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    into the films emotion be shown to the masses or should the privacy of the human mind and dis-involved ignorance of humanity take hold over what is acceptable when viewing the realities of the world. There are key reasons why it is necessary to show photographs of this nature which are as follows to wake up the world to realities, to invoke the heart. Ephron’s essay is very well written in the way it goes to wake up the viewer to…

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    been human or animal shapes. He had no further thought that made him question his reality or things that had been in it. In The Matrix the same situation occurred as Mr. Anderson went about his life accepting the reality that his mind had made for him. He had a successful job and lived a decent life alone working as a computer programmer. Just as Socrates questioned Glaucon with questions that revolve around reality Morpheus pushed Mr. Anderson to question his existence and what he thought was…

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    How does our perception of reality serve us? Do the lies presented to us by those we surround ourselves with affect us adversely; or do they add to our happiness until revealed? Guy de Maupassant gives us with a chance to discover this in his short story, “The Jewelry”. A simple man is deeply in love with a woman he adores. He places his wife upon a pedestal of perfection, and until her death reveals that his perception of their life together was not a true reality, she remains the source of…

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    also a beautiful thing because of people 's uncanny curiosity, interest, and excitement about it. The idea that truths are contradictory is further explained by Stephen Crane’s poem when he writes, “Make plain to them the excellence of killing and a field where a thousand corpses lie”. Crane is explaining that killing can be seen as good because in war it brings honor to your country, you receive some sort of glory and respect, and it takes training and skill. But he also explains that killing…

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    All I needed to accept was the reality of Jesus’ promises, teachings, and resurrection. I had been naïve to think that I could, through one worldviews class, completely understand Christianity and what it meant to me. The purpose of senior seminar was to explore a plethora of beliefs,…

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    Complex characters such as Norma Desmond and King Lear are often used to display the effect people have on other’s realities and beliefs. In Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder and King Lear by William Shakespeare, complex characters are used to demonstrate how permissive relationships can create the false reality and ultimate madness one may endure. In Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond experiences a sheltered life that leads to a state of insanity. While much of this insanity comes from her own…

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    the topic is highly discussed, as how the characters use drugs in order to not think about their normal everyday life and how they try to escape reality by getting high off the pills from their work. In doing so, Johnson presents a conflict of man vs. himself, in which he tries to forget about his problems and act as if everything is okay when in reality it is not. Fuckhead doesn’t have a good life, and he is making it harder on himself for the fact that he continues to screw up and do drugs,…

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    instantly turn into a sad one, he also portrays the message of being lonely, but in the opposite way of Maya Angelou does, he feels that he is all alone, but covers it up by listening and observing others to feel like he is part of the crowd but in reality, he isn’t. This makes the connection to life because in life we every person at some point will feel every type of emotion possible,…

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    This therapy is important because of the fact that the way people make sense of the world around them is by talking about different experiences (Greene & Lee, 2011). The more a person tells their story, the more it will turn into reality. When you hear or are told something all the time, it starts to become a part of who you are and what you think/believe. Our society very much dictates what is an appropriate and normal narrative through social construction (Greene & Lee, 2011). The…

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    Question 1 In the story, The Allegory of the Cave, Plato uses the three prisoners to distinguish between genuine knowledge and right opinion. He uses psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical thoughts to prove it. In The Cave, there are three prisoners tied up and they can only look at the wall in front of them. In that cave, there is a light source behind them producing shadows that appear on that wall. The three play a game; the goal was to guess which shadow will appear next…

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