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The first edition of A Christmas Carol. The illustration on the left is of Mr. Fezziwig's ball, one of Scrooge's good memories. (Wikimedia Commons)
Why Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol"
By Kat Eschner Smithsonian.com
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A Christmas Carol is more than a timeless Christmas story - its author hoped that its lessons would be remembered all through the year.
The publication of A Christmas Carol in 1843 ensured that Charles Dickens' name would forever be linked with Christmas. In some ways, it's a very Victorian story of urban circumstances: extremes of wealth and poverty, industry and inability. But it also helped change Victorian society, writes historian Catherine Golden for the National Postal Museum blog. And that's why Dickens wrote it.
Aside from boosting people's awareness of the plight of the poor in Victorian England, though, Dickens also had a more immediate need: cash. He'd spent too much on his 1842 American tour, Golden writes, and he needed to support his large family. "Thinking creatively, he wrote himself out of his dilemma," she reports.
The already well-known writer's solution worked, to a degree. He sold out the first print run in a week, all 6,000 copies of it. By the end of the next year, writes Brandon Ambrosino for Vox, the book had sold more than 15,000 copies. But due to the book's lavish bindings and the relatively low price he chose to sell it for, writes Michael Varese for The Guardian, much of that money didn't make it back to the author, who was hoping to make at least $1000 from the book. "What a wonderful thing it is that such a great success should occasion me such intolerable anxiety and disappointment!" he wrote.
The book did have the cultural impact Dickens was hoping for, though. The writer came from a poor family and is remembered as a friend to the poor throughout his life. In the fall of that year, writes Ambrosino, the author had visited a Samuel Starey's Field Land Ragged School, which taught poor children. "Dickens easily empathized with such children living in poverty, coming, as he did, from a poor childhood himself - a fact that set him apart from many other English authors," writes Ambrosino.
"Even if economics motivated Dickens to write A Christmas Carol, his story stimulated charity," writes Golden. Characters like Bob Cratchitt's family, Scrooge's lost love and of course Scrooge himself paint a vivid picture of a time and place where need was everywhere, especially in London. And Scrooge's redemption arc that anchors the story is an important voice to potential middle-class givers, writes Ambrosino. "Though he doesn't give away any of his money [at the beginning of the story], and though he feels no sympathy for those less fortunate than he, Scrooge, as Dickens makes clear, is no criminal. He works hard for his money, day in and day out." In the end, Scrooge becomes a sympathetic character. And his belief that prisons and workhouses were enough social aid for those in poverty - a common enough belief in Victorian times - is overwhelmed only when he realizes that the city needs something more: empathy, in the form of charity.
Like Scrooge at the end of the story, when he becomes "as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew," Dickens himself was a charitable man. He made a good living, writes Ambrosino, "and he used his wealth and influence to help those less fortunate."
Dickens may not have gotten rich off of the publication of A Christmas Carol, but he did make the world a little richer.
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What makes "A Christmas Carol" timeless?
Write your answers in the comments section below
SarahH-wik
12/13/2018 - 04:16 p.m.
A Christmas Carol is timeless because it can be enjoyed by all generations. Many lessons can be learned from "The Christmas Carol" and you don't have to just read the book as a Christmas story, it can be appreciated all year long.
jamied-wik
"A Christmas Carol" is a timeless story because the theme showed by the book is showing a lesson that everyone can remember,the spirit and joy of Christmas.
The book is good,especially at the end when Scrooge learns the spirit of Christmas.I feel like the book could have been extended,because the book was good,and I want it to be better
BraedenP-wik
In my opinion, a Christmas carol is timeless because the book still has morals that anyone can understand. In the next 100 years, this book's moral will probably have the same impact as it did for us.
RyanC-wik
A Christmas Carol is timeless because it shows the true meaning of Christmas. It doesn't say we should give presents, we should give love and laughter and joy in your entire family. This book is also timeless because it could be shared by every generation in a family.
madisonl-wik
In a world where greed is such a bad problem, it's great to have a story about a man who learned so much about the spirit of Christmas to such a selfish world. No matter how old the book may be.
wess-wik
A Christmas Carol s a timeless classic because at the beginning of the story scrooge is a role model of what not to be and at the end he is a role model of what you should be. A Christmas Carol also teaches you lessons from what scrooge does,these lesson are things that everyone should have.
mikaylat-wik
what makes " A Christmas Carol" timeless is the type of message it sends, it shows you that you should enjoy life and not be negative especially around the best time of the year.
ameliae-wik
The "Christmas Carol" is known as a timeless classic because the lessons and virtues it teaches aren't made just for Christmas or any specific holiday, they are relevant anytime and all year long. Anyone, no matter rich or poor, young or old, can learn from the lessons the book presents. This is why the book is still appreciated and reserved to this day.
EmekaO-wik
In my opinion I think the book is timeless because most problems in the story are things people in our present day they can relate to. Another reason is that even though it is a Christmas story , anybody can read it at any time of the year. This is why the selection " A Christmas Carol" is timeless.
GraceF-wik
A Christmas Carol is timeless because it teaches a lesson, a lesson that can be used all year, and that you shouldn't be greedy, shouldn't push people away, and don't be such a Scrooge!
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Romney vs. Democrats: War over emails escalates
By CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin and Senior Producer Ted Metzer
Washington (CNN) - No one is accused of breaking the law. And who considers a spat about hard drives and emails sexy?
But the chair of the Democratic National Committee charged Mitt Romney's staff with "unconscionable" acts, and the Romney team accused the Obama administration of being willing to "say and do anything to hold onto their power."
It's a glimpse of just how nasty a general election battle would be between the former Massachusetts governor and President Barack Obama.
"The last thing they want to do is run against Mitt Romney in the general election," Romney communications director Gail Gitcho told CNN, referring to the Obama campaign. "In this case they have deployed or activated the (current Massachusetts Gov. Deval) Patrick Administration to do their dirty work."
