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21 Jan 2009
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Fear: The deconstruction of normality

Essay - 6 pages - Literature

In all honesty and truthfulness, post-war, American authors have produced quite a frightening element in this country's literary discourse. Frightening, because they amass self-critical observations that have ultimately led to paranoia regarding the reliability of life's constructs and realities....

05 Mar 2009
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Stereotypes are always inaccurate

Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology

Does a person's view of the qualities that members of particular groups have, reflect the reality of life, or are errors being made when groups and behaviours are observed? A definition of stereotypes with the fewest constraining assumptions is that they are qualities seen to be...

31 May 2009
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The anti-apocalyptic Markan community

Dissertation - 7 pages - Humanities/philosophy

Apocalyptic literature often is ignored when constructing theology and ethics. Theologians and ethicists ignore scriptural images of otherworldly beasts and supernatural beings. Prophesy of cosmic suffering and references to apocalyptic literature are not calculated in the work of most...

11 Aug 2009
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Time passes: Experience and expression in 'The Years' and 'To the Lighthouse'

Book review - 6 pages - Literature

The present unfolds as I trace my way along the thin black lines laid across the page. Woolf writes; I read. We then assemble these fractured signs, these fleeting moments in our conversations to compose a unified “whole.” A scene passes. My eyes discern a pattern and then resume their...

01 Oct 2009
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Spectrum of consciousness: Evolution of the spectrum

Thesis - 13 pages - Physics

In this chapter, Wilber explains how the information given in the previous chapters relate to the spectrum model of consciousness. He summarizes the previous chapters and shows how they relate to the creation of the spectrum. Wilber describes the spectrum as an infinitely long continuum in...

28 Feb 2010
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Reading a reader: Deconstruction and the Prophetic imagination

Thesis - 6 pages - Humanities/philosophy

A prophet is a voice, a man that becomes a word, whose message has the power to transform, reveal, destroy, and ultimately, re-imagine our perception of just who we are and why we are here. Arnold writes, the prophets were “instruments a revelation through which God discloses his will to the...

16 Aug 2010
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Einstein and the evolution of physics

Thesis - 2 pages - Physics

In this paper, we will try to understand in brief the physical concepts by Einstein and the basics of their creation and operation. At the forefront, Einstein dismisses the notion that science and ideas are the perfect reflection of reality. Physical concepts are creations of the human...

15 Jun 2011
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Night: An open minded perception

Essay - 5 pages - Literature

Elie Wiesel is a Jewish American author and Holocaust survivor. Wiesel's first book, 'Night', is an account of his experience in the concentration camp Auschwitz. This personal and vivid account launches a stream of consciousness, enlightening the reader to a new perception of various...

05 Jul 2011
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The Writer and Nietzsche

Essay - 4 pages - Literature

Throughout both 'The Birth of Tragedy' and 'The Genealogy of Morals', Friedrich Nietzsche explains the role and power of the artist. The artist, in particular, the writer, is a creator of illusions. Due to the increase in electronics and technology in the modern area, illusions...

22 Aug 2012
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Film as permission to realize again the fantastic

Case study - 6 pages - Humanities/philosophy

The concepts of “fantasy” and “reality” when placed together are often recognized as two parts to a single dichotomy. The separation is easily continued to include such corresponding pairings as childhood-adulthood, idealism-realism, and also genius-science. The total...

04 Dec 2012
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Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

Case study - 2 pages - Humanities/philosophy

Epistemology is the science of how we know. It strives to draw connections in order to clarify abstract concepts such as “meaning” and “reality”. These are broad subjects and each has many of its own sub-divisions. “Meaning” and “reality”,...

20 Jul 2008
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Petrarch's rime sparse

Essay - 7 pages - Literature

The reader of Petrarch's Rime Sparse is compelled as early as the first sonnet to impose narrative onto the poems. In Voi ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono, a poet-figure emerges and addresses the reader as he reflects on what he calls his primo giovenile errore. Finding herself at such an...

28 Aug 2008
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Gandhi and the doctrine of mind only truth and the void of being

Essay - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy

Gandhi's thought follows in the footsteps of a philosophical tradition whose founders examined the nature of reality through the internal realm of the spirit. Their works described a constant and unceasing search for what is real, a journey that questioned the very means by which we...

10 Sep 2008
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Anthropological and historical perspectives on the death of Captain Cook

Essay - 7 pages - Journalism

Scientific and philosophical thought have been preoccupied with the problem of an objective, empirical reality whose nature is discoverable and quantifiable at least since Descartes. This theoretical trend continued and culminated in the discoveries and ideas of Isaac Newton. The...

25 Nov 2008
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Heaven and hell: Aldous Huxley opens the doors of perception

Book review - 9 pages - Literature

Unlike any other mammal on earth, man possesses the unique ability to traverse various levels of the mind in order to alter and create his own perceptions of reality. Unlike any author in modern literature, Aldous Huxley charts man's explorations into the realms of the mind in his books...

