❶ 读书报告英文版
小王子,,,我先写的作者,,在介绍书的内容,,,在写自己的感受((((((SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de (1900-44). An adventurous pilot and a lyrical poet, Antoine de Saint-Exupery conveyed in his books the solitude and mystic grandeur of the early days of flight. He described dangerous adventures in the skies and also wrote the whimsical children's fable 'The Little Prince'.Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery was born on June 29, 1900, in Lyon, France. In the 1920s he helped establish airmail routes overseas. During World War II he flew as a military reconnaissance pilot. After the Germans occupied France in 1940, he escaped to the United States. He rejoined the air force in North Africa in 1943. During what was to have been his final reconnaissance mission over the Mediterranean Sea, he died when his plane was shot down on July 31, 1944.
Saint-Exupery's first book, 'Southern Mail', was about the life and death of an airmail pilot. It was published in French in 1929. Other books include 'Night Flight' (1931), about the first airline pilots, and 'Wind, Sand, and Stars' (1939), in which he describes his feelings ring flights over the desert.
'The Little Prince' (1943), which in a way is really a children's book for grown-ups, was written ring Saint-Exupery's stay in the United States. A gentle and thoughtful book, it tells the story of a boy who lives alone on a tiny planet..第二段The book of similar stories, I take you to introce it to the content, but I enumerated two story:
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"Why do you drink?" Prince among alcoholics.
"Drinking may forget!" Drunkard said.
"Forget what?"
"Forget my shame!"
"What do you shame?"
"Drinking is my shame!"
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"How do you handle 50 stars?" Prince ask businessman.
"I have them" said the businessman.
"For you have these stars what use?"
"I can become very rich."
"What is rich with."
"That I can buy more stars."
"If I had a scarf, I will put around her neck; and if I have a flower, can I take it off. But you can't take off the stars...". Asked the little prince.
"No, but I can put it on the bank." Traders said.
"What is the meaning of this?"
"Means, I can write many stars on a piece of paper, and then the paper in the drawer. "So good?" "This is enough." Traders said.
. . .
In the prince's book, read the contradiction, some, like life, just want to forget alcoholic pessimism his pessimism, Some, like businessmen, only book number to occupy, busy half-dead again, in fact they possess very helpless to possessions, some people abide by laws, like light, for whom he why and busy, some people (we are) as "conceit", only love is admired, besides can't hear what praise.
When you read a book, you can become a creator, I can't follow you speak it is moving, can rely on you from the pupil, this is my favorite book.第三段First read the mood is little surprise, pleasant, like the warm feeling, also with the style of the book is deeply fascinated, no matter from the plot and the look, there is always a very fun, deserving of taste. One of the most fun is the person feels the concept of keep repeating - what is the most important thing? Prince, take care of him for the planet, about every life is the most important thing. But this concept is not to let every man, think carefully: his life we pursuit of wealth, power, status, really is the most important? From the book, I saw the man, want conceited from past alcoholics, covet money merchants, stubborn lamp, while the geographers, these books to his people, persistent but have not understand life, but in others' eyes boring ACTS as the epitome of our reality, so sad but true existence. Perhaps with the passing of time, we grew up in social learning smart accident survive, also dismissed heart have dreams, but, I and motherland-which deserves each indivial that has little heart, it could be found, while others continues to fame and wealth, this is Tom, who choose YuanBuDe. The author, from the story reflects the fact he is pure heart little incarnation of the self - a potential, he always keep a gentle love heart, to face the surrounding environment. As mentioned in the book, ride fast, train, but I don't know what they find it go, and hastily busy cheerful, but always in spin around thereof. Presented
Perhaps only know what you want to live lucky and happy!
