The Flicker

dyslexic tendencies. I teeter on a different totter. Balancing learned behavior and educational innovations while attempting to embrace newfound knowledge. Do the synapse respond better with age, or do they lose their sparking capability? Flare or Flicker? Can the mind become an unsoaked sponge? Defying gravity, as if unfamiliar spaces are formed to retain the newly possessed investment? Or does it lose its strength, grow weak and weary, unable to develop a scholar’s enlightenment?…

Another practice that can be employed to facilitate meditation is to focus on a single object. The object can be anything. I most commonly picture a single candle lit in a dark room with nothing else around. I watch it flicker as thoughts pass through my mind, aware of them but paying no attention. As I understand it, this type of meditation has actually been used to assist in healing specific parts of the body. Use audio for meditating. Not necessary, but something that…

when, disguised as a gypsy, he has his interview with Jane, she feels his powerful attraction and says, "Don't keep me long; the fire scorches me." Rochester, for his part, realizes Jane's double quality; she has the fire of bodily love, "The flame flickers in the eye," but also the cool control of the soul, "the eye shines like dew" (p. 190). Earlier, Rochester insists that Jane is cold because she is alone: "no contact strikes the fire from you that is within you" (p. 187). When Bertha,…

We rented a number of them from One From the Heart. In order to achieve a photographic reality, the on-camera neons were often on dimmers set at a level just above where they would start to flicker. At the same time, the off-camera neons were used as the primary source of light whenever possible by leaving them at their brightest level. When the existing neons weren't sufficient for either illumination or dressing, we would create new ones on…

An experiment was carried out to determine the percent of 100 percent cranberry juice in cranberry apple juice. This experiment is significant in everyday chemistry because it is the job of many chemists, in regulatory agencies such as the FDA, to quantitatively determine if the ingredients listed on the label of a substance are actually in that substance. Cranberry juice has particular qualities that are not found in other juices. The quality studied in this experiment was color. Cranberry…

As humans we go through great deal of thoughts and emotions that are cemented forever in our brains. No matter the change in our lives we will remember and we don’t forget the worst that we go through, but we use it as motivation and to change others. Douglass and many other slave’s stories are the remnants that legitimately tells us how slavery was and how they experienced the feeling that they did. Douglass’s argument in these paragraphs were that the cruelty and lengthy hours of work and…

Scene 5 [In the office, there is a window and a desk stage left and a door stage right; the desk is facing stage left with a black swivel chair. There is a bookcase stage upstage with a lot of books, all ranging in dark colors.] Narrator: It had been a long day for Liv: she had found the cure for the zombie drug and had tried to fight the urge to indulge her former zombie ways. She sits exhausted in her office. Ravi: [opens door on stage right and enters and says in a sarcastic tone] So, how…

Many are fooled by optical or auditory illusions, such as those in the challenge, as their brain misinterprets what they sense. Our sensation is the stimulation of our sensory organs (Gilbert, Nock, Schacter, Wegner 131). We use this to make perceptions in which we interpret our sensations using receptors, in order to understand what is being sensed. These sensory receptors communicate with the Central Nervous System (CNS), however, through a process called transduction. Transduction occurs when…

There were candles in the kitchen drawer, bought a week ago for just this thing. They were black, the outsides of them slippery and waxy, and they all had a faint aroma that reminded Angela of black licorice. She placed them around the kitchen and around the Ouija Board, lighting them each in turn from a long kitchen match. A chill breeze wafted around the kitchen, guttering the flames, but not blowing them out. The sound of rain and sleet hitting the windows could be heard. Apparently the…

There comes a great humility in seeing students who never thought they could be successful achieve so much more than they imagined possible. As a first generation college student, I never realized that my greatest struggles, achievements, and experiences as a college student would spark in me a desire to see others become accomplished despite the odds against them. From my experience in Supplemental Instruction, Athletic Academics, volunteer programs, and more, it is with great passion that I…