Imagination

On Monday September 11th of 2017 my group and I presented chapter two “Schooling the Imagination.” Frankly I arrived late to the presentation because I ran to go make copies in the only place I could the library. When I did arrive I tried my best to be involved. At first forgot to present myself but did towards the end. I made myself responsible of presenting the class with an activity about the different perceptions of color. Then read to the class journal entries which they had to respond to.…

The article, Monsters and the Moral Imagination, is informing the audience that monsters show a boarder aspect of the society. The article gives different point of views on monsters and gives a direct explanation on how the acts portray by monsters reminds us about reality. However, the use of monsters can improve our imagination by teaching us about survival and preparing us for disasters and global issues. Monsters can be good or bad as shown in different fictional stories. For example, these…

François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, is an outspoken yet fearless writer. Voltaire has a comical imagination that catches the attention of his readers. He displays his comical imagination in his book, Candide. In his comical imagination, he shows Candide as well as his friends throughout the book. Voltaire uses a picaresque narrative style to depict the adventures of the hero and proganist of the book, Candide. Voltaire writes Candide using a picaresque narrative. Picaresque…

In the second lecture “The Singing School”, of his book The Educated Imagination, Northrop Frye, a well-known and respected literary critic claims literature takes a path of repetitive nature. According to Frye, all literature follows conventions as a result of the fact that the imagination can only on operate in terms of the world it knows. He develops this claim by first illustrating that primitive literature, stories based on kings, magic and gods that correspond to the needs of that…

The sociological imagination is something that each human being obtains as we experience life. Whether or not we have a well-developed sociological imagination depends on if we take the time to ask meaningful questions about society. Refusing to accept simplistic answers to the questions that we pose for ourselves, regarding human beings and the world that we inhabit, is the main way to develop these inherent elements into a true sociological imagination. While reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I…

Social Imagination Social imagination attempts to differentiate between personal troubles and public issues. My personal troubles would be what I experience in my daily life in the immediate environment. For example, I am mandated to work overtime at work due to short staffing. This personal trouble becomes a public issue when the nursing shortage affects not only the nurses nationwide, but also the public (health consumers) who receive care from the nurses. Social imagination trains people to…

Most humans who become involved in trafficking are tricked into it. They are women or children who come from very poor families. Someone who is wealthy sees how poor they are and takes advantage of them. They offer the poor woman or child a job as a maid or a salesperson then take them away to some brothel or bar to work as a slave. There are also families where, if the family is poor enough and they have enough children, they will sell some of their younger children to get money to live.…

FORREST GUMP: THE USE OF HIS SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION The sociological imagination is the very foundation of the science of sociology and the understanding of the sociological aspects of the world around us. Forrest Gump is a perfect example of someone using their sociological imagination. The movie is based on Forrest telling strangers stories about his life. They were simple stories to him, but the movie viewers got a deeper look into his impact on society from the 1940s to the 1980s. Forrest…

The sociological imagination is one of the classic statements about the sociological perspective that comes from C. Wright Mills. He simply describes it as a quality of mind that all social analysts seem to possess and “…that allows us to understand the relationship between our individual circumstances and larger social forces” (Ferris and Stein 12). By this, he means “the intersection between biography and history” (Ferris and Stein 13). The difference between sociological thought, and thought…

Imagination Hills After leaving the driveway, the street needed is to the left, down to Foster Road, where it’s then it’s right. Speed forty signs, people speeding and flying past the car. All that goes through my mind is wondering how long I want to be up there, or what I want to talk about with them. Take a left, and stomp on the gas pedal to get to the top of what seems to be the steepest hill in all of Oregon. Once the car hits the speed that’s needed, you yield to oncoming traffic,…