Surrealism: ' I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak ' (Andre Breton). Discuss this statement in relation to at
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
Surrealism is originally a French movement started in the 1920s gathering artists and writers all led by a will to deeply move the artistic world according to their innovative thoughts. Its name embodies novelty since the term 'surrealist' had been used for the first time in 1917 by...
Berger and Luckmann propose 3 steps in the social construction of reality
Dissertation - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann discuss the social construction of reality in their work, The Social Construction of Reality, published in 1966. Reality, as defined by Berger and Luckmann, is a combination of norms (socially acceptable ways of acting and thinking) and...
Employee Commitment: A comparison between theory and business reality
Essay - 3 pages - Management
This practicum field project is the result of an interview conducted with the Group Strategic Analyst of ING Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.* The goal of this project is to compare the views of a prominent executive with the theoretical approach provided by famous scholars about employee...
Sight and reality in Chestnutt's "The Conjure Woman"
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
There has always been a fundamental distinction between reality and how our mind represents reality. What we see and observe (external sight) comes into conflict with what we interpret and feel (internal sight). Charles W. Chestnutt's The Conjure Woman explores the gulf between the...
The roles of a manager: A comparison between theory and business reality
Case study - 4 pages - Management
This practicum field project is the result of an interview conducted with the Investor Relations & Strategic Development Director of Citigroup in Athens, Greece.* The goal of this project is to compare the views of a prominent executive with the theoretical approach provided by famous scholars...
Characteristics of effective leadership A comparison between theory and business reality
Case study - 4 pages - Management
This practicum field project is the result of an interview conducted with the VP Corporate Communications in Alcatel-Lucent, Paris, France.* The goal of this project is to compare the views of a successful executive with the theoretical approach provided by several scholars about the...
Cognitive behavior therapy and reality therapy
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Many types of therapy have been called cognitive behavior therapy. Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) deals with cognition and behavior, assuming that people contribute to their psychological symptoms and issues by the way they interpret events and situations. REBT also...
Paul Auster's Brooklyn: between fiction and reality
Book review - 9 pages - Literature
Brooklyn is best described as a city within the great New York City. It is a place associated with top-notch artists such as Walt Whitman, Hart Crane or quite recently Woody Allen; and one of New York boroughs where one cannot ignore the ongoing process of multiculturalism. There are several...
Reality Blights
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
No matter how hard a person tries, he cannot escape a world exploding with discrimination, violence, and blind hatred. The smell of death permeates the streets as wars rage and the taste of man's inhumanity lingers in the air. An idealistic individual attempts to shield himself from the evil,...
The French reality TV programme landscape and the Star Academy programme
Essay - 8 pages - Television
The television landscape has changed years ago with the incredible growth of new programmes. Indeed, reality TV knows a huge development among TV viewers raising key issues around ethics, politics, truth-telling and realist representation. Even if reality television is totally a new...
"No artist tolerates reality" - Nietzsche. To what extend is this true in the work of Yeats and Eliot?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
"No artist tolerates reality", as far as this quotation of Nietzsche is concerned, it is true that artists - and therefore writers - cannot tolerate reality, and that is the reason why they often aim at changing this reality through their art, and in the case of writers,...
Is e.government still more a dream than a reality ?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Information Technology, especially the Internet, has definitely opened the political scene to the public. Its influence on politics relies on a new and widened visibility, mixed to a clearly new approach of communication. Indeed, it has become a common tool. And adding to the low cost of access,...
The EU Foreign Policy - Myth or Reality?
Thesis - 22 pages - European union
European Union (EU) critics are a very heterogenic group. Amongst them, there are people who think that this organization has too many responsibilities. Sometimes this disapproval is summarized in only one word: ‘Brussels', the city where several institutions of the EU and especially the...
Does reality TV have any ill effects on the participants and the viewers? To what extent?
Essay - 4 pages - Television
This literature review deals with the contemporary topic of reality TV. It is particularly focused on the examination of the ill effects of reality TV shows for both contestants and viewers. The study found out that the appeal which encourages people to participate in such shows is...
