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    Glasser's Reality Theory

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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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    Miss Brill Reality

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    adaptability between illusion and reality‚ how you conceive yourself to be and how others conceive you as may conflict with your belief/self-perception. In the short story “Miss Brill” self-perception is key for the main character to achieve a sense of happiness and belonging‚ the aforementioned conflict between illusion and reality is relevant to Miss Brill in a sense as she has this false reality in which she conveys her encounters at the park different from reality. Later on in the story we see Miss

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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 vs. Illusion

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    Reality vs. Illusion “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce is a story set in the Civil War era describing the events leading to the execution of Peyton Farquhar. In the moments prior to his execution at Owl Creek Bridge‚ we are given insight into the mind of Farquhar‚ which ultimately proves to be an illusion. On the surface‚ or for a first-time observer‚ this insight leads us to believe these events as reality‚ when in actuality it is in fact an illusion on the part of Farquhar

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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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    Twenty One Pilots is an alternative/indie band made up of two members‚ Joseph and Josh Dunn. They are known to occasionally rap and include specific tempos and beats that correspond with each song’s thought provoking lyrics. In the song “Oh. Ms. Believer” by Twenty One Pilots they use the analogy of snow to describe a young girl going through depression. The band accurately describes the feeling of being trapped inside one’s mind as they go through the hardships of this mental illness. Although at

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    The Great Gatsby Reality

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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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    At a glance‚ the American Dream can seem attainable to any and all that try. This façade of success deceives people into believing that they can accomplish more than their circumstances truly allow. The deception society has on people can inhibit their perception of reality in the same way it did to Willy Loman. Willy’s inability to recognize the actual reality of his situation is first seen during the scene where Ben is introduced. In this scene‚ Ben tells of their father’s success as a salesman

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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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