Optical illusions

did not. Once he told them what it was, they could see it. He also asked them to write a title for the next picture he held up. It looked like a skull at first glance which is what everyone saw. However, if you looked close enough it was an optical illusion of a woman looking at herself in a mirror. They were all shocked because once they knew what it was they could not see anything else. This was a great explanation of how some children perceive things that we think are obvious. Next, he…

1.Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch Located in Oro Grande, Calif., Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch has an abundance of unique tree sculptures made out of antique bottles. The site is located along National Trails Highway. The bottle tree sculptures are the work of the ranch's owner, Elmer, who began making them 15 years ago when he inherited his father's bottle collection. Elmer lives on the property, and he tends to interact with his visitors. The attraction is home to over 200 bottle trees along with other…

One of the greatest murder mysteries of all time occurred on September 18th, 1961. “Between ten and fifteen minutes after midnight on Monday 18 September 1961, a DC-6B aircraft crashed near the airport of Ndola, a town in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), not far from the Congo border” (Williams, p. 3). Dag Hammerskjold, along with all 15 other passengers who accompanied him on his venture, died after the plane crashed in Zambia (Williams, p. 3). Dag Hammerskjold was the…

Temple Grandin is a biopic movie produced by Scott Ferguson, that was released on February 6, 2010. Temple Grandin (starring actress Claire Danes) was born August 29th, 1947. The film depicts her life as an autistic child growing up in a world, that at the time knew little about autism and/or how to handle it. Ferguson makes an effort to clearly capture the feelings and behavior as well as the profound effect that her behavior has on her family and community, as well as disprove the common…

The practice of writing-whether it was to contextualize their own work, or that of their peers through analytical and critical writing-became an increasingly common practice among artists during the 1960’s. This was perhaps a consequence of the sudden increase in accessibility of university education and graduate degrees in fine arts in the mid 20th century. One such writer-artist was Dan Graham, who consistently published various written works related to his artistic production over more than…

These toys included musical boxes, toy soldiers, and educational board games. They also had optical toys, which were fun because they gave the illusion of moving pictures (Wilson 28). However, these toys were not allowed on Sundays, with an exception to the Noah’s Ark today, as it was in the Bible (Victorian Britain Index). Along with toys, another form of entertainment…

To meditate is to abandon all previous experience and knowledge in order to build from the ground up. The purpose of this is to prove that all conceptions are absolutely true by specific claims. This theory does not believe that what was known prior came from the senses, because there may have been doubt. Philosopher René Descartes was the original advocate for this type of rational thinking. Born in France, Descartes is known as the foundation of modern Western philosophy. His book,…

. . Kimmy Kiwi was puzzled . . . she’d only seen rainbows in the sky when the weather was sunny and rainy at the same time. ‘We can’t CATCH a rainbow, Kimmy . . . they are just coloured lights – called an Optical Illusion. Let’s see if we can make a pretend one though’. Digging around in the art box, they found some crinkly tissue paper and coloured pipe cleaners. ‘Come on Kimmy – we need to find out what colours we need. Can you remember the last rainbow you…

But even more crucially, plot epitomizes the rationality of tragic mimesis. Plot is not simply a mimesis of action but of action ordered and structured to achieve certain ends. Unlike the theatrical staging associated with spectacle, which Aristotle sees as irrational, plot is governed by reason. The incidents in a tragic plot should be unified by probability and necessity. Such unity does not 40 FOUNDATIONS come from the focus on a single character, since an individual’s life may…

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