Synaesthesia In John Seabrook's The Smell

The next time someone says, “I feel your pain”, they might be speaking in literal terms. But, suppose you ask a co-worker what day it is and they reply, “Yellow”. People such as these likely have synesthesia, a condition where they taste sounds, see words in color and/or feel other people’s feelings.

In spite of being known as the land of opportunity many immigrants are denied. For instance, after the potato famine in Ireland as millions of malnourished and impoverished Irish came to America they were deny the right of even applying for a job. Store Owners would put up signs saying,”No Irish need apply”.This represented a loss in the ability of the Irish to survive and moreso throvem. The Chinese also faced outrageous treatment. Even though the Chinese were the primary workforce on the transcontinental railroad,they were paid lower wages not to mention the Chinese Exclusion Acts which went as far as to prevent naturalization.”Is it possible for you and your husband to encourage your children to practice their English when they are home?”Of course my parents complied.What would they not do for their children.”(Document E) The sinister undertones in this text display how being different is truly unacceptable as main character,Richard

Although I have a different reason for migrating here in America, I can feel the afflictions of Lee’s family. The story describes the series of misfortunes due to cultural disparities. Their challenges along the way and

Some aspects of the second article that was chosen are difficult to interpret. This includes the use of two hypotheses in which one reason for better memory performance by synesthetes can be explained by cues involved in encoding and retrieval. Another alternative structural organization hypothesis concedes that there is some other mechanism that helps synesthetes recall more information. According to the findings, it was not clear which hypothesis was more strongly supported as some verbal tests agreed with the former and the visuo-spatial ones with the latter. It is also unclear which aspect the authors were trying to assess since there existed a shifting emphasis from how synthetes encode information to how they recall it.

Chang-Rae Lee uses this experience to create works that help others understand what it feels like to struggle to know your identity through imagery and, symbolism. Coming to America was a change Mr.Lee thought was tough getting used to but, at the end he received a B.A. in English wrote successful books about Asian Americans. Every book is different but all corollate to finding ones identity and where they fit in in

The idea of traveling from the internal to the external is also visible in Synaesthesia (2016),which featured in the Interlude Gallery exhibition Ideally Yes (September, 2016). Here wax and pigment were placed into plastic bags creating a skin-like material that stretched around the screens. A two-channel video work played on the screens. Born from experimentation with materials, this video also examines the artificial materials with which we surround ourselves. Plastic is at once destructive and terrible for our environment, but also possesses strange, artificial skin-like properties. Through the use of a macro lens, Long and Kai Wasikowski captured different movements and processes of the body in minute detail. These parts of the body took

American immigration has skyrocketed from roughly ten million in 1970 to almost forty-five million in 2016 (Zong). Over ten percent of Americans are immigrants at this point. People from all over the world have been moving to the United States from other countries. These massive numbers have caused an increase in both studies and literature about the effects of moving to a new country. One common and prominent result of immigration comes through the assimilation of a new culture or cultures that are different than the one the immigrant has lived with previously. In her novel Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses perspective to suggest how clashes between different cultures and values create conflict, and change identity, which contribute to the struggles

There are many different stories coming from the diversity of immigrants. Mendoza and Shankar states that “We define the new literature of immigration as that literature emerging out of communities formed or re-formed by post-1965 immigrants” (xviii). Editors explain that the new literature of immigration is written by the first generation of immigrants or their children who lives in the communities of immigrants. Within the writings of the new literature of immigration, they explain the issues of identity, cultural, and generational conflicts. Many immigrants experiences the mindset of being an American instead of becoming an American. The new literature is a direct representation of unheard stories from

People who are synesthete can see things or make them feel a certain way when they smell something. Usually, multiple people with synaesthesia see generally the same thing, with some variations. What they see is determined by how much or little they like the thing the smell is associated with.

