Reality versus Illusion Texts: Life of Pi King Lear Heavenly Creatures Blade Runner Pans Labyrinth Research Questions: 1. How does each character’s situation influence their perception or ideas of reality versus illusion? 2. What are the similarities and differences between the main character’s situation in each text? 3. What insights relating to reality and illusion can be gained from each text? Resources: Title: Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel Question 1: Pi survives his ordeal
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novel‚ The Outsiders‚ appearance is a very important theme to the book. One example of this in the book is when the Greasers thought that the Socs had everything going great because of what they owned. Some things that made the Greasers think this was the fact that the Socs had really nice cars and they had nice clothes. The Greasers didn’t know that the Socs had some of the same problems that they did and they went through hard times just like them. Another example of appearance being an important
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DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE: She’s not very tall‚ with dark hair and blue eyes IL DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE Body She’s of medium height. She’s a woman of average height. She’s quite tall. She’s a woman of average height. She’s a woman of below average height. She’s not very tall. (→ She’s short.) He’s slim. He’s of medium build. He’s well-built. He’s rather plump (=not slim). He’s broad-shouldered. He’s quite muscular. He’s a bit overweight. (→
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The expectations of physical appearance are set unreasonable for heroes by society. Many people are judgemental of physical image‚ therefore causing society to disrespect those who look poor and dirty‚ and honor those who look like kings. Unfortunately‚ many people are disrespecting heroes‚ and praising the wrong people. The world today revolves on money causing people to believe the rich are heroes. The People are brainwashed by money‚ movies‚ and stereotypes coining the term: ¨Faith in Humanity
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Meixner Essay #4 December 2‚ 2008 “A Smile Is Worth So Much More” People often judge or misperceive others appearances in a less than equal manner before they even know the true nature of the person. Every day we make assumptions by what we can see physically. Even in the supermarkets‚ we distinguish good products from bad products based on how they look. We are apt to choose good-looking products because they don’t have flaws‚ cracks‚ and bruises. Moreover‚ we assume them to have
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Write an essay on the person I like most (My father‚ my favourite teacher‚ my neighbor etc.) Outline: 1. Introduction 2. External appearance 3. General habits 4. A balanced personaliy 5. His views about religion 6. His views about politics 7. Flaws in his character 8. Conclusion It is said that small people worship personalities but great people worship ideas I‚ too‚ like a person but because of his ideas. The person I like is own my father
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prey. Consequently‚ they have small‚ tight feet‚ walking on their toes; their rear legs are fairly rigid and sturdy; the front legs are loose and flexible‚ with only muscle attaching them to the torso. Although selective breeding has changed the appearance of many breeds‚ all dogs retain the basic ingredients from their distant ancestors. Dogs have disconnected shoulder bones (lacking the collar bone of the human skeleton) that allow a greater stride length for running and leaping. They walk on four
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Reality TV Have you seen the popular reality television shows lately? The core of reality TV consists of: Fighting‚ sexuality‚ and an intolerable amount of drinking and drug use. Young viewers who watch reality TV may be assuming that this type of behavior is the ideal lifestyle. Even in the early years of reality TV‚ the main hook to keep viewers interested was to aspire to young women of what reality is. The Miss America pageants made some young women believe in the ideals of beauty and perfection
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Nature of Reality Reality is an illusion based on gene survivial-individual behaviour and even social institutions are expressions of genes‚ the vast majority of which are common to humans and the higher primates. The implicit‚ largely unconscious‚ principles that inform gene-determined human behaviour are rooted in their survival value; and the entity whose survival is served is not the conscious organism but the genome itself. Since the actual reasons for our actions are beyond our ken
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Reality television has strong influence and damaging effects on our society. But let’s face it‚ we feed on the drama. We love to absorb another life other than our own. Along with it comes the misconception of reality which distorts how one believes they have to behave to gain fame or attention. Reality television is bad for culture because it only elevates money‚ beauty‚ and fame above other qualities by promoting inappropriate behavior such as bullying‚ casual sex‚ alcohol abuse and bad language
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