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The TV Serial As a Literary Kind:
An Exercise through Analysis of House, M.D.
by laura
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The Question: Can an American television serial be interpreted on a literary level?

          An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks serves to explain the lives of several individuals who have been living with various defects and diseases.  These individuals include Mr. I, an artist who had gone completely colorblind, Greg F., who had no memories of any events after the 1970s, Dr. Carl Bennet, a surgeon with Tourette’s syndrome, Virgil, a man who gained the ability to see after being blind, Franco, a painter who has the ability to create accurate paintings of his hometown that he hasn’t visited in many years, Stephen, a talented artist with autism, and Temple Grandin, an autistic professor at Colorado State University. 

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 Dolphins are my favorite animals, partly because of their extra-cute appearances: “friendly smile”, little flippers, and sleek and shiny body. But their intelligence is what amazes me the most. I once watched a video about dolphin training. I remember in one of the training sessions, the trainer asks the dolphin to go grab a ball from a basket, yet there is no ball in that basket. So the dolphin takes back the empty basket with him to show the trainer and presses the “No” button available. In another session, the trainer gestures two dolphins to perform two simple tricks then gestures them to perform the two tricks in one action. The dolphins immediately perform a combination of the two tricks without the trainer teaching them how.

 Kathryn Gould

Professor Grobstein

Neurobiology

14 May 2010

Tackling Trauma

Liz Frontino

The Blood-Brain Barrier: An Obstacle for Treatment

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Ballet is all about illusions. Dancers trick themselves and their audiences in order to produce a time-honored art form based on unnatural and highly ordered movements and positions. Much of what the audience sees is a trick or a distraction, because what they think they are seeing is impossible. Really, much of what dancers expect of themselves is impossible, because what they expect is perfection. In this quest for perfection, there is pain and often injury, but to a dancer, that is simply part of the cost of creating their art. Dance creates a very different perception of self than another sport or art form, perhaps because it is a combination of both.

                Whenever I think of wisdom I see an old man sitting on a bench ready to talk and give advice about life. But I’ve also heard the saying wise beyond their years, where with some children or young adult when you look into their eyes you see the old man or a wise being. Where does wisdom come from? How do people become wise? One method is by Erik Erikson’s eight steps. Erikson’s steps begin when you are first born and with age come certain experiences and problems that a person can overcome and obtain a certain value. If the experience is exaggerated the value can be lost or become a more extreme version of the value. Through these experiences a person in the end develops wisdom.