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    Gonzalez Of M83

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    (Gallucci). Other composers also draw upon these deep emotions, making their work successful. Of these artists, composer: Anthony Gonzalez of M83 uses experiences from his childhood and subconscious thoughts in the album: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. He described the album as: “mainly about dreams, how everyone is different, how you dream differently when you’re a kid, a teenager, or an adult” (O’Donnell). In order to first introduce this album, Anthony uses his song “Intro”. Due to Gonzalez’s choice in

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    GI Joe's Dream

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    All are familiar with the pipe dreams and fantasies of childhood, of a desire to be a cowboy, a movie actress, a front scout. This spectacular within the child’s experience is to him the things he desires. The thrills at the sight of a fireman riding the truck or the policeman in a uniform directing traffic, or if he listens to the radio or reads the comics, he may dream of being a GI Joe, a superman, or even a sailor like Popeye. While fantasy and daydreams operate even at high school age, interests

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    Avery Alexander English III Mr. Tarr 26 April 2015 Dreams Throughout our dreaming experience, we feel different sensations, emotions, and thoughts interpreted through images in a person’s mind. During our unconscious process, the meanings of our inner thoughts are experienced through dreams. Some psychologists believe dreams are connected to our real emotions and others may see dreams as a specific meaning related to one’s life (Young). Dreams can put us in touch with our real motives in life due

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    “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality” (Frida Kahlo). Is it true that when war or crime takes place, it is only the fear of reality that causes minds to create nightmares instead of dreams? Ishmael Beah is a historical figure that went through this feeling of deprivation and fear, where he could not tell apart a dream from reality. This appears frequently in his memoir, A Long Way Gone, which is about the civil war near his home, Sierra, Leone. In this war, the rebels were the

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    ” and had dreams of once becoming a farmer? Well, just like you, many other kids did and still do have dreams of becoming a farmer or have an agricultural related job. Some of the dreams stayed with the kids as they grew and became older, while others didn’t. How can schools compete with childhood dreams and/or memories? They can’t. And, unfortunately many schools don’t offer the students the opportunity to be taught farming and agriculture. So to fulfill our future kids dreams, farming and

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    Dreams and the Subconscious Are dreams a way of processing life events, or are they really messages from the subconscious? This phenomenon has always interested me, and I am extremely grateful this opportunity has arisen for me to research dreams in more depth. Since childhood, I have been intrigued with dreams and how similar they can be for each person. For instance, many people have recurring nightmares of being chased. According to Huffington Post, being chased is one of the most common dreams

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    Dreams are the agglomeration of the fleeting flight of hidden hopes and horrors that a person experiences. Therefore, dreams are the looking glass with which we can glimpse a person’s inner character and the reason why they act as they do. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, the author emphasizes how dreams mirror reality by accentuating within the characters their subconscious guilt and fears, by providing insight into the hidden underscoring concept of the character during their

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    Dreams have been around since the beginning of time. There is often controversy over whether or not dreams are important or meaningless. Although many people believe that dreams are pointless and have no meanings to them, research and experimentation show that there can be many different interpretations of dreams. Dreams are “hallucinations of the sleeping mind” (Loftus & Ketcham). Dreams can be very vivid, loud, and even emotional. This is why it is easy to confuse them with reality. Dreams are

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    it be said that a dream is a waste of one’s time. For dreams are our realities in waiting. In dreams, we plant the seeds of our future.” In the books The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Mr.Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis, and The article Dream Big But Be Realistic for a Successful Life all have dreamers dreaming. Being a dreamer is more important than a realist because you can dream a better life for yourself, and you can do things you never thought were possible if you dream. Being a dreamer

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    During the novel, The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros relives a childhood similar to hers, where the main purpose of life is having the ability to dream. Most characters that live on Mango Street, such as Esperanza Cordero, dream of having a better life and deserting their past of poverty and struggle. Cisneros constantly makes this apparent to the reader because without struggle and pain, the reward of “escaping” the neighborhood is not as meaningful. Throughout the novel, The House

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