The Flicker

Frequently, people encounter situations where it is impossible for them to attend to all the surrounding stimulus. This is because humans have a limited attention capability. Even when fully engaged the slightest change to a stimulus, an object, or person in the nearby surround go unnoticed by humans. This phenomenon is known as change blindness, which is the “difficulty in detecting changes in similar, but slightly different, scenes that are presented one after another.” Previous research has demonstrated

that is surprisingly cognizant about their fate: the lights of Ember will vanish. (QI) DuPrau writes, “…someday the lights of the city might go out and never come back on” (5). (F) Ember experiences numerous blackouts where the city lights flicker, die, and flicker to life once again. However, the people of Ember realize that someday the lights may never come back on, plunging the city into eternal darkness. (I) Despite such apocalyptic imagery of doom and gloom, some characters have hope thriving inside

Without the prologue and the epigraph the meaning of “Cloudstreet” would be lost. How true is this statement? Shall we gather at the river where bright angel feet have trod… An epigraph is used to introduce themes and concerns. In the epigraph above the themes include angels (spirituality), gather (family) and river (water). The prologue constantly focuses on these three themes and they each have their own individual representations and meanings. In the first line “will you look at us by the

difference most people do not notice the instant change. Flicker paradigm is a more understandable example of that change blindness. The flicker images change is so fast and for that when observers are focused on changing object the detection process may fail because they have to focus on big picture not in specific changing region. Another example study detecting change done with motion pictures and they hold the same results as in flicker paradigm only a minority of

happy couples and happy people smiling bright, white smiles, wishing it would just open already. The receptionist snaps her gum with a loud pop and I clutch the plastic handles of my chair tighter. There’s a broken fluorescent light above me that flickers every three seconds – I counted. I could sense the sweat beginning to form on the nape of my neck and my hands are suddenly shaking and clammy. I wipe them on my skirt and reach into my backpack.

might help to change blindness. Transients also play a role drawing attention. Under those circumstances, mimicking the eye movement without changing the fixation location can help to understand change blindness. The flicker paradigm was designed to test this hypothesis. In the flicker paradigm, an original image, a blank gray screen, and a modified image are presented respectively in a fast alternation, giving the display a flickering appearance. The cycle of rotation repeats until subjects report

Intuitively, a person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. This is the Principle of Alternate Possibilities (PAP). For any person and any action, that person is morally responsible for performing or failing to perform that action if and only if she had a genuine alternate possibility open to her at the time. An alternate possibility is simply another option that an agent has at the time that he or she acts. This principle may hold in part because of

The Grapes of Wrath, a novel written by John Steinbeck, highlights the life of the Joad family during the Great Depression. Throughout the novel the Joad's experience many struggles with flickers of hope to keep them going. One by one the pain and misery continued to come down upon the Joad family but with each one a new hope appeared. Without the hope of a better life these families would never go through this pain and suffering due to the struggles that would occur. The hope I found throughout

A final conversation with Flickers leaves the audience wondering how “great” the gig economy actually is: “He rarely met other taskers, he said; there were no colleagues in his life with whom he could share experiences and struggles. The flexibility was great, if you had something

Hitchcock used lighting to add depth and meaning to the film. Lighting was not just used to produce the scenes but rather light was an important quality of many scenes. without the lighting in some scenes, Hitchcock would not have been able to pass such meaning as movement along to the viewer. These uses of lighting allowed Hitchcock to have more than spoken and portrayed meaning within the film. I personally believe that the use of lighting was cleverly done. There are many different meanings that