31 May 2009
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Phallocracy in Alan Moore's "From Hell"

Book review - 8 pages - Literature

Alan Moore offers a diagnosis of reality that portrays misogyny, homophobia, racism, classism, and governmental tyranny as demonic forces. Moore uses the graphic narrative medium as a means to communicate the demonic nature of these systems of power. In Moore's work on Swamp Thing, he...

17 Jul 2014
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The Truth About Keats' Grecian Urn

Case study - 4 pages - Literature

In Sidney's A Defense on Poesy, poetry is “an art of imitation.” Granted, Sidney's definition does imply poetry serving as a mirror to a reality, and to imitate is to replicate something in closest form, in mimesis. To simply strike the possibility of poetry stemming from any...

17 Oct 2014
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Plato, Descartes and the Matrix

Case study - 3 pages - Management

The ideas brought forward by Plato, Descartes and the matrix believes that the world is not real, rather it is an illusion. To support their ideas, Plato imagines of a cave where people have been imprisoned till death. The people can only see in front of them where they can see images people,...

16 Feb 2011
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Improving the Tunisian financial market by adopting the international reference frame in terms of reporting with the aid of IAS/IFRS

Dissertation - 45 pages - Finance

The deterioration of the reputation of major players in financial markets (banking, insurance, financial institutions) has created a crisis of confidence without precedent with lasting consequences for all economic actors today and they are difficult to measure. In this context of high...

01 Apr 2010
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Storytelling and Hitchcock's Psycho

Essay - 4 pages - Film studies

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho intricately weaves the seven elements of storytelling in a clever and highly stylized fashion. Hitchcock, known for his meticulous attention to detail, elaborately illustrates his character's traits with the use of mise-en-scene subtle mannerisms. The...

10 Jul 2009
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Lord over logic

Thesis - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy

The seeming necessity of logical principles, such as the fundamental “law of non-contradiction”, has led many thinkers to consider these principles primordial, basic, and uncreated. I can sympathize with the attitude that gives rise to this belief. In my own personal history of studying...

23 Mar 2011
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How companies deal with cultural differences: the example of Disneyland Resort Paris

Case study - 97 pages - Services marketing

"Globalization, understood as the extension of the market economy and capitalism in the world, has accelerated over the last thirty years. " Thus the companies that choose to internationalize are growing. This internationalization promotes contacts between cultures, which play a fundamental role...

30 Aug 2007
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Indigo Light

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues examines the ways in which people strive to escape from stifling conditions and find a more peaceful home within themselves. Set in the Harlem ghetto, the story depicts the strained relationship between Sonny, a heroin addict and his brother, a teacher. The narrator...

22 Oct 2007
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Adorno and Fiske Pop TV

Essay - 2 pages - Journalism

To a certain degree, the actions of individuals have an effect on their environment. However, our surroundings more dramatically influence our everyday experiences and shape our personalities. Two of the most popular cultural mediums, film and television, extend to mass audiences who eagerly...

28 Oct 2007
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Duality in Mahayana Buddhist Scriptures

Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy

The Buddha's teachings, although expressive of ultimate reality, have been conveyed through the relative medium of language. This discrepancy has led to the invocation of dichotomies such as “reality versus unreality”, “existence versus nonexistence” and...

09 Apr 2008
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Who's the Fairest One of All?

Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Journalism

The mirror is quite an interesting and useful tool; they allow people to see themselves in great detail and in ways one would never imagine possible. This greater perspective of oneself is very important for various reasons that run the gamut from physical aesthetics to inspecting oneself for...

12 May 2008
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Paradise Hermit Crab

Essay - 4 pages - Psychology

Everybody has their own idea of what paradise consists of. Freedom from the confines of the labor force, a tropical vacation with endless beaches and relaxing afternoon naps, a spending spree with no bill in sight, and streaming chocolate with an edible rowboat have all been described to me as...

21 May 2008
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Sal Paradise and the False Dream of America

Book review - 4 pages - Literature

American literature reveals a counter-culture of identity which undermines and even contradicts the popular optimism of national identity. Part of this undermining takes place in the ideologies of American literary characters, or in their “imaginary relationships…to the real conditions...

15 Jun 2008
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The Effects of Racial Discourse

Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy

Introduction Racial discourse is a process that has notable ramifications for society. However, for individuals that are part of the majority race in a community, the reality of issues such as racial prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping are almost nonexistent. This is because the...

20 Jul 2008
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Points of intersection: A handful of dust and St. Mawr

Essay - 7 pages - Literature

In Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust as in D.H. Lawrence's novel St Mawr, a common rhetorical layer discusses the search for life's meaning, which in many aspects mirrors Ellington's experience of finding agreeability in music, as well as the sensation of childishness. In A Handful of Dust...