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    On this subject‚ you really have to try and veer away from the big picture and learn to just look at the small details. I personally do not believe in the idea of a pre-decided “personal legend‚” but rather that man can decide his “personal legend” with free will. To get more into depth with this subject would mean you have to believe in a certain higher power deciding this for us‚ but who are we to decide that in the first place for anyone but ourselves. Oh look‚ an example of free will. You mean

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    The Alchemist Monologue

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    It’s good that you brought up Zak Santiago ’cause that’s another Hallmark tie-in which is great for my readers. Yeah‚ it’s nice to see that. Zak and I--it’s the second project we’ve done together--but we’ve known each other since we were about nineteen or twenty. He’s very well-loved on Signed‚ Sealed‚ Delivered. His character is hilarious on that. And he is the busiest guy in the world! Zak is tough to pin down. There were days he couldn’t be on Dirk ’cause he was doing another show called Shut

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    The Allegory Of The Cave

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    Plato proposes in his philosophy The Allegory of the Cave that most people are bound to their obliviousness and materialism‚ either by willful rejection or ignorance‚ which in turn makes them metaphorically blind to the true nature of reality. For instance‚ the people chained within the dark cave is a symbol for the world we currently reside in (or was resided in)‚ and the chains represent each one of us‚ who are either knowingly or unknowingly chained to the material world. The shadows the cave

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    TITLE Of Assignment In Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave‚ the allegory narrates three prisoners in a cave who have never seen the outside world. Their arms‚ legs‚ and necks are tied to a rock so all they can see is a bare wall. Behind the prisoners is a fire that emits the shadows of statues onto the bare wall. However‚ the prisoners see the shadows on the wall as real objects because they have been there since birth. They think the shadows are the true forms because that is the only truth they

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    Alchemist Foil Usage

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    Usages of Foil Characters Everyone in this world has someone who is contradictory to them. Similarly‚ in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ the protagonist‚ Santiago‚ has many foils. Santiago‚ the hero of this story‚ is an adventurous shepherd from a small Andalusian town who sets out to achieve his personal legend‚ his dream‚ to find treasure at the Egyptian pyramids. The author of The Alchemist uses foils to allude to Santiago’s traits‚ and helps the reader apprehend the different situations and other

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    Examples Of Allegory

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    What is an allegory? An allegory is a story that has a lesson or moral in it that is not told plainly. An example of an allegory is the tortoise and the hare. The hare thought that since he was faster that he could win the race no matter what happened. So the hare goofed off and and sleep and when he woke up the tortoise was almost at the finish line. The hare tried to catch up but could not. So what the moral is to me from that story is that you do not have to be fast at everything to win the “Race”

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    The theme of the book‚ the Alchemist‚ is to pursue your personal legend above all things. Paul Coleho makes it very clear that any one can achieve personal greatness by using a shepherd. Their are many reasons why you should follow your personal legend. Not only could you benefit from it‚ other lives you encounter on your journey maybe changed. You may have to post pone your journey to find the funds to complete you journey. In the book Santiago sales his sheep and goes to a lnad he has never seen

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    Allegory Of The Cave

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    The Allegory of the Cave The Allegory means a lot to people who are very mystical and like to think of different things about life. The allegory is a story about these prisoners whom since they’ve been children have been locked away deep inside a cave with chains all over their bodies including their heads making them be immobilized and their heads facing one certain wall. To the backs of these prisoners there is a fire and between the prisoners and the fire stands a way in which men carry various

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    Allegories of Life

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    The Allegory’s of Life In The Allegory of the Cave‚ Plato uses a vast spectrum of imagery to explain ones descent from the cave to the light. While Plato uses this Allegory to explain his point through Socrates to Glaucon. This allegory has many different meanings. The Allegory can be used in many different ways‚ from religion to politics to ones own intellectual enlightenment‚ or it can be interpreted as the blinded person in a colt like reality. Are we all prisoners in a world that is forced

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    February 2013 Allegory of the Cave In his book‚ Republic‚ Plato tries to explain justice through different dialogues between Socrates and other people. He explains how to live a just life‚ what a just society should be‚ and how just leadership should be taken. One of the arguments he uses to explain justice involves four stages of philosophical education. He describes them through dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon at a dinner party. Socrates uses what is called the allegory of the cave to

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