"That's an interesting distraction," added Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the DNC.
They're both reacting to a Boston Globe report from Thursday detailing that when Romney's term as governor ended, 11 of his aides legally purchased the hard drives from their government computers - taking their emails and advice to the governor with them.
According to the Globe, Romney's successor Gov. Patrick "has been bombarded with inquiries for records from the Romney era" but "has no electronic record of any Romney administration e-mails."
Patrick, a Democrat, is a friend of Obama and campaigned for him in 2008.
This Globe report set off a volley of angry legal letters. Team Romney requested that Patrick turn over all email between his staff and Obama's top political aides (some of whom have also worked for Patrick) and accused Patrick of using his staff as "an opposition research arm of the Obama re-election campaign."
The DNC responded with a request for all email from Romney's gubernatorial administration related to the purchase of computer hard drives and emails with embarrassing subjects including "destroy records" and "flip-flop."
Democrats, many of whom expect Romney to become the Republican presidential nominee, are seizing on the story.
"Mitt Romney was planning to run for president towards the end of his administration, and the public has the right to know what kinds of communication were going on while he was beginning to plan that campaign," said Wasserman Schultz. "It is absolutely unconscionable, inexcusable that the records of those conversations or any conversations would have been wiped clean of servers."
The Romney campaign points out that the governor archived 700 boxes of public documents–press releases, speeches, and the like.
Why did so many aides buy their hard drives?
"You know a lot of people probably didn't want their hard drives subject to an opposition research dig, which is what we are seeing happen now," Gitcho said. "I do know this has been a long standing practice and everything has been done with complete compliance with the law."
When asked about the hard drives on the campaign trail, Romney Friday brushed it off as typical presidential season politics.
While Romney is still fighting the GOP primary battle, the Democrats are free to focus their firepower on the former governor. The Obama team has decided he's the likely Republican opponent. They're trying to define him early as a flip-flopper, a candidate who lacks core values, and as someone who will do anything to get elected.
Wasserman Schultz told CNN: "Mitt Romney has a very clear track record of trying to reinvent himself, start over, flip-flop on major–issues."
All this before the first votes have been cast in the primary and caucus season, set to begin Jan. 3.
Filed under: 2012 • Debbie Wasserman Schultz • DNC • Mitt Romney • President Obama
WhatWas InThem
Ummm, it is VERY interesting that the hard drives are missing along with the tons of e-mails that undoubtedly were exchanged. One just has to ask, Why? What made them all purchase their hard drives? Is it not Government Property as it had to do with an official who was in office? How can there be Checks and Balances if any employee can just buy the government's hard drives with important information? Can any government worker purchase their hard drive also, including the President's staff? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Mr. Romney should see to it that those hard drives are returned immediately and on an ethical basis should not have allowed them to be bought out in the first place! That should be the larger question here.
November 19, 2011 09:59 am at 9:59 am |
Shauna Botwin
Obama is afraid of running against Wall Street Mitt? Gimme a break.
November 19, 2011 10:01 am at 10:01 am |
You know, there are servers in any offices environment which connects the individucal's computers to the office infrastructure and the servers are backed up. All the email info should be on the back up.
I be a hell of a better if could get a hold of all Obamas schooling Info & where he worked who paid forall those colledges he went to.and a lot better off if bill Avery was in jail for all his bombings and laws he has broke and alook at Obama's dealing with Reverannd Wright,and real estate Broker ,then we see where Bear crapped in the woodsat.
GOP can get DEMs records when they get cheney to hand over his corruption files. Oh I forgot, gop let cheney destroy them. If Obama went after bush/cheney they way gop did with clinton, they would be in jail for life!
LegendRx
Ok, on the count of three, One, two, three, Exchange e-mail docs. LOL!
Nate Dogg SC
If Romney's team continues to play this off,it makes them look like theyr hiding something. Just be open about everything an move on.
denvervet
I am sorry but I can't get past the fact that Mormons believe when they die the men will be Gods and rule a planet and be able to call up as many women as he wants to populate the planet.......isn't this plural marraige? Look into this religion before you vote and see what you think.
No other governor has EVER allowed the sale of govt hard drives, so the question begs to be answer, "WHAT WAS ROMNEY TRYING TO HIDE?
Jimboob
I'm not a republican and no friend of Mitt (FOM) ??
That being said, Flip Flopping or Waffling only shows that a person has an open mind and their opinions can change when given more data. Republicans that took a "No New Tax" pledge and still stick to it when it's shown to be killing our country are the ones I would be worried about.
Romney sparring with Democrats? I thought he was a Democrat.
What a distraction.....and lack of knowledge. They can take their computers. Those emails were long ago recorded on the server at the time they were sent and are part of government records. Both sides need to get back on their messages.
Is her name really Gail Gitcho?
fla.repub
B.O. has to do anything he can, except run on his record. Nice guy, horrible failure as our leader. anyone but barry in '12
'I have never met a politician who is so consistently without principle.' – Barney Frank on Mitt Romney.
socalgal
So, the Big "O" can destroy this country in every manner conceivable, and the DNC is worried about what Mitt's employees did with their computers when moving out? No surprise!
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Q: How do I make a component listen for changes in a global variable? angular 5 via service I'm building an app in Angular 5 and am trying to create a global variable using my service, 'user_logged_in'. It works, like I can access it from other components, but how do I get a component to reread the variable once it's been updated?
So if a user successfully logs in, I change the variable to true. That part works. But, I have another component (which has already rendered) that will only call for data if a user is logged in. How do I get it to be constantly listening for changes and reevaluate the Boolean to finally load the data once true?
My service looks like:
import { Injectable, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Subject, Observable } from "rxjs";
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
import { Http, Response, RequestOptions, Headers } from '@angular/http';

