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    An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks) Oliver Sacks is a physician‚ best-selling author‚ and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of ten books‚ including The Mind’s Eye‚ Musicophilia‚ Awakenings and An Anthropologist on Mars and was the first to receive honors as a Columbia University Artist in recognition of his contribution to the arts. This book contains seven stories he telling the readers about the case in which he studied about

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    An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks The Four Sides “People aren’t always as they seem” Miranda Jordan Mr. I “The Color Blind Painter”: The Side That No One Sees • Since Mr. I became totally colorblind‚ all he wants is to be able to see in color once again. • He contemplates about suicide due to the fact he knows he will never feel the joy of seeing color besides black and white again. • He searches for help to find answers why he became color blind‚ and if it can be reversed. Greg “The

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    just human nature to place high emphasis on sight. Sight is taken for granted by most of us‚ and when we encounter non-sighted individuals‚ we have an emotional and physical reaction that we’re relieved the non-sighted cannot see. Reading Oliver Sacks’ case “To See and Not See”‚ about a man named Virgil‚ gives me a new and interesting perspective on blindness. I have a friend who is partially deaf. She and I communicate with visual cues and our communication is helped by the fact that she can

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    Oliver Sacks is not your typical research doctor that continuously tests and examines the subject as if it were not human. Dr. Sacks leaves behind the cold‚ clinical view of the hospital and spends quality time with his subjects in their normal environments. He goes on trips‚ takes holidays and really gets to know the neurologically different people about whom he writes. This is all portrayed in his writing as he talks about the different trips he takes to certain places around the world‚ in particular

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    understand things but the brain is in charge of sending the signals to the mind. Oliver Sacks in “The Mind’s Eye” uses the case studies of John Hull‚ Zoltan Torey‚ and Lusseyran to show that the mind and brain both run each other even without the ability of vision by learning to compensate and adapt after neurological disorders took their ability to see away from them. In the case study of John Hull‚ Sacks talks about how this author goes completely blind by age forty eight yet is still

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    all “see” the world in a different way. It is an author’s job to convey how he “sees” the world to his readers. Oliver Sacks does this quite well. Through his use of analogies and other rhetorical strategies‚ Oliver Sacks greatly enhances the reader’s view of a newly sighted man’s life and in turn‚ the reader’s view of the world. In the beginning of “To See and Not See‚” by Oliver Sacks‚ the reader is introduced to the subject of the essay‚ a fifty-year-old man named Virgil‚ who has been blind from

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    Oliver Sacks is the man who deals with the manifold of patients with disorders and mental disabilities throughout this story. He has much experience with patients of all different psychological conditions‚ being a clinical neurologist. Sacks deals with different conditions of the different hemispheres and regions of the right side of the brain. Sacks enables readers to comprehend and understand the neurological world on the basis of simple and easily comprehended words and phrases. Different from

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    An Anthropologist On Mars Essay Assignment Oliver Sacks is a very famous doctor of neurology as well as a writer. He spent most of his adult life treating patients. Oliver Sacks mostly concentrated on disorders of the brain and nervous system. In a lot of the cases that Sacks dealt with‚ there was nothing he was able to do to heal the patients. His goal was to find a way to live with and accept their condition as well as possible. Sacks enjoyed dealing with cases mostly about experiences of

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    To paraphrase means to restate someone else’s ideas in your own language at roughly the same level of detail. To summarize means to reduce the most essential points of someone else’s work into a shorter form. Along with quotation‚ paraphrase and summary provide the main tools for integrating your sources into your papers. When choosing which to use‚ consider first your discipline and the type of writing in which you are engaged. For example‚ literature reviews in science reports rely almost exclusively

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    How Passion Drives the Romance for Science in the essay “Uncle Tungsten” by Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who is also known for being a storyteller ¹. Aside from his career‚ Sacks is a best-selling author having written twelve books up to date‚ all bringing together science and art ². One of his earlier pieces is his essay “Uncle Tungsten” which combines passion and the love for science. “Uncle Tungsten” is an essay that shows how passion drives the romance for science‚ romance

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