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Education and Virtual Reality

We now have another way to gain knowledge of the world, through virtual reality (Winn, 1993). Immersion in a virtual world allows ...

Arguing Against Reality's Static Absolutism and Indian Philosopher Nagarjuna

with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Appearances versus Reality in the Lomans of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

view. Wily Lomans life is riddled with failures, including the failure towards his family when Wily Loman has an affair, his work...

Beyond Virtual Reality in Entertainment

The drawback with the video option is that there is a delay in adjusting the image when the user moves his head; the drawback with...

Comparing Macbeth and A Doll’s House and the Appearance of Reality

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

Comparing Othello and A Doll’s House and the Appearance of Reality

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

Reality TV/Why We Watch

lives. Ralph Rosnow, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Temple University, comments, "If people arent talking about other people,...

"The True Story Of Ah Q" by Xun Lu

He is a thoroughly unpleasant character. Despite this, he is amusing (in a sick way) because he always convinces himself that wha...

Tim O'Brien and the Vietnam Experience

who and what one was (Lee, 1995). In that, he wasnt unique. Thousands of Vietnam veterans experienced it, and dozens of writers ha...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

The 2004 Case of Barber v. Somerset County Council

of proximity is not a consideration, this exits. The issue becomes that for foreseeable harm. Even where there is the aspe...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

The True Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness, the seminal masterpiece by Joseph Conrad, is a study in cruelty and the degeneration of man into beast as the t...

Carver and Capote - Driven Writers

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the works of Raymond Carver and Truman Capote. The writer considers why it is that author...

Literature and Reality

In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...

Analyzing How Sandro Botticelli Transformed the Beauty of His Idealism into a Reality Dark and Somber

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

Parallel Reality in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bar...

Oedipus the King, Othello, Reality and Appearances

In a paper consisting of three pages the protagonist's distinguishing between appearances and reality is assessed in these works b...

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

In five pages this paper analyzes illusions and perceptual reality as featured in one of the lesser known works by novelist Vladim...

'Sugar and Other Stories' by A.S. Byatt

goes on behind its sheltering walls. The central point to the story deals with making both moral and literary judgements and how t...

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw and Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff

In five pages this paper discusses reality and appearance as each clashes in these literary works. There are no other sources lis...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's As the Master of Magic Realism

fantastic styles of Latin-American writing: magic realism. "The tone that I eventually used in One Hundred Years of Solitude was ...

Heinrich Mann's 'Man of Straw'

In this paper of 7 pages, the way in which the author reveals more of how society really works than is found in conventional histo...

Othello and Oedipus the King and the Determination of Appearances and Reality

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...

Comparison of 'History of the Peloponnesian War' by Thucydides and 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Hallucinations in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...

Magical Realism in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Rudolfo Anaya

In six pages the genre dubbed as 'magical realism' is examined through the works of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Bless Me, Ul...

Communicating Across Cultural Lines

With more diversity in industry every day, cultural issues come into play in addition to other barriers to smooth operation. This ...