learning vocabulary foreign languages. The Bouba Kiki Effect is universal (Robson‚ 2011) and given that it is present in every human being (Nygaard‚ 2013) it would prove to be a pragmatic premise for language teaching techniques as it would engage a primal learning system found in everyone and would cater to every type of learner‚ as it utilizes not only visual recognition‚ but sound as well (Hubbard‚ Ramachandran 2001). The Bouba Kiki Effect is also believed to be the process through which human beings
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Themes‚ Motifs & Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Ambivalence of Mastery Crusoe’s success in mastering his situation‚ overcoming his obstacles‚ and controlling his environment shows the condition of mastery in a positive light‚ at least at the beginning of the novel. Crusoe lands in an inhospitable environment and makes it his home. His taming and domestication of wild goats and parrots with Crusoe as their master illustrates
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How does Pi assert himself throughout his ordeal and how does this help him survive? Reflecting a belief that in all things there is “a trace of the divine”‚ in Life of Pi author Yann Martel considers the basic animal instincts of humanity when faced with the most adverse of conditions‚ and ultimately‚ the all-encompassing‚ limitless nature of faith. Pi’s “unbelievable” survival‚ shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean following the sinking of the Tsimstum and loss of his family‚ can at least be partly
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Night and Day Many authors use foils to better illustrate the nature of the character. Foils are characters who compliment yet contrast the main character. With the use of foils the reader can get a better understanding of the main character through the dialogue of the foils. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ we find Prince Hamlet foiled by many characters. Each foil revealing something different about Hamlet. One such foil in this play is undoubtedly Laertes‚ the son of Polonius. There are a few
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To be human is to be disobedient. For good or evil. disobedience has been the one constant‚ universal trait that characterized human beings since the beginning of time. Behind every great human achievement is an act of disobedience‚ a rejection of the conventional wisdom‚ a defiance of authority‚ or a decision‚ a choice made to take the path less travelled. History is replete with men and women who by their disobedience changed history‚ often for the better‚ though sometimes for the worse. Galileo
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The Death Penalty: An Informational Essay The death penalty in the United States stretches back to the earliest permanent settlement in the New World. “Part I: History of the Death Penalty” affirms that “The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608.” Just twenty-four years later‚ in 1632‚ “Jane Champion became the first woman executed in the new colonies. (Part I: History of the Death Penalty)” As time progressed
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Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing” is a poem written in 1914‚ four months prior to the start of World War 1. This historical context is crucial to understanding the poem as it expresses the dark and sorrowful foreshadowing of the months before the war‚ creating feelings of tension‚ turmoil and unrest. There were‚ at the time‚ many young men who did not share the common unease‚ more so tension turned to excitement‚ turmoil to eagerness and unrest to anticipation. The split between society in the months
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Literary Analysis Essay Children are drawn to the idea of having a chance to be the grownups rather than a child‚ but there are so many things that could go wrong! Children are not fully developed. Children often lack the wits‚ the life experience‚ and the maturity adults possess. Lord of the Flies‚ a dystopian novel taking place in the 1950s‚ by William Golding‚ expresses the problems a society of only children could possibly face. Stranded on an uninhabited island after a plane crash in which their
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Lacombe Lucien is a fictive re-enactment of the banality of evil If you look up the word banal in the English dictionary‚ you will find its meanings to be‚ common‚ ordinary‚ commonplace. This film explores the common and everyday nature of evil. This film does not look at the wider evil such as the Nazi occupation and its military machine‚ its organised fascist cruelty and its genocidal politics. The film looks at how “ordinary people” survive in this complex‚ evil world of nazism. We see
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Abstract Expressionists‚ his paintings seemed to transcend Greenbergian flatness and appeal to more human senses than merely opticality. The broad areas of color in No.12‚ as well as those of his other major practices‚ are his vehicles to evoke the primal instincts of humans. The use of somber palette beginning around late 1950s‚ which deviated remarkably from his early practices of bright and buoyant color chords‚ reflected the artist’s shift toward a more desolate stage of life. Here‚ the painting appears
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