The Sixth Sense

The built environment is enriched with human physical interactions and activity, it can be interpreted that the concept of architecture is influenced by our five corporeal senses. The essence of architecture should be a memorable experience for the people. It should be recognised through its qualities based on our senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch where they can interact and engage with the space. By studying the human behaviour and the essence in phenomenology we could change the…

In Italo Calvino 's "The naked bosom," the protagonist Mr. Palomar undergoes an internal conflict of viewing a woman 's bare bosom as she sun-bathes along a beach. Palomar is discreet upon his actions, yet he fails to realize the implications of viewing the woman 's breast in such a derogatory manner. His inner restrictions, specifically society’s perception of nudity, compel his course of actions as he is torn from one thought to another. It is suggested that social conventions related to…

class handout on Romanticism it states that Blake and Coleridge who were also “idealist” because for them the mind is the jewel of importance; however, they also believed that the governing work of the mind is imagination (Romanticism, 293). In this sense imagination is vital for creating meaning for oneself and of that of what is “out there.” However, I do disagree with the standpoint of “Each (Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats who) confined not only that the imagination was (the) most precious…

Though humans have been perceived and acknowledge matter through senses including taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing, but activity of the brain is not considered to be a sense. Descartes believed that there are solely two substances to ever exist, mind and matter. Descartes supposed that the body is nothing but a statue or a machine where the way the body functions can be accounted for mechanically except for the activities of the mind where none can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or…

without some form of medical help and I interpreted as someone who let me down when I really wanted him to appear at a celebration that was important to me. But before I got angry, I heard from my grandmother that he passed away and it made perfect sense. By this realization, I was using the casual attribution theory which consists of identifying the cause of a person’s actions such as “why did my grandpa not came to my birthday party?” because he passed away the day before. 7) Describe a…

it with Christian theology, it would not, I gather, sway a dogmatic atheist. Nonetheless, it does serve to defend Montaigne and his views as a skeptic, as well as a Catholic, showing why Montaigne, while clinging to divine Truth, calls both man’s senses and all aspects of his knowledge into…

In both of the books Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Island by Allistar Macleod, each author plays on the readers five senses in order to give them the ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island…

Misapprehension Vs Authenticity in Edgar Allan Poe’s the form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of liability and not feeling accountable for your actions What is the telltale to say if a man is mad or not? A man may talk like a wise man, and yet act insane. In Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator portrayed a story that he killed the old man because of his “evil eye" that made his blood run cold. Although the narrator tried to persuade the reader that he was normal,…

Typically in stories we see mothers painted in one of two lights, the first being the all American, doting, and loving mother, the second at times unfavorable or cold. Rarely does the reader get the see the character for both their good and bad in blatant truth. In Tillie Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing the narrator makes herself transparent to the reader and allows us to see her for exactly who she has been throughout her journey of motherhood, flaws and all. In this story, we meet a mother of…

never had to use her senses so acutely. The army is put through a training schedule of being able to use their senses accordingly so that they may use them in battle. They train their sight by shooting bows and rockets at targets. When they are shooting the arrow, they must be able to see it and aim at it within seconds of it falling. When they see it, they can shoot at it. They train touch by being able to focus and reach into a river to pull out a fish within seconds. Their sense of smell is…