Don Haskins: The final buzzer rang off in Maryland’s Cole Field House basketball court. Many watched a game of Texas Western Miners and Kentucky Wildcats on March 19th‚ 1966‚ and yet most didn’t realize they just witnessed sports ethics redefine itself. It was a championship‚ an all or nothing statement for the players of Texas Western. The coach of the Miners‚ Don Haskins‚ had just won the NCAA title with five African American starters. They won a mere sports game‚ but it would prove to be
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completely different meanings right; well‚ not exactly. How is it that an allegory about a seagull is anything like an allegory about people inside of a cave? Allegories are just representations of a thing that has a hidden moral or religious meaning the titles of these allegories are very misleading until you analyze them both. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato are both allegories about people who are mistaking what they think is the truth but really
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The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave Both "The Allegory of the Cave" and "The Matrix" are stories in which there are two realities‚ one perceived and one real. Although "The Matrix" is not based exactly on Plato’s "The Allegory of the Cave‚" there are several parallels between the two works. The similarities in "The Matrix‚" relate to Plato’s concept. They project his thoughts of natural logic from "The Allegory of the Cave" into a perspective that makes it easier for people to understand when
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that‚ “But I cordially dislike allegory in all it’s manifestations‚ and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history‚ true or feigned‚ with it’s varied applicability to the thought and experience of the readers.” A common misconception is that applicability and allegory are the same concept. As Tolkien references throughout his foreword‚ applicability is the freedom of the reader to make connections‚ whereas allegory is a forced parallel created
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of how society views what he is doing. Many professors and researchers of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes claim that Don Quixote is purely insane‚ unconscious about the misdirection he feeds himself. However‚ Don Quixote is not insane‚ but is solely a man looking for adventure‚ fueled by his intense love for Chivalric novels. This can be seen in certain parts of the novel: The Battle of the Windmills‚ Don Quixote’s stay with the Duke and Duchess‚ and finally with Alonso Quixano’s
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we call reality is actually a mere shadow play on the wall‚ projected from behind our backs by persons carrying statues of humans and animals and carved likenesses of other ordinary objects before a fire that is behind them." (Rice‚ pp. 79) This allegory is attempting to simplify the ideas of forms and the reality of what is perceived as real. The prisoners in the cave are those people who have not achieved a philosophical understanding of forms‚ so they remain affixed by the shadows. The shadows
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Compare the film ‘the matrix’ with Plato’s allegory of the cave. The Allegory of the Cave is one of Greek philosopher Plato’s most well known works. It is an extended allegory‚ where humans are depicted as being imprisoned by their bodies and what they perceive by sight only. In the allegory of the cave Plato wanted to show how true reality is not always what it seems. A group of prisoners were chained up in a cave since there childhood‚ each prisoner was chained to each other by their heads
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Allegory of A Descent into the Maelstrom The story of A Descent into the Maelstrom that is written by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about an unnamed Norwegian fisherman who survives a shipwreck and a whirlpool and how he realises the mystery of the maelstrom that he states “The larger the bodies‚ the more rapid their descent”. Story contains some specific abstract principles‚ which are the existence of romanticism‚ dynamics of Hegal’s Absolute Spirit and the notion of God and Christian. Those principles
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The Wizard of Oz was released August 25‚ 1939. In this story Dorothy‚ her little dog Toto‚ a Man of tin‚ a Scarecrow‚ and a cowardly lion all travel down a “yellow brick” road (a symbol for gold and a value to our currency) to find the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. After a long journey‚ they finally get to him and find out that he is nothing more than a man behind a curtain speaking through a microphone and operating levers‚ knobs and switches to keep the illusion alive. Frank Baum‚ the writer
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What Plato is trying to teach with The Allegory of the cave is that things that we learn through the senses are not always the truth and people are too close-minded to try to see things in a different light. In Plato’s theory the cave represents that people believe that only things you can see or hear are true or real. The cave shows how these people are trapped in there misunderstanding of reality. The Shadows represent the mistruths presented as reality in the world. The game represents that people
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