A SELF-PORTRAIT IN EXTERIOR (AN ESSAY ON MOHAMMED DIB’S LAST BOOK)

Frank Pantridge portrait unveiling – a photo essay

As part of the Frank Pantridge Legacy symposium at Queens University, the latter part of Thursday 11 th June was devoted to Frank Pantridge's memory. A reception in the Canada room in the Lanyon building of the University took place followed by a formal unveiling of a commissioned oil painting of Frank. The symposium was organised and introduced by Professor Alun Evans (figure 4). The audience ...

Mandelbrot Makes Sense : A Book Review Essay

ers of chaos theory as it generated pictures of ever increasing complexity using a deceptively minuscule recursive rule, one that can be reapplied to itself repeatedly. You can look at the set at smaller and smaller resolutions without “ever” reaching the limit; you will continue to see the recognizable shapes. The introduction of fractals was not initially welcomed by the mathematical establis...

Essay on Managing the Self

Self-management is an important element especially for people who live with chronic conditions or personality issues, for example, low self-esteem. Self management is the kind of support and skill that assists the people with chronic conditions to understand their conditions and become more concerned about the management of their health and well-being (McConnell, 2011 p.3). The objective of edu...

Self Portrait of Youth

The mind's self-portrait.

Scientific psychology and neuroscience are taking increasingly precise and comprehensive pictures of the human mind, both in its physical architecture and its functional processes. Meanwhile, each human mind has an abbreviated view of itself, a self-portrait that captures how it thinks it operates, and that therefore has been remarkably influential. The mind's self-portrait has as a central fea...