Essays Tagged: "sensations"

Drama: An Unforgettable Setting

Drama: An Unforgettable SettingThe everyday sensations of hunger, tiredness, stress and hurt feelings. Thoughts of excitement, future events, an ...

(2 pages) 55 0 4.7 Sep/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

A review of Walt Whitman's "Live Oak, with Moss"

ly gains the complete attention of the reader. Once convenient, Whitman begins to describe the many sensations associated with his love. Using the wind, the water, fire and nature as his tools, Whitma ...

(2 pages) 125 1 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Brian's Search for the Meaning of Life in W.O. Mitchell's "Who Has Seen the Wind"

age, when his dog, and subsequently his father dies. Lastly Brian's realization that it's all just sensations, and feelings complete his search for the meaning of life.Early in his life, Brian has ma ... realized that birth and death were crucial parts of life, he learns that all else is but a 'set of sensations-nothing else.'(286) He can feel things, see them, taste them, but that is all they are. A ...

(3 pages) 63 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sense Experience

false. There is a good possibility that this person is suffering from any of the numerous possible sensations, auditory, visual or tactile, experienced without external stimulus and caused by mental ...

(2 pages) 104 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Phantom limb phenomena

period due to the trauma of loosing a body-part. Experts have discoveredin the last decade that the sensations which the amputees have been reporting,is due to a manifestation called Phantom limb phen ... neurobiologists have been chasing the phantom. Their first attempts were to figure out were do the sensations originate. When a limb is amputated, the severed nerves that formerly carried messages of ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Concerns With Locke's Theory

th Locke's argument.Locke's theory begins by stating that all ideas are the result of experience of sensations. In book two Locke states this theory:All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us ... s by stating that he agrees with Locke's theory that all humans know is derived from experience and sensations.This point then is agreed between us, that sensible things are those only which are immed ...

(4 pages) 236 2 4.4 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

the relationship between the mind, music, and human behavior

we are. The brain enigmatically stores memories, and lets people experience such things as emotion, sensations, and thoughts. In the same sense, music is more than just a collection of vibrations. Thi ...

(8 pages) 371 0 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

This essay is about the history of Rock and Roll and how it changed society.

England came to the United States. This band was The Beatles, one of the most popular rock and roll sensations in history. The Beatles created a frenzy in the U.S. as they became a model for rock and ...

(3 pages) 262 1 3.1 Oct/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Howard Carter is not a tomb robber.

of us to see. With the light of an electric torch as well as an additional candle we looked in. Our sensations and astonishment are difficult to describe as the better light revealed to us the marvelo ...

(2 pages) 38 0 3.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

Autism, what causes it and what the symptoms are.

and unusual and unexplained responses to people. They may also show signs of abnormal responses to sensations.The one question that remains to be positively answered is: What causes autism? Even thou ...

(5 pages) 223 0 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Byron in Italy A biographical review of Lord Byron's period spent in Italy, discusses his relationships and works of the time.

my imagination'. Venice would become Byron's greatest muse - the liberty, experiences, excesses and sensations of Venice would inspire some of his strongest poetical works. It would also see him sink ...

(14 pages) 124 0 4.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

The nature of sexual attraction. What makes a human attractive/unattractive.

onse. Hunger, thirst, self-defense, and sexual reproduction are included in that list of important sensations. Just like the brain tells an organism when it is hungry, it also signals the body to re ... infertility. Tumors or inflammation can cause visual flaws or total blindness. Different natural sensations may not occur correctly such as thirst, hunger, or pain. "It can cause bizarre effects o ...

(4 pages) 139 4 4.9 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Dreams.

eriod called hypnagogic occurs. Hypnagogic is when the muscles relax and a person often experiences sensations of floating or drifting. During this time, the sleeper will usually think of many things, ... but didn't; a little bit of everything is thought right in that first relaxation point. After these sensations come and go, a thing happens called hypnagogic startle. Hypagogic startle is where your b ...

(3 pages) 55 1 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Discuss the effects of Francis Spufford's 'The Child that Books Built' on readers of Ian Serrialer's 'The Silver Sword'

in the analysis of Piaget, Chomsky and Bettleheim are his precise descriptions of the feelings and sensations that occur within a child whilst lost in the world created by the author.The book which e ... ld whilst lost in the world created by the author.The book which extracted from me the feelings and sensations described by Spufford was Ian Serraillier's The Silver Sword. I can recall having to leav ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

How Seamus Heaney Evokes the Sensations and Emotions of Childhood by Comparing any Three of his Poems.

28 September 2003How Seamus Heaney Evokes the Sensations and Emotions of Childhood by Comparing any Three of his PoemsI am going to compare "Churn ... not seem to be much of a pattern to Heaney's structure in the poems.To conclude, Heaney evokes the sensations of childhood by using senses to help us clarify what is happening. He uses emotional voca ...

(13 pages) 72 0 3.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Author: Gaiantu Flavius Ionel Title:Love analyzed Description: an imaginary email to an imaginary girlfriend, describing a personal view of love and other related feelings

ffect.After the trip this weekend I was left with a bitter-sweet taste, I'm not sure which of these sensations is dominant. I find it hard to understand some things. On one hand I am content that at l ... him/her. What I have described here is typical for most relationships and manifests itself through sensations of the type: I admire him/her, I miss him her when we are not together, I do not want him ...

(3 pages) 26 2 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

States of Consciousness

te of clear, and organized alertness.A.What is Consciousness: Having a feeling or knowledge of your sensations, feelings or of external things. Knowing or feeling that something is or was happening or ...

(4 pages) 146 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

In lines composed above tinturn abby longfelow

n his absence from them: when he was alone, or in crowded towns and cities, they provided him with "sensations sweet, / Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart." The memory of the woods and cottag ...

(2 pages) 26 0 2.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

ings a lot of thoughts and feelings through one?s mind and soul, some of these feelings include the sensations that nothing could go wrong, and there?s no other place that the individual would rather ...

(5 pages) 42 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Everything You Need To Know About Anorexia Nervosa

with becoming thinner, regardless of their actual weight. Most anorexics actually become unaware of sensations such as hunger and fullness. They may practice intense exercise and weigh themselves all ...

(4 pages) 111 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine