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Reality Essays and Term Papers
The Computer And Mass CommunicationI am writing this essay on a Macintosh computer, a machine that replaces the gears and levers of a typewriter with a microprocessor, electronic circuitry, software, and a display screen. On the floor is a modem, which lets my computer talk to other computers over the phone lines. There are more ...
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Cinematography Everything You Need To KnowCinematography: Everything You Need To Know
Cinematography is the technique and art of making motion pictures, which
are a sequence of photographs of a single subject that are taken over time
and then projected in the same sequence to create an illusion of motion.
Each image of a moving object is ...
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Shockwave RiderThere are numerous books on the science fiction
market, that deal with the myriad of possibilities
involving the technology of the future. John Brunner’s
book, “,” is one of the most popular, as
well as one of the most famous, books dealing with this
issue. Brunner presents many ...
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Comparing Hinduism and BuddhismIn a Western world, many times Eastern traditions and beliefs are not fully appreciated or understood. However, in today’s society, it is crucial to understand the ever growing influx of both Hindu and Buddhist culture in America, and across the world. These two religions have many beliefs and ...
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Glass MenagrieOutside Reading Analysis #3
In The Glass Menagerie (New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1945) by Tennessee Williams, one broken family, the Wingfields, struggles to find and accept reality. Amanda is the mother who lives in the surreal life of her perfect childhood. She expects her son ...
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Magical RealismAt about the middle of the 19th century (when scientific objectivity became "vogue"), the influence of many social forces caused aesthetic taste to change from romantic idealism to realism. Many writers felt that romantics with their focus on the spiritual, the abstract, and the ideal were being ...
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A Comparison between the Epistemologies of Plato and St. Thomas AquinasA Comparison between the Epistemologies of Plato and St. Thomas Aquinas
By Peregrino Blanco, 2011.
Introduction
When we talk about epistemology we talk about knowledge. How do we come to gain knowledge? Plato and St. Thomas Aquinas had very different views on this topic. For this paper: ...
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Theory of MimesisPlato, Aristotle, and Mimesis
As literary critics, Plato and Aristotle disagree profoundly about the value of art in human society. Plato attempts to strip artists of the power and prominence they enjoy in his society, while Aristotle tries to develop a method of inquiry to determine the merits ...
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Ancient Roman and Egyptian Art & CultureAncient Art & Culture: Four Examples
It seems true that if one really wishes to understand a culture, one must understand their art. It may seem very difficult to approach, let alone comprehend, cultures that died out thousands of years before ours was ever conceived. However, if such ...
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Important Influences on Sartre's PlaysThere was a brief period of economic prosperity and progress in France, called the belle ?poque (beautiful epoch) before World War I in the early years of the 20th century and right before the wave of pessimism began in the 1920s (Cosper 2004). At this time, inventions like the telephone, the ...
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Plato’s Theory of Being and BecomingBeing and Becoming
Plato's theory of Being and Becoming, and its relations to the forms, is rooted in the dichotomy between being and not-being. Prior to Socrates the Sophists, from Parminedes to Gorgias, had argued that because it was impossible by definition for Nothing to exist, it was ...
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Personal Writing: DreamsAfter I wake up I quickly come to a reality check. Realizing that I will
have a white collard job. Working through the ranks from the bottom up to reach
a reasonable goal. I will have diplomas and achievements, but I doubt if I will
manage a billion dollar company. In my reality working hard ...
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Adorno And Horkhiemers Dialect‘Myth is already enlightenment; and enlightenment reverts to mythology’
(Dialectic of Enlightenment XVI)
Adorno and Horkheimer’s obscure and nihilistic text Dialectic of Enlightenment (DoE) is an attempt to answer the question ‘why mankind, instead of entering a truly human ...
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Grapes Of Wrath - Rose Of SharMisfit to Madonna: Rose of Sharon’s Transformation
When Rose of Sharon is first introduced in The Grapes of Wrath, we learn that she is expecting a child from her new husband, Connie Rivers. She is described as a mystical being whose primary concern is the well-being of her child, even at the ...
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A Critique Of Charlotte GilmanA critique of The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte P. Gilmans', The Yellow Wall-Paper, written in the early part of the 1900's, is an excellent example of the common belief during that time which held that women were too weak to handle stress and as a result, often collapsed under it. During this ...
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Computer Crime 2Billions of dollars in losses have already been discovered. Billions more have gone undetected. Trillions will be stolen, most without detection, by the emerging master criminal of the twenty-first century--the computer crime offender. Worst of all, anyone who is computer literate can become a ...
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Theological Consequences In King Lear
Shakespeare's King Lear is not primarily a theological text. It contains no direct references to Christ, and its characters are not overtly religious, except perhaps in a strictly pagan sense. King Lear is, however, a play that seeks out the "meaning" of life, a play that attempts to ...
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Road Less Traveled By WilliamThe Discipline section of M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled first deals with life’s difficulties. He makes it clear that we all have problems and pain but we have to deal with it to get by and to make life less difficult. “Life is difficult... Once we truly know that life ...
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The Power Of Langauage In OtheIn Othello, Shakespeare explores the relationship between words and events. Spoken thought, in the play, has all the power of
action; speaking about an event will make that event become reality for those who hear - it will affect reality as if that event had
taken place. Shakespeare demonstrates ...
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A Critique Of Charlotte GilmanA critique of The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte P. Gilmans', The Yellow Wall-Paper, written in the early part of the 1900's, is an excellent example of the common belief during that time which held that women were too weak to handle stress and as a result, often collapsed under it. During this ...
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