The main focus will be the traces of Freud's ideas on the "Life and Death Drives", "Guilt Complex", "Fixation", "Sublimation", "Dream work" and "Ideal Female complex" in this short story. ... The whole thing happening in the story will be presented as a dream analysis of the narrator. ... Introduction Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.... A few of the recurrent themes and motifs in his writings are, death, horror, dream like atmospheres, murder. ... A time of revolution and rea...

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Ultima uses Catholic terms in her explanations to Antonio since Antonio is trying to make sense of Lupito's death within a Catholic outline. ... The dream also reveals Antonio's developing awareness of his own mortality. However the dream is somewhat confusing because it has multiple meanings. ... Antonio's dream in Chapter 7, in which his brothers are three giants who ask for his "saving hand," is also a very confusing dream. ... She continually contrives to show Antonio how his radically different heritages can coexist harmoniously within him. ...

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As Clayton Koelb has shown in The Incredulous Reader, dialogical opposition can fold untruth within truth, disbelief within belief, in a virtually endless regress. ... He takes us across the threshold between foppish Southern existence and the earthier ways of the Yorkshire moors; between present and past; between waking and dream, civilized and natural. ... Within Wuthering Heights, from start to finish, power relations seem to be in chronic flux: neither Joseph nor Zillah appear to function as domestics, they function as quasi-autonomous power figures in their own right "and Joseph, it ...

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Alexie uses the powers of dreams in Reservation Blues to portray the oppressive relationship between white people and Native Americans and the continued destruction of Native Americans and their culture. Throughout these dreams Alexie portrays the underhand tactics employed by white people in order to slaughter and oppress the Native Americans. ... The reader is also given insight into how religion and faith are against the Native Americans to further oppress them, as recounted by Father Arnold when the missionaries instill a dishonest fear within the Native Americans under the guise of God. ....

• Word Count: 2551
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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and fate; of lust and power, of monsters of the deep unconscious and of unknown but overwhelming beings which fill our nights with nightmarish dreams and make us fear our sleep, but which, rightly used, can be fruitfully integrated into our personality. ... HADFIELD The essence of the Frankenstein...

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"Black as my soul." (158) was Lang's response to the interviewer's question when the interviewer Power asked him in 1973, "How do you take your coffee?" (158). This response is characteristic of the dark underlying tone that is prevalent in many Lang's films. According to Professor Polan, many Lang's films share a recurring theme - destiny, a destiny which is typically random and uncaring. ...

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It was a small house with crumbling bricks, small windows, no front yard, no trees, hallway stairs, one washroom, and everyone had to share a bedroom. (4) The house on Mango Street did not live up to Esperanza's standards of her dream house. ... Since only Cisneros hears this voice, it demonstrates how, similar to a child, she "ha[s] created a phantasy [s]he takes very seriously- that is, which [s]he invests with large amounts of emotion-while separating it sharply from reality" (Freud, Day-Dreaming 143). ... The work itself exhibits elements of the recent provoking occasion as ...

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My personal and work experiences have impacted my motivation to accomplish all my dreams. In the future, I would love to influence another generation of students to also achieve their dreams. ... Also through my experiences, I have not only identified my dreams, but also fostered dreams and goals that will benefit others. ... My hope and dream is to become a school counselor, so I can personally work to engage students in school in order to help them succeed outside of school. ...

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For example, "ghost sickness" is an experience that is described as a preoccupation with death and/or the deceased that can lead to symptoms bad dreams, loss of appetite, fear, and anxiety (Christensen, 2001). ... Kim seeks counseling outside the community as well as a traditional healer within the community. ...

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As readers, we can see these strengths brilliantly manifested within the poetry and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. ... The poetry itself is a catalyst for Keats's obvious intentions between two opposing escapisms- into unconsciousness and into a painful acceptance of intense life- is replayed within the poetry with immediate effect. ... "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? ... As scepticism reasserts itself, the poet is drawn back from the timelessness of the dream and into the temporal. ... What becomes obvious in reading these poems is Keats...

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It was magnificent dream dreamed by leading capitalist of colonial India. "He dreamed of a place where men and women could be farmers in the morning, poets in the afternoon and carpenters in the evening." But, unfortunately, his dream did not come true. ... It is was through Kusum and her relative, Horen Naskar, that Nirmal came to know about, and was ultimately involved in, the unique experiment of a large number of East Bengali refugees to re-invent themselves and establish a classless, egalitarian society in the one of the uninhabited islands of the Sundarbans, named Morich Jha...

