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    The physical immune system protects one’s body from external sickness. Similarly, the psychological immune system protects one’s mental health from unhappiness, a form of illness. In Daniel Gilbert’s “Immune to Reality,” Gilbert discusses how the brain acquires happiness. Furthermore, he demonstrates how the brain will keep one from achieving his or her true happiness. According to Robert Thurman’s “Wisdom,” the alternative method of obtaining happiness is through selflessness. Both Gilbert and…

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    Spector’s and Wills’s article offers a spiritual meaning of materialism presented in the film. The article goes into each example of materialism and analyzes its deeper and symbolic denotations. In this process, this article builds to the conclusion proceeding how once people don’t feel satisfied with the materialistic things they desired, they search for happiness through a spiritual path such as Lester did in this film. Spector and Willis argue the theme of destruction of desire. Every…

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    all kinds of advertising. The true concept of beauty has been forgotten by the general public and it should be brought back. By promoting the real beauty’s definition, many women would be more acceptable, confident and happy with themselves. The denotation of beauty has been influenced and manipulated by history, cultural norms, and universal standards. Beauty is defined in dictionaries as…

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    The denotation of an insecurity is “a lack of confidence or assurance; self-doubt”, another, simpler definition is “instability” (“Insecurity”). The connotation associated with insecurities is that they are rooted from uncertainty of society’s views. This is interesting because society’s opinions can also be deemed unstable. Sylvia Plath comments on this relationship in her novel, The Bell Jar. By telling the relatable story of a protagonist, Esther, who faces society-induced depression, the…

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    Denotation is present in the poem as she says “I 'll remember you said, “Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.” She literally remembered the words he said and carried them on with…

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    significance and that she is not seen as any type of threat to Torvald. Children are typically non-threatening and they do not usually have any power or position of authority over other people. By using the word “little” to characterize Nora, the word’s denotation essentially portrays Nora as a child and Torvald as the parent. In addition, Torvald asserts his power by establishing rules for Nora. When Nora is caught eating a macaroon, Torvald asks, “Hasn’t Miss Sweet Tooth been breaking rules in…

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    units catalogue the “essential repertoire of human emotion” (Gladwell). This is not to say that the three thousand action units explain every human emotion, in the psychological view of the face, only expressions that have specific and universal denotations can be considered an action unit. The other micro expressions are inessential in the psychological view because they are too ambiguous and require more than a single micro expression to understand. The action units are separate from each…

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    In the Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator was visiting his childhood friend, Roderick Usher. This visit took place at the Usher’s estate where Roderick’s sister Madeline was ill with a mysterious disease. The whole story is about the narrator describing the gloomy Usher’s estate and the depressed condition of his friend Roderick. One of the themes in this story is about madness because Roderick Usher is overwhelmed with depression which caused him to go insane. His…

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    Ethos Pathos Logos

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    The way words are said in an argument can change the whole way the argument goes. When trying to win an argument, logos, pathos and ethos, as well as inductive vs deductive, and connotation vs denotation will all increase the chances of winning. To begin with, logos are the logic the words give off. Ethos is the ethics or morals to the words and pathos is the emotion the words give off. “I intentionally put you in a good mood so your brain will be working more effectively.increase the chances…

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    use of his words in his article. “Passionless” is one of the words that help display his opinion in an excellent way. Then, the denotation of “passionless” is lacking strong emotion or unemotional. In the same way, nothingness, emptiness, and drained are all types of feelings that the word passionless portrays. The feelings that “passionless” conveys is able to…

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