Sense of place

mood is kind of sad mood and also kind of happy mood because they are talking about how even if you don’t see each other you will always be together. So, both of these poems show different types of imagery and sensory language that both use different senses such as sight, hearing and touch that helps the reader figure out the mood.…

find myself overwhelmed with multiple tasks, my attention to the task at hand seems to weaken. Without a clear mindset, my mind begins to race, flooding my head with negative thoughts. I lose my train of thought. On the other hand, when I am able to place my attention on one task, becoming fully encased, I find myself surrounded by positivity. With the attention and respect to myself, I am able to enhance my experiences and comprehend how certain actions result in distinct…

different realms, the realm of being and becoming. For Plato, the realm of being encompasses that things do not change, born or die whereas, the realm of becoming holds that things do change and perish. The world of becoming is observed through our senses and the realm of being is perceived through the mind or reason. For constructing an account of reality, only the concept of what is can only be utilized. The concept of what is not cannot be used in…

found without sensation, or judgment without it”. While imagination is its own type of motion for Aristotle, distinct from perceiving and thinking, it occurs with sense-perception, explaining that “Imagination will be a motion taking place as a result of sense-perception in act” (428b30). For Aristotle, images are a result of the senses, therefore the images that our minds conjure up derive themselves from previous perceptions. Images occur before us in ways of memories, dreams, or thoughts…

Many people believe that human reality and experiences are the direct outcome of people’s senses and people’s reality and personal experiences are created that base on the reactions with surrounding’s stimulates. However, the production of people’s reality and personal experiences is a very complicated process, the surrounding’s stimulates are just part of it. In “The Mind’s Eye: What The Blind See” Oliver Sacks talks about the different characteristics that the blind people have and he points…

The essay “The Ordeal of Change” written by Eric Hoffer indicates people are afraid of drastic change in their life that would dramatically cause them to be misfit and out of place, and the solution of putting that fear into action is there must be “an abundance of opportunities”, and also “a tradition of self-reliance”. According to Hoffer, “Even the change from peas to string beans had in it elements of fear”; This means that even a change as small as a bean can cause great amount of fears,…

take part in defining who you are. Ownership is not only crucial to a person’s character or sense of self, but is dependent on the evolution of one’s self. Depending on what kind of a person someone strives to become, that someone may choose different things to own in order to evolve the way they choose. In my life, I have chosen to evolve more and more as an artist. Not only an artist in the sense of being a musician, poet, dancer, photographer, or creator of art itself, but an artist…

One of the senses used in this poem is hearing, when they mother is speaking to her son he is listening and hearing her voice, wisdom and love. Also the way she explains her hardships and perseverance you would use the senses of seeing and touching. Seeing because you have to imagine and see the metaphors she uses, such as, walking through a dark place, climbing, and turning corners. Also with touch you have to imagine the pricks…

Most likely, you would think that the idea is absurd and that it is against common sense. What if I say that there are philosophers that can prove this concept? In the First Dialogue of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley does just that. He simulates dialogues between two philosophers to try to show that mind-independent objects may not exist and that the world is only made up of our senses. Berkeley’s Dialogues begin with two philosophers, Philonous and Hylas, running…

Introduction Perception is a process by which we organise, integrate and recognise stimuli in order to make sense of the world through meaning and interpretation. Perception begins when the human brain receives data from body’s five senses touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing. Knowledge and experience are extremely important for the concept, perception, this is because they help us make sense of the input to our sensory system. Without being able to organise and interpret sensations, life…