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Hyperbolic Doubt of Rene Descartes

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

Fictitious Aussieco and a Reality Check

little money for upgrades. The payroll is just barely meeting the salaries of the workers, and as a result many short cuts have be...

Media and Race in Canada

2002), is a tremendously dangerous concept when large entities, such as the media, possess and routinely abuse the "power to enfor...

Life Changes, Expectations and Reality

scene was purely majestic as it continued to display more grassy pastures, an abundance of flora, free-running creeks and the open...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Reality v. Illusion Concept

truly know the characters from the book and as if their life and times are intertwined with your own. It is truly a miraculous ad...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

Parallel Reality in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bar...

Cultural Realities and the Works of Flannery O'Connor

OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

of the Long Island environment. II. TV REPLACES HUMAN IMAGES Like its computer counterpart, Mander (1978) indicates that televis...

Spatiality and Immanuel Kant

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

Comparison of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III and The Tragedy of King Lear

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

The 2004 Case of Barber v. Somerset County Council

of proximity is not a consideration, this exits. The issue becomes that for foreseeable harm. Even where there is the aspe...

Capitalism, Socialism, and Their Economic Realities

In six pages this report considers capitalism and socialism in terms of their national and citizen impacts, ideology uniqueness, a...

Reality and Slave Narratives

when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...

Literature and Reality

In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...

Reality TV and Lessons for Society

was born. About Survivor 2, Dan French says: " I love Survivor. To me it exemplifies exactly what television does better than any ...

Reality and Western Social Theory

In six pages this paper discusses how Western social theory can assist in the understanding of reality and existence. Ten sources...

Tim O'Brien's Writings and the Blurring of Fantasy and Reality

In eleven pages this paper examines how author Tim O'Brien intentionally obscures the fine line between real life and fiction in h...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Major Themes of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Analyzed

intensity of a hurricane, which dramatically sets the plays tone. Shakespeare recognized the importance of the ghost, which essen...

Comparison of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...

An Analysis of The Things They Carried

This five page report analyzes the structure utilized by Tim O'Brien. The contention is presented that this utilization effectiv...

The Balance Between Society and the Individual in Urban Society

This 5 page paper argues that the urban environment is in reality a delicate balance between society and the individual. The write...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...

Positive and Negative Aspects of TV Violence

In six pages this paper discusses how violence in television is represented in reality, horror, and children's program genres. Fi...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Melting Beeswax and the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

Machiavelli's and Boccaccio's Reality Verses Appearance

a man runs into a colleague with a woman half his age. He might assume that this married man is engaged in a clandestine romance, ...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...