Essays on Reality Page 5

Tillich, Dynamics of FaithThrough his 1957 thought provoking Dynamics of Faith text on religious theory, American author Paul Tillich explores deep religious issues. To be precise, the author explores the relationship between the dynamics of character and faith besides describing faith as emanating from personality. Further, the book analyses the clash between doubt and faith….

Harmony Korine is among our most enigmatic and polarizing filmmakers. His cinematic style is one of neo-realist nuance, bordering on a voyeuristic experience masquerading as an exposé, and his form of cinematic storytelling has been situated between impressionistic sociological documentary and emblematically American neo-realism. Throughout his filmography, Korine’s documentary-like technique and realist aesthetic have captured…

Ramachandran is a testimate that no matter how strange and bizarre a person’s case, there is a neurological explanation. Although Dr. Ramachandran covers many neurological cases in the book, I wish to focus on the interesting findings of phantom pregnancy (pseudocyesis) and human laughter. found these to be interesting, and they are wonderful examples of…

Every human being living on the planet Earth experiences life differently although some may argue for monism, dualism, and several other philosophies about existence and reality we all end up choosing otte, which is the best story for our life and circumstances. Rene Descartes is one of the most widely looked upon intellectual persons in…

In life, at least once, everyone has wondered why they are the way they are. How they don’t react to certain situations like that guy. That’s out traits and characteristics, we can’t choose or change them. Some people say that our character is what we choose to make of it while others believe the opposite….

The continuity-based editing and kino-eye as explained by Dziga Vertov are two very contrasting ways of filmmaking. Editing that puts continuity at the forefront is what we see most often in filmmaking, it puts all of the happenings of the film in temporal order so the plot makes sense to the viewers. Kino»eye does not…

Lucy Grealy’s “Mirrorings” is a story of a woman who experienced great physical and mental suffering for over twenty years of her life. Aged nine, Lucy was diagnosed as having facial bone cancer and surgeons removed most of the right side of her jaw. Later she had to undergo many surgeries and intensive chemotherapy and…

“Abnormality is very difficult to define. It can be hard to decide where normal behaviour ends and abnormal behaviour begins” Discuss two or more definitions of abnormality AO1 = 6 marks Knowledge and understanding of definitions of abnormality. AO2 = 6 marks Commentary on definitions of abnormality. The term ‘abnormal’ means deviating from the average….

The text from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Markheim begins with the sound of bells striking three in the afternoon in London on Christmas day. As the passage continues, it reveals the conflict faced by the protagonist Markheim, who has committed murder and must now avoid being caught for his crime. The passage describes Markheim’s heightened sense…

The boundary between that which is real and that, which is imitation or illusion has a long intellectual history. In Republic, Plato describes the state of the majority of people’s lived experience. Chained to the spot, humanity looks at shadows of artifacts cast by the light of a fire. It is only when they turn…