This spring‚ Assemblywoman Amy Handlin (R-13) and Greater Media Newspapers co-sponsored an essay contest‚ "What Good Government Means to Me‚" for eighth-graders in the 13th Legislative District. More than 150 students submitted entries for the contest. The first-place winner was Adam Van Handel‚ from Ms. Eisen’s class at Carl Sandburg Middle School‚ Old Bridge. The second-place award went to Charles Gunningham from Mrs. Grieco’s class at Joseph R. Bolger Middle School‚ Keansburg‚ and the third-place
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Parliamentary Government‚ a gateway to good governance. The most stable and progressive countries in the world today have a parliamentary form of government. These include countries like Japan‚ Canada‚ Australia‚ United Kingdom‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ Norway‚ Sweden and also India‚ Singapore and Malaysia in Asia. India and the US are undoubtedly the two biggest democratic countries of the world today‚ the basic difference between them being the parliamentary democracy of the former and congressional
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Scrutiny of government can be defined as any activity that involves examining (and being prepared to challenge) the expenditure‚ administration and policies of the government of the day. The leader of the House of Commons‚ Robin Cook stated ’Good scrutiny makes for good government’. It often comprises scrutinising the wider context in which government is working. To examine and challenge the work of government is normally understood to be one of the three primary roles of Parliament‚ the rest of
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pearl brings nothing but frustration and loss. Kino and Juana contentedly fling the pearl back into the ocean‚ only to return to the simple life once more. Steinbeck’s brilliant novel accurately depicts allegory to implement the book’s purpose. There are five significant interpretations of allegory presented by The Pearl ‚ all sufficiently justified. John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27‚ 1902‚ in Salinas ‚ California. (Magill 2519). Steinbeck’s first short novel‚ The Pearl ‚ is based on a
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the visible world‚ moreover is in a way the cause of all that he and his companions used to see". In "the Allegory of the Cave‚” Plato displays his belief that experience allows humans to begin to understand actual processes by asserting that once a person is able to understand one fundamental creed‚ they interpret the causes for all else around them. Additionally‚ Plato‚ through his allegory‚ portrays the tendency for humans to formulate their own opinions after exposure to an
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often the people who do not understand the movement have the most opposing opinions on it. With the lack of understanding about the feminist movement one can relate a person’s developing knowledge about the movement to Plato’s allegory of the cave. The comparison of the allegory of the cave to a person’s understanding about the feminist movement allows one to understand the varying opinions that people have about this movement. One of the many things that Plato is known for is his theory of forms
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Allegory Criticism: Essay #3 Da’Andrea Bell Allegory criticism is an extended metaphor in which a person‚ abstract idea or event stands for itself and for something else. Usually involves moral or spiritual concepts which are more significant than the actual narrative. In the fiction reading‚ “The man In the Black Suit” by Stephen King‚ the main character Gary a young boy at the age of nine has found himself coming face to face with someone he believes is the devil. While out for a day of
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One of the worlds well-known Philosophers once wrote an allegory within the book of The Republic. This Allegory goes by the name of The Allegory of the Cave. This lesson will show us the hierarchical view of reality and wisdom. Plato will describe the trials through the artifice and then insight into knowledge that is unknown to them. Plato begins this lesson as a deep cave that possesses prisoners inside‚ these prisoners have been there since birth and have seen nothing else but the cave they
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In the allegory‚ Plato introduces the reader to prisoners chained in a cave‚ unable to turn their heads. The prisoners have been chained at a very young age onto a specific area facing a wall. All they can see is the wall of the cave. The prisoners are clueless to the fact that behind them burns a fire and between the fire and the prisoners is a wall‚ along which puppeteers can walk. They hold up “puppets”‚ in this case every day life objects that cast shadows on the wall of the cave. These puppets
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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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