Synesthesia

different circumstances throughout the story. The relationships are all centred around love ranging from romance, heartbreak, family, friendship and ones that seem strained beyond repair. “Bitter in the Mouth” occurs in Boiling Springs, Linda, who has synesthesia, understands that she is different from everybody in her adopted small town and is unsure of her backstory how she ended up there. Seeing that and the states of her respective relationships continuously influence the decisions she…

Antwone Fisher is an African-American Male. His birth parents are Edward Elkins and Eva Mae Fisher. Both of his parents are of African-American descent. Antwone’s mother murdered his father two months before he was born, leaving Antwone Fisher growing up never knowing his father. Her inappropriate behavior resulted in being sentenced to prison. Antwone Fisher was born while his mother was incarcerated. Antwone Fisher has suffered from sexual abuse, trauma, emotional neglect, severe verbal abuse…

is the major theme of the play? Love is the major theme of the play. 2. With whom is the Duke in love? He is in love with Olivia. 3. In what kinds of poetry does the Duke express his love? He express his love with puns, metaphors, similes and synesthesia. 4. Is it entirely true that the Duke is “in love with love”? No, because Duke is in love with Olivia. 5. What type of metaphor does the Duke use when he addresses the “spirit of love”? He uses falconry as the metaphor. 6. What is the subtitle…

To the folks at UFO Sightings Daily, NASA's archive of Mars images from its rovers is better than a candy shop. Every visit yields a new treat. "Alien critter found on Mars, gazing at rover," reads the headline on a post published recently. If you squint at the accompanying image, which is so zoomed-in that it's pixelated and fuzzy, you can almost see a tiny creature with spindly arms and a pumpkin-shaped head peering out from behind a rock. Also spotted: two alien ships, a reptile head, a…

phrases that use smell making it more realistic for the reader, like “stench of rotting teeth,” “urine,” and “sour milk.” Another sense, which is described, is touch, through hands that are “so cracked and red”. The effect of this use of imagery and synesthesia on the audience is that it becomes more conscious of the effects of poverty since it can imagine better the…

How would you react to hearing that your neighbor was being evicted because they could not afford to pay their rent? Or when someone robs your store and tells you that they did it to feed their family? Would you immediately feel pity for someone who is obviously less fortunate than you are or would you think “oh well, that’s not my problem?” Unfortunately, we live in a world where, when someone else’s experiences or lifestyle does not affect us directly, then we do not know how they feel nor do…

Taming the Sensory Monster: A study of Patrick Suskinds NovelPerfume Writers over the ages have experimented with various forms of literature. Though sensory perception is central to any literary work, the act of sensory perception as the leitmotif of a work, especially a novel has been a very rare event in literature. Even in those works that deal with the senses, we see a general tendency towards marginalising the olfactory sense. One reason for this is the lack of vocabulary to describe…

of the message. In 1942 psychologists Odbert, Karwoski, and Eckerson conducted a study to examine the reactions one has to different colors (D'andrade, R). They took people from different cultures, in order to ensure culture does not influence synesthesia, and put them in different color rooms to observe how they would react. Since the subjects of this experiment acted differently with each of the different color rooms supports the theory that colors and emotions are…

Mental Status Examinations (MSE) are semi-structured assessment interviews designed to evaluate the client’s current cognitive process, while focusing primarily on psychiatric diagnoses versus neurological functioning (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2014). As an examiner, ideally, you should be able to “balance emotional sensitivity with appropriate objective detachment” (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2014, p. 250). Additionally, as with any interview or assessment, it is crucial to…

A memorable line from If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien is “The war in Vietnam drifted in and out of human lives, taking them or sparing them like a headless, berserk taxi hack, without evident cause, a war fought for uncertain reasons.” (O’Brien, 138) The ending of this quote particularly reflects the views of Vietnam, which is the specific reason I found this quote memorable. I feel this way because people living during the Vietnam era didn’t see this as a crucial war to be apart of.…