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particular, can some of our sensory systems adapt to these types environments? As one could assume much of our primary senses would be minimally affected by the change in gravity, for example our eyes do not require gravity for the photons to interact with them. The vestibular system does require gravity to function properly. The vestibular system is the body’s so called “sixth sense” and deals with spatial orientation, balance, as well as interacting with other systems like the visual system. Vestibular

Brittany Couch Victoria de Zwaan CUST 1500H: Introduction to the Study of Modern Culture October 13, 2017 The Tragic Fate of Dr. P. Verses the Miraculous Escape of Virgil: The Reasoning Behind This Conclusion. Sacks describes the shared experience of lack of proper visual perception between Virgil and Dr. P. in very different ways due to the very varied responses to the effects of their visual impairment. Virgil’s regaining his blindness is an “escape” because his visual experiences had massively

further support the mood of the "Sea of Faith" and it's "eternal sadness". Arnold writes of Sophocles hearing the "eternal sadness" on "the Aegean" with it's "turbid ebb and flow". This appeals to the sense of hearing and causes the reader to almost hear powerful waves crashing to the land below. Sophocles saw the waves as sounds of "human misery". Arnold is portraying the parallel thought between the speaker's feelings and Sophocles same sadness

protagonist, an unnamed narrator, brutally murders an old man to get rid of his “evil” eye. To start with, this anonymous storyteller endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, and states that he has contracted a disease that has honed his senses (especially the sense of hearing). The raconteur continues by

collection revolved around three main themes: the dripping vases, watercolor landscapes, and surreal colored pencil drawings. In her explanation of the dripping vases Liontas-Warren said that she wanted to highlight that art is temporary and human senses are unreliable. She continues, “time eventually wipes away all forms of art, leaving us with only impressions of their former appearance.” (1) To convey her message she created paintings of Greek vases with either depictions of Greece or her relatives

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the chemical gas used within chemical warfare. The sensory imagery that he uses with this quote is both visual and olfactory as visual gives you a clear picture in your mind of chemical warfare and how gruesome it really was and it also gives you a sense of smell as it uses the word sniffed making you feel like you are inhaling the gas yourself proving effective imagery in his poems. Wilfred Owen likes to bring across the futility of his war within ‘the next war as well and he uses this to his advantage

odor can remain on your hands after consuming a meal and pack about five strategically placed hand sanitizers in my backpack just in case I participate in an impromptu Taco Bell run. The realization that I have never experienced one of the five core senses is often confusing as people bombard me with questions relating

It is important to note however, that these sense are unique. For instance, there are many more smells the human body can discern, compared with a concrete number of tastes. In the olfactory system, each cell has one receptor type. To that end, each smell we breath in evokes a different expression

Phil 9029: From Natural Law to Moral Sense                                                          James Belford   Dr. Benjamin Hill                                                           Hutcheson Secondary Literature Analysis   Francis Hutcheson's (1694-1746) account of sympathy is highly nuanced and intricate, along with his philosophy in general. In his account of sympathy, Hutcheson proclaims a variation of disinterested love and an actual sense of another's meaningful suffering. Many of