Essays on Fictions

“Capitalism as a System of Expectations: Toward a Sociological Microfoundation of Political Economy” by Jens Beckert

What the Article is About This article is about how capitalism thrives by managing expectations. Beckert develops an approach he calls sociological fictionalism. According to sociological fictionalism it is the future that shapes the present. Images of the future shape present decisions. It focuses its attention on the role of imaginaries of future states of the world as an important element in explaining present action. The relationship between society and markets is that of managing expectations.

Methods

This article relies on the theoretical method. It uses literature research. It is a theory building paper that relies on literature from several ...

Reality involves the manner in which events occur in a practical scenario. Fiction incorporates perception of occurrences without considering their ability to take place in the manner explained. Imperatively, these explanations can merit constituting the broader aspect of opinions. In literature world, the determination of an explanation as being truth or fiction depends on its comparison with the happenings in the real world scenarios. In a given piece, the involvement of fiction focuses on the purpose of emphasis as well as the depiction of extremes within the boundaries of possibilities in each situation. The reality is contrary to the fictional aspect ...

EXPLORE 'THE LANGUAGE OF CLOTHES AND BODILY ADORNMENT' IN AT LEAST TWO EXAMPLES DRAWN FROM CULTURE (E.G. FICTION, FILM, MEDIA, DIGITAL MEDIA ETC). YOU MIGHT LIKE TO START BY FIRSTLY EXPLAINING YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF 'LANGUAGE' IN THIS CONTEXT Communication is the key and critical part of our daily lives and the activities that we engage in our lives. Entertainment industry in general that include fiction, media and film among others besides bringing fun to our lives it also communicates and pass on messages that educate, caution or inform its audience on the various themes that the particular piece ...

One of the most complicated machines in the world is human brain. Human beings have often pondered about its complexity and the beauty of its functioning. Man wanted to create an object that can think as similar as man. An object which can replicate the functioning of the human brain and give out the desired results. This innocuous desire of man has been the stepping stone for inventing a branch of study- Artificial Intelligence. The name as it seems, is not a very new concept. It has been in the minds of people ever since they began thinking. The evidence ...

Intercultural Communication

Before the arrival of the Portuguese in the year 1500, Amerindian people stayed in Brazil who spoke different languages. There were around six million Indians in Brazil who spoke 1,000 different languages. After arriving the Portuguese settlers encountered the Tupi people, who then controlled most of the Brazilian coast and used to speak a set of closely related languages. The Portuguese were called "Tapuias", by the Tupi people. In the first two centuries of colonization, a language known as ‘Línguageral’ was widely spoken by all, from Amerindians, Portuguese to the African and their descendants, and a vast area from Sao ...

Rene Descartes had a philosophical treatise published in 1647 called the meditations on the first philosophy (Statile et al. 2010, pp.548). His book has six different meditations that include meditation of the things called doubt, meditation of the nature of the human mind, meditation of the existence of God, meditation that concerns true and false, meditation that concerns the importance of the material things, and the meditation that concerns the differences between mind and body.

First Meditation: Doubtful Things

This mediation called skeptical doubts starts as the mediator makes a reflection on some of the beliefs during his lifetime that now he attest as falsehoods. ...

Horror is a literature genre is intended or has the capability to scare or frighten an individual reading the piece of literature. Reading any piece of horror story is capable of creating an eerie of scary atmosphere. They are classified as supernatural or non-supernatural, like ghosts and vampires are supernatural while serial killers are no-supernatural. More often than not this genre is always referred to a metaphor because it brings fear to the society as vampires and ghosts. This paper seeks to discuss all about the horror story genre, the history around the fictions and how many writers have influenced the ...

English

Aimee Bender’s fictions are symbolic of human emotions and struggles largely analogized and formed through fairy-tale representations. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is by and large in the same vein and is a collection of short stories that seems to suggest a narration by a teenage girl. On reading The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, in each of the short stories, the one common moral and that is one of trauma interlocked with pittance. The story about a young girl who comes home to find her dad carrying a backpack which seems to resemble a bag made of stones is intriguing. In the ...

The historical evolution path that led to the development of computers had a strong bearing in determining and explaining the strategy that America employed in its military during the period of cold war and largely serves as mythological representation of our perceptions of the future. The mainframe computers are icons that brought America into what we know of it today (super-power).Edwards in his book, ‘The closed World’, tries to develop an argument that computers played an important practical role in the cold war defense and also served to provide support, technological in nature, in the different discourses that were key ...

What is Descartes’ “method of doubt”? How does this method lead to the “I think” as a starting point of philosophy?

Introduction:

The Descartes‘s method of doubt which a basic aim and strategy of defeating skepticism on their own ground. This method approaches each situation by doubting it first. The method involves doubting all aspects including the truths, cultural presumptions as well as evidences of the senses of the argument. The method also doubts the whole process of reasoning .This skeptical challenge aims at ensuring that those arguments that pass the test are the ones which bears a strong foundation of knowledge ...

“The things they carried” is a uniquely put together story by Tim O’Brien that is partially fiction and non-fictitious. This is a work that narrates events from the Vietnam War according to Tim O’Brien. Tim O’Brien is the writer of this work. Since he went and fought in the Vietnam War, it is evident that he used his own experiences as inspirations for this book. However, O’Brien maintains that the story is a fictions account of what actually happened at Vietnam (Bloom, 20). O’Brien uses the Alpha Company as the focus of his story. The story ...

In the ancient times travelling was meant for pleasure where people could plan a trip and enjoy the natural features, resources, and other historical sites. Today travelling writing has been converted into an industry, evidenced with the increasing number of travelling facilities. Travelling has created different emotions that make people think of money and not leisure as it was before. In addition, the tourism sector is being exploited by many nations who have good sceneries by changing the industry into the money making organizations. Travelling has changed into a business where people travel with objectives of capturing the attractive objects and ...

This paper explores the literary works of Vidal Gore. It does this by beginning with a short citation of this great author, his writings and finally, giving an in depth analysis of his 2001 published, The Last Century.

Vidal gore, a fourth child in the family of five was born on 3rd/10/1925 at the United States Military Army in West Point, New York, USA. His father worked in this academy as the first US aeronautical instructor. However, Gore was later raised in Washington DC where he went to Sidwell Friends School and Albans School. In 1939, he relocated to France to ...

Abstract

In the present paper, the issue of child development is discussed from the perspective of media influence on each stage of child’s growth. The main aim of this paper is to explore how modern technology of media influences human development, particularly on the early stages. In this context, the central thesis is an exploration of how media influences children development in each stage and how it contributes to the children’s socialization and their place in society. Subsequently, the main attention is paid to the psychological processes that take place in the early childhood and how they are ...

“Everyday Use” By Alice Walker

Introduction

On the book review of “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, different authors have expressed their views on the themes and symbolism expressed in the novel. I will discuss on the viewpoints of the different authors and compare to see whether there are any similarities and differences. The novel is written by an African American. It is set at a time in American history when the black community was trying to understand its identity.

Analysis of the Book Reviews

David White in 2001 published an article titled, “Everyday Use: Defining African-American Heritage” in the Purdue North Central Literary Journal where he discussed the theme of ...