Essays on Reality

INTRODUCTION

A lack of time is one of the most common problems people face in 21st century. The average people who have nine to five jobs piled on top of personal stress of life, is carried around on their shoulders all day. When they get home they want to be able to relax after work and be entertained. In today’s media driven society that means spending more time in front of the TV. Because of this, the entertainment industry has been more and more focused on the idea of producing TV shows that will claim their attention and keep

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Part 1.

Bazin explains that photographic lens is a true reflection of the world. The lens automatically creates an image that is real and that is captured as it was. This means that photography gives a reality of the world as it is and does not depend on the creative nature of artists. According to Bazin, photography lens is objective reflection of the world. He goes further and argues that photography give satisfaction to an individual’s deep need for reality or precisely termed as realism. In the image chosen, the pictures give a true image of the world, for instance,

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Anthropology Date: December 13, 2013

Latin community is indeed a very important part of the American society. Throughout centuries Hispanics were playing an increasingly significant role in the development of the nation. Now days it is even difficult to address to them as a minority, as in various Southern states they already represent the most part of the population. All major governmental and informative resources in the American sector of the Internet also are practically bilingual and contain content both in English and Spanish. The overall importance of the Latino culture as system of moral values

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The discussion around global warming and the human contribution towards the changes that are no longer avoidable was in the focus of media attention for quite some time. Uncountable sources talk about the impact and consequences of this phenomenon and how human intervention contributes towards its development. Often these messages are perceived and even target to pass through the following message: “Global Warming is the reality that we have to assume”.
On the other hand, numerous virtual physical movements, calling for immediate action to prevent further destruction are invading the internet. The fact remains the fact – the Earth´s

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The philosophy on the existence of God is highly visionary, but also one of the most controversial. In most cases, philosophers argue that a deity and controls all beings. However, no one establishes specifically where the being resided and the true nature of the being. In his meditations, Rene Descartes tries to prove to the philosophy world that God exists. He laid forward a number of arguments o show that God truly exists and demystified most of the views that God did not exist. This paper analyzes the statements and arguments by Rene Descartes in support of the view

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This essay aims at comparing and contrasting the theme of fantasy and wishful thinking as presented in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) and also in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie (1945). Both playwrights have intensively used characters who resort into habits of escapism into fantasy and wishful thinking to free themselves from their miserable existence. The main sources of their predicaments are their consistent failures in achieving their dreams, little interaction and communication with family members coupled with personal insecurities. Due to these facts, they all have a common problem which is frustration and boredom.

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This paper is a critical analysis of the issues brought out in Anastasia Salter’s article titled ‘Virtually Yours: Desire in virtual worlds’, it discusses the main issues brought out in the text.
Much of the text on the article virtually yours; desire and fulfilment in virtual worlds by Anastasia Salter revolves around the relationship between virtual realms and reality. These two aspects are such that virtual and real world perceptions are intertwined such that it becomes quite difficult to draw the line between them. Notably, virtual perceptions of reality are not new to humanity as Salter explains human

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Philosophy

Plato has Socrates portray a crowd of people who live chained in a cave of their lives while facing a plain wall. These people watch the shadows on the wall by the objects that pass in front of a fire behind these people and begin to assign shadow names.
Socrates starts by asking Glaucon to visualize a cave occupied by prisoners who were imprisoned since childhood in a way that their necks and legs are fixed, which they unable to move their heads so they are forced to stare at a wall in facing them. Behind them is a

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Being versus appearance is no doubt one among the most notable questions of philosophy (Russell 11). Being and appearance takes a center stage because it is a question that, by extension, touches on the two most critical questions of philosophy – the existence of God, and human existence, also referred to as Existentialism (Arendt 34). The question has been tackled by various philosophers, most notably by Plato, Rene Descartes, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant. The question of being versus appearance, also known as appearance versus reality has not found a universally acceptable answer, despite the fact that may philosophers – both ancient

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Literature often deals with various conflicts involving people; wars, families, cultures, nations, and many other factors pit one or more people against each other. However, pivotal moments in literature often occur within the characters themselves. A character may struggle within himself, and this internal struggle can reveal much about the character and therefore the aim of the literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” are short stories that deal intimately with the internal conflict of their protagonists, which reveals much about the characters.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” written

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Introduction

The glory of God and his handiwork can be well shown by the creation of the heavens and the firmament thus the divine revelation. However, this can also include the human personality since human beings are also God’s creatures. Thus the creation works and the light of creation do manifest the goodness, the wisdom and the power of God. Nevertheless, man is not sufficient and cannot give the knowledge and the will which is necessary for salvation.
The two terms i.e. reason and revelation appear to be contradictory to many people. Reason can be seen to be opposing

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"Mentoring and Orienting High School Students before they Join Colleges and Universities"

EVALUATION
The aim of this report is essentially to evaluate the training on the topic, "Mentoring and Orienting High School Students before they Join Colleges and Universities." The report also evaluates the abilities of the trainees through the evaluation methods, and the suggested improvements for the training. The text below examines evaluation tools utilized as well as the form of model.

