Open Mind

nothing is going to help if nightmares come knocking on your door. I'm not talking about the kind that startle you awake or the ones that are kind of scare but you know aren't real. The nightmares I'm talking about are the ones which grab ahold of your mind and refuse to let go. The ones you can't tell are fake. Rather they are so vivid and realistic that you're captured within a temporary reality unable to escape.. It is this type of nightmare I have. It leaves me sleep deprived and not nearly…

of common folk act. Plato has this aching feeling that most people are stuck inside a metaphorical cave and are blinded to the truth of the world. By writing this, Plato hoped that people would realize how they are blinded and will transition to the open world. The author’s use of scare tactics, stacking the deck, and hasty generalization are effective and ineffective because they set the reader towards a certain way of thinking that both achieved and prevented people from seeing his point.…

disadvantage for me. This was an advantage for me because it made me overcome needing those exact directions on what topic to write about and what to include when writing about the topic. This helped me as a student and as a writer because it opened my mind to all the different variety of topics there were within a broader theme. If I had to take this course over again, there are very few things that I would change. I would have used to writing center or went to office hours to review all of…

americans and will kill us. They may have been taught that everybody that wears a hijab is muslim and that all muslims are terrorist and that they all hate us and want us dead. That is the misinformation that people digest into the their state of minds and live off of. It is what causes danger for us in this world. The pitfalls are what causes us not to be able to come together, increasing deaths and inequality. Moreover the lack of knowledge can destroy man. I believe some potential…

Both of these characters long for attention so much that they show too much warmth in their pursuits. They are willing to trust random people for attention and welcome them with open arms, for they crave for compassion, as people who are…

saw someone do something bad, then I would immediately judge them and did not talk to them for they would corrupt me. This just made me a hypocrite saying that I’m a Christian, but even I don’t follow God’s commands. Now I look at people with an open mind giving them the benefit of the doubt because it is not right to judge someone on appearances or one interaction, but you must get to know that person and try to understand that we are all different and have different backgrounds. I was raised…

One word that I learned from this class, was context. Context is a set of conditions or facts that surround a particular event or situation. It also includes when the work of art was made, where it was made, how it was made, and for what purpose was it made for. When looking at an art work the context of it is looked at very carefully to determine the arts excellence. You can use this word when you are examining a sculpture or a painting. So for example you are looking at the David sculpture…

The films in today’s society leave nothing to the imagination. The viewers are given a visual of each character and can see their facial expressions throughout the movie. The down fall when watching a film is that the audience cannot hear the character’s thoughts. When they cannot read their thoughts on the page in front of them, it is hard to figure out their reasoning and personality. When a character in a movie runs into a burning building, the audience is left wondering why? If that same…

instilled into their minds until they learn that in order to thrive in their environment, an individual must behave and think suitably to the status quo. As individuals age, they learn to conform to their environment’s shared norms instead of defining themselves by their individualism. Individuals believe it is what they want to think and determine but essentially it is the conceptions of their environment they surround themselves with contends to. This suggests that an individual’s mind becomes…

have thoughts, without knowing that they have a body. For example, Descartes talks about how when he wakes up from being asleep, before he even opens his eyes he can think and visualise in his head without any connection to his body (Meditations on first philosophy, page 2-3), which brings him to his next point that the mind is not physical, and the mind is not in the brain. An individual is therefore a…