...Bailey Krumwiede AP Literature Hr. 5 Ms. Hand 4 October 2013 Reality or Fiction Reality is the actual person, entity, or event. Fiction is not necessarily based on fact; it is produced by the imagination. By giving the narrator his own name and naming the rest of his characters after the men he actually fought alongside in the Vietnam War, O’Brien blurs the distinction between fact and fiction. The reality is that Tim O’Brien is a real person and he is the author of The Things They Carried. O’ Brien did actually serve in the Vietnam War as a soldier. Unfortunately, it is impossible to know whether or not any given event in the stories truly happened to O’Brien. Through writing about his experiences in Vietnam, O’Brien’s character is able to sort through his emotions, since “by telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down the certain truths” (152). He doesn’t look upon his stories as a type of therapy; he recounts his stories since they are a part of his past, and who he is now is the direct result of them. O’Brien tries to explain the distinction of truth through “How to Tell a True War Story.” The narrator will introduce a character and undercut what he has previously lead the reader to believe, like in Norman Bowker’s suicide. A true war story is distinguishable “by the way it never seems to end. Not then, not ever” (72). In the case of O’Brien, his comments remind the reader that his stories are created. For example...
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...Fiction vs. Reality Kristin Gainer CJS/220 May 13, 2011 David McNees Fiction vs. Reality In a day and age where televisions are flooded with multiple courtroom drama based series, it is easy for the public to develop the belief that what is viewed during prime time accurately reflects the events that actually unfold in courtrooms across the country. However, these programs are created for the purpose of entertainment, and while some of what they portray is true to real life, a great deal of it is overly glamorized, and much of what actually occurs inside the courtroom is not covered. Popular movies like Runaway Jury and A Few Good Men are examples of programming that depict courtroom activity in a more exciting and dramatic light. While some of the circumstances presented in these are parallel with reality, when compared to real life cases that can be viewed daily on TruTv’s In Session, it is clear to see that the majority of the content is intended for entertainment purposes and are designed to appeal to the public’s need for instant gratification: heart-pounding anticipation followed by a neatly wrapped up resolution, all in the span of less than two hours. Unfortunately, this is not the case in real life. Jury selections are often arduous (as I have recently seen through viewing the jury selection for the Casey Anthony case on In Session), trials can last for months upon months, and there is not always a happy ending. Runaway Jury, a popular 2003 film based on the...
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...Fiction versus Reality CJS/220 02/13/2011 Crystal l. Wagoner This will be my final project for this class and it will be on Fiction versus Reality in the court room. This final project is due no later than February 13, 2011. In this project I will be explain the difference between television perspectives (fiction) about how court room drama is versus the real deal (reality). I will select a fictional television court room drama from the court television web site to help with my research, and then I will describe the fictional portrayals of the court room, including the trial process, the roles of the prosecution and defense, the roles of the court room participants and the handling or implementation of rights for the defendant and the victim. Then, draw parallels between the fictional portrayal and the reality of the court room within above identified aspects. I will then determine the accuracy of the fictional court room process as compared to that of the court room reality. I will also explain in my opinion, Given that entertainment differs from reality, what impact would fictional account of courtroom practices have on the average citizen’s perceptions of the real-life courtroom process. There are many people that make up a reality court room like: the bailiff...
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...vs reality Fiction versus Reality Axia College of University of Phoenix As soon as a couple decades ago there was no such thing as media. Children played hop scotch for fun, chewing gum in class was the worst moral crime committed and sexual promiscuity was a folklore that was thought to originate with a few prostitutes that were as rare as Bigfoot. As the introduction of television introduced waves of crime, sex and betrayal into the homes of Americans the crime rate began to spike like never before. This spike in crime sparked a deep yearning to investigate the uncharted criminal mind. As media has expanded from radio to television and the Internet, crime has exploded all over the world and the need to control this wild horse has sparked worldwide interest in reality based television shows that depict the inner workings of a convicts mind and how the hero police officers, detectives, crime scene investigators and judges outwit, catch and then prosecute these lawbreakers. This exciting new fad has people watching these half hour shows and believing that they are entirely accurate. There are some television shows that use a great deal of fact in the creation of the show while other shows do not even come close. Since people have become enamored with courtroom based movies and television shows this has created a false sense of knowledge among common viewers that almost an entire nation believing that courtrooms consist of a defendant and a plaintiff (or a prosecuting...
