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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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    But actually Dreams are of two types: 1) Dreams which comes when you sleep. 2) Dreams which don’t let you sleep. Our dreams should be SMART i.e. S = Specific M = Measurable A = Achievable R = Realistic T = Time bounded All of us have things that we believe in for, something that we want to accomplish. Deep down we know it’s a part of our destiny and we can feel it so strongly. The dream, compelling reason or vision, Dream without which all our actions mean nothing. It is something which many people

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    Mice and Men and Bless Me, Ultima, both Antonio’s mother and Candy, have dreams for a better future. For Candy it involves buying his own land to live on with George and Lennie, rather on the other hand for Tony’s mother it involves Tony becoming a priest and following the ways of the Luna’s. Both characters are constantly convincing others to allow for their dreams to come true and are optimistic that one day their dreams will develop. In both books Tony’s mother and Candy strive to turn the present

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    workers could apply the theory to a health and social care setting. By explaining what psychodynamic counselling is and how it helps individuals it shows how I am able to identify the solutions to the problems. Psychodynamic

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    Children are constantly exposed to the positive effects dreams can have on their lives. Some of their favorite movies were made by Walt Disney, a world-renowned man who seemed to mention dreaming and it’s importance every time he spoke. But is there really a point in dreaming if in reality, where the sun isn’t always shining and animals don’t talk, dreams don’t always come true? While this question may be irrelevant looking at the light-hearted entertainment of movies, classical literature gives

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    American Dream is a concept that the United States is built on. The United States promotes it as everyone having an equal opportunity to be successful in life. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American dream is shown through Gatsby’s life. It makes his life better, but does not solve all of his problems. The American dream can be defined from this story, Gatsby represents the dream, and Fitzgerald makes a point in showing that living out the dream is not as great as it may seem.

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    Dreams are hopes that people hope to accomplish in their lifetime. When trying to achieve these goals, people are willing to do anything. But, what happens when a dream is deferred? A dream pushed aside can disappoint a person in the deepest way. It is likely to spread throughout their thoughts and becomes a burden. In the poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes, through literary devices, introduce a strong theme through a short amount of language Hughes is asking what happens to a dream that is being put

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    to find what we can be certain of as humans. His plan was to find any belief that could be doubted, and throw it away. He would do this by weeding out all the beliefs that he was uncertain about, leaving him with the beliefs that he was certain about. Then, he wished to use those beliefs he considered certain as his foundation for further knowledge. He went through multiple steps to come to his final conclusion. Finally, after every phase of his mediation, he created what is called the dream hypothesis

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    been many theories about dreams. One of them was that dream should be seen as a message coming from outside individual, mostly from God like creatures. And another theory is that dream should be seen as a prophecy, being able to tell us what awaits for us in the future. These theories are prescientific so today we don 't view dreams this way. Freud then came along and proposed that dreams reflect a conflict between the unconscious desires and the conscious mind. So, dreams are mostly an expression

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    The American Dream

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    The American Dream has a different meaning today as opposed to fifty-years ago. The American Dream once meant: marrying the love of your life, buying a home in the suburbs with a white picket fence, two to three children, and obtaining a job one could retire from in twenty years. That dream has vanished and disappeared with the advent, development, and advancement of technology, higher costs of living, and rising expenses of student loan debt. The heavy burden of paying off loans from attaining

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