Parfit's View of Personal Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
I intend to explicate Derek Parfit's view regarding personal identity as non-branching psychological continuity as well as some of its ethical and emotional implications. In addition, I will present Parfit's split-brain transplant thought experiment as evidence for his view that psychological...
Tarleton, GA: Dead or Alive?
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
For those caught up in the Southern Myth, antebellum southernmost Georgia is a lot like Heaven. F. Scott Fitzgerald follows a Confederate dreamer to the North and back home to Tarleton, Georgia, in his short story “The Ice Palace.” The Southern girl, Sally Carrol Happer, finds herself...
The Church's Grasp: Captivity in Joyce's Dubliners
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
It is easy to recognize when one is held captive by the unfamiliar, but the crippling effect of familiar forces is not so easily realized. Throughout American captivity narratives, typically female Anglo-Americans are ensnared by Native Americans, the “other” of early Anglo-American...
Masking the Profound: Yeats and Nietzsche's Masks
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Though it is impossible to measure the degree of influence that the work of Friedrich Nietzsche had upon William Butler Yeats, a definite change in Yeats' poetry occurred soon after the point in which the Irishman received a copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra in 1902. The “masks” that...
Music, emotion and Zipf's law
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics & languages
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf 's law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements in music that elicit our emotional responses...
