I"ll pay you every penny back." ... I don't know- what I"m supposed to want." ... Willy realises that if he had have gone to explore the world with his brother, he too may have achieved the success, which Ben reaped. ... When Charley offers him a job instead of having Willy borrowing money, Willy replies; "I got a job, I told you that! ... Gatsby's mysterious attributes are shown to have been achieved through crime. ...

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When I say "partially" I mean only a specific aspect of dreams comes from daily life interactions. ... I spoke earlier of REM (Rapid Eye Movement); it is the time in which the individual will have their dreams. ... Now that the diagnostics of dreams has been covered, I would like to focus on the origin of dreams from a medical standpoint. ... Thus far, I have established that dreams have both a metaphysical existence and a physical. ... There seven types of dreams according to the facts I have researched. ...

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Do all dreams have a specific meaning that relates to our waking life. ... These are questions we ask ourselves when we have a dream that startles us. In this paper I intend to inform you of the symbols that are common in dreams, along with the psychology behind dreaming. I will also include the meanings of the symbols that are seen in your dreams, so that it is realized that everything you see in your dream has a specific meaning. ... I will also discuss the techniques used to interpret dreams. ...

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I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. ... Because beliefs about magic have changed, the representation of magical creatures in A Midsummer Night's Dream has also changed through history. ... In the course of this paper I hope to demonstrate the variety of fairies and how they appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... For this reason I will discuss certain magical characters of A Midsummer Night's Dream in separate chapters. ... By doing so I hope to illustrate that adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream are not unrelated...

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Act I, scene i Summary The course of true love never did run smooth... ... She thinks up a plan: if she tells Demetrius of the elopement that Lysander and Hermia are planning, he will be bound to follow them to the woods to try to stop them; if she then follows him into the woods, she might have a chance to win back his love. Act I, scene ii Summary In another part of Athens, far from Theseus's palace, a group of common laborers meets at the house of Peter Quince to rehearse a play that the men hope to perform for the grand celebration preceding the wedding of Thes...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's early "festive comedies,"" written around 1595-6. Despite the many thematic references to "dreams- and the fantastic setting of the Athenian forest, the play also contains a fair amount of commentary on Shakespeare's contemporary English world. ... One of the guests at this noble wedding, according to the theory, was Queen Elizabeth I of England - and the play is full of references to her. ... She forgives Lysander for his inexplicable and temporary change, and apologizes to Helena after having accused her of stealing her man...

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Loneliness Webster's Dictionary defines the word loneliness as 'being alone and without companions'. That definition perfectly describes the feeling and atmosphere of John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men". Steinbeck describes brings his readers into the lives of two lonely farm workers and descr...

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Washington said, "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."" ... At night Gatsby would step outside his house and perform a ritual, "he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock-(25-26). ... It may have been Gatsby's dream that helpe...

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That's true, I said, uncomfortably. ... She is a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ... I told him the truth. he said, He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave and when I sent down "?... He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owed the car. ... What if I did tell him (Gatsby)? ...

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I, personally, have asked "am I dreaming?" ... Of course, it could be argued that by saying that I have asked "am I dreaming?" ... Therefore the fact that I awoke after the dream in which I questioned whether I was dreaming or not, shows that I was indeed dreaming**. ... Even if certain people (such as Norman Malcolm, perhaps) do not have, and never have had, realistic dreams or dreams in which they have questioned whether they are dreaming, the fact that others have (even if it is only myself and Descartes!) ... It could merely be the case that those people who cannot dream such dreams are a...

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The narrator now reflects how helpful it would be to have the god of sleep come and give him much-needed rest himself. ... Not even the famous Biblical interpreter of dreams, Joseph, who read dreams for Pharaoh (see  Genesis, Book 41), nor Macrobius, the late Roman author who wrote a famous (in Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of Scipio, would have the skill to read the fantastic dream the narrator had that night. ... The story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible would have been known to most people through stories, but the reference to Macrobius's Latin commentary o...

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For the title of my film, I have chosen to call it " Imposter ", and the genre of the film is Sci fi thriller. The story starts with the main character just relaxing having a picnic with his girlfriend in a park. ... He storms out, and rushes to see his girlfriend to see if the dream they had was really a dream or if it was reality. ... He storms out, and rushes to see his girlfriend to see if the dream they had was really a dream or if it was reality. ... For the title of my film, I have chosen to call it " Imposter ", and the genre of the film is Sci fi thriller. ...

