Simulacrum

The Anonymous movement is a decentralized community that anyone who believes in open information can join (Mansfield-Devine 1). Anonymous intervened into various international conflicts, such as 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella movement, by Distributed Denial of Server (DDoS) attacks as a form of civil disobedience and demanded the Hong Kong police to stop resisting the protesters (Fuchs 1). Appropriating tropes and word choices of God, Anonymous evokes audiences’ fear and faith to convey its capabilities

The Simulation of Reality Even at a first glance, Cameron Stewart’s webcomic Sin Titulo seems to be fraught with mystery, uncertainty and a certain sense of foreboding. It’s fast-paced and pulls the reader in immediately with its questions of existentialism as it blurs the line between dream spaces and reality. There is anxiety, paranoia and the text is full of philosophical paradoxes and references. Above all, however, the text grapples with the question of what reality is, how human beings perceive

The novel Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem, explores the limits of the human ability to comprehend the alien or the unknown. Literally speaking, the novel does investigate the human capacity for understanding an alien life form, however the important messages Lem tries to convey within his novel are not those that relate to the question ‘will we be able to communicate with an alien life form?’ but rather the question ‘what is stopping us from being able to understand the unknown?’ The answer to the latter

RE220 Final Exam Alexa Bloom 140647650 December 13th 2015 Question 1 Émile Durkheim and Mircea Eliade have dissimilar understandings of religion. Emile Durkheim did not have an interest in a belief system or the cognitive approach. He dismissed the study of how particular beliefs lead to certain practices and adopted a functionalist approach. He does not acknowledge the belief in God, rather focuses on what religion does within society. He believed that individuals encompassed

The Ugliness of War in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est" is seen as a strong expression of the ugliness of war, and "an attack on the idea of war being glorious" (Kerr 48). It transmits an irritating clip, with full animation and in vivid colors, of embittered and battered soldiers marching to their death. It also, cogently presents a nightmarish vision of hell uploading all its demons into the root directory of an impoverished soldier who saw one of

Globalization is the process of combining people politically, economically and culturally into a larger community. Over time, globalization has brought people together as “technological innovation dissolved barriers of time and distance, and enhanced flows of information promoted greater awareness and understanding”(2002). However, globalization also has a negative side to it as it produces economic and social dislocations. Global mass media, movies and television do not represent the world and its

honestly whatever drives him to create is one of us." To clarify, Kirchner, establishes the idea that in art history, expressionists illustrate the significance of conveying feelings and emotions in their artwork in preference of considering a simulacrum; an image that is not influenced by the original artwork. Expressionists emphasize the role that picturesque colors, shades, lines, bold outlines and other artistic features play in enhancing the emotional effect of their artwork on their audiences

The motto of the Stanford jail experiment devised by psychologist Philip Zimbardo might be this: Do you consider yourself a good person? If you think that you are a human being like many other people, you probably also think that you do not characterize yourself by being non-compliant twenty-four hours a day. With our virtues and our shortcomings, most of us seem to retain some ethical balance by coming into contact with the rest of humanity. Partly thanks to this compliance with the rules of coexistence

‘Death Be Not Proud’ and Jaroslav Seifert’s ‘The Mistress of the Poets’: a comparative study.” supports the idea that death appears to be a type of reward. The essay explains, “Donne’s appropriation of ‘rest and sleep,’ of which death is only a simulacrum, a travesty of no better grandeur, is further buttressed by the line: ‘And soonest our best men with thee do go’” (Dash 1). While using sharper language than in other texts it is clear what this quotation is attempting to convey. What this quotation

By nature, these gifts are simulacrums of love, giving the appearance of affection without any true meaning. “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,” describes the experiences of Beauty as she stays with The Beast in exchange for a rose stolen by her father. After spending a significant time with