Homunculus

There are approximately 2 million people living in the United States who have undergone an amputation, and of those 2 million, up to 60-90% suffer from phantom limb sensations or phantom limb pain. Interestingly, these sensations do not seem to always fade with time as a patient adjusts to the loss of a limb, but as many as 70% report phantom sensations several years after the loss of the limb (Hanley et al., 2009; Foell, Berkrater-Bodmann, Diers, & Flor, 2014; Preissler et al.,2012;…

The Ethics of Toys and Occupations Even before babies are born they are given, and expected to follow gender stereotypes and norms. Parents paint the walls pink in a little girl’s room, and blue in a little boys room. This concept of gendering inanimate objects is consistent throughout a person’s entire life. The toys and games commonly given to children during their lives perpetuate these stereotypes and lead them to think that they must behave and present themselves in certain ways. An…

The case study for this essay is a male patient, 63, two months post-stroke who suffered an infarct in the proximal segment of the middle cerebral artery. There are four aspects that will be considered within this essay. The first aspect will address primary and secondary body structures that have been impaired. The second section will look Circuit Class Therapy (CCT) as a form of treatment through critical appraisal of two relevant research papers. The next question to be addressed will…

Turing Test--The beginning of Artificial Intelligence In the past half century, Turing Test is being a controversial barrier in the study of artificial intelligence. The AI program cannot achieve the satisfactory standing due to the restriction of computing chip and storage, the limits of programming language, and the lack of creativity, which leads to an insoluble result. With the continuous development of science and technology, most problems will be solved in the future. However, some issues…

Secondly, as mentioned previously, I argue that Glaucon and Adeimantus are responsible for the just city and Plato’s Socrates is not committed to the proposals he makes. One reason for this is that Roochnik (2003) disputes is that in books 2-7, we see a change from the question-and-answer style of discussion seen in book 1 to a speech-against-speech style of discussion. This style was prompted by Glaucon, who challenges Socrates to defend that his claim that a life of justice is better than one…

Ms. M is a 27-year-old women who recently moved from her hometown Minneapolis, Minnesota to Salt Lake City, Utah for a job offer. She lives alone and works as an English teacher at the East High School in Salt Lake City since the beginning of the school year after her graduation last summer. Since it is the first time she has her own classes, it is sometimes quite stressful for her even if she likes her job. The past few years, she reported numerous neurological complaints which came and went…