@Injectable()
export class AuthService {

 user_logged_in: Boolean;

}
 constructor(public authService: Http, private router: Router) {}

 logInUser(signInData: { username: string, password: string }): Observable<Response> {
    return this.authService.post('api.url', signInData)
    .map(res => {
      var data = res.json()
      if (data.status = 200){
          this.user_logged_in = true
     }
     return res
   }
  )
}

The component looks like:
import { Component, Inject, OnInit, Input, AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';
import { DataService } from '../data.service';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { AuthService } from "../services/auth.service";

@Component({
  selector: 'app-sitelist',
  templateUrl: './sitelist.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./sitelist.component.css']
})

export class SitelistComponent implements OnInit {

  data_returned: boolean;
  logged_in: Boolean;

constructor(public data: DataService, private http: HttpClient, private _dataService: DataService, public authService: AuthService) {

}

ngOnInit() {
  this.data_returned = false;

  //only load data if the global variable is true

  if (this.authService.user_logged_in == true) {
    this.authService.getSites()
      .subscribe(data => {
        this.data_returned = true;
        this.sites = data;
        this.authService.all_sites = data;
      })
   }
 }
}

So, If my component has already loaded and sees 'user_logged_in' as false before the user logs in, how do I get it to reevaluate once the user does? I'd prefer not to refresh the page but instead some sort of synchronous type of evaluation.
Thanks!! let me know how I can clarify anything!