Journalism: fiction and reality. The figure of journalists in films.
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
In most of the movies or TV series, journalist characters are often represented in one way: stereotyped. Namely, a man in his 30's and single. Journalism is filled with stress due to the constant awareness those workers face since the news stays ongoing. The job of a journalist is infinite;...
The Mark on the Wall - Virginia Woolf (1917) - What is the significance of the "gaze" in this short story?
Text analysis - 3 pages - Literature
"The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf is a modernist short story that delves into the complex nature of perception and the workings of the human mind. The story is characterized by its stream-of-consciousness narrative, which allows the reader to explore the inner thoughts and reflections of...
What are problems and how do we deal with them?
Presentation - 5 pages - Philosophy
Faced with the same event, several people can react in totally different ways. Better still, the same person, at different times, can react in a completely different way when faced with the same situations. All of this allows us to affirm that it is perhaps not reality itself that causes...
Metaverse: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Metaverse, a vast virtual world where digital and augmented realities meet, marks the start of a new era for higher education. Combining technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and immersive game-based learning can bring the emergence of a digital frontier that...
Understanding Heraclitus: The Philosophy of Fire, Change, and Unity
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
Discover the profound insights of Heraclitus, a pioneering philosopher who shaped Western thought with his dynamic understanding of reality. His revolutionary ideas on the unity of opposites, perpetual change, and the hidden nature of things have influenced metaphysics, physics,...
Strategic Analysis - Meta, the new name of the Facebook Group
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Meta as a metamorphosis, but also as a metaverse: that's it, it's done. Facebook has just changed its corporate name. Recently announced during Connect 2021, which took place on October 28, the blue logo platform formalized its mutation. During this media event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of...
Deconstructing the Balance between Left and Right Hemispheres: A Critical Analysis of Human Cognition
Text analysis - 2 pages - Psychology
In this thought-provoking chapter, Iain McGilchrist challenges the conventional wisdom that the left hemisphere is the seat of rationality and reason. He argues that a balanced collaboration between the left and right hemispheres is essential for an authentic relationship with the world. This...
Pierre Faure: Photographer of Silence
Biography - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Discover the work of French photographer Pierre Faure, known for his black and white images capturing human reality and environmental context.
Designing Acceptable Assistive Robots for Diverse Age Groups
Book review - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
A mixed-methods study explores user preferences for assistive robot design using augmented reality, revealing age-related differences in design acceptance.
Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Presentation - 2 pages - Literature
Summary and analysis of the 17th-century Spanish play Life is a Dream, exploring themes of reality, dreams, and deception.
Madame Bovary: Emma's Dream Analysis
Text analysis - 2 pages - Literature
Discover the analysis of Emma Bovary's dream in Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, exploring the themes of escape, exoticism, and the harsh return to reality.
The Illusion Comique: Lies and Comedy in Corneille's Masterpiece
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Explore the themes of deception and comedy in Pierre Corneille's 17th-century play, The Illusion Comique, a tragicomedy that blurs the lines between reality and theater.
Art as Liberating Lightness
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
This philosophical dissertation explores the concept of art as a means to liberate oneself from the weight of reality through imagination, fantasy, and play.
Why we exist in the third dimension and why all other dimensions are moot in terms of viability
Case study - 4 pages - Physics
The universe appears to arrive in our eyes as separations of matter and space orchestrated by the causal flow of time, where each of these things appears totally separate and with their own secrets of initiation into reality. Where did any of it come from? Why does it exist? And why are...
The Role of Language in Philosophical Inquiry: A Critical Analysis
Essay - 1 pages - Philosophy
Explore the intricate relationship between language and philosophy through the lens of renowned philosophers like Whitehead and Descartes. Discover how language serves as a necessary tool for philosophical construction, while also examining its limitations and potential divergences. Delve into...
Inflation - Brief case study
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
There are more subtle or safer to destroy the basis of society than to corrupt its currency. This process mobilizes to destruction, all the hidden forces of the laws economics. As currency value variations were, for all that involved, among the most significant events of economic history of the...
