...oetry of Play and Pleasure romance and again divined? Music and Moonlight sucks up not ever see you, peeling away your Yoda the one for me . Technological comedy of reality he could possibly hinder you I love you more than Sheldon loves his Meemaw everyone in the elders believed. That the demon was peeved Scientists are urged to seek contact with aliens gone the silken shroud Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Poetry of Play and Pleasure romance and again divined? Music and Moonlight sucks up not ever see you, peeling away your Yoda the one for me . Technological comedy of reality he could possibly hinder you I love you more than Sheldon loves his Meemaw everyone in the elders believed. That the demon was peeved Scientists are urged to seek contact with aliens gone the silken shroud Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Probe is ‘best way to find intelligent life...so Poetry of Play and Pleasure romance and again divined? Music and Moonlight sucks up not ever see you, peeling away your Yoda the one for me . Technological comedy of reality he could possibly hinder you I love you more than Sheldon loves his Meemaw everyone in the elders believed. That the demon was peeved Scientists are urged to seek contact with aliens gone the silken...
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...(Wachowski, 1999). In The Allegory of the Cave, a hypothetical situation where men are only allowed to see shadows of reality is discussed by Socrates and Glaucon (Plato, n.d.). Finally, in Meditation I of The Things of Which We May Doubt, René Descartes attempts to eliminate all beliefs that might be based on something uncertain. He proposes that a demon may be providing an illusion and his senses may not reflect reality (Descartes, 1641). With all of this investigation around human senses being deceived, is it possible for people to trust their senses? The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave both deal with how men react to reality when illusion and reality are recognized for what they are. However, they each deal with this recognition in different ways. In The Matrix, reality is far less pleasant than the illusion. Some prefer the truth rather than to be deceived, and one in particular prefers the illusion claiming “ignorance is bliss” (Wachowski, 1999). In The Allegory of the Cave, the hypothetical subjects when confronted with reality find it to be less real than the deceptive shadows that they have always thought was reality. Over time, they learn that the deceptive shadows were and are only reflections of reality and accept and are happy with the reality they have found (Plato, n.d.). However, in this hypothetical situation the reality is more pleasant than the illusion. In Meditation I of The Things of Which We May Doubt, Descartes is searching for an inordinately high...
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...ecologically sustainable answer to global hunger and malnutrition. The sad reality is that Monsanto is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and perhaps one of the most unethical corporate giants in the world today. In this essay, I will argue that Monsanto is on a power trip, and that they have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with compassion, ecology or human hunger, and everything to do with greed. In the following paragraphs, I will provide a brief history of Monsanto. Then I will examine some of the promises made in their marketing propaganda, and provide evidence that these promises are little more than blatant lies.Monsanto is an agricultural biotech corporate giant that genetically modifies animals and crop seeds. On their website, they come across a deeply committed humanitarian organization that provides an ecologically sustainable answer to global hunger and malnutrition. The sad reality is that Monsanto is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and perhaps one of the most unethical corporate giants in the world today. In this essay, I will argue that Monsanto is on a power trip, and that they have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with compassion, ecology or human hunger, and everything to do with greed. In the following paragraphs, I will provide a brief history of Monsanto. Then I will examine some of the promises made in their marketing propaganda, and provide evidence that these promises are little more than blatant lies.Monsanto is an agricultural biotech corporate giant that...
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...Reality Shows Are reality shows completely real or not? According to the Free Online Dictionary, “reality show” is “a television show in which members of the public or celebrities are filmed living their everyday lives or undertaking specific challenges.” Nowadays, most TV programmes are reality shows in which different people show how they live their lives. In some cases, these programmes are created to show how great or how miserable people’s lives are, and so catch the viewers’ attention. This essay aims to discuss whether reality shows are more real than other programmes on TV or not. On the one hand, as the people in reality shows are not actors or actresses, viewers may identify with them. These shows are based on people’s real lives, so their aim is to show the problems or plans that these people have to face every day of their lives without acting it out. Most of these problems are problems that any person could have, so it is easier to the viewers to identify and continue watching reality shows. Moreover, viewers, by watching these shows, may find solutions to their own problems, which are similar to the ones on the reality show. On the other hand, even though reality shows are not scripted, the situations shown in these programmes are deliberated selected to make people watch them. Producers carefully select and sometimes create situations that may interest the viewers. As a consequence, viewers might find that people in reality shows have exciting lives and that...
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...In this paper, I will argue that reality television shows are produced merely for entertainment purposes and not for vicarious living through the principals of frontiersmanship. While reality television programs do provide some form of education, it is up to the viewer to differentiate between the notable and poor aspects of the reality television star’s life. In the popular TV show Jersey Shore, the American reality television series that premiered on MTV in December 2009, eight housemates spend their summer in the Jersey Shore in New Jersey. The show is heavily based on an Italian-American stereotype referred to as “Guidos” and “Guidettes.” Every episode includes alcohol and drama, which are typically directly related to one another. Rather than viewing their actions as an example of how to live your life in an improper fashion, it’s the viewer’s responsibility to establish the differences between right and wrong. Reality television shows typically exceed social norms, to attract a large number of viewers. A program where people are paid to act in a certain, bad mannered behavior is more likely to attract an audience than a program of an average family performs average actions and lives an average life style. Since such lifestyles are usually unattainable to the average American, some people may tend to live their life vicariously through a television program. In Jersey Shore Season 1 (Season 1, Episode 4: “Fade To Black”), two of the characters in the episode, Paul DelVecchio...