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A Kennedy says something stupid — and it's not even Ted this time
Whenever disaster strikes, you can be assured that there will be a Kennedy there to say something insane, not to mention completely inappropriate and inaccurate.
As bodies float in the water and people are still trapped on roofs and in attics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. points the finger of blame for hurricane Katrina at Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour for the part he played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol.
Whuh…? I mean, really, what a demagoging dumbass dickhead– even by Kennedy standards.
In 1900, a big hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing 6,000 people. At that time, Great-Great Grandaddy Kennedy probably took a break from teaching lil' Joe how to tap a rum keg to point out that the Galveston hurricane was, of course, the fault of then Texas Governor Joseph Sayers for his unwillingness to sign the "Holstein Treaty" which attempted to globally regulate cow farts.
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A Kennedy says something stupid — and it's not even Ted this time
Impeach Bush over illegal aliens?
Conservatives are getting ancy over illegal aliens and taking it out on Bush, at some levels, rightly so. Pat Buchanan has written recently that President Bush should be impeached over his inability, or unwillingness, to do anything about the illegal alien debacle, and now Joseph Farah has joined his call.
Perhaps President Bush isn't as traumatized, since he's from Texas and was surrounded by far more illegals than those of us in the more northern states. I mean, there's a reason he speaks fluent spanish.
Bush then raised the rankles of people who recognize what a disaster our border policies are when Bush called the "Minutemen" private American border patrol group "vigilantes". Fact is, there wouldn't be a Minuteman group if there wasn't the need for them. Besides, don't they always tell us it's our duty to report a crime when we witness one? How is the breaking of immigration laws any different?
Buchanan, Farah, and the growing number of others who are calling for the impeachment of Bush, which would play right into the hands of the left, are writing this because they think it would be the only way to make the point to Bush. That point being that illegal immigration won't be tolerated, and it's the president's duty to enforce the laws, and Bush isn't enforcing the laws at the border.
Impeaching a wartime president would do more irreparable harm than good, but calling for it does held draw more attention to the issue at hand, not to mention creates a column title that generates controversy, not to mention readership.
I certainly understand their points, though. A country without a border isn't a country, and the way illegals are pouring across the border like Chivas over Kennedy lips is an inexcusable dereliction of duty on the part of all the federal government.
Impeachment aside, if any politician refuses to act on this matter, we the regular schmucks in this country have the power to impeach them by simply voting them out of office.
As it concerns Bush, we have to choose our battles. Focus on the war we're involved in, or bog down in impeachment proceedings because of lax border control while losing focus on the former. No, not now, Pat and Joseph. One war at a time, please.
Police catch Art Garfunkel "feelin' groovy"
Singer, poet, and world class free throw shooter Art Garfunkel just can't get enough respect without Paul Simon around. Police pulled him over in Woodstock, New York, after he ran a stop sign, and noticed a doobie burning in the ashtray. Art got busted once again.
Early last year, he was arrested for pot possession after police pulled over his limousine for speeding. No word on whether Art was the passenger or driver of the limo.
Police catch Art Garfunkel "feelin' groovy"
Sheehan & Friends to protest Blue Angels show in Maine – "Nurse Ratchet, white courtesy phone…"
"Veterans for Peace: Because a mind is a terrible thing to lose"
The peace movement these days has become a leftist clown college, training all current and future protesters to make complete asses of themselves. The Veterans for Peace, Maine chapter, with a special appearance by Cindy Sheehan, is planning to don the big red shoes, cram 50 of them into a tiny car, and go off to squirt their lapel flower into the face of attendees at the Blue Angels show at the Brunswick Naval Air Station. The Blue Angels show? Whuh…?
The theme of the protest is "Stop the Gods of War!" They were going to use "Hey, look at us!" in a temporary fit of honesty, but decided against it.
It's really getting sad now. Cindy Sheehan is being passed from liberal to liberal like a bong at Willie Nelson's birthday party. They don't know when to stop. They've become politics' answer to "this is Spinal Tap"… a joke that they don't recognize, namely because they are the punchline.
Protesters departing Crawford for the long drive to the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine
The "Gods of war" perform maneuvers that could only be accomplished by evil deity with an agenda of greed and violence, and must be stopped. By the way, if you unscramble the letters in "Halliburton", you get "Blu Anriltoh". Close enough for us!
Sheehan & Friends to protest Blue Angels show in Maine – "Nurse Ratchet, white courtesy phone…"
A military mom weighs in with a view opposing the letters in the previous post
Today's column, "U.S. Military: The few, the proud, the stupid" certainly has generated a bunch of mail from both ends of the spectrum. In response to the letters on the previous post, forget about my opinion… here's a letter from Karen, a mom who seems to have a direct vested interest in all this:
It is so frustrating to me to watch the 24/7 coverage of the peaceniks knowing "there are more with us than are with them". I sent a donation(pitifully small but all I could afford) to Move America Forward's "You Dont Speak for Me, Cindy" tour. Even our local news crews did a shoddy job of reporting. There were 2000 people by Melanie Morgan's report there insupport of our troops and our President! By watching media coverage, youwould think there were a dozen or so. BUT we were treated to endless sound bytes of Rev. Sharpton. My son is a Corporal, USMC, leaving for hissecond deployment to the Sand. Makes me so MAD!
Thanks Karen. Nice to know that I'm not the only one the Bushies have brainwashed. Give your son all our best, and a heartfelt thank you.
By the way, from what I've heard from many who were offended by the column, the people serving in the military aren't "stupid", but rather "naive"… tell me the difference and win a prize.
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Lots of email today, much of it good, some of it critical. That's the way it goes, and I appreciate all of them, but here are a couple of the critical ones.
This first one makes no sense… but just to give you an idea of the kind of stuff I put up with…
Michael N., I'm guessing, didn't take the time to read the entire column on how the left is insulting to the U.S. military. He decided to not cast his anger on the left who thinks current and former members of the military, such as he claims to be, are morons, but the problem is with us regular people who never served:
