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    2010 PARENTING EXPECTATIONS AND THE REALITY While there is nothing in the world more rewarding than becoming a parent‚ there is no way to completely prepare for actually being a parent. Financial planning‚ researching how to be a parent‚ and planning on how life will change give future parents some expectations about what it is like to be a parent. It is a good idea for soon-to-be parents to have a plan‚ but the expectations of being a parent and the reality are very different. Before becoming

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    Glasser’s Reality Theory Introduction to Counseling: COUN 541 Portland State University While everyone would love to believe that they have a choice in how they behave it is apparent that is not always true. There are many factors to one’s behavior and all of those factors must be considered in a therapy situation. Glasser’s Reality/Choice Theory focuses on the idea that we are all in control of our decisions and our behavior‚ all human behavior is purposeful‚ and all of our behavior is aimed

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    CBS’s reality TV show‚ Hunted (2017)‚ features 18 contestants-participants who agrees to give up their freedom to become fugitives for 28 days. Within these days‚ contestants are under surveillance by a team of professional law enforcement officers and the last group that survives‚ wins two hundred thousand dollars. Compared to other fictional TV shows‚ the Hunted is inexpensive to produce as there is no need for CBS to pay celebrity actors or keep the participants for more than one season. Most

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    Reality television shows are the bane of American television. It seems that no matter what channel the TV is on‚ there is always a reality show playing or being advertised. Escaping reality TV can only be done by shutting off the television entirely‚ and many Americans would rather watch something they do not like than watch nothing at all. Reality television shows contribute nothing positive to American society and should be taken off the air completely. Jennifer Pozner discusses in her article

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    be exaggerated slightly or completely fabricated‚ with the intention of enhancing one’s identity for outside observers. As more innovations in the cyber social network are developed‚ today’s post-modern culture society is heading toward an hyper reality. According to “Statistic Brain” a US statistics website‚ there are currently 50 million people single in the United States. 40 Million People have tried online dating.¹ The way we meet and interact with one another isn’t the same as was 30 years

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    The “Social Construction of Reality” is a work of hypothetical reasoning to the redefine the task and to broaden its range to understand the redefining of sociological knowledge. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann both argue that reality is socially constructed by the knowledge of the people for social reality is produced and communicated amongst others. They emphasize on the fact that human is a part of a product of society and vice versa: society is a product of human. Berger and Luckmann follow

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    In the Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald builds up‚ and takes down Gatsby’s illusions and enchantments. It becomes apparent‚ through an Fitzgerald’s writing that Gatsby has built up an incredible illusion of Daisy from his younger years. This deterioration of reality is best expressed using a combination of symbolism‚ similes‚ pathos‚ and metaphors. Gatsby’s first reality check came soon after he finally reunited with Daisy. As they stood in Gatsby’s garden‚ Gatsby realizes that the magical green

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    1920 style novel is set upon characters that are so caught up in a mental dream the reality sets back in and kicks them in the face. Jay Gatsby‚ a man with a mysterious past suddenly swoops in and has intentions to win back a long lost love‚ Daisy Buchanan with the help of his lower class neighbor‚ Nick Caraway. The characters in The Great Gatsby have dreams that they believe is achievable but in the face of reality‚ Nick Carraway‚ Daisy and Tom Buchanan‚ and Jay Gatsby show that it is really impossible

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    Cardona 4 Luz A. Cardona​ Mr. Butler Eng 111-1N January 24‚ 2013 From A Nightmare to Reality ​With music blasting‚ singing out loud‚ chewing a Strawberry Bubblelicious gum‚ and driving by East Broad Street‚ it was just another typical morning on my way to school. I was a few miles from school; I only had to turn onto a gravel road to get to North Center Street‚ which was where the high school was located. As I was driving‚ all of a sudden I started to sense like dizziness‚ perhaps numbness

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    Each response must be about 30 words in length. Then‚ select examples from fictional portrayals of the courtroom found in books‚ movies‚ and television‚ for example‚ The Runaway Jury‚ A Few Good Men‚ or Law and Order to make a comparison between reality and fiction. Choose two of the five courtroom participants you described and compare their fictional portrayal to their real-life role in the courtroom. Be sure to cite specific examples of how media portrayals of courtroom participants are accurate

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