The starting phrase of "skull with softly flickering" (Line 1) is an example of this and reminds the reader of a very common picture of the nerves in the brain lighting up as electrical signals are transmitted through them. Mackowski forms a layer of images in her poem, with each image interacting with the other to tell a story about the mind. This juxtaposition of images is very clear in the second sentence of the poem. ... This is because the brain instinctively sends a signal to our body part saying it do so. ... For example, the phrase "blowing into the leaves" (Line 9)...

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Although the book starts of with a usual inquisitive narrative hook, it is really lacking in an imaginative plot, climax and ending. ... I think this highlights his improved state of mind from the start to end, for instance Christopher forgives his father and passes his A grade math's. ... For instance in one scene in the book Christopher exclaims to a lady trying to help him "ill stab you with my pocket knife". ... The use of correct English such as grammar and sentence length and construction are purposely left inimitably inaccurate. It therefore becomes apparent that Christop...

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Descartes' view of the mind was limited- simply put; we are born with preconceived innate ideas, such that God exists, along with basic arithmetic that all humans know. ... Problems soon arose as many patients were not considered treatable, and therefore were either sentenced to go to the newer, cheap, asylums, where they would be taken care of and kept from the public. Those with mental disabilities, who were untreatable, yet harmless, were released to the public and often lived with their family members. ... For the first time, the people feared the feeble not because they misunderstoo...

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A court for the crime of explaining his ideas, for instance, sentenced Socrates, to death. ... Of course, not everyone is going to agree with Descartes theory. ... So far, Descartes came up with the best theory to explain it, but not everyone believes it. ... In this meditation on his philosophy, Descartes on numerous attempts tries to convince both the readers, as well as himself, of his theory that we must reject all of our present ideas and beliefs and start from nothing. ... Everything else, which he has learned throughout his entire life and believed in, is to be thrown out because it...

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When Alice James, the youngest sister of the famous Henry the novelist, and William the psychologist, started journaling, she was 40 years old. ... That claim is most noticeable in James' diary because it is not a "geyser of emotions;" it is, on the contrary, pretty subdued for a woman who's life revolved around her health, both physical and mental, and hysterics. ... As a diarist, the writer also becomes a reader, making self-conscious remarks strewn with self-mockery. ... Her writing must have been influenced by her knowledge that she must monitor herself because, as a wo...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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As such, philosophy provides one with no definite answer on any one aspect of human knowledge 1. ... He also identified the mind with concepts such as self-awareness and self-consciousness. ... He started to clear his mind of all the rubbish knowledge that had been handed down from generations to generations. ... He (Descartes) thought that if true knowledge is to be attained then we must start from the very foundation of our knowledge. ... Because he thinks, then he is a thinking being. ...

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