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One’s Innate Tendency to Read Words Saipriya Sagiraju University of Massachusetts Amherst Abstract Directed attention is a mechanism used by humans every day to manage their thoughts by inhibiting a stimuli in order to say or do something else; this tendency is also known as the Stroop effect. To test the effects of the Stroop task we conducted an experiment to examine if words on silhouettes have an effect on the reaction time of verbalizing the names of the animals on a silhouette sheet. We…

Yuppification would be convenient given the plethora of schools in the valley including the prestigious Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, and flagship campus for the University of Massachusetts system. If recent graduates found incentive to stay close to where they went to school and build connections within the valley, Holyoke could very well increase its’ population of millenials…

advocating for changes in U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding South African apartheid and Central America. In 1986, she was arrested, along with activist Abbie Hoffman and others, for protesting CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Represented by attorney Leonard Weinglass, who famously defended Abbie Hoffman in the Chicago Seven trial, Carter was acquitted of all charges. The trial gained widespread attention, with Weinglass successfully arguing the necessity…

The Whole Truth which is a based on the true story about the murder of Rebecca Wright and the shooting of Claudia Brenner by Stephen Roy Carr While the two women out on the Appalachian Tail in Pennsylvania. The Author of the book H. L. Pelham tells the story of what happened the day of the shooting and the whole legal process leading to Carr’s sentence of life in prison (Pohlman, 1999). Stephen Roy Carr’s defense attorney was Michael George, George wanted to use his client’s child hood from…

use poetry for their own means. It is clear from reading both Tragedy and the Emotions of Pity and Fear and An Essay on Criticism that the purpose of poetry has no one certainty. In the words of the late President John F. Kennedy in a speech at Amherst College in honor of the late poet, Robert Frost, “When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations [looming potentiality of tragedy]. When power narrows…

Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous American poets, well known for her strange use of punctuation, the widespread assumption that she had agoraphobia, and her poems about death and immortality. Her fear of going outside combined with the countless number of deceased she faced in her own life contributed to her poetry significantly. Her poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, however, takes on a different facade and forces readers to think more appreciatively on the topic. In the poem,…

Elder Robison should be required for high school students to read. It is a true account of the author’s life living with Asperger’s. Asperger’s syndrome is on the spectrum of Autism. In the book, Robison discussed his life from the mid-1900’s in Amherst, Massachusetts to present day. He goes through an account of his childhood memories, and adulthood capabilities. His childhood proved it difficult to connect with other kids. As he got older, he developed better social skills that helped him make…

ASSIGNMENT #1 DEVAANSH SINGH WAHRA (W0679473) Major General Sir Isaac Brock was a British Army officer and director from Guernsey. He is considered as a Canada's hero in the war of 1812. After that war the official's gave him Professional name "The Hero of Upper Canada". Sir Isaac Brock was conceived on October 6, 1769 at St Peter Port on the Channel Island of Guernsey, the eighth child and eleventh offspring of John Brock and Elizabeth de Lisle. Five of his elder brothers would survive to…

“Anna.” This was a conscious effort to keep her Korean heritage and integrate her family name into her name forever, so that marriage would not replace it with her husband’s last name. Throughout her education, An Na received a bachelor of arts from Amherst College and an MFA from Norwich…

Not unlike any other PVTA ride, my experience began with sprinting to catch the bus on time. Fortunately since the bus costs $1.25 to get anywhere, other Mount Holyoke students are busy trying to deposit their quarters or stuff their crumpled dollar bills into the machine so I had time to catch my breath before taking a seat. As the bus began meandering through South Hadley it almost felt like a suburban environment to a larger town. And I noticed the crowd was quite diverse compared to the…