Sout tells the stories of her patients’ struggles for and with sanity, revealing in each case how buried or missing memories of the past serve to disrupt and distort the experience of the present. Using Stout and her patients as your evidence please dicuss a discussable answer to the following question:
If memory shapes our perceptions from momonet to moment is sanity a consistent state, or could it be said that we experience sanity only as a temporary, fluctuating state? If memoey is unreliable, is the ancient adage “Know Thyself” actually an invitation to wishful thinking?
Formatting: 1-inch margins, 12pt font, Times New Roman, double spaced. Number your pages. Each Quotation of the text should be no longer thatn two sentences and should be cited the following way: finish the quote” (Stout, 234).
Assignment should have its own unique title.
-Do not start a paragraph with ‘there’.
-Do not use one,he or she, i, you
-Use we or our as pronoun
-Summarize author’s essay in the intro paragraph!!
-Every body paragraph must have 1 quotation.
(5 1/2 pages for above essay)
and use the other 1/2 page to answer these two quetions (in casual way)
1.Martha Stout tells us that “normal” people spend much more time being influenced by the past. We constantly ask our memories of the past to inform us about how to behave in the present.
Consider this: A young high school senior named George has a major crush on a classmate named Deborah. He asks Deborah out, she rejects him and he’s totally heartbroken… flash forward a year and George is now at college, he gets a crush on a hallmate named Caroline. He considers asking her out but then his memory tells him not to. His memory screams: “Remember how heartbroken you were last year when Deborah rejected you? This Caroline girl is going to do the same thing. Bro, don’t ask her out!”
Now Deborah and Caroline have nothing to do with each other. And just because Deborah rejected George does not mean that Caroline will. But good luck convincing your memory that this is so. But isn’t this pretty insane?
This is just an example of how we depend on our memories to inform us about how to proceed with our lives in the present. But does the above example sound sane? What does this allow you to say about how we experience sanity? Step back and ask yourself how this can help you answer the question.
2.How can a look into what Martha Stout tells us about how habits and triggers from the past influence our present. If humans are just hostages of our habits how does that allow us to discuss sanity as a fluctuating state?
What evidence can you find from Stout? Can you find a quote that might root a discussion about habits?
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