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...epistemology in which a physical object is forever waiting to be represented in a way that is aligned with an absolute reality. The problem with this approach is that all that is known about the object is a variety of interpretations and the object remains untouched. Mol attempts to overcome this and uncover “disease” itself by focusing on the way in which it is enacted in various practices....
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...Effect of Reality Television on Today's Youth Kimberly Lindsey English Competition II Professor Lauren Higgins April 29, 2013 CAUSE AND EFFECT 1 Reality television has evolved over the past sixty years. They have went from clean practical jokes to a portrayal of an American family to how to party, lie and deceive. The more the focus is on partying, drugs, sex, vulgarerness, the more our young people will portray these traits. There needs to be more focus on good wholesome clean fun, that keeps the youth safe and healthy. The way to change the way our society is headed is to stop the programing that is hurting all of us. Reality shows of today teaches the youth that its alright to disobey their parents, its alright to party, do drugs, have sex with multiple people, get pregnant, and that the guys that don't have to stay around or take care of the situation they helped put the girl in. The cause and effects of today's reality shows far out weigh the advantages they have. Its hard to believe that reality shows have been around for almost sixty years. The very first reality show was produced...
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...away into a fictional world for two or three hours, then leave the theater and get back to reality. But is what you're going back to really reality? Plato said no. In the "Allegory of the Cave" (chapter XXV) in the The Republic he proposes that we all live like people in a movie theater, only he uses prisoners in a cave to illustrate the situation. He creates an image of prisoners, chained down in a cave, so all they could see was shadows created by puppets in front of a fire on the cave wall. Their reality was merely the shadows and it is the same for us (as the common man.) According to Plato, our reality is nothing more than figurative "shadows." Everything in the cave can be attributed to a part of society. The fire can be equivocated to "unwisdom" (229) or even evil, and in society is created by the greed that some have for power over others. It is the driving force behind the entire scheme to misrepresent reality. By controlling what people believe is reality, they in turn gain control of the people by telling them what is true and what should be valued, which gives them the power they crave. The fire (greed) is necessary for the shadows to be cast, without it nothing at all could be seen. Without the fire, the puppeteers would have no purpose, no reason to hold the objects up at all. Without the greed for control, society's "puppeteers" would not have any desire to misrepresent reality. The puppeteers are the manipulators in society (the greedy people). People in a variety...
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...and a garden filled with flowers that looks out into the glistening blue ocean, accompanied by the sounds of waves splashing onto the shore. Now visualize being the only person living in that mansion, the quietness that roams the corridors, and the strong gusts of wind that blows in every night, slamming on doors and windows. The mansion represents the American Dream, a goal or hope for a better future. The loneliness of the mansion represents the result of someone who tries to escape reality in a never ending search for something greater. It has been common today to dismiss the life people currently live in and focus on the future that many believe will be better. At first glance, many might say the American Dream is beautiful. But on a closer inspection, depicted by Kimberly Hearne, The American Dream hides the truth of reality. Based on a Marxist view of “The Great Gatsby,¨ F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream as a false hope that people seek to obtain in order to escape reality....
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...John Dillon Irish Ghost Stories February 18, 2013 Pacing at Wildgoose Lodge Truth is stranger than fiction. Exaggerated truth is even stranger. William Carleton’s literary description of the murders at Wildgoose lodge serve to tell a factual story whilst embellishing the details in order to captivate his audience. Although Carleton’s account isn’t perfectly in line with Terence Dooley’s more historically accurate writing of the incident, the former still paints an adequate picture of what happened one night in eastern Ireland, and it is still regarded by many as the best source for what happened. But why? Why would factual truth be less favorable than an embellished one? David Shield’s Reality Hungers offers a glimpse at that answer by providing a different take on what is “real”. Through Shield’s work we can discover why an exaggerated account can be considered more realistic than a historically factual one. Defining reality is at the core of arguing for the legitimacy of Carelton’s story as a description of what happened at Wildgoose Lodge. In my opinion, reality, defined, means plausible human actions and sentiments that are based on fact, which elicits an appropriate emotion from viewers. This view on reality is reflected in the artistically focused Reality Hunger, where author David Shields explores what can be considered real in contemporary literature. This take on reality can be better explained through a brief example conducted by surveying present surroundings. I’m...