Like the book just like a friend, sweet, light has a sad, always think this is a happy, even if the prince of the book is not another disappear, although I met the start to the end and the red eyes, but can they agreed WuYiGe -- like stars like small bell in the sky carrying miss smiles, had memories still exist. So, when the night sky when you -- only thereof is presented to you can have the stars will laugh.，
❷ 英文读书报告怎么写啊
题目：A Book Report of 。。。写上书名 书名用斜体
格式：1.0 Introction 介绍一下书的信息，比如大回体内容，包括几答章
2.0 Content of Book 可以再分2.1 2.2 2.3等 概括内容 可以按章节写 或是别的分类 加一些自己的总结更好
3.0 Conclusion
主要就是这样
❸ 英语阅读书虫系列读后感
第1篇
EVEN by the standards of the worst financial crisis for at least a generation, the events of Sunday Spetember14th and the day before were extraordinary. The weekend began with hopes that a deal could be struck, with or without government backing, to save Lehman Brothers, America’s fourth-largest investment bank. It ended with Lehman’s set for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the bank preparing to wind itself up after those efforts failed. Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve.
On Sunday night the situation was still fluid, with bankers and regulators working to limit the fallout. They were girding themselves for a dreadful Monday in the markets. Australia’s stockmarket opened sharply lower on Monday (most other Asian bourses were closed). American stock futures were deep in the red too, and the dollar weaker. Spreads on risky credit, already elevated, widened further.
第2篇
The effect of the global financial
The international financial crisis is becoming more and more worse, the impact on the Chinese economy is also further expansion, it even extended into every aspect of society.For example, manufacturing, energy, food, IT… and so on..
From the news,many international companies went bankrupt,and more companies begin to lay off employees, also cancelled the original recruitment plan. Around us, many people can not find a job.
This is a global economic crisis, no one can disregard .Facing the crisis, We can only helpless?No way. Everything has two sides. The financial crisis also let investors concer about the long-term growth prospects field. For example, the field of new energy. It also provides China opportunities of increasing the input of new energy.
We will use their wisdom, potential, and find the way to overcome it. This is the only way to minimize crisis, also can be safely in this crisis.
我刚刚自己写的，希望对你有用。
❹ 求一篇1500单词左右的英语读书报告或者读后感（大学水平的）
这是一遍对《红字》之后的读后感
The Scarlet Letter
the story happened in the New England which was possessed and influenced by the puritan society and puritan culture. Hester Prynne and Minister Dimmesle fell in love with each other and had a girl baby, which was not allowed in the puritan society because Hester was a wife of another man whom she had no feeling for. Hester was punished for the crime by wearing a scarlet letter "A" on her chest. And nobody in the town was willing to be nice with her. So she lived in the pain and suffering lonely with her baby calld Pearl. The partner in the crime, Minister Dimmesdale felt shame, pain within his heart. He punished himself for the crime which was a secret for the town people, at the same time, he suffered from the torture of Roger Chilligworth who was the former husband of Hester. The novel is a tragedy. At last, the MInister died of great suffering, and Roger died of hatred. Hester lived in loneliness, enjoying no happiness with the person she loved.
The scarlet letter is the clue of the novel. At first,it represents shame as the punishment for the crime Hester commits. Then it stands for the goodness and kindness for Hester does a lot of good deeds. At last, it represents Hester's great strength and bravery. The characters in the novel are all unlucky.Hester is unlucky. She is beautiful passionate bold and strong, but she can't get happiness like other women. If God lets her meet Minister Dimmesdale who was not a minister but an ordinary person before Roger, she would become the most happy woman in the world. But there is no "if". Roger is unlucky. At first, he is a happy man, having a young beautiful wife, working on what he is most interested in and receiving people's respect. But when he knows his wife's betrayal, his life is ruined. He lets hatred full of his heart and his life. He tortures his enemy as well as himself. In the world, there is no more happiness than a ruined life filled with hared and revenge. Minister is unlucky. He belived in the God, but his belief prevents him from getting peace after commiting a crime. He suffers not only the pain of the secret but also the spiritial torture of Roger. what a pity.
From the novel, we can get more. Firstly, your marriage must be based on the ture love. If you marry a person without any feeling, then you could no longer get happiness, or even the marriage becomes a tragedy for you. Secondly, no matter what you meet in your life, do not let hatred full of your heart. You should hold the positive attitude towards your life.If you decide to hurt others, the God will abandon you and the evil could control you. Thirdly, be a strong, bold person just like Hester. You should have and be qualified to take courage to pursue love and happiness, and to admit the mistakes you have made, and to bear the punishments.
