The article “On Sale at Old Navy: Cool Clothes for Identical Zombies!” written by Damien Cave explains how as a society we are swayed by the flash of big corporations and in turn are loosing what real culture we have left. Damien Cave starts the article off with a scenario showing a man named “Thomas Frank”. As Frank walks by a heavily decorated Old Navy he shows his disgust saying ”Oh God, this is disgusting”. Thomas Frank is a pioneering social critic, writing articles on how businesses adopted “cool anti-corporate culture”. As the article progresses we find that these businesses offer nothing more than poor quality merchandise at a low price, and the consumer is lured in by the promise of quality for less. Stores such as Old Navy and Ikea use marketing tricks to keep it's customer coming back for more. Ikea sets it's store up like a maze where the exit is placed only at the registers, the room models persuade the consumer they need everything they see. Old Navy hands out extra large shopping bags as a gesture of good customer service but can influence over spending. Damien Cave brings these issues up so that we the reader are aware of such trickery used by certain chain businesses. Society is so accustomed to these marketing schemes we don't realize we are replicating each others homes but in different variations; we can all buy the same sofa and not notice. We are lead to believe that we can find happiness in our belongings but that is far from the truth. This merchandise is poor in quality and can cause us to spend more in the end on replacements and repairs. These companies are scamming the general public into believing they are getting a deal and in return we are getting cookie cutter home…
1. There are Native Sycamore trees that are planted on the south side. The south side also allows the sun in the winter time to go through windows which creates heat to the concreate floor.…
Bellamar Caves are a National Monument that is located in Matanzas, Cuba, they are a set of cave with more than 23 kilometers of galleries. By the beauty of its gallery and caves, they were declared a National Monument. The galleries and passages of the cave started forming about 300 thousand years ago. According to the studies the caves were originally under the sea, part of the bat of Matanzas. While they were under sea level, these caves were full of water. The tectonic movements caused the area to rise, until it became marine terraces are noticed in the city of Matanzas and its surroundings. With the pass of the time these caves were drying up, but some pockets that are deep under the sea level they began to leak between the rocks,…
The Chauvet Cave revealed, among other things, that art may not have developed linearly as scholars previously assumed. The Chauvet Cave, though at least 10,000 years older than the other discoveries, contains surprisingly sophisticated art, by far the most realistic of all the other examples of cave art discovered so far. The use of modeling, or shading, to give the art the appearance of volume has yet to be found in any other caves. The fact that the art in the Chauvet Cave predates other, more simplistic discoveries seems to suggest that, rather than the level of sophistication paralleling the evolution of man, the use of naturalism, modeling, and illusionism was most likely determined by cultural factors or even varying amounts of skill…
Over the years, conversations of the topics of Plato’s writings arise. The teachings from Socrates of the “Parable of the Sun, Myth of the Cave and Divided Line” have become very popular to the world. So popular that it has an impact on the movie industry, the stories are hidden in some movies. More movies depict the stories” The Divided Line and The Myth of the Cave “ rather than “The Parable of the Sun.” The movie, eXistenZ, is an example of “The Myth of the Cave and The Divided Line”, since the stories are very similar. The movie has many similarities to “The Myth of the Cave”, but can correlate better to “The Divided Line” for more structure.…
The Forest Hill Formation is a geological area that mainly stretches from west-central to southeastern Mississippi, but thins right at the border of and barely touches Clarke County, Alabama (Echols, et al., 1893). Geologist Ephraim Nobel Lowe originally proposed the name Madison Sands for this formation, due to the fact that he had studied it in Madison County, Mississippi. The name was later changed to Forest Hill by Charles Wythe Cooke. The Forest Hill Formation overlies the Red Bluff Formation in eastern Mississippi and disconformably overlies the Yazoo Formation in western and central Mississippi (MacNeil, et al., 1984). In southeastern Mississippi and southwestern Alabama this formation overlies the Red Bluff Clay and the…
