Dreaming

In the article titled Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty- First Century, the author Joe R Feagin discusses the downside of a capitalistic world. In this article he explains four ways in which capitalism is hurting us on the global scale and in the end Feagin gives us an agenda on how we could possible make changes for our societies system of capitalism by bringing social justice back to the center of focus. Feagin’s first point is about the amount of social injustice in…

In the short story going places, A.R Barton highlights what can go wrong when a teenager fantasizes and dreams excessively. Life without dreams is dry but life that is divorced from reality is equally harmful, bordering on in the insanity and inability to differentiate between the real world and the one which is imaginary. The protagonist in the story is a day dreamer who aspires to be a very successful person, with lots of money beside her. Only few months are left in her schooling and she…

senses have deceived him before, which makes them unreliable in detecting the truth. The second premise is that an argument can be made for what is believed to be reality is actually a dream. There is no test that can show evidence that someone is not dreaming,…

missionaries until their Aboriginal beliefs, culture and spiritualties start to diminish. The distant relocation of the Aboriginal people resulted in breaking their systems and traditions as they had less people to share and pass down the teachings of the dreaming connected to the aboriginal spiritualties taught by their ancestors. The assimilation…

Two little kids both dreaming of the day that they will have their happily ever after, one closes her eyes and see her daddy walking her down the aisle to her prince charming; the other closes his eyes see his self-dancing with his momma & grandma at the party after the wedding. Both smile and continue to play never knowing what their future holds but both deserve to have the wedding of their dreams. The joyous occasion of a weddings can be heard around the world, it has forever been a…

constructed from memories and regards the dream body as the self. Deep and dreamless sleep consciousness rests in a state of dormancy not split between the subject and the object. Pure consciousness is able to observe the changing states of waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep without being bound by these states or with the self that appears within…

hallucinating due to his paranoia. Casares played many tricks on the readers that caused confusion. I had no clue what was going on when the narrator was looking at double moons and double suns at first. I thought that the narrator could have been dreaming, but thinking he was awake and stuck between consciousness/unconsciousness and then put those dreams into his journal as if they were actually happening in real life. It is interesting to see a fugitive, paranoid man basically lose his mind.…

Thematic use of the Cripple to reflect physical and emotion unfulfillment in Paradise of the Blind Duong Thu Huong’s Paradise of the Blind follows the life of a Vietnamese girl named Hang as she is shaped and influenced by the expectations and characters in Post-War Vietnam. As Hang matures people such as her mother and aunt, who have forfeited their aspirations as they’ve aged and live their lives unfulfilled, surround her. This shapes Hang as strives to live her life free of obligation, a…

Take a look at the people around you. What do you see? I see refugees dreaming of freedom, I see parents anxious to start a new life for their children; people of all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, but today we’re all the same. Today we’re standing together as you pledge yourselves to a new country. We’re united as citizens of a great nation; America. What is an American? An American is being proud and free, but more importantly, being an American is being you. Although we’re a…

The Bungle Bungles (or Purnululu) is found and located in Purnululu, Western Australia. The Bungle Bungles is well known for the great ranges, which were only “discovered” by a film team in 1983. The cultural and spiritual significance of this landform traces back to almost 20,000 years ago. Also, the cultural and spiritual aspects of this landform is extremely vital to the vast existence of the landform itself and the people who inhabit it. The primary and original owners of this landform…