Evaluation instruments

The training evaluation model used for this training is Kirkpatrick’s Four- Level Training Evaluation model. However, the only evaluation instruments used for this training are level one (reaction) and level three (behavior) tools. We modified these evaluation

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Introduction

Shakespeare’s play portrays some events surrounding Theseus and Hippolyta’s marriage. The play’s characters in addition to the first two are Philostrate, Hermia, Egeus, Helena, Demetrius and Lysander. As the night unfolds and surprises are revealed, these characters learned some things about themselves as well as about the world. This play also portrayed ultimate reality and misleading appearance just like Shakespeare claimed.
Theseus learned that even if she injured Hippolyta and defeated her in a battle, she is still willing to marry him, despite her inner feelings. On the other hand, Hippolyta learned that the world and

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The Duck Dynasty is a hit reality show led by bearded Phil Robertson as the Duck Commander, his brother Si Robertson and three sons Willie, Jase and Jep Robertson. This successful show depicts family-friendly programming, which became very popular and became the most-watched series in cable television history. There is an article written about the Duck Dynasty show, which evaluated its effectiveness as a show. The article shows some informative facts that will catch the attention of Duck Dynasty viewers in which also became the basis of the response on this writing.
The article entitled “The Secret of conservative

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Tennessee Williams is one of the best-known playwrights from the mid-twentieth century, becoming famous for his work The Glass Menagerie in the year 1944. Although Williams would go on to create a variety of different pieces of literature and a number of stage classics, The Glass Menagerie remains one of his most well-known and well-loved pieces. Much of Williams’ work was later adapted for use in the cinema, and the movies made about his classic pieces became popular as well. Born to an overbearing father and a typical “southern belle” mother, Williams was a sickly child who tended towards

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the aspect of realism in religion. This paper appreciates the coexistence of realists and non realists with respect to their entitled views. However, this tries to examine the aspects of religion that makes it real. These aspects are explained in a way to help one understand the realism in religion. Therefore, this paper in its findings tries to answer the question: Should we be realists or non-realists about religious claims?
This paper is guided by the following questions: does realism in religion exist? How can we prove that realism exists in religion? Why should we accept

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Why "Tangled" (Film) is Post-modern

Studies of Modern Media are required to be comprehensive in their analysis of the varying main approaches used within the field. Through inclusion, these studies require individualized active engagement, with regard to research and analysis. They are crucial in enabling students improve their understanding on the prevailing contexts under which modern media exists and functions. Consequently, as provided in the text – Media Studies: Texts, Production, and Contexts (2nd Ed.) – by Long & Wall (2012), current contexts require individuals to actively analyze with the prevailing forms of existing media. This should be at both the intellectual and practical levels, with extra

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This classic story which was first published in 1892 is typical of Charlotte Gilman who describes a young woman’s descent into neurosis and psychosis with alarming reality and stark detail. Principally, the story focuses on the girl’s fixation with her surroundings which intermingle with the declining effect on her health. This is all brought about by her husband’s wicked decision to confine her to a room in solitary presence where she is forbidden to undertake any sort of mental activity, this may include literary or other similar pursuits and this type of situation literally drives her

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This is an analysis of ‘The Glass Menagerie’. ‘The Glass Menagerie’ is a theatrical play which has been considered among the borders of the literary community as a play carrying lots of autobiographical elements of the author. This play which opened the path to his author Tennessee Williams for recognition and admiration won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.
This is an analysis of the play’s main thematic core which is the loneliness of people and the way it is experienced by the members of a family. The portrait presented here is the portrait of a family whose world

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There is no doubt that technology is one of the strongest forces that have completely revolutionalized the modern world. It is clear that a day is approaching when the entire human race will be completely dependent on technology. In The Hunger Games, the author, Suzanne Collins portrays a world where almost everything runs on technology. She describes a high tech futuristic world with some technological features that are not even available in the world currently. Most of this technological advancement is mostly enjoyed by the upper class society who to a huge part uses it to oppress the poor.

