The Great Colin Turnbull

Turnbull was born in London and became an outstanding student focused on philosophy, politics and music. As he ended his studies he decided to join the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. This reserve focused on Indian religion and philospohy in India. After his ingression to the Reserve Colin worked with an expert in Pygmy tribes and became very intrested in African tribes. He then took a motorcyle trip and focused his interest in the Pygmies. Colin visited Africa and the Pygmies a total of six times, he studied their religion, language and native music. After his acquired experience with African tribes Colin created several documentaries and work focused on African tribes especially the Pygmies. During one of his visits Colin fell in love with Joe Towels, a poor african man. They moved together to New York and started an open gay relationship. After Joe's death from AIDS Turnbull decided to experience life as a Buddhists munk to reach inner peace after obesrving the rituals of several African tribes. Turnbull finally died of pneumonia but troughout his life African roots, traditions and tribes were always present in his books, daily actvities and most of all his legendary work and research.

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Likes and Dislikes!!

I LIKE:

1. Pasta: My mom used to eat tons of pasta when she was pregnant and that influenced my taste and favoritism towards pasta

2. Gym: I'm very lousy at school sports so going to a gym is a way of exercising in a relaxing style for me.

3. Sleeping: I recently read sleeping keeps you young and skinny so sleeping at least eight hours is a must in my daily life.

4. Jeremy: Jeremy is my two and a half year boyfriend he brings peace and love into my life and reminds me of fun and emotional memories.

5. Getting a manicure: I love feeling groom and getting a manicure is a way of tretaing myself and it helps me feel clean.

I DISLIKE:

1.Toxic: The song Toxic my Britney Spears reminds me of when my friends got into a fight with me and would not let me practice dancing Toxic with them. Toxic reminds me of a tough period in which i felt excluded.

2. Being Late: For me inpuctuality is something unacceptable and means goign to staurday suspension

3. P.E. : P.E. brings back memories of my childhood and how I had a hard time jumping the rope and was humilitaed infront of all my classmates.

4. Food: I hate not knowing what to eat it frustrates me and upsets me very easily because it reminds me of my friend Helene and how she hates not knowing what to eat too.

5. Disney: disney is supposed to be happy but for me its a place where everyone looks sweaty and smells bad. Ive gone 19 times to Disney and extremely dislike it

"OUR" PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD

Perception can be refered as the process in which our mind identifies, organizes and interprates senosry impressions and images and then gives them a meaning according to our surroundings. That is why we all have our own idea of the "real" world. Internal factors such as our personality and mood influence our perception. A clear examples can be our eyes and how we receive colors and how we interpret them and may like or dislike them. A colorblind may find a painting or sketch completely different that a completely heallthy person. Another example can be our habits I personally like to do homework watching T.V, while someone else might find that completely distracting. This habits makes me a multitasking individual. Knowledge can also become an internal factor due to the fact that our acquired knowedge becomes part of our daily activities. A person who knows about the columbian exchange and slavery can relate the present demography of Mexico with the past. Perception is not only affected by our inside mind and our mood but our surroundings and our roots. These are the experiences that will influence your perception. The religion we all learned and truly believe and follow affect our view of the world even how we should dress and what we should eat. Muslim religion demonstartes this very cleary,muslim women should dress strictly conservative and being able to see their legs or arms is perceived as an insult. This is completely different from a jewish or catholic view of women. Another external factor can be your friends. Friends even though unaware play a humongous role in what you like to do, hang out and even wear. For example my best friend loves going to the gym and she would make me go with her even though I hated exercising, I soon started to enjoy going to the gym and it is now part of my daily routine. Our perception of the world is influenced by many things that can be divided into external and internal factors.

Perception IS Reality

In a society so violent, overwhelming, modern and full of turn moil, the phrase perception is reality is completely true. As we grow up and become developed human beings determined and 100% sure of what we want and what our goals and expectations in life are our point of view or perception becomes our reality. The majority of our life time we experience and live in this constant struggle and fight to achieve our goals and pursuit our dreams. This struggle we live in daily becomes our lifestyle in which we experience and even learn from our previous mistakes. It is due to this amazing journey, childhood background and fulfilling experiences that we develop unique opinions on EVERYTHING. We don´t only develop unique opinions but tastes, choices and even images of life. This perception or point of view comes from a certain lived experience or a peculiar memory that has shaped up how we think and that way of thinking has become so important in our life its is now part of our reality.

A great example is Fransesca, one of my best friends. As a small girl Fransesca loved eating seafood until she got food poisoned in a seafood restaurant and ended up being hospitalized and was about to experience death. This traumatizing experience has led her to hate or strongly dislike seafood she cant even tolerate the smell and she strongly believes seafood contributes to the cruel death of millions of anaimals and is harmful for the human health. Fransesca´s cruel experience with seafod has led her to believe seafood is not beneficial and actually harms the human health this point of view has become her reality because she now has a completely different diet plan. The truth is your perception on various things in life is so strong it unconsciously becomes part of your reality and your way of life.

WHY PSYCHOLOGY?

Why Psychology? That is the question various people have asked me...well the awnser is very simple I LOVE psychology. Psychology can definitely classify as a passion in my life, last year I discovered how psychology does influence every aspect in your life. It not only influences your life but troughout history it has drastically helped people change and have a better grasp of themselves and their true behavior. Psychology has drastically impacted society due to the fact that thank's to psychology's existence humas are aware being different and reacting different is actually normal and completely acceptable. Psychology has created a different reality for every mind, soul and character.