❺ 英语阅读的读书报告怎么写
读书报告，关键是要认真解读好英语的阅读。
❻ 英语读书报告
The Scarlet Letter Book Notes Summary
(《红字》读书报告）
The Narrator tells us that he found some documents telling the story of a Scarlet Letter used by a woman named Hester Prynne from Boston, Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century. He goes on to write an embellished version of the story.
The story begins with Hester Prynne, who has just given birth to an illegitimate daughter, leaving the prison to serve her sentence of standing in the town scaffolds for an hour with her three-month-old baby. She has also been required to wear a red letter "A," to stand for Alteress, on her chest. Hester has embroidered the A with beautiful gold thread and amazing artistry. While Hester is standing on the scaffold, Roger Chillingworth, who appears to recognize her, appears out of the woods. Hester is also asked to name the man with whom she sins, but refuses.
The years pass and Hester's daughter Pearl grows into an impetuous little girl. Hester has moved with Pearl into a small cottage on the outskirts of town and makes her living by embroidering and sewing clothing for the townspeople. Roger Chillingworth, who turns out to be Hester's long presumed-dead husband from Europe, befriends Hester's Pastor, Arthur Dimmesdale, and the two eventually move in together. Chillingworth has billed himself as a physician, and therefore able to care for Dimmesdale, who is in very poor health. In a rare moment when Dimmesdale lets his guard down, Chillingworth discovers an open, self-inflicted wound on Dimmesdale's chest.
Dimmesdale's health continues to decline, and Chillingworth's character changes noticeably. He becomes a demon-like presence in Dimmesdale's life. Hester notices this change in Chillingworth and confronts him. It is suddenly clear that Chillingworth has determined that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father, and that Chillingworth intends to make Dimmesdale's life a living hell. Hester understands the gravity of the situation and decides to tell Dimmesdale who Chillingworth really is. At first, when Chillingworth first entered the settlement, he had sworn Hester to secrecy about his true identity. Hester decides that, for the sake of Dimmesdale's sanity, she must warn him about Chillingworth's character.
In a surprise and secret meeting with Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester reveals her secret, and begs a defeated and angry Dimmesdale for forgiveness. He eventually grants forgiveness, and agrees to leave the colony with Hester and Pearl as soon as possible. Unfortunately, somehow Chillingworth manages to find out about their secret plan to leave, and books passage on the same boat bound for Europe. In the meantime, Dimmesdale prepares for his final sermon, the Election Sermon given on the day the local officials are sworn into office. He writes and re-writes a dramatic speech which proclaims his sinful nature, which none of his parishioners can understand or accept. Dimmesdale is known as a brilliant and inspirational preacher, and his congregation is convinced of his godliness. After the exhausting sermon is over, Dimmesdale leaves the church and approaches the town scaffold. As he climbs the steps, he comes upon Hester and Pearl standing in the shadows, and pulls them onto the scaffold with him. In that moment, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale bares his chest wound to the congregation, and takes Pearl's hand to confess his fatherhood. He then dies.
After this dramatic admission and Dimmesdale's death, Chillingworth no longer has anything to live for. He dies shortly thereafter. Hester and Pearl go to Europe for many years, and Hester eventually returns without her daughter. No one knows where Pearl is, although Hester is seen sewing extravagant baby clothing that no one in the colony would ever use. In addition, Hester continues to receive letters from a man of great means throughout the rest of her life. She lives a long life, and serves as counselor to many troubled women, as well as a giver of charity. When she dies, Hester is buried next to Dimmesdale's sunken grave under a tombstone that says "On a Field, Sable, the Letter A, Gules."
