It is not enough to think about something, you have to bring it to life to give it some sort of meaning to you. ... Taking the first steps to bring the dream into a reality is the hardest part. ... You could give thought to success having no physical evidence to it or that it is not a living thing. ... I wanted to raise my children and I knew that having a demanding career would not allow me to grow with them the way I wanted to. ... My rules were simple; treat others the way you would like to be treated, the golden rule, that I learned as a child that has had the strength to carry me to a suc...

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Since you have probably gotten a bunch of movie reports on 1) the action or 2) the religious symbolism, and I don't really want to write about those things, I am going to write about my thoughts after watching the movie. A few key things: The Matrix=dreaming=heaven How many times have you had a dream where you have brought back to life somebody that you had known before they died? ... Have you ever had a friend who was mad at you, but in a dream everything was ok between the two of you? ... Now I have come up with another question. ... Back to the "If I think, therefore I am- arg...

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He observes that when you dream you usually assume that if you pinch yourself during a dream you will wake up, or if it hurts you aren't dreaming, but he asks, could it be you are dreaming the hurt from the pinch? ... Does the pain actually exist or are you only dreaming of the pain in your dream? ... This is how be comes up with the idea that we do not have thoughts for ourselves and that anything that we believe or perceive to be "real" is actually a dream implanted in our heads by an evil-demon. ... "Cogito, ergo sum" I think, therefore I am. ... But others have reinterpreted his t...

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"I paid the man thirty-five hundred dollars down on the house. ... "And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father- he earned it for us brick by brick." ... First they would each have to pitch in and pay 10,000 dollars to cover the first fees along with down payment. ... " All the dreams I had "bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back- (Pg 45) They never moved into that little house so the way for her to have her garden was through a little plant that she had. ... " I bet this time next month y"all's names will hav...

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I feel as though if I would have applied the knowledge that I've acquired in this book to many of my past actions and situations I could have prevented many things from occurring. ... I am a very firm believer in the fact that dreams and visions are real. I am a dreamer that has accomplished every dream and vision that I have set for myself. There are still many dreams and visions that I haven't achieved, but I know that with self motivation, persistence and drive I can achieve them. ... I literally didn't even have the willpower to get out of bed. ...

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First, I will introduce and explain the two types of art styles that I have personally categorized, the materialistic and the unmaterialistic, along with analyzing their characteristics and differences. ... Moving up the scale of materialistic representation, we have Stone-Breakers (Courbet, 1849) to the right, a Realist work. ... Indeed, this is what Pollock stated: "When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.... How can I relate to them? ...

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I am one of those few depressed individuals who have experienced some of the worst of what the mind can create. ... As I froze in the middle of nowhere I lost myself to dream. ... To this day I think I would have had not He interceded. ... Life does have joy in it. ... Through Him and in Him I have found joy amidst the troubled thoughts of my misguided mind. ...

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Being a Filipino, I know the culture more or less so I did not have to adjust that much to the characters because I am already familiar in a way with them. ... Amando is ambitious and he told Tinang of his dreams of studying Mechanical Engineering in the city and then of course, it was revealed in the letter that Amando also dreamed of being with Tinang forever. ... Tinang likes to dream about "the happy life- so much that sometimes, she forgets the world she is currently living in. ... In the end, I get caught up in all the schoolwork I neglected and I end up having such a hard time sorting o...

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Fitzgerald's characters in "Winter Dreams" and Great Gatsby had money, but not satisfaction throughout their life. ... They would be depressed and have to live on the streets. ... Providing all of the things above that can be satisfying Nick, Gatsby, and Dexter are three characters from Great Gatsby and "Winter Dreams", that would have an opinion on them. ... Nick, on himself: "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known". Gatsby is a firm believer in the American Dream of self-made success....

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So we might be dreaming the whole thing because there is no evidence possible that all is not a dream. Descartes realizes that someone may not accept that all of the elements of our dreams may be illusory, so he says that God would deceive us. ... The fact that I doubt can't be doubted. ... So he concludes that he exists because he thinks: "Cogito ergo sum," I think, therefore I exist. ... God, having no cause Himself, is then the first cause. ...

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Human activities, such as, reasoning, creating, or dreaming are private; we assume they happen, but we can't see them. ... Have you ever felt sad or angry but did not know why? ... Sleep (and dreaming) is another form of consciousness. Freud saw dreams as images of symbolic expressions of powerful unconscious, repressed wishes. ... " I think therefore I am" may be somewhat of an overstatement, but not by much....

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As the narrator is wandering in a dream-like world, he is startled to see two lovers in the distance. ... The two lovers are connected to each other in a way that only they can comprehend because they have reached the end of their journey. ... As the narrator continues on he begins to liberate himself: I see, and sing, but my own eyes inspired. ... Like the butterfly, there are different stages of transformation that take place throughout ones life and they can have a direct impact on decisions and life choices. ... He is caught between the real world where emotions have to be deal...

