Oreo's Observations

Myers'  Psychology  for the AP Course Third Edition Think about how we blindly consume medicine. Our craving for a solution, any solution to heal our physical troubles produces totally twisted theories. Taking tablets three days into a cold, we become children again and believe in magic instead of the more obvious, boring explanation that it naturally healed itself. In the 1700s, bloodletting seemed reasonable. People sometimes improved afterwards; when they didn't, psh, the disease was the problem not the so-called treatment. We have to control other variables to actually understand the effect of a remedy.  And that is exactly how new medicines and methods of therapy came to be. Participants were randomly assigned into a control and experimental group. The first group receives the real deal (a true drug for example). The other group receives a bogus-treatment - a fake (maybe a pill with without a drug in it). The subjects are usually blind to which treatment they are rec...

There seems to be a negative connotation to this title. If I say civil disobedience, does that sound more heroic? Worthy of your attention? After all disobedience pioneered the civil rights movement, and Rosa Parks was etched in history as the 'ideal rebel'. As a parental figure however, the ideal falls nowhere near a rebel. Defined by dyed hair, piercings, tattoos, revealing clothes, a drugged alcoholic teen; this is a parent's worst nightmare. But in most cases, nightmares don't come true. We merely see a mild version in our lives, like our vulnerability displayed in forgetting our homework instead of our clothes. Though, these connections are never really made. Seeing a child however, staying up late can instantly drive a parent's mind to this unholy image of a rebellious child. But why? Our fears at night are far too unrealistic to ever come true, but seeing the slightest bit of reality resemble our deepest horrors...is concerning. So how does a parent naturally...

You drive on the same, endless road, with absolutely zero idea of the direction your fate lies in.  Until you wake up and realize you can’t drive.                                                                                 If this is you, chances are you’ve  often been told you’re absentminded.  Very often.  Everyone has always been quick to remind you so,  as if being absentminded comes with short-term memory loss.  It’s not that you lose your memory of what occurred during the time you dozed off,   you just never acquired it. You  hear the voices around you, but never process it.               People think absentmindedness is due to distractions, but in reality this inborn characteristic is the distraction itse...

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been learning and discussing about monuments in class. Reading numerous perspectives on the effectiveness of monuments, I can’t stop thinking; at what point does monument simply serve as a tourist attraction? Generally speaking, monuments were constructed to honor a historically significant person, or event. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a deep incision into the earth, a monument made one with nature, not in place of it. When one visits the touching site, they recognize the mirrored walls with names plastered. Do they stop to contemplate the barrier that stands between life and death? Or does the reflective wall function only as a photo point? As someone who has visited the Washington Memorial, I can dishearteningly say, my experience of the monument is blurred by a rush of tourists attempting to catch the perfect photograph. Over time, the architecture loses emotional value as people gaze their eyes towards it for a couple minutes and stroll away. ...