Wandering

The story “The Wanderings of Odysseus” from the book “The Odyssey” by Homer, shows the adventure and difficult tasks Odysseus must face, nevertheless the dangers of many mythical creatures out at sea, land and sky. This book shows how Odysseus as a hero to his crewmates and to many others. In the adventures of Odysseus wanderings, there were many prosperous moments where he made bold moves to protect and sustain his crewmates mentally and physically throughout the chapters of nine and twelve.…

calling, a feeling so strong that it draws you in to accomplish a goal? In an instant you realize that no matter how difficult and painful accomplishing this task may be; that, doing so will change your life forever. Well, Aengus from “The Song of Wandering Aengus”, Ernesto Galarza from “Barrio Boy”, and Annie Johnson from “New Directions” all had this type of feeling. Aengus wanted to find love, while Galarza and Johnson were determined to survive desperate circumstances. However, all three…

Free and Easy Wandering Closed Reading Free and Easy Wandering is an chapter excerpt from the classic Chinese piece of literature Zhuangzi written by Zhuang Zhou. Written in the Third Century B.C.E. , Master Zhuang wrote during the Warring States period. Free and Easy Wandering is the first of seven in Zhuangzi,with almost all the chapters containing fables and allegories relating a broader message to the reader. Along with the contemporary writing Laozi, Zhuangzi was one of the earliest…

This Annotated Bibliography has researched based on the mind wandering. In my research Smallwood and Schooler shows the different models of mind wandering and how it can effect completing tasks in the article called ' The Restless Mind.' Killingsworth and Gilbert wrote an article , they tried to get samples and evidence to prove 'A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind.' Szpunar, Moulton and Schacter discussed how mind wandering can effect classroom and online based learning. Smallwood, Fitzgeral,…

The mental activity of mind wandering has been a significant topic in cognitive psychology, as it seems to be a challenge to education. Mind wandering is an unconscious behaviour where the mind is pre-occupied with unrelated thoughts, influencing attention on current tasks. A constantly growing theoretical framework has developed research concerning the cognitive and neural basis of the phenomenon by introducing reliable experimental procedures (Smallwood, 2013). The experimental procedures have…

Determination doesn’t have an off-season. The Other Side of the Sky, The Song of the Wandering Aengus, and Barrio Boy all show their path of determination. In The Other Side of the Sky; Farah Ahmedi is determined to get her mother out of Afghanistan. In The Song of the Wandering Aengus; Aengus was determined after he saw a beautiful woman. In Barrio Boy; Ernesto is determined to learn English by his teacher beauty. The first text is a true story called Barrio Boy, Ernesto is learning the…

The Wandering Prince by Eleanor Hibbert was based on Charles the Second of England, but the narrator of the story is not from his side it´s from his beloved sister Minette. Though in very small parts he tells his own story it 's mostly his sister 's point of view and his mistress Lucy. The start of this book is in England right before Charles the first is captured by the puritans Cromwell 's, His youngest daughter Henrietta who is two at the time is being smuggled out of the country by Lady Anne…

In his book “The Deadly Wandering” Matt Richtel tells the true story of a young Mormon man by the name of Reggie Shaw, who causes a terrible accident that leaves two scientists dead in 2006. The sad part about this story/book is that the accident was actually caused by Reggie texting and driving. Richtel also mentions some scientific studies on human attention while driving. In Chapter nineteen, Richtel talks about Reggie, after the accident had already happened. He mentions that his former high…

Conjoint Influence of Mind-wandering and Sleepiness on Task Performance was a study conducted by psychologist David Stawarczyk and Arnaud D’Argembeau from the University of Liege. Their primary focus on this study was to understand the influence that mind-wandering and sleepiness have on task performance. They found that this question was important as both mind-wandering and daytime sleepiness seemed to co-occur. In order to investigate that question they examined the comparison between the two…

The diction William Yeats uses in The Song of Wandering Aengus helps communicate the melancholic lust of an unrequited love. The first stanza Yeats begins with a fast paced, positive. In his he depicts the flying of moths, but then next he goes on to compare moths to stars "moth-like stars were flickering", he states. Stars are considered to light the dark sky, and to be beautiful or create beautiful shapes. Moths are bugs however, bugs which come and swarm sources of light and can usually be…