Grey matter

Since my birth, he has loved me, and, due to some health complications and answered prayers from my childhood, he lives with my family today. With his recent presence, I have been encouraged by the way that his compassion for me is still present, no matter what situation he is in. For as long as I can recall, my Poppy Tom has been making jokes. When I come back from the pool, he asks me if the water was wet, and when I am drinking milk, he asks me if I have ever milked a duck. He laughs about…

Whether Moby-Dick is a whale or a fish is a trifling matter—what is significant about it is that it is a great “white” whale. The color white is usually connected to innocence and purity; however, in “Moby-Dick”, the quintessentially white sperm whale defies the qualities attached to its color as Ahab sees it as the archetypal evil. In a novel overwhelmingly about whaling, Melville frequently explores colors and their meanings and use them to paint a picture of characters and sceneries in the…

The sky divided with the crash of lightning. The ground rumbled, making the towering boxes stacked in the McBride’s new apartment make a tremendous fall to the floor. It could clearly be mistaken as the end of the world. The McBride family was new to the jammed packed city life where the air smelled of smoke and pollutants, and anywhere you went, there were tons of people. New York City was going to be Aniah’s fifth home in the past year. She was familiar with California. She’d lived in Los…

In the essay “Mind Over Mass Media” by Steven Pinker. He explains how the media disseminates misleading information about how technology is lowering our intelligence. Despite these claims, I think that technology aids us in sharpening our skills and has no effect on decreasing or increasing our intelligence. It is a tool that helps us manage our time, additionally makes us more efficient. The mass media provide examples of PowerPoints and Twitter to foster a sense of skimming information…

Leonardo da Vinci, like most of his contemporaries, believed the human body was one of God’s greatest creations and thus could pay service to Him by utilizing it as subject matter. The visual elements of this work are deceivingly complex. Leonardo concentrated tremendous effort in the painting of Mona Lisa, herself. She appears astonishing life like, with realism that, at this time was decidedly unprecedented. From her identifiable…

demonstrate how the most beautiful love can become hatred if not felt in moderation. Distracted by the overwhelming feelings of love, Romeo and Juliet are clueless as to what Friar Lawrence is saying. They continue to love each other so strongly no matter what terrible outcomes are in their future. Similar to honey, the initial feelings--or taste--of love is sweet and delicious. But after eating one drizzle too many, honey loses its deliciousness. Love too powerful can turn into hate if not felt…

The brain has two important motor pathways. These pathways are the motor cortex and the somatosensory cotex (Carlson & Birkett, 2017). The motor cortex of the brain is made up of the outer grey matter. Each side of the cortex has areas that represent particular regions of our body. Signals from these areas will travel to the particular areas of the body to preform specific movements. The thalamus is a structure that is very important in movement, as it is the relay station. The motor…

Humanity, the quality of being humane, has played a major role in our world’s society. Humanity itself, though at times to some people is a grey area, plays a vital function in our society today just as it did in the time of slavery in the 1800s. Although a large number of people knew slavery to be abominable, an overwhelmingly larger number of citizens deemed slavery to be humane and necessary, while at the same time others were oblivious and did not know what was going on around them. Whether…

over the still developing, fertilized egg in the lab. No matter what group these people are put into they all are given basic guidelines to live by, those values include community, identity, and stability. In the story the reader can visualize the sense of community that the people live by, for example, in the opening sentence the author gives the impression that the community members live in enormously tall buildings by stating “A squat grey building of only thirty- four stories” (pg 1) the…

on is “Kneeling Mother with a Child at Her Breast”. In the painting I see a African women with dark skin kneeling down on both knees holding her baby in her left arm with one hand behind head and the other on the buttocks. She is kneeling on a round grey mat while the baby is sucking on her nipple. She is also starring in her baby’s eyes with somewhat of a grin on her face. Both her and her baby are butt naked in this painting. The baby has his/her eyes wide open looking into the mother eyes.…