror" by Rachel Simmons has a title that speaks for itself by using logos to compare the toxicity of Social Media on the lives of teens today. Simmons educates us on the obscurity between social media and concerns regarding body confidence. She begins with using ethos by mentioning that she is an educator to build the credibility that has experience working with teens. I will be critiquing "How Social Media Is a Toxic Mirror" by Rachel Simmons by stating her main…

Reader Response of Chapter 3 of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki In the book, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki talks about how slavery came into place and shifted from white servants to black slaves. As a matter of a fact, during the start of the New World, white servants assembled most of the labor. In addition, Takaki explains, in great detail, the harsh, cruel origins that begot slavery. In the beginning, the…

“The Animal Mirror” by Timothy Clarke is an analysis on the way animals are represented in literature, art, and reality. The end of his introduction brings to light his major question that he searches to answer through the rest of the article; “This will bring to us the challenge of anthropomorphism. How to represent animal lives in human language and culture without illusion or injustice?” (Clarke, 179). His question solidifies the idea that animals are in fact represented through human aspects…

Island of a Thousand Mirrors One of the key transitions that drove Saraswathi’s transformation was the loss of her family at the age of sixteen. Amma, her mother, explains, “You have to go from here, my daughter. We can’t keep you with us anymore. You must go to the training camp. Learn to fight. Become a hero” (159). Saraswathi’s environment changed as she was forced to become a Tiger soldier. As Saraswathi loses her parents, she no longer has a role model to look up to. Being young and…

Celebrities are just ordinary people everyone knows about. Sometimes they seem more extravagant, high up on their pedestals, but in reality they are human beings. Ty Burr explores the changing face of the celebrity in the excerpt, “The Faces in the Mirror.” In particular, he delves into the modern case of the digital celebrity, with screens everywhere making a new starlet every day. According to Burr, we lose ourselves in the “roiling sea of infotainment” (32). Burr notes that the relationship…

Thesis : The equally represented premise in both stories is that while advancing in potential everday, technology cannot fill in the missing piece of the puzzle sometimes. Black Mirror Paragraph: In the Netflix exclusive television series, Black Mirror, the premise of where technology is lacking is represented, but also put down with a few exceptions. The premise is shown in a rather dark, tragic manner, but with a quite possible scenario. The British science fiction series, created by…

disorders might be caused by hypoactivity of mirror neurons, a group of neurons that is activated when an action is happening or when the individual is the spectator of the same action done by another person. These neurons are fundamental in life because they play a specific role in social interaction that allow an individual to recognize and internalize the same mental states of those who have faced as they were their own. Following the “broken mirror theory”, autistic patients would not be…