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I can relate to Alice Munroe's short stories because I have encountered many of the same experiences as Munroe and her characters have. ... For example in the story "Prue," Prue states, "I present my life in anecdotes, and though it is the point of most anecdotes that hopes are dashed, dreams ridiculed, things never turn out as expected, everything is always altered in a bizarre way and there is no explanation ever"(372). ... In instances in my life I have found that I exclude myself from certain situations or social functions much like Munroe's characters find themselves excluded fr...

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We all want to have a life full of success. ... We need to learn how to be relentless and persistent in visualizing our goals and dreams of achievement. ... The best place for me is when I am in the shower. ... Through my research I have developed some important steps to take, to become successful. ... Not only do you have the satisfaction of looking forward to your big dream, but you can also enjoy smaller successes along the way. ...

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Everyone ought to have a hobby to allow themselves to have an escape from reality, this is not the same as your "happy place" previously motioned. ... As a child people are told to 'follow their dreams' and 'do what you love most' and when you do not achieve these dreams and one is stuck in a dreadful job it can cause someone to have lost/unable to find true happiness. ... I completely agree with what the Epicureans believed. ... When people say afterlife, I consider that being your body is reincarnated in another human being; this concept is not what I agree wi...

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For example, before the performance of the play Hamlet explains to Horatio, "There is a play tonight before the Williams 3 king: / One scene of it comes near the circumstance / Which I have told thee of my father's death. / I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, / Even with the very comment of thy soul / Observe my uncle. ... To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. (3.1.56-66) In other soliloquies Hamlet explores the faults of passion and how emotions can be faked as well as his own character flaws such ...

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In order to have a tragic fault, the hero/heroin must be an above average character so that when they fall, it seems more dramatic. ... By heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me, I say, away-(I:iv). ... This choice is the more noble one according to Hamlet, "To die, to sleep- To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come-, "Thus conscience makes a coward of us all-(III:i). ... And so I am revenged. ... Hamlet is a highly reactive character but does not ever seem to have a certain plan by which to accomplish his goal of killing...

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In my term paper, I will be focusing on specific passages from Meditations on First Philosophy, which was written in 1641. ... Like authority though, Descartes discards the senses as a source of truth because of the "Dream Argument" or the belief that based on the senses there is no definite way of proving that you are dreaming or that you are awake. ... Descartes articulates this belief in the statement, "I"m aware that I"m aware." ... Based on this "Causal" proof he says, " I have the idea of a perfect being, and that idea has to have a cause, and since I am imperfect, the idea has t...

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He realises that all of his knowledge is based on the senses but that these senses have often deceived him. ... He even brings into doubt our beliefs of the existence of our own bodies, using the example of dreams to show that we sometimes think we are awake when we are actually asleep. Here I can see a problem in his thought. It is true that your mind may be tricked into thinking that you are dreaming. ... After having claimed that the senses can deceive us at any time, Descartes moves on to more certain truths. ...

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Hallucinogenic drugs like LSD and psilocybin have been embedded in the roots of human evolution. ... Leary wrote of what would be come his spiritual experience with psilocybin: "I began to feel strange. ... I gave way to the delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world -- so manifestly real -- was actually a tiny stage set constructed by the mind. ... But the dream of Leary's peaceful, spiritual world living with drugs would come crashing down. ... The dream Leary had for a freethinking world with mind-expanding drug...

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The sky was dark. I was sure that a rain's about to come. I had no choice but to settle inside my room. I was watching the hands of the clock move as time passed by. Raindrops were loudly pouring outside. The day was awfully boring. I suddenly felt the urge to write a story. There's a music video I'...

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My lifelong dream of being a soldier were just demolished in a matter of seconds. ... Even though I felt depressed and lonely I refused to leave my room for anything other than my job and having to use the bathroom. ... I may have left my depression and loneliness behind me, but excepting my situation meant I had another dilemma. ... Now that I look back on how I went from losing myself in depression to starting on my journey to become a surgeon; I can't help but think what would have happened if Tanner wouldn't have convinced me to leave my room. ... Thankfully I will never have kn...

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My whole life I have known I was different. ... I tell my story to anyone who will hear, hoping someone would believe me or say that they have experienced the same things. My name is Cynthia and I have been involved with aliens since I was 5 years old, here's my story. ... I sat frozen in my seat hoping I was just napping and this was a dream because it was no way this could be real. ... I knew only my father would have this. ...

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The imaginative journey follows no set course, but a path that is decided on by the individual, and can change as it goes depending on the persons past experiences, personality, goals and dreams for the future. Each decision made is a fork in the road, and both cannot be taken, "I doubted if I should ever come back"(The Road Not Taken). ... "off the beaten path I reign"(Wherever I May Roam), The story of Wherever I May Roam also follows no set course, with the individual following a path for a while and then straying from the path and trusting themselves to go the right way to wherever ...

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DesCartes stated that he had no way of being certain that everything he perceived was nothing more than something he created subconsciously in his mind, such as a in dream. This theory fails because dreams are built on knowledge we have of the external world, on bits and pieces of our real experience. ... His theory states that "I have found within myself the concept of God". ... He deduced that "I doubt, therefore I think, and therefore I am"." ... All people should have satisfied desires. ...

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