Consensus reality

Could you imagine a world where you and a select few are the only real humans left, with nobody that you can trust? One day, the Earth was invaded by the Others, not aliens, but beings that have invaded the minds of humans using technology that is extremely advanced compared to what we have today. Cassie, one of the main characters, loses two of her family members to the Others, and the thirds is taken somewhere where she can’t get in. She’s alone in the wild, until Evan, a stranger Cassie gets…

Sometimes it feels like, in this crazy world, we find ourselves living two different lives. You go to work and you are one person but when you get home you are someone completely different. Or you go to school and you act one way but as soon as the bell rings you act another way. Well, you are not alone. Everyone lives this way. The reason behind this is a sociological notion that is referred to as “Impression Management”. Impression Management is just how it sounds, when we try to manage the…

Nannie Doss more commonly known as “giggling granny” is notorious for being a serial husband killer. Killing became her solution for everything it was her stress outlet. Almost like a domino effect she kept killing after the first murder it became an addiction. “Giggling granny” born Nancy Hazel on November 4,1905 to James and Lou Hazel In Blue Mountain, Alabama. Growing up with a protective,overbearing,hot tempered father could have impacted her view on the world specifically men and…

take an endless length of time to describe the events of such a day properly[...] [a]ll of us, even when we think we have noted every tiny detail, resort to set pieces which have already been staged often enough by others. We try to reproduce the reality, but the harder we try, the more we find the pictures that make up the stock-in-trade of the spectacle of history forcing themselves upon us. (Sebald 71) He is making it clear what happened in the past is provided by the understanding of the…

More often than not, individuals prefer to conceal the truth rather than divulge it in order to prevent hurt, anger, or mistrust. It’s like a preservation tactic used to appear innocent and prevent others from initial hurt; lying proves to be an ineffective scheme since the truth always comes out and people often feel even more hurt when the truth has been kept from them. The human race incessantly tries to keep damage to a minimum even though such controlling methods are often futile. John…

Royals’ by Lorde reflects the divergent cultural values between popular music and the individual. Lorde recognises the accumulating trend for artists to promote a lifestyle of excess consumption. Her themes relate the shift of popular culture to valorise wealth, power and hedonistic behaviour. Effective use of imagery highlights the disparity of the personal experience and the lifestyle expressed in Hip-Hop and Rap. This essay will thus explore how Royals reflects the representation of…

As Ralph Waldo Emerson has once said, “Fiction reveals the truth that reality Obscures.” Fiction can make us see the bigger picture in situations that are problematic and improve our skill to analyze difficult circumstances. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, shows how money can’t solve all your problems and how there can be many more problems then what their eyes perceive at the surface.Despite the school board’s recent sentiments regarding the lack of value that fiction provides, fiction should…

The Christian Worldview from Different Perspectives The Christian worldview is a worldview that is understood differently throughout the world. Some factors that affect the understanding of a Christian worldview are history, tradition, language and ethnicity. In this paper, I will compare the definitions and ideas of the Christian worldview in the book Hidden Worldviews by Steve Wilkins and Mark L. Sanford and the article Beyond Worldview Analysis: Insights from Hans-Georg Gadamer on Christian…

An important idea from Pim Valkenbergs’ introduction in World Religions in Dialogue is giving an insider’s and outsider’s perspective on the major religions of the world. Incorporating both perspectives will help students gain a deeper knowledge about the main religions of the world. Developing this deeper knowledge will help readers view the religions with an open mind. When it comes to understanding this book, viewing both the outsider and insider viewpoints are very important and beneficial.…

The film F is for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) is a masterpiece that creates its own genre as a documentary essay. The films subject of fakery lies in the precincts of art forgery, charlatanism “magicianship”, the idea of authorships, and experts. The opening of the film, which displayed Welles doing a magic trick suitably set the theme of imitation, and if the audience didn’t catch on Welles even introduced the film as one of trickery. F is for Fake was birthed collectively out the many different…