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    AHCI Assignment 1 Reno Kim Spatial perception of visual sense on “How to drive a car” 1. Always start your car with your foot on the brake. 2. Put on your seatbelt. 3. Turn on the engine and release the parking brake, if necessary. 4. Learn how to back your car out. 5. When you 're ready to move your car forward, come to a complete stop and shift the car into Drive. Put your foot on the brake pedal, shift your car into Drive so that it can begin to move forward, and then take your foot off

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    Well in Sense and Sensibility, a novel whose story revolves around two sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, the Dashwood family is left with a little fortune after their father dies. The story takes place in the eighteenth century where money and social class were the most important things along with gaining property. So, when Elinor and Marianne answered the question: “What have wealth or grandeur have to do with happiness?” (122) there responds are to different point of views. The background

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    I went to the performance of Sense and Sensibility on Thursday night and I sat in the second row, which was very close to the performance. The layout of the theatre definitely provided a different perspective depending on where the audience member sat. The theatre was close to completely filled, but there were still a few seats that were empty. Overall the show was my favorite one yet that I have attended at W&L. Sense and Sensibility is written by Kate Hamill who based the script off the novel

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    Sagan took a deeper look into the world and the human use of knowledge and truths. Their essays at the surface seem to resemble one another, but by digging deeper their differences can be evident. Nietzsche’s work, “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”, focuses on the mental aspects of humans and how knowledge is actually limiting our minds, making us less creative. Sagan supports the idea that the human brain thirsts for science and understanding of the world in his article, “Can We Know the Universe

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    Kate Hamill’s Sense and Sensibility, under the direction of Taiba Magar, provided a compelling experience into modern theatre. The performance presents an in-depth look into 1790s England and the emergence of the sensibility movement, a response to the growing tensions of the time. Utilizing costuming, lighting, effective story-telling, and stage design, Sense and Sensibility highlights the social pressures of the 1790s through Elinor and Marianne, the story’s protagonists. While performed on the

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    PLEASURE: THE REALISATION OF PLACE THROUGH THE SENSES “The pleasure of space. This cannot be put into words, it is unspoken. Approximately: it is a form of experience - the "presence of absence"; exhilarating differences between the plane and the cavern, between the street and your living room; symmetries and dissymetries emphasizing the spatial properties of my body: right and left, up and down. Taken to this extreme, the pleasure of space leans toward the poetics of the unconscious, to the edge

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    your five senses. By breathing in through your nose, you’re using your sense of smell. We all have five senses which are: touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell. They help protect us, like when we feel pain when we touch a hot pan. They also help us enjoy our world! Your senses work together to let you know what’s around you. You can see, smell, and touch beautiful flowers, while also hearing bees buzzing happily nearby. You can also feel the rays of the sun warming your body. Your senses are working

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    René Descartes Does Not Reject Sense Perception Some have suggested that René Descartes argues that sense perception relies on the mind rather than on the body. Descartes asserts that we can know our mind more readily than we can know our body. In support of this idea he gives the example of a piece of wax which is observed in its solid form and its liquid form. After pointing out the difficulties of relying on the senses of the physical body to understand the nature of the wax he makes this

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    Title      “I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.” (Austen 68) As Elinor declares in Jane Austin’s novel Sense and Sensibility, it is true; actions do speak louder than words. What someone does means a lot more than what someone says. Someone can tell you that they love you, but if they never show you than how will you know if they truly mean it. Love is meant for people like Elinor and Edward who showed each other their love and respected social

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    In the film ‘Sixth Sense’, directed by M. Night Shyamalan there are various aspects used in the final scene to express the theme of communication (relationship) and the supernatural. Four aspects are Voice-over, Music, 2 Shot and Flashback. In ‘Sixth Sense’ the director uses ‘Voice-over’ to show, the theme of supernatural and communication. The voice-over is used after Malcolm and Anna’s dialogue. When Malcolm sees Anna dropping his ring on the floor, he slowly steps backward with startled look on

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