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...WEEK 9 FINAL PROJECT FICTION VERSUS REALITY To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/CJS-220/CJS-220-WEEK-9-FINAL-PROJECT-FICTION-VERSUS-REALITY Final Project: Fiction versus Reality In this assignment, you will exercise critical thinking skills. Remember to suspend judgment while inquiring into the reality-based aspects of the fictional courtroom drama as compared to its reality. Accurately comparing this fiction with its reality requires application of problem solving skills and methods. The last item calls for an evaluative decision you will make on the fiction and reality of the court system. · Resources: Appendix A, The Courts in Our Criminal Justice System, and the Court TV Web site at http://www.courttv.com/home_primetime/index.html · Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in APA format comparing the entertainment fiction of the court system with its reality. · Select examples from fictional portrayals of the courtroom found in books, movies, or television, for example, The Runaway Jury, A Few Good Men, or Law and Order. Use the Court TV Web site to help your research. · Describe the fictional portrayals of the courtroom including the trial process, the roles of the prosecution and defense, the roles of the courtroom participants (expand your response from the Week Five CheckPoint), and the handling or implementation of rights for the defendant and the victim. Then, draw parallels between the fictional portrayal and the reality of the courtroom within...
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...Joanne’ H. Mullins Phase 2 DB #2 Literature: A Reflection of Life Colorado Technical University Instructor Professor Eric Wright LITR201 1503A 01 Phase 2 DB #2 Fiction Part 2 More Than Skin Deep Appearance vs Reality 07/10/2015 LITERATURE: A REFLECTION OF LIFE FICTION, PART2: MORE THAN SKIN DEEP: APPEARANCE VS. REALITY 1. How do you think Nea feels about her sister Sourdi based on this information? How does what s at the beginning of the story foreshadow what happen. later? In May-Lee Chia story “Saving Sourdi “tells the story of two sisters who were very close and the youngest (Nea) felt she had to save her sister (Sourdi). Nea is the narrator of the story and it is told from her perspective, so it follows her emotions, thoughts, and ideas and it all transcend time. Nea is very spontaneous character and she holds on to the memories of her and Sourdi and she do not won’t to let go of her sister. Through the beginning of the story Nea being the protagonist stated that she was eleven years old of age, someone was dissing her sister and she felt the need to save her sister. Sourdi wanted to change the way Nea was thinking but it never happen. Nea still felt hat Sourdi need saving eve after she got married. 2. This story is told from Nea’s point of view. How do you think the story would change if it were told from Sourdi’s point of view? Do you feel closer to the character than you would if this story were told in third person? If the story was...
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...“Global Consumer Culture is a beguiling illusion that completely glosses over the hard realities of national, ethnic and religious differences. It is therefore a dangerous fiction for the marketing manager to engage with.” Discuss, with examples. Introduction Globalization has made a more variety of products available for all consumers. In this sense, globalization increases differences, rather than generate homogenization (Lee & Usunier, 2009). Moreover, global influences are adapted to local circumstances; therefore, globalization results in an increasingly cultural diversity. The existence of a global consumer culture does not imply the disappearance of differences; rather, the modern culture results in the sum of these differences (Arnett, 2002). Global consumer culture (GCC) is a new stratum of common culture that superimpose on national cultures (Lee and Usunier, 2009) in the same way in which these overlap local traditions and subcultures existing within national boundaries, given the fact that most countries are already multicultural (Smith, 1991). Notably, it has been argued that culture is the most influential factor on consumer behaviour (Cleveland and Laroche, 2007); consequently, it is important to define the extent to which a modern global culture determine purchasing decisions, and these insights should inform marketing strategies. Therefore, the question is whether a GCC does exist, in which sense it should be interpreted, and how it does affect national cultures...