❼ 全英文的名著读书报告5篇
五偏好难，即使有，也不好发1. 简爱 Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century. The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London. The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty. How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded. 气死，居然审核不过楼主到这个网去看其他四篇吧 http://..com/question/32001138.html?si=1
❽ 急求一篇1000字以上的英文读书报告
International Ecation in the 21st Century Report of the Committee on "Learning - The Treasure Within," that: "In modern society the need for ecation to cultivate more and more common sense and responsibility of indivials to contribute." To this end, we selected this topic , strengthen the sense of responsibility to explore new ways of ecation, in order to further strengthen the school moral ecation, culture and social development to adapt to the new century called for efforts to make a point talent.
First, to investigate the specific goals and methods:
The specific objectives of the survey topics are:
(1) to understand the situation of the students a sense of responsibility;
(2) to explore the current status of the students a sense of responsibility characteristics;
(3) to explore measures to strengthen the sense of responsibility in ecation to enhance the sense of ecation focused and effective.
Based on the above objectives, we have adopted is the survey methodology: a questionnaire survey and interview methods. Through a questionnaire survey of students, multi-perspective understanding of the students a sense of responsibility to the status quo.
Consider the contents of the questionnaire design, the performance from a sense of responsibility (to ourselves and to others, to their families, on society and the country) and the sense of personality consisting of four factors: responsibility to know, responsible for the situation, Select Italy, a select line asked for etc. , a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. The same time to me three days of school, three two-year survey of students, a total of 750 questionnaires were issued about the recovery of valid questionnaires for more than 93%.
Second, the survey analysis - a sense of responsibility and the characteristics of students
1, from a sense of responsibility for their own performance to see:
Life of self-responsibility of the person's self-love based on the established, self-love means the care of their physical, personality and reputation. Sexual responsibility as a community self-love, it contains a wide range of self-as actors, as the object of the body and mind of self-care. Every student must be recognized that since a person come into the world, it should be within reasonable limits, so that their own survival as well, and can be developed. Even when their own time to run into any difficulties, we should continue to inspire, and move forward, adhere to in the end. This is the responsibility of their own. Survey results showed:
<1>, the students in regular exercise to maintain a healthy total of 33.75%; not regular exercise to maintain a healthy total of 66.25%; from this set of figures, the worrying, the students in many sports and health awareness in the sense of responsibility needs to be strengthened.
<2>, the students have their own plan of life accounted for 33.3%; of your life is not accounted for 66.7 percent planning; think of themselves as a reliable account of 44.93% of people. Unreliable that they occupy 15.36%; students because of the lack of self-confidence, there is no way of planning your life.
<3> students learn when there is any frustration, do not hesitate to give up 2.3%; want to give up and can not be reconciled to the accounting for 61.37%; the difficulties of accounting for 26.33%. Homework when not accounting for 14.42 percent completed; their own to concentrate on the completion of the accounting for 19.12%; necessary to refer to the answers of others accounted for 63.32 percent completed. Replied, "If you want to be the main reason for student leaders," when we accounted for 9.93% of services; can teachers control students accounted for nearly 8.15%; the ability to exercise their own account for 84.22%. From the three, the students demanded a sense of responsibility of self-development is still relatively strong. 2, from the performance a sense of responsibility to others to see:
Life world, can not always think of themselves, others have hearts, not only to themselves, but also to someone else. Everyone exists in a network of social relations, with others occurring in or near or distant relations. As a friend, loyalty, mutual aid, mutual understanding, we are ty-bound to解危. Survey results showed:
<1> done something wrong or the attitude of others I am sorry that nothing accounts for the 8.99%; feel ashamed of accounting for 24.24%; apology own initiative accounted for 63.43%. When the friend entrusted to do, it will drag the Office do not even accounting for 4.06%; run out of steam accounted for 11.8%, it is a serious person to complete the accounting for 82.97%. When a friend A friend to denigrate the practice B to A to tell B if the total 3.34 percent, to tell if a person other than B, we want other people to provide non-thesis accounted for 9.93 percent of their own views on the B to tell A, for say a few words B accounted for 86.1%. Figures from the three groups, the vast majority of students is a very sincere friend.
