Essays on Reality

Bertrand Russell once asked, “IS there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? ” (Can, 2012) In his own method, he believed this to be false; after all, everyone perceives the world differently than the person next to them. By using a table as an example,…

In order to counter the unreality of Ibsen and the bleakness of Chekhov, John M. Synge has chosen a seemingly unbelievable story to create his realist masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World. Its realism comes from two unlikely sources: joy and a far-fetched tale. Yet, as Synge identifies himself in the preface, these elements…

Summary Pankaj Ghemawat’s article, “Distance Still Matters: The Hard Reality of Global Expansion” discusses the reasons and rationale that drive companies to over-estimate profit potential in foreign markets. Ghemawat analyzes the failures of different companies’ (News Corp, Tricon Restaurants, etc.. ) foreign expansion endeavors to determine what these failures had in common. From his analysis,…

The story of Candide, “Eldorado” and what the meaning is, has been one of debate as to what Voltaire was interpreting in the story by some authors. The scene of Eldorado is the visual philosophy of Voltaire’s thoughts of what an ideal society would be. It is a land of richness and where there is…

A consideration of how Emily Bronte, Tennessee Williams and Shakespeare consider the notion of illusion and reality in the context of a love story. Wuthering Heights follows the Romantic Movement, a movement within literature during the late 18th century with captured intense emotion and passion within writing as opposed to rationalisation. Emily Bronte’s main focal…

They need this cream to stop their skin from aging or breaking out. They need this conditioner to have sexy, soft hair. They need these pills to lose weight. They need these clothes to look slimmer. According to the American College of Obstetricians, “the physical images presented in media programming and advertising can be unhealthy…

Who is to say whether someone should or should not be selfish? Many people will say it is wrong to be selfish, but where does this notion come from, and why should we care? Two very distinctive views of selfishness are shown in the essay’s “The unselfishness Trap” by Harry Browne and “The Objective Basis…

What is meant by „secularization“ by Jose Casanova in his book “Public religions in the Modern World”? In his book “Public religion in the Modern World”, Jose Casanova tests the theory of secularization and analyses and explains how religion became public again. In his opinion the role of religion started to shift dominantly into the…

I believe we each perceive things differently, and the combination of all our perceptions creates how we view the world, creates our reality. I m not going to pretend to know what reality is, but I know what I think it is, and what I think it should be. Reality should be what each and…

The Crying of Lot 49 helps illustrate the concept of Hyperreality. Philosopher, Jean Baudrillard developed the theory and elaborated on it in his essay “Simulacra and Simulations. ” Baudrillard uses his Stimulation Theory to examine how the mass media uses images to explain the way postmodernism takes real meaning from one’s life and replaces it…