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Introduction

“Cogito ergo sum” is a Latin phrase translated in English as “I think, therefore I am”. The phrase was Rene Descartes’ (1596-1650) philosophical proposition of existence in that he knew he was somewhere as an entity because of his capacity to have thoughts. The proposition has been perceived by western scholars as the foundation for all knowledge because while some objects can be queried if the belong to the realm of imagination or reality, the act of doubting ones existence is proof enough of the reality of their existence (Broughton, 109). I agree with Descartes proposal based on my

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In this paper I summarize, analyze, and critique "Can science prove that God does not exist.", by Theodore Schick Jr, on pages 484 to 487, a contemporary issue in Chapter 5 of the textbook. I discuss it with references to the chapter in MLA format. A short summary of the argument is provided, and then analysis is conducted on two underlying assumptions. Analysis of the assumptions is the type of analysis that is necessary to understand philosophy in these different contemporary issues. Often the actual logic used is sound; however, the underlying assumptions for the logic are typically not

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The acknowledgements at the end of the book tell us that the names of people who disappeared (mentioned on p.41) are taken from an actual list in Amnesty International reports (see p. 310). Similarly, the description of the assassination of the president [p. 291-95] is based on true events, though the president's name has been changed. Why does Ondaatje insert the names of real people, and the real situations in which they died or disappeared, in a work of fiction?
The aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections driven upon some of the ways reality

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Introduction

Rhetorical appeals of Aristotle have utilized by various writers and philosophers in presenting their work of interest to their audience. The rhetoric appeals (Logos, Ethos and Pathos) are commonly used because of their ability to appeal to targeted audience. Mark Grief in his work (The Reality of Reality Television) employs the Aristotle rhetoric to convince his audience on what he believed to be the reality behind the real television. The author gives an account of television history while ensuring a critical concern on the audience as the matter of address is something that the writer himself confirms to have

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Introduction

Deforestation is one of the environmental problems that the world is experiencing today. Humankinds’ characterization of the problems and the process of looking for possible solutions to the issue embody the social constructionism of the problem. The problem has been socially constructed overtime by people of the world, through research, scholarly claims, provision of evidence of the reality of the issue and the need to solve the problem, as well as the real social, political and economic implications of the issue. In line with the concept of social constructionism, the aforementioned issue is not a result of mere nature’

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Plato spent a great deal of his time trying to reconcile Heraclitus and Parmenides who held divergent views on identity and being. This is the problem that logically, one thing cannot change with time and remain identical or the same. Parmenides’ view is that being is at rest while Heraclitus’ view is that being is changing. Heraclitus maintained that reality was constantly changing. On the other hand, Parmenides insisted on the unified and changeless nature of reality. The antagonism between Heraclitus and Parmenides, two philosophers who lived in the pre-Socratic age, provoked a lot of arguments which at some

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In the context of Plato’s allegory of the cave, he explores the ideas relating to the issue that the real world is just but an illusion. His imaginations were based on the people kept in a cave since birth in a manner that they cannot see what is behind them. They can only see flickering shadows of statutes like shapes of trees, animals and people. The prisoners in the cave therefore tends to believe that the world is real based on the images and shadows they see. When the prisoner escapes the bonds, he finally realized that the

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#1 The world we inhabit is real. Many things occurring in the world indicate that the world has a significant origin that no doubt originates from a powerful source. When we consider phenomena that exist and prevail around us, it will be mysterious finding out that a certain force is responsible for controlling the different happenings so that there is a balance of things happening in different capacities. The aspects appearing in the movie only represent the ideas and opinions in the human mind but not reality. The matrix only represents diversity in the ideas of humans. The happenings

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Argumentative Essay

The line that I am comfortable with the most is the conceptual way of thinking. The definition of God given by Anselm is the most interesting line in the argument. He states “God is that, than which nothing greater can be conceived” (94). This designation captures all human imagination of a greater being than anything else in the world and he ascribes the name God to this being, which makes it inconceivable to have any other god or being with that definition. He then states “that which can be conceived not to exist is not God” (94). This helps

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Language is the art of expression and it constitutes of a wide variety of ingredients which tend to elaborate it from different perspectives. When a language is translated, its meaning is transferred to another language. But when we tend to transfer the meaning of different contexts inherent in a single language, similes and metaphors are used to make the connection. Euphemisms are also some debased cousins of metaphors; the basic difference is that when a metaphor is used, its meaning is obscured while the euphemisms would seem one thing whereas their meaning is completely different. The linguistic status of