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...Fiction and Non-Fiction Documentary Films Name Institutional Affiliation Introduction Non-fiction documentaries often face tight budgets that force them to rely on actors to produce the plot that was intended. Fiction and nonfiction documentaries are anything but just academic and sensational arguments of the differences, for instance filming of a pack of lion over a year is obviously non-fictional as the main characters are unable to act. However, there are events such as for the movie mentioned below that involves that actually took place, but must be reacted to given a storyline of the actual events that took place. Nonetheless, it is always important to know that the fiction and nonfiction documentaries can be understood in relative terms, and that both the two categories of documentaries always aspire to tell a truth about the real world, but fiction is not constrained by the real world. Fiction develops a world for its story to take, and yet a documentary finds its story in the world we live in, and yet a fictional documentary becomes a marriage of these two concepts in films. The Naook of the North is the typical documentary that was built around the nonfictional story line with acting set in into the film. The story is a documentary about Eskimos, and it was the first documentary in the period, a first feature-length documentary and it was preserved by U.S. Library of Congress as a culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” movies in a National Film...
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...Fiction, Between Inner Life and Collective Memory. A Methodological Reflection. François-Xavier Lavenne, Virginie Renard, François Tollet1 Introduction In the writing of their fictional works, novelists often have to reflect on the functioning of memory, for memory lies at the heart both of inner life and of human experience in general. It is indeed in the works of writers such as Marcel Proust or Jorge Luis Borges that the best exemplifications of the subjective experience of memory are to be found. However, from a strictly mnemonic point of view, literature provides more than a means of reflecting on memory: it is also the site of the rebirth and construction of individual and collective memories, which can then serve as a foundation for the writing of fictional works. Creative writing has a meiotic function and is as such a powerful tool capable of rescuing memories from oblivion and bringing them back to life, thus reconciling the past with the present. The present article seeks to bring to bear new perspectives on the relationship between a novelist’s personal memories, collective memory, and the fictional narratives partially inspired by these two types of memory. In the first section we briefly examine the distinction traditionally made between individual memory and collective memory, which we then try to reconcile so as to arrive at an approach to the mnemonic phenomenon that best fits the needs of literary scholars. In the second section we challenge the conventional...
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...The more we dwell on a story, the more we change and are affected by it. During my time exploring different story, I have not been able to dwell on such a story partially because I do not believe I am at that time in my life where I can understand and appreciate a story and allow it to change my life. Diving into the gist of the book, Gottschall points out that people read less every day or “less than we used to.” We used to read fiction all the time, but it has seemed to go away. This is not to say people have forsaken the idea of fiction but instead look for fiction in other ways. TV’s, music, movies, computers, and much more are consuming our ability to actually read fiction and appreciate it. The reality is people are watching more TV and consuming themselves with stories that may not be entirely fiction or nonfiction. The stories that used to be abundant in books and people are now protruding in a box and screen. American children are being affected by this the most because as they grow up, a fear is they won’t experience the same fiction fairy-tale like childhood most children had before. A topic that I found quite interesting was the science of dreams. Do dreams tell stories? Do they hold some secret prophesy for an individual? Do dreams have any use in this world? These questions were some I have had my entire life. I always thought I never dreamed but just accepted the fact that maybe I just forgot them all. However, dreams are just the waste of the brain...
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...“Fiction presents more opportunities for creating uncanny sensations than are possible in real life” (Freud, 18). This quote comes from an essay written by Sigmund Freud in 1919 entitled “The ‘Uncanny.’” In this article, Freud discusses the subject of uncanniness and proposes what he thinks deems certain events or things to be labeled as uncanny. Freud states, “the ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar” (1-2). Freud theorizes that one would find something uncanny if he had previous exposure to it, but was now viewing it in a horrifying manner. For example, a doll is not supposed to be terrifying. Dolls are loved by young children and seen as innocent or harmless. However, a fictional story about a doll that becomes possessed and kills people is frightening to people of all ages. This scenario would be considered uncanny because a doll, such a familiar thing, has deviated from the norm and turned horrific. Freud’s essay continues to flourish around the idea that it is most frightening when something so familiar turns into something so terrible. This feeling of mixed emotions can be referred to as “cognitive dissonance.” In the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, cognitive dissonance is defined as, “psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.” While Freud himself never mentioned this psychological term himself in his article, it is very obvious that it has correlation...
