Open Mind

How often do you consciously emphasize your language with metaphors? Now question how often you dare your mind to do the same? French philosopher Rene Descartes challenges the way people perceive themselves in his iconic metaphor “I think therefore I am,” which derives from his text The Discourse on Method. According to Descartes, convincing oneself of nothing in the world existing does not mean that one fails to exist. Concluding that the self must be convinced of “something” for this concept…

shut, he ran to his bed and face planted himself right into the pillow. He heard mumbling outside of his door, he couldn’t even take in what was happening, how he could be 12 years old and have both his parents’ dead. Dead, the word stuck in Jayden’s mind like a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of a school desk. 3 hours past, Jayden’s pillow was basically a sack of water. He was still in his room, the police officers were still mumbling downstairs. Jayden finally got the courage to go downstairs…

In the passage, “The Last children in the Woods,” Richard Louv describes how times have changed since he was an adolescent boy. Louv argues that modern technology has caused the youth population to become disengaged with the world and instead engaged with their screens. Louv employs first person, vivid diction, emotional appeal and anecdote to convince the reader to stop the madness that technology has done to the world and instead look towards nature and a more simplistic life. Louv…

revolutionize the way entertainment would be viewed by the public and news media. After all, it was someone’s imagination that made video games exist in the first place. It is the imagination of a person’s mind that has unlimited potential; potential that can interfere with the perception of reality. The human mind has its own way of thinking, but the process of knowing right from wrong depends on what has been learned and taught as a child growing into the adolescence phase. But there seems to…

even when faced with extreme hardships, and Sophie Scholl’s constantly expressed individualism during the times of Hitler Youth. People can best respond to conflict by trying to develop understanding while also keeping their own values and ideas in mind when making a decision. One main issue in conflict resolution is the fact that some people do not take the time to look and find out where an issue truly arises from, and many let their own fears lead to avoidance in the situation. An excellent…

than me in school and in life. However, I wanted to be that person for my siblings or even the stranger that I have just met. Granted, not long ago, my mother went to a better place and she left behind a pretty picture of who she was as a person in my mind and the people that she once knew. It gave me the thought of striving to be the person she once…

with one of the five senses also activates when it sees sensory words. Paul quotes Keith Oatley, a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, who exclaims that reading is a simulation. One example of reading helping to enrich the mind is found in the documentary Why Reading Matters. Tom is a guy who never saw any point in reading. He did not think that it was productive; he thought he could always find a better use of his time. One day, however, he started to read, and…

“The mind is not only inside of us,” Daniel Seigle, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry said at the 2016 Leading to Well-Being conference. A conference program (Leading to Well-Being: Cultivating Resilience) lead by George Mason University was carried out in April 15, 2016. This conference was open to everybody, especially those individuals who want to be more conscious and have a greater sense of view towards how to live life with a better approach. It is necessary to cultivate resilience,…

third book of An Essay on Human Understanding, Locke states "it is a perverting of the use of words, and brings unavoidable confusion and obscurity into their signification, whenever we make them stand for any thing but those ideas we have in our own minds" (Essay, III.ii.5). For the purpose of this paper, I will look to explain what Locke means in making this claim, and then offering an evaluation of the claim. This will be done by establishing what Locke believes the purpose of words is, how…

I obliviously answered and started to get me ready to go. With a bright orange brace around my neck they slowly pushed me onto a stiff backboard. They placed a neck brace on me and I immediately got tense and started screaming “AHHH”. “She has and open wound on chest from seat belt” the Paramedic said. They made me wear the neck brace anyway and put me on the levy and took me away. Bumpiest ride ever “ssssss” I said every time the neck brace hit the abrasion I had from the seatbelt. Each tiny…