Schopenhauer Analysis

Since the early 1900’s psychologists have developed theories about how the human brain develops and how humans learn. Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood (Wells, 2011). There are many factors that play vital roles in how we learn, some of which are intelligence, reasoning and memory.

From my perspective, the mind always seemed like a complicated and intricate puzzle. It was a puzzle that I had no desire to evaluate or even begin to learn more about. It was something that I had just accepted because I believed it was above my understanding and much too complex. However, I never thought to look at just one small piece of the puzzle. If I could just focus on one little section, maybe I could increase my overall knowledge of the mind. By reading the book, Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, I was given the opportunity to be able to specialize on one very crucial part of our mind. A part that deals with how we view ourselves and others, our communication, and the reasoning behind our actions. This is called our mindset. While reading

Books have been the main source of obtaining information and discovering a world of knowledge, imagination, and exploration throughout all periods of time.

In the article, “Building a Better Brain is within Every Student’s Power” author Judy Willis states that when people empower themselves with a basic understanding of how their brain learns and remember it gives them the most potent keys to success in school, careers, relationships, and every other aspect of their lives. Many things help the brain learn like influences on intelligence, emotional state, a positive emotional state, incremental progress, and knowing how to construct patterns.

For example, just like a child learning to ride a bike, your brain needs continuous practice and exercise in order to become larger and stronger. So when you think or solve problems you use the part of your brain called the cortex. It consists of billions of tiny nerve cells that are called neurons. The nerve cells connect together and grow dendrites (fibers) that grow when you listen write or talk, thus creating a very complex and complicated network. When you acquire knowledge and continue to challenge your mind to learn new things, the neurons and brain cells will begin to increase that enables your brain to retain more information.

Overall, Elie Wiesel displayed indifference throughout both his speech and book very well. He gave his readers a small glimpse at what being indifferent can do to a

Holocaust survivor, American- Romanian Writer, Elie Wiesel in his descriptive Speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” suggests that indifference is treacherous. He supports his message by highlighting the horrible reasonings of genocides such as: “World Wars,” “Civil wars,” and “assassinations.” Moreover, after contemplating the context of Wiesel's speech it grants the audience a greater understanding, of how indifference ruined the lives of many. Wiesel’s purpose is to inform the audience that indifference is seductive and one of the worst feelings; in order to paint a picture in the reader's mind to continue to hope for a world without indifference. He establishes a hopeful tone for the readers by using stylistic devices such as imagery, remembrance, and pathos, in order to develop Wiesel's; message about the inhumanity of difference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

Writer and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his influential speech “The Perils of Indifference” claims that indifference is a problem and not feeling is what we should avoid. He develops his message through details of his experience living during the holocaust. Specifically, paragraph 9 talks about how people there had lost who they were during their time there.Finally, he talks about other people during some events. Wiesel’s purpose is to inform people in order to keep them from being indifferent. He creates an uprising tone for readers by using stylistic devices and rhetorical devices such as similes, metaphors, and imagery in order to develop his message that indifference is a terrible belief. Ultimately, Wiesel’s message about the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

Lorraine Hansberry once said “It’s simple. You read books--to learn facts--to get good grades--to pass the course--to get a degree. It has nothing to do with thoughts.” Of course it as to do with thoughts, but there’s more meaning behind this quote that may seem a little off to others who don’t study in the depths of psychology. Psychology is the study of the overall human brain and mind. There are many types of Psychology, but this quote relates to Behavioral Psychology which is studying observable behaviors rather than mental processes. Furthermore, the father of behaviorism, or B.F. Skinner, looked into operant conditioning. That is, operant conditioning is the process by which people make responses because they have

Only some people realize how books help people be smarter and more creative, such as Clarisse. Clarisse ended up getting killed. Clarisse's death made Montag realize that his actions can get him killed. When Mildred overdosed on pills she had no emotion, she didn’t think she did anything bad. Mildred said “What? Did we have a wild party or something? Feel like a hangover. God, I’m hungry. Who was here? (pg. 19)”. Almost everyone has no imagination, and are unable to critically think, if they mess up they won’t even realize

There is a beauty in books. Each book opens up your mind to a world unknown. Each page of a book makes you think to yourself "what's going to happen next?". Books give you thoughts and opinions. Books teach you things you never knew. They allow you to escape reality and enter someone else's world. Books

In “On The Sufferings of the World,” Arthur Schopenhauer has a pessimistic outlook on life. He believes that suffering is a part of life and that without suffering, the world would be an even more miserable place. As many people may assume, life gets better as you grow older. Schopenhauer however disagrees with this statement and claims that life continually deteriorates. Before reading this piece I strongly believed that I was an optimist. I always like to see the bright side of situations but, Schopenhauer really gave me a different outlook on life, a pessimistic view, and I surprisingly agreed with many of his ideas. Although this is true, at the end of the reading, I disagreed with more ideas than not. Therefore, I do not think that Schopenhauer’s account on life is a good proposal to live by because not everyone is continuously miserable in their life and it is perfectly reasonable to have a positive outlook on life.

As printed text becomes more difficult to read, reading as a hobby has gotten a lot less attractive to some people. UCLA psychology professor Patricia Greenfield points out in her studies, “reading develops imagination, induction,

And books are a tactile experience, meaning they are supposed to be experienced through touch and smell (especially for the old books). A book is meant to be an experience that can have depressions and elevations on the cover and text, feeling the weight of the pages as you turn them and all of these elements when combined make a book what it is, but when you read an e-book you are exposed to digitized text and a screen. And it’s been proven that when people are exposed to screens of TVs or computers they are less likely to have a good night sleep. On a web poll about e-books vs. books one person commented, ‘I've tried reading a few e-books but I've always given up. I just don't like looking at digitized text when I'm reading a novel. I like the feel, the weight and even the smell of books,’ many of the following comments made by others agreed with this persons thoughts.

Reading develops a person’s creativity. Unlike movies where everything is determined by the producer, writer and director, books allow students to create in their minds how a particular character looks like or imagine how a scene plays out.