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    Great Gatsby Reality

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    dream proves ultimately fatal. According to Marius Bewely‚ emerging from the pursuance of the American Dream is the rejection of limits and an attempt to hide the covert boundary between illusion and reality. The reality lies within its faith in life along with the resistance to abide to the illusion‚ whereas the illusion derives from the undiscriminating accumulation of material. The American dream leads to the controversy of

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    An illusion is something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality. In Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire‚ characters such as Blanche Dubois‚ Harold Mitchell (Mitch)‚ and Stella Kowalski often use illusion in an attempt to escape reality. Blanche Dubois is a woman who uses fantasy in order to protect herself from her own fears and the undesirable circumstances which occur in her life. Mitch uses illusion by regarding Blanche as the perfect woman in order to

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    The Reality of Psychopathy

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    The Reality of Psychopathy How many people have been victimized by a psychopath? Well if the definition of a psychopath is based on what they see in the movies‚ they may never know. So‚ what exactly is a psychopath? One could say a psychopath is a person that is crazy or insane. Well‚ that’s partially true. A psychopath is a person that believes that they are superior‚ and do not have the feeling of empathy or guilt. Coming straight from the online dictionary‚ psychopathy is “a mental disorder in

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    Fantasy Faces Reality

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    Fantasy faces Reality Joyce’s short story “Araby” shows us the moment of awakening from fantasy by a boy’s one-side love story. we sometimes experience when we continue to work on ourselves‚ understand that if something is causing regret‚ anger‚ unhappiness or and other “negative” emotion‚ we are‚ by definition‚ experiencing an illusion. We will experience the illusions we still think are real. We will do so because we have made the unreal to real‚ and the best way to understand that what we see

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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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    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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    external stimulus that exists in the case when one has an illusion. This denotes an instance where the individual takes something for something else. Illusions may distort the reality of an object within the mind of an individual. Illusions tend to deceive humans and are technically considered as normal. The force of evil is a vigorous illusion within Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” This can be seen by Brown’s unstable depression‚ the illusion of evil he summons up‚ and how evil is smoldering American

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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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    "It ’s the sense of touch. In any real city‚ you walk‚ you know? You brush past people‚ people bump into you. In L.A.‚ nobody touches you. We ’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much‚ that we crash into each other‚ just so we can feel 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

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