Instinct

Target fixation is a motorcycle 101 concept that riders learn about when getting their license. Although the problem is easy enough to understand, its solution is easier said than done. Target fixation is the human tendency to "home into" the very thing you wish to avoid. The term was coined during World War 2, when pilots sometimes flew into the targets they were strafing. The problem still exists among pilots today. Operators of highly responsive vehicles, such as aircraft and motorcycles,…

Contrary to the common belief towards war at the time, Gandhi once commented, “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.” Gandhi alludes that violence is not the answer to conflicts. Though war may seem to be for a just cause in the short term, it only encourages violence in the future and eventually leads to permanent negative consequences. From 1914 to 1918, World War I demonstrated the unfortunate repercussions of…

Damaging Minds The human mind is extremely complex, responding and reacting to a multitude of factors, both internal and external. In Frankenstein, a popular novel by Mary Shelley, Shelley explores how the human mind reacts to its environment, especially human influences. Her main instrument used to illustrate the relationship between the mind and the environment is the character of the “monster”, a creature who is arguably human created by Victor Frankenstein with a horrifying appearance. This…

controlled my every move, I fully and proudly chose to not conform. Looking inside myself I chose self-reliance to decide for the future what was right. We cannot totally deny or refuse to respect the idea of institution but we must listen to our own instincts. We must use the idea of self-reliance to decide the difference between right and wrong. Emerson was profoundly right to encourage man to look inside himself for the answers to right and wrong. Most transcendentalists supported…

“the descent of man” (1871) he argued that morality arose from human instincts, impulses and well-developed intelligence, which are all-natural factors. Darwin explains that moral sense is the result of evolution. He emphasizes on how human’s social instincts, inherited from earlier creatures, is the foundation of basic morality. Throughout history, even earlier than some religions, humans have always displayed social instincts such as being part of a society, protecting each other and…

animal is no different from owning a average day pet. Some people have pets like dogs and cats. Others have pets like horses and rabbits. Still others like to have exotic animals as pets. Because many exotic animals are becoming extinct and the wild instincts these animals have is so outrageously dangerous, it should be illegal to own exotic animals as pets. It should be illegal to own exotic animals, but people are often interested in owning exotic pets because they are unlike the average day…

The text emphasizes the significance of these instincts and reactions much less directly and much more symbolically/figuratively, as displayed in this quote: “What incredible power of identification the girl [Clarisse] had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each [movement]…

In addition to the artists turned photographers and the amateurs with an inner instinct and a"fresh look" of the eye, Stieglitz also credits the new technological developments that allowed improvements in the manipulation of the camera to achieve a certain image. He also credits the improvements and the innovations in the process involved…

crumbled under the pressure, or he would use many of his natural instincts to escape the building and be one of the few to escape from a floor that close to the crash site. Some people believe that it’s only luck when it comes to escaping life threatening situations, but it is evident that escaping life threatening situations comes from the many natural characteristics such a sense of place, mental characteristics, and the fight-or-flight instinct.…

Freud says that we have to push back our primeval behavior to function in a society. Our “primitive” instincts are present in society in different forms but because we have to push those feelings back to live, they get turned into other things. Mostly, these feelings get converted into the desire to move up on the totem pole. The only feeling that can override…