Notebooks

an Asian student, he or she will often assume the student is studious and smart. The brain automatically categorizes people based on their appearance. However, race is not always apparent from the outside. Toi Derricotte, in her article “Black Notebooks,” writes of her experience as a black woman who passes as white. People often assume she is white and treat her as such. I felt a connection to her struggles because, in many cases, I have been mistaken for someone of Asian origin. While…

The theme behind both the Tetris scenario and Otto’s notebook is what Clark called the Parity Principle (PP): “If, as we confront some task, a part of the world functions as a process which, were it to go on in the head, we would have no hesitation in accepting as part of the cognitive process, then that part of the world is (for that time) part of the cognitive process.”(Clark, 2005) The Parity Principle infer to a ‘location’ based cognition, where it rejects the assumption that the location of…

make “oneself noticeable.” The eccentricity is a continuously occurring theme in the modern, urban literature; “The Old House at Home” and “Los Angeles Notebook” approach this issue in different ways. While Joseph Mitchell shows ‘eccentricities’ that attract distinct groups of people in “The Old House at Home,” Joan Didion’s “Los Angeles Notebook” illuminates a cultural phenomenon that repels cultural changes or ‘eccentricities. In the story, Joseph Mitchell use the ‘eccentricities’ in order…

Love will survive all is a common theme in literature, but even more common is the ‘forbidden love’ archetype. In the novel Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and the movie The Notebook by Jeremy Levin, people sometimes listen to their hearts rather than their brains. Love is powerful force that can give both strengths and weaknesses, it can make one do unexpected things and holds the ability to change the course of one’s whole life. Through theme and symbols love is shown to endure through time,…

Hegemony is rooted in the struggle for power and influence in a given community. In 1971, Antonio Gramsci wrote in “Selections from Prison Notebooks”, that the ruling class dominates the lower class through intellectual rule. Gramsci added, “The supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways, as domination and as intellectual and moral leadership.” This is the foundation of his ideas about cultural hegemony, intellectual and moral leadership. Gramsci started the conversation about…

In the opening paragraphs of the Los Angeles Notebook Joan Didion characterizes the Santa Ana winds using various stylistic elements. Her essay characterizes the Santa Ana winds as Controversial, Theoretic, and Catalytic. The stylistic elements Didion uses to convey these views are Diction, Logos, and Metaphors. Joan Didion exemplifies diction conveying the controversial characterization early on in the first paragraph of the essay with the following quote. “We know it because we feel it. The…

"Los Angeles Notebook" Reflection Essay On October 25, 2003, the cedar fire (cause of the Santa Ana winds) spread over 30 miles in less than 17 hours burning 5,000 acres per hour. By the time, it was over it consumed 418 miles, 2,232 homes and killed 14 people including a firefighter. It's true that things are only temporary, but the effects of the Santa Ana winds will always affect the people and the environment in such a negative and perturbable way, that along with living in the Los Angeles…

When you start your search for the perfect notebook, all the options can be quite overwhelming. Barnes and Noble alone has over one hundred different options. Amazon.com has over seven thousand. Starting out, most people are concerned with the outside cover, the size, or how it will look sitting on a table. Your notebook tells a story. Composition books make us think of classes, flowery bright ring bound notebooks conger up memories of hearts with names inside passed to our childhood friends in…

In response to this identity theory of memory, philosophers Clark and Chalmers proposed a theory of memory that holds that memory is a kind of mental storage similar to a notebook. According to Clark and Chalmers, facts are recorded in the minds just as facts can be recorded in a notebook. As such, memory is a storage of ideas and experiences that can be called upon by the mind to be used in our day-to-day cognition. To illustrate this, Clark and Chalmers compare two examples of memory. In the…

calculated and recorded into a lab notebook. The density of distilled water was calculated without any NaCl by measuring the mass of a sample of water in a beaker, and then subtracting the mass of the beaker to leave the mass of water. This measurement was recorded into a lab notebook in Table 1 under “Total Mass of Solution” and “Mass of solution”. The contents of the beaker are then transferred to a graduated cylinder. The Measurement is recorded in a lab notebook in Table one under “Volume of…