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    “The purpose of communication is that it is the closest you can get to a person without actually being them”-Anonymous Communication 114-03: Fundamentals of Communication MWF 9-9:50 AM KT G51 Instructor: Sharon Wight Office: NF B38 University Email: wighsl01@ipfw.edu; Blackboard Alternate and Preferred email: wighsl01@gmail.com Phone Number: 481-6544 ext. 19027 Alternate Phone: 206-486-4232 Office Hours: MW 12-1‚ and happily by appointment. *****If you have a basic question

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    Picture Lord of the Flies‚ simply put‚ is an allegory representing humanity as a whole. This can be visualized by seeing the island as the world‚ tribes representing countries‚ the conch or rules are a government‚ and differences between tribes can be seen as war. Throughout this novel one may ponder if our world is as uncivilized as the island‚ and one would learn we do live in a world like such. When the boys world is interrupted with the real world‚ the allegory ends. So‚ with this in mind‚when will

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    The Allegory in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice in wonderland is an adventurous book full of mystery‚ conflicts‚ and surprisingly allegory. Alice goes through trails‚ revelations‚ and at one point even gets accused of “being the wrong Alice.” In this story‚ Alice believes that she is dreaming and having a weird one at that‚ but in reality she is not really dreaming. Alice is really trying to find herself and with that she is portraying the conflicts in her life through the world of

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    The allegory used in Maus helps me to understand the Holocaust more. Portraying the Jews as mice‚ the Nazis as cats and the Poles as pigs‚ has made the story easier to follow and understand. On page 138 there is a clear example of the allegory used throughout the entire book. When Vladek and Anja try to hide they put on pig masks to disguise themselves. This shows how the use of animals is very clever‚ as the reader can tell straight away that they are actually Jewish pretending to be Polish. The

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    Allegory of the Cave In the Allegory‚ Plato matches uneducated people with the people in this story; they are in the form of prisoners chained in a cave. In this cave the prisoners are unable to turn their heads from side to side and all they can see is one of the caves walls. Behind these prisoners is a huge fire. The prisoners and the fire are separated by a mini wall. Then from what I understand is that these puppeteers hold up puppets that put shadows on that one wall that the prisoners

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    Nick Morris March 31‚ 2014 AP Lang 2nd Hour Analysis of “Allegory of the Cave” Knowledge is the one “thing” that cannot be taken away from a person. In prisons and concentration camps‚ men are often striped down until they have nothing; yet what they do possess is whatever is in their minds. Thus‚ for leaders‚ it is important to control their subjects’ minds from the beginning‚ as this is the only to ensure that they can sustain their power. For even if the authority starves and beats their people

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    of The Lion‚ the Witch‚ and the Wardrobe wrote this is novel in 1949. The novel is basically about religion faith and Christianity. And testing your faith kind of. An allegory is like a story that is compared to the one you’re looking at. Something about it and that tells a story behind that you may not see or realize. The allegory in this novel is that Aslan is like Jesus Christ and in the story it was kind of like a test in the children’s faith. Seeing how they would believe and think. My claim

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    the Seven deadly Sins as human beings in this play is what sets Marlowe apart from the original story of Faust. They also represent the three allegories that are found within the play. This engrossing tale of a proud and an inordinately ambitious medieval magician who sold his soul to the Devil is undoubtedly allegorical. The play itself has a moral allegory of universal significance which is shown through the characters Marlowe introduced into the play. \ The presence of the good and bad angels

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    Lord of the Flies as an Allegory The Lord of the Flies if read at face value can be interpreted as short book about the struggle to survive on a deserted island and its physical and psychological impacts on its inhabitants. But when the reader looks deeper‚ they see a novel that is an allegory that is filled with rich and detailed symbolism in almost all aspects of the book. An allegory is defined a type of writing that presents abstract ideas or moral principals in the form of symbolic characters

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    At the beginning of the allegory‚ the “theory of forms” is also introduced. This theory states that the “existence of a level of reality inhabited by ideal “forms” of all things and concepts”(Plato pg1) indicating that there is a form to any object‚ Adding as well that all forms will be eternal and unchanging but they tend to inhabit changeable matter in the temporal world. Plato considers the realm of forms to be always eternal and unchanging however; the world we inhabit is a constantly changing

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