...The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a vivid and informative collection of clinical cases by Oliver Sacks. I have a passion for learning about the autism spectrum and studying the many extraordinary cases. Thus, I chose to review Sack’s clinical experience with The Autist Artist. The Autist Artist describes Sacks encounter with Jose, an artistic young man suffering from seizures and “secondary autism”. It was stated that Jose was around 21 years of age, however it was also stated multiple times that Jose had been suffering from his disorders for 15 years since the young age of eight (which would make him 23). At 8 years old, Jose contracted a severe fever followed by “continuing, seizures, and the rapid appearance of a brain- damaged or autistic condition”. Jose’s diagnosis of acquired/ secondary autism does not exist according to today’s standards of the autism spectrum. However, Jose did possess autistic like symptoms associated with communication, such as mutism and incomprehension of words and...
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...In chapter 8 of Oliver Sacks’ book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, titled “Eyes Right!”, Doctor Sacks describes the great impact that stroke had on one of his patients, Mrs. S. Mrs. S is a 60-year-old woman who recently suffered from a stroke. This stroke greatly impacted the right hemisphere of her brain, especially the deeper and back portions of the brain. The textbook notes that unilateral neglect can occur from a lesion affecting the right side of the brain, particularly the parieto-occipital or the inferior parietal location in the brain. This stroke has caused Mrs. S the inability to sense (signals) on the left side of her body, meaning that she cannot see or feel anything on that side. Since sight and touch on the right side of the brain affect the contralateral side, the left side, this is why her sense of touch. The neuropsychological condition that Mrs. S suffers from is unilateral neglect. Unilateral neglect is caused by strokes. Unilateral neglect, as described before, usually affects the right hemisphere of the stroke...
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...how money keeps the world running. I also realized the importance of money when it comes to scientific research and how it can influence some findings. I also look forward to apply the statistical formulas I learned in math (S1 and S2) in the course. My interest in biology was also consolidated by reading the books such as ‘Genome’ by Matt Riddley and ‘The Man who mistook his wife for a hat’ by Oliver Sacks. Although I found it quite interesting how the writer describe the genome as a language consisting of four letters I believe that it is far more complicated than that. There are still things about this language that we don’t know and these secrets could be the solution to certain problems ( eg. Reduce mutations caused by jumping genes that make certain genes dysfunctional.) Oliver Sacks description of neurological diseases as well as his interaction with his patients was quite inspiring. Certain malfunction in the Occipital lobe of the brain could lead to a person mistaking his wife’s head for a hat. Although the writer describes these malfunctions as losses I think that they are beneficial in some senses. The man suffering from visual agnosia was an amazing music teacher and a great musician too. I have also attended a lecture on ‘Nurture Vs Nature’ by Steve Jones which was mainly about the impact of genes as well as the environment o our behavior and our lives. I got to...
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...tragedies. It is also the name of the leading character. Shakespeare makes this character vivid through depicting what he says and does, and impresses audiences with his extremely tragic ending. There is no doubt that Othello is a tragic hero. At the beginning of the play, he was a brilliant military commander who beat a large number of enemies. He even married Desdemona, a beautiful white woman. He was a respected war hero and a loving husband. He was so successful. However, at the end of the play, due to his tragic flaws, he became an irrational murderer full of jealousy and killed his wife and himself. In the paper, I mainly analyze how Othello became a tragic hero thanks to his internal imperfections and how he conformed to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. According to Aristotle’s definition, a tragic hero must occupy a high position and a noble stature. Othello met this part well. At the beginning of the play, Othello was a military general, a high status in the Venetian society. What’s more, many details of the play indicate that Othello was respected by most characters. For example, the Duke of Venice referred Othello as “Valiant Othello”. Montano called Othello as “brave Othello”. Even a herald praiseed Othello and said “our noble and valiant general”. Venetians relied on Othello because of his excellent military capabilities. In Act I, Scene 3, Duke of Venice said “…and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign...
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...by a fear of witchcraft. This fear of witchcraft was caused by a small group of girls who accused innocent people of the village of being under the influence of the devil and harming them with spells of witchcraft. How would a town so concerned with religion react to such crazy accusations? Arthur Miller describes such reactions to these in The Crucible. In this story Miller describes how different people having different perspectives on the events handle this type of hysteria. Some people join the afflicted girls and participate in the hysteria out of fear for their lives. Others grow suspicious and try to find an explanation on how honest these girls, or “victimsâ€, are in accusing them otherwise innocent people of witchcraft, if witchcraft is even the cause of the girls’ hysteria. Arthur Miller writes the play to demonstrate that human nature is actually good regardless of how easily humans can be influenced by the spread of evil. Miller illustrates how pressure created by fear, intolerance, and frustration can cause people to accept their personal responsibilities. Although fear often drives people away from their responsibilities in the story, it is shown that a person’s fear can push him to realize and accept his purposes and responsibilities. John Proctor, a main protagonist in the story, realizes how dangerous the witchcraft accusations are when the court officials arrest his wife, Elizabeth, for witchcraft and attempted murder: “‘…The little crazy children...