I guess you have a great military resume, huh, Doug? Twist and attack the messengers, that's all you who have drank the bush kool aid can do or more likely, those who have been paid off to attack true patriots.
How about an arguement to support the quagmire? None currently available, oh yeah, others must die to support the mission because others have already died….the latest reason. Until you can find another one, attack anyone who dissents as
unpatriotic. "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" according to Thomas Jefferson.
As a Vietnam veteran, who was raised on John Wayne war movies, (note that he never served either), your contention that young troops who enlisted to support a "no-bull cause" are stupid is correct. It only took me a short time in a war zone, however, to discover that our country is run by corporate elitists (who obviously pay your way) who make billions of dollars of war profits from taxpayers misery.
How many in your family have enlisted? How many in your family have died in Iraq for the neo cons? Were you ever in a war zone fighting to fill the coffers of war corporations? Where is the 9 billion dollars lost by halliburton……is that the blood money that helps pay bush administration shills like you?
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Enlist or Resist!
Sorry, then, Michael, for pointing out that what Cindy Sheehan and her puppeteers are saying or hinting at through their actions– which is that the average member of the U.S. military is stupid. I simply pointed out that this is totally false and patently insulting to the soldiers.
What I wrote was not a comment on the war, but a defense of the intellect and maturity of the U.S. military, which is currently under attack in Crawford, and soon on bus tours. You've proven that there are exceptions to my point, however, and for that, I thank you.
Also, "enlist or resist"? I don't get it. If I'm not a member of the military, then I have no right to support their missions, only to resist and protest them? Oh man… I hope it's meds day…
Quick update… Just got this reply from Michael. I'm posting just the first couple of sentences, since you get the point by now:
Yes, I read the column! Are you aware of what our country stands for? Part is the ability to question and dissent the policies. Because Sheehan is dissenting the policies, you are attacking her, what sense does that make?
Well, apparently this country doesn't stand for my right to question the dissenters. Hey, how come it's "patriotic" to criticize Bush policies, but when I criticized Clinton's policies, people like you considered me anything but patriotic?
Besides, I'm not attacking Sheehan, I'm defending those she's insulting– the soldiers. When Cindy Sheehan's own words are quoted, and you consider the use of her own words as "attacking" her, you've got a problem.
Ken M. from Pensacola follows with this:
I was in Vietnam and carried dead and dying back to hospitals. Too bad Mrs Sheehan wasn't there to tell us what a stupid conflict the government got us into over another lie called the Gulf of Tonkin.
No, you guys in Vietnam didn't need Cindy Sheehan, because you had her predecessor, Jane Fonda. That worked out well for you guys, didn't it Ken?
Coincidentally, Rich Lowrey has a good piece in National Review where he discusses the much used "Chicken-hawk" label.
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Hunting and Eating Zebra!! Inside a South African Game Reserve!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zBjd90EV4
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I Paid $10,000 to Hunt Africa's Most Dangerous Killer!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWY1IHiDiE
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PROOF: Economics and Hunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdP7lCdt2g
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PROOF: Nature Decay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-7kVfA6it4
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The Guidelines for the Conservation of the Lion in Africa (GCLA)
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Study reveals the true value of elephants
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Ten years of coverage of trophy hunting in UK newspapers
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TRUTH: Ricky Gervais – We are Big Fans! BUT … we need to talk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPtdvI_7YzA
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TRUTH: Are we killers or hunters?
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A comparison of lead-based and lead-free bullets for shooting sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) in Australia
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Trophy hunting: Bans create opening for change
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Conservation overstretch and long-term decline of wildlife and tourism in the Central African savannas
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As Heraclitus noted some 25 centuries ago, you can't step in the same river twice, because neither you nor the river are fixed entities. What if you had a tapeworm living in your intestine? Perhaps you think that you — your body — began at conception, when the sperm hooked up with the egg. An organ is an organization of several different kinds of tissues so arranged that together they can perform a special function. Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, University of Maine, 5717 Corbett Hall, But what about your legacy, all the things you made and touched? When did you begin? Your skin leaks odors and pheromones: are they not 'you'? Exposed to the air, aluminum will slowly rust, via the chemical reaction known as oxidation, the same reaction behind a burning flame. When does 'it' become part of 'you', i.e., your brain? But then why stop at the neurons? (And besides, aren't a lot of those outermost cells already dead?). If you can be revived, are you really dead? The nasopharynx is, by definition, the upper part of the throat behind the nose. All this leads to the inescapable conclusion: There are no meaningful, objective boundaries to your physical body. The word "Android" means the appearance of being a human, but with the internal mechanics exactly the same as a robot. So regardless of whether you choose to identify with your entire body or just your brain, it's not at all clear which subset of the things inside your skin are 'you' and which are 'other. There are additional body cavities which we will only discuss in lecture. Like a flame, it metabolizes matter and energy, attracting a certain set of atoms, for a time, then releasing them back into the world. Maxed out: What's the human speed limit? When they're destroyed by antibiotics, for example, the effects on your health can be disastrous. Does it matter whether you think of these creatures as parasites or symbionts? Who's to stop you? Atoms cycle through your system, cells die and new ones take their place — and no one seems to care. Does the brain flicker for a few fleeting moments after the heart and lungs have stopped? Sure, mitochondria may have originally been a separate prokaryotic species — but that was well before humans came into the picture. ', But it gets even harder. Might want to brace yourself.). If anything, food is on its way in, soon to become part of your body. Xingyi Wang – Boundary of the Body: The Monastic Robe and Revival of the Vinaya in Medieval