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They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). ... Laxdla saga is united by Gur n's dream and the four marriages it presages, together with the fateful relationship between the cousins Kjartan and Bolli. ... Within the greater arch there may be sub-conflicts, each with its own shape, and/or different strands of conflict may be interlaced. ... Within the saga, characters who will figure prominently in the action are typically given formal introductions summarising their place ...

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Those fortunate enough to possess money are those who finance the dreams of those who are only rich in ideas, the most valuable commodity. This coupling is the very basis for capitalism and the American dream. Many experience the American dream and simultaneously, make their first and only real estate investment, unwittingly. ... Homes are the cornerstone of the American dream, and lending institution are predisposed and almost required to make loans to sponsors these roofed piggybanks. ...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...

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He even argued that there is a thin line that separates the walking state from the dreaming state – meaning, we cannot be actually certain whether as of the moment we are imagining or not. Descartes argued that on many occasions, he had actually thought that he was awake when in reality he was merely dreaming. It is possible, according to him that our whole life could be a dream. ... The mere fact that he was uncertain whether he is dreaming or awake manifests that he is in a state of doubt. ...

• Word Count: 4771
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Homelessness Among the Young: Law Enforcement and Runaway Juveniles. Abstract Throughout my paper, I discussed the question of what it means to be homeless. Several characteristics of this heterogeneous population are mentioned, as well as estimates of the group. Why is it that juveniles are...

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On a simple level it acts as a foil to heighten the sense of dire misery within the 'curs'd walls' of London (l. 37), yet, it can also be seen as a utopian dream; a 'vanity of human wishes'.10 The first purpose becomes evident at the start of the poem, when it is asked, 'For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? ... His is a work of imitation, not translation; as Andrew Varney notes 'Johnson is not Juvenal [] Satire III is the starting-point of Johnson's poem and not its destination...

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This theory states that the European integration policy making relies within the members of the European Union. ... The stability and growth pact also covers the government deficit which is the amount by which government spending exceeds government income within a given year. ... With the Economic Integration on route, the single currency could most likely be a very massive dream that came true. ...

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While "Dream" (my adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") was poorly staged, shabbily designed, and narratively messy, the production achieved something I have yet to achieve again. ... These younger audience members seemed amazed, and even shocked, by how much they had enjoyed "Dream". ... The reasons for the attraction to "Dream" for young, and less theatrically experienced, audience members are easily speculated upon. ... By the second weekend, Dream had received a great deal of word-of-mouth publicity among members of my age cohort for being completely different from the stale, bor...

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Many of these provoke a necessary analytical skepticism to underlying issues of society within their work. ... Her ignorance is the cause of her constant unhappiness, that is only at times relived through romantic affairs she has with men that manipulate her sexually and provide to her what she's always dreamed of. ...

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When Eva was fifteen years old, a tango singer named, Agustin Magaldi came to Junin to perform, a few days later, Eva left with him for Buenos Aires and the opportunity to realize her dream of becoming an actress. ... It was a very small part though and troubled by ill-health and few roles, it seemed that Eva's dream of becoming an actress would never be realized. ... Within a few months, she became a different person- Evita. ...

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This essay will explain that the origins of the Six Day War was a combination of domestic and external factors on both Israeli and Arab sides including: pre-war provocations and Palestinian guerrilla attacks, divisions within the Israeli government, the Arab League and the "water wars "; with Syria being the primarily belligerent actor against Israel. ... For Eshkol, control of the water ways was vital for Israeli survival, otherwise ˜the Zionist dream could not be realized'.7 However, this "dream " threatened Syria and Jordan as it would significantly reduce water available to t...

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Question: "We are as real people, unfinished and full of blankness and jumble; only in our own illusioning fantasy are we complete." (Iris Murdoch). Discuss. Introduction Famous author Iris Murdoch wrote "We are as real people, unfinished and full of blankness and jumble; only in our own...

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American narratives about crime and ethnicity have often dealt with the difficulties of finding the American dream of personal freedom, and the voice over opening for Vanishing Son's credit sequence summarizes this succinctly: Running from oppression, yearning for freedom, he came to America. ... Losing his brother, Wa-Go (Chi-Muoi Lo), to the excesses of capitalism represented by an Asian criminal gang, Jian-Wa's dream of freedom has turned on him, and, helped by his brother's ghost, he continues on his quest for some sort of resolution as the series follows him on his journ...

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Bringing together the works of Said, Loti, and many other important literary sources, I will look critically at the historical interaction between the West and ˜The Rest' and analyze key subtopics including but not limited to; geopolitical issues, bi-orientalism, how the views of the Orient have changed throughout time, multifaceted issues within The Orient, and why the West is so interested in The Orient. Throughout his novel, Said identifies several dangerous assumptions made by the West about the Orient that had the chance, given the influence of the West over the past 2000 ye...

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