With the declaration of American Independence in 1776, there emerges a new spirit namely ‘American Dream’. This paper intends to show the consequences of hankering after the ‘American Dream’ in the lives of Willy Loman and Tommy Wilhelm in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day respectively. These two persons find themselves under a constant pressure of obtaining so...

Ironic control theory proposes that suppressing thoughts leads to increased occurrence of the suppressed thought because monitoring for the unwanted thought leads to intrusions. This study investigated the influence of suppressing unwanted thoughts on dream content. One hundred participants who had high or low levels of tendency to suppress unwanted thoughts nominated an intrusive thought, and ...

in the popular tale " Ozma of Oz, " Lyman Frank Baum describes the princess Langwidere, who is capable of interchanging her currently worn head with another one, using a collection of heads stored in a cabinet. Remarkably, she changes her character as well when putting a new head on her neck. in the December 15, 2012 issue of Cell Cycle, Kurt Engeland and colleagues report a similar phenomenon ...

in the popular tale " Ozma of Oz, " Lyman Frank Baum describes the princess Langwidere, who is capable of interchanging her currently worn head with another one, using a collection of heads stored in a cabinet. Remarkably, she changes her character as well when putting a new head on her neck. in the December 15, 2012 issue of Cell Cycle, Kurt Engeland and colleagues report a similar phenomenon ...

We encode arbitrary finite impartial combinatorial games in terms of lattice points in rational convex polyhedra. Encodings provided by these lattice games can be made particularly efficient for octal games, which we generalize to squarefree games. These additionally encompass all heap games in a natural setting, in which the Sprague–Grundy theorem for normal play manifests itself geometrically...

We introduce Wubble World, a virtual environment for learning situated language. In Wubble World children create avatars, called “wubbles,” which can interact with other children’s avatars through free-form spontaneous play or structured language games. Wubbles can also learn language from direct interaction with children, since the system uses principles from developmental psychology to restri...

PURPOSE To explore associations between dream recall, gender, sleep, perceived stress, and creativity in a large sample of adolescents. In adults, women report a higher frequency of dream recall than men. Moreover, increased awakenings seem to increase dream recall, whereas low sleep quality is associated with low dream recall. In addition, there is some evidence that dream recall is associated...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a major inducer of skin aging and accumulated exposure to UV radiation increases DNA damage in skin cells, including dermal fi broblasts. In the present study, we developed a novel DNA repair regulating material discovery (DREAM) system for the high-throughput screening and identifi cation of putative materials regulating DNA repair in skin cells. First, we establi...

We previously reported that college students who indicated engaging in frequent dream-enacting behaviors also scored high on a new measure of mirror behaviors, which is the propensity to imitate another person's emotions or actions. Since dream-enacting behaviors are frequently the culmination of nightmares, one explanation for the observed relationship is that individuals who frequently displa...

The merits of Freudian dream theory continue to be debated and both supporters and critics appeal to empirical evidence to support their respective positions. What receives much less attention is the theoretical coherency of either Freudian dream theory or alternative perspectives. This paper examines Freudian dream theory and J. Allan Hobson's alternative position by addressing the role of mot...