China and Japan. The formulation of the problem is based on the corresponding integro-differential equation for … ... That can be … There's just no good answer to this question. Select one: A. costal arch B. costovertebral angle C. … MENINGEAL EXTENSION BEYOND THE SPINAL CORD TERMINUS. The two systems coexist to form a new system to tackle the various problems and ensure the well being of the human body. Your neurons: surely they're an important part of your brain. From the outside, the human body can be divided into several main structures. If your body is so porous, why not identify with your possessions? There are, of course, exceptions in the Buddhist tradition, especially if one takes Some of the sound waves get reflected back to the probe, while some travel on further until they reach another boundary and get reflected. "Redefining the Boundaries of Humanity and the Human Body: From Homo Sapiens to Homo Technicus." It is necessary to bring the body back to equilibrium. Here she is, on the decision to have a child: It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. When a cell throws off its yoke and starts to rebel against the body politic, can you just revoke its citizenship? Usain Bolt has run 100 metres in 9.58 seconds. Are you (in Alan Watts's memorable phrase) a \"skin-encapsulated ego\"?If so, what do you make of your pores? Why should 'you' or 'your body' be any different? Originally our body is equipped with the immune system which is capable of fighting the diseases on its own. Hard to say. But OK, maybe you think it's only your brain that matters. No easy answer to cling to, about where 'you' leave off and the rest of the world begins. In particular, the body is awfully hard to pin down. What about your mitochondria? Do 'you' grow when your lungs inhale and shrink when they exhale? WHICH SERVE THE __2__ OF THE BODY. The limbs (arms and legs) help the body to move about and function in the world. Melting Asphalt is a collection of essays by, All text licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (. Within the broad humanistic tradition of mind-body approaches, Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) offers a uniquely developmental perspective. It is merely the question of belief, of what we believe in. 'You' were never just a piece of matter, a mere collection of atoms. What about cancer? What happens when you breathe? Alan Watts suggests 'you' might have been present in "the evil gleam in your father's eye when he was coming after your mother.". These odorant substances have been suggested by some to serve as pheromones, which play a role related to mating.. Why can't your body extend outside your skin? If so, what do you make of your pores? This can be done in multiple ways — externally, using medicines, exercise, meditation, etc and internally, through antibodies which fight the problem from within. The perineum in humans is the space between the anus and scrotum in the male and between the anus and the vulva in the female. Image: ThoughtCo. Is that you? The human body is one complex network, universally accepted as the most intriguing construct. But why not let your sense of self extend to encompass much larger parts of the world? Undermentioned are little- and well-known facts about the human body. The boundary element approach to the modelling of cylindrical representation of the human body exposed to the extremely LF electromagnetic fields is presented in the paper. 2. That everything that happens to 'you,' happens to your body, and vice versa. Fair enough. Or is each pore a little dent in your self-boundary? Where does your body leave off and 'the rest of the world' begin? It may sound like science fiction, but if human brain regions involved in bodily self-consciousness were to be monitored and manipulated online via a machine, then not only will the boundary between user and robot become unclear, but human identity may change, as such bodily signals are crucial for the self and the 'I' of conscious experience. There is some variability in how the boundaries are defined. The human heart is one of the most vital organs in the human body. Are they part of 'you,' part of your body? Like the river, your body flows through space and time. An adult human body is composed of about 100,000,000,000,000 cells! Imagine a photon from a remote galaxy heading toward Earth. These are all parts of a whole system of tasks that our body… You're possessive of your things, jealous of your lovers, protective of your family, and territorial of your space — just like every other member of the human species. Does your body end at your skin? The rest of your body is incidental — just a fleshy robot controlled by the 'self' enthroned in your skull. None of this should be a surprise, really. What if the scientific consensus changes, and what was once considered a parasite turns out to be a symbiont, or vice versa? Can your identity really change on such a whim? By why do these things have to be inside or attached to your body? Why do you seem to identify more with your nuclear DNA than with your mitochondrial DNA? Elizabeth Stone gets it. Speaking of friends: Why not allow yourself to identify with other people — to accept 'them' as just as much a part of 'you' as your limbs? These are all parts of a whole system of tasks that our body performs. These smaller systems work together to make the whole bodily system work in synchronisation. Nothing in the real world has clear boundaries. ... We asked scientists to define where, exactly, those boundaries lie, and to provide some take-home tips that'll help you stretch your own potential. In such philosophies of medical treatments, we never seem to question how or what exactly is helping our body recover. While it's swirling, you can point in its general direction, but you can't isolate it, put it in a box, or delineate its boundaries. Each breath brings oxygen in and ushers carbon dioxide out. When one part of this whole system fails in any manner, the whole body seems to malfunction. Your body is a streaming pattern of energy, more fluid than solid. The human body is a system that comprises of multiple smaller systems. The reflected waves are picked up by the probe and relayed to the machine. Pushing The Limits Of The Human Body. However, medicines have their own limitations and when they don't seem to be working, we often think about shifting from conventional methods of medicine, exercise, meditation, etc to less sought after methods like Ayurvedic treatment or even extreme measures like exorcism. The human body is a system that comprises of multiple smaller systems. Each breath brings oxygen in and ushers carbon dioxide out. human body, which leads to the transition of becoming cyborgs. But note that you're just kicking the can down the road, leaving yourself to puzzle over a different set of boundaries: Where does your brain end and the rest of the world begin? Boundaries can vary on various accounts and can include but are not limited to psychological, physical, conceptual, universal, socio-cultural, etc. The Body. But even if it's hundreds of yards away, who's to say it's not part of the production (though not yet on the main stage)? Who decided your epidermis was the official boundary? Certainly there's a sense in which you do, already, identify with your body — behaviorally, that is. MOST SUPERIOR BOUNDARY OF THE SPINAL CORD. Every organ, nerve, muscle in our body forms different systems. What