Marginal concepts

I really enjoy when something you connects to something that you feel to be personal. That is how I felt this week as I read this week’s chapter followed by a very long visit to the museum. I connected to the reading when this chapter discussed the ways in which relative advantage can be experienced, particularly the moral outrage portion. As a person who is deeply involved with several current social justice movements, the moral outrage that I have experienced over the year when faced with an…

What does my personal possessions reveal about me? I moved to Tokeland at the end of sixth grade and it was very hard because I had to make new friends. I have a best friend and her name is Nicole and she helped to make me the person I am today. My parents got divorced when I was 7 years old and it made a very big change in my life. I have had a lot of life experiences many are good then there's the bad ones.Trying to be like everyone else you hang around is difficult because what if they don't…

Throughout a persons life, nonhuman objects can play a significant role in their day to day activities. As both a child and an adult, people form relationships with nonhuman items within their surroundings. These items can and will have intrinsic worth and symbolic significance to its owner for various reasons. First Symbolic Item As a young child, Goldy had a hard time in school, and was constantly made fun of. At the end of the long school day she would walk home to her house all alone mad…

Cogito ergo sum is perhaps the birth of the modern philosophical movement for multiple reasons. The famous phrase of Descartes’ when translated means, I think, therefore, I am, and was the first of a series of logical proofs that Descartes made to help prove his own existence. Up until this time, the history of modern philosophy had relied on arguments about or involving God. Descartes is credited with writing ““Meditations” as the rejection of medieval ways of thinking and the invention of the…

Memories Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot brought up the question of should people hold onto memories. “Many people believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past ,repress it and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view.” This means that people are having everyday issues determining whether or not you should hold onto memories or let them go. Memories have a positive and negative effect when it comes to dealing with other people, traumatizing…

From my perspective, Chester by William Billings is genuinely a combination of tenor, melodic concordance and clashing dissonances with quite harmonious consonances which consist of fluent It is also made up of changeable levels of syncopation. Of all the things in this song that I found that is attractive to me first, I will strongly state that its complexity of rhythm that is sensitively mess but actually in harmony in different aspects. What’s more, complicated melodies in a wide range also…

It is impossible to define the concrete meaning of a human because humans are unpredictable beings with nothing being the only commonality they share. However, the evaluation of one’s self can be used to briefly understand what humans are like. Because my being is the only one I know, I can only understand myself in the context of being human. From the moment I was born, being alone was the only truth I have ever known and will remain as such until the moment my body begins to decompose. I am…

“Every action we take has a consequence, sometimes it’s best to consider the consequence before we take action.” But sometimes some actions are influenced by the situation surrounding the character, way out of this bubble is hard and the sense of “Failure of consciousness” develops inside them, as years grow. Author and former veteran of the Vietnam war Tim O’Brien mention how “Failure of Consciousness” plays in his life after all these years and stories like “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck…

measures reflect association to which the individual lacks introspective access while explicit are deliberately formed and are easy to self-report. • One explanation of implicit measures is that they indicate associations- between concepts that have been activated and other concepts, affects, behavioral scripts, etc. that are associated with them. Does this indicate that you “believe” in this association?  It is important to distinguish…

Shimano Calcutta 400 Review: The Pros and Cons If you are looking for a powerful reel that can withstand the harshest conditions, the Shimano Calcutta 400 may outperform other reels. It is built with heavy-duty materials that can certainly last a very long time. You can be sure it won’t break down on you while you’re in the middle of reeling in your big catch. In this article, we’ll give you a rundown on the pros and cons of the Shimano Calcutta 400 review. At the same time, we’ll list down…