Points of intersection: A handful of dust and St. Mawr
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
In Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust as in D.H. Lawrence's novel St Mawr, a common rhetorical layer discusses the search for life's meaning, which in many aspects mirrors Ellington's experience of finding agreeability in music, as well as the sensation of childishness. In A Handful of Dust...
Gandhi and the doctrine of mind only truth and the void of being
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
Gandhi's thought follows in the footsteps of a philosophical tradition whose founders examined the nature of reality through the internal realm of the spirit. Their works described a constant and unceasing search for what is real, a journey that questioned the very means by which we...
Plato, Descartes and the Matrix
Case study - 3 pages - Management
The ideas brought forward by Plato, Descartes and the matrix believes that the world is not real, rather it is an illusion. To support their ideas, Plato imagines of a cave where people have been imprisoned till death. The people can only see in front of them where they can see images people,...
Alice in Plato land: The allegory of wonder
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
For millennia, philosophers from Plato to Descartes to Wittgenstein have argued over the nature of reality, its objectivity and apprehendability. Alice in Wonderland explores the nature of reality using logic, philosophy, and mathematics. The device of the rabbit hole, which...
Heaven and hell: Aldous Huxley opens the doors of perception
Book review - 9 pages - Literature
Unlike any other mammal on earth, man possesses the unique ability to traverse various levels of the mind in order to alter and create his own perceptions of reality. Unlike any author in modern literature, Aldous Huxley charts man's explorations into the realms of the mind in his books...
The decline of tragedy: modern tragedy and the failure to commit to action
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
In The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer introduces tragedy as the most important form of literary art. Tragic heroes fight against forces of great opposition but eventually have to surrender to their fates. Tragedy is a reflection on reality as the audience reaches a...
Phallocracy in Alan Moore's "From Hell"
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
Alan Moore offers a diagnosis of reality that portrays misogyny, homophobia, racism, classism, and governmental tyranny as demonic forces. Moore uses the graphic narrative medium as a means to communicate the demonic nature of these systems of power. In Moore's work on Swamp Thing, he...
Improving the Tunisian financial market by adopting the international reference frame in terms of reporting with the aid of IAS/IFRS
Dissertation - 45 pages - Finance
The deterioration of the reputation of major players in financial markets (banking, insurance, financial institutions) has created a crisis of confidence without precedent with lasting consequences for all economic actors today and they are difficult to measure. In this context of high...
Skepticism
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The notion of religion is about as old as humanity itself, and because of this, it is not unusual to study how the different historical periods have affected religion. For the purposes of this paper, we will be looking specifically at how modernity has affected religion, and how religion has...
Improving the Company's Production and Retail - Purdy's Chocolates Undercover Mission
Case study - 3 pages - Catering marketing
The Chief Executive Officer of Purdy's Chocolates noted that, for a company to keep growing and expanding, there was need for the top management to become aware and alive to the employees' and customer's opinion and view (Reality, 2014, p. 1). It was for this very purpose that she asked...
Indigo Light
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues examines the ways in which people strive to escape from stifling conditions and find a more peaceful home within themselves. Set in the Harlem ghetto, the story depicts the strained relationship between Sonny, a heroin addict and his brother, a teacher. The narrator...
Adorno and Fiske Pop TV
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
To a certain degree, the actions of individuals have an effect on their environment. However, our surroundings more dramatically influence our everyday experiences and shape our personalities. Two of the most popular cultural mediums, film and television, extend to mass audiences who eagerly...
The Effects of Racial Discourse
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Introduction Racial discourse is a process that has notable ramifications for society. However, for individuals that are part of the majority race in a community, the reality of issues such as racial prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping are almost nonexistent. This is because the...
Duality in Mahayana Buddhist Scriptures
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
The Buddha's teachings, although expressive of ultimate reality, have been conveyed through the relative medium of language. This discrepancy has led to the invocation of dichotomies such as “reality versus unreality”, “existence versus nonexistence” and...
Violence in media and its effects on adolescents
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
This paper will review several studies of violence in today's media of television and electronic gaming and how it significantly affects aggression levels in children. These studies have looked at the direct and indirect effects of violence in the media and how it produces more aggression in an...
