...understood that temporary liberation from misery and hardship was not enough, he wanted to motivate by love and compassion; he wanted to help people find everlasting peace or nirvana. 1. The Question of Origin: In the eyes of a Buddhist, the world as a whole and the life contained in it is believed to have no beginning or end. “There is no reason to support that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thought.” (Russel, 1924) Creation occurs continually throughout time. 2. The Question of Identity: The Buddhist followers believe that they are an impermanent collection of aggregates, for their personal existence continues even after our human form is gone. “The Buddhist claim that the mind is different from the physical body, and that the mind continues to exist even after the physical body has died. As long as this mind continues to exist, then there is a continuation of embodiments. So the Buddhist’s aim is for no more mind because when there is no more mind, then there will be no physical body. And since there is nothing other than the mind covered by the physical body-no atman within or covered by the mind-that leaves nothing.” (http://www.siddhaswarupananda.net) 3. The Question of...
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...the Trinitarian theology upon which Sayers's study of the creative mind is based. In fact, originality of that kind would be inappropriate, because she is not questioning the orthodox teaching of the Church on these fundamental points about the nature of God and humanity. Although Sayers's theological premises are not original, what she does with them is. Her contribution in The Mind of the Maker is to develop a lucid, extended analogy between the Christian dogma of the Trinity and the creative activity of the human being. With this, she not only explaining "this fascinating and majestic mystery" of the Holy Trinity (The Mind of the Maker 149), but also produces one of the most illuminating inquiries into the creative process ever written. She begins the essay by making another important distinction, saying "this book is not an apology for Christianity..." this is significant, because too often people confuse matters of fact with personal opinion. The first chapter of The Mind of the Maker is thus concerned with distinguishing fact from opinion, and the text proceeds to check the Church's "statements of fact" about the universe against the actual experience of the artist. Specifically, the book considers whether there is anything in the artistic process that parallels the Christian conception of God as Trinity-in-Unity. The author give a brief suggestion about her book as a "it is brief study of the creative mind" and states its thesis as directly as possible: The point I shall...
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...Apollo 104 September 29, 2014 Part One: Buddhism 1. The Question of Origin – In the Buddhist Worldview life and the world have no beginning or end. “There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts” (Russel, 1924) Creation occurs repeatedly throughout time. 2. The Question of Identity – The Buddhists believe that the mind is different from the body, and that the mind continues to exist even after the body has died. As long as this mind continues to live, then there is a prolongation of personifications. Buddhists ultimately want their mind to die, because when their mind is dead, there will be no more reincarnation for them. 3. The Question of Meaning/Purpose – Buddhism and Hinduism share a lot of beliefs. However, they differ in their meaning and their purpose. Buddhists believe suffering is real and the reason man is imprisoned to the sequence of reincarnation. Our purpose is to “eliminate suffering by eliminating desire” (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011). This can be achieved by following the four noble truths and the eightfold path, which lead to a state of Nirvana. Buddhists believe people suffer because they strive to hold on to things, which do not give everlasting happiness. 4. The Question of Morality – Morality is directly laced into Buddhist teachings. The Eightfold path connects to morality with the concepts of right speech, right action...
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...When watching the informative documentary Free The Mind, at least for me, a question strikes me. When veterans come back from a war, do they always come back the same? In some cases they do. Unfortunately, there are war veterans who come back emotionally scarred and dismantled. When this happens, they tend to conjure up anger and hatred, along with suicidal tendencies and more avid drug use. Doctor Richard Davidson wanted to change that. Veterans who come back from war with emotional disturbances find better help through meditation techniques, as opposed to the continual use of drugs and medication to improve their sleep patterns and emotional control. That was what Richard Davidson, neurologist and professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, wanted to think. What Free The Mind showed was a study that lasted 7 days, and to go along with that...
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...“Funny how Connor wasted so much time trying to convince people he was dangerous.” Being the dangerous kid was fun for Connor. He liked knowing that no one would mess with him. However, when Connor’s parents think he is more troubled than other teenagers, they send him to get unwound. From ages thirteen and eighteen parents can sign their kids to get put into a divided state. A state where the organs are in many different places. Not knowing Connor parents would do that makes Connor even angrier . In spite of that anger, he decides to run away from home. In Unwind, by Neal Shusterman, Connor is set with a journey, which overtime his goals and characteristics change from a troubled teen to a role model. Connor was an outsider, but...