In Plato 's "The Allegory of the Cave," Socrates tells an allegory of the hardship of understanding reality. Using metaphors Socrates compares a prisoner in an underground cave who is exploring a new strange world he never knew of to people who are trying to find a position of knowledge in reality. Through it, Plato attempts to map a man 's journey through education and describes what is needed to achieve a perfect society. According to Socrates, most people tend to rely on their senses excessively and accept the world as it is appears to them in their vision as truth. So that we can liberate our souls from this mental prison, Socrates suggests that we should go through a stage that prepares ourselves for the real world and at the same time preventing us from heading to the wrong direction in seeking the truth. According to Socrates the only way to achieve this would be through education.…
Nature of rule is applied through “virtue, wisdom, and advantage.” If one is not virtuous in his decision making then he will be unethical; choosing based upon his own personal gain. If he man is not wise then he will have fault in what he does, and if he cares for advancing in his position then greed and power will drive him.…
During the same summer I was gawking at Mono Lake, I also road tripped to Glacier and Banff National Parks with a few friends. We not only had the opportunity to see some of the most magnificent mountain ranges, we were also able to see the receding glaciers that formed the unique geologic formations.…
The "Allegory of the Cave" by Plato represents an extended metaphor that is to contrast the way in which we perceive and believe in what is reality. The thesis behind his allegory is the basic tenets that all we perceive are imperfect "reflections" of the ultimate Forms, which subsequently represent truth and reality. The purpose of this allegory defines clearly the process of enlightenment. For a man to be enlightened, he must above all desire the freedom to explore and express himself. Plato's main concept of the cave is: people see reality as the visible world when reality really is more than the visible world.…
What I received from reading “The Allegory of the Cave” was you can not receive wisdom without putting your soul into it. Kind of like going from the darkness to the light they had to get accustomed to what they were seeing. They had to experience it to understand it. While in the cave they saw shadows of objects however they never got to see the 3-D object or its usage to understand what it was. Like wisdom, you can tell someone your advice but if you have not gone through that particular moment yourself then it just becomes your opinion. They understood what things were but they never understood anything more than what they saw.…
HooooookThe Allegory of the Cave is an essay written by Plato. Plato was once a student of Socrates and many of his writings, including this piece, contains discussions and dialogues Socrates held between his students and Plato transferring his words into writings. Plato describes the idea to what it means to become enlightened and what it will take to reach enlightenment. In order to achieve enlightenment according to Plato, one must pull themselves up from the material world and climb up the ladder towards knowledge.…
Cave art also known as parietal art, in the Upper Paleolithic from approximately 40,000 – 10,000 years BP is considered a glimpse into the imagination of modern humans. It can be used as a way to record the symbolic development of early humans giving us a hint to when the behaviour started and more importantly why it was created. This essay will demonstrate the different theories on why and how cave paintings could have been used, why it is more prevalent in some areas such as South Western France and Spain and potential evidence of art before the upper Paleolithic. It will determine if cave art was either a symbolic way of representing their environment (Rice & Patterson.2009:94-100), a mystical practice or way of communicating across social groups (Barton, Cohen & Cohen.2010: 186-189). Based on an article from Krippner (2010:335-338) and book from Berman (2000: 19-21) this essay will be supporting parietal art as a mystical practice surrounding early shamanism and against the idea they were only representing creatures in their environment.…
“The alpine zone is a neglected landscape that is in need of greater protection, conservation, and restoration involving integrated, applied research to the clarification of problems, the design of remedial projects, and monitoring of their impacts.” In order to repair the damages done to the alpine environment, we must pay more attention to the use of the land and how tourists respect it. The greatest cause of the deterioration of the Everest region is due to a great number of tourists invading the…
Ajanta Caves (Ajiṇṭhā leni; Marathi) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE.[1] The caves include paintings and sculptures described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as "the finest surviving examples of Indian art, particularly painting",[2]which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, with figures of the Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales.[3] The caves were built in two phases starting around the 2nd century BCE, with the second group of caves built around 400–650 CE according to older accounts, or all in a brief period between 460 to 480 according to the recent proposals of Walter M. Spink.[4] The site is a protected monument in the care of the Archaeological Survey of India,[5] and since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.…