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Research Paper  Philosophy or Pseudoscience:   A study the criticism around the most popular, new-age self-help book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne Rationale         Among the hordes of books which have influenced my life, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne hold a unique place. The book had a very deep and profound influence on my life. I stumbled across the book during one of the worst phrases of my life, and it was instrumental in helping me overcome that phrase. It changed my outlook towards life and made me more optimistic. However, no matter how much I relished the positivity and optimistic ideals expounded by the book, there was always a tiny bit of resistance from the rational side of my being. I would never bring myself to fully approve of the book as a whole. The underlying principle of the book was definitely inspiring and life-changing, but the methods adopted to explain and illustrate it were unsettling. Being acquainted with science fro...

LINGUISTICS - ASSIGNMENT 2 NEUROLINGUISTICS       Neurolinguistics (or Neurological Linguistics ) is an area of expertise which explores the inter-relationship between the human brain and human language / communication. It is one of the most important part of Linguistics, and falls under the category of Macro Linguistics. It is an inter-disciplinary subject which is linked to a number of closely related subjects like neurology, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, etc. Neurolinguistics is thus, quite a vast and diverse area of academics. Brain mechanics, language production and comprehension, language processing, and its related problems and ailments are some of the major concepts covered under neurolinguistics.      In simple terms, Neurolinguistics can be defined as “the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language” . Neurolinguistics is primarily centred arou...