<2> if your classmates or relatives of drug abuse, you will: think this is a matter for others, but asked out of curiosity to have the opportunity to also want to try to account for 9.61%; persuaded that he did not hear it with him to the accounting for 25.7 %; immediately stop treatment if it is invalid is sent to the accounting for 65.2%. Friends of the opposite sex or heterosexual students] exchanges, your attitude is: same-sex friends only account for 8.68%;
And just talk about them to the indivial contacts 23.09%; respect for them, and they take the initiative to have difficulty accounting for 65.52% of help. If they accidentally drowned others, you will: It is believed that none of my business, accounted for 3.66 percent away; immediately launched rescue 32.5%; to find the police to save the account for 48.9%; onlookers, looking for opportunities to save accounted for 15.88%. From three of view, the vast majority of students are ready to help others, and friends have a stronger sense of responsibility.
<3> If you found your best friend examination fraud has not been a teacher and found that after you will: Fortunately for him accounted for 46.5%; not ashamed to sell it to him and his friends, and tell the teacher to criticize the accounting for his 5.95 %; advise him not to do so in future accounting for 46.81%. From this group of figures, many do not know how to help students relate to the significance of criticism, as loyal friends, even if the wording of some intense, but also responsible for the performance of a friend.
<4> Do you think that a respectable person should have at least:
Outstanding talent accounted for 19.96%; the higher the social status of accounting for 4.81%; have a large amount of wealth accounted for 3.66%; a strong sense of responsibility for accounting for 60.08%. From this set of figures, the majority of students who have a strong sense of responsibility should be the basic quality is recognized.
❾ 英文读书报告
写古埃及的书，给你两篇读后感：
The ancient Egyptians are an enring source of fascination--mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured our imaginations for generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about this once great civilization? In this absorbing introction, Ian Shaw, one of the foremost authorities on Ancient Egypt, describes how our current ideas about Egypt are based not only on the thrilling discoveries made by early Egyptologists but also on fascinating new kinds of evidence proced by modern scientific and linguistic analyses. He also explores the changing influences on our responses to these finds, by examining the impact of Egyptology on various aspects of popular culture such as literature, cinema, opera, and contemporary art. He considers all aspects of ancient Egyptian culture, from tombs and mummies to the discovery of artefacts and the decipherment of hieroglyphs, and from despotic pharaohs to animal-headed gods. From the general reader interested in Ancient Egypt, to students and teachers of ancient history and archaeology, to museum-goers, this Very Short Introction will not disappoint.
Be careful to buy this book only if you want to learn about Egyptology as an academic discipline, more than about what scholars think really went on in ancient Egypt. This book is a learned and fascinating introction to the study of ancient Egypt. If you are looking to understand how scholars painstakingly piece together tiny shards of ambiguous and insufficient evidence to construct an understanding of ancient Egypt, this is your book. If you seek a primer the current state of knowledge on life, religion, politics, culture, and society in ancient Egypt, you should probably buy another book. I bought the book out of a desire to learn more about what current scholarly thinking about ancient Egypt in order to open up a window on that fascinating civilization. Instead, I discovered a compelling (if dry) narrative on how Egyptologists work and reach conclusions. This is a really interesting topic in its own right, and, of course, it is fundamental to evaluating what is presented as "what we know" about ancient Egypt in an intelligent fashion. However, you might not want to spend time learning about Egyptology, but instead want to learn about ancient Egypt. If so, this is likely not the book for you right now
The title of this excellent entry in an excellent series should be 'Egyptology', as it is more about the study of ancient Egypt than the history itself. At 190 pages, it is a little longer than many entries in this series, but the final 30 of those pages are References, Timeline and so on, which provide a good springboard for further study.
Pharaonic Egypt was Earth's first great empire and it lasted for 3 millennia. The author examines the way in which that civilization has been perceived, interpreted and mythologized by, among others, Victorians seeking verification of Biblical stories and by modern, popular culture.
Ian Shaw writes well and comes across as an erudite and objective scholar. He has not used this book as an opportunity to put forward any unorthodoxy of his own, and has not been afraid to include many quotations from other Egyptologists. All of this makes the book a perfect introction to this fascinating subject.
agree with the other reviewers that this book is not so much about Ancient Egypt as it is about Egyptology. I would say it even expects a previous knowledge of the periods and dynasties of Ancient Egypt. In that respect it fails to live up to its title.
