The Observer

and radical feminist, Adrienne Rich, entitled her poem “Mourning Picture” where she uses the voice of the dead daughter Effie to narrate the poem. The poem set the same dismal tone as in the artwork. In the poem, the voice of Effie is used as an observer of the many aspects of the artwork focusing mostly emphasizing mourning loss and remembrance of the life with…

environmental changes. It allows readers to witness a possible reality through the eyes of 12 year old Julia. Julia’s entire world is deteriorated since the news of ‘the slowing’. Since the beginning of the slowing, Julia’s development as a silent observer aids in her understanding of the world around her and impacts her social interactions. She battles many conflicts that arise soon after the slowing, she witnesses the…

In Treatise, David Hume explains two categories of perceptions – impressions or ideas. Impressions originate from our sensory observation or feeling, which is also regarded as reflections by Hume. Ideas aren’t as vivid as impressions, nonetheless they originate from our impressions. Ideas aren’t as vivid as impressions because it involves thinking of something instead of (first hand) experiencing it. Hume proposes a principle that implies that all ideas, regardless of whether simple or complex,…

women in advertising has always been an issue in the history of Austrian society. Society’s interpretation of beauty has significantly changed over the time and will always continue to change. The aim of all these advertising is to reach as many observers as it is possible and to manipulate their thoughts to bring them purchasing certain things. Nowadays it seems to be a norm for women doing everything to look “perfect” like e.g. Beyonce, Rihanna, or Kylie Jenner. These three Successful…

hypothesis if true. E.T observer group founder Soylent Green says that “In this instance, the null hypothesis is refuted. It’s false to say that no U.F.O. are controlled by Extraterrestrials. That can easily be refuted based on the mountains of evidence that supports the alternative hypothesis that SOME NOT ALL U.F.O.’s are controlled by an extraterrestrial source. So the alternative hypothesis is more likely to be true than false based on the available evidence” (“E.T Observer”). My alternate…

some naturally occurring behavior is observed without intervention in the situation” (Feldman, R.S., 2015, p. 27). On September 26th, 2016, an observer secretly watched a young, African American mother and her nine month old, female infant at the chain store BuyBuyBaby in Central Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia. For about an hour, from 15:00 to 16:00, the observer followed this mother and child throughout the store. Some of the observations witnessed were first, the mother used infant directed…

their study, observers counted the amount of times a basketball team passed a ball to each other. Participants ignored a separate team passing a ball at the same time. Few observers, noticed the man wearing a gorilla suit walking across the screen. Observers failed to notice the gorilla because; it is unlikely that this would occur in the real world (Cherry, 2014). It did not fall within their expectations/schema; therefore, observers did not pay attention to the gorilla. Thus, the observer was…

Students are able to give more comments than an administrative observer because they spend roughly 180 days with a teacher, while those observers come in every once in awhile and the teachers are aware of the visit. Therefore they are able to plan ahead and some teachers act differently than how they do on a regular basis. The students get the teachers…

hard condition task. Participants reported being able to see the woman with the umbrella more than seeing the gorilla, however when participants were asked to observe the black team, they more often reported seeing the gorilla. This suggests that observers notice stimuli possessing similar features as the object they are watching. It was suggested that participants who lost track of the passes their team could have possibly noticed the stimuli more often, however, this is not the case as they…

Installation based art is a relatively recent artistic genre, yet it has arguably become one of the most interesting. The broad-ranged, even somewhat difficult to accurately define, genre has been on the rise since its inception and is used to approach countless topics of discussion and thought. Many artists utilize installation art in hopes of providing a unique view or insight to these topics. Installation art often seems to be favored when tackling a certain topic: human relationships such as…