Escaping Reality

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    Nosotros Los Noble

    Nosotros Los Nobles details the story of three spoiled children and their widow father. Germán Noble is the father of Barbie, Javi, and Carlos. Barbie is dating a man from Mexico who pretends to be from Spain- Peter. Peter wants to marry Barbie for her trust fund and inheritance, however Germán wouldn’t allow it. After learning about their ridiculous spending habits- Germán decides to teach them a lesson. He stages an elaborate plan to convince the kids that their assets have been frozen and that

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    Ignorance In Plato And Wachowski's Allegory Of The Cave

    The Value of Ignorance The air you breath, the chair you’re sitting in, even the dreams you have are real as far as you know. Yet, imagine if it wasn’t. Imagine if everything in this world was a lie, not real, just a hallucination of sorts. It would be cruising knowing that everything that we’ve been taught is a lie. To make matters worse, there would be no way to go back and you could only dream of the blissful life that you once lead in a lie of a world. So is ignorance truly bliss? This is a question

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    The Perception Of Jack's 'Reality In Stealing'

    mother is the "other" in Jack's "self/other dyad". The mother is the "signifier interpreter" in this story that Jack tells. However this is an other wise ["other" - wise] unmediated "case study" of "self report". It shows a limited perspective of "reality" from Jack's first years of his life. His formative years inside of the room "constructed" his "intrapersonal phenomenal world" -- his own self talk. But was it really his own? Jack's grasp on the concept of theft, borrowing and taking lets us peek

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    Donald Trump: The Art Of Telling The Truth

    storyteller to bend or even exaggerate the facts in order to reveal the deeper truths lying underneath. When it comes to personal storytelling, facts are in no way more important than the truth because facts only account for the socially accepted parts of reality, while the truth is the entire picture of a situation. Facts can be designed with bias and used to sway individuals away from the truth. A constantly-appearing figure in media today is Donald Trump. His decisions and scandals as President,

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    Luis Buñuel's The Phantom Of Liberty

    Luis Buñuel has once again created a surrealist piece to quickly grab the viewer's attention. The Phantom of Liberty is like a continuous triathlon without a finish line, but does not leave the audience exhausted after a number of events. Each story is effortlessly tied to the next like a different course in a triathlon, and is logical because as said by Roger Ebert, “[Buñuel’s] editing makes everything seem to follow with inevitable logic,” (Ebert). Buñuel was attempting to make the viewer believe

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    Judith Donath's Co-Op, Why Fake News Stories Thrives Online

    In Judith Donath’s co-op, Why Fake News Stories Thrives Online, the author highlights the reality of fake news and how the community builds upon it. There are two different type of fake news: satire and ones that deliberately mislead consumers. Unfortunately, the deliberate ones are more common and further divides the social circles that people belong to. Although we can “fact check” fake news, it is proven to be “ineffective” for those consumers “are suspicious of mainstream media and dismiss as

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    Analysis Of Plato's Allegory Of A Cave

    very strong bias towards issues and can shape views of reality in any attempt to manipulate(688). Most people will just form their opinions from this one source without doing an research at all. Then again, the news many not be a factor in the first place, some people are too lazy to watch the news. These people are so “in the dark” (684)that they do not know what the truth looks like because they have blinded themselves(686). Their reality is solely based on the radical opinions they hear from

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    Rhetorical Analysis Of Pokemon Go

    Pokemon Go is the tipping point to digital madness! Being aware of what is ethically the “mature” way to conduct oneself in situations that are meant to be endearing or respectful to lives lost is not done by way of capturing cartoon-like digital monsters that don’t even exist. Author Leonard Pitts Jr., does not hold back in his article Capture this: It’s wrong to play Pokémon at Auschwitz! Pitts is clear in his tone when he denounces the absurdity of people’s insensitivity to tragedies that should

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    Analysis Of Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

    The idea that everything is not as it seems is a consistent theme in modern media. One may even argue that it is even more prevalent in postmodern media. It’s an idea that grips our fear that everyone who smiles at us has something to hide, that it’s “too good to be true.” Looking at examples such as The Matrix and Inception, we can see that these ideas go from the purely situational to believing that the entire world that we live in may just be a figment of our (or someone else’s) imagination. However

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    Is Solipsism True

    Are you real to me? Are you? Everything that seems to be happening right now could just be an act in my mind. Maybe, I am not actually here, but one of you are imagining all of us, me giving this speech. There is so many things about this that can make you doubt it or even believe it. It is a crazy theory and to be honest with you I’m confused on where I stand. Today we are going to experience what exactly Solipsism is. Then we are going to imagine if it were actually true. Finally we will think

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