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    people aren’t living life the way they expect‚ they tend to find a way of coping with their issues. Every reality poses problems‚ some people find ways of hiding from their problems or in other words escaping from reality. Each of the unique main characters‚ Amanda‚ Laura‚ and Tom‚ in Tennessee Williams play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ have a difficulty accepting reality and have several ways of escaping from the problems. Laura is painfully shy which affects how she interacts with others in the real world

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    Dream and Reality

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    Dream and Reality In the complex real world that we are living‚ there are dark and bright sides. It is easy for us to see the bright side‚ but it is not bright enough for us to see the dark sides of the world. One way to investigate the dark side of the world in a fun way is to read fairy tales and fables. Fairy tales and fables are short narrative stories with some deep meanings and moral lessons. In fact‚ they originally stemmed from oral tradition stories and old folk tales. Fables contain

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    Reality of Vaccinations

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    Reality of Vaccinations Making critical decisions can be brutally tormenting when it comes to one’s health. We as humans do not like to decide health issues for ourselves. We would rather have an expert‚ like a doctor‚ tell us what is best for one and what will go into one’s body whether it be medicines‚ foods‚ herbs‚ chemicals‚ or vaccinations. If one is a parent it is more difficult to make decisions for a loved one’s health than their own. No one intentionally wants their loved ones to suffer

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    In his writing‚ “From Realism to Virtual Reality‚” H. Bruce Franklin describes the different methods people used to promote and capture the elements of war by comparing how art‚ literature‚ and technology describe the emotions associated with it. He also expresses his views on how these different methods of expression alter the way a nation would cogitate on the purpose and meaning of their war when he states‚ “Prior to the civil war‚ visual images of America’s wars were almost without exception

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    The Reality of a Dream

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    The Reality of a Dream In Stephen King’s essay‚ “The Symbolic Language of Dreams”‚ King describes some of the ways dreams have helped him with his writing. I read about all the things that King dreamed about. He dreamed about all kinds of unrealistic things and he consciously put these dream stories into his writings. I think this method of creative writing is crazy‚ but I agree with it. I like the idea of using the ability that every person in the world has; creative imagination through a dream

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    "Hiding in Plain Sight‚" by Heather Rogers‚ is about how garbage is collected and processed. The centers where garbage is being disposed are concealed‚ and not exposed to the public. The way we deal with our garbage is unhealthy; [mention groundwater]. Actually‚ landfills are a better alternative to garbage on our city streets. Litter-trash thrown on the street and in other improper places-is unhealthy for the public‚ a waste of money‚ a bad example for other cities‚ and bad for the earth. Litter

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    Super Hero in Reality

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    Fiona Lai Ian Ross Eng 1C- 119 July 21‚ 2011 Super Hero in Reality In this novel‚ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay‚ written by Michael Chabon‚ is trying to illustrate Joe Kavalier as a manifestation of a superhero in the form of a mortal. Joe Kavalier is one of the comic book artists who escaped from Nazi Germany when he was fourteen. Throughout the novel‚ Joe unknowingly personifies a masked superhero. His experiences emulate those of a super hero and he attempts to save the lives

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    The Reality of the Truth

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    What exactly is the truth? Is it reality‚ sincerity‚ integrity? Is it accuracy and honesty? How can we tell the difference between the truth and lies? Why does the media have the power to decide for us what is true? As Oscar Wilde once said ’The truth is rarely pure and never simple’. This statement sums up the difficulties of telling the truth‚ and this is furthermore shown in Rob Sitch et al’s Frontline‚ Lies by Michael Leunig and the poem Nothing to Report by May Herschel Clarke. The television

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    Crashing Into Reality

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    something." Detective Graham Waters from Crash Racism‚ stereotypes‚ and prejudices…these three topics are some things that we deal with daily in current day America. All though these are issues that we all deal with daily‚ they are also issues that we typically do not discuss. Crash is a movie that is based in Los Angels‚ California with not only an all-star cast‚ but an even better storyline. Crash introduces us to several stories and several characters from different facets of life‚ each with

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    Whose Reality

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    paper bags filled with hot chips. The owner of the place was kind – always throwing in a few extra dim sims here and there. His toothless grin shone against the blue sea. Every now and then he’d be replaced by his wife. Cigarette forever running from her lips‚ her scowl had the same acidity as the lemon that we squeezed over our fish. We weren’t sure why this was the case. Could it be a built up envy of the young? A dissatisfaction of days spent sorting 5 dollar notes and 10 cent pieces? Peter

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