Special Senses Through out your lifetime you have experienced the world through your senses – sight‚ sound‚ taste‚ smell‚ touch – or more accurately your special senses which include Vision‚ Audition‚ Equilibrium‚ Olfaction‚ and Gustation. After you have lived awhile your body changes so it should be no surprise that your ability to sense and perceive the world would change as well. Through senses that perceive light‚ sound‚ and smell‚ you gain so much information about your surroundings
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Chemical Senses OLFACTION The sense of smell. Begins with the detection of molecules suspended in the air Olfactory stimuli Must be soluble in fat Taken through the nostrils and circulated within the nasal cavities connected to the nostrils. Olfactory epithelium Thin sheet of cells which contain neural receptors for olfaction Contains olfactory receptor cells and glia-type support cells that produce mucus Also contains basal cells which give rise to new receptors when needed Olfactory
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political Latin power of the Romans‚ embracing nearly the whole known world‚ made the Latin language the most widely spread of all languages‚ and this caused Latin literature to be read in all lands and to influence the literary development of the peoples of Europe. [1] The literature of ancient Rome produced many works of poetry‚ comedy‚ tragedy‚ satire‚ history and rhetoric‚ drawing heavily of the traditions of other cultures and particularly on the more matured literally tradition of Greece. Latin
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The title of The Sense of an Ending refers the many ‘endings’ in the novel. Of the ‘endings’‚ Adrian’s suicide seems to be the most crucial event in the novel. His suicide raises a question that Tony implies throughout the book: Which is better: living a meaningless life or committing a meaningful suicide? Robson’s suicide at the beginning is cast off as a meaningless suicide as his note was just an apology to his mother and he did not make a grand statement. In reaction to Robson’s suicide‚ Adrian
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Common Sense Paper In the years of 1775 through 1776‚ the American colonies were at the beginning of a war with Great Britain. American loyalists‚ those who supported the King of England‚ believed the colonies should remain loyal to their parent country of Great Britain‚ whereas the American patriots viewed the King of England as a tyrant and the country of Great Britain as betraying the American colonies. In 1776 Thomas Paine‚ a British patriot‚ wrote the political pamphlet‚ Common Sense‚ rejecting
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Touch is the oldest and the most primitive sense that we have. It is the first sense we experience in the womb and the last one we lose before death. The organ that is most associated with the sense of touch is the skin. The uppermost part of the skin is called epidermis‚ which is as thick as a piece of paper‚ and it protects the inner part. Below the epidermis‚ there is dermis. Dermis is where the sense of touch is originated from. It is filled with many tiny nerve endings‚ which gives the person
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Sense of Touch/Feeling The Skin Senses Consider the skin has remarkable versatility: It protects us against surface injury‚ holds in body fluids‚ and helps regulate body temperature. The skin also contains nerve endings that‚ when stimulated‚ produce sensations of touch‚ pain‚ warmth and cold. Like several other senses‚ these skin senses are connected to the somatosensory cortex located in the brain’s parietal lobes. The Somatosensory Cortex The skin’s sensitivity
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Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility‚ first published in 1811‚ explores the social and cultural expectations of this period through the moderation of the important characteristics of sense and sensibility. The novel is a sharply detailed portraiture that represents the large difference between power and disempowerment relating to that time of between the English eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the many areas surrounding such themes as courtship‚ the importance of marriage‚ the role
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1. Sensation There are different modalities (forms) of sensation Sound‚ pain‚ pressure‚ touch‚ stretch‚ vibration‚ heat‚ cold‚ vision‚ taste‚ smell‚ proprioreception‚ hearing‚ equilibrium‚ gustation‚ etc. Each modality has a specific receptor Each modality is conducted by sensory (afferent) neurons to the CNS and is the result of different neural pathways and synaptic connections 2. Sensory Pathways 3. Law of Specific Nerve Energy Each sensory neuron carries information about
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A Sense of History: Some Components by Gerald W. Schlabach All students who graduate from a liberal arts college should take with them an indelible awareness of the following: 1. Some things happened before other things. Studying history is much more than the memorization of dates. But if we get things out of chronological order‚ we’ll inevitably get a lot of other things wrong too. Imagine that we are in a new city trying to find "408 N. 5th St.‚" but vandals have taken down the signs
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