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Heartbeat By David Yoo Analysis

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Seeing is not believing. People believe in things everyday, but do they necessarily see what they believe in? Also, if seing is believing, why have there been religions, magicians, illusions? If you see those things is it true? The saying “seeing is believing,” is not true at all because it is actually quite the opposite. “Believing is seeing,” is true because we believe what we see is real. For example, the colors we see at not real at all. Things that are brown reflect all colors but brown. So we see the color brown. The color orange reflects all colors but orange. So we see orange. In “Saving the Lost”, by Reynaldo Vasquez, sometijmes to find something, you simply have to believe. Adrian Owen, a “groundbreaking British scientist” has found a new way to use neuroimaging. It includes people in a vegatative state and “are those who have come out of a coma and appear to be awake with open eyes and sleep patterns. However, they do not show any awareness of who they are or where they are.” But Owen has found a way to test how responsive these patients are with neuroimaging. People before Owen thought that neruoimaging had no further uses and everything that neuroimaging could do was already discovered. …show more content…

When his crush said he was disgustingly skinny, he decided to do something about it and he ate as much as he could. He he tried to put on some muscle but it didn’t show. He eventually accidentally put two shirts on instead of one and he saw it made him look bigger. He put on more and more shirts. Until comeone found out. His perspective on reality made him think that, with more and more layers, he looked buffer and buffer. His realization after he saw the difference of now having the layers on was, “I was amazed at

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