Susan Blackmore

There are many kids in this world who have different personalities, thinking, and behaviours as they grow up. Everyone has their own kind of unique experience at the young age until they reach their teenage years. As I write about my experience and get to connect with the other three people, it makes the idea of this assignment interesting. Music is what linked to my identity. According to Marcia’s stages of Adolescent Identity Development, there are four aspects of teen development such as…

In the stories Don’t Give Up The Fight and Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote have a common theme and that is Courage because they both have been brave enough to stand up for what is right. In Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote she had courage to stand up infront of many of people and wanted to state that woman can do anything that men can do. In Don’t Give Up The Fight Ava had courage to stand up in front the boys in her track team to show them that a girl is as powerful and talented as a boy can be.…

Breast Cancer: Support the Fight Numerous families here in the United States are affected by breast cancer each year. Some women are affected by this disease for the first time, while others have to re-live this experience. Whether the cancer has returned or is discovered for the first time, breast cancer patients, survivors, and their families, need continuous support. Being diagnosed with this disease is very overwhelming. More awareness should be brought to the fight against breast cancer…

self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously”. Setting one’s heart and mind to something is a big step in anyone’s life, and the things learned on that journey toward accomplishing something can transition a child into a mature adult. Susan Komen for the cure is a non-profit donation foundation that raises money for cancer awareness by providing a 5k marathon. When I heard this race was scheduled in St. Louis, I had my heart set on crossing the finish line whether I would be first…

Background American Express was among the first few organizations to launch a successful cause related marketing campaign and raise funds about $1.7 million for the Statute of Liberty restoration project. In a competitive market, where every organization is working hard towards winning their customer’s loyalty and employee’s morale, Cause-related marketing (CRM) help organizations gear up towards building a differentiating image. According to a study (Varadarajan & Menon) published, CRM is a…

which is brought to light by Dr. Susan Blackmore who devotes her research on memes and how they attach onto their host which she argues in her article, “Strange Creatures.” In “Who Holds the Clicker?”, Lauren Slater elaborates on a man named Mario Della Grotta who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Slater uses Mario Grotta as an example because of the simple fact that he cannot live his life to the fullest extent due to his disorder. Similarly, Blackmore argues that memes…

They are nothing without us, yet they have turned out to be so powerful because of us. Blackmore writes “-jumping from brain to brain, likened them to parasites infecting the host...and showed how mutually assisting memes will gang together in groups just as genes do” (36). In this case of capitalism, it has jumped from person to person because we are allowing it to. Blackmore states that “- their only interest is their own replication; all they want is to be passed on to the next…

imitating others. They react to a situation similarly to how someone else reacted to it in the past. Copying and learning from others is how humans evolved. “…Our power of imitation, have become just the physical ‘hosts’ needed for memes to get around” (Blackmore 37). I think imitation helped humans to increase our intelligence and become different and more talented than other species. I think human…

discrimination. To survive among the people, they choose to keep their real identity: Blackness and spend efforts to maintaining the voice. While it processes, it works as like meme that “all they want is to be passed on to the next generation (Blackmore 35)”. Through the memes view, maintaining single voice passed on person to person and people gains advantages from its progress. There are still certain ways of discrimination but the single voice bring the better world for black people and…

The chapter that stuck out was “Susan Blackmore on Paranormal Research” because it contains an interesting argument against the belief in ghosts. Smith mainly uses logos to create a strong argument against ghost existing. He uses ideas from a prominent scientist named Susan Blackmore to approach the argument in a scientific way. A strong presence in science creates a strong argument because there are studies…