The Illusion

A human being is called normal when all of their senses (smell, touch, sight, hearing and taste) are functioning at all time. If one of these senses is not functioning the way it should be then, the person is called abnormal person or person having birth a defect. In this short story, Cathedral by Raymond Carver is about a guy name Robert, who does not have his eyesight. Because he is blind, he is living tough life. But he has a unique gift of seeing things without his eyesight and with that he…

Authentic or Maybe Just Cunning “The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore….” A passage from the “Empire of Illusion” by Chris Hedges supports the claim that “ an essential skill… is artifice”. In a political and consumer culture, artifice is essential to becoming well known and successful. Yes, many people make up narratives and stories with facts to appeal to have the qualities needed to obtain power. However, it is not appropriate to use this…

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Dream”: An Unachievable Illusion The word dream is often used interchangeably with the words aspiration, ambition, goal, hope, wonder, and fantasy. People dream about their future career paths. People dream about winning the lottery or one day owning a luxury sports car. In their sleep, people even dream about flying like their favorite superhero character. For Ta-Nehisi Coates, dream does not mean the same as society typically thinks. In his well-received memoir titled…

Inverted Quarantine means being different, and isolating yourself from something threatening, like something toxic. That is what we will be discussing. Andrew Szasz, the author of “ The Future of Illusion” wrote this to explain how we can help the world from pollution or oil consumption. Some may wonder “I am just one person, I wouldn’t be able to change the world.” Who is to say you aren’t able too? See, the first steps is knowing how too, and if you are willing to help the earth. “...…

Marx: Emancipation from Illusions As I read Karl Marx’s writings within The Marx-Engels Reader, four key terms became apparent in order to understand his theories regarding religion, politics, and economics: emancipation, alienation, species-being, and proletariat. While I do not intend to summarize his ideas, this essay will resemble an almost ‘thinking out loud’ type of process, helping me to better comprehend Karl Marx, his vision for the world, and his impact on the discipline of religious…

Prior to World War One Norman Angell, in his book The Great Illusion, puts forward that war between nations benefits no nation, and ultimately only weakens them, and thus war would become more unlikely when these nations realized this. Of course Angell wasn’t arguing that war was never going to happen in the world…

"The Illusion of College Drinking ." Psychology Today 16 Oct 2003. web. This popular source contrasts with the others indicating that irresponsible college drinking is a misconception. This article doesn’t state that college drinking does not occur but that the…

When you are talking about psychology and illusions, there is no way the Muller-Lyer Illusion is not mentioned. The Müller-Lyer illusion in a nut shell is an optical illusion made up of two stylized arrows. When participants partake in this experiment, they are asked to place a mark on the figure at the midpoint, in which they regularly place it more towards the "tail" end. The illusion was developed by renowned German sociologist, Franz Carl Müller-Lyer (1857–1916), a German sociologist, in…

Molly Fitzsimmons 
Ms. Bryan English 3 Gold 4 27 February 2017 I believe light is the biggest motif carried out through the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams. Lighting shows the theme of Illusion vs. Reality along with developing the main character Blanche. Blanche escapes reality by never showing her true self in the light. Blanche is not just hiding from the people and society, but from her own self. She covers up the truth with lies and exaggerations because…

Throughout Death of a Salesman the concept of Reality Vs Illusion can be seen very frequently. The family has a hard time seeing what is true because Willy wants them to live in a reality that is not true. Willy likes to live in this illusion about he and his sons being very successful, but the rest of the family begins to realize that it is just an illusion and they try to make Willy realize the reality that they are seeing. Willy has a major problem with seeing the reality of himself as a…