The cave in the allegory basically represents believers of empirical knowledge. As a child‚ I was easily susceptible to this form of knowledge. I was known as “the quiet one” or the girl that always keeps to herself. The biggest cause of this is the way I have been brought up. Growing up as an only child and a female in a Guyanese household to immigrant parents‚ I have been taught ways of life that are very contrasting to the ways of life that are taught in Canada. The society where my parents came
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two quotes serve to argue that one should marry for happiness and to remember that love must not be forgotten. Zhang makes Shanshan a character who can live life fully without marriage‚ also a role model who shows that it is better to marry for love than to let a loveless marriage tie a person down‚ which could lead to a miserable life. In this story‚ Zhang reiterates that love must not be forgotten‚ that without it‚ a marriage would be mutually unfulfilling and unhappy. Because reciprocated love
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Again” and “Forgotten Ship” are trying to convey is that Saigon falling was very serious. To begin in the poem “Saigon is Gone” Ha says that‚ “People run and scream‚ Communists!” ( Page:68). This shows that many people were afraid of the Communists which were taking over the south‚ so if they heard a loud sound or saw someone they would think it’s a Communist. People wouldn’t have been this afraid if the war wasn’t serious. Another reason why the war was very serious is that in “Forgotten Ship” Mr Jacobs
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This is knowing what you don’t know‚ and admitting to it. It is also the belief that wisdom is the property of higher power. I have had the pleasure of reading two of Plato’s most famous writings “The Apology” and “Allegory of the Cave” and discussing
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In “The allegory of the Cave” Plato argues that education is not a matter of making the blind to see but of turning the learner “in the right direction.” What he means by this is that education is not about feeding someone information and expecting them to take it as the truth. It is about encouraging them to seek out the truths in the world around them‚ and helping them acquire the tools to do so. This point is extremely relevant to education today‚ which is mostly about test scores‚ and textbooks
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prisoners he is talking about‚ Glaucon responds by saying that it is a strange image‚ and then Plato replied by asking: “like ourselves; and they see only their own shadows‚ or the shadows of one another‚ which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?” My answer to this question would be yes‚ because even in our modern lives‚ there are people who are never exposed to the truth and they take what they have heard as the real truths which are those shadows that Plato was talking about. At a certain
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave The “Allegory of the Cave” starts off as a story told by Socrates to Glaucon. In this story‚ a group of people live in a cave underground. They are bound and unable to move or turn their heads‚ and so can only look straight in front of them. Before them is a wall and behind them a fire burns. Others in the cave pass before the fire holding
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THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE By Plato The well-known myth of the cavern‚ is used by Plato as an allegorical explanation of the situation in which the man is in regard to the knowledge that surrounds him. Plato divided this allegory in three parts: 1. Description of the situation of the prisoners in the cavern. 2. Description of the process of liberation of one of them and of his access to the top or real world. 3. Brief interpretation of the myth. Plato asks us to imagine that we are like a few prisoners
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Discuss visual and sound elements in “The Clan of the Cave Bear This movie from 1986 is based in the book with the same name. The story is about a Cro-Magnon girl who loose her mom and tribe and she met some Neanderthal clan who adopt her. It seems to be like an unprepared or a low cost movie. The story sound interesting but while you are watching it you think that is a kind of joke. Neanderthals were prehistoric people but the actors of this movie look like you and me playing to be prehistoric
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The Forgotten Group Member Case 7: The Case Study for this Week MGMT-591-62034 Leadership & Org Behavior July 28th‚ 2012 The Forgotten Group Member Group Development In the case study‚ "The Forgotten Group Member" (p. W-112) the components of the team came out of the forming stage to enter to the Storming stage. At this stage‚ as the book points out‚ is a period of high tension among the group members and emotionality. During this stage‚ hostility and infighting may occur. This
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