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    inhabited by the people European decent who had‚ until the late 19th Century‚ remained near the East coast. The expansion and habitation was "meant" to occur as divine providence. The rights and freedoms of the indigenous people were not high on the list of priorities of the expansion. Perhaps no one took the terms "manifest destiny"‚ and "Divine Providence" more literal than Brigham Young. The LDS movement West was littered with not only genocide of Native Americans‚ but the slaughter of any group

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    Shakespeare‘s As You Like It is based on a work entitled Rosalynde written by Thomas Lodge (Verity 2000 : xiii) The play is often categorized as a pastoral comedy . The term .pastoral. refers to the life of the shepherds or rural folk and their ways of living‚ manners and customs. However‚ pastoral poetry does not reflect the realities of country life and that from its beginning it created an imaginary landscape which was actually a projection of the poct‘s feelings and ideas. Hence the word ’pastoral‘

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    Ray Schumacher Sister Black English 106 13 11 May‚ 2016 Work Ethic is Divine I strongly believe in teaching children about hard work. As a child growing up‚ my parents taught me the importance of a strong work ethic. Fortunately for me‚ my parents were sure to instill in me the mindset needed to be a productive member of society. Because my dad did not see me as much of a “thinker”‚ he showed me how to use a shovel‚ an axe‚ a pick axe‚ and many other hand tools. Since he was a hard worker himself

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    thought. In The Republic‚ Plato presents the Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory of the Cave poses “the degrees in which our nature may be enlightened or unenlightened” (227). The allegory also serves as an insight into the life of a philosopher‚ and it proposes the place of philosophy in the world. The allegory illustrates the conflicts that philosophers may face while they attempt to determine the truth about the world and its nature. The Allegory of the Cave begins with Plato asking the reader

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    2012 The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave What if one were living through life completely bound and facing a reality that doesn’t even exist? The prisoners in Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" are blind from true reality as well as the people in the movie The Matrix. They are given false images and they accept what their senses are telling them. They believe what they are experiencing is not all that really exists. Plato‚ the ancient Greek philosopher wrote "The Allegory of the Cave‚" to explain

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    That is‚ how the form of the good enables the perception of the intelligible objects‚ and how the sun enables the perception of the visible. The allegory of the Cave can be seen as a representation of the ascension from lowest form of truth to highest within the analogy of the Line and Sun. It starts in the cave‚ where people only see shadows. This is similar to the objects and images of the Line

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    In the book Push precious is similar to one of the prisoners in “Allegory of the Cave” because they both started in the cave. This is true because while they were in the cave they both faced some similar oppression. To begin‚ when precious got out of the hospital and straight home her mom tried to kill her so precious says ¨Gonna kill me wif her ¨BARE HANDS¨ it’s like a black wall gonna crash on me¨ (Precious 74). This is significant because when precious return home as well the ¨cave” she is getting

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    In The Matrix as well as in the Allegory of the cave‚ state a similar meaning of one living in a world with a greater truth. Both The Allegory by Plato and the Matrix‚ speake and argue about a prison‚ a prison within our life and our world that one does not know of. Similarities are drawn between both the story and the movie. It gives one an idea of what Plato stated in his philosophical allegory in a more modern time‚ compare to the year Plato wrote the allegory. Both stories are common in the

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    Heidegger’s Experiment‚” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a prime example of an allegory. An allegory can be defined as a work of literature in which events‚ characters and details of setting have a symbolic meaning. An allegory is also used to teach or explain moral principles and universal truths. The short story has many symbols and one‚ main‚ universal truth. These symbols and principles mold together to form a well-developed allegory. Hawthorne’s short story has many symbols; the book of magic‚ the

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    because it’s shows us many literal levels and sub stories which symbolize abstract ideas. An allegory is a story‚ poem‚ or picture with a symbolic level of meaning where the characters and setting represent other things like political systems‚ religious figures‚ or philosophical viewpoints. An allegory allows the reader to interpret the hidden meaning behind the symbol. There are two different levels to an allegory the first one being the literal level and the second it’s symbolic counterparts. The story

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