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...discipline. The early Greeks such as Aristotle believed “The heart was the seat of the mind”, and the brain was more so a filter to calm heat the heart produced. While the philosopher and physician Hippocrates believed “The brain was the seat of sensation as well as intellect”. Investigation and dissection of minds belonging to abnormal beings lead to many controversial beliefs. The beginning of modern philosophy is said to be led by Rene’ Descartes. Descartes was considered the father of modern philosophy, mathematics, physiology, and psychology. In 1633 Descartes wrote a book titled “The World”, demonstrating how various disciplines could be united through reason of mathematics. He failed to publish his book at that time to stay in good graces of the Catholic Church. Descartes’ Discourse on Method was not relevant until after his death. His Discourse on Method expressed to accept truth only to what could not be doubted. This begot the Cartesian System of Rationalism, Nativism and Mechanistic Interactionism. The Cartesian system simply meant to think clearly, logically, and without bias, to reduce problems and work systematically from simple to complex, and finally check your work. John Locke led the Origins of British Empiricism, which explains how knowledge is acquired and how humans view the world through education. Locke rejected the concept of innate ideas, but established the belief of how our minds develop ideas due to exposure. This concept...
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...The Mutations of Macbeth's Mind (Act I Scene 3) "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." These words from John Milton's Paradise Lost echo the sentiments behind William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. Shakespeare was a poet as well as a playwright, famous for his powerful poetic language, universal themes, and keen insight into human behavior. His works dealt with the consequences and the psychological effects of certain actions, rather than the actions themselves. His effective use of figurative language, and unique writing style in Macbeth, as well as his other works, instantly captivates and mesmerizes the reader. Macbeth is a powerful drama about unchecked ambition, murder, intricate human relationships, and corruption of the human conscience. The play, set in 11th century Scotland and England, is composed of various acts and scenes, each greatly contributing to the overall plot and the play's varied themes. This is the inciting incident of the witches' prophecies in Act I Scene iii that puts the whole play into action. It is an extremely important and a very complex scene involving the Weird Sisters, Macbeth and Banquo, holding the key to future incidents and actions in the play, leading right upto the climax. This scene is pivotal in the overall development of the play- getting the characters geared up, and setting the stage for depraved thoughts and terrible actions to come. "The charm's wound up"(37) when...
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...Savage versus Civil For quite some time, humans have argued and fought over what is correct and what isn't. Along with this, people have fought over what would happen if the rules they made for what's right and what isn't disappeared from an environment. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, he introduces an interesting example of this; place a large group of civilized boys on an island and see what would happen. Golding's book is labeled as a social commentary, and rightfully so. The novel is proven to be a social commentary through the beginning and end acts of Jack, Ralph, and Samneric, all characters in the novel. To begin, Jack's original behavior was that of a well mannered English boy who insists that the boys will "have rules" (Golding, William 33). This shows that Jack is still a civilized boy from a civilized society. However, time doesn't stop for the stranded boys and eventually Jack realizes they need to survive and starts to hunt. But thing changed and after one hunt, Jack recalls...
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...(Habit 6). We all found solutions to problems in our research paper/ powerpoint presentation and voiced them, and the leader was not solely making the decisions for the group. We all came together and created a project successfully. I believe I have become a better person through SLI by trying to practice the habits I have learned about. For example, Habit 5 (seek first to understand, then to be understood); this has made me a better communicator, and I have become more empathetic because of it. SLI has made me a more productive student. I strive to incorporate the habits I have learned such as: being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting first things first. Being proactive when a project/ paper has not come out as anticipated, and continue to work on it instead of throwing in the towel. Beginnig with the end in mind by creating a timeline for my projects, and completing them by the set date. Putting first things first by focusing my priorities, and being able to synergize in group projects/ art collaborations. I believe SLI has impacted my life for the better. SLI has made me a better leader, person,...
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...Madison Thomer Dr. Mohr Engl 386 M/W 2pm 9 November 2011 Thanatos When students alike tend to think of poetry, they tend to think about it in stereotypical thought lines. Poets are dark and depressed, they write about death. In many cases this is true, but perhaps because death is a major theme in life, and something poets recognize that they cannot escape from. The death pull is as constant as is the struggle to survive. Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson are two such poets who have chose death as their muse for several pieces. I have chosen two poems by each poet that represent death in a new or altered light, from Frost, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, and “Out, out—˝. From Dickinson I have chosen, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”. These poems work to show the reader death, but each in different views as well as working to reveal a new message from the previous. “Out, out—” works at showing the disengagement viewers of death experience. The poem turns objective in the last eight line which helps the reader to see neither they nor the narrator can see something as individual and internal as death shown through the sudden callous narration in lines 32-34, “Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it./No more to build on there. And they, since they/ Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” Contrasting this, the preceding twenty-six lines are alive with vivid figurative language, especially in regards to the buzz saw...