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...As the days went on after her drunken night she remember tripping on the train platform and a red-haired man catching her. Racheal then shes him again staring at her. “I look up and find myself looking right into the eyes of the man from Saturday night – the ginger one, the one who helped me up. He’s staring right at me” (Hawkins 91). So potentially the red-haired man talked to Rachael, brought her back to her apartment and then had the landlord open the door for them or potentially she had her key on her and he helped her get settled. The same night she was intoxicated she woke up to find herself covered in blood, why was Rachael covered in blood? Well considering how drunk she was she could have potentially hurt herself, tripping, running into objects, among other scenarios. My more prevalent thought was Anna became enraged at Rachael because Rachael kept harassing her family and Anna snapped. Anna started a scuffle between the two and the blood on Rachael’s was either her...
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...Viramontes's writing reflects this theme along with expressing her political opinions on the treatments of immigrants, especially Chicanos and Latinos. In her short story "The Cariboo Café," Viramontes brings these ideas to life through three sections narrated by different individuals tied into the story. "The Cariboo Café" is a story of Chicano immigrants and a Central American refugee. Along with these characters is the owner of the Cariboo Café, who comes in contact with the others. The story progresses in three short sections. Each section involves a different scenario and is told from the point of view of a different narrator. The three separate settings do not fully come together until the end of the last section. This approach makes the story initially very complicated to understand and difficult to connect the sections as a coherent stream of events. However, it is possible that this was Viramontes's intent. Perhaps the situations presented in the story were ones that posed this amount of confusion and frustration in real life to those who lived through them. Maybe Viramontes needed to convey in her story that what really happened in the urban barrios of Los Angeles never really made sense to anyone. The opening section of this story is a third person narrative. The narrator immediately introduces a poor Chicano family with two young children. A few initial facts that the reader picks up in the opening paragraph are that both parents have to work, the children often play by themselves...
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...Viramontes's writing reflects this theme along with expressing her political opinions on the treatments of immigrants, especially Chicanos and Latinos. In her short story "The Cariboo Café," Viramontes brings these ideas to life through three sections narrated by different individuals tied into the story. "The Cariboo Café" is a story of Chicano immigrants and a Central American refugee. Along with these characters is the owner of the Cariboo Café, who comes in contact with the others. The story progresses in three short sections. Each section involves a different scenario and is told from the point of view of a different narrator. The three separate settings do not fully come together until the end of the last section. This approach makes the story initially very complicated to understand and difficult to connect the sections as a coherent stream of events. However, it is possible that this was Viramontes's intent. Perhaps the situations presented in the story were ones that posed this amount of confusion and frustration in real life to those who lived through them. Maybe Viramontes needed to convey in her story that what really happened in the urban barrios of Los Angeles never really made sense to anyone. The opening section of this story is a third person narrative. The narrator immediately introduces a poor Chicano family with two young children. A few initial facts that the reader picks up in the opening paragraph are that both parents have to work, the children often play by...
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...Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead" by Brene Brown 21. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1" by Jeff Kinney 22. "Dune" by Frank Herbert 23. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury 24. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson 25. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn 26. "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown 27. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens 28. "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond 29. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling 30. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote 31. "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri 32. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison 33. "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest...
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...unreliable our narrator is in dealing with death and derangement. Through this naïve narration, we are presented with a story in which the narrator; a young boy at that time, recalls how a magician vanishes his grandmother during a magic show. Upon closer analysis we will see that Gaiman actually implies that the grandmother has died causing the grandfather to go crazy from the death of his wife. In order for our narrator to cope with traumatic experience of losing a loved one and witnessing his grandfather lose his mind he blends the story with memories. The poem is set up as a flashback which further gives credibility to our narrator’s erroneous memory. My analysis will scrutinize the diction used throughout the poem as well as the crucial symbolism in order to uncover the hidden meaning behind the text. When someone reads “Queen of Knives” for the first time it is likely that they will ponder the outcome with confusion. They may also conclude that the grandfather murdered the grandmother or that she ran off with the magician. It is understandable to arrive at this conclusion when the literal meaning of the passage points to such answers, but once we examine how dynamic this piece of literature is we can conclude much deeper meanings. Gaiman himself stated that this poem was like his other work “Mr. Punch;” a story in which a young boy’s grandfather went mad. The songs Daisy Bell and You Made Me Love You also play important roles in the poem. The first being a song about courting...