As a book about Egyptology it's slightly dry and not very tight. The author seems to be all over the place. After reading this book, I have learned very little of Egyptology as a discipline except for a few theories expounded in the text.
I would not recommend this book. I am interested in reading Egyptian Myth: A very short introction as a possible better introction to Egyptian history, myths, and beliefs.
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I knew absolutely nothing about ancient Egypt and cared less. I was still fascinated by this book and inspired to follow it up.
It starts with the Narmer Palette, an artefact in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and uses the decoration on both sides, pictures and hieroglyphs, to explain some of the things we think we know about ancient Egypt and how we think we know them. It's thought the elegantly outlined depression between the serpopards was used for crushing pigment for eyeshadow....serpopards? Leopards with the heads and neck of snakes.
The book goes on to look specifically at how we establish the narrative history of ancient history (or rather, perhaps, speculate about it rather than establish it), the roles of kings, and the issues of identity (the significance of race and gender in particular) and of religion (mummification, the pyramids and so on). Ancient Egypt really was ancient - the Pharaonic period started 5000 years ago and the timeline in the book goes further back than that - and covered a very long period, lasting into the Roman era AD. It's not surprising perhaps that it's very hard to "know" much, and of course, things will have changed quite a lot in the thousands of years covered by the Egyptian era.
In particular the book exposes some of the conflicts between archeologists, who look at what's left of the buildings and artifacts, and those who read and interpret the writing and hieroglyphs found on them. It had never occurred to me that there might be a division like that.
There is an outline of the rise of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, the mistakes made by early investigators which may have destroyed important evidence (and why they made the mistakes), and, finally some discussion of the impact of ancient Egypt on the twentieth century. This short section gives equal space to the Anthony and Cleopatras of Burton and Taylor on the one hand and of Kenneth Williams and Amanda Barrie on the other - this book has its feet on the ground.
There are good illustrations to support the text (full-page photos of both sides of the Narmer Palette, for example, so you see exactly what the author is writing about), a glossary and several pages of further reading and useful websites.
I was really surprised at being drawn in so thoroughly. Fascinating introction.
另一篇哲学方面的书：
The last great mystery for science, consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness: A Very Short Introction challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soul. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up these debates, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments and clearly describes the major theories, with illustrations and lively cartoons to help explain the experiments. Topics include vision and attention, theories of self, experiments on action and awareness, altered states of consciousness, and the effects of brain damage and drugs. This lively, engaging, and authoritative book provides a clear overview of the subject that combines the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience--and serves as a much-needed launch pad for further exploration of this complicated and unsolved issue.
I have to admit that at first I dismissed this little introction to consciousness, but then I read the book again. It's a gem. Blackmore makes it all clear right up front what the problem of consciousness is and several ways that consciousness might be defined. She considers whether consciousness is some integral feature of brain processes or something in addition to the physical features of the brain (a position that goes by the clumsy name of "epiphenomenalism"). Next she talks about a last Cartesian section in the thinking of some materialists called "the Cartesian theatre", a phrase coined by Daniel Dennett that means that some scientists have embraced the material operation of the brain but still believe that consciousness is something that appears at a place and time in the brain. It as if there is a little theatre in the brain where consciousness is played.
Blackmore next questions the natural or intuitive idea that consciousness is present in a continuous stream: this is a grand illusion and how the brain may create this illusion is investigated. She focuses on visual perceptual consciousness and presents research that questions our natural understanding of what is going on with our brains while we experience the world. There follows a consideration of "the self" (a useful construction, it seems), conscious will, and altered states of consciousness (psychedelic drugs, meditation, and out-of-body experiences). All in all this is a brief, but very clear and stimulating discussion of consciousness. I find it remarkable that so much was packed in a little volume that left me stimulated and grateful instead of exhausted, bored, or confused.
It's just a great place to begin trying to get a grip on what the fuss is and why consciousness is such a curious and marvelous phenomenon.