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We often believe that others have the same view as we do. ... Here are some extracts from the First Meditation in which skeptical doubts are raised: What I have so far accepted as true par excellence, I have got either from the senses or by means of the senses. Now I have sometimes caught the senses deceiving me; and a wise man never entirely trusts those who have once cheated him. ... I will suppose that sky, air, earth, colours, shapes, sounds and all external objects are mere delusive dreams, by means of which he lays snares for my credulity. I will consider myself as having no hands, n...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. ... Films are like dreams and dreams interpret symbolism in ways science has not even fully discovered yet. ... When we see the soldiers hands fidgeting we associate this with anxiousness or nervousness because we have done this or have seen someone else do the same when they were anxious or nervous. ... The point is this is much more effective then having the character say, "I am nervous-. ... These i! ...

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As the Black Death was making its voyage from Sicily to conquer the European countries, an eager Shakespeare might have been contemplating whether or not to write a comedy or a drama. ... This poem is about a husband's attempt to convince his wife to have children. In the sonnet, Shakespeare relies on his wife's fear of mortality in order to try to convince her to have children, achieving immortality. ... It is also the time to have a child, and pass on one's beauty and youth. ... The speaker of the poem opens with a question that is addressed to his beloved, "Shall I compar...

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I think Ultima's entry into Antonio's life will start a stressful time Antonio. ... Mária is happy to have a woman to talk to, and Antonio's two older sisters are happy to have someone to help with their chores so that they can spend more time playing together with dolls. ... I feel Antonio's fear of the llano represents his dependence on his family. ... Antonio recites the Act of Contrition as he runs home, even though I feel he doesn't fully understand its significance. ... It could also mean that they are dying because they have changed too much to settle sea...

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Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond salesman " I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everyone I knew was in the bond business- (p. 7). ... n dreams": success, money, notoriety, status, etc. ... The responses from the two women above are almost laughable in their ethereality - here are two wealthy women, having achieved portions of the American Dream (through financial wealth, property and stature) who cannot only not speak, but are seemingly paralyzed by their own trappings. ... "All rig...

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Consciousness and Control Nature of consciousness Degrees of consciousness Modes of consciousness Natural state of consciousness o Sleep o Dream Altered state of consciousness o Meditation o Hypnosis Psychoactive Drugs B. ... Narcolepsy: Sudden attacks of extreme drowsiness, often resulting in sleep o Typically for 10-20 minute sleeping spells; tends to be genetic; treated with medication Sleep Apnea: difficulty in breathing accompanied by loud snoring during sleep o Prevents restful sleep and can be fatal (i.e., throat muscles relax and block the airway) Night Terr...

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David Rodriguez AP American History 9/26/03 Presidential Outline Thomas Jefferson I. ... As for expansion, the purchase of the Louisiana Territory allowed Jefferson to achieve exactly what he had dreamed of. ... War may have been avoided, but by closing all American ports Jefferson created his own new crises. ...

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However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards the "Dark Side." ... "A Dream" is a biographical poem which charts the events of a dream which the speaker has had about her and her lover. ... In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thoug...

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Book three portrays Gloria and Anthony who have totally lost their youth, their dreams, and every last ounce of love they had for each other. ... He is a man of dreams and illusions. ... She also is possessed by phony dreams. Hers is the dream of staying beautiful . ... She simply must have a light lunch with a stuffed tomato. ...

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As a writer, I have always tried to keep at least one goal in mind: to make on paper as close as possible to what I was thinking. ... So evidently, I have written for many purposes, both academic and personal and have been inspired in many such ways. ... Where have you been in the past with your writing? ... I have yet to accomplish that goal, but I am still a writer. ... I have won no awards with my short stories, despite a few efforts to gain recognition, but I have found, in recent years, that I need no bronze-plated medal or cardstock certificate to tell me I write well. ...

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Not only this but how this affects them, their hopes and their dreams. ... She does have several dreams of a better life. ... Because her dreams fail she marries Curley. ... He hangs onto this dream for as long as he can. ... I think all those years alone have made him feel that he is always picked on and now he has the chance to pick on someone else so he does. ...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. ... Following are some of these cases as outlined by Sar Levitan in Still A Dream: Cooper v. ... Wallace said "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyrannyand I say segregation nowsegregation tomorrowsegregation forever" (Hampton 123). ... Martin Luther King had a dream, and together they would make it a reality. ...

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In the following analysis of Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For a Dream I will examine how the four elements of cinematic style affect the film's theme and the audiences responses to both the characters and the overall story. ... Speakers in this scene have approximately one sentence each and the camera only focuses on one speaker at a time. Another interesting conversation takes place between Marion and Arnold on the night they have sex. Sitting in the restaurant, Marion asks Arnold if she could borrow some money and immediately the shot changes to the couple in bed together and he swif...

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