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In the context of this film, a surrealistic body horror is displayed which was directed and written by David Lynch, an American filmmaker. The story portrayed in this movie is all about Henry Spencer who was left taking care of his own grossly deformed child in a landscape which was desolate. Spencer is shown experiencing hallucinations and dream of his lady and child in the radiator. The surrealistic imagery as well as sexual undercurrents is clearly portrayed in this film making them the main styles used in elaboration of the intended message. The main themes and purpose of the

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According to Guy Debord, a spectacle is the main representation of our social life. It constitutes advertising, entertainment, etc. present in mass media, for the purposes of watching and listening to it. Because it is just a representation, meaning that the spectacle repeats itself many times and people get as much exposure to it as possible, the spectacle unavoidably becomes the reality. However, the spectacle naturally consists of many separate images that, in fact, are a worldview. Step by step, the worldview becomes, first, materialized and later - objective.
I chose an excerpt from Society of the Spectacle due

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Gogol’s “The Nose” is a short story that is set in Russia during the early 1800s. The story follows in the strange tradition of Russian literature of the time, examining bizarre themes and situations that could not happen in reality. “The Nose” is the story of a man’s nose-- the Major Kovalyov’s nose, to be precise-- that the barber, Ivan, finds in his morning bread. During this time period, Russia was facing increasing amounts of turmoil. The cultural forces within Russia were causing a shift, a shift that would take place over nearly a century and

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Nowadays, for the considerable number of people the Internet has become an everyday reality. The impact of the Internet technologies on daily life increases every day, resulting in changes in perception of oneself and of the world.
The changes primarily are related with our consciousness, or rather with the consciousness of a new generation of people using the Internet constantly. As a result – expanding horizons, the ability to convey one`s thoughts to lots of people anywhere in the world and, moreover, being able to get feedback, reflection, response, of other on the thoughts a person has shared. A

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Nothing troubles the mind more than the thought of living in illusion. However, as Plato’s Cave Allegory and the film The Matrix reveal, living in illusion is not far from mankind. Using philosophical symbolism, Cave Allegory and The Matrix prove that day to day experiences construed as reality reflect the inability of humans to go beyond their natural limits. In Plato’s Cave Allegory and the film The Matrix, people’s sense of reality is warped; therefore, whatever they think of as reality is far from the truth.
People living in a cave would not know the reality

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Marquez does not embrace the clear-cut way of narration. There is a rough sketch of happenings between the time of founding the town, time of collapse; the Buendia’s clan genesis and its destructions. Marquez keeps on moving forth and backward and does not come clear on time. He thus creates a sense of informality and mythic feeling of a history. Though in the very first episode he talks of the Macondo gypsies who bore the technological innovations that were miraculous to the people of this isolated village, it is still had to believe it for in the first

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As technology advances, the number of jobs that were once done by humans decreases in number. This is the sad reality of the progress happening around the world due to innovations in digital technology. Everywhere one looks at - in schools, at home, at work – almost everything that people do uses equipment or devices that are controlled by machines. Lawyers need computers to research about results of similar cases they are handling. Doctors use the computer to get more information about illnesses they are not familiar with. Teachers encode their exams and create multimedia presentations so that students can

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Experimental writing is a road test to literal writing as it goes beyond the normal rules of literal writing. Various experimental writings are difficult to place into various genre groups in that they posses unclear characteristic of both poetic and prose qualities of literal writings. Experimental writings contain various combinations and bits of different literal works that makes it unclear to define and deduce meaning out of the piece of work. The modernity in experimental writing does not give clear meaning to readers but do give them choices to either bother about getting to search for meaning of presented

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Socrates compares us to the “strange prisoners” because we ourselves have a distorted view of reality. Most of the time, we do not, or choose not to, turn our heads from what we see in order to get a glimpse of what is really going on. We let “puppeteers” feed us with the images that they want us to choke on.
The shadows are the images that we see as a reality. In society, they can be the images that the media or the government want us to see. Instead of knowing what is really going on, we accept

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Institutions

How can your mental models about your world both assist and limit your perceptions when you meet a person for the first time?
Mental models are assumptions about the world and they influence our way of thinking. Mental models filters information so that the problem solving process succeeds; a process known as selective perception. The assumptions and generalization in our world will either assist or limit an individual perception when meeting a new person. The past experiences and the present knowledge builds up the mental models thus determining how we react to events and the actions we take.
Human

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