Essays on Perception

Juliana Martine's Key Concern in the Article "Facts and Arguments" Juliana Martine's key concern in the article "Facts and Arguments" is, "How do people describe an optimal motherhood?" The paper starts with an introduction, telling her about her author, and how she dressed her dolls as a little girl, thereby giving...

I had to challenge some of the concepts I felt were just common sense after this week's lesson on feeling and interpretation and the interaction with reality discussed in Ted Talk. Human brain functions and perceptual experience What science said seemed to logger's heads for once in my life, with what I felt...

Dorothy Allison’s Essay Background: Understanding the Importance of Context and Personal Awareness Dorothy Allison writes in her essay Background (1994) that understanding a person well and thoroughly is based on and necessitates personal awareness of their childhood and social life. The essay was written as a memoir in order to focus...

Positive and Negative Consequences of Clinical Diagnosis There are both positive and negative consequences of clinical diagnosis. On the positive hand, it offers advice on the best moves to be taken for stability and well-being. However, considering the guidance provided in the DSM 5, diagnosis is not liable for giving incorrect...

Market ethics refers to the legal principles used to do business based on views of what is good and what is wrong and what is rational. Most business people depend on their conscience to make business choices on their own religious and moral experiences for guidance. Ethical organizations are required...

Alcoholism: Disease or Addiction? For a long time, it has been advocated that alcoholism is a condition that affects those who were already in good health. The idea of referring to depression as a disorder has far-reaching consequences on how people in the society perceive alcoholics. For example, the assumption that...

The Delegation of Processes and Lateralization The delegation of processes to some regions of the human brain is represented by lateralization. The right hemisphere of the human brain, for instance, is responsible for spatial information processing, while the left hemisphere is engaged in language processing, perception, and development. In relation to...

Culture Culture is the belief, traditions and norms of a given society. Culture is taught by vocabulary through connecting with individuals. Culture consists of stereotypes that form the world s beliefs by explaining people s actions and attitudes. Culture is learned and transmitted to the younger generation (Davis and and Konner...

Groups refer to the ways in which certain people, based on their mental knowledge of each other and their impressions of other group members, communicate with each other. Conformity acts as the act of matching the norms of the culture with attitudes, actions, and values. Among the popular and widespread...

The Undiscovered World The undiscovered world, written by Tom Stoppard, tries to explain why the action of the people is identical to an undiscovered country. The point is that people like to believe that they know a lot about other people only to find out that they knew them hardly. This...

L. Allan (2015). Animal Rights and the Wrongness of Killing has represented the logic behind the widely held belief that there are differences between killing a person and killing an animal. The thesis further stresses the development of a utilitarian-oriented paradigm as opposed to standard methods that might demarcate the...

Star Trek: The Next Century Star Trek: The Next Century is a television program that aired in America between 1987 and 1994. It is set in 2364 and involves a group of human beings and their alien counterparts who are led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard to explore the galactic universe during...