Research Paper In recent decades, critics of American society have often attacked its materialistic aspect; Americans are portrayed as superficial and shallow. However, as history and literature demonstrate, immediate impressions are not always true. The way things appear may not be how they truly are because the positives have overshadowed the bad, an aspect may have been hidden, or the viewers may have be blinded to the truth. The Gilded Age, in the late 1800's, …showed first 75 words of 900 total…

…showed last 75 words of 900 total…things often appear different from what they are intentionally; humans, blinded or impressed, may not see the truth behind the object. If we learn to look beyond the ways things are, we would be able to discern their true essence and the duality of many objects. Humans, then, could use that understanding for the better. Works Cited <Tab/>Isolation and Development in the Pacific". Tokyo: Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies; 1987: 191-206.