In this writing piece, Rawls gives his interpretation of the "California dream", as well as identifies the paradoxes that are often associated with that same dream. ... The essayist imagines his readers envisioning pictures of gorgeous tanned women, sunny days and cool nights and of course Malibu Barbie when thinking about the California dream. Rawls also notes the promises that the California dream is said to make as well as identify the freedom that apparently comes along with this dream. ... This time he continues with now looking at the paradoxes that are the California dream. ... Rawls f...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the very first scene and conversation in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the notion of dreams foreshadows the major underlying concept of the play, the suggestion that it is all merely a dream. ... Hippolyta encourages them by saying, "Four nights will quickly dream away the time." There's that word "dream." ... And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream." Again, Puck reinforces the dream's role as a "medicine" by asking the possibly offended audience to pretend that they had simply fallen asleep and "visions did appear" in their dreams. ...

• Word Count: 1500
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sleep is a complicated experience in which there are several alternating stages: deep sleep, which is known as REM sleep, during which a person dreams, and light sleep. ... Therefore, alcoholics and some people who have stopped drinking even long before, complain about disturbed sleep, frightening dreams and insomnia. ... If a buildup of nights with poor sleep are experienced, alcohol can disrupt the person's normal sleep cycle, which is vital for overall health. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The result of Victor's experiment banished any hopes of the "beauty of the dream" that Victor had of his creature. ... He worked with objects that is viewed as revolting and spent days and nights in churchyards, charnel houses and vaults, collecting remains of dead bodies, in places of dark and ghostly atmosphere. ... He stretches the limits of conventions, and pursues a dream that seems to be too extraordinary to achieve, and when he does, he is miserable and guilty. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Momma points out to a dream she had where Dee and her got to reunite on what seems to be the late night johnny Carson Show. ... She then sadly eludes to the fact that in this dream, she does not appear in her normal simple physical appearance, but rather she is portrayed in the way Dee wants her to look, "a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake as my hair glistens in the hot bright lights" (Walker 327). ... Whether it is the unbearable pain of childbirth or the restless nights caring for their sick children, mothers carry a special place in all of our hearts. ...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this scene, Enkidu is presented with a woman and after seven days and seven nights together, Enkidu is completely changed, becoming civilized and abandoning his days roaming with the wild animals. ... From the very beginning of the story, Ninsun helps interpret Gilgamesh's dreams, which leads to Gilgamesh having the confidence to complete quests like destroying Humbaba. ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When asked to think of a topic for this paper I thought to myself, "Well, let me write about something that I'm really interested in- I was at a loss, the problem being that there's TOO much I'm interested in. So, I thought, "Well, what do I really like?" ICE CREAM! And who doesn't? Therefore, ...

• Word Count: 1851
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 3377
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Julia Roberts says in Pretty Woman "It's not like anybody plans this; it's not your childhood dream" no woman ever thinks as a child"I want to be a hooker when I grow up". ...

• Word Count: 2641
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Lacan treated the unconscious as a language and viewed the dream as a form of discourse" (169). ... Victor describes to Walton time spent observing "decay and corruption of the human body," "to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses" (56). ...

• Word Count: 2532
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One example Thoreau uses is railroad, as he mentions "Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour...If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads? ... To his eyes, every steps of men in pursuit of wealth and happiness seemed meaningless and frustrating, that if he had a chance to hear about the American Dream, he would have had pity for the ones who admired it. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract The laser eye surgery depends, in large part, on the quality of the preoperative evaluation and refraction. Before scheduling a patient for surgery, the ophthalmologist must ensure that the patient understands the potential risks of the procedure and has realistic expectations for the pos...

• Word Count: 2139
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to do this Victor has to spend many nights observing the bodies at the charnel houses. ... Upon realizing that his hopes and dreams are crushed, the creature sincerely states: But it is true that I am wretch. ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Eva Luna noticed, the life in the house of La Senora was like "floating on a cloud-; days and nights changed places, sweets substituted regular meals, smell of perfumes successfully covered the truth about where the money was coming from (126). ... Mimi's magnificence is felt through the pages of the book; she lives her dream - transformed - accepted and admired. ...

• Word Count: 2213
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The gods do not intervene directly, but Enkidu, who is their creation, fulfills his task of protecting Gilgamesh by interpreting his dreams and also by urging him to deal the killing blows. Gilgamesh also reveals an importaffnt aspect of his personality in his reactions to these dreams, and Enkidu serves to put them in a practical perspective for Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh's recurrent interpretation of his dreams seems to be defeat and death at the hands of Humbaba, his greatest fear and greatest challenge yet. ...

• Word Count: 4256
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the 1970's, bands such as "Dead Boys," the "Voidoids," and "The Ramones," were right at the core of punk, and poets and authors like Patti Smith and Jim Carroll composed prose and verse that critiqued society and the so-called "American Dream"." ... On many nights painted glitter dolls thronged the bar, decked in drag and finery. ...

• Word Count: 3241
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate