Embodied cognition

‘The Arrival’ is a movie which shows the relation between language and cognitive. The main character, Dr. Louise Bank is a linguist who has successfully proved the correlation between language and thoughts where she adopted the Sapir-Whorf theory. The main agenda in this movie is to show how two different languages communicate in such both sides can’t understand each other’s language. In my opinion, Dr. Bank together with Dr. Ian, however, have done their job very well in understanding the…

In both passages “Biographies of Hegemony” by Karen Ho and “The Naked Citadel” by Susan Faludi, there are two higher institutions, which would be Wall Street and the Citadel whose goal is to “remold” an individual to fit their criteria. Each individual has a certain identity and presents themselves in a specific way. People are known to change due to influences on their everyday lives, which eventually changes their identities into someone completely different. In these two passages, it becomes…

The decision of whether to tell the truth or not is the defining moment in any situation. It is crucial in the turnout of events and can greatly affect the outcome. A truth or a lie could possibly save or end a life. For this analysis, we are going to particularly look at the similarities and differences of their protagonists, one of both stories’ most important theme which is their Father and Son Relationship, and some of the notable similarities and difference of how the Kite Runner reflects…

You win some, you lose some. It’s important to know what it feels like to lose. Most people don’t win all the time. If a child has never known what it feels like to disappear in the masses, he or she will not be able to feel the thrill of winning. Getting a trophy or a ribbon every time does not only diminish the joy of placing first when it’s our kids’ turn, it also lessens the accomplishment of the people who actually won. Honesty Page 10 Be honest and accountable. Those two things go…

Life is a journey which involves bettering yourself and gaining knowledge. All people have brains to think, interpret, and create anything they can imagine in their mind. But have you ever wondered if your perception of reality was truly real and not a giant deception. A man named Descartes had a very similar thought. In fact, Descartes decided in order to really know the realness of existence he had to forget all the knowledge his mind had gathered through his lifetime. The man disregards all…

There are a lot of reasons prove that why the process of forgetting is believed to occur. One of the reasons is because of cue dependent forgetting. According to Tulving(1975), the cue dependency theory of forgetting also called retrieval failure of theory. It is one of five cognitive psychology theories of forgetting. It applies to long-term memory, not the short-term. Cue-dependent forgetting is means that the failure to recall a memory due to missing stimuli or cues that were present at the…

Euripides’ Medea is a telling tale which delves deep into the realm of the modern human being’s greatest internal conflict, balancing the tug of one’s heartstrings amidst the vacuum of society’s value system. The darling daughter of a barbaric Greek kingdom, Medea’s life is warped by the blinding light of love. Thus readers are compelled to understand the distraught state of this loyal woman, which came about following Jason’s decision to marry the daughter of Corinth. Despite opposing views,…

Lakoff and Johnson (1980) categorize conceptual metaphors into 3 classifications: ontological metaphors, structural metaphors and orientational metaphors. 1. Orientational metaphors Orientational metaphors, also known as spatial metaphors, are a series of metaphorical concepts which are constructed with reference to spatial orientation, which comes from people’s emotional and physical experience. The concepts are related in the following ways: up or down, in or out, front or back, on or off,…

Before any word, any statement that may be said, understanding the term “culture” should be a start. Many people translate culture in their own interpretations without referring it to the world and the people that surround them. What is culture? What is culture all about? Culture, to be specific: “is the characteristic and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined from everything like language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.” (Ann Zimmermann, 2015) Now that we got a…

“Ida” is a disorienting visual experience, to put it lightly. Pawlikowski must have chosen a 1.33 frame, or at least something similar. Just look at the screen: the composition is abnormal, the background occupies the major part, and only a small portion is allocated to the characters. The audience sees forest after forest and gets very little sense of human presence. The camerawork is also weird—as if the lens had been kept fixed, and the characters had to follow the camera to get in audience’s…