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    film is supposed to be trusted in his mind and should show reality it means the film is all real. If this were the case though it would make all movies look real. There is a knowledge that film is scripted for the most part and what we see regularly is rarely real. This does preserve reality in Bazin’s mind though. With the kicking of the can, it shows that although it is scripted it is not a fake movie. There is still the sense of reality in every scene. The can saves that, it preserves that sense

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    Magical Realism Essay Magical realism is a literary genre that associates with mythical elements into realistic fiction. Magical realism does its purpose by tricking the reader into believing elements of the supernatural. Wirters play their part by adding elements of the supernatural that allows the reader to believe the unbelievable without realizing when it is occuring. To clarify, readers notice that "magical" things are occurring, they just stay with the realistic image that they can relate

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    songs, books, or in real life, you see people ignoring the harsh realities and using excuses of much variety to help them ignore the simple but horrific truths. Situations take place every single day that have realities that are too horrible for people to want to believe, therefore forcing them to ignore the authenticity of a situation in favor for a story that lacks both factuality and reasoning. Although most people ignore the realities, the fact of the matter is that it is not physically possible

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    Plato's Allegory Essay

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    scene is only the impersonation or photocopy of this present reality. The shadows speak to such photocopy and, the reality is conceivable to know with the spiritual information. The chains symbolize our impediment in this material world so we can't know the reality to know reality; we need to break the material world. The second time amazing of the eyes symbolizes our trouble to acknowledge lack of awareness in the wake of knowing the reality. Subsequently, in allegory of the cave Plato has given a feedback

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    In the play by Strindburg, he takes his creative mind another level higher than Jerry. In the A Dream Play is surrealism dramatic play, which focus on the Daughter of Indra. The daughter of Indra is the goddess that transcended to earth. It has a similarities of Christ’s expression of human pain. In the beginning, she has faith that love can conquer all humanities’ pain. She realized that human beings has hopeless spiritual aspirations. The hopelessness of disappointment is focus around: an officer

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    Fallout 3 is an adventure game not like any other game that is out there. The music in the game has a very satisfying feel to it and the environment is very different from most games out there. The feeling of this game is like nothing any gamer may have come across before. A new breed of roll playing and adventure game has been born with the relese of Fallout 3. The music in the game is very interesting, it has a calm yet powerful feel to it. It gives the player a feeling of empowerment. Just

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    include intrinsic—or natural rewards, subconsciously having extra think time, and transferring the skills to real life. Just thinking about the amount of problems in the real world, and then you have people who decide to wander off into an alternate reality, or a universe that is different from the real world. But is this truly what is happening? Are they actually just wandering off letting other people bear the burden of having to deal with the problems of the real world? It is most likely that

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    The Things They Carried: Essay Prompt Two Tim O’Brien writes about both the physical objects they carry as well as their emotional burdens. The objects that these soldiers carry serve as a symbolism for what they are carrying in their hearts and minds. The soldiers carry items varying from pantyhose, medicine, tanning oil, and pictures. Jimmy Cross is an inexperienced sophomore in college, he signs up for the Reserve Officers Training Camp because his friends are doing the course. Jimmy Cross doesn’t

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    To The Lighthouse Essay

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    Pause, reflect, and the reader may see at once the opposing yet relative perceptions made between life, love, marriage and death in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In this novel, Woolf seems to capture perfectly the very essence of life, while conveying life’s significance as communicated to the reader in light tones of consciousness arranged with the play of visual imagery. That is, each character in the novel plays an intrinsic role in that the individuality of other characters can be seen

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    Homo Zapiens: An Analysis of the Control of the Human Mind by the Media Virtual reality is the new reality. Everyday, millions of people turn on their televisions and computers to be sucked into an unreal world controlled by a simulated reality. Instead, people lose control of their minds, allowing the media and money to infiltrate their consciousness. This loss of control to technology is explored in the novel Homo Zapiens by Viktor Pelevin. The story follows Babylen Tatarsky, one of the many displaced

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