'Weaving a Myth': Magnolia and the Psychology of Religion in Film
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
Imagination is fundamental to human life. Indeed, all the ‘humanities' are manifestations of the creative instinct that finds its origin in imagination. One creative imagination communicates its images to another in an attempt to bridge the perceived space between two minds. Hillman suggests...
The Illusion of Civilization and Illusions Within
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An illusion has the ability to distort the perception about reality. It can be used as a way to disguise something from its true nature. In his work The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud offers an analysis on illusions. He suggests that an illusion is different than an error, because an...
Adorno and Fiske Pop TV
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
To a certain degree, the actions of individuals have an effect on their environment. However, our surroundings more dramatically influence our everyday experiences and shape our personalities. Two of the most popular cultural mediums, film and television, extend to mass audiences who eagerly...
Concise Summary of Descartes' Reasoning in "Meditations on First Philosophy"
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
Descartes' Meditation One sets out his purpose of creating a new scientific paradigm to be based on a foundation built above the wreckage of his former opinions. He sought a reason to doubt the entire canon of his opinions so that he might begin “to establish anything firm and lasting in the...
Who's the Fairest One of All?
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Journalism
The mirror is quite an interesting and useful tool; they allow people to see themselves in great detail and in ways one would never imagine possible. This greater perspective of oneself is very important for various reasons that run the gamut from physical aesthetics to inspecting oneself for...
Evidence of Platonic Ideals Communicated Through Ancient Greek Statues
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
The Platonic idealist is the man who by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses…” - George Santayana (1) Art is subject to interpretation. Each and every work of art, from theatre, to...
The Effects of Racial Discourse
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Introduction Racial discourse is a process that has notable ramifications for society. However, for individuals that are part of the majority race in a community, the reality of issues such as racial prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping are almost nonexistent. This is because the...
How the Chinese government's control of the media impacts Chinese society
Essay - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Introduction The role of modern media in Western culture had been well examined by social scientists. Media in this culture has been used to entertain, inform and, perhaps most importantly, persuade. While the pervasive presence of the media in Western culture may lead one to believe that this...
Points of intersection: A handful of dust and St. Mawr
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
In Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust as in D.H. Lawrence's novel St Mawr, a common rhetorical layer discusses the search for life's meaning, which in many aspects mirrors Ellington's experience of finding agreeability in music, as well as the sensation of childishness. In A Handful of Dust...
Nietzsche's "Life not an argument"
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“The conditions of life might include error,” Nietzsche says, yet without these conditions “no one could endure living” (Williams 117). Though we have forms, rules, and facts, he argues, we've merely invented them to cope with the mysteries of our environment. These...
The nature of being and expression in the story of Christ
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
History is a story. A man, a woman is a narrative. With each moment of our beings, we sift through the scattered array of images and experiences woven through our discourse to create the illusion of a coherent, cohesive self. And, despite our attachment to this image, reality remains...
Alice in Plato land: The allegory of wonder
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
For millennia, philosophers from Plato to Descartes to Wittgenstein have argued over the nature of reality, its objectivity and apprehendability. Alice in Wonderland explores the nature of reality using logic, philosophy, and mathematics. The device of the rabbit hole, which...
Structure and texture in the "Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
The Good Soldier is a novel written in 1914 by Ford Madox Ford and published in March 1915. This novel is considered as the best book of pre-war period. It is also considered as a modernist work, and in fact, many modernist innovations, as well as impressionist ones, are present throughout the...
The quality of life in London: A tale of two cities
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
London appears among the most popular cities in the world. It is a city on the move, where you can find everything you need. It is one of the places where fashion is created, where you can meet people of all origins and where the word “Party” gets its real meaning. In there, one can...
Discuss the portrayal of city life in a group of works
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
In this essay, we will look at how artists portray city life, how they make the most common things in our lives becoming special and how they transform reality into art. Indeed, everyday, ordinary life often becomes special under their brushes. Some of them like Degas or Toulouse-Lautrec...
