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    Hogwarts was Harry Potter’s Delusion: There is a theory that Harry Potter’s wonderful idealistic adventures in Hogwarts were a delusion he created for himself in reaction to the Verbal and Physical abuse. For starters, Harry's magic fantasies begin when, in real life, he's about to begin school at Stonewall High, being separated from his abusive cousin for the first time. It's a new school, a new environment, and therefore the perfect time to begin his delusions. First creation: Hagrid.…

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    Writers that have spoken out against racism have been shunned in the literary world. Kathy Hongs essay “Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant Garde” tackles this issue. She argues that the acceptance of poetry in the literary world is based on how poets of color address race: “mainstream poetry is rather pernicious at in awarding quietist minority poets, who assage…

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    Lewis, Mackenzie. Book Review of A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. By Frances Hill. New York: Doubleday, 1995. The Salem Witch Trials are well known across the United States. Images of women screaming at the stake while being burned, religious leaders yelling about damnation and hellfire, and young girls going into convulsive fits fill the minds of many Americans. Frances Hill takes on the daunting task of sorting through the various information and creating a…

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    David Bentley Hart, a renowned theologian and philosopher, has accepted the challenge presented by the New Atheist ideals. In Hart’s publication, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies he explains to the reader the falsehood of Atheism and how the rejection of Christianity has negatively impacted humanity. There are four themes that Hart uses to convey this message: Faith and reason in today’s society, Christianity’s influence and misunderstanding throughout the…

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    The American Delusion The traditional ideology of “The American Dream” is the archetypal configuration that through hard work you can acquire and accrue wealth. Any deviance from this 1950s societal construction is unsavory, and those without the same opportunities are pushed to their limits to achieve the dream. In contemporary modern society, the pressures of this rigor system are outlined by student debt, financial bantams, and the writing In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Beginning a…

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    Critique of DNA: A Parasite that Builds its Own Host from The Science Delusion In the third chapter of The Science Delusion, author Curtis White builds upon the importance of Romanticism as a counterculture for our science and logic based search for truth in our current society, as introduced in the second chapter. White enlightens his audience on what Romanticism can provide to our society as well as what science fails to provide for our humanity. His argument in remains mainly biological…

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    In “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals” Blake Hurst, a lively old farmer, shares the reality and necessity of industrial farming standards today. Firstly, an emphasis is put on the technological advancement of the world and the influence it has on farming. People rely on their doctors advancement in technology, but want their farmers to continue in the same practice as previous generations (Hurst). An advancement in technology has the ability to broaden a farmer's ability…

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby and the play A Streetcar Named Desire the main characters James Gatsby and Blanche Dubois have a lengthy search for love. Both characters go about their search in similar and different ways. The characters choose illusion over reality, but the way in which they go about it differs. Also in an attempt to impress, both characters try and “buy” love by using material possessions to attract people to them. Although Gatsby and Blanche devote a lot of their lives to…

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    Henry Gates Louis in his essay “Delusions of Grandeur,” he analyzes the reason as to why young African Americans tend to take the path of an athlete, over something more realistic. His purpose in writing this is to show the negative effects that can be carried along with the child, if they wrongly believe they will only find success if it is on the field. The intended audience for his essay were adults, the common public, educators, also young African Americans so they can understand that…

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    novels that he neglected all other aspects of life. His mind was bombarded with chivalric stories to the point that they were basically the only thoughts he had left up there. Although all of this reading plagued Don Quixote’s mind with unrealistic delusions of knight errantry, it also made him a man of words. Towards the beginning of their journey Don Quixote and Sancho came across a group of goatherds. Don Quixote spoke with the enraged goatherds who were blaming the death of their friend…

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