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    Human Emotions and The Creature Frankenstein is a novel by Mary Shelley that challenges the reader to consider what it really means to be human, specifically when impacted by loneliness and isolation. In the opening letters of Frankenstein, Captain Robert Walton craves a real connection with someone while out at sea, and feels sad and isolated as a result. Later in the novel, Victor Frankenstein is disconnected from the outside world and feels misunderstood, so he recreates life in his isolation

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    There are many answers to why emotions are important. Emotions serve several purposes. Emotions play a vital role in how we think and behave. Emotions influence our actions, our outlook, and our personal characteristics. Emotions help us grow and survive. Emotions help us make decisions. Emotions help people understand one another. The list goes on and on because emotions are key to the existence of the human race. Without emotions the human race would be unable to function physically or mentally

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    Human emotion is often defined as the enemy of pure reason and logic as it may inhibit rational decision-making. Though emotions can seem to limit logical reason at times, emotions only transform reason in different ways. Voltaire in his book, Candide, mocks this inevitable combination of emotion and reason, while Rousseau in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality criticizes it for its effects on society. Human sentiments do not simply impede, but rather they change human reasoning in what that may

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    Investigation of Human Emotion A key aspect of human behaviour is the ability to sense and feel emotions. Emotions are defined as phenomena that are perceived by the body that causes a reaction; often these responses have physiological characteristics. This essay will look at the many psychological/ biological theories and ideologies involved in the concept of emotion. Human kind has evolved over the years to accommodate innovations in its biological, physiological

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    Keeping people calm and pleasure in chaotic situation seems to be a good political move but keeping them always happy like maniacs is deprivation of human emotion. Emotion is a defined feature of humanism. Only let them experience pleasure in all situation harm people more. When Tichy is exposed to scientific drug through hotel’s water, he finds himself cheerful as if “[he] was never happier” (Lem 13). “Burst out laughing, though [his] fingers were burnt” (Lem 13). He “tripped and fell, crashing

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    Sounds and Imagery of Human Emotion In Marge Piercy’s “The Secretary Chant”, the author uses images and sound to both dehumanize and mechanize the female speaker, while John Updike uses imagery and sounds to make the “Player Piano” come to life. Piercy uses images of the speaker, connected with various office equipment to give a vision to the reader of a woman living her life through the office equipment that is part of her very being. Piercy uses personification in reverse and other metaphors

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    Sigmund Freud developed this idea, which is known as the pleasure principle, claiming to explain that the human consciousness and subconsciousness revolve around this idea. If someone is isolated, then they will try to alleviate that suffering in one way or another. Human emotion is reduced to extremely simple terms, unlike what they truly are, which is extremely complex. The idea of reducing humans to such a simple understanding seems unfair, but it carries a sense of truth to it. Every person on Earth

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    At the beginning when asked what it means to be human I believed that to be human you had to meet some requirements. For someone to fall under the category of being human they had the ability to believe in a greater power. Also a person being able to live out their faith in any way they would like to allows them to be labeled as human. The biological make up of a human also was another requirement that was needed to be met to be labeled as human. Having a heart, brain, skin, hair, and all the other

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    creatures, fishes, dogs, moths, etc.all have feelings and emotions. Just because people can’t see their emotions as easily as we can with a dog(such as their tail wagging and smiling) doesn’t mean that they don’t feel. Creatures such as these compare to humans in such ways as their emotions. These emotions could include a concerning topic for anyone, depression. People and creatures have common emotions, many people do not consider the creature's emotions, and these feelings should be considered. Therefore

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    Emotions such as sorrow, hate, fear, and love are what makes us human. These are what fuels our desires and marks our capacities. In Giotto’s Famous early renaissance painting entitled “The Lamentation”, or simply put as The Mourning of Christ we can see how he beautifully depicts human emotion all throughout the artwork (1). The Lamentation shows us the body of Christ surrounded by his mourners in which the center greatly highlights Mary as he cradles his son for the last time. In his work, Giotto’s