about the bacteria living in your gut, your intestinal flora? If you can muster some identity for the symbionts (like mitochondria) living inside your skin, why not save some for the symbionts living outside? This usually happens in cases of viral. edited by Rocci Luppicini, 1-10. When the electrical signal arrives at your visual cortex? Do 'you' not remain, faintly, in those scattered wisps of your extended self? between fluid and soft tissue, soft tissue and bone). In conclusion, the external and the internal system work differently. The Human Body Cavities. What about your hair or fingernails? The triangle is limited anteriorly by the posterior boundary of the urogenital triangle (the interischial line and perineal body) and its apex … (This is just the beginning of a very hard line of questions. However, another aspect that we have to take into account, when we talk about non-conventional methods like exorcism is that how does an external system like the same interact with the already existing internal systems, like the nervous system, the immune system, the circulatory system, etc. Euclid defined a boundary as "that which is an extremity ofanything" (Elements Bk I, Df 13), and Aristotle madethis more precise by defining the extremity of a thing x as"the first point beyond which it is not possible to find anypart [of x], and the first point within which every part[of x] is." (Metaphysics V, 17, 1022a4–5) Thisdefinition is intuitive enough and may be regarded as the naturalstarting point for any investigation into the concept of aboundary. The head houses the brain which controls the body. When in need of the external system the human body expands its boundaries to welcome the change that comes along with the same. Could he go any faster? Indeed, although Aristotle's definition was only meant toap… There is a lot of controversy when it comes to exorcism; while some believe it to actually work, others believe that it is nothing more than simple mind play by local babajis to trick people. When we talk about external systems, their interaction with the various boundaries is more flexible than rigid and varies from person to person, case to case. Similarly, when will 'you' end? But over time, our dependence on external methods like medications has changed the way our immune systems functions. Within the frame of these perspectives, we will organize a major multidisciplinary project that seeks a coherent physical, cultural, and philosophical anthropology – an understanding of the 'boundaries of humanity' that defends human dignity and promotes the personal, social, and spiritual flourishing of human … There are about 200 different kinds of specialized cells in the human body. Would you consider it part of 'you,' or some kind of foreign invader? Perhaps you've had a benign tumor for years — one that's been giving you energy and making you happy. It is certainly the most widely studied structure the world over. Learn human body with free interactive flashcards. (This is just the beginning of a very hard line of questions. FORAMEN MAGNUM. Evidence suggests these are important for your health. Wouldn't you rather scrape your knee than see your childhood teddy bear torn to shreds? There is another word "Android". They might overlap and even counter one another, but both are essential for the smooth sailing of the human body. The perineum is the region of the body between the pubic symphysis (pubic arch) and the coccyx (tail bone), including the perineal body and surrounding structures. Would you want it removed? These two words demonstrate that the … This molecule over here: is it 'in' or 'out' of the eddy? Disability as Microcosm: the Boundaries of the Human Body . Different approaches may be used in teaching or learning about the human anatomy. ... in tandem with the habitual cultivation of the human body in everyday monastic living. If you care about your limbs and your heart, identify them as part of yourself, then you could just as easily identify with an artificial limb or a pacemaker. In this paper, we query the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership, quasi-membership, or exclusion from the category of human. Or could it have already been 'you' the moment it left its distant birthplace? (*) Actually an aluminum can is more fluid, more like a flame, than you might realize. Surely, then, the same principle must allow for an extended self. As soon as it enters your eyeball? Have We Reached the Athletic Limits of the Human Body? Does it respect the boundaries of the internal systems or is there a conflict between the external and the internal? Just as the dialogue between Merleau-Ponty and Dogen takes place on the boundary of Eastern and Western philosophy, our body is a boundary symbol, which expresses that we are on the border of freedom and bondage. Even planets are hard to define. It's purpose is to form a boundary between the internal environment of the body and whatever dangers there are in the external environment. If you can 'disown' an internal enemy, like cancer, why can't you 'annex' the friendlier parts of the external world? The atoms that once danced to the tune of 'you,' now dance to other forces. How about glial cells? Each cell has basic requirements to sustain it, and the body's organ systems are largely built around providing the many trillions of cells with those basic needs (such as oxygen, food, and waste removal). On average, our heartbeats seventy times per minute, which is close to forty-two hundred times per hour and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day. MOTOR & SENSORY NEEDS OF THE MUSCLES AND SKIN OF THE … What about your gut brain — the rather large network of neurons living along your digestive tract? When it tickles a rod on your retina? Maxed out: How long can we concentrate for? Exorcism, though less taken up, is something that is opted for mostly in cases where all hope is lost, with religious people turning towards the same due to their beliefs. To identify with your biological organism is appealing, certainly, but also problematic. Something kicks the eddy into motion, it swirls around for a time, and then dissipates. All 'species' are artificial constructs. The human body is a single structure but it is made up of billions of smaller structures of four major kinds: cells, tissues, organs, and systems. Human anatomy is the scientific study of human body structures. Carl Olson The human body as a boundary symbol: A comparison of Merleau-Ponty and D5gen In the Pali texts of the Theravada Buddhist tradition and in many Mahayana Buddhist texts, one can find numerous negative references to the human body. They keep your neurons happy — but then, so do your heart and lungs, and for some reason you felt the need to cut them out of the picture. Your material body persists — but without the right pattern of energy, the animating spark, there's little to recommend it. Could you not equally identify with your favorite jacket, your guitar, or your smartphone? Maybe if your body were a hard, fixed object, like an aluminum can(*), things would be different. A lot of times we tend to believe that we are sick even when we aren't and end up actually falling ill because our mind believes so. When you perceive it as a flash of light? Since the search for connectedness is a lifelong pursuit, this perspective is clearly different from the more traditional male trajectory in which bonding and separation are seen as