Smartphones Help Increase our Learning Ability At first, phones were simple, its purpose is just for communication. But now it is possible to play, surf the net, watch videos, download applications and many more with it. With almost everything we need packed in a small device, it has become a vital part of our lives. With the amount of time that is spent on these phones, people question on how it can actually help us. In this essay I will prove that the times spent on a smartphone is not wasted
less of a magical realm, and more of a realistic day to day occurrence. So it is crucial to understand what roles do lucid dreams play in our sleep routine, and how common they are. By understanding this phenomenon and its chances of occurring, we can create patterns and further develop our research on the human brain and the way it behaves, thus making this essay very significant. Sleep Cycles: A sleep cycle is a combination of 5 stages. Stage 1 is light sleep where drifting in and out can occur
Humans have engaged in storytelling to help make sense of the world around them for centuries. Even our most primordial ancestors engaged in some sort of storytelling, it has almost been ingrained into our DNA to tell stories. If you asked someone why they want to hear other people’s stories, a plethora of possible reasons will come to mind. That is because the reason is different for everyone. Stories can be used to entertain, inform the audience, or be used as a persuasive technique. Stories from
Just Consider the Lobster Most people in this population including myself have a tendency to not care or think about where the food that we put into our bodies comes from. We enjoy the food but never think of the animal the food derives from; neither do we ever think about the process the animal has to go through to become our delicious meal. In the commendable essay “Consider the lobster” by David Foster Wallace, Wallace opens our minds to make us see the different
is said to have consist with patterns, that since we were born, humans’ complex brains are taught and trained habitually to rapidly observe and perceive to match patterns and arrangements with the information given, whether they really exist or not. In fact, a large number of tasks that our brain processes daily is seeking patterns. There are no limits when we seek for patterns, even when there are no signs presented. This is for the human brains to learn, to observe, to measure, to record different
analyzed until any meaningful insight has evaporated in a “steam of consciousness.” But this can be tamed. As I struggle to write my observation journal, attempting to keep a totally impartial and unfiltered lens in my mind, I can tell myself to focus just on the landscape before me. The thoughts come and go, but as long as I focus on my senses, my mind tends to truncate its activity. There is one thing which never ceases. A melody buzzes through my head, my foot twitches, trying to keep up. The tune
is not the same with gender identity; since the second one is an individual’s inner feeling of either he is a male or a female. Sexual orientation is quite a new notion because the concept of a homosexual personal identity or a homosexual person is just 100 years old despite the fact that
mortal end” (204). Pi explains how fear, which is not a real, tangible item, just an emotion induced by perceived danger, can shake one mentally and because the mind is the foundation of a person, fear affects the entire individual. The
makes easier. Chimpanzee is said that intelligence is about 4 years old for human beings. In solving something like a human being, they use their own brains and think about it, and use resources as tools to produce better results more efficiently. So, how about us? Usually, we face many problems just by being alive. If we move, we will become hungry. We feel cold in winter and hot in summer. Such a problem can be solved easily even if a small child has resources such as food and clothes. However, such
masses". What he meant with this is that religion provides a sense of heart in a heartless world. Religion creates a system of thought and behaviour for many people to follow as a light in a dark world. As the society progressed and the times changed, we can clearly see many changes happen, one of such changes is that religion is slowly fading away as the primary system of thought and behaviour so people turn to more modern style of life with different morals and ideals. In this