Mimicry

Paul Alarab, a 40-year-old Iraqi-American seeking peace and redemption for U.S. actions in the middle-east. Friend later goes on to discuss the statistical rate of suicide involving the Golden Gate Bridge, hinting towards the viability of social mimicry and deindividuation as a result of the social influence of the suicides themselves. Friend primarily focuses on the romanticizing of suicide, specifically on the Golden Gate Bridge. Tad Friend dives into the topic of romanticized…

Disgrace is told from narrator’s point of view which basically follows that of the main character David Lurie. That is why throughout the novel a lot is omitted, such as other characters motives and thoughts, like those of Lucy and Melanie. The author leaves them to reader’s personal understanding. On one hand it may frustrate us readers a we are always looking for clarity. But on the other hand, that is a projection of our real life, where we are so often unable to understand others. Rachel…

neuroscientists have been conducting investigations concerning special brain cells called mirror neurons. According to a 2011 article from the Association for Psychological Science, although the role of mirror neurons are not particularly relevant to the mimicry of speech, “Mirror neurons are believed to play a critical role in how and why we understand other people’s actions.” So, when my friends see me kick my leg into the air over my head after destroying all of them in a game of Uno, they…

thoughts and behavior. Mimicry is the idea of copying the actions of others, just like the brain mimics the environment. Therefore, the brain responds in a similarly way when one is playing an aggressive game (Whitaker & Bushman, 2009, p. 1043). This implies that children watching aggressive activities are likely to mimic such activities. Social learning theory, according to Kirsh (2013), also gives a hypothesis that exposure to violent video games would arouse behavioral mimicry, reinforcing…

However, diagnoses of individual diseases are difficult due to initially general symptoms and well as symptom and condition mimicry. For example, Sjögrens disease can mimic “multiple sclerosis, stroke, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, chronic fatigue, reflux” among other diseases (Brody, para. 7). This can make it difficult for a doctor to diagnose a specific disease. Autoimmune diseases…

A Postcolonial Interpretation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” Analysed passage: Page 26 “In the library I found, to my great delight..” - Page 29 end. (Penguin Classics Reissue) Post-colonialism is the discourse that reflects upon and reacts to the legacy of colonialism and imperialism within literature and culture. In the late 1800’s at the time when Dracula was written, there was a growing sense of cultural decline within Britain - many feared that people were losing sight of what it truly meant…

Postcolonial is a term used for an era when colonies achieved freedom from European colonization. The term post colonialism concerns the effects of colonialism on cultures and communities. Though there was a political change, many nations got independence and they are no more colonies, but culturally and economically there appeared many dilemma and crises, they were still in confusion about their culture and identity. The ethnic sectors' struggle is for independence or to be recognized as equal…

As her glazed eyes scan the familiar surroundings, no shades of color are revealed; the crimson of a blood-stained sky is swallowed by the blackness of night and the luminous gray of hazy fog concealed by the sterile white of the sun’s rays. A world that was no longer understood lay before her; how should she traverse it if there is no light to guide her? Many characters throughout the course have found their own definition of a guiding force: money for Rick Deckard, the road for the man and the…

The infamous monologue in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” portrays the depressed protagonist, Macbeth, ranting about the slow progression of life, the fragile mindlessness of life, and the meaningless of life in a dramatic monologue. Facing his end, Macbeth’s view darkens as everyone around him betrays him and fall to the hands of death. The progression of life is captured in two metaphors, where Macbeth compares the past and the future in the behaviour of humankind. The tedious, slow approach of…

their story. Throughout the novel, the Picture Brides are shown sharing similar symptoms of that of a colonized subject, embodying what Lois Tyson explains as a “colonized consciousness” (249). According to Tyson, “colonial subjects usually practice mimicry and experience unhomeliness [emphasis in original]” (249), two symptoms I was able to recognize upon analyzing the Picture Brides within the novel. However, the major difference is that the Picture Brides are not colonial…