The Mind 's Eye By Oliver Sacks

On a clothes advertisement, well shaped and beautiful women came out to introduce new clothes. In hair, clothes, and other many advertisements, usually glamor and really good looking women are main models of the advertisements. Not only in advertisements, but also in many films and dramas, the main character is always a tall, thin and beautiful woman. This situation can be explained by John Berger’s book, “Way’s of seeing”. John Berger is an English art critic, novelist, and painter, and this book is about how people can see something critically and find deep meaning of things, especially art paintings. In chapter 2, there are only paintings and photos, and no words. However, pictures in this chapters show explanation about the phenomenon. According to chapter 2, women always consider themselves and other people’s eye and are treated as objectives as sexual ones.

I spy with my little eye something blue, or is it purple, maybe green? I Spy was one of my favorite games when I was a little girl. Almost everyone as a child that I know played this game, and if you did, and your experience was anything like mine, you got stuck on an object or two a couple of times. If you didn’t play, eye spy was a game where someone said a color of something they saw and you would have to guess what object it was or vice versa. Was it our own vision at fault or that of our friends that we couldn’t find what we were searching for? Doesn’t matter since someone saw something they didn’t actually see. Stephen Jay Gould, a teacher of several subjects at Harvard University, discusses how our brain can play tricks on us in his essay titled “Some Close Encounters of a Mental Kind.” Although our minds are powerful things, what we see, or remember seeing, can be wrong.

In the article “The Cost of Paying Attention”, Matthew Crawford, the editor for The New York Times, argues that paying attention is a very valuable resource. Crawford argues that a person only has so much of it. He states that things like advertisements can easily distract people from what they need to focus on. He stresses the importance of silence because silence is hard to come by and it’s what make it possible to think. Since it’s much harder to pay attention with all the distraction being around, it’s better to prioritize one’s brain so distraction won’t happen… (Crawford)

The “double consciousness” coined by W.E.B Du Bois, became a popular ideology during the Harlem Renaissance to depict conflicting identities of the black community. Du Bois understood the historical context of black immigration from rural to urban areas would cause problems for those who wanted to create a better life for themselves. Many of the black men who moved to the north were “untrained and poorly educated.” Du Bois attempted to formulate his theory of identity with race, ethnicity, and culture. With the formation of the split identity in combination with intersectionality, the struggle with forced assimilation cultural, racial, and ethnic identity has been built into the system of oppression in the black community. Du Bois hopes that the concept of the double consciousness conceptualizes black agency as well as raises awareness and gains power through the resistance. In doing so, will conflict subjectivity within whiteness and black inferiority, eventually deconstructing white western ideology.

“Michael spoke against the wind,to a girl named Tanya.”(Dashner 1) so begins the storyline of the book. In The eye of Minds, author James Dashner tells the story of a young gamer named Michael who has to stop an insane hacker who tends to bring mass destruction. The plot of the story is set in the future where gaming set in virtual reality, a place called “VirNet”. These contains tons of games and one of them is called the “LifeBlood”. It's a virtual representation of real life. The only good thing about this game is that you cannot die. Dashner’s first novel “Eye of minds” sets starting point for the “Mortality Doctrine” series. This book is a must-read because of the adventures they have throughout the book and the unexpected turns in the

Ishmael, “An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit”, a novel written by Daniel Quinn. Ishmael is a story based on the issues involving earth, such as global warming. Throughout the story Ishmael, a telepathic gorilla, and the narrator, name unknown, discover the true meaning behind the world, and how we are slowly coming to an end. As the share their ideas with one another they try and attempt to change the point of view mankind has on day to day living. Many lines of wisdom are said throughout the novel, which will be further explained in detail. The world itself is facing many issues in all topics of discussion, but we are the ones who are making this an issue. It comes down the us to save mankind, to save nature, to save the world!

The human mind is a slide projector with an infinite number of slides in its library, all gathered from our daily visual experiences. With an instant retrieval system and an endlessly cross-referenced subject catalog interconnecting our visual perception with our cognitive response. Typically our eyes work together with the brain as a unified, grandiose system. But what happens when the eyes fail to function? In his book, “The Mind’s Eye” author Oliver Sacks illustrates the life changing process of a few individuals who have transitioned into blindness.

In today’s society people are so caught up in their daily lives, they don’t seem to be aware of the world evolving around them. Michael, the main character, is a gamer. Like most gamers, he spends more time on the VirtNet than in reality. The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a set of series in a world of hyper advanced technology, cyber terrorists, uncanny resemblance to reality, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams. While reading “The Eye of Minds” by James Dashner, I was able to visualize, connect, and predict.

