...includes both attempted and completed crimes” (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010). Even though some people do not think of personal crime as a domestic violence, it is considered to be assault. Also, many people do not think of verbal assault, which is just as bad for a child to hear, but not as bad as domestic violence. When watching the video some of the causal factors that were noticed were that of a mother having a restraining order against her on again of again boyfriend. The boyfriend, who was also the father of a three year old boy that was in the home, was trying to get in through a window. When the female speaker called 911 she informed them that there was a restraining order in affect against the suspect. Even though at this time there were no signs of domestic violence taking place, the suspect had committed them before and that is the reason for the restraining order. Also, in the video a speaker named Hugh Downs talked about OJ Simpsons children and if they had witnessed any abuse happening towards their mother by the hands of their father. One child expressed...
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...Is life an Illusion? David Coulter Liberty University Is Life an Illusion? Each of the readings discusses aspects of man being deceived by his senses. In The Matrix, almost every human is plugged into a giant computer and lives out an illusion provided by the computer to the brain (Wachowski, 1999). In The Allegory of the Cave, a hypothetical situation where men are only allowed to see shadows of reality is discussed by Socrates and Glaucon (Plato, n.d.). Finally, in Meditation I of The Things of Which We May Doubt, René Descartes attempts to eliminate all beliefs that might be based on something uncertain. He proposes that a demon may be providing an illusion and his senses may not reflect reality (Descartes, 1641). With all of this investigation around human senses being deceived, is it possible for people to trust their senses? The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave both deal with how men react to reality when illusion and reality are recognized for what they are. However, they each deal with this recognition in different ways. In The Matrix, reality is far less pleasant than the illusion. Some prefer the truth rather than to be deceived, and one in particular prefers the illusion claiming “ignorance is bliss” (Wachowski, 1999). In The Allegory of the Cave, the hypothetical subjects when confronted with reality find it to be less real than the deceptive shadows that they have always thought was reality. Over time, they learn that the deceptive shadows were and...
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...something dangerous, like suspenseful music in a mystery movie. The falls themselves are rough and uncontrolled. The Athabasca River thunders through a narrow gorge where the walls have been smoothed and potholes are created by the sheer force of the rushing water carrying sand and rock, eroding everything below that happens to be in its path. Due to the fact that the water falls vertically down, and the rocks adjacent to the falls are composed of horizontal strata, if we stare at the water for a certain amount of time and then transfer our attention to the rocks, we get the impression that the rocks are moving in a wavelike pattern. Looking below the waterfall, the spray of the waterfall creates a sort of mist in the air, which then splits the light into a spectrum, creating rainbows in various places at the foot of the waterfall. This seemingly simple, majestic and powerful display of water is in fact a series of molecular bonds, laws of physics and optical illusions which interact in complex manners, creating the fascinating effect we can observe. Memo...
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...04861318 The Martian Chronicles: Illusion over Reality The Martian Chronicles can be interpreted as the choice of illusion over reality. There were many events where the Martians shaped their bodies to the humans’ deepest desires or the humans themselves created illusions to fulfill these desires. By doing so, it could be seen that the characters chose to follow their illusions instead of accepting the reality they were facing. “The choice of illusion is related to the strong emotions of love, hate and empathy.” (Taylor, 2013) In chapter six –the third expedition- is clear that the humans’ illusion is to have their beloved dead ones back. Despite the Captain’s reservations and warnings, everyone accepts the illusion of Green Bluff, Illinois in Mars, which suggests unreality given that it may not be possible to copy an identical place in a different one. However, this acceptance brings comfort to the crew who are blinded by the emotion of having their resurrected family back; these families “were given a second chance to live in a new world” which, at the same time, is unreal because there is no way to bring back a dead person. The Martians linked this illusion to the strong empathy with the crew’s emotions through telepathy in order to carry out a dreadful funeral. Earth men never suspected what was happening until the last moment when they were killed because they couldn’t resist this emotion. In another story, Spender is under the illusion that everyone will understand his...
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...The first illusion was the Muller-Lyer Illusion. It consists of an arrow shape in which the arrowhead faces different directions. In the middle of the shape is another arrowhead that is supposed to divide the length of the arrow in half. The left-facing arrow illusion did little to affect my perception of the distance. However, I was consistently short on the right-facing arrow. The alignment of the arrow drastically affected my perception. I thought I was consistently dividing it in half, but the results showed otherwise. My average adjusted length was about 5.25% less than the correct length. The Muller-Lyer illusion works by altering our depth perception. Because most of us were brought up in square-cornered houses, the >-< shape appears closer and shorter than the shape. This is because the former looks like the edge of an exterior corner and the latter looks like the edge of an interior corner. This causes our mind to perceive the first shape as shorter than the second one, even though they are the same length. After learning about this phenomenon, my score improved from 5.25% to 3.25%. I still haven’t clearly grasped the concept and been able to perceive it correctly, but I did make a slight improvement. The Ponzo Illusion consists of a red and yellow bar whose heights must be matched. The two bars are placed in a room with the red bar much further back than the yellow bar. My perception was significantly affected by this illusion as I made the yellow bar about 49.5%...
