Spontaneous order

According to the Oxford Dictionary, a laugh is the making the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of derision. On a fundamental level, this is what makes laughter art. It is an universal form of expression, its meaning understood worldwide. You do not have to speak the same language as someone, to understand the emotions conveyed in a laugh. The definition of laughter can manifest in a myriad of ways.…

Catharsis After Tragedy: How Kambo Can Be Used to Process Difficult Events When I first heard about the tragedy of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California, my immediate fear was for the safety of my friends in the bay area. As I learned that my friends were safe, my heart went out to the victims and their friends and family. As the smoke settled, I began to feel a sense of fear and unieasiness regarding the future of the alternative art community in Oakland. Oakland is the home…

Jamilette Duran, a twenty-five year-three month old female, attends Lehman College Speech and Hearing Clinic for individual speech-language services twice weekly for 50 minutes. She has been attending the Speech and Hearing Clinic since 1998. At six months of age, she was diagnosed with Intellectual Developmental Disability (IDD) and Cerebral Palsy (CP). Jamilette has a diagnosis of an articulation disorder, receptive and expressive language disorder secondary to IDD and CP. Josefina Duran,…

Chapter Six: Completing the Table…with a Bang 1. What is the difference between a “dirty” bomb and a conventional nuclear bomb? (1 mark) The difference between a “dirty” bomb and a conventional nuclear bomb is that a nuclear bomb is designed to destroy organisms using heat and impact, while a dirty bomb is designed to kill with gamma radiation. Radiation from dirty bombs, besides burning through skin, also alters the DNA in bone marrows, which significantly weakens the body’s immune system, and…

The Twelfth Night, a complex love story. The events of the play may seem predictable, but there are many plot twists. Backstabbing, being one, can be very unpleasant at times. People can be spontaneous while backstabbing. This can effect a variety of different types of love seen in the play, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. As characters throughout the scenes in the play evolved, so did their emotional status. Malvolio started as a humorless, mundane man. Three of his friends included Maria…

difference between “deliberate and spontaneous case building”, as put by Raymond S. Nickerson, a psychologist and research professor at Tufts University. Deliberate case building is objectively evaluating all evidence and drawing a conclusion based on the evidence. Spontaneous case building is selectively acquiring evidence to support a conclusion that has already been drawn and ignoring all evidence that goes against it. Confirmation bias is in the spontaneous case building category, and it can…

Emotions are key to understanding ourselves. They are a shortcut to the layers of our personality, they help us navigate through reality, and even fill the cognitive gap between our conscious and subconscious minds. Emotions can define our deportment entirely if we succumb to them, but it is possible to control them— by giving them a constructive direction instead. Barbara Fredrickson and Daniel Gilbert, both highlight the importance and power of emotions. In both of their stories, they convey…

Music is a hobby that should be considered a skill not an ability. In order to master it, hours and years of practice is required to master playing every note. No other profession requires as much devotion because once a person decides to put music behind their other priorities, it is difficult for one to pick it up again. I interviewed Gretchen Dekker, adjunct music director at York College and my piano studio teacher. As an active music student, I am very familiar with the responsibilities…

The fall of communism and the resultant vulcanization of the USSR, now known as Russia left a massive power vacuum in the overall arena of political as well as a legislative arena that needed to be filled. With communism failing to meet the challenges of the modern state and nation requirement, it became more or less obvious that it will be the second greatest super power of the world who will substitute and take place of the gulf that has been created with the fall and disintegration of the…

From the text Living Issues in Philosophy there are three definitions of freedom, 1)Physical Freedom: “Being able to move from one place to another”, 2)”Psychological Freedom: open expressions of the spontaneous character of human nature”, and 3)”Civil Freedom: The right to act within the framework of the law”(Titus, Smith and Nolan 85) . These three definitions are all different but sum up to be a broader idea. But to ask if Riley was free will is like asking if a butterfly is flying or gliding…