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    producers over the years‚ from George Orwell’s 1984 through to the so-called reality television series Big Brother and its subsequent imitations. The Truman Show depicts this same “shangri-la” - a seemingly perfect community that is in reality‚ a contrived social experiment or in this case a form of entertainment. This main theme in The Truman Show is based on a disturbing characteristic our contemporary society. Everywhere we look‚ today‚ we see powerful shapers of media‚ including entertainment

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    Through the plot of the movies The Hunger Games and the Truman Show‚ the audience explore the morality issues of the movies and how they relate to moral and immoral codes. This essay discusses how the immoral actions and behaviours in the plot of the movies affect the people in their lives and how they act‚ while also discussing the moral behaviour in The Hunger Games. In the movie The Hunger Games there are lots of immoral actions or behaviours that are committed by the people in the Districts

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    Dualism and Rationalism The French philosopher‚ Rene Descartes (1596-1650)‚ approached knowledge from quite a different stance than did John Locke. For Descartes‚ man has ultimate knowledge of his own existence because he is a thinking being – cogito ergo sum – "I think‚ therefore I am." Thus the foundations of knowledge consist of a set of first‚ "self-evident" principles‚ a priori principles. The mind is not an empty cabinet but is filled with universal‚ though not readily known‚ principles

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    Alex Velting Religion VI Francisco Maximiliano Padilla 2010-03-02 The Truman Show: Analysis and Critical Review Truman Burbank is an average man with an average job living an average life. How can Peter Weir spend an hour and 43 minutes with the most average Joe of characters? It’s all a lie. Truman’s life is all on the set. His family and friends are all paid actors. His whole life has been broadcasted for millions around the world to watch. His birth‚ his first word‚ his first steps

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    Descartes and the Matrix

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    in Mediations on First Philosophy‚ Rene Descartes‚ nothing can be certain. Similarly‚ in The Matrix‚ the Wachowski brothers raise the question of how does anyone know what is real and what is not? The Wachowski brothers and Descartes describe their ideas about knowledge and epistemology through skepticism. Knowledge is a justified‚ true belief. According to Descartes‚ knowledge comes from two sources: Experiences‚ which are the senses‚ and reason. Descartes starts his argument by stating that

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    Rene Magritte

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    René Magritte Shivani Shekar René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. His works contain great detail and are often presented in thought-provoking ways. Magritte expresses hidden themes into his work which allows the viewer to take careful note of his art. His paintings are undoubtedly unique and exhibits creative ideas for the audience to consume. People tend to get confused when viewing Magritte’s work because the ideas it provokes are quite unusual. The fact that he creates unrealistic

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    Descartes

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    DESCARTES’ COGITO ARGUMENT Discourse‚ Part Four‚ pg. 19 – 20 1. Anything that is the slightest bit open to doubt‚ I reject as completely false. 2. My senses sometimes deceive me therefore they are open to doubt. 3. Everything that comes to me through the senses should be rejected as completely false. (1‚ 2) 4. My reasoning‚ like that of any other human being‚ is fallible and therefore open to doubt. 5. All conclusions that I arrive at by using my reasoning should be

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    At first glance‚ one might not think Black Like Me‚ a book with such real issues millions of people face daily‚ and The Truman Show‚ a movie about a man being born and raised all while being filmed by thousands of cameras without his knowledge‚ would have a lot in common. The latter can really only be relatable to few‚ if any at all‚ where something like the racism written about in Black Like Me can resonate to millions of people world wide. After digging deeper‚ however‚ the similarities between

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    Rene Magritte

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    Rene Magritte was born in 1898 and was the eldest son of Leopold and Regina Magritte. He worked as a commercial artist to support himself‚ producing advertising and book designs‚ which I think you can see in his paintings as they some what have a visual impact of an advertisement. Magritte started out as an impressionist early on in his career before arriving at his trademark surrealist style after several years of study. His early influences were Fernand Leger and his earliest works were based on

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    Rene Magritte

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    PRELIM CASE STUDY – René Magritte René  Magritte     The  Red  Model  (French:  La  Modèle  rouge)   1935   Oil  on  canvas  laminated  onto  cardboard     56  x  46  cm   Musée  National  d’Art  Moderne‚  Centre  Georges  Pompidou‚  Paris‚  France   http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte19.html • • • • •       studied  at  the  Académie  des  Beaux-­‐Arts

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