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    ABSTRACT Emotions and humans relation How the data today is all about emotions People are free to express their views on internet openly. The freedom to express generates a lot of data and this is a way of reaching into people’s mind how they feel about a certain thing. Often what humans feel is deep inside the heart can be determined by the music she listens to. A user is the most vulnerable of letting his emotions out when he/she is listening to songs because he or she can relate to it. Its the

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    Introduction Human emotion has the ability to drastically impact an individual’s psychophysiology. It can have a profound effect on brain functioning, mental and the physical capabilities of individuals. Emotions can also affect things such as heart rate, blood pressure, and brain chemicals. It can be highly influenced by environment as well as genetics. It is vital to look at how emotion specifically affects the human body and emotional regulation, and there needs to be an understanding of how

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    deferred” by Langston Hughes, and “On a Play Seen Twice” by F. Scott Fitzgerald all show various main themes of human emotions. Human emotions can range from positive to negative feelings, and all the emotions in between. In these stories various human emotions are displayed throughout the content. Loneliness is a human emotion that is seen and represented often, in more ways than one. It is an emotion that is not always an easy one to be identified, but many people identify with it, each in a different

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    responses is often used to extend human rights and can be done without infringing on existing rights. The legitimacy of these emotional influences depends on their methods, particularly which emotions are utilized. Patriotism is a necessary start to a movement like this where the aim is to emotionally bond to strangers and entire separate communities in order to recognize their rights. When emotions are legitimately used, they won’t infringe on human rights because the emotions will modify a community’s

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    based on emotions. Emotions of happiness, love, success, and many more, could possibly be the most satisfying feelings. Except we commonly experience unpleasant emotions. There are emotions of anger, hatred, sadness, and disgrace. A very important question in the understanding of the human mind and highly related to cognitive science, is how do these emotions affect human cognition and the impact on our abilities to be rational? To tackle this question, we need to understand what emotions are, but

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    cornered in constant circumstances of isolation, Raymond Carver is one of the most prominent writers of American shorts stories in the late 20th Century. One of the most influential American short stories, “Cathedral”, hosts the complexity of human connection and emotions. The first-person story is told by an unnamed, working-class man detached from all emotional connections, including the one with his wife. Although, this stoic barrier is dissolved when the narrator makes his first deep connection with

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    Surname 1 Name: Tutor: Course: Date Guilt Introduction Guilt is a raw instinctive emotion of the human nature. Is there a general way through human beings and all other forms of life would be distinguished from one another. Both humans and other forms of life on earth have the element of life, the element of survival. Through feeding and excretion they are both similar. In almost every aspect of life for both human and other forms of life, they are identical to each other. If for example, both did

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    experiences emotions, scientists do not all agree on what causes emotions. It is believed that special organs within the limbic system of the brain, recognize the patterns of events in life and respond. Their signals trigger emotions, which instantly decide attitudes and modify behaviour. Charles Darwin, was the first scientist to suggest that emotions have a real world existence, visibly expressed in the behaviour of humans and lower animals. Darwin suggested that the existence of an emotion could be

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    It has been claimed that human emotions are the sole product of biological functioning. The James Lange Theory of Emotion (1884) proposes that there are three components of emotions which can be attributed to the automatic nervous system (ANS). The three components are Cognition (appraisal of the event), Action (Fight or flight) and Feeling (Aspect of the emotion). Here we see that a biological attribution of emotion has been in place since the 1800s and has been common knowledge for some time.

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    A prosecutor against child molesters, Nina Frost, knows all too well the loopholes the justice system entails and when it is her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, who has been sexually assaulted, her husband, Caleb, and her lives flips upside down because Nina knows too clearly that her son will not find justice within the courts. Nina goes ahead with her own plan to bring her son justice, regardless of the consequence, no matter the sacrifice. Jodi Picoult causes the reader to truly understand what

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