Essays on Dreaming

Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs provides an appealing story with various themes and messages. Originally aired in 1937, the film now appears dated; as could be expected, it is rooted in its period. It is culturally important as the globe’s first full-length cartoon, but watching it against the backdrop of today’s society exposes the film’s stereotypes and attitudes towards romantic love. A feminist critique reveals the abusive and superficial nature of romance in the film, whereas an anti-capitalist analysis of the story demonstrates the strong links between money and power. Snow White ...

Knowing the characteristics of the external world has long been one of humankind’s greatest problems. Nevertheless, they have always encountered the problem of being able to secure that the knowledge they find there is actually true. Descartes was the most famous philosopher to first approach this problem skeptically. Nevertheless, many after him have found that this is not necessarily true, with G. E. Moore and Immanuel Kant giving compelling arguments for the existence of the outside world. Therefore, through analysis of that which does not belong to the self, one can gain knowledge of the characteristics of the ...

Rhetorical situation is an occurrence of rhetorical events consisting of a specified issue that is to be addressed to specific audience under some constraints (Cunningham et al. 184). Therefore, the rhetorical situations constitute of exigencies prevalent in the world, which through persuasion can be positively modified. The audience is another constituent, as the persuasion of the problem has to be addressed to a set of affected individuals. In this case, the decisions and actions of the audience act as the mediator towards modifying the problem. Lastly, there are the limiting factors towards the relevant decisions and actions, which are ...

Rene Descartes is one of the most important Western philosophers of all time. His theory introduced many concepts that are still being debated to this day. One of his greatest contributions was establishing a more skeptical view of reality. Concretely, he believed that determining whether one was dreaming or awake is impossible, essentially because one could imagine anything in reality. Therefore, according to him, one could dream that one were experiencing reality in such a way that it would be indistinguishable from the actual world. In general, he rejected all tests that purported to clearly discriminate between reality and ...

There were two major objectives of Descartes in his mediation research; these objectives include provision of a foundation for scientific methods, and to prove an association of religion and science. Descartes wanted to provide a proof that the scientific knowledge source was deeply linked with the mind and not with sense. In the dream argument Descartes considered two different aspects. Firstly, he explained that if someone pinched him while he was dreaming, he will wake up. Secondly, if he thought that he was dreaming, and someone punched him in a dream then he would be capable of saying he ...

Descartes, Hume, and the author of Ecclesiastes express some form of skepticism. From their reading and arguments, we understand the extent of their skepticism and how they differ. In this paper, we will express the form of skepticism from Ecclesiastes, Descartes, and Hume. We will proceed ahead to illustrate how their skepticism differs. Moreover, we will provide insight into the different problems that the three philosophers are trying to confront with their respective versions. Furthermore, we will give viable reasons why Descartes version is the most plausible compared to the arguments of other authors. Furthermore, there might be a ...

In Jan Beatty’s “My Father Teaches Me to Dream”, the overriding theme is that a strong will to devote one’s life to work is more important than any other distractions, such as dreaming. Similarly, Georgia Douglas Johnson’s “Calling Dreams” stresses the value of a work ethic, and the wastefulness of spending one’s life dreaming. For example, Johnson states, “The right to make my dreams come true/I ask, nay, I demand of life,” (Johnson, 1-2). Here, the poetess makes her will clear, that she has just cause to pursue her dreams, and make them come true. ...

The article views dreaming as a factor used to reduce depression and mental health symptoms. The article therefore emphasizes the need for an individual to harness creativity to boost their level of thinking regarding different phenomena in real life situations. The author indicates that such creativity building undertakings should be done mostly before one retires to bed. The article reveals that people who adopt lucid dreaming have the capability of controlling the elements associated with their dreams once become conscious that the encounter is actually a dream. However, there still remains a lot to be understood in regard to ...

Homework #10: Meditations of First Philosophy by René Descartes (pp. 193) (Print: Last, First)

READING QUESTIONS

1. What sort of opinions does Descartes reject as false? What sort does he accept as true? When there is even a small amount of doubt, the opinion should be rejected entirely. Moreover, when something is based on the perception of senses, its existence should also be questioned. Thus, Descartes rejects the ideas based on the senses. In fact, he doubts everything in the physical world that is not proved rationally. Still, he accepts that simple forms are rational because they are true in their ...

PSYC9120: Psychology Fact & Fiction

Entry 1 For many times since I was in elementary, I always hear that there is the left side of the brain and the right side as well, and that the two sides make different contributions to the behaviour of people. Over the years, I learned and believed that the left side was solely for analytical thinking and sequential thinking, while the right side was for creativity, the hearing language, visual, spatial, and the holistic. I thought that either the right side or the left side of the brain works, depending on what a person is doing. After the ...

Descartes approached the issue external existence by been skeptical of all knowledge from his senses. He stated that since he experienced similar sensations while dreaming and awake, and there been no way of differentiating the wake and dream perceptions, Descartes noted that it was possible that he was dreaming. He then proceeded to describe possible ways through which he could learn about material objects. Descartes presupposed that the cause of his ideas on material objects was himself just as a solipsist (Sperring). However, if he could doubt the truths, how then would he come to know the true beliefs? ...

At its heart what were the basic public policy issues Obama faced in regard to the matter of deporting illegal aliens? With the message from the President of the United States from November 2014, the administration with Obama in head of it, wanted to work on the immigration system of the country and wanted to fix the emerged issues, because the number of illegal immigrants on the territory of USA is quite big. Pew Research Center reports that in the year 2014 the number of aliens who stay on the territory of the United States on illegal basis is ...

INTRODUCTION

The 2010 Christopher Nolan film Inception is a science-fiction heist film in which Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) must lead a specialized team of extractors into the dream world of a business heir (Cillian Murphy), in order to insert (or “incept”) an idea into his brain for their employer, a rival businessman (Ken Watanabe). Over the course of the film, the line between dreams and reality is explored, often through various communication techniques and concepts between the characters and within their own minds. In this paper, the use of subjective self-awareness, failure events, and turning points in Inception will be explored.

SUBJECTIVE SELF-AWARENESS

In the world of ...