Situated cognition

Child abuse and neglect is the topic for my Civic Engagement speech. In this speech I will persuade students to donate to the Kempe Foundation for The Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. I will be using three of the following concepts: Availability Heuristic, Authority, and Friendship or Liking. Availability Heuristic is a mental short cut the human brain makes when evaluating things such as concepts or decisions. Humans estimate the likelihood of events based on the…

One of the earliest examples of figurative language is seen in line 3 of the poem. "Like a patient etherized upon a table" represents the opening invitation the speaker offers to the reader allowing them to experience the numb feeling of reality that he constantly feels. By continuing reading we have accepted a dreadful trip cloaked as a date. We begin by looking at the evening "spread out across the sky," being a simile for the speakers sense of helplessness. Now that the reader has entered…

Summary Erasing Bad Memories is an article that can be found on the American Psychological Association website. This article shows what researchers, neuroscientists and psychologists have been doing to try to understand how frightening memories are made and how they can possibly rid the mind of them. Many people suffer from anxiety. Usually, anxiety is induced by fearful memories. Even though someone may be in a safe situation, their brain brings back the memories and create it anxiety.…

Before starting college and entering into this odyssey class, I thought I knew exactly who I was. I was wrong. After completing some of the weekly activities in the odyssey class, I realized that there are still so many things I am unsure or unaware of. One of the activities that really stuck out to me was reflecting on a quote from Father Joe. He said, “You see, dear—I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people…and those who…

Within Ian Frazier's essay, "In Praise of Margins," he defines "marginal" as a negative tinge. He introduces the essay with his past childhood experience where he roamed "the woods" and now that he is an adult, he feels goals should have a purpose. The woods were his marginal space where he played with his friends aimlessly. Thus, his perspective has changed; seeing his children get distracted from their original plans to fish, a sense of unstructured play is quite valuable. He also states that…

When I was twelve years old, I went to the fair in another city. There were numerous recreational facilities, and the most memorable one, which later become myfavorite, was the Drop. In truth, I was scared when I first decided to go on it because the drop felt like a free fall. When I got to the top , I was wondering why I had forced myself to do this extreme game. This reflects a conflict I often have between my thoughts and my ambitions Often there is something I want to do, but I give up…

“Now remember, if you need any help or anything make sure to ask. Also make sure you actually talk.” My mom said while pulling into the bus loop. “I will.” I sighed and played with my hands. Today was my first day of fourth grade so I was nervous, but I was even more nervous because I was starting at a new school. People would already stare at me because I was new, but also because I was in a wheelchair and I had a bright pink, smelly, double leg cast. I wore a ugly blue and gray stripped shirt…

Deviance is pretty much the “labor” that society successfully applied to an individual. “The consequence is that we become more interested in the process by which deviants are defined by the rest of the society, than in the nature of the deviant act itself.” (Sociology 149) I found that the text of the contributions of labeling theory to be the gist of success or failure in schools. However, I feel that self-fulfilling prophecy can be defined as any expectation, positive or negative, a…

In our first discussion, I described art as anything and everything that is created and can affect someone emotionally. With this definition, Evelyn’s art project would be considered art, but it made me want to revise my definition after thinking about it. An artist should be able to imagine the final result in their mind, so they can have something to work towards and know when they are finished, even if the process may change here and there. Evelyn’s objective was to test how much she could…

Metaphors replace the things we do not understand with something comprehendible by use of comparison. They act as the transition between unawareness and understanding. Through metaphors science takes form as data and our imagination moves to create an interpretation by connecting the data to our own experience(Frye). “We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” – author unknown. This metaphor gives a very clear…