Essays on Mind

The passage, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Markheim, commences with bells striking three in the afternoon in London on Christmas day. As the passage continues, the conflict is revealed: Markheim, the protagonist, has murdered a man and must avoid capture for his crime. The passage describes the resulting paranoia and insecurity that he feels. Told from…

            Le Corbusier was both an interesting and important character in the context of European and philosophical history. While many of his colleagues were trying their hand at other ventures, Le Corbusier set out to help the people around him. This noble cause is what has cemented his legacy for so many years and it…

In the poem, ‘Where The Mind Is Without Fear’, Tagore sketches a moving picture of the nation he would like India to be. Where everyone within the fold of the brotherhood is free to hold up one’s head high and one’s voice to be heard without having any tension of fear of oppression or forced…

April Raintree written by Beatrice Culleton is an inspiring story set during mid to late 20th century about two Metis sisters who struggled against social prejudice. As they grew up through many hardships trying to uncover their unique identity in society, the two sisters discovered the world in two entirely different perspectives. Though they planned…

Jaycee Dugan endured those very same things and the main purpose of her writing her memoir, A Stolen Life was to give people who haven’t been subjected to such an extreme level of abuse an understanding of what it takes to survive being kidnapped and repeatedly raped and the toll it can take on a…

The summary of Geert Hofstede The text refers to the study of culture in the environment of organization. Especially how culturally different participant can make an constructive and efficient intercultural dialogue. At the beginning of the publication Geert Hofstede points attention to the example which shows how different cultural background influences our way of thinking…

Gilbert Ryle The Concept of Mind The Self Many of us have asked the question: „What would it be if I became you and you became me? ” This problem has often been depicted in literature and cinema in order to find a solution. Gilbert Ryle in the chapter „ The Self” of his book…

Megalomaniac “Erostratus” written by Jean-Paul Sartre is a story about a character named Paul Hilbert who throughout the story develops obsession with fame. Sartre, “one of the great philosophical minds of the twentieth century” and “a leading proponent of existentialism” (Sartre, 1000) borrowed heavily, as the title indicates, from Greek mythological story of Erostratus. The…

Jane Goodall, the author of the article The Mind of the Chimpanzee, is an ethologist and an advocate for animal rights; at least, this was what she admitted in the said article (Goodall 1990 p 53). The article was an excerpt from a larger work by Goodall, Through a Window, and an argument for humane…

Fragmented selves: A Lacanian Reading of Auster’s The New York Trilogy Abstract: The concept of fragmented self was first introduced by Freud through his model of three part psyche, namely ego, id and super-ego, and later modified by Jacque Lacan, the famous postmodern psychoanalyst. The split of subject is one of the most appealing concepts…