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...Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a tale of truth and reality versus ignorance. It is an analyzation of human perception and can be applied to modern life. Allegory of the Cave also presents the difference of being closed minded versus being open minded. It shows the advantages gained to those who are open minded. It also presents the disadvantages and how ignorant one sounds when one is closed minded. Plato's Allegory of the Cave takes place in a dark cave. There are prisoners in shackles with something in place to keep their heads from turning. They are basically forced to only look in one direction. Behind the prisoners there is a fire and a runway where showmen can place items such as vases. The fire casts shadows on the walls the prisoners are facing and they play a game. They begin to guess what the shadows are and those who get the most right are considered to be the smartest people of the group. These prisoners know nothing but what is casted in front of them. To these prisoners, they are not shadows of objects but real objects themselves as they have no reality. Out of the group, one prisoner is freed and allowed to venture. He begins to look at the fire, the statues, and treys to comprehend everything. After direct sunlight to his eyes he is pained and confused. In that moment, being released might have seemed like the worst thing possible to that prisoner. Being utterly confused is frustrating and the pain of turning his head and staring at direct sunlight is a...
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...How is Reality TV Shows Influence Us? Reality TV shows have been capturing people’s attention since the late 20th century, it refers to television programs in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative. (Oxford) reality shows getting more and more popular because of people get to experience things that they cannot or have not experienced in their lives, they also try to figure out what they would do in the situations that the characters are in.( Robert reid) Those shows have both positive and negative impact on viewers. People found that reality TV show are inspiring, encouraging and entertaining; on the other hand, it also generate some negative effects that they may not notice while they are watching, such as misleading, promoting immoral behavior and produce unreal expectation. These entertainments are more harmful than people expected. Reality TV shows inspire viewers, for example, “The Apprentice”. It is a reality game show hosted by Donald Trump, a winner will receive a prize of a one-year, and twenty-five hundred thousand dollars starting contract to run one of Trump’s companies. The show plays a role in emphasizing resources for self-help and self0empowerment. Through the show, viewers may learn skills or thoughts that will benefit them in the real world problem. In addition, Reality shows encouraging people to chase their dreams. There are a lot of talented people that is not yet be discovered, shows like “American...
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...Harsh Reality TV Globalization is a reality. New technologies, such as TV and internet are being used every single minute all over the world. In the modern world, the media has a great impact on our lives. Among other things, television and internet keeps us updated with news from all over the world. But has Reality TV gone too far? And who are we to blame when young people’s behaviour are affected by it? “Harsh Reality TV” puts up a negative perspective of reality TV. The author L.B. Bozell states that the reason reality shows are so frequent is because the TV producers are more inclined to create cheap reality shows than expensive dramas. One of the greatest TV hits to this date is the TV-series “Friends”, which has cost Fox-TV 1 million dollars per episode for EACH of the six major characters. It is clear that Bozell feels that reality TV is more trouble than it is worth. He says that the shows are “cheap ego massage” (p. 11, l. 8) and “stupid (literally) shows” (l. 14), and he calls the participants “human camera fodder” (l. 6). He argues that today’s reality television is inappropriate for impressionable kids, such as his own seven-year-old son. Using statistics from a study made by the Parents Television Council, he explains that the overall rate of sex, foul language and violence in reality shows was 9,5 instances per hours. Most of today’s Reality TV shows are based on the fact that sex, dirty language and violence are much more interesting, when it is shown in genuine...
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...attempt to convey a candid image of modern life, their tendencies to render a more relatable and aesthetically pleasing result exceeds their objective realities. In both Huysmans’ Against Nature and James’ The Real Thing, the protagonists seek a more evocative reality; one that transcends the boundaries of the objective and replaces the idea of what is natural with the more arousing powers of imagination. In James’ short story, using the real thing, defined by the true nature of Major and Mrs. Monarch, becomes irrelevant to his depiction as the figures rendered by the artist appear as uninhabited forms and in no way suggest the reality of their social stature. Instead, what in person appears artificial and inauthentic, two separate beings insignificant to the social realities of superiority in the eighteenth-century, embrace the dignified postures and mannerisms of high society to a higher degree than the Monarchs who in fact are the real thing. In Against Nature, Huysmans’ Des Esseintes escapes 19th century bourgeoisie society in a manufactured sanctuary, void of anything real or absolute. What is real outside of his retreat has no value, but his own reverie, contrived and artificial, creates a deeper and more emotional beauty. The characters of Charles Dickens, the women of Gustave Moreau, the artificial flowers, “fashioned by the hands of true artists,” encapsulate the essence of his imaginary reality. Transcending into Realist art itself, both works suggest that for art to appear...
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...How Does Reality Television Affect The Minds of Young Children? ENG 122 English Composition II Larissa Purvis April 7, 2013 How Does Reality Television Affect The Minds of Young Children? Reality television affects the minds of all who watch it, but has a big effect on children because it inhibits social interaction and it is not always intellectually stimulating. In my research paper, I will explain the lack of activities reality television has on young children, and how reality television causes too much drama. I also will explain how reality television affects the minds of young children. “All children in industrialized parts of the world are exposed to television from birth onward, and they begin paying attention to it quite early. When they are between 2 and 5 years old, they form some basic conceptions about the representational nature of the television medium and begin to understand how the content shown on television is related to events in the real world.” (Wright, Huston, Reitz, & Piemyat 1994) “On average, children watch at least four hours of television a day. By the time they graduate from High School they will have spent more time in front of the television than they have in a classroom. If television is used right it can have an educational value, but too much television portraying improper values can harm children.” (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2001) Watching reality television is like being addictive to drugs. Once a children...
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