CUNY Academic Commons | Samantha Gamble | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/samfo23/activity/ Activity feed for Samantha Gamble. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 556079d6055d9050ad369626a0844a3e Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Whistling Chimpanzees in baggy overalls, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/12/03/whistling-chimpanzees-in-baggy-overalls/#comment-810 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:30:37 -0500 In reading God Jr., the father’s obsession with the game was difficult for me to understand. It became difficult to read the section in which he was having conversations with the characters in the game. This was […]

]]> bca462f9cf503942b0bede0fd2ce75dd Samantha Gamble wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/20/almost-human/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:43:58 -0500 There is this new show on television, Almost Human, which is about a cop who has a partner who is a robot. Although the robot is artificial, it exhibits human behaviors. In many instances, the robot seems more […]

]]> 10afb95714d487210ae687d56c47e964 Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Is technology an "I-it" relationship or an "I-thou" relationship?, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/12/is-technology-an-i-it-relationship-or-an-i-thou-relationship/#comment-410 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:20:24 -0500 They argue that modern forms of communication “augments people’s ability to organize complex and busy work, family, and social lives. For many it also provides an opportunity to express themselves, their feelings […]

]]> 1e197018e8373a529b6fbe2cbc7843e8 Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Math is something you do, not who you are..., on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/12/math-is-something-you-do-not-who-you-are/#comment-408 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:10:24 -0500 I completely agree with you, Kristina. I do feel that data collection can be beneficial in regards to stress levels, health, and fitness but I do not believe it is a measure of who someone actually is. It in no […]

]]> 1c0cdd615c2c513db38154bdc93e2ead Samantha Gamble wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/05/millerviegener/ Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:55:33 -0500 When I read autobiographies, I often try to find a connection to the character. I try to figure out in what ways is this individual or the situations that they have faced similar to my own autobiography. In Matias […]

]]> 3cdaeec0d3834d35733e018a33089e00 Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Rufus May - Living Mindfully with Voices, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/30/rufus-may-living-mindfully-with-voices/#comment-278 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:28:45 -0400 I also agree that this was a great video and think that it is important that there be other methods of treating individuals who hear voices than only offering medications.

]]> 550bd1cab6c0194633842554fb2293f6 Samantha Gamble wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/23/hearing-voices/ Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:39:55 -0400 Agnes’s Jacket was one of the most fascinating things that I have read all semester. I have always associated hearing voices with Schizophrenia. I have never thought to separate it. In reading Agnes’s Jacket and […]

]]> 2683bab98345cb8f0b647cc8e41215ad Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Wray & McCarthy-Jones, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/16/wray-mccarthy-jones/#comment-151 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:21:40 -0400 I agree with you concerning Lowboy. I am sure the author did do a great deal of research but it was difficult for me to understand Lowboy as schizophrenic through his narrative. The beginning of Lowboy fro me felt […]

]]> 4af68e22fb073ae665711d96c0666d24 Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Lowboy, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/15/lowboy/#comment-150 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:09:50 -0400 Reading McCarthy-Jones also lead me to think about the “true self.” In reading McCarthy-Jones’ article I was able to understand the disease from the patient’s point of view. In reading the patients account and […]

]]> d24feca22cb1d78545a4003626c5722b Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Fun Home, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/08/fun-home/#comment-121 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:45:28 -0400 I guess I was using masculinity and femininity to mean more than just appearance. Bechdel and her father seemed to embody it so well that it became one of there imagoes. Her father’s love of flowers and decorating […]

]]> 74e34e49d2e7a600879956afbc7dded2 Samantha Gamble wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/08/fun-home/ Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:32:25 -0400 Alison Bechdel’s Fun house brought me back to the conversation we had in class about multiple selves. Not everyone agreed with McAdams’ theory that we have many different imagoes and these imagoes appear at […]

]]> b9a8dfc82567999b86421df0f6042b62 Samantha Gamble commented on the post, Self as Personal Narrative, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/30/self-as-personal-narrative/#comment-71 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:28:50 -0400 I am a psychology major so I also enjoyed this week readings because it was more focused on the psychology of self that actually trying to figure out what the self is exactly, but I feel that the exploring how […]

]]> 2d209a657eba94198999fd2b31969826 Samantha Gamble commented on the post, The chiken or the egg?, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/02/the-chiken-or-the-egg/#comment-70 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:13:10 -0400 The Narrative Theory readings also reminded me of Noe’s idea that our environment is a part of our consciousness. I saw this connection mainly in Chapter 5 of the McAdams piece where he states ” “Imagoes are often […]

]]> 6085a4036c1355dc0b1ee7a74bc08c32 Samantha Gamble wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/24/384/ Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:19:04 -0400  

Noe asks “are you your brain?” If we are not our brain, then our consciousness should live on once our brain dies. In the video Alva Noe stated that the “brain is a part of a dynamic network, brain, body, […]

]]> 8b403775d1e85f4dd5796dedbe0aa700 Samantha Gamble wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/10/siri-hustvedts-the-shaking-woman-and-grandmother/ Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:07:21 -0400  

I grew up in a very religious family, my grandparents who I lived with for a few years and who I spent most of weekends with are Pentecostal Christians and my mother is a Jehovah Witness. In my grandparents […]

]]> 94b1e30bc5feb575da4d7cd524fbc633 Samantha Gamble became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/215486/ Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:23:13 -0400