Reality distortion field

Motor oil, Lard, glue, cigarettes, shellac. What do these items have in common? The disturbing truth is they are commonly used in food ads to create a picture perfect shot for the camera. No wonder why food ads appear one-hundred percent better than reality. How do people not realize they’re being lied to straight to their faces by food ads? The answer is photography. The art of capturing the perfect image has evolved from the unscripted Kodak moment to the fake, scripted Hollywood moments…

In fact, he walks so much that a lot of his shoes got very worn down. Walking around clears his mind and lets him think about the future and what he is going to do when he graduates college. He has dreams about being in the NBA, but he knows in reality it is almost impossible. He has to think about “plan B” but doesn’t…

is a story that sheds light on the idea of reality vs. illusion. Through the narrator’s interpretation of the setting, the characters’ and their relationship it makes an important notation towards the theme. Altogether, “A Perfect Circle” is a story that suggests how an individual’s perception of reality can be thwarted due to illusions which can lead to delusions and heartbreak. The story implies how certain events in life can force our grasp on reality to shift and cause us to escape from our…

and illusion is able to realize oneness with the Brahm. Pir Sadarddin describes this dissolution of the human self in the Divine as Sat-Chit-Ᾱna(n)d. Therefore, in the context of this verse of the Saloko, sat (truth, reality), synonymous with the Arabic word Ḥaqīqa (truth, reality), refers to the realization of this knowledge of oneness of the ātmā and Brahm, the realization of the unity of rūḥ (spirit) and Nūr (Divine Light). As long as this spiritual union is not attained, says Pir…

Truth is Not What it is Truth is the reality of what has happened, however, the road to understanding truth is not always straightforward and smooth. This is because one person may perceive the truth one way, while another perceives the truth differently, so, their truths are different. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the steps towards discovering the real truth are discussed, and these concepts are present in William Shakespeare’s Othello. The characters created by Shakespeare in Othello…

breaks free and discovers the real world, he returns to the cave to enlighten the others, who refuse to stray from what they have known all their lives. This represents the idea that humans are innately inclined to accept only what they know be their reality and avoid anything that may contradict their personal truths. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” argues that individuals are far too trusting of the information fed to them by society and adamant in preserving their beliefs because they fear the…

The retelling of the tale of Rama According to A.K. Ramanujan’s schema, the retelling is a mix of both iconic as well as indexical; however not symbolic. An iconic retelling is one that has the same or similar structure to the main story as well as a similar plot. we can see that in the video that the Rama story is extremely similar in structure and plot to the story of the American couple. Indexical retelling applies as well, seeing that the structure and plot are similar between the two…

Credibility: What Moore is Lacking in Capitalism: A Love Story A documentary is a film used to report some form of reality. This film genre is associated with the unaltered truth and as a result people often believe what they watch is fact, portrayed in a way for them to see all sides of a controversy where they can forge an opinion for themselves. However, Capitalism: A Love Story does not follow that structure. Moore believes that capitalism is a flawed system and incorporates his opinions…

The short story “A Mere interlude” written by Thomas Hardy makes effective use of narrative voice to reveal the intentions of Hardy in crafting such a story. The irony of the title, as what was supposed to be “A Mere Interlude”, Baptista’s short and tragic marriage to her ex-lover Charles Stow, eventually takes form as a major turning point in her life. It subjects her to much emotional turmoil and eventually leads her back to the one thing she hoped to escape from through her marriage to…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave offered meaningful insight into the education process. To begin the allegory, Plato proposed that a group of prisoners were chained and unable to move because of these chains. They could only gaze upon one thing, the shadows which were projected onto the wall by a fire set above and behind them. These shadows were of various different items that were being carried by people behind a wall that enabled only the shadows of the items to be projected. Since the prisoner…