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    Optical Illusion Project

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    Optical illusions are all around us(explain). The brain remembers what it has seen before‚ then when it sees something similar it takes shortcuts when looking at a new images. This causes the brain to make mistakes and creates optical illusions. An optical illusion is a misleading image that deceives the eye. Different people see optical illusions differently because of their previous experiences. Previous experiences help the brain interpret what it sees. If your previous experiences determine

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    The Death of Reality and the Reality of Death Death is never easy. Afterall it is the only sure thing anyone will ever do. Yet how one dies is determined by how they live. One who lives their life to the fullest will be content and open to death‚ while one whose life has been empty will fear it; but what if the difference between full and empty was not so easily differentiated? What if reality and falsehood were the same? This idea is contemplated in both Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and

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    Dickens uses this description of the Havisham Manor to give Pip’s impression of surrealness surrounding Miss Havisham and her house. Pip has just been apprenticed to Joe and goes to visit Miss Havisham‚ and‚ as he walks home‚ he reflects on the decrepitness and the age of the house and its contents. As the sentence progresses‚ Dickens chooses to order his descriptions in increasing intensity of spookiness and specificity‚ seemingly ‘zooming’ in to smaller and smaller objects and ending with the

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    Once he has met Estella‚ the young maiden who drives his childhood fixation‚ his way of life progressively becomes more apparent making his antipathy towards himself and others more apparent than ever. Meeting the young maiden quickly makes him regret being a “simple” blacksmith and regretting that Mr.Joe raised him so. On page (67) when they’re playing cards Pip calls them Jacks instead of knaves much to Estella’s entertainment and distaste‚ ostracizing his lack of knowledge. This leads Pip to

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    Palace of Illusions by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni is a beautiful book which gives a woman’s perspective on a story that deals mainly with male characters i.e. the great epic‚ Mahabharata. The book has been written from Draupadi’s‚ who was the wife of the 5 Pandava heroes in this epic‚ point of view. It throws light on her innermost thoughts and feelings‚ traced right from her childhood to her demise in the lap of the Himalayan mountains. It talks about her feelings about the strange in which

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    Management Decision Making Dr. Natalia Karelaia 05 – Overconfidence and Illusion of Control Overconfidence • Overconfidence in skill: o 80% of people say they are in the top 30% of safe drivers; o 80% of entrepreneurs believe that their chances of success are at least 70%. • Overconfidence in prediction: Too narrow prediction intervals. • Meta-Knowledge: Confucius test: How much do you think you know? • Conviction is blinding: It is easy to forget one’s fallibility (in judgment).

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    The Reality of Freedom or The Reality of Manipulation: Jean-Paul Sartre and Sigmund Freud are two highly influential thinkers of the 20th century whose philosophies overlapped and opposed one another. Sartre was a pioneer and key figure in the school of existentialist philosophy. He argues that all humans are inherently free. Sartre means by this bold claim that we are all free to make our decisions‚ but our actions determine our characters‚ habits‚ and values. There are no universal human

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    Pips Expectations

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    Stage Two Pips Expectations Pip goes to London to start his new life and to live his dreams of being educated and wealthy. When Pip arrives‚ Mr. Jaggers shows him where he will be staying and gives him a tour around town. He begins to have less and less time for other people outside of his little circle but when he arrives he begins to meet new people. He first meets a man named Herbert Pocket‚ who is related to Miss Havisham. He tells Pip about her past and why she is the way she is now. He tells

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    customer expectation

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    http://blog.clientheartbeat.com/customer-expectations/ Customer expectation a. The hard facts about customer expectations 1. Manage promises 2. Customers want relationships 3. The service process is the key to exceeding expectations b. Understanding customer expectation The benefits of understanding customer expectations Understanding your customers’ needs C.examples of companies exceeding customer expectations Amazon exceeds expectations with delivery Google and youtube Excellent customer

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    Julie Dash Illusions

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    We think of this deception as just a necessary means with film classics like Singn’ In the Rain (1952). But what Illusions (1982) does is expose its twisted and detrimental uses which cannot be ignored. Dash provided a larger discussion on black presence in early Hollywood. My previous notions on such a topic was on the injustice of what I felt as an actual lack of presence

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