develop… The neck and trunk house many of the important systems that keep the body alive and healthy. Do 'you' even end at death? A stranger whooshes past, brushing away some of your heat but without touching your skin. In behavioral terms, you're already doing this — treating the 'external' world like part of your self. In this context, the term "developmental" refers to the focus on relatedness to Core Self and other as the primary goal of therapy, as well as the central quest in the human journey. And if you do lose one, it'll feel like you've lost a part of yourself. The human heart keeps on beating until the death of an individual. Dawkins argues that organisms should be understood as having an extended phenotype, encompassing more than just their bodies — the clam's shell or the beaver's dam, for instance. The next time you're walking down the street, try imagining your body heat as part of 'you'. If it's swirling in the vortex, right this very moment, we're likely to call it 'in.' Do you 'round up' and call each concavity a part of 'you' (along with the air inside it)? Every organ, nerve, muscle in our body forms different systems. Fearless in all kinds of creative expedition, the company collaborates with arts professionals around the world to experience the limitless boundaries … Who's to say it's not faintly in the eddy's thrall, slowly being coaxed into the dance? Your body is like a whirlpool or a tornado — an eddy in the universe. Some mammals lay eggs! The Integumentary System The integumentary system consists of the skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, and oil glands, basically enwrapping the human body. On the other hand, simply rearrange your matter — by stuffing yourself through a meat grinder, say — and although your atoms will persist, suddenly 'you' will be gone. Does your body end at your skin? )What happens when you breathe? ; Learn About All the Different Organ Systems in the Human Body by Regina Bailey — https://www.thoughtco.com/organ-systems-373571, Systems thinking and the human body (2.0), https://www.thoughtco.com/organ-systems-373571, Finally, An Answer To Why So Many People Voted For Trump, The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand, How to Reverse Diabetes and Lose Belly Fat in 60 Days, 20 Things Most People Learn Too Late In Life, What Science Says About Vitamins and Supplements for Covid-19. By Cody Choi, former Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake dancer & Ada Ooi formed in 2008, explores the human body and mind through different art media. Some will say that 'you' are your body. Sometimes the disease isn't really in our body, but in our minds. For instance, anatomical structures may be studied as regional groups, such as the head and neck, upper limb, lower limb, thorax, abdomen, back, and pelvis and perineum. But you'll feel less wholly yourself than before you lost the limb. Might you not sooner lose a kidney than your wedding ring? Information. It helps that we're programmed to identify strongly with our children. Are they 'you' or are they 'other'? Matter comes and goes. It is a part of the pharynx, which comprises three separate segments: … The major cavities of the human body are the spaces left over when internal organs are removed. If you identify with the neurons in your skull, you might as well identify with all your neurons. Choose from 500 different sets of human body flashcards on Quizlet. How intertwined do the fates of two symbionts have to be before you'll consider them a single organism? Hard to say. In humans, the formation of body odor happens mostly in the armpit. Why is it that you identify with your epidermis, but not with the food you're about to eat? In all of this we've been discussing the spatial boundaries of your self/body. And when will you end? Are they not a part of you, in a way that's just as important as any tissue in your body? Anyone who thinks about the world scientifically must accept that it's far too complex, messy, and nuanced to be captured by something as crude as human language, as simple as mere words. What's the difference between that kind of 'contact' and official (skin-to-skin or cloth-to-cloth) contact? Why is hair-trapped oxygen excluded from the body, while hemoglobin-trapped oxygen gets to enjoy the full benefits of corporeal citizenship? Senses Skin is on its way out. The _____ is a muscular dome that forms the inferior boundary of the thorax, separating the thorax from the abdomen. Or is each pore a little dent in your self-boundary? Hmm.... What if you have brain cancer? It won't be the end of the world; clearly, 'you' will still exist. The boundaries between the "human" world and the "animal" world were blurred, it seems, especially when it comes to death and loss. (And — by the way — what does it say about these questions that no one before 1900 would have even been able to ask, let alone answer them?). Your children and friends, your life's work, the company you built that lives on with its own élan vital? Might want to brace yourself. I'm not suggesting that you take this road, mind you. If 'you' had a body-ectomy, leaving just a brain in a vat, you'd better hope the mad scientist taking care of you decides to simulate the rest of your body, or you're liable to feel very weird indeed — in other words, not entirely yourself. The axilla (also, armpit, underarm or oxter) is the area on the human body directly under the joint where the arm connects to the shoulder.It also contains many sweat glands.. Elizabeth DePoy * and Stephen Gilson. But why not earlier? That you ought to identify, therefore, with your organs and tissues, your face, your DNA, and your brain — in other words, the totality of your biological organism. Read more. Human Body Diagram. What about its temporal boundaries? The sound waves travel into your body and hit a boundary between tissues (e.g. You'll go to great lengths to avoid losing an arm or a leg. If body-boundary dilemmas are not addressed in all their messiness in an honest and transparent fashion, there is a risk not only of developing social structures, laws, policies, and actions based on false "truths" of the body but also misunderstanding our selves and what it means to be human. Do you 'round up' and call each concavity a part of 'you' (along with the air inside it)? In Evolving Issues Surrounding Technoethics and Society in the Digital Age. Are you (in Alan Watts's memorable phrase) a "skin-encapsulated ego"? In fact, don't a lot of cognitive processes, especially your emotions, require other parts of the body in order to function properly? If you are your body, where do 'you' end? But it's not. Why do you deny your friends and family the status of selfhood? What are the boundaries of humanity and the human body within our evolving technological society? The anorectal triangle is the posterior part of the perineal region and is generally identical in both males and females. Is death a precise moment, or do you wind down slowly, sputtering toward a final halt? Your hair traps a thin cushion of air to serve as a heat buffer. In the human there are 31 pairs of spinal nerves, named according to the region of the vertebral column from which they issue. The case is even stronger, of course, if you were to lose part of your brain. Every piece of aluminum you've ever seen, then, has been burning — just really, really slowly. Birds are dinosaurs!(?)
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