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...The final illusion is the Checker Shadow Illusion. This illusion shows two squares that are the exact same color. You mind thinks that the squares are two different colors, but your brain thinks that because of their background. It mainly has to do with how our brain interprets the drawing. The image is described as two specific checker squares, labeled A and B, are drawn on a grid. The checker square that is labeled “B” is being cast over by a shadow from a large cylinder. We are expecting the cylinder to cast the shadow onto the checkerboard. Because we are used to making sense of shadows in real life, we become aware of the shadow, and we think that we know how to interpret it. However, the person who made this illusion, Edward H. Adelson,...
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..."For War is Kind" has been interpreted several times as a satire on war. War is portrayed as a medium that brings life to the end. Death has been taken as something that is cruel, something that is evil. With the insights from the teaching of Eastern school of philosophy, looking into the lines of the poem, new directions can be provided to the vision towards death. This paper drags the poem out from the stream of satire and portrays death as a force responsible for ultimate freedom and realization. Stephen Crane, in "For War is Kind", tries to portray war as a medium that makes the span of illusion short. In the darkness, one easily gets frightened believing rope a snake because of illusion. Because of illusion death seems as an end to everything and life only truth. Life appears as the only 'ultimate truth'. We believe after life everything is put to an end. If so, where were we before the birth? We were nowhere. We are expressed for a moment of time as the air and water are manifested into a bubble for a couple of minute. This manifestation is temporary and illusive and they are "neither permanent, nor the possessions themselves everlasting" (Goyandaka 58). Life is like a tide, which arises from the same bottom of ocean where it settles. Just for a moment of time we distinguish tide and ocean, an illusion that tide is different. When tide falls, it becomes ocean. The real form is the vast ocean not the tide. Tide is an illusion to the perception. Denying his own perception...
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...because of an illusion, or a perception that occurs when a sensory stimulus is present but is not perceived correctly and often distorted. Throughout the book, it is explained how a person processes information, how certain...
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...art use methods of counting and marking time. She often starts her drawings with the current calendar date. Darboven’s work of art, “Clockwise from right”, uses a systematic sequence of numbers, which are written in blocks of 15x15 digits. The exhibit at the Albright-Knox took up almost an entire wall filled with black rectangular picture frames, each filled with two blocks of 15x15 digits. Above and below the blocks of numbers, contain what seem to be the calculations that the blocks of numbers represent. The work of art is simply ink on vellum, containing no color whatsoever. The most important part about the piece is that it is very consistent and almost perfectly structured. According to Nietzsche, there are differences between the rational man and the intuitive man. In the ancient Greek society, the rational man was the person who was inartistic and focused solely on completing the principal needs of society. The intuitive man was artistic and blatantly disregarded the principal needs of society. Overall, the intuitive man had a goal of living an extra-moral life. What Nietzsche means by, “extra-moral”, is that the artist, or intuitive man, goes beyond what is moral. The artist is to overlook what is ethically acceptable in a society, and is to perform some act of rebellion in order to achieve a state of extra-morality. According to Nietzsche, the way in which the rational man invests reason was by creating illusions to deceive society. The rational man may...
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...A case related to illusions Everyday, we hear, we sense, we see a lot of information. When our brain, our perceptual system, misinterprets the information, the perceptual illusions occur. It is a cognitive perception, because you transmit information to the brain and our brain starts to process. I came up with four examples that are either from my own experiences or from my visual observation. And I think they can be used to illustrate perceptual illusions. But I’m not sure whether two of those examples are perceptual illusions. I think they are more similar to optical illusions. Beauty & Health Care Stores As a girl, I often go to some beauty stores to purchase some cosmetics. Sometimes when I step into a beauty & health care store, I have a feeling that the store is very big and bright. But actually it’s not the case. The owner of the store usually decorate the store with full of mirrors, the mirrors may give the consumers the feelings that this store is really big. It’s often the promotion strategy that the stores used. In this case, the actual and perceived size of the store has a discrepancy. My brain misinterprets the size of the store, and then it’s perceptual illusion. The railways When I was very young, my parents were too busy to take care of me. So I spent a lot of vacations in my grandparents’ home, and I took the train to their home. Each time when I was on the train and the train was in the platform waiting to leave, I felt that our train was moving when...
