When asked what reality is, most would argue it consists of the things our senses allow us to register. When we hear the repetitive sound of an alarm clock in the morning, or see the sunrise peeking through the shades of our windows, we assume that whatever we are experiencing is real. Since we encounter these situations mostly everyday of our lives, it is understandable to make such assumptions. But how can we truly know what is real? And how would we react if someone were to question what we consider
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With the advent of World War II, many filmmakers all around the world choose to depict the reality rather than re-create it. Audiences were tired of movies with happy ending when the world was being becoming more corrupt by the second. They needed stories they could relate to. Every country had different ways of implementing the reality into their stories, but every realist filmmaker showed its audience something they could relate to. Some of the most prominent filmmakers from this movement were
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A real depiction of life is what William Shakespeare dimonstartated in the Taming of the Shrew. This book shows a women with her guard up and the fight a guy has to go through to truly become one with her. To gain access to a barricaded heart there are many methods tried some normal and many questionable. Life isn’t perfect and there will be ups and downs, it's all about finding the balance between independence and influence. Independence is good for a person to a point. The point in which it doesn’t
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Have you ever had any intentions of longing to have powers? Or have you ever wished that there was a secret door, leading to another world, inside your basement? Well, these types of thoughts are completely unrealistic. They can’t happen in the real world, but, they can happen in a book or a movie. Many of us have read books, or watched movies that have unrealistic things in them, like aliens coming to Earth from space. Some people like to watch aliens coming down to Earth, while others prefer to
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happened on the highway. The highway, where some of the most bizarre, inexplicable, and inconceivable occurrences happen. Occurrences, that couldn’t possibly happen in reality, occurrences, that only happen in fiction, occurrences, that only happen in the cinematic fantasyland of Hollywood. Then again, how do we determine what reality is, and what it isn’t? For all I know, it could have been nothing more than a hallucination, a mirage, or a horrible, awful, and insanely creepy dream. However, I would
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Imaginary worlds and their idiosyncrasies Not everybody lives the same way and not everybody believes the same things and we call that an imaginary world or a world in which they believe to be true. In “The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees” by David Crandall, he explains that the Himba have a very elaborate imaginary world that consist of things such as of their belief in a God, spirits, ancestors, hearts, and what the world is like. However, not every Himba follows these beliefs in exactly the
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Misrepresentations of Mesoamerica in Popular Culture There is an awkward manner by which popular media can distort, manipulate or even reorder facts so that the real becomes surreal. Oftentimes people tend to believe in things they read without an iota of doubt concerning their veracity or validity. When it comes to historical facts, truthfulness is often established through some scientific means or records from the time under investigation. It is no wonder therefore that when there are no records
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What we see is not the truth, bur rather our interpretation and distortion as our imagination fuses with our conception of reality. We transform the world around us, give meanings to abstractions, and find order in a world programmed by disorder – chaos. We are prone to chaos, to nature, to the forces that influences and envelops reality. We conceptualize these omnipotent forces through our usages of symbols – to create an understandable world through abstractions – in order to explain what these
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The Truth About the False teeth of President George Washington As many people know, president George Washington had a problem about his teeth that a lot of researcher believed it was the gum disease. Many Americans believed that most of president George Washington's teeth was made out of wood; however, many people don’t know that the information about their president's teeth is just a myth and it is not true at all. Until today, many people still argue that president George Washington's teeth was
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The general public often sees documentaries as an accurate representation of a certain. Despite this opinion, documentaries are not always an accurate medium for truthful information. From the perspective of a filmmaker, the art of the documentary is used to bring light to a certain injustice; in hopes to make significant change in society. In attempting to achieve this goal, filmmakers skew the information presented to present their point of view. This skewing of information can include, interviews
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