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...Gabriel García Márquez: Life Influences and Magical Realism September 19, 2012 Introduction The goal of this project proposal is to present background on the subjects of realism, magical realism, and Gabriel García Márquez. It will go in depth into Gabriel’s life as well as define the difference between realism and magical realism. The ultimate goal is to present a valid project idea pertaining to the three subjects previously mentioned; the project being a combination of a well-researched paper and other supplemental pieces. Background Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez, born on March 6, 1928, is an accomplished story writer, journalist, screenwriter, and novelist. He has been presented with several awards and honors, including the 1972 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 1981 French Legion of Honor, and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. García Márquez was said to be one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. Not only are his works of literature successful, he is also noteworthy for the style with which he writes. He uses a magical realism style which takes realistic events and places, and adds an aspect of magic to them. García Márquez is the first widely known user of this style; he is often credited with commercializing it. Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Columbia on March 6, 1927 to Luisa Santiago Márquez Iguarán and Gabriel Eligio García. García Márquez was raised...
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...Postmodernism * Postmodernism: 1945-? * “Postmodernism named a shift in art, architecture,and literature away from the austere formalism and the sometimes sanctified tenor of modernism, often employing pastiche and transgressing the boundary between high and low art.” * “It also described a turn in literary theory and philosophy toward a focus on language itself, exposing the constructed news of what we had assumed were natural categories. In a word, postmodernism was meta.” * “Like ideas of the modern and the postmodern, the contemporary brings up the question of whether it simply designates a new style or more deeply captures the state of society and the feeling of our era. Key elements seem to run throughout discussions, especially the speed up of time and the reveling effects of globalization. If postmodernism was self-conscious about language, the contemporary is hyperconscious of time.” * Also referred to as contemporary literature, which is perceived as being “hyperconscious of time.” (The Sound and the Fury) * “Globalization is why many theorists set the starting date of the contemporary at 1989, because the fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the end of dividing the world between the capitalist West and the communist East. That is why postmodernism is no longer adequate.” * “That is a chief difference from previous eras, even the postmodern. Postmodernism might have responded to media like TV, but the contemporary arose with the advent of personal...
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...Final Project: Fiction versus Reality CJS/220 May 7, 2011 Timothy Hanson There are many aspects of a working courtroom, and each aspect has a special value that it adds to justice proceedings. However, the courtroom proceedings seen in movies, or on television, are rarely the same as what. The reality of what happens in a courtroom has been completely sensationalized to make it more exciting. The complexity of what takes place in real life courtrooms has remained consistent throughout the years. Looking at the novelty of fictional drama and comparing that to what takes place in a traditional courtroom will show the differences, if any. Take into consideration the movie, “My Cousin Vinny.” This movie is mostly held in a courtroom. Included are the judge, the prosecution and defense attorneys, the jury, the bailiff, court recorder, witnesses, even an audience included in the scenes and processes of the case. While in a completely fictional movie, the roles and actions of each individual seem to be indicative of reality. Keeping in mind that there has been a major amount of comedic properties added to the characters of the movie to make it more entertaining, the true roles of the characters stayed very true to reality. The defense and prosecuting attorneys exchange information during discovery, and interviewing witnesses. Also involved, are the examinations and cross examinations done by the attorneys are very comparable to reality. Then there is the court...
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...Throughout history, human kind has always tried to find a way to escape from reality. They thought that facing the tough periods of life is unbearable. However, by creating fiction stories, people have found a way to transform the “reality”. Writing fiction, transformed the unbearable reality to something which is more acceptable. In Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy has perfectly managed to combine fact and imagination by introducing familial survivor of the working class district in Montreal. In the novel, the relationship between fact and fiction was perfectly balanced. Roy was significantly successful in describing the particular war period, by concentrating only on one family. It may be a controversial choice to focus on just one family while describing the history; it could be restrictive. However, it may be considered as if Roy was trying to make the novel more intimate for the readers. This makes the novel much interesting than a historical book. Tin Flute is a crucial piece of work for Canadian fiction. Although the characters were imaginary, the novel portrays the working class family living in Montreal slums realistically. Roy’s use of verisimilitude could be considered as the most fascinating aspect of the novel. The descriptions of the family’s daily life problems push readers to relate to the main character’s emotions and to develop empathy for them. Roy’s each imaginary character reflects an ongoing issue in that period of time such as poverty, war, solitude and despair...
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