No one book can cover all there is to say about the burgening field of Consciousness Studies of Consciousness Research, but this book comes as close as any one up-to-date one can; furthermore, it has all the usual physical advantages of Oxford University Press' "Very Short Introction" titles: small enough to actually fit into a pockes yet so well bound that when carried so the spine will never crack nor pages ever fall out.
Susan Blackmore's experience as a Zen meditator adds depth to the section on altered states of consciousness as well as to her final summary on the future of consciousness and consciousness research.
A minor disappointment was the abscence of any treatment of Artificial Intelligence and the philosophical problems it raises, especially unfortunate since she sha covered that subtopic well and thoroughly in a longer book. Also some cartoon drawings are rudimentary and add little to the text, but on the other hand, some photographic, do-it-yourself demonstrations of how our conciousness differs from what we believe we introspectively know it to be are excellent.
Another positive for any book but especially one suitable as an initial introction to a topic is an excellent bibliography for further reading.
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I first encountered Blackmore's work when, after searching long and hard for a scientific explanation of out-of-body experiences, I came across her book Beyond the Body. It was astonishingly well researched and offered a rational, convincing explanation for phenomena that were usually neglected by the scientific community. I became an instant fan and have followed her work ever since. But now, alas, she has aligned herself with the Dawkins/Dennett axis of drivel, and my loyalty to her is badly shaken. In this book (a shorter version of her Consciousness: An Introction) she follows Dennett by denying the existence of consciousness and then inlging in much speculation about the properties and evolutionary history of this non-existent entity. Consciousness, she maintains, is an 'illusion', which she defines as something that exists but does not have the properties it appears to have. She then proceeds to discuss it as if it does not in fact exist, and slips into calling it a 'delusion', which she apparently regards as a synonymous term. So far, so Dennett. She follows Dawkins by labeling just about everything a 'meme' (as Poe might have said 'All that we see or seem is but a meme within a meme'), unless she happens not to approve of it, in which case it is 'a virus of the mind'. As an example, she inlges in a quite intemperate and completely irrelevant rant against religion, in which Roman Catholicism is described as a parasitic infection. Like Dennett and Dawkins, she leaves no axe unground.
So why do I give the book 5 stars if I disagree with so much of it? Well, I guess you can't keep a good scientist down, and Blackmore is still a great scientist. She brings considerable knowledge and erudition to the subject, presents fair summaries of opposing views, and gives excellent descriptions of odd phenomena like Libet's Delay and the Cutaneous Rabbit. And her style is as readable as ever. I was suspicious when I saw that her son Jolyon had contributed many of the illustrations - it smacked of nepotism - but I have to say his drawings are really charming and add greatly to the text. The other illustrations are useful too - with the possible exception of a photograph of the author opening a fridge door - which isn't always the case with this series. The book ends with a very useful Further Reading list. It's thus an excellent introction to the subject (although I think John Searle's The Mystery of Consciousness is still the best place to start).
So, I shall keep the faith and continue to read everything Susan Blackmore publishes. I just hope that one day, just as she once abandoned a belief in the paranormal, she sees the light and abandons the axis of drivel.
3Scientists try to approach the function of the human brain just as they approach the functioning of any other organ in our bodies: as a natural feature of the natural world. According to this view, what we call our "mind" is dependent upon the physical brain, making the mind just as natural and material as other biological processes like digestion. Even so, it's difficult to entirely escape the lure of alism — the view that "mind" is completely separate from and independent of the physical brain. Usually alism is accompanied by the belief that the mind is basically the soul — an immaterial, eternal "thing" which represents our true selves. This view has been promoted by theistic religions for millennia.
Because research into the nature and functioning of the brain is still in its relatively early stages, there's a lot of open ground and disputed ideas. Scientific researchers are not united behind a single explanation or way of conceptualizing how the brain creates the mind and consciousness. This means that there is a lot to read and digest before you can claim to at least understand where the current research stands — but fortunately there is a good place to start. Susan Blackmore's Consciousness: A Very Short Introction is part of Oxford University Press "very short introction" series and, like other volumes, does a great job at explaining even complicated issues in a way that is comprehensible and engaging for even a general audience. Perhaps the most significant problem in the study of human consciousness is whether there is real problem there or not.
