Optical illusions

head as his eyes widened in horror as in the distance, in every direction was a mass of pure black. What the hell he wondered in awe and confusion. As the black mass came closer and closer, he screamed in shock as he saw the fires were not an optical illusion, they were burning everything in their path. The air began to smell that of rotten bodies burning in the…

Quite often Hollywood exaggerates any given movie. It needs to be something interesting, dramatized, and “based” on a true story. Although in the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, they say in the beginning, “More of this is true than you believe” (Amazon). Watching the movie, the viewer could blow it off as just a bunch of conspiracy theories blown up by Hollywood. Especially since The Men Who Stare at Goats is about a government project to make super soldiers, or as they call it in the movie,…

Strangers on a Train Alfred Hitchcock is an auteur that is recognizable as a director. He is known as the master of suspense and through his artistic choices he is the author of his films. Hitchcock has his own persona and often appeared in cameos in his films. His unique style leaned away from studying films as a genre but through an auteur approach, Cashiers du Cinema written by the father of auteruirsm, Andre Bazin. Bazin stresses on mise-en-scène, the content of images, that reveals the…

This subject is something that shows up in many different courses so it was exposed to me before even taking a psychology class. In many of my former classes, the teacher would give us test to see what kind of learner we were or they would put optical illusions on display to entertain us. These things were what stuck with me…

Epicurean Epistemology In this paper, I am going to explain and give my opinions on Epicurean epistemology. The main points that I will touch upon in this paper will be the Epicurean belief that all sense are one-hundred percent true and the three criteria of truth given by Epicurean epistemologist. Overall, I feel as though the Epicureans do a good job supporting their arguments, and I do think that what they are saying makes a lot of sense. After I explain the arguments given for their…

Iconic. Indubitable. Inspirational. These words could describe the artist Leonardo da Vinci or his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, or both. It is arguably the best-known painting in the world “attracting six-million visitors a year.” The eccentric artist, curious history, unprecedented style, and ever-changing context of the Mona Lisa are as intriguing as her mysterious smile. Leonardo da Vinci was born illegitimately to a peasant woman in 1452 in “Vinci in the Tuscan country side, thirty miles…

Walter Poe 10/14/2015 Dr. Baecker Composition II Food Waste Food is key to survival and that’s a fact. According to Charles W. Bryant “medically speaking, most doctors agree that healthy humans can go up to eight weeks without food as long as they have water.” Logically speaking that sounds like a pretty decent amount of time but in the grand scheme of things it’s pretty short. There’s only 52 weeks in a year and eight is not even half of it. Not to mention eight weeks is only the length a…

leaving the shore to effectively illustrate this point, he writes, “...when a ship floats on over a tranquil sea, all the things outside seem to the voyagers to be moving in a movement which is the image of their own” (13). This optical illusion mirrors the geocentrism Copernicus was attempting to dispel. Copernicus also noted that clouds and falling objects are not affected by the rotation of the Earth because they obey the same nature as earth. 9. “Whether Many Movements can be Attributed to…

Can we truly see our external world? Am I typing this essay right now? Do I know there is a coffee cup sitting on the table next to my laptop? These are all questions that G.E. Moore attempts to answer in his essay, “Some Main Problems of Philosophy” (Moore 1958). Moore proposes a then-revolutionary idea of “Sense Data,” (28) which represents all the data received through the senses, hence the name “Sense Data.” In this essay, I plan to decipher the nebulous world of Sense Data, and deconstruct…

In the short novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby proves to be a static character through the entire book. Within The Great Gatsby, we learn that Jay Gatsby is a dreamer, that he is motivated, and that he can become very easily manipulated. Gatsby had been proven to be a static character because from start to finish he doesn’t change; from the beginning Gatsby is just as idealistic, motivated, and easily manipulated as he is in the end of the story. Throughout the book, Fitzgerald makes it…