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Reality and Illusion in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...

Meditations on First Philosophy and the Logic of Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

Reality According to the Philosophy of Rene 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

Tempestuous Paintings of Caravaggio

than painting. The jealous man heaped insults on Lena. Upon hearing of this, Caravaggio hit the young lawyer with a powerful blow ...

The True Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness, the seminal masterpiece by Joseph Conrad, is a study in cruelty and the degeneration of man into beast as the t...

Comparative Analysis of 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'A and P' by John Updike

In a comparative analysis of five pages John Updike retells Joyce's classic tale in a contemporary way with distinctions made betw...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

3 Types of Psychological Themes

In seven pages the psychological themes of phobia research, how diagnosis and treatment have changed throughout history, and behav...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and an Analysis of East versus West

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

Sociological Aspects of the 1999 Film The Matrix

he must conform to the boundaries within that world (i.e. showing up for work on time, wearing a tie, respectfully agreeing with h...

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis and Reality

In five pages this paper discusses the reality of this literary combination of fantasy and myth. Two sources are listed in the bi...

U.S. Emvironmental Policy in 1992

This 6 page paper discusses U.S. international environmental policy, and examines the failure of the U.S. to take its expected lea...

Virtual Reality Living

In five pages this paper discusses what it would be like to live in complete virtual reality. There is no bibliography included....

Rene Descartes, Aristotle, and Plato on Reality and the Soul

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

Plato and Bertrand Russell on Nature of Reality Knowledge

In a paper consisting of three pages it is contemplated what Russell's reaction to Plato's efforts to account for nature of realit...

An Examination of The Theory of the Leisure Class

all, a class of people set higher, financially and socially, than others who must somehow struggle and work for a living. Veblen f...

Real and Metaphorical Staircases

In five pages this paper discusses staircases in terms of symbolism and reality as represented in a chapel in New Mexico's stairs,...

Discussion of Quantitative Social Science

In five pages Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man and Alfred Crosby's The Measure of Reality are contrasted and compared as ...

Case Study on Counseling

In six pages a counseling case study involving Marjory Winkler and the breakthroughs she experienced during sessions with her coun...

Book I of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and the Conflict Between Reality and Illusion

In three pages the thematic conflict between reality and illusion is examined in a consideration of Book I's portrayal of the love...

Theories on the Advancement of Knowledge

In this five page paper the author questions whether the many advancements that have been made in knowledge are the result of evol...

Unbeliever's Understanding of Divine Reality

In six pages divine reality is examined in order to provide the unbeliever with understanding with the contention that following o...

A Leadership Personal Philosophy

In nine pages the example of past and present leaders are used in order to understand what it takes to become a good leader and is...

Depiction of Reality by Woody Allen in Mighty Aphrodite, Purple Rose of Cairo, Zelig, and Annie Hall

In ten pages this paper discusses filmmaker Allen's portrayal of reality in four of his most critically acclaimed motion pictures....

Bold and Wonderful Caravaggio

In a paper consisting of five pages the long influence of a painter whose time was short is examined in terms of his Renaissance p...

Society, Reality, and Poets of the Romantic Era

In twenty pages this paper discusses the poets and the poetry that characterized the Romantic Era of the end of the 18th century i...

Shroud of Turin, Reality or Hoax?

In eleven pages this paper discusses whether or not the Shroud of Turin is little more than a contrived hoax or truly represents J...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and War's Realities

In seven pages this paper examines the realistic portrayal of war in Erich Maria Remarque's First World War novel All Quiet on the...