Understanding

When the term epilepsy comes about I associate it with seizures, although there’s a difference between the two. Epilepsy can be defined as a neurological condition that is described by recurrent seizures. Epilepsy is a condition in which is not fully understood, yet there’s a significant amount of research. People that are diagnosed with epilepsy tend to have different type of seizures. Therefore, the occurrence, symptoms, and the type of seizure can differ with every person diagnosed with…

One can never completely or completely accurately understand another person. In the article “Understanding Another’s Wrongdoing,” Christopher Cowley argues that a significant idea present in Crime and Punishment actually goes against this general psychological concept. He believes that the process of being understood and seeking to understand others drives this novel through the actions of Raskolnikov. By specifically analyzing the confession scene near the ending, he focuses on three of…

Understanding my culture of origin is extremely difficult due to the fact that it is very mixed. A quarter of my family has been in America since William Penn came over. They were English, Scottish, as well as Irish and later Cherokee. Another half of my family came through Ellis Island and were of Polish, Italian, Czechoslovakian, and Lithuanian descent. The last quarter of my family is of unknown origin due to the adoption of my paternal grandfather. My family is commonly referred to as a…

Understanding Plato’s Form of the Good can be very challenging. However, by understanding the hierarchy of Forms and the difference between the sensible and intelligible world we can make sense of Plato’s ideas. To start, we need to remember that Plato believed that everything we see around us is only an imitation of true objects. Before we were born our souls roamed the World of Forms. While our souls were in this world they learned about true knowledge. Everything that we know today is…

De Ocampo, Sheena Mae M. Dr. Evangeline Martin I-12 Reflection: Veneration Without Understanding Firstly, upon reading the title itself, ‘Veneration Without Understanding’, I already know that the article that I am going to read will be about how we, Filipinos, revere Rizal as someone of a high order without fully understanding why we do such thing. I initially thought that the author, Renato Constantino, was an anti-Rizal for writing it and for saying that we fail to understand…

change in weather or possibly even a new discovery we continue to learn and gain a better understanding of the world we are living in, and how we live in it. We have broadened our capabilities to understanding the human body and the certain processes that we need to be completed in order for us to keep surviving in this world, and we just keep going up from there. Since we have come to the realization and understanding of the processes in our bodies we have had a very drastic upturn from that…

(The Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Human Understandings) Dickinson’s short writings can be very hard to comprehend. They can portray one message but actually mean another. A close examination is required for Emily Dickinson’s works. After understanding them, though, they can be very meaningful. Lucy Abbot states, “One of Dickinson’s special gifts as a poet is her ability to describe abstract concepts with concrete images. In many Dickinson poems, abstract ideas and material things are used to…

The readings, “Understanding Other Cultures” and “Anthropology and Intercultural Relations” are based around understanding other cultures and how we can benefit from studying outside of our “norm.” By learning what shapes human behavior in different cultures, we can increase our cultural understanding. Our willingness to cross cultural thresholds can give us the opportunity to view a variety ways and styles of living. Understanding what sets each culture apart from each other can help government…

The article “Understanding American Worldview” by J. LaVelle Ingram is an article that talks about how the American culture is different than the culture of immigrants. There are five American worldviews that this article summary will be covering. The five worldviews are focusing on the future, humans should be able to control nature, people can be counted on to do the right thing when they are given the chance, a person’s needs and wants are more important than their families, and what one…

Understanding Helping Behaviors Where does a person’s need to help someone come from? How easily can that need be affected? That is exactly what John Darley and Daniel Batson wanted to know when they did their Good Samaritan experiment. Those are also the questions John Campbell tries to explain and understand. Therefore, a better understanding of helping behavior can come from the “Jerusalem to Jericho” article on the Good Samaritan experiment and the “Altruism and the Experimental Data on…