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    Often times, our senses can trigger memories that are hidden in the crevices throughout our brain. The smell of fresh linen can activate a childhood memory of playing in the backyard while a parent hangs wet laundry on a clothesline. The taste of gingerbread ice-cream can awaken a memory of visiting grandma’s house. The sight of purple daisies can arouse a memory of attending a wedding decorated with purple daisies. Senses stimulate our memories because according to cultural anthropologist Constance

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    poem four times to show focus on the races throughout our world and the “earth” shows “whose skin you are” there are many different races and these races show where you came from (11). Even though we are all the same, we are all different in our own special ways because of the people who brought us up. Lastly the words your and you are used thirteen times to show how the poetry is directed specifically to yourself. This poem makes it relate to everyone and shows who brought you to where you are today

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    In this section Husserl compares the progressive perceptual process of an immanent object with that of a transcendent (i.e. spatial object), with special interest towards the Now phase of perception. He quickly points out that immanent objects only have ". . . one possible way to be given in the original in every Now . . ." which means during the duration of an experience of an immanent object, a color for example, the object is completely determined and the distinction between appearing and what

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    bad deeds, and the only platform we look at. Rene Descartes is one of the most prominent pioneers of this doctrine. The most important priorities are: - The mind has innate and tribal principles prior to each experience, and is not generated by the sense, it is clear and simple without fault, and as a result of this knowledge arises and consists of the correct ideas, such as the principle of the identity that the thing is always the same, and not be another thing, The principle of non-contradiction

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    question “What if we designed for all senses?” Very similar to articles from Pallasmaa, the book leaves the reader wanting to know more about this method although this book covered many topics and included many references. Malnar is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, and Vodvarka is an artist who wrote many articles on architectural history. The book consists of twelve chapters that propose this idea that designers should explore the nature of our senses’ response to the spatial built

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    depend on your friends is a superb feeling and makes you feel as though you’re special. In Robert Frost’s poem, “A Time to Talk”, the central component of it is friendship and dependency. The senses that are provoked by imagery are mainly those of sight and sound. The symbolism is subtle, but it’s still there. The theme is one of being there for the people you care about. Imagery is any kind of appeal to the senses in a work of literature. In the first line, it says “When a friend calls to me

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    Step Back For A Minute

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    Step Back For A Minute No, this is not a scary movie, so you don 't have to step back to survive. Learning how to step back for a minute and look at thing from a vantage point can have its benefits. Looking at yourself from an outside point of view will help make sure things are done right. You need to evaluate and re-evaluate your plans of actions to see if they are working. If you are finding yourself repeating something over and over again and making mistakes while doing it, then you need to change

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    In the Philippines there’s a proverb about aging and it says “Kalabaw lang ang tumatanda” or in English “Only carabaos grow old.” Isn’t that music in our ears that only animals grow old? But unfortunately, aging is the inevitable and irreversible decline in organ function over time. Therefore, it is imperative for everyone and especially healthcare workers in different rest homes such as Kindly Residential Care Rest Home to be familiar with different common geriatric problems such as the decline

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    Sylvy seems to come to her senses in the twelfth hour when she climbs high into the trees early one morning to see the white heron fly in ever so close. It was as though their was a kinship between the two, an understanding. Because of this special feeling for the bird, Sylvy could not succumb to the hunter's desire for knowledge of the nest and never divulged the secret.      May

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    temporal lobe. This process can take just a few seconds through the rapid firing of synapses within the receptors. The processing of an odor leads to a reaction depending on the type of scent being processed. Olfaction is just one of the five special senses that make up how stimuli is perceived on a daily basis (Amerman,

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