The Two Towers

What have studies of visual object agnosia and prosopagnosia contributed to our understanding of visual recognition? A lot of what we understand about visual recognition comes from investigating cases where the processes involved go wrong. The absence of a cognitive ability can provide is with the ability to look at where things differ in these individuals from those with normal levels of processing. In the case of visual recognition, we can look at different forms of visual agnosias in order…

Political Disinterest of the Younger Generation in Australia The recent Australian federal election in July saw a ninety-five percent participation rate, three percent higher than in the previous election. With such a high percentage of voters, one would assume most Australians have a high sense of civic duty. Much of the younger generation, however, appears to lack political interest. In 2013, only around 50 percent of eighteen year olds participated in the federal election1. The article I…

“Our democracy is but a name. We vote. What does that mean? … We choose between two … bodies of autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” (qtd. in Gillespie 16). The United States’ democratic process has been whittled down from a grand democracy, allowing for much competition, to a two-party controlled system. The election process has come to having only two competing candidates each coming from one of the major political parties, either the Democrats or the Republicans. Many…

Health Science Graduate students at Seton Hall University can employ different techniques when preparing for exams to improve their academic performance. They are able to utilize a variety of tools and strategies to prepare for tests that may allow them to recall and manipulate information according to the task at hand. One of these techniques includes studying using online games that are set up as quizzes in order to be constantly exposed to the information in a more entertaining fashion. Mini…

Assessment: Pediatric Early Elementary Examination, PEEX2 The purpose of this exam is to gain a comprehensive picture of a child and, their neurodevelopmental growth. The exam is used to identify specific areas of weakness that warrant further assessment. Summary: Trent is a right handed 8.11year old boy. He seemed relaxed to begin the testing session and was engaged with the examiner, Mr. Mel Levine. Throughout the testing session, Trent responded to conversations, was flexible to prompts,…

The French Revolution in the late eighteenth century was a time of uprisings and attacks as oppressed peasants tried to provide a better life for future generations. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens follows the lives of characters living during this period of time. Many French citizens sacrificed their lives during the revolution out of love for their children and grandchildren to provide them with a better future. In this novel, love is also the reason that several characters give up an…

Sydney Carton moral? Is Sydney Carton immoral? Sydney Carton in the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities was a careless drunkard that didn't care about anything or anyone including himself, but as the story went on he discovered a love for Lucie Manette. It changed him into a loving man and eventually into the hero of the story. His actions in the end portrayed him as the most compelling character in A Tale of Two Cities. Sydney Carton thinks of himself and life as worthless with no meaning. He…

will return and do something for him, and he also cares for Joe a lot before he leaves, but afterwards he takes almost no notice of Joe. "I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head. ‘Us two being now alone, Sir,’—began Joe. ‘Joe,’ I interrupted, pettishly, ‘how can you call me, Sir? ...‘For was it not,’ said Joe, with his old air of lucid exposition, ‘…I should not have had the honour of breaking wittles in the company and abode of…

detail. It does not matter the abundance of detail; the detail itself catches the attention of the reader. The reader recently perused two novels involving this type of work. The Perfume and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Each novel built up massive amounts of creativity and detail. However, each in their own way. In Perfume the author, Patrick Suskind, developed about two of the five senses in his work by using detail. The setting of this story had taken place in the 1700s. With that being…

“The French revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don’t build on the past. There is no past” -John Corigliano. In Charles Dickens’ The Tale of Two Cities, The French revolution has begun and revolutionaries are handling the situation with maltreatment, hatred, and injustice the same way in which the aristocracy treated the peasants of France. Charles Dickens guides his readers to the lesson compassion and justice is the only way to break the consistent pattern of…