The Imaginary

many criticisms over specific details in Adolescent egocentrism regarding Piaget’s theory, people generally seem to agree on two subtopics of adolescent egocentrism: imaginary audience and personal fable. Many sources also agree on a single constant: egocentrism affects adolescents more than people in other phases of their lives. Imaginary audience is when an adolescent believes that everybody is watching her and that she is under constant scrutiny,…

it would certainly be interesting to put the question to then president, Jimmy Carter, as to whether his office were in contact with Levi Strauss & Co, or whether the company acted on its own initiative. More importantly the action configures an imaginary by permitting three intimations. First, Levi Strauss & Co is denoting the primacy of US identity over its initial economic function by spurning a brand new market in the Soviet Union. Secondly, Levi Strauss & Co is reprimanding the Soviet Union…

sudden mental shock caused by a traumatic event. For Barbara Thorson in I Kill Giants, trauma takes over her everyday life. In order to escape the harsh reality of her everyday life, where her mother is dying from cancer, Barbara creates her own imaginary world where she has the power to kill giants. From experiencing trauma at a young age, Barbara has social and developmental issues. Barbara’s struggles handling her trauma are best demonstrated through Barbara’s third and fourth meetings with…

This is the reason why Swift stayed away from using many imaginary creatures whose references could have been found in the writings of the other writers. Giant with two heads and four eyes, giant cannibals, monsters with dog heads are such examples of creatures which abound in the other travelogues. However, Swift…

not exist. A utopia is defined as “an imaginary and indefinitely remote place. A place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions. An impractical scheme for social improvement” (Merriam-Webster.com). In the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, it explores the idea of what if we lived in a utopian society. However, as the story progresses we see that the utopian society is actually a dystopian society. A dystopia is defined as “an imaginary place where people lead…

A story is “an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment” according to Google. Stories are made to entertain the readers or watchers or audience. That is the main objective of an author, to entertain the common folk. In a short story all of the suspense is very short, and is up front. In a novel, the author can grab the readers by the throat and hold on for a very long while. If the author doesn’t keep the readers hooked, then the author has failed. “I recognized the…

Ambrose Bierce is the author of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. The short story, often described as uncanny, takes the reader into an imaginary journey led by the main character, Farquhar as he is hanged. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” receives criticism on Bierce’s narrative technique. Critics such as Peter Stoicheff, Harriet Kramer Linkin, and James G. Powers, all discuss the purpose of the word choice made by Bierce throughout the story. Although Stoicheff, Powers, and Linkin…

reason why there have been so many dystopian works released recently. However these game’s influence limited in the range of young people, the person who doesn’t play games can not been affected. This situation means that although being warned from imaginary worlds, it is still unclear to see our…

I find the truth section really interesting. While I was acting in Spamalot I never considered the different “truths” that were possible to portray. I thought that since I was in an imaginary scene that the ideas and truths of it were also imaginary. I never even considered that the audience could be saying things like “I don’t believe that he would react like that,” or “I wouldn’t react like that,” but after reading this I understand why it is completely necessary to understand the truths of…

the ethical cornerstone for human experimentation, the Declaration of Helsinki is the international agreement that bridges the gap between medical and research laws themselves (the institution that enforces communal rules and regulations) and the imaginary value system of society that relies solely on moral codes of conduct. The declaration is a more modern sanction of the Nuremberg Code, a system of medical ethics instated post-Nazi tyranny. The Stanford Journal of International Law states that…