Five senses

For my response paper, I decided to reflect on Synesthesia. Synesthesia is a nerve condition where a person experiences two senses at one time. This condition happens when one sense triggers another one. For example, if someone sees an image they will be able to hear what they see within the image. This phenomenon’s name derives from the Greek, meaning "to perceive together", comes in many varieties (Carpenter, 2001). Some synesthetes hear, smell, taste or feel pain in color. Others may taste…

the drawing The Flowering of Love, I would just see a rose. Top-down processing, also known as deductive reasoning, constructs perceptions from the sensory input by drawing on our experience and expectations. Top-down processing interprets what our senses detect. It uses past events and prior knowledge to draw conclusions. For example, if I were to touch a hot stove for the first time, I would learn that it is hot and it would burn me. The next time I see a hot stove I would use top-down…

A.) Selective Perception/pg.335: seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others. Selective perception is when someone can see certain aspects of something but remain blind to others, whether that blindness is intentional or accidental is unknown. Selective perception become extremely apparent in the film about the asbestos disaster in Libby, Montana. The owner of the W. R. Grace display a huge case of selective perception in the court files showing him being…

Imagery is described as visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet is one of his most famous works, and it is no stranger to figurative language. Throughout the play, light and dark imagery are used prominently to show emotions, namely heartache and lust. Both in good times and bad, Shakespeare peppers his story with mentions of torch and fire, night and stars, each with its own hidden meaning. Imagery is used…

Welders Revealed Striding into the shop the very first aspect to stimulate the senses is the sound. Grinding, whirring, scraping, and popping seem to be the most prominent. The cacophony nearly overshadows the other senses until it is adjusted to, as much as it can be. Then come the smells. The scent of well-oiled threaders, saws, and myriad other machines unidentifiable to the untrained eye stews almost subconsciously while the perfumes of scalding steel and elbow grease permeate the air. One…

the experience, most people are overcome by this emotion and feel the need to get out of his or her situation as soon as possible. The occurrence of this sensation is seen in the protagonist, Cole Sears, of M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense. It is also witnessed in the characters of Algernon Blackwood’s story “The Willows.” In each of these scenarios, the characters experience a presence that cannot be explained in terms of their…

Title Television is a universal idea, for decades it has brought family, friends, and all sorts of relationships to come together. However, television can vary from country to country. What may be popular in one part of the world, might not even be aired on another. America and Britain are usually paired with one another when discussing ideas about the world, because they contain so many similarities. Throughout the course of my time here, I have discovered, although that is not the case when it…

blaring out of the speakers. Music is constantly around us. When people hear a song images pop into their heads. Music plays a key role in the sense of place. The articles Place or Space and Sacred Spaces and Tourist Places, the way images are presented, and the things I learned all contributed to our project in the way music corresponds to geographic sense of place. In the article Place or Space by Mike Crang, Mike writes, “Spaces become places as they become ‘time thickened’. They have a…

later in Sense and Sensibility. Austen breaks the boundaries of male dominant society through her novels. She shows what distinguishes women’s culture from male society by illustrating the significance of sisterhood, female friendship, emotional support, offered guidance for other women, and appreciation of women’s effort of both motherhood and wifehood. Further, Elizabeth, in Pride and Prejudice, Elinor and Marianne, in Sense and sensibility, and Emma, in Emma, are female characters of sense,…

know what is best for them and have their ideal path planned out. However, in reality, what one desires is not always the outcome. Being open-minded to change is important in order to sufficiently handle those situations. There are several scenes in Sense and Sensibilities that illustrate the idea that good things can come out of situations in which one never thought they would desire. The main example is the constant mind changing that Marianne faces throughout the film. She meets Col.…