Augmented reality

Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell explores philosophical issues between the body, soul, and technology. While an aesthetically pleasing product of the science fiction genre, the film remarkably blends technology with religion and spirituality. It follows Kusanagi, a cyborg assassin working for Section 9, who, along with her team, is on a hunt to track down an anonymous hacker known as the Puppet Master. He is able to implant false memories in human bodies and, as a result, Kusanagi struggles…

Romeo and Juliet-Genuine or Imaginary Have you ever read the story of Romeo and Juliet or watched the movie and wondered if Shakespeare based his story on true events? Well, wonder no farther. The story of Romeo and Juliet is not based on actual events. There is no proof that they were ever in existence other than in the pages of Shakespeare. Though there are two houses in Verona, Italy called the Montague and Capulet house, they are just a tourist trap, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is…

line...and erase it.” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Shakespeare, the fine line between reality and dreams is truly tested. In the first four acts, dreams influence one’s mind and imagination takes over the characters’ minds. From fairies to unimaginable love interests, it is obvious that one is not in reality. In Act 5 Scene 1, however, everything returns to the norm and reality returns. However, reality and imagination are tested in this scene once again, the ridiculous play the Mechanicals…

Throughout life any people are faced with various things that may hold them back. They may not even be aware that they are forced to see things the way that they are. They do not understand that the so called reality around them is not even close to the way things really are. Examples of everyday people having their own set of caves, shackles and shadows are in the books “Choosing a Life Map” by M. Scott Peck, “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, and “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. Shackles,…

The World’s Stage: Limited Performers To be accepted in society, one must abandon part of their authenticity and experience loneliness. The Poser and The Truman Show examine the themes of authenticity and loneliness. Similarly, loneliness is portrayed by both protagonists, Giovanni and Truman, and their need for genuine companionship. However, the delineation of authenticity differs as Giovanni performs the personas of others, while Truman puts up self made personas. Nevertheless, the two works…

The cause of Paul’s stress seems to be that he tried to take on too many things at once. One way to have coped with the stress better would have been problem-focused coping. The problem here was that Paul had too much going on and many different stressors affecting him. By reducing the number of stressors or changing them to make them less stressful Paul wouldn’t have gotten to worn down. 2. Paul was academically talented, but in what ways may he have been lacking in practical and emotional…

2 out of 4 stars **/**** McDowell is a half redemption tale, half fictional memoir of a surgeon at the height of his power, and his subsequent fall from it. It follows the titular character, Hiram McDowell, members of his family, and the people whose lives he changes, frequently not for the better. This was a hard start for me. The characters were unlikable, violently so, and I found my notes littered with comments about their personalities and arrogance, even twenty chapters in. The author…

disappointment caused by the latter. My reality has been a girl and her mother fighting against my pain, while others would ignore or deny its constant existence. Throughout high school, I would sit in various waiting rooms hoping for something to change and too often nothing did. My only escape was the brief moments where I was somewhere else completely. In my world of fiction and fantasy, I travel with literary icons on journeys of adventure and mischief because my reality was such a small…

Opposing theories suggest that each individual person has a created reality that is completely independent of anything other than our own mind perception. Unifying everyone's reality suggests that some greater force controls and maintains our reality as well as creates a set of factual information with relation to tangible perception that is able to be applied to everything and everyone. While this idea of…

Nonsense Buried Underneath the Rubble Many people would think a newspaper as reputable as The New York Times would put their articles through rigorous scrutiny before publishing. This is not the case in the article “The 9/11 Decade; Outdone by Reality” by Michiko Kakutani. After reading Kakutani's article, one is left with a sense of “where did ten minutes of my life go, and what the hell did I read?” Kakutani article is scatter brained throughout the whole article making it hard to follow what…