What is blushing? The Oxford Dictionary defines blushing as to become pink in the face, usually from embarrassment. In other words; blushing is an uncontrollable experience of warmth, usually it is combined with reddening on the face, on the neck that people experience in reaction to real or perceived evaluation or social attention. Biologically, it is caused by vasodilation of cutaneous blood vessels in the blush region. The dilation of these vessels causes an increase in blood volume in the...

Hidden Figures is a movie about three smart colored women during the Cold War. This movie explains America’s problems in the ’60s in Virginia. This is an important detail. Virginia is the most segregated state in the US. The movie makes key points like segregation, discrimination, women's education, civil rights, women in NASA, friendship, and dealing with all of this plus being a single parent. Our main character Katherine is a single mom of three kids. She is a strong, smart woman who is...

Self-Deception (or self-deceit) is hiding the truth from yourself according to the dictionary. It is a psychological process of convincing yourself of a falsehood to avoid acknowledging an unpleasant reality. In other words, it is people distorting reality to fit their desires. Psychologists claim that this is a tension between a person wanting to know the truth and someone wanting something to be true. The classical example of this is cognitive dissonance: holding conflicting beliefs is...