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...baseball bat or plugged me into a socket whose powers light up my whole body.” (ll. 8-9, p. 153) He paints a picture of himself being struck by lightning, to describe his feelings towards the girl. The metaphor especially underlines the intensity of his emotions, given that lightning is a particular strong force. However, the girl he’s in love with does not love him back, and as the title indicates, his love has an erosive impact on him and his mental state. Ali Smith uses a tree to symbolize his state of mind. “The larger new leaves, the fronts of which look clear and clean, have insects packed like bricks on their undersides and the edges of several leaves have been rolled firmly in on themselves, which is killing them.”(ll. 21-24, p. 149) . The leaves described in the quote are from an apple tree that plays a central role in the story. The tree is infested with ants and aphides that are slowly eroding it. Ali Smith uses bug infestation to represent how the narrators mind is infested of unrequited love, impacting his...
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...Movie: A Beautiful Mind Psychological Issue: Schizophrenia 1) Using material from the text (or internet resources), describe your understanding of the disorder portrayed in the film. [This asks you to describe what someone with this disorder might really look like.] In the movie “A Beautiful Mind” directed by Ron Howard; the disorder that is portrayed by the character John Nash is schizophrenia. This brain disorder alters the normal mechanisms occurring in the brain. The best explanation for this disorder can be pin pointed to the faulty interpretations and misfiring of dopamine neurons and their receptors in the brain. Although there are also other likely causes and effects such as low activity in the frontal lobotomy and enlarged ventricles, these are not the number one cause. However, all of which any of the causes will indeed lead to the various positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms that schizophrenia hold. People with schizophrenia often tend to behave differently than their normal counterparts. The most commonly known symptoms for this disorder, which are the positive symptoms, include; delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, and disorganized behavior. Although you need not to possess all symptoms to have schizophrenia, this disorder is often varying in symptoms from one to another. However, more often than not the early and most commonly known symptoms are the hallucinations and delusions. Most people who do have schizophrenia see and hear things...
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...Raven” written by Edgar Allen Poe is a very exceptional poem with several poetic devices like Alliteration, Personification, Metaphor, Connotation, and Foreshadowing that all work together to create an effect based around several themes such as Sadness, love and depression. “The Raven” uses musical sounds and rhythmic pattern style of writing. To carry out this musical effect, Poe uses internal rhyme “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December” (Raven: 7). He also uses end rhyme “Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door/ This it is, and nothing more" Raven: 17-18) and a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. This form of writing uses a stressed syllable then unstressed syllable, “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” (Raven: 1) indicated by the highlighted words. This type of meter is known as trochaic octameter. Edgar Allen Poe created a dark and gloomy atmosphere from the beginning all the way to the end of “The Raven”. The ways Poe orchestrates this setting is by using Alliteration “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” (Raven: 1) which represent the time of day the narrator is situated in and it also shows the feelings that is triggered by a long day or some other force. There are also certain words that were used that have many different meanings which is known as Connotation. Some of these are “Ponder” (Raven: 1) which brings the idea of struggling, fighting for...
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...essential. Within its short frame work, it must have a beginning, middle and an end. There must be completeness in its structure. All the elements plot, character, dialogue, descriptions and background must be organically connected with other. Generally a good story has a surprising end which bears a sense of endlessness. All these characteristics of a good short story are fulfilled in the short story of O Henry’s The Last Leaf. It has an ironical twist at the end that is surprising and at the same time striking to the readers. Old Behrman’s bold self sacrifice for the young Johnsy comes unexpectedly to the readers, but none the less convincing and admirable.The story if farther a parable of christian story of Resurrection and sacrifice. The story begins in a leisurely manner with the sketchy background. The old Greenwich village in which painters come to set up their art studio has curious maze streets criss-crossing one another. A traveler loses the directions of the streets. This description of the streets has relevance to the story in which a strong and strange psychological morbidity is focused. The main theme is then introduced it has two characters – Sue and Johnsy. They met together suddenly at a hotel and found themselves sharing taste chicory salad, bishop sleeves and in painting. They become intimate friends and in a cheap rented house two friends Sue and Johnsy set up a common studio. The humours beginning arrest the attention of the readers and relive the tension...
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...Strange Case and The Murders: Dividing Human Minds Alexis Osorio DeVry University There can be no up without down, no dark without bright, and no wrong without right; the same idea can be applied to the human mind. There is some sort of duality in the human mind and has been a recurring theme of discussion in many stories. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Strange Case) (Stevenson, 1886) brings the topic of human duality to the forefront by observing it from a third person point of view. Edgar Allan Poe brings up human duality too from a first person point of view in his work The Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Murders)(1841). Strange Case is about an internal struggle that is externalized, while The Murders shows no struggle between the characters. The former about the concept of self-control, while the latter on mental capacity. Although both stories show it in very different ways, the underlying theme is the same, the duality of the human mind is true and apparent but cannot be separated. It may help to demonstrate the nature of human duality with another concept that is physical but not human, the wave-particle duality. This concept is derived from the nature of light, or electromagnetism. Classically, people, especially scientist, used to believe that waves and particles were two separate entities but after an experiment (the double-slit experiment) found that light behaves as both at the same time. This concept shook science from the very foundation upon...
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