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    How accurate are memories? Memories are an important part of our lives because they are all the things that we have been living through the years. The main objective of this essay is to show to the readers the importance of memories in our lives, also talk about the process of them, how do they form, including how do they work, and the types of memories that exists. Memories are considered as information that our brains were retained from differents activities through time. But also those memories

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    Union. The 1930s spurred the popular use of socialist realism in their propaganda, which romanticized life in the Soviet Union and promoted the ideals of the ruling Communist Party in regard to the common man, attitudes towards work, and other areas. Soviet propaganda artworks like the film Circus promoted dismissal of the past and fear and intolerance of other ideologies or ways of life. The most illustrative conceptions of socialist realism were those depicted in the popular films that were produced

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    1930's France saw the growth of a small film movement known as Poetic Realism. The tenants of this movement were loose at best and mostly consisted as a tendency that a handful of independent filmmakers used in their films. Their influences came primarily from literature of the time and the fantastic styles of Impressionism and Surrealism. From great literature came the scripts and stories for this movements. Great writers like Emil Zola and Leo Tolstoy had their tales appear on the screens of French

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    there are many different levels of realism, I have chosen to focus on Neuromancer by William Gibson and We so Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy. The stories explore the boundaries of realism by using similar elements. The most obvious one is the margin between life and death, which these two stories address. The main characters separate themselves from society's idealistic realism. Nevertheless, where is their identity placed when living in a different realism? How does one understand the reality

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    An Analysis of White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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    She earns her awards through an expansive, almost manic style that she makes her own, which is why it earns its placement into the genre coined hysterical realism (Wood). In studying the many parts that make up her style, we can gain a better appreciation for what made Zadie Smith jump from an English undergraduate student in Cambridge to the literary darling she is today (O' Grady). The first technique

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    Cloverfield and Thin Blue Line were two very different films, but they could be compared in various ways. While Cloverfield was a history-based film on a sort of monstrous “terrorist attack,” Thin Blue Line was a more forensic based documentary on the death of Dallas police officer, Robert Wood. Aside from the contrast, the realist aesthetics of Cloverfield and Thin Blue Line are very similar in the topics of on-camera interviews, deep focus, handheld camera, and textual information on screen.

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    Cultural Change and Shifting Views of America Tina Hudaifa ARTS/125 – Pop Culture and the Arts Professor: Kevin Ballard April 20, 2015 Cultural Change and Shifting View in America Many consider The 1893 Chicago’s

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    After being accused of being possessed by the devil and visited by her Uncle Marco’s dead body, Clare del Valle began to keep a diary. Fifty years later, her journal was used to solve the puzzle of a family history. In The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende tells the story of many generations of a family in Latin America. There are three prominent themes in The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende. First, the social divide between those who are “civilized” and those who are supposed barbarians. Second

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    Expressivisim and Divine Command Theory overview Moral Nihilism states that the world contains no moral features and under this theory are two theories which are error theory and expressivism. The reason that both of these theories are under Moral Nihilism is because they both believe the statement that there are no moral features in the world and that no moral judgements are true. The defining point of Error Theory is that it believes that our moral judgements try and always fail to describe the

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    In philosophy there is a theory known as aesthetic reasoning. Within aesthetic reasoning, there are eight principles that an object may (or may not) fulfill in order to determine if the object is aesthetically valuable. These eight principles are divided functionalism principles and formalism principles. When judging an object to assess its aesthetic value, a functionalist or formalist argument may be formed. However, these arguments may not cross over. Therefore, in order to discuss these principles

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