Is someone who strives to become something that they are not, motivated simply by acceptance? For example, a person who changes his or her hairstyle or way of dress may desire to be seen as cool. Also, others may even join a sport simply to be popular and feel more accepted. In our lives, we are always changing and adjusting in order to show progress or to be seen as better. The changing of one’s race is another action taken by individuals who seek acceptance in high society. In The Bluest Eye, the author Toni Morrison tells of several intertwining stories of many black individuals. Most of these individuals, when addressed by other characters, struggle with negative references of name-calling and descriptions. Negative remarks aside, some black individuals in the novel are raised in a light that mirrors the opposing race’s life rather than their own. Throughout the novel, the author and society constantly place black individuals on a lower pedestal so much that they strive to be white or to have white qualities.

The themes of sex, power and violence intersect throughout Toni Morrison’s novel ‘The Bluest Eye’ within a number of narrative scenes. The example Pauline uses is a recount of her more loving relationship with Cholly, where sex, power and violence are intersected as Cholly’s orgasm coming before hers gives her ‘a power’ of feeling ‘strong’, ‘pretty’ and ‘young’ . However, there are also contradictory intersections of the themes in the novel, such as the intersection of sex, power and violence within Cholly’s rape of Pecola, which leaves both characters powerless. Power and violence are almost always connected; to be ‘powerful’ one must violently assert themselves as superior over another. Sex then frequently intersects with these two themes to either strengthen or undermine this power; a power which is either violently achieved or violently strengthened or diminished by sex. Therefore I will argue that whilst power and violence always intersect as a character cannot have one with the other; sex can then have opposing consequences on this intersection; due to the different ways in which the themes intersect throughout the novel. These varying presentations can thus provoke alternative interpretations of the novel which can be seen in the works of literary critics, which I will continually refer to throughout this essay.

Bildungsroman literature in the 20th century embodies the virtues of different authors’ contexts and cultures, influencing the fictional stories of children’s lives around the world.. The Bluest Eye is a 1970 publication by Toni Morrison set in 1940s Ohio in America, focal around the consequence of racism in an American community on the growth of a child, distinct in its use of a range of narrative perspectives. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid is a novel set in post colonial Antigua, published in 1985 similarly revolving around the development of a child with strong relations to her traditional family, through a first person perspective. One’s sense of self is majorly characterised by an individual’s sense of belonging, which is shaped predominantly by external factors, such as societal values and different cultures. Comparisons drawn between the both texts highlight the influences of inequalities and discrimination in society and the effects of contrasting family environments.

People like to dress up themselves in nice clothes. Most people are instinctively attracted to good looking, well dressed people. In our society, outer appearance is important, and unfortunately, many people will judge you by the way you look. Some judge people by their skin color. I think that discriminating against people because of their skin color was very wrong. Thus, a number of intellects continue to issue warnings about racial discrimination. The author of The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, criticizes the danger of race discrimination for any kinds of situations with no exception. The purpose of the paper is explain how pervasive and destructive social racism was bound to happen in American society. The intended audiences are not only black people, but also other races had suffered racism until now. I could find out and concentrate on the most notable symbols which are whiteness, blue eyes and the characterization while reading the novel.

Inception, the act of instilling an idea into someones’ mind by entering his or her dreams (dictionary.com). In the movie Inception Dom Cobbs’ goal is to plant an idea in Robert Fichers’ mind through way of his dreams. This is because they want him to find his dads’ “other will” so that Robert will not carry on in his dads’ footsteps but choose create his own destiny. However, Robert is not really choosing this on his own free will because the idea is being planted in his mind by someone else. Because of the events in this movie the director would be considered a hard determinist. Robert believes that he made the decision when in “reality” his decision was an illusion. Another of example of not having free will is when Mal kills herself. She thinks she is choosing to do it on her own when she really did not. The reason she killed herself is because Cobb planted the idea in her mind while they were stuck in limbo. He did this to bring them both back to “reality”.

I have read the science fiction Name called “The Eyes Have it” which was published 1953. This fiction was written by Philip K. Dick. The narrator discusses his discovery of an invasion of Earth. Which I am mostly focusing on the narrator, the main point of views if I can change differently and literally by connecting into our real life. It's clearly teaching me a lot and give me an opportunity for analysis. Based on the narrator’s common ground perception I would change this short story directly into the current human value of existence. I would first change “the Eyes Have it” into my own interpretation called “Expressiveness”

In 1911, Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad composed Under Western Eyes. Conrad is commonly regarded as one of the greatest novelist ever to write in the English language due in large part to his stylistic choices, philosophical insights, and general prose proficiency. Under Western Eyes is a voluminous text with many philosophical undertones, a complex plot, and complicated narrative structure. The protagonist of the story, Kirylo Sidorovich Razumov, experiences much turmoil due to his betrayal of a fellow student and revolutionary named Victor Haldin, and finds his entire existence convoluted new social ties, new emotions, and an inner moral conflict. The question the novel raises has to do with Razumov’s changed circumstances and how these affect his character. Although it is tempting to see him as a “transformed” character, that interpretation is not entirely persuasive. I would suggest that Razumov is, from beginning to end, marked by his inveterate independent nature as an incorrigible loner.