Many consider America to be the melting pot, and they’re not wrong. It houses members of many nations ranging from Mexico to Russia. Surrounded by foreign influences and numerous other cultures, they struggle to determine which traditions from their heritages they should hold onto and which foreign customs they should embrace. A Chinese-American, Maxine Hong Kingston is familiar with this dilemma. In her piece “No Name Woman”, Kingston explores this struggle by sharing the tragic story of her aunt’s pregnancy. Within her piece, she journalistically reports her aunt’s story in her mother’s words and fictionally narrates some of her aunt’s possible behaviors because of its lack of detail. She also explains several Chinese customs and

Synesthesia is a mysterious occurrence that varies amongst each individual who experiences synesthesia symptoms. In order to have a full comprehension of what synesthesia is, one must be aware that there are many different forms, stages, and theories that help explain synesthesia. According to Simner (2010), over 150 different manifestations of synesthesia have been discovered (e.g. Certain types of sound may trigger colors, or types of sound may trigger tastes). (p. 558). Although, there are many types of variations, there is no criteria or specific diagnostic that ultimately determines the difference between each characteristic of synesthesia. However, there are two forms of synesthesia that are most common. Some synesthetes in grapheme­color

Filled with sensorial imagery, John Keats’s use of the senses in “Ode to a Nightingale” leads to synesthetic description in order to convey what he is feeling and what he is imagining. This poem is based in a desire for escape and this is achieved through an imaginative bower in the speaker’s mind. The speaker is taken to this bower “on the viewless wings of Poesy” (Ode 928) whose song has put him into such a sublime state that his senses are heightened; due to these heightened sense, the speaker turns to synesthesia. Synesthesia, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “the use of metaphors in which terms relating to one kind of sense-impression are used to describe sense-impressions of other kinds” (OED). This form description is used to describe the speakers the sensations he is feeling and the images in his imagination. The imagination is where Keats’s bower is located which affects the definition of the bower. A bower, in the poetic sense, is supposed to be “an idealized abode, not realized in any actual dwelling” (OED) which is the reason the speaker flies there to escape, due to its idealized state. However, Keats’s ideas on the imagination affect the bower and ultimately lead to the speaker’s choice to leave the bower and return to reality. Through this journey, synesthesia is only seen in the instances of intense sensation in the speaker’s sublime state; meaning, when the speaker

Kandinsky discovered his synaesthesia at a performance of Wagner's opera Lohengrin in Moscow: "I saw all my colours in spirit, before my eyes. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me." In 1911, after studying and settling in Germany, he was similarly moved by a Schoenberg concert and finished painting Impression III (Konzert) two days later. The abstract artist and the atonal composer became friends, and Kandinsky even exhibited Schoenberg's paintings in the first Blue Rider exhibition in Munich in the same year.

Throughout America’s history we have seen individuals leaving everything behind seeking new opportunities and hope for a better life. In the story, Arrival: 1960 by Pablo Medina, we learn about a young Cuban family who make a big move to the United States, more specifically New York City. The main character begins the story high spirited and excited for their new home for it would be packed with new experiences. As the story continues he begins to see the reality within the city and at his school. He discovers that his new environment is not at all what he expected and on top of that he is faced with a culture that is abstract to his previous beliefs of identification. His high expectations were greatly reduced to the shocking experiences he went through in this forbidding environment.

Ever since the first humans left their homes two million years ago in search of a new place to live, immigration has been prevalent in our history, present and future. Every immigrant has a story to tell: a reason on why they left their home, and an explanation for why they would migrate to this newfound destination and how it would provide a better life. Each of these stories are unique, and while some prove to be an easier migration, others show how difficult immigration was for them and all the challenges that they faced even after settling in their new home. The novels Of Beetles and Angels by Mawi Asgedom and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini illustrate the lives of immigrants and the difficulties faced before, during and after the move. Despite the similarities of the novels, of Beetles and Angels and The Kite Runner provide unique accounts on the immigration process and how it impacted their lives forever. Novels like The Kite Runner proves how fiction can portray immigration accurately by being compared with Of Beetles and Angels, a memoir.