Running head: WHAT IS THEORY? 1 In a world dominated by practical considerations, there is often a reluctance to dismiss theory. In fact, my experience is that people think that theory gets in the way of practice. However, as Kurt Lewin pointed out (as cited in Morgan, Images of Organization, 1997, p. 376) "there is nothing so practical as a good theory". Morgan (1997) posits that "in any sustained
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Creating an Avatar Presence in Second Life What does my avatar look like? My avatar was what appeared to be an African American or Hispanic woman. I would say her age was about 25 to 30. She was wearing a black dress with a very low cut front. She has on a black pair of heels. She had long blonde and brown hair. How does your avatar's appearance fit into norms established by the dominant culture? I think that the appearance of my avatar fits into what someone my age would maybe dress like
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Fantasy vs. Reality In the allegory of the cave, Plato describes the human perception of fantasy and reality. The story is about these prisoners who have lived in the darkness of an underground den since childhood. They are chained so that they cannot see themselves or the real world above them; all they can see are shadows on the wall in front of them. Somehow, a prisoner escapes the underground den and heads towards the light. At first, the light blinds him and he is unable to see anything
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world. Every person has a worldview that is taught and formed at a young age. As one gets older, their worldview can change a little but the essentials will remain the same. These seven questions are going to reveal my worldview and how I comprehend reality when it relates to particular situations. * Who is God and what are His characteristics? * God is the creator of the universe. * God is forgiving. We as human beings sin. God sees when we have sin. The day we commence a relationship
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Adult Fake in a Fake World. At the age of 19, I understood the difficulties of the real world. I was coming back home from college when I received word from my dad that I had to go live in the United States with my mom because my brother was sick. Although my brother was born with muscular dystrophy (a degenerative muscle disease), my parents tried to give us a kind of life like a normal family. My dad was the kind of dad that aimed to make us happy by giving us all we wanted. It was just a
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Reality template Since I was a child I had a dream to one day rule the skies flying at speeds only a handful of people got to experience. To be as agile as a hawk and have the might of a lion, I strived to be immersed in the "national culture that glamorises soldiers" this was my reality, or was it? With little concept of war and death, had I merely been brainwashed by a society driven by hate in order to become the next gen in "homicidal technology"? Whilst we think we can determine our own
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revealed to them. In contrast for some, the reality of the truth will prove to be too much. The knowledge of the truth can still be rejected and living the illusion of a lie can still be accepted. Neo was born enslaved in a pod, physically stored in liquid, and controlled by the artificial intelligence of computers and machines. Neo serves as an energy source and is fed artificial images that hold him in an induced dream state of a virtual reality. Like Neo, the prisoner of Plato’s cave, has
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bureaucratization and marketization of politics and the emergence of power as a mode of apparently neutral governmentality that transcends factional interests and represents everybody. Finally, we return to the notion of the end of reality in the superior version of reality, integral reality, where everything is realized and nothing remains undone or
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Conscience while not being something you can see, is something people know is there, and is believed to be real. It has been established that this man can’t be real, not in the way one considers something to be real. But if you think of the nature of reality, if someone imagines
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At the start of Plato’s theory, he describes the scene by stating “On top of the wall are various statues”, these statues are reflected onto a wall in which the prisoners can only gaze at, this means that the statues are very significant to the story as they can only be seen as a shadow cast on to the wall and only by the prisoners. The shadows of the moving statues may represent the fact that what they are viewing are merely appearances of the real forms, for example they can only see the shadows
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