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Reality, Dreams, and Rene Descartes

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

Dreaming and Descartes' First Meditation

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

Film Industry and Revelations on Crime and Punishment

woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...

A Comparison of the Dream of the Rood and Caedmon's Hymn

He demonstrated this to the abbess and many learned men, and was requested to abandon the secular life and join the monastery, whe...

Dreams from a Psychological Perspective

researchers investigating REM sleep report an interaction of the anterior cingulate cortex, amygdaloid complexes and posterior are...

Children, Nightmares, Night Terrors, and Dreams

ask themselves about the content and severity of childrens dreams (Murray, 1995). Most childrens and adult dreams occur during RE...

Doubt Philosophy of Rene Descartes

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

Dreaming and its Purpose

to certain regions of the brain for example does produce definite and specific effects in respect to the subjective experience of...

Examining Shakespeare's Comedic Dream

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

Freedom Issues

"I Have a Dream" speech, in which King lambasted the United States for forbidding the Negroes to be free people (King). "We can ne...

Historically Accurate Staging of William Shakespeare's Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

Jefferson, Lincoln, and King

of the United States today. It speaks of the soul of the people and their dreams and desires and the foundations of their beliefs,...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

to make sure that this dream, whatever the dream may be, is not deferred. There are moments, however, when each of the dreams seem...

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love

toying with his free will it seems. But, for the most part Theseus, is a noble and heroic duke who loves Hippolyta in the real sen...

Battle of the Sexes in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

Dreaming in Cuban/Cristina Garcia

notions about Cuba, her grandmother and Cuban life. Lourdes has to cope with Pilars attitude, such as when she mocks her adopted c...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Women, Men/Relationships in Midsummer Night’s Dream

even death. Rather than comply, Hermia elopes with Lysander, fleeing into the woods. Shakespeare emphasizes the enormous consequen...

Hollywood and the California Dream

actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...

Freud and “Dora”

regard to wealth. These findings imply that human begins are "not independent of each other" (Fonda, 1996). However, there are sev...

Speech Analysis / King's 'I Have a Dream'

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

Colony of Dr. Kafka

the quest for material gain, the colony members can focus on the more important of lifes priorities, such as family, friends and p...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

Personality Theory of Sigmund Freud

and political metamorphoses where major thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established themselves. Wha...

Hugh Brody: Maps and Dreams

find a way to describe both cultures without any of the sentimentality that comes with an examination of native cultures, and with...

Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...