Some argue that there are "easy problems" like explaining how processes like perception and memory work, then the "hard problem" of explaining how consciousness itself works. Others argue that there is no "hard problem" because if we can explain all the "easy problems," then we will have explained consciousness (or at least the explanation for consciousness will immediately and obviously follow). The difference can stated as: is consciousness an "extra thing" or "extra ingredient" in our minds, or is any sufficiently advanced mental processing system also necessarily "conscious"?
For many religious theists, this question necessarily turns on the existence of a soul. Machines and robots cannot be "conscious," for example, because they cannot have souls — only God can imbue a living being with a soul and it cannot automatically appear simply because a system becomes complex enough. Even some scientists who don't believe in souls will agree that simply having all the same parts and complexities as a human brain would not lead to consciousness, but many others think that it would. This means that efforts to create a "conscious" machine will have profound implications for the common belief in alism, souls, and a "mind" that is immaterial, supernatural, and separate from the physical brain.
Like most scientists and researchers, Blackmore rejects the traditional religious explanations for the mind: she rejects alism, she rejects the existence of a mind or soul that is independent of the brain, and she rejects the idea that the mind is in any way eternal.
Consciousness: A Very Short Introction, by Susan BlackmoreBlackmore goes further than most, however, and is inclined to believe that even the existence of a coherent, consistent "self" is likely an illusion. Most scientists seem to be trying to hold on to this, and intuitively it is something that seems to be true. There is a significant amount of evidence and logic which suggests otherwise, though — and if it's true that our traditional, intuitive notion of consistent self is wrong, then what does this say about the existence of a soul?
Although Susan Blackmore certainly has her own views, this doesn't interfere with her explanations — readers won't get the feeling that she is only setting up straw men to attack or that she's giving short shrift to views she doesn't accept. She doesn't hide her own perspective, but she also doesn't let it get in the way of giving readers a broad ecation in where current research stands, what different researchers think, and of course possible problems with it all.
Blackmore doesn't cover everything, of course, nor could she in a short introction like this. Yet she does cover plenty, and anyone simply looking for an overview of the field will get all they need. If someone would like more detailed information, a good follow-up would be Blackmore's Conversations on Consciousness, where she interviews many leading researchers to ask them what they think and why.
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. During his later life, Hemingway suffered from increasing physical and mental problems. In July 1961, he commited suicide by shooting,himself.Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing.
The Old Man and the Sea is based on the novel written true story. After World War II, Hemingway moved to Cuba, met old fisherman Gregorio Fuentes •. In 1930, Hemingway by a ship in the storm victims, Fuentes Hemingway rescued. Since then, Hemingway and Fuentes forged a profound friendship, and often with fishing. In 1936, Fuentes was far out to sea to catch a big fish.
Fishing is one of the most dangerous work in the word .They must face up to the dangerous environment.Also they must face the lonely . The novel description a senior fisherman live in cuba, The story is one year near sixty years of age senior fisherman.At first 84 days,he did not fish one fish.He did not have enough food,and
Many locals to doubt his fishing technique.So,He decided to go to the sea to fish food and proved that he is a skilled fishermen . when alone goes to sea in one fishing, fished one big fish,the fish is too big, so the fishman did not pull. The senior fisherman socialized several days after the fish, only then discovered this was the big marlin which one surpassed the oneself fishing boat several fold, although knew perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up. Afterwards and further because in the big marlin wound fish fishy smell brought in several crowds of shark fish snatches the food, but the old person still did not hope like this to give up, finally highlighted encircles tightly, returned to the big fish belt the fishing port, lets other fishermen not admire already.
The novel eulogized the spirit which the senior fisherman fear hard and dangerous diligently did not struggle, we also should like his such, could not satisfy the present situation, should positively to above, do any matter all is relentless, meets difficultly must welcome difficultly above, could give up halfway in