Welcome to the Desert of the Real is a 2002 book by Slavoj Zizek. A Marxist and Lacanian analysis of the ideological and political responses to the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. The book’s title comes from a quote delivered by the character Morpheus in the 1999 film The Matrix: "Welcome to the desert of the real" Zizek claims that the American Fantasy found in movies is secretly what Americans wanted. The ultimate fantasy of an individual living in a small town suddenly discovers the world
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In Teneisha Grant’s essay “When the Simulated Patient is for Real”‚ the author explains that‚ through her experience with a difficult patient‚ she learns that the professional application of medicine goes beyond practical techniques and simulations taught in medical school. This patient (named Mr. G) represented one possible worst-case scenario for medical professionals‚ for this patient was too irate for doctors to dress his wound safely. Although Grant could have sedated the patient‚ she instead
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The use of Computer technology in Entertainment. “The improvements in computer technology over the past decade have made video and audio streaming commonplace‚ making the computer a sophisticated and powerful entertainment medium” (Haupert‚ 2012‚ p.39). The use of computer technology is not limited to business‚ health‚ education and manufacturing industries but also widely used in entertainment and arts world. There are so many applications as there are entertainers and artists. People look forward
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Prep. English 1/16/13 Table 1 Period 1 Mrs. Wiersma Descriptive Essay Assignment Reality‚ are you in reality‚ or is life just a dream? Is everything around you false‚ or is it all real pure things? These are two of the questions that run through my mind when thinking about reality‚ I guess it is a bias decision if you look at it in a way that not everyone else looks at it. The definition is that‚ reality is the true knowing that God created everything in a way that it may be pure‚ true‚ real
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the ideals of solipsism would deny the physical existence of anything‚ but the mind itself. The universe as we know it may only exist in a dream-like state of our own mind. Welcome to the matrix‚ where all your perceptions are only those of a reality simulated in your own mind. We can choose between the red pill‚ or the blue pill on this argument. I choose the red pill. I choose to dig deeper into this argument and I have to agree with Nagel in that I do not follow this theory. If questioned whether
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experience. Conversely‚ Don and Myrtle relationship is threatened by the hidden reality in which both are sexually unfaithful to each other. In both cases revealing or knowing the truth would cause turmoil and pain‚ but at the same time keeping secrets or remaining ignorant could lead to
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structure of subjective human consciousness. This philosophical movement was founded by Edmund Husserl who “wants to describe our experiences as they are given from a first person perspective” (Zahavi‚ 2003‚ p.13). Husserl describes the conception of reality in 3 parts. Firstly there’s the world and its external beings‚ this being the world around us made up of other things and other people. Secondly we have ourselves‚ and thirdly we have our subjective consciousness‚ the way we perceive the world around
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contribute to being more confident‚ which will lead to an individual taking on their goals head on. Also‚ both Leslie Bell’s‚ “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom‚” and Daniel Gilbert’s‚ “Immune to Reality‚” offer insight on the matter of pursuit of happiness. Each individual has their own way of knowing when they are happy and only they will know when the feeling is reached. When self-esteem is dependent on competence‚ individuals invest a great
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live in today. It is one of those lot.....and we ended up with this presentation‚ where we shortly show how The Truman Show can be and the principals of Marxism person’s reality is constructed by how they experience and interpret their personal reality‚ and also believes that the outcome of your experience is not certain and universal but relative and incomplete. It questions the rationalization of generally accepted ideas
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Abstract Entertainment comes in many forms: music‚ videos‚ art‚ and literature are a few. These forms of entertainment‚ when used over the Internet‚ could result in some individuals crossing the line between reality and delusion. When the line is crossed‚ these individuals become fixated on obtaining more of the entertainment; which may result in doing so illegally. In this paper‚ I will analyze ethics in entertainment. An earlier study conducted by Charles W. Harvey (2004) is replicated‚ adding
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