Tristan

The article, “The Digit Span Backwards Task: Verbal and Visual Cognitive Strategies in Working Memory Assessment”, by Hilbert, Sven, Tristan T. Nakagawa, Patricia Puci, Alexandra Zech, and Markus Buhner, aims at investigating the differences in performance between visualizers and verbalizers cognitive strategies by using digit span backwards. The digit span backwards has been used for many decades to assess the working memory capacity. The concept of working memory initiates the way we are able…

He is mainly recognized from his works, The Quintet Series, An Ocean Without a Shore, Observance, The Tristan Project, The Night Journey, and Bodies of Light. In these works Viola uses his methods in order to express his appeals towards that of the significance of human fundamentals. These works got him very well known as an artist. Not just for the quality…

The evolution was discovered after Banksy. Who transformed how art should be viewed. Banksy a english graffiti artist, painter and film director. His work can be political, it is spread painted in places all over the world . He also painted on canvas which has been displayed in gallery and been sold to people (Banksy, 2016). We don’t know his real identity Banksy likes to remain anonymous and show his talent in the dark just like Guerrilla artist. His technique involves in stencils, and…

My expectations walking towards the production for “Betty’s Diner” were not very high. I was not looking forward to seeing the play because I really dislike musicals. The singing after every six minutes bored me as a child watching movie musicals so why would I want to watch them now? As a kid I was unable to watch “High School Musical” and most other musical movies because the singing absolutely annoyed me whenever a character felt any type of emotion. All of my experiences of past musicals had…

Often when an individual goes to the doctor saying they have severe or chronic pain. Many doctors are forced to prescribe opiates and different harmful narcotics. In some states it's one of the few options to deal with pain, but nowadays there has been a trending alternative to these addictive pain medications; Medical Marijuana. Medical Marijuana has been used to treat many illnesses, such as muscle spasms, caused by multiple sclerosis, nausea from cancer chemotherapy, multiple different…

Lori Gruen 's "Captive Kin" takes a look at what it must be like to be held captive. She asks the reader to examine whether imprisoning apes or humans does harm to them even though they may deserve captivity as a punishment. She goes on to explore whether animals engage in autonomous behaviors, not by verbalization, but by non-language behaviors. Lastly the author brings to light the need to hold some animals’ captive due to the moral implications of releasing them back to the wild. In “Captive…

technology overload is rarely, if ever, frowned upon and consequently, society fails to recognize the disruption of excess technology forced upon today’s modern world. In his essay, “Smartphone Addiction. The Personal Slot Machine in Your Pocket”, Tristan Harris compares an iPhone and a slot machine to illustrate society’s addiction and problematic involvement with today’s digital tools. Smartphones possess the similar addictive qualities of a slot machine. Just as slot machine users…

Part 1 of The Children and Families Act 2014 contains provisions to go through with proposals made in ‘An Action Plan for Adoption: Tackling Delay’ (Department of Education, 2012). The government has made investments of four and half million pounds to end delays for children awaiting adoption; 4,060 children had an adoption decision but were not yet placed at 31 March 2015), on average adoption delays of one year and nine months (Department of Education, 2015). Longer delays were caused by…

Born in August 22, 1862 in Saint Germain En Laye, France, Claude Debussy was not known for having the greatest beginning to an exciting life. But while his family did not have a lot of money, they were still able to understand his amazing talent with a piano and by the age of 7 he was in Piano lessons. At the age of 10 or 11 Debussy had entered into the Paris Conservatoire, within his time there his instructors and his fellow students were awed by his obvious talent but often found his musical…

Wind back the tape of life, Stephen Jay Gould once said, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay. Whether evolution can produce the same kinds of creatures more than once is a question that has been on more than one mind for a long time. Some biologists argue that evolution is a deterministic process, meaning that similar environments will tend to produce similar outcomes. Others think its course follows unpredictable twists and…