Analysis Of The Book ' Strange Creatures ' By Susan Blackmore And Who Holds The Clicker?

Monster by Sanyika Shakur yields a firsthand insight on gang warfare, prison, and redemption. “There are no gang experts except participants (xiii)” says Kody Scott aka. Monster. Monster vicariously explains the roots of the epidemic of South Central Los Angeles between the Crips and the Bloods that the world eventually witnessed on April 29, 1992. As readers we learn to not necessarily give gangs grace but do achieve a better understanding of their disposition to their distinct perception in life.

A standout amongst the most fascinating advancements in nineteenth-century American writing school courses as of late has been the presentation of old well known books by ladies to the syllabus. Among works of this kind, E. D. E. N. Southworth 's The Hidden Hand is the book understudies appreciate the most.

Similar to Susan Blackmore’s essay “Strange Creatures” Lauren Slater’s essay “Who Holds the Clicker?” questions the idea of who really has control of our minds. In Blackmore's essay, the thesis was very clear stating: “ what makes us different is our ability to imitate” ( Blackmore, 33). In Slater’s essay, the thesis wasn't very clearly stated. In my opinion, I feel that the thesis statement of this essay was that sometimes tampering with a patient's mind might have a positive effect. Sticking to my thesis in the previous paper I still feel that we as humans have control of our minds. But the mind and the brain are two different things. Although we might have control of our minds I don't think we have control of our brain.

Majority of the times, personas possess calm and rational thinking that allow them to overcome their situations. It is the sense of logic that allows humans to pull through unexepected and trivial events. “To avoid the chaotic management of psychogenic illness, ...It is mandatory that the outbreaks be identified early in order to curb the chaos” (4). In a state of tension, humans are capable of retaining emotional control. Everyone enforces their human principles to obtain order. Everyday situations are dealt with in such way, yet some miss the conception that cerebral malfunctions can abstractly occur due to individuals

Amongst the ideas exchanged in chapter one the idea that stood out the most was the reality that regardless of what talent you believe to have or actually contain it means nothing if you do not give everything you have to your craft. Anyone can love something but to have those feelings reciprocated changes the objective entirely. Growing up children wish to be firefighters, ballerinas, and everything in between but their wishes do not ultimately determine their futures. It has been said that a wish is an idea, and well, people carry on with many ideas, all of which don’t really amount to much without a follow through. The Creature goes on to talk about how she has been in plays and only wishes to be in plays, ignorant to the

The Mouse that Roared, by Henry Giroux, is a social critique on the Walt Disney Company rather than Walt Disney himself. This makes the book more critical of the institution that is the Disney Company rather than the man behind the company, which causes for a more cultural analysis. This makes the book feel very different than a biography, like Bob Thomas’s, due to the book not focusing in on the achievements of one specific person. Much of the book is spent on criticizing many of the concepts that Walt Disney built himself. This book also criticizes many different parts of the Walt Disney Company the book does not focus on one time in particular. This makes it a larger historical critic with many of the criticisms beginning early on in the company’s history and only growing in importance as the company grew.

Society deems OCD as a menace and hindrance because of its resulting limitations. However, we start to see it have an effect on success rates within electracy-focused fields. Scientifically, studies suggest that “patients with OCD . . . adapt by accessing explicit networks in order to process material that normal individuals ‘put to rest’ implicitly” (Rauch et al. 572). Which supports the notion that people who suffer from OCD will look at one thing from multiple perspectives, maybe without even realizing it, in order to perfect his or her understanding of it. Although it

After the storm was over, a group of dissatisfied kids had gotten together to discuss the weather. They wanted the weather to be as other cities. James the librarian son told the group about a story his grandfather told him many times during bedtime. His grandfather shared a story about a mystical legend of people called the "Shadow Snatchers". The Shadow Snatchers were a mythical tribe that believed in the ritual of snatching children shadows. The Priest would catch a child sleeping and cast a spell to steal their shadow.

