Summary Of Hooked On A Myth By Victoria Braithwaite

People fighting against SeaWorld explore the complexity of the animal brain similarly to how Walace does in ‘Consider the Lobster’. It turns out that

Behavioral Biologist at Edinburgh University, Victoria Braithwaite in her article, Hooked on a Myth, Published in Los Angeles Times 2006, addresses the topic of “fish have feelings”, and argues that we should adopt new ways of fishing. She supports this claim by the behavioral studies and experiments, as well as the examples and similarities the fish have with humans. She adopts a determined and passionate tone for her audience, the readers of Los Angeles Times and others interested in the topic animal justice.

Re "Hooked on a Myth," Oct. 8, 2006: Victoria Braithwaite claims that fish feel pain., contrary to belief by many. I completely agree. Although fish may be seen as dim-witted , that does not mean that they can't feel pain. I've watched my grandpa fish enough times to know that fish have blank expressions. But just because someone or something hides their feelings, does not mean that they don't feel anything.

Every culture, religion, and beliefs have their own ideology on how the earth was created and the story of how the first person was formed. Many beliefs come from science and religion however there is also myths that have been passed down from generation to generation. So, who is right? How did the earth form? I believe that there is no right answer and that every myth gives a person something to believe in. If you take an in depth look at these myths, you will become mesmerized at some of the stories. Today we are going to dive into two myths from two different cultures.

The concept of a hero has been around for many generations, and the meaning of a hero is defined in ways people grasp its idea. A hero can be a person who has a superpower and is willing to make a personal sacrifice for the benefit of others or can be an ordinary everyday person who just wants to help people out of his or her own heart. Linda Seger’s article, “Creating the Myth,” tackles the idea of a “Hero 's Myth,” and shows the ten steps of how heroes are transformed from an ordinary person to the Savior. On the other hand, Robert B. Ray piece titled, “The Thematic Paradigm,” emphasizes that in modern films, it is either having an “Outlaw Hero or an Official Hero,” which he uses three stages to demonstrates how they are different each other in the way they perform in the society. Further, the article, “Out of Character: Wonder Woman’s Strength Is Her Compassion - What Happened?” by Stevie St. John, explains how Wonder Woman was viewed as a compassionate woman in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the 2000s she changes into a more violent person. In this essay, I argue that a hero is subjective, and is defined by the villain or event that they had to adapt to suddenly.

His provision of scientific and scholarly material regarding the lobster enables the audience to develop their individual opinions about lobsters and the humanity of consuming them. When paired with the tone it further amplifies the moral concern for the lobster because by expanding our knowledge of the lobster we perceive it to be something more along the lines of a puppy or pet fish than a giant sea insect. Although, Wallace admits lobsters lack a cerebral cortex and that “the cerebral cortex is involved in what’s variously called suffering, distress, or the emotional experience of pain”(Wallace 62); he goes on to establish that “pain reception is...managed by the brainstem and thalamus”(Wallace 62) which are both present in the lobster brain physiology. Through citing where pain reception is managed in the brain he effectively refutes the MLF’s(Maine Lobster Festival) claim that lobsters cannot experience pain by clarifying that emotional pain is managed in the cerebral cortex and physical pain is managed in the brainstem and thalamus. Exposing the fallacious reasoning of the argument that lobsters cannot experience demands that the audience comprehend the barbarousness of consuming lobster, and by demonstrating the cruelty of boiling lobster Wallace can more effectively dissuade the audience from consuming

“The Last of the Mythologists” by Kristen Froberg is an article based on novelist or more prefered a mythologist, Charles Dickens publishing a book around Christmas called “The Sledgehammer” which was later well-known as the “A Christmas Carol”. In the seventeenth century, hearing about children at young ages working in copper mines and factories to provide for their family’s gave Dickens the idea to visit these workplaces but also gave him inspiration to create this book on behalf of a poor person’s child and his own personal experience as a child. CHristmas Carol was one of Dickens's work that he decided to perform in front of audiences. In 1867 and 1868 Christmas Carol was very successful after Charles had a tour profiting about $140,000

In the article of, "Myth as Mirror: A Journey Towards Transformation and Creativity", that the human condition is mostly about their greatest fears, joys, hopes, and desires. If the human have these feeling then they can really express themselve of their desires and discover new culture that they have not learned yet. Human were able to get the experience from learning their success and failure. That way they will know their fear of getting a mistake, but also give them hope and desire to learn their mistake and never make the same mistake again. That is why most human would be so creative that can push themselve beyond their limits and coming up with new original way to show how they were able to achieve their success. Another way to know about the human condition in, "The Journey Towards the Art of Learning", the human condition is when they have a mind, body, and spirit to let them have a desire to gain a new knowledge to their wisdom. Such as they will learn about art to love, to know the struggle to feel the pain, and to care is to be humble. There are many things that they can learn in their human condition as a human being.

I am explicating on passage 16 of ‘The Moths’ by Helena Maria Viramontes on page 20 of the American Family Album.

In “Myth,” by Natalie Trethewey, intense feelings of a heavy conscience are brought to light after the death of someone close. The speaker disguises her own reflection on the experience in the form of a confession to the deceased. The poem creates a hauntingly beautiful tone to reveal the battle of guilt, denial, and acceptance of the speaker using a unique format. Natalie Trethewey uses allusion, metaphors, and palindromic structure to display themes of denial and acceptance.

The main plot of The Witch in the Well by Sharan Newman was about how myths impacted the life of the people. However, interwoven in this plot was the role of women, and Catherine being different and breaking some of the barriers of the time, which contributed to my understanding of 12th century France as well as added to the knowledge that I had gained through this course.

Imagine more than half of the population being denied its basic human rights. Fifty years ago, many basic human rights were a luxury, were a work in progress, or were even nonexistent. In fifty years, racism, sexism, homophobia, and many other types of prejudice have been challenged in the effort to create a civil and unbiased national community. However, despite the prodigious movements that have been at work for quite some time, each of these issues and many more still stand and exist today. I agree with Joseph Campbell’s “The Power of Myth.” Campbell’s stance applies to the issues of present day political ethics concerning human rights, more specifically, racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Although animals act on many impulses and mechanisms, many animals have proven that they have the ability to adapt and survive, showing that they have the ability to think of when they are ill, or feel pain. Animals have the ability to survive illness and changing environments. If animals only acted on mechanism, then they would exacerbate illness causing their demise, or they would fail to adapt to the changing environments, causing them to become extinct. The survival of species throughout years, proves that animals do not just act on mechanism, but also have a mind that is “tightly jointed”.

There once was a god named Perculus, he was one of the three lost gods that were destroyed by Zeus. He was the god of education; he was responsible for teaching all the citizens of Greece the basic ways of living. Once Zeus got into power he was jealous that someone other than himself was teaching the citizens so he sent him to Hades, along with two other gods for other personal reasons, Diminutive the original god of Truth and, Gargantuan the god of punishment.

What lies behind Fish's thinking is a strong view of the social construction of reality; as he firmly believes that knowledge is not objective but always socially conditioned. All that one thinks and knows is an interpretation that is only made possible by the social context in which one lives. For Fish the very thought one thinks are made possible by presuppositions of the community in which one lives and furthermore the socially conditioned individual, which all individuals are, cannot think beyond the limits made possible by the culture. This culture is referred to by Fish as an interpre-tive