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    In “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ Plato persuades the reader to escape their own inner imprisonment in the pursuit of knowledge by using symbolism‚ credibility‚ and emotional appeal. In this piece‚ everything has a deeper meaning. Plato compares life to a cave to illustrate one’s self imprisonment. In this cave‚ the people that are imprisoned represent those who have not‚ or will not‚ seek enlightenment. For this reason they remain stationary‚ unable to move forward or see any truth. By using this analogy

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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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    The History of Batu Caves

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    The History of Batu Caves The Batu Caves is all made up of limestone‚ as we can see when we are inside the cave or even driving on the highway crossing Batu Caves. The limestone is said to be around 400 million years old the limestone forming Batu Caves is. Some of the cave entrances were used as shelters by the native people. Batu Caves became famous only after the limestone hills were recorded by colonial authorities including Daly and Syers as well as American Naturalist‚ William Hornaday in

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    In Plato ’s "The Allegory of the Cave‚" Socrates tells an allegory of the hardship of understanding reality. Using metaphors Socrates compares a prisoner in an underground cave who is exploring a new strange world he never knew of to people who are trying to find a position of knowledge in reality. Through it‚ Plato attempts to map a man ’s journey through education and describes what is needed to achieve a perfect society. According to Socrates‚ most people tend to rely on their senses excessively

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    "The Cave" by Jean McCord

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    "The Cave" by Jean McCord teaches us that we should be individuals and value other people’s lives‚ which is a very important lesson in life. McCord combined irony‚ a believable main character developed throughout the story‚ and an excellent writing style to produce her short story. This short story is about a boy named Charley and a bum named George. Charley met George one day while running and liked him. The next week‚ Charley found an entrance to a cave‚ but he did not realize it was George’s

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    Crystal Cave of Giants The Naica mine is located in Chihuahua‚ Mexico and was first discovered in 1794. The mines primary interest was silver and gold until about the 1900’s when a large-scale mining began as Zinc and Lead become more valuable resources. This is the largest mine in the country that produces lead‚ zinc and silver‚ among other minerals. The entrance is located 1385 m above sea level in the north of the 12km.-long sierra Naica. In April of 2000‚ brothers Elroy and Javier Delgado

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    however is that humans are unconscious‚ in machines that keep their bodies alive while their brains are all connected to the matrix which is simulating real life. The perception is completely false. Similarly‚ in the cave allegory the prisoners’ perception of objects passing the cave wall in the form of shadows is false. In reality‚ they are only guessing the true nature of the shadows and never really know what the objects are until one prisoner is freed and allowed to experience things as they really

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    He describes a cave where prisoners are chained to a wall and cannot turn their heads‚ but only face straight toward a wall. This cave is all they know‚ they have never experienced any other reality. Behind them is a large fire‚ and in front of that fire people pass with objects and animals‚ reflecting images onto the wall that

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    the Cave Summary Plato’s Allegory of the Cave presents an enthralling concept that holds strong to this day. In the allegory three main ideas are illustrated : that we have been conditioned to a definite reality since birth‚ we scorn being brought into the ‘light’ of knowledge‚ and that we (as a society) reject anything that contradicts the notions of our preconceived reality. Clever Plato took these ideas and weaved them into an intriguing story of prisoners trapped in an underground cave‚ and

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    In the Plato’s allegory of the cave‚ a scenario is laid out for us to imagine. The people in the scenario have been in a cave since birth and are bound in a manner that does not allow them to look around but only in front of them. From this position they can only see shadows cast from behind them. Here they see the shadows cast by statues placed on a partial wall. They believe these shadows to be the real because this is the only thing they have ever known. Then one prisoner is freed from his bonds

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