Evaluate the evidence that visual perception involves bottom-up and top-down processing. The perceptual system is comprised of a of a diverse range of senses including visual‚ auditory‚ olfactory and tactition; the perceptual system is part of the nervous system‚ which contains millions of nerve cells called receptors that sense and respond to a plethora of sensory stimuli including light‚ sound and temperature. The act of perceiving rather than merely sensing enables us to analyse and make sense
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Experimental Synthesis of Bupropion – A round bottom flask (RBF) containing m-chloropropiophenone (1.0 g‚ 5.9 mmol) dissolved in 5.0 mL dichloromethane (DCM) with 0.25 mL of 1.0 M Br2 in DCM was briefly warmed to initiate the bromination reaction. Afterwards‚ the RBF was placed in and ice-water bath and 1.0 M Br2 in DCM (6.0 mL‚ 6.25 mmol) was added dropwise while stirring. DCM was removed from the reaction by rotary evaporation. Next‚ tert-butylamine (5.0 mL‚ 47.6 mmol) and 5.0 mL of N-methylpyrrolidinone
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by Nick Carraway‚ a modest middle class man living amongst some of the richest people in the country‚ including his neighbor J. Gatsby. Nick became intertwined with Gatsby’s extravagant life and love affairs. It presented him with many interesting situations that built his character and brought him closer to Gatsby‚ and in the end Nick realized that he had become one of Gatsby’s only true friends. Nick learned many lessons from observing Gatsby and his companions. At the end of the novel Nick reflects
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FIP 128/450 Sp2014 Bottoms City Fire Department CASE NUMBER: #123456 DATE: 4/21/14 Description On April 21‚ 2014‚ I responded to 100 Eddie Lane‚ at the request of the Captain from Engine 1. Arrival at the scene by the unit was 0200 hours. At the time of the investigators arrival‚ the fire had been extinguished by Engine 1. I observed a wood-frame construction‚ two-story‚ basement‚ one-family residence. The fire was restricted to the main structure‚ meaning no out buildings or vehicles were
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“We trust Nick as Narrator of this story because of his honesty” With reference to the first three chapters of the novel‚ to what extent do you agree? Throughout the first three paragraphs of The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald subtly builds Nick up as a narrator that the reader can trust. He presents Nick as an honest person and well respected gentlemen and through this essay I will discuss to the extent of which Fitzgerald presents Nick as a narrator we can trust through his honesty. In the opening
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Epithalamium Nick Laird The New Yorker January 24th‚ 2011 You’re beeswax and I’m bird shit. I’m mostly harmless. You’re irrational. If I’m iniquity then you’re theft. One of us is supercalifragilistic. If I’m the most insane disgusting filth you’re hardly curiosa. You’re bubble wrap to my fingertips. You’re winter sleep and I’m the bee dance. And I am menthol and you are eggshell. When you’re atrocious I am Spellcheck. You’re the yen. I’m the Nepalese pound. If I’m homesteading you’re radical
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Book Review of “The Characters of Revolutionary Characters” by Gordon S. Wood “The characters of Revolutionary Characters” is a realistic portrayal of six most important members of the founding generation of the United States. They are: George Washington‚ Ben Franklin‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison‚ Aaron Burr‚ John Adams‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ Thomas Paine. The Founders‚ indeed‚ were a highly unique and exceptionally talented generation. The book takes as its accent not the story
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To what extent do you sympathise with Marcus and the choices he has to make in About a Boy? Discuss the techniques the author has used and use examples from the text to support your answer. In the novel “About a Boy” by Nick Hornby‚ the character of Marcus has to make numerous choices which affect his life in a variety of different ways. Marcus is 12 years old and because of this‚ he is often naïve and hasty is his decisions but he makes them in order to protect himself. These choices that he makes
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Gatsby. Stock analyzes the narrator of the novel- Nick Carraway- and notes the similarities between him and Jay Gatsby. It is evident that the novel was named after Gatsby; she wonders why he is set up to be the face of the long lived narrative concerning the American Dream. She bears in mind that Gatsby believes he is the reason he came from nothing and became something. Stock contradicts this by revealing Tom Buchanan’s opinion on Gatsby. Nick seemed to realize that the elaborate tale Gatsby created
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To what extend is the character Nick a reliable narrator in the book ’The Great Gatbsy’? Nick is a person with a number of contrasting allegiances within the book. For example he finds connections between himself and Gatsby‚ both serving in the War and that the both come from the ‘Mid-West’. However‚ Nick is also connected to the Buchannan’s: he is Daisy’s cousin‚ he comes from a wealthy background and he went to the same college as Tom Buchannan. Also‚ Nick says that his father told him to remember
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