This theory states that compulsive behaviors are analogous to the displacement behaviors of animals such as repetitive, purposeless pursuits, such as a dog chasing its own tail performed by animals in a clear state of conflict. Hence, these may be primitive, adaptive behaviors (behaviors originally meant to reduce danger) that are activated inappropriately in OCD. Even though the conflict-displacement account has been criticized (Jakes, 1996), our data suggest that the general principle is worthy of further study. The weaknesses of this study were the small number of participants and the exclusion of left-handers. Although initially that might be considered a strength, it eliminates an entire set of the population that could survive from OCD, hence it limits the pool of applicants and the sample size of the study. Strengths of the study were the methodological pluralism by excluding confounding variables such as normal vision, color vision

Freuds’ dynamic unconscious is the supposed repository of repressed forbidden wishes of a sexual or aggressive nature, which recklessly seek immediate gratification, independently of the constraints of external reality, but whose re-entry or initial entry into consciousness is prevented by the defensive operations of the ego.

With the development of our society, the ideas and concepts of lots of things have been changed. Feminist’s act is an important hallmark on our path to improve our society. But stereotypes against the role of female could still be found in many literatures. Looking back into our history, the appearance of women has been always weak and helpless in different time period, compare to man. Although, people’s attitude towards women has been advancing, but there is still a space for improvements and developments. Therefore, individuals must challenge their own false impression regarding the role of female, if our society were to truly abridge the gap between genders. For example, there are some literatures demonstrating sexism perfectly. In Christine, Stephen King illustrates a car that processes the personality of a woman, which often turns violent, driven by envy and wrath; The Exorcist creates the character of Regan, which satisfy the public’s expectation of the weak and helpless; and Dracula is a classic vampire story, where the author emphatically deprecates the woman’s status in the common society. Overall, by comparing with these three novels, the authors have used some specific opinions to enhance the issue of feminism. The authors of Christine, The exorcist and Dracula are considered as sexist writers from the portrayal of Leigh Cabot, Regan and Lucy Westenra’s characterization. They often portray the figure of female in a discriminative way, debase and objectify women in

Our thinking, feeling, emotion, and behavior are component of our behavior and the physical environment. Our physical environment relate to our surroundings and to the givens of the natural world around us (Hutchison, 2009). The theory of stimulation is a theory that every human being by natural law learn to use since childhood (Hutchison, 2009). For example, we learn to see, hear, speak and touch in a natural way and is an essential source for us humans. With these stimuli we can learn many essential things for the human, for example, individuals use their own emotions to predict what others we will do. My co-worker and I share the same office, every day before she turn on her computer, she would ask me, do you drink your coffee already?, sometime, before she finish her sentence. I would answer no I had not drink my

The country in Maine is a bluster, a sharp knife, a muddy puddle, a breeze, a frozen lake, a smell in the air, a loud noise. Maine is fields of grass and deer and trees and cold, an endless barren snowscape with howling winds and hard hail, an unstoppable force relentlessly pounding its fists into the earth and trees, suspending all life, and letting the universe take a deep breath. The countryside, however, can also be a mild, gentle fun place for boys and girls to play in the long grass and climb the trees in their yards. One of those boys, was named Al and he loved getting outside and having an adventure.

Understanding the humans is one of the most difficult things one learn in life, form how it works to the science behind it. Susan Blackmore’s, “Strange Creatures” brings to light all the struggles we go through and some of our abilities can be misleading. She begins the passage by differentiating humans from animals. She also tells her audience about Memes which seem to be successful due to not only their purpose, but their host’s devotion. If a person became easily influenced by a meme they would have been more prone to imitating information. In the passage, Strange Creatures, she personifies these “memes” calling them selfish and states that their only drive is to be “passed around”. Blackmore goes on by saying, “Instead of thinking of our own creations, and as working for us, we have to think of them as autonomous selfish memes, working only to get themselves copied. We humans, because of our powers of imitation, have become just physical ‘hosts’ needed for the memes to get around.” (Blackmore 37) By personifying memes in this specific way she is informing the readers in an indirect technique that memes are working against our minds. Blackmore’s belief in the theory of memes support the idea that humans are oblivious to the power that memes have over them. Imitation could be as easy as seeing a pair of shoes that you love on television and purchasing a pair that is identical. Applying memes into higher education can negatively affect individuals trying to obtain a unique

The train was crossing Nevada’s dry landscape on a dark and gloomy day. In the back sat a man trying to get away. He wore a dark hat and jacket. Despite his past it was unlikely the security guards would recognize him as he was a long way