A Sense of History: Some Components by Gerald W. Schlabach All students who graduate from a liberal arts college should take with them an indelible awareness of the following: 1. Some things happened before other things. Studying history is much more than the memorization of dates. But if we get things out of chronological order‚ we’ll inevitably get a lot of other things wrong too. Imagine that we are in a new city trying to find "408 N. 5th St.‚" but vandals have taken down the signs
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Misconceptions of the Sixth Sense: An Extension vs An Ability? The senses are basic: hearing‚ taste‚ smell‚ sight‚ and touch. These are the given senses that are apart of every living creature on earth. People have always wondered about the existence of the sixth sense. A sixth sense is a power of perception beyond the five senses. Many have theorized that the ability of the sixth sense is a skill that can be gained by appreciating nature‚ similar to the innate senses of an animal. The idea of
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The Five Senses I believe that touch is the most important of the five senses. Many people may consider their sense of sight to be the most important. The loss of sight is a tragedy‚ but life goes on. The loss of hearing is just as bad‚ but you can always adjust. If you lose your sense of smell‚ you won’t be able to smell but again‚ you’ll get by. Lose your sense of taste and food will be flavorless but you can still get by. However‚ if you lose your sense of touch you will also lose your
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11th March 2012 To what extent can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? We perceive the world through our five senses: Sense perception is the active‚ selective and interpretative process of recording or becoming conscious of the external world. So can we really rely on our senses to tell us the truth? There are so many times when our senses can be influenced by instinct‚ emotion‚ and beliefs. For example‚ if we are in the middle of a forest and scared‚ we probably start to see
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Sense of Touch/Feeling The Skin Senses Consider the skin has remarkable versatility: It protects us against surface injury‚ holds in body fluids‚ and helps regulate body temperature. The skin also contains nerve endings that‚ when stimulated‚ produce sensations of touch‚ pain‚ warmth and cold. Like several other senses‚ these skin senses are connected to the somatosensory cortex located in the brain’s parietal lobes. The Somatosensory Cortex The skin’s sensitivity
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INTRODUCTION God has created man with five important senses to help him relate with his environment. These senses help man to relate the information that he is getting outside the body to the brain which is the chief controller of the activities of the body. According to Microsoft Encarta‚ Sense Organs‚ in humans and other animals‚ are faculties by which outside information is received for evaluation and response. This is accomplished by the effect of a particular stimulus on a specialized organ
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Eriksson‚ 2005). Resilience in difficult situations depends on the individual’s Sense of Coherence‚ that is a global orientation to life‚ based on self-confidence regarding challenges‚ confidence in personals skills and resources in order to cope with difficult events‚ and the belief that negative events may have a meaning or a sense in the person’s life (Antonovsky‚1987; Alivia‚ Guadagni‚ & di Sarsina‚ 2011).
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Our senses enable us to make sense of the world around us; they make our environment enjoyable by stimulating our desire to eat giving the body the vital nutrients it needs. They can also alert us to a fire before we see the flames‚ detect dangerous fumes and smell and taste rotten foods. Out of the five senses‚ it seems like taste is one of the simplest. There are no cones; rods or lenses‚ there are no tympanic membranes or miniscule bones. Our sense of smell in responsible for about 80% of
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Nov. 19‚ 2012 Special Senses Through out your lifetime you have experienced the world through your senses – sight‚ sound‚ taste‚ smell‚ touch – or more accurately your special senses which include Vision‚ Audition‚ Equilibrium‚ Olfaction‚ and Gustation. After you have lived awhile your body changes so it should be no surprise that your ability to sense and perceive the world would change as well. Through senses that perceive light‚ sound‚ and smell‚ you gain so much information about
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before we learned how to use language‚ reason‚ or emotions to further our knowledge‚ we used our senses. As toddlers we used our sight‚ smell‚ taste‚ touch‚ and hearing to make sense of our surroundings. The evolution of knowledge is mostly because of sense perception. The most primitive versions of ourselves‚ for example the cavemen‚ heavily survived off of sense perception alone. They knew by their senses that certain plants‚ animals‚ weather‚ etc. separated life and death. Now scientists and inventors
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