The Flicker

slick with blood. My fingers gripped the tip of the feather pen, taking immense care chooses up. It would be a sin to ruin yet another quill. The white feather contrasted against the matte black of the handle. The feather moved gracefully with the flicker of the candlelight in the library. My eyes drifted towards the stack of books on the corner of the weathered oak table. One given to me by my grandfather. A respected man at the time. But now the dust and cobwebs following along the creases of the

Flicker vertigo is defined by Rash (2004) as ‘an imbalance in brain-cell activity caused by exposure to the low-frequency flickering (or flashing) of a relatively bright light’. The effects of this can vary from mild discomfort in the form of dizziness, nausea and nervousness to more serious effects of vertigo, convulsions or loss of consciousness (Oborne, 1978). Flicker vertigo can affect a passenger if they are experienced to a light-flashing

the effect that the Flicker Paradigm had on visual perception. The Flicker Paradigm causes a distraction while there is a change made in the image. It was designed to test how long the groups took to react to a change in the visual field. The test is meant to show that the disturbance in the visual field made it much more challenging for the viewer to notice any changes that were made in the image. The hypothesis stated that the experimental group, the group using the Flicker Paradigm, would take

is Dr. Constance Peterson in Spellbound, a 1945 movie production directed by David O. Selznick (Flicker 311). Second, the male woman is portrayed as a member of male team who can stand on her on by “learning to be assertive within her male colleague environment, have a rough and harsh voice, dress practically and tend to acquire unhealthy lifestyle such as bad sleeping habits, smokes, drinks” (Flicker 311). To some extent, this ‘male woman’ female scientist is parallel to the character of male scientist

In the Flicker Paradigm, an image alternates from the original to an altered version, with very short blank frames placed between the two images. The images are shown for 240 ms each, and the blank slides are shown for 80 ms each. Along with this, all 48 of the

Basic #1 It was harder for me to detect a scene change in the trials with a flicker between photographs than without a flicker. Reason for this is that without the flicker, the image stays completely intact unless the second photograph appears with a change that will stand out for me instantly. With the flicker present, I only saw the first picture for a couple seconds, proceeded by a grey background and then the second picture with or without a change. The problem here is that “people do no store

Salute Your Shorts: Flicker (2013) It’s Halloween night, and shortly after stealing a jack-’o-lantern off a scarecrow, a young girl learns from a friend that the jack-’o-lantern is cursed. Naturally, the young girl doesn’t believe her friend, and proceeds paint and even mock the jack-’o-lantern as she waits for her friends to come over so they can see her new prized possession. When her friends don’t show up in time, however, the girl finds herself stuck in the house alone as strange things begin

the Holocaust. You can see darkness in, "That night, the soup tasted of corpses." (Wiesel 65) Elie is surrounded by death, he seemed to crave it but he isn't phased. They witnessed a hanging, the hanging of a young boy whose dead eyes still had a flicker of light when dangling. He had to watch this small boy have the life and childhood stolen from him. Nighttime has always been home to tall tales of monsters, but Elie's monsters are right in front of him. When someone would think of the Holocaust

In the passage from Joseph Conrad’s, Heart of Darkness, Conrad express the human tendency to seek hope in dark times. He indicates that this tendency is a way of survival. Rather than being detoured while in distress, humans will naturally seek a way out. Conrad exhibits that individuals will use desire to motivate them out of moments of anguish. If humans were left without this instinct, they would live without drive. As a human race we have experienced a great deal throughout time, disease, natural

as not to be distracted. For the Change Detection experiment, the independent variables were the Flicker/No Flicker condition and the gender of the participant. The dependent variable measured was the proportion correct judgments. For each kind of pair, either the pictures appeared immediately one after the other (No Flicker condition), or a blank gray box appeared in between the pictures (Flicker condition). The participants’ task was to report whether the pictures were identical or differed. Proportion