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...by Virginia Woolf and the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (hereafter WAVW) by Edward Albee both address gender inequality and truth and illusion even though their contexts and form starkly contrast. An analysis of similar themes will provide a greater understanding of meanings and perceptions of the texts. AROO, written in the post-war period of the late 1920s, was composed in a time of great social change due to the destruction and turmoil of the War. Modernist writing highlights the absence of, and search for, meaning and features experiments with new forms. Loss and absence lie at the heart of Woolf’s art, resulting from the experience of loss as an adolescent – her half sister, father, brother and mother. Her refusal to give one single view of anything, offering instead multiple, often conflicting views which the reader has to balance and bring together is another modernist trait. In contrast, WAVW was written in a far more conservative context, and although Albee does challenge societal roles, he does it in a more blatant way. Written during a time of Cold War tension, where fear and instability was disguised beneath the facade of the Great American Dream, Albee is still able to paint a dystopian image of the stereotyped family unit. Post-modernist writing abandons all meaning and the Theatre of the Absurd, emerged at the time, as a theatrical technique used by Albee to reflect a post-modern world. Interestingly, AROO and WAVW are both representations of a privileged...
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...with his wife, where in he had encountered an illusion ( conflict between the reality & his world of illusions ) which effects the people around him especially his wife) John Nash realizes that all of the characters of his illusion never get old. And thus he concludes that none of the characters in the series of illusions can be real. After this his mind is open to the facts of reality but he is still very confused & puzzled ( b’coz his mind is now telling him that the characters of his illusion are unreal but he himself is a little skeptical to accept the truth all this b’coz of the frame of mind he is in due to his illness ) This is where John Nash encounters one of the most critical turning points out of the many in his life His wife Alicia John Nash supports him further and motivates him she explains to him the difference between reality & illusions She explains to him that all that he sees may not necessarily be reality She tells him that reality is what one can feel, reality is like a heartbeat ………. That can be felt This very act of Alicia motivates him & convinces his confused mind to accept the truth and turn a new leaf over. And he begins on a new journey of life….. a journey of life full of self motivation and a fight against his illusion A turn on the highway of his life, his family and his career After this realization & motivation he now starts to ignore the three characters of his illusion ……… he is in a kind of war...
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...Aaron Pomerleau Mr. Hiatt Psychology 3 April 2014 Is it true? Look at an optical illusion and you may think you're seeing things, such as a curved line that's actually straight, or a moving object that's standing still. You wonder if your eyes are playing tricks on you. But you can’t help but thinking, could it be real? It's not all in your eyes. An illusion is proof that you don't always see what you think you do because of the way your brain and your entire visual system perceive and interpret an image. Visual illusions occur due to properties of the visual areas of the brain as they receive and process information. Your perception of an illusion has more to do with how your brain works and less to do with the optics of your eye. Everything that enters the senses needs to be interpreted through the brain, and these interpretations occasionally go wrong. Illusions, may serve as a test to determine whether scientists understand vision correctly. When light hits our retina in the eye, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates that into a visual perception of the world. Our brains compensate for this neural delay and so it attempts to generate an image of what it will perceive one-tenth of a second in the future. Optical illusions occur when what our brains predict does not match the reality. A better way to think of it is in order to compensate for this massive loss of information and provide us with visual perceptions that are rich in contrast...
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...“Introspection Illusion” Introspection Illusion is defined as a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable (Wikipedia). Introspection tends to be the evidence one receives about their self as they look to their own thoughts and feelings, and adding an illusion to this mix adds a misty fog that people look through as they look inward. In this paper I will attempt to show how Introspection Illusion affects us not only in our day to day lives, but how it can also have a major impact on our financial decisions. Introspection Illusion was first defined by Emily Pronin. She observed how people viewed their selves and how aware they were of their motives, thoughts and feelings. This awareness, however, is often weak and unreliable. Eric Schwitzgebel argues this case by stating that “introspection is unreliable in the sense that we are prone to ignorance and error in making introspective judgments about our own conscious experience,” (Smithies). In this sense, our inner motives, thoughts and feelings are strictly biased based on our limited understanding of the world surrounding and with little thought to the personal introspections of others around us. So why then do we rely so much on our introspection? Pronin claims that it is because they are intimate and comfortable, which makes it easy and safe to believe in the classic statement of “I think therefore I am...
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...distinction between reality and illusions? Can someone’s illusions be their reality? What happens if one is lost within the abyss of such a struggle? Magical realism is somewhat of an explanation for such struggle. Magical Realism is a form of art, which allows people to view the world differently. It deals with emotions, meaning, and mystery in trying to figure out what life is, but only through a distinct imagination and willingness to learn can someone understand such feelings and actions. Both Pedro Paramo, from Pedro Paramo, and Will Atenton, from the movie “Dream House”, are lost within the lives that they believed to be reality but are in fact illusions. Both characters live within a life with their wives that are perceived to be true, but are in fact completely wrong. Do they figure it out? Will Atenton lives in this illusion in which him, his wife, and two daughters have just moved into a new home whose previous owners were killed and the father was sent to a psychiatric ward. The father, Peter Ward, allegedly killed his wife and two daughters only after being accidently shot in the head, himself, by his wife. Atenton searched for the answers just to be told by the psychiatric ward, which once held Peter Ward, that he is Peter Ward. He had created a new identity to cope with the death of his family. Upon figuring out that he in fact is Peter Ward, he also realizes that his perception of his children and wife were all illusions. How could it not have been real...
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