Response Paper - Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind In reading Chapter 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind‚ I started to realize how much more there is to our consciousness‚ and sleeping. I’ve associated some of the readings on the Dual Processing mind‚ to my own personal experiences‚ answering a few questions I had always pondered but never bothered to find out. Consciousness‚ as the book stated‚ really can be a funny thing. As I delved into Chapter 3‚ my consciousness immediately began
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Double-consciousness under the White Gaze in Maud Martha The theme of double-consciousness was first defined by Du Bois in The Souls of the Black Folk. He put the term “double-consciousness” in "a world which yields him no true self-consciousness‚ but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation‚ this double-consciousness‚ this sense of always looking at one ’s self through the eyes of others‚ of measuring one ’s soul
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A 1991 play‚ Wit written by Margaret Edson explore a women’s life‚ Vivian Bearing‚ is suffering from the final stage of ovarian cancer and being treated with a full dose chemotherapy experiment for eight months. She finds out she has cancer and has to deal with it all by herself with no family members and not many friends. Vivian is a literature professor of seventeenth century poetry and also specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. (Edson pg. 5) She understood her life in an analytical security
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Sick role theory‚ as described by researcher “is a way of explaining the particular rights and responsibilities of those who are ill.” (Weiss 1997). Since those who are diagnosed with a medical condition cannot always fulfill the same duties that a person in good health can‚ society adjusts to this situation and allows a reasonable amount of deviation from behavior that would be characterized as those of a well person. There are four components of the sick role. First‚ the sick person is temporarily
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Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin is a meta-fiction that is deliberately deceptive. Structured like nesting Russian dolls‚ it is a novel-within-a novel within another novel‚ blending three narratives interspersed with newspaper clippings‚ a letter‚ and society announcements. It uses these narratives to weave an interchangeable story‚ slowly making it become clearer over time‚ with the use of darkness imagery‚ interlaces allusions to myths‚ fairy tales‚ literature‚ and the Bible to explore
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Variations on the Word Sleep By Margaret Atwood In Variations on the Word Sleep the narrator of the poem immediately addresses his/her conscience need to connect with the other person‚ and they also recognize the hopelessness of this goal: "I would like to watch you sleeping‚ which may not happen"(1-2). The opening to the poem‚ as we see here‚ could be considered typical of Atwood’s writing in the sense that one person longs to bond with another‚ and recognizes the difficulty. It is this type of
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The poem “Bored” by Margaret Atwood‚ is a poem that tells many different things in each line. It is a poem that evokes many different feelings in me such as feelings of boredom‚ happiness and sadness. This poem has some ambiguous meanings to me and maybe to the writer as well. “bored” is a poem that about boredom of course but also about learning‚ paying attention‚ and most of all about love and loss. In this paper I will attempt to show you just exactly how I have come by my conclusions of this
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Title: Sent Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Text Type: Novel Date Read: January 2010 “Sent” by Margaret Peterson Haddix is the second novel in “The Missing” series. It is about four teenagers; Jonah‚ Chip‚ Alex and Katherine. In the first book “Found”‚ we find out that thirty-six teenagers had been stolen from history and accidently put into the twenty-first century. To fix time they have to go back to their original century. But of course‚ the teenagers don’t want to go back to their earlier
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‘Phenomenology is a method for studying experience’ (Fraleigh 2000). This quote from Sondra Fraleigh’s book ‘Consciousness Matters’ is just one brief understanding of Phenomenology. It deals with experience‚ emotions‚ gut feelings‚ and essences‚ as well as the study of phenomena. It come from a ‘first person’ point of view‚ how you feel‚ what you relate it to in everyday life. Personal opinions and feelings are key factor of phenomenology‚ every human being is different and will feel and experience
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Washington’s desire for racial uplift through economics as a solution for double consciousness created by class disparities. Double consciousness‚ a term coined by Washington’s academic rival W. E. B. Du Bois‚ encompasses the psychological crisis of an individual’s identity being divided into separate parts according to external and internal expectations. Du Bois especially pointed to race as a contributing factor in double consciousness for black and mixed Americans‚ their identities split due to racism and
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