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...Arthur Miller wrote an imaginatively creative interpretation of the famous Salem Witch Trials in his 1953 fictional play The Crucible. Though the actual details of these true events are unknown, Miller takes his audience back to the overtly religious town and brings to life characters found in historic documents from the 1692 hearings. He cleverly unfolds an intriguing tale of possibilities about the Salem witch hunt which occurred during an era when America was partially unsettled and primitive. This harsh setting easily produced a fear that overshadowed many predominately puritan settlements where it was common to attribute every occurrence, no matter how small, to good or evil, the Lord or Lucifer. The strict environment was bound by rules...
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...I was inspired to pursue such field when I was told by one of my summer teachers’ recommended me a possible career in psychology and sociology because of the amount of effort I put into my work. I fairly enjoyed these subjects and decided to read books related to psychological illness such as the Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat which contain many studies of certain psychological illnesses. I also have researched illnesses such as PTSD and what are its root. The more I read, the more I was intrigued by such topics. When I found out that the school offered an AP psychology course, I immediately signed up for it. By taking this class and AP exam, it will allow me to skip the 101 Psychology that is taught in college to beginners and will allow me to move ahead. I decided that I will go into therapeutics and talk to others that have either a social issue or mental illness and try to solve it through modern psychoanalysis. To further my knowledge of therapeutics, I decided to base my SCE on interaction with children and study how they find certain...
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...The story tells us about the six heroes who rose the United States flag during the bloody battle of Iwo Jima. These men, were not just any ordinary flag raisers; they were men who symbolized our countries strength, honor, victory, and courage, during one of the nations greatest battles. Bradley begins the story by stating that his father, John Bradley, kept to himself when it came to discussing the events of Iwo Jima, the flag raising, and the events that followed. He explains that this was the reason in which he decided to research the 6 lives of the men who now are commemorated in museums, statues, and history books all around the world. These 6 men consisted of John Bradley, who was from Appleton, Wisconsin; Ira Hayes, who was a Pima Indian from a reservation in Phoenix, Arizona; Harlon Block, who was from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas; Mike Strank, who was a Czech immigrant, but raised in Pennsylvania; Franklin Sousley, who was from Hilltop, Kentucky; and Rene Gagnon, who was from Manchester, New Hampshire. They were all young men, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-four. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, our nation’s attitude towards WWII changed. Many young men realized that our country was in desperate need of soldiers and they instantly jumped at the chance to sacrifice their lives for our nation. Strank enlisted in the Marines before our country was even at war; Since the Pima’s are very peaceful people, Hayes surprised his tribe by enlisting in the Marines and...
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...the one who is shocked,' M r s Carter ' O T H E R people enjoy themselves,' M r s Carter said. 'Well,' her husband replied, 'we've seen . . . ' •The reclining Buddha, the emerald Buddha, the to bed.' 'Last night we went to Chez Eve . . . ' •If you weren't with m e , ' M r s Carter said, 'you'd find . . . you know what I mean, Spots.' It was true. Carter thought, eyeing his wife over the cofifeecups: her slave bangles chinked in time with her cofifee-spoon: she had reached an age when the satisfied woman is at her most beautiful, but the lines of discontent had formed. When he looked at her neck he was reminded of how difficult it was to unstring a turkey. Is it my fault, he wondered, or hers - or was it the fault of her birth, some glandular deficiency, some inherited characteristic? It was sad how when one was young, one so often mistook the signs of frigidity for a kind of distinction. ' Y o u promised we'd smoke opium,' M r s Carter said. •Not here, darling. In Saigon. Here it's "not done" to smoke.' ' H o w conventional you are.' 'There'd be only the dirtiest of coolie places. Y o u ' d be conspicuous. They'd stare at you.' H e played his winning card. 'There'd be cockroaches.' 'I should be taken to plenty of Spots if I wasn't with a husband.' H e tried hopefully. T h e Japanese strip-teasers...' but she had heard all about them. ' U g l y women in bras,' she said. H i s irritation rose. H e thought of the money he had spent to take his wife with him and to ease his conscience...
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...In this story, homoeroticism is recognized immediately, even prior to Orlando and Ganymede’s relationship. By naming herself “Ganymede,” (1.3.121) Rosalind ultimately makes herself the symbol of pederasty. The usage of this name could also be foreshadowing as being universally attractive to people of all genders. The name itself is derived from Greek words meaning “prince” or “genitals” (theoi.com). The name belongs to a beautiful boy, Zeus’ lover, abducted by Zeus to become cupbearer to the gods, succeeding his daughter, Hebe (theoi.com). On the topic of names, taking one more step back, interpreting the name of the play itself, As You Like It, could signify homoeroticism – whoever, whichever sex, love “as you like...
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