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    Raisin In The Sun Light

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    drives the soul to persevere through the inevitable struggles in life until it reaches its dream. In the drama, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, hope plays a major role in the lives of the Youngers, a poor African American family living in Southside of Chicago during the 1950’s. Throughout the play, Lorraine Hansberry uses light to symbolize the Younger family’s ever changing hope of achieving their dreams. Symbolism underlines a subtle point, foreshadows, and adds meaning to the text. The use

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    We live in an existence where we dream and make plans to achieve those dreams. Dreams are fuel for life because it gives you hope that everything will be alright and it give paths to follow when you don’t have any. Sometimes dreams don’t go as planned, as a matter of fact they can be shattered into million pieces in few seconds. It does not matter how well thought out your plans were, but they can be destroyed because you don’t know what is going to happen in the future. Things are predestined and

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    far from being a means to an end, the real meaning of life is the struggle. Whether we succeed or not, our lives are purposeful only if we have tried to make the world a better place for ourselves and others- only, in other words, if we follow our dreams.

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    Symbolism in UP House: The house is where Carl and Ellie first met each other as kids, where they chose to spend the rest of their lives together and turned it into the home of their dreams. As the movie gets going Carl 's house symbolizes his connection with Ellie and how he is holding on to her memory by staying with the house, even if it’s inconvenient or unnecessary. Carl isolates himself from the rest of the world and his house seems a refuge from everyone and everything that want something

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    Everybody has dreams and goals that they hope to attain one day; this ambition and motivation is what keeps people going through life, even in tough times. However, what happens when a person’s goal of accomplishing a dream is halted temporarily or even indefinitely? This is what Langston Hughes explores in his poem called Harlem, and the various effects of having a dream deferred are encountered in the play A Raisin in the Sun. In fact, the play gets its name from the poem as one line in the poem

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    Are dreams a source of reliable divination? Generations upon generations seem to have thought so. They incubated dreams by travelling afar, by fasting and by engaging in all other manners of self deprivation or intoxication. With the exception of this highly dubious role, dreams do seem to have three important functions: a. To process repressed emotions (wishes, in Freud's speech) and other mental content which was suppressed and stored in the unconscious. b. To order, classify and, generally

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    Chapter:The Dream Most stories begin with, Once upon a time or maybe even Once there was. Though this story isn't like most stories. Mostly because ordinary stories have a happy ending. I'm sorry to say, this one doesn't. In this story the bad people win, the villains rule, the world is being corrupted. Anyway so i suppose every story has to have a beginning so I guess here goes nothing. My names Hope Sawyer. My names hope cause i almost died of cancer. Like all people with cancer, I have a chance

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    The Purpose of Dreams

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    Dreams are a very ponderous things. Simply saying, dreams are a stream of images, sounds, and the actions of something; like a movie. But never have dreams been able to be explained. The Greeks and Romans claimed that dreams were signs from their gods and had prophetic magic (www.scientificamerican.com). Even though the purpose of dreams has not been discovered, a huge movement in the study of dreams occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1952, scientists in Chicago discovered

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    Freuds Interpretation of Dreams

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    discontents, dreams, psychoanalysis and the unconscious. For this paper, I will be discussing Freud’s fundamentals of dreams, what dreams represents, how dreams are constructed and its significance while paying close attention to the following areas of dreams, manifest and latent content, condensation and displacement, and censorship and repression. First, let examined the definition of dream according to Sigmund Freud “dream is the disguised fulfilment of a repressed wish. Dreams are constructed

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    showing the change in location or shape of these objects. In the same time Freud started his new movement in psychology by publication “Studies in hysteria”. The film is a kind of delusion hung on between the real world and the illusion just like a dream. Therefore, this form of artistic expression has been linked immediately with psychoanalysis. Cinema and psychoanalysis had a huge influence on the development of perception and view of the contemporary artistic expression, science and technology.

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