Doctorow's Interpretation Of Consciousness

The idea of mestiza consciousness is an acknowledgement of both the genetic and cultural mixing that come from falling between the cracks of two cultures. Gloria Anzaldua uses the idea of mestiza consciousness to describe the constant shifting between two or more cultures that Chicana women experience. She describes the issues that arise within various communities due to an “us vs. them” mentality, and argues that mestiza consciousness can also act as a tool to heal these wounds, and to reshape one’s identity by merging various identities.

Numerous factors determine when and why you feel tired, full of energy, and hungry. A person's state of consciousness and awareness varies throughout the day and depends on a person's activity, environment, and time clock.

In the wake of slavery, the black body is constantly under attack. The hold co-exists within the wake of slavery. According to Christina Sharpe, college professor, author of In the Wake on Blackness and Being, (2016) “The wake; a state of wakefulness and a state of consciousness” (pg. 5). Being in the wake of slavery means one still faces the negative effects it and is aware of the negative affects it has on the black community. The hold co-exists in the wake of slavery and the black body is inhibited by this hold. Sharpe defines the hold as, “A large space in the lower part of a aircraft in which cargo is stowed (of a ship or aircraft); keep or detain (someone)” (p. 68). In the hold, the black body has been introduced, taught, ingrained and continues this idea of the language of violence. Through the actual hold of the ship during the Middle Passage, to the perception of blacks which also holds the black body, and to the engrained idea of the “masculine black body” which keeps queer black bodies in their own hold. In this paper, I will examine the intersectionality of blackness and queerness which is being held in the wake of slavery.

One of the ways an individual can understand cultural diversity is by creating a meaningful and genuine relationships with people who are from different cultures. Cultural diversity is an important phenomenal for teachers in training to become familiar with and I believe it is for this reason that the Education Department at Medgar Evers College has as one of its eight-unit standard Personal and Global Consciousness. The department under this standard expects teachers in training to examine, deconstruct, and reconstruct their own and others beliefs, values and perspective, to understand their own cultures, and to develop empathy and acceptance towards others culture. Teachers wishing to work in New York City

Nella Larsen, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, explores the nature of racial identity and double-consciousness in her novella Passing. W.E.B Du Bois’s theory of double-consciousness is characterized in The Souls of Black Folk as a sense of “twoness,-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body” (Du Bois 2). Irene and Clare, Larsen’s novella’s primary characters, both lack a “dark body” which allows them to oscillate, by choice, between playing the part of the white “American” and the “Negro”. The appeal of racial passing lies in how it provides disenfranchised minorities access to otherwise unattainable

The fascination with consciousness dates back to the time of Plato and Descartes. Since those times the term “consciousness” has spurned controversy in many scientific fields, including the fields of biology, psychology, and neuroscience. However, with the recent advancements in brain imaging technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), human consciousness has shifted from being a subjective, abstract idea into being a observable scientific phenomenon. As neuroimaging capabilities progress, the public interest in consciousness also grows.

Compelling and unexpected insights are generated through a range of literary devices that illuminate the powerful conceptual premise of 50th Gate. Evocation and metaphor depict the fragmentary dreamlike nature of memory as memory

“ I have no way of describing good from bad omens, much less of intuiting that all aquries really an extension of our own fears”

"We need scarcely say, that these volumes have neither principle, object, nor moral; the horror which abounds in them is too grotesque and bizarre ever to approach near the sublime, and when we did not hurry over the pages in disgust, we sometimes paused to laugh outright; and yet we suspect, that the diseased and wandering imagination, which has stepped out of all legitimate bounds, to frame these disjointed combinations and unnatural adventures, might be disciplined into something better. We heartily wish it were so, for

It shows inconsistency within our life and behavior. We cannot rest because our dreams can poison our sleep and we cannot be awake because our pondering thoughts can ruin the day. Yet our thoughts can make us laugh or cry or “cast our cares away”. The reader can either hide from the world of the unknown or reason with it with rational thought. Change in a person’s life varies from people to people.

The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all [of] its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of

America is designed to give opportunity and freedom to any citizen that is within it’s boundaries. Immigrants come to America looking for these opportunities and expect to be successful in their new country. In No-No Boy, John Okada tells the story of a second generation Japanese Immigrant who is trying to figure out who he is as an American who isn’t accepted in his own country. W.E.B. Dubois is an author who wrote about the injustices on African Americans in an American society. Both John Okada and W.E.B. Dubois write about how the Double Consciousness of citizens in the United States.

From the “superpredator” scares of the 1970s up to the 1990s successes in brain research, It was believed that the brain was resistant to change after we entered adulthood. During these early times in brain studies, it was commonplace to hear about how the elderly aren’t able to change with the times. The belief that, “when you grow up you won’t change,” was one of the many frustrations of that time period, and even had countless songs dedicated to these neural setbacks (American Idiot by Green Day). Previously in 1890 however, a man named William James published a book called the principles of psychology.

"In any case, on the off chance that I let you know that your dejection or fits of anxiety result from a concoction unevenness in your cerebrum, then I'm letting you know something that can't be demonstrated, in light of the fact that there is no test for a substance irregularity in the human mind."

The statements “I have a guilty conscious” and “My conscious eating me alive” are phrases that have been giving physical meaning by everyday people. What has not been given merit is the imaginable state of consciousness or ones conscious. Are the statements true or just simply a saying with no meaning?