Essays On Consciousness

Since I started university in the Ateneo two years ago, I’ve heard many things about the subject Physiological Psychology from friends in older batches. They warned me all about the difficulty of the course but told me the really fun things we would experience in class, like donating blood and watching Dr. Cuenca demonstrate the […]

“To the lighthouse” is a novel full of symbols and parallels that hold significance in exploring the themes and focus of the book. These symbols can be found in various elements such as objects, characters, setting, and plot. In this essay, we analyze the repeated development of objects, characters, setting, plot, and symbols in “To […]

Acknowledgement This is a discourse that is made for metaphysical study that brought enlightenment with the two different paradigms that explicate the essential attribution to the implication of the self to the Filipino. I would like to acknowledge the help of some people who made this research possible Dr. Segundo Sim for his direction, assistance, […]

The Personal and Collective Unconscious To many, the unconscious is a section of our minds that is inconceivable and almost nonexistent. Like many things in life, what we cannot explain, we cannot accept. Sigmund Freud, mastermind of the field of psychology, began to theorize and explain the concept of the unconscious and its effects on […]

Rose Weitz asserts that a woman’s hair has great significance in her life, particularly when it comes to matters of the heart. A prime example of this is demonstrated in the tale of Rapunzel, whose fate was forever altered when a prince scaled her tower using her flowing locks as his ladder. At first, I […]

The Development of Individuality in the Modern World: Burckhardt’s View on the Renaissance in Italy Individuality and Cultural HistoryIn Reflections on History Jacob Burckhardt describes that “culture may be defined as the sum total of those mental developments which take place spontaneously and lay no claim to universal or compulsive authority” (55) and claims that […]

The theme of identity is featured in the poems “Summer Farm” by Norman MacCaig and “The Bay” by James K. Baxter. Both poems are set in a natural foreground and address the issues associated with the theme of identity. Through the use of various literary techniques such as parallelism, metaphor and imagery, the theme of […]

Objectives To study subliminal advertising using secondary resources. To study live examples of subliminal advertising and understand the implications of it. Literature Review The Concept The term “subliminal” is derived from the construct of a “limen of consciousness”, a threshold or line separating conscious from unconscious. The concept dates back to the literal beginning of […]

I am confident that the power of peace and love can have a significant impact on our daily lives, as I hold strong faith in these basic principles. My belief in the innate goodness of humanity has remained steadfast throughout my life, even now, thirty years later. I firmly believe that our capacity for communication, […]

Despite our nearly 3000 years of existence as humans, we still unconsciously base our opinions of others on our personal beliefs. We possess an innate intuition, a sixth sense, that allows us to sense either positivity or negativity towards a person or circumstance before our conscious mind can register it. This immediate acknowledgment and classification […]

The Blue Team used sophisticated decision-making processes and frequent explicit communication, whereas the Red Team communicated little and relied on the intelligence of individual units. The Red Team won. A study inferred that car salespeople judged women and blacks to be less savvy, even when all actors were attributed with the same income and professions. […]

Discuss how the hand painted animated sequences in Look Both Ways provide insight into the characters of Nick and Meryl, more so than the other characters in the film. These animations have their origin in this particular movie. Despite the distinct animations found in Meryl and Nick’s photomontages, various film techniques including en scene construction, […]

Decease signifies the termination of life by ending all essential functions in a living being. Although there is agreement among philosophers that our physical existence on Earth will ultimately come to an end, opinions differ regarding the significance of death. While some consider it as the termination of our being, others believe in various forms […]

On the 26th of October Gary introduced the grammar seminar. He introduced Thornbury’s views on grammar and we discussed what grammar is according to Thornbury. Thornbury made a point that I found quite interesting; he stated that students needed to ‘notice grammar’ (2005: 35). This started me thinking about how best to teach grammar, and […]

In order to make a good hypnotic suggestion the therapist should understand the workings of the conscious and the subconscious mind. They need to be aware of the role of the Conscious Critical Faculty (CCF) and the importance of recognising a client’s beliefs.They must have a congruent belief in what they are saying in order […]

In Jaspers’ Philosophy of Existence he describes three different immanent modes of encompassing: Existence, Consciousness in general, and Spirit. Within each mode the world is observed in differing ways.To comprehend the three immanent modes we must first (1) understand what Jaspers means by the Encompassing and immanent modes. Then we must (2) understand what is […]

In 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler plays the part of Henry Roth, a womanizer who has fallen in love with Lucy. Lucy (Drew Barrymore) was injured in a car crash and loses her short-term memory every time she falls asleep. When she awakens, she can remember nothing since the day of her accident. Henry pursues […]

James Joyce’s views on marriage and the relationship between men and woman are emphatically expressed throughout Dubliners, his collection of short stories, but are particularly foregrounded in my two chosen stories from the married and celibate sections of the mature-life group: ‘A Little Cloud’ and ‘A Painful Case’.These narratives present to the reader two different […]

Films possess a captivating quality in their capability to inspire and drive people. They have the potential to act as a catalyst, tackling subjects that ignite personal motivation. Throughout cinema’s history, there has been an enchantment with how movies subtly mold societal norms, values, and conduct. Extensive research has explored the effectiveness of conveying messages […]

When believing about how category operates in our lives today, we might experience that it holds small or even no bearing upon the ways in which we think, act and travel about in the societal universe. That category, as a agency of understanding our societal place and determining our individualities, is an wholly dated, weak […]

As a member of a minority group this topic is something of involvement and has personal relevancy to my experiences populating in a pre-dominantly white society. The absence of appropriate Asiatic function theoretical accounts in the media such as telecasting, movies, history, newspapers and in places of believable political and economic influence, stimulated a natural […]

The psychosocial attack is the initial examination of individuality. Erik Erikson was the first to define individuality as a combination of psychological and social aspects within his concept of psychosocial. He identified eight stages that correspond to various age groups, spanning from birth to late adulthood. Each stage includes normative crises which can result in […]