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    Leaning on the black knotted tree a couple yards from the edge of my property‚ I had a spectacular view of Gatsby’s front lawn. His dark green‚ perfectly cut lawn stretched out for what looked like acres‚ with his light grey driveway slicing it in half. Parked there was his shiny black Rolls-Royce. Every Wednesday afternoon‚ a group of men came to his house to clean it‚ so that its polished black exterior shone. His car was a frequent sight on weekends‚ leaving and returning to his house with more

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    able to compare 2 authors. These authors are Roald Dahl who wrote the Landlady‚ and Edgar Allen Poe‚ who wrote the Tell - Tale Heart. Roald Dahl wrote stories with humor and dark humor. Edgar Allen Poe wrote horror stories. Roald Dahl had a funny and darkly funny impression on his audience‚ while Edgar Allen Poe had a frightening impression to his audience. Edgar Allen Poe and Roald Dahl have similar lives‚ but differentiate in the way they write. Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916. He was sent to

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    which occur sooner in the sleep cycle‚ last longer and are more emotional and story like. It was also shown that persons dreaming about divorce while going through it showed better adjustment to single life. Pavlides and Winson: Dreams as Information Processing also known as OFF-LINE THEORY (1989). These theorists contend that the cognitive process that occurs during dreaming consolidates and stores information acquired during the day thus allowing us to maintain a smaller and more efficient brain

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    Introduction The aboriginals have lived in Australia for thousands of years. They had little outside contact until the British arrived two hundred years ago. The aboriginals have one of the oldest unchanged religions in the world. They believe in the Dreaming and respect the environment around them. This assignment will break the aboriginal religion into Smart’s seven dimensions. Methodology The three SOR classes in grade 11 travelled to Chillagoe on the 3rd of May‚ 2006. On the way to Chillagoe we

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    The land provides the aboriginals their dreaming element so the Experiential and Emotional dimension is represented through the incredible strong connection and dependency to the land‚ their emotions with each other and with what they are doing and how it makes them feel. The Narrative dimension

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    Psychology October 15‚ 2013 Inception “Well‚ dreams‚ they feel real while we’re in them‚ right? It’s only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange” (inception). In the movie inception Dom implants someone’s idea into a target subconscious. This movie inception demonstrates what it is like to try and control the unconscious human mind. As you could see in the film the characters struggled with trying to overcome and control their unconscious mind. Don Cobb wants to

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    Dreaming is an involuntary action in which a person experiments successions of visions‚ thoughts‚ sounds‚ emotions or sensations while is asleep. It mostly occurs during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase when limb muscles are temporarily paralyzed. Dreams throughout REM tend to be more bizarre and vivid than those happening during other stages of sleep. Although dreaming has been widely investigated‚ we still cannot answer exactly what its purpose is. It exists a wide variety of theories from different

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    studies‚ finding out from clients what was causing them problems or holding them back. They may have symptoms (e.g. phobia) that arose from the unconscious. E.g. Little Hans case study. Activation-synthesis theory of dreaming – Hobson and McCarley 1977 1. Biological theory of dreaming Dreams are random messages in the brain being interpreted to make a story. Messages are activated randomly‚ and then synthesized into a story. There is a dream state generator in the brain and this part of the brain

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    and Gregory Bateson argue that intrapersonal communication is indeed a special case of interpersonal communication‚ as "dialogue is the foundation for all discourse." Intrapersonal communication can encompass: Day-dreaming Nocturnal dreaming‚ including and especially lucid dreaming Speaking aloud (talking to oneself)‚ reading aloud‚ repeating what one hears; the additional activities of speaking and hearing (in the third case of hearing again) what one thinks‚ reads or hears may increase concentration

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    dreams he just sits and listens to whomever he is speaking to‚ he never spoke back. As the movie progressed he began to speak back to the people he was confronted with and have conversations with them. This was because he learned that he was lucid dreaming and trying to awake himself from his long dream. One of the most fascinating ideas in this movie is brought up by a couple lying in bed. The woman explains that she feels as if she is an old dying woman who at that moment is reliving her life

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