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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...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Hubris, and Ethics

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

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...

Reality and Knowledge and Descartes and Berkeley

think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

'Real' TV Reality Shows?

are film crews following them around, watching every action, recording every word. But, are these shows truly all they claim, or a...

Avant Garde Artistic Movement and its 'Desert'

and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...

Independent Auditor's Role

company. Most companies utilize an independent auditor in one capacity or another. It tends to lend credibility to the facts and f...

Improved Rugby Athletic Performance and Sports Psychology

In six pages this paper discusses the mental and physical characteristics of an ideal rugby player and then compare them with fict...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Virtual Reality Value, Functionality, and Aesthetics

for expression and communication. Virtual reality is a means to create, experience, and share a computer-generated world as realis...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

Oppression and Language Skills

Los Angeles, and lived in the region for at least a decade as an adult. In this region there are numerous field workers, many of w...

Ancient Egypt's Civilization and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of civilization in this Ancient Egypt consideration that discusses its socioeconomic...

The Culture in the World of Comics

perpetuate a creative and productive mind; comic books, while appearing to project little more than superficial entertainment, pro...

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 ...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...