Brain Essays

In this paper I will compare and contrast Spearman’s Model of Intelligence and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence models. One theory of intelligence states that there is one general school of thought and the other theory believes there are multiple schools of thought. Spearman’s general ability, or a “g” factor, believe that …

In understanding how can man be truly human, first is the reason for the human freedom and this freedom is the most important aspect of making human truly human. One of the most important problems with which we have to deal in our reflections on man, and one which constantly …

On any given day within any organization there are decisions to be made. These may be as mundane as where to go for lunch or what new product to put out on the market. There are several decision-making tools and techniques that a person or group can put to use …

In the movie Awakenings, a psychiatrist takes an interest in the patients that are in a statue-esque state. After much research and experimentation, he concludes that the patients were misdiagnosed, and actually have a severe case of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive nervous disease associated with the destruction …

Did you know that we consume one-third of our life sleeping? Or, that we change from periods of deep sleep to periods of light sleep about five times during the night? Or, that we only dream during the period of light sleep, which is usually around morning hours? Not even …

“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens is a poem which creates a unique dramatic situation through an effective imagery, and which compels the reader to employ another way of thinking in order to both understand the poem and realize its very theme. The first thing that is noticeable about the …

“When a person glimpses the face of a famous actor, sniffs a favourite food or hears the voice of a friend, recognition is instant. Within a fraction of a second after the eyes, nose, ears, tongue or skin is stimulated, one knows the object is familiar and whether it is …

In Jon Krakauers Selections of Into the Wild and Oliver Sacks The Minds Eye, the writers research and write about the lives of individuals who seek and experience the world differently from the way many people do and who may even be said to confront a different reality. Krakauers argument …

When evaluating aggression as a behavior we have to consider a person’s intentions as well as the outcome. Elliot Aronson defined aggression as ‘behavior aimed at causing harm or pain’. The act of aggression can be seen to be expressed in two different ways depending on where it is assumed …

The short story “How to Build a Slaughterhouse” by Richard Selzer, can be looked at as a metaphor for the Nazi interment camps. The author portrays the slaughterhouse as a very uniform killing factory, much like the interment camps in Nazi Germany. The workers are so numb to the killing …