Review and reinterpretation of Mrs. Dalloway
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
Through Space and Time: Reality and Experience in the Modern Age “This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears” (Woolfe 9). Modernism marked the collapse of structures that had defined the individual and the relationship of...
What is 'Postmodernism'?
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The term 'postmodernism' is a somewhat elusive one for it does not constitute an ideology, such as Marxism or liberalism, nor, as Callum Brown argues, is it a 'state of government or economy?[or even] a coherent set of beliefs' . However, instead it has been suggested that...
The elements of culture and the impact on interpersonal relationships
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The article Communication and Shared Reality: Implications for the Psychological Foundations of Culture asserts that language in a culture comes from similar experiences that are individually experienced and then used to form beliefs as a group and those beliefs become the basis for...
Spectrum of consciousness: Time, eternity, space and infinity
Thesis - 2 pages - Philosophy
It has been established that Reality is a level of consciousness, and it is ultimately and inherently ungraspable and unthinkable by the human mind. In this chapter, Wilber discusses how consciousness is not contained by the human body or mind, but is Absolute Subjectivity, so termed...
Art After 1945: Gordon Matta-Clark
Thesis - 7 pages - Arts and art history
Like many of the artists of the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark was concerned with the impact of a capitalist-driven society on an urban setting. After studying architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark devoted himself to the concept of “anarchitecture.” Anarchitecture is an...
The instability of the international financial system and the proposals for reform proposals
Dissertation - 193 pages - Economy general
In 1997, an earthquake hit Asian stock exchanges, the shock wave reached Russia a year later, and then Latin America, including Brazil in 1999. To the world, these crises have been a succession of real and financial shocks of exceptional magnitude. Far from having exogenous origins, this global...
Language and violence: An analysis of President Bush's recent rhetoric
Case study - 7 pages - Political science
His words have influenced the way we see our roles as Americans and the way we see and respond to the violence that was perpetrated against us. To what extent are the President's speeches the persuasive rhetoric of a good leader, and to what extent are they distortions of reality?...
The True Horrors "The Prophetic Voice"
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
When Steven King releases a new novel it is bound to be one of the scariest works of literature around. King's books, filled with images of deformed dolls and haunted houses, strike fear in the hearts of his readers. King's writing appeals to our senses, torturing and manipulating them to create...
Fellini's Otto e mezzo
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
Since the dawn of cinema, there have been numerous film directors who have garnered the reputation of innovator, auteur, even genius of the medium. Only three directors, however, have created such unmistakably identifiable styles as to warrant film terminologies based on their very names. Alfred...
Mimicking an Image in Hopes of Gaining Popularity
Essay - 7 pages - Philosophy
The average American high school is a mecca of noticeable things. Among them is the most obvious and interesting. Take a walk into the cafeteria, try and find an empty table and sit down. Now look around. What do you think you will observe? It is not the disappointing cafeteria food, or the bland...
Soviet Literature: A clearly defined and a Poor quality Literature? Literary policies and their consequences on Soviet Literature, and perceptions of this one
Thesis - 15 pages - Services marketing
The Soviet Communist ideology which has ruled everything in the Soviet Union for decades was based on Marx's ideas, concepts as Dialectical Materialism. In this theory the world was in perpetual process of change, this through a dialectical movement which was made of conflict between the...
Drug related offences
Essay - 14 pages - Journalism
In modern societies it is easy to recognise that consuming drugs is an every day reality; not only taking heroin or marijuana, but also smoking, taking painkillers, having a coffee, a tea or abusing of alcohol for Saturday as a required “Saturday night” obligation. The illegal...
The construction of the modern State
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
'Man is by nature a political animal', arguing on that Aristolte induced the existence of political communities. Men lived in communities for decades. However, man's living condition has changed with the passage of time. One landmark change was in his environment. Each evolution was a...
How does the 1976 film network accurately reflect ideologies and practices of modern television?
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
The ideologies and practices evident in modern television are succinctly foreshadowed in the 1976 Hollywood classic, Network. This prophetic Oscar-winning film satirically dramatised a series of predictions, most of which were fulfilled in modern television. The film shows that ratings have...
Beyond patriarchy
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For many people who live in the modern world, the oppression of women is something that they would like to think of as something that is a thing of the past. Most members of the public would prefer to believe that being female doesn't necessarily mean that someone can expect to receive fewer...