Authors' rights in the Anglo-Saxon world
Essay - 7 pages - Civil law
The authors' rights are a very important problem of the modern economic world. The rules that regulate the authors' rights have always been created in the reaction of some social facts; they always have been late on the sociological and technical transformations. The first fundamental act...
Fascism, communism and totalitarianism
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
“Fascism was the first mass-mobilizing development dictatorship that provided a frank, complete, and relatively coherent rationale for totalitarianism." Actually, Mussolini's doctrine of delayed industrialization was the first to openly affirm “the reality of production and the...
The construction of the modern State
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
'Man is by nature a political animal', arguing on that Aristolte induced the existence of political communities. Men lived in communities for decades. However, man's living condition has changed with the passage of time. One landmark change was in his environment. Each evolution was a...
A study on building a brand for cotton through marketing research
Market study - 24 pages - Business strategy
A product is a physical structure, but a brand is a perceptual entity that lives in the people's minds. The first question that strikes our mind is “why branding is necessary?” As the products fail to generate competitive superiority, the need for the brand arises. Though essentially...
Communication strategy & plan: Cif case study
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Cif is a very old brand in its sector of cleaning product and has a very strong image, but is too much associated to restrictive and occasional use. As a communication agency, I was asked to think about a new communication strategy which could make Cif appears as more usable, more easily and in...
Lord over logic
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
The seeming necessity of logical principles, such as the fundamental “law of non-contradiction”, has led many thinkers to consider these principles primordial, basic, and uncreated. I can sympathize with the attitude that gives rise to this belief. In my own personal history of studying...
Financial Analysis - Novotel Case
Case study - 2 pages - Finance
The budget is a tool for the management to make sure the hotel reaches its yearly goals and follow the financial strategy. Every month, the heads of departments meet to present their figures, and discuss on the differences between the budget and the reality of the business. (...) The...
Spectrum of consciousness: Evolution of the spectrum
Thesis - 13 pages - Physics
In this chapter, Wilber explains how the information given in the previous chapters relate to the spectrum model of consciousness. He summarizes the previous chapters and shows how they relate to the creation of the spectrum. Wilber describes the spectrum as an infinitely long continuum in...
The role of private equity firms as an alternative investment model in the Middle East and globally
Tutorials/exercises - 27 pages - Finance
The global economic reality has witnessed a recent international increase in the private equity markets. This fact has brought up many concerns as to whether this will have a positive or negative outcome (Financial Services Authority, 2006). This document will present an overview of...
The Fall of the Kylie Cosmetics Empire
Case study - 3 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Kylie Cosmetics is the success story that captivated the beauty world since its launch in 2015 by Kylie Jenner, the reality TV star and influential member of the Kardashian-Jenner family. What began as a small online makeup business quickly transformed into a global phenomenon.
Cross-culture aspects of play and childhood development models
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Piaget (1962) described play as imitating and practicing behaviors, oftentimes associated with symbolic . Play happens through the assimilation of facts, events or behaviors, or through the distortion of reality, in order to put reality back together. Sometimes child play involves...
The Bastard - Erskine Caldwell (1929) - What was the writer's purpose with the expression of violence in this novel?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
'Where there is no human connection (...) there is no compassion. The isolated turn cruel in the forms of domestic and civil violence' here is a brief definition from the writer Susan Vreeland which perfectly matches the title character of Erskine Caldwell's crime novel The Bastard....
Organizational Diagnosis - Brazily Fitness
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Brazily Fitness, a reputable company with a strong Brazilian identity, which is among top brands in the industry with fitness and nutritional services, is optimistic about growing and spreading services. Notwithstanding this, the organization is confronted with the unsympathetic issue of...
Beyond patriarchy
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For many people who live in the modern world, the oppression of women is something that they would like to think of as something that is a thing of the past. Most members of the public would prefer to believe that being female doesn't necessarily mean that someone can expect to receive fewer...
The elements of culture and the impact on interpersonal relationships
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The article Communication and Shared Reality: Implications for the Psychological Foundations of Culture asserts that language in a culture comes from similar experiences that are individually experienced and then used to form beliefs as a group and those beliefs become the basis for...
