chained prisoners watching shadows cast on the back of the wall of the cave. They hear voices and think these voices are coming from the shadows. Thus‚ believing these shadows are a reality. Plato then describes one of the prisoners becoming free from the chains. Someone then drags the prisoner upward out of the cave. Although he would be blinded by the light of the sun and the movement would be painful‚ he will be seeing the reality of the world for the first time. He then describes the prisoner being
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deliver bad news‚ especially when you do not know how the receiver will react. Evie‚ a female prison guard‚ shall in the beginning of the story tell about the death of a grandmother to Victor a prisoner. It is the first death notice she will deliver alone‚ therefore is Evie is worried about how Victor‚ a prisoner she does not know‚ will react when he hears the bad news "(...) her question is really about whether Victor is the dangerous‚ unpredictable type who might want to throw a punch at news of his
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the cave begins describing a cave inhabited by a group of prisoners who have been chained and held immobile since infancy. Their legs‚ hands‚ and head shackled by chains limiting their movement‚ compelling them to gaze at the wall in front of them. There is a fire that burns behind them and unknown people walk with objects which cast shadows of those objects providing the prisoners with view of what they believe to reality. One prisoner is release and dragged outside of the cave‚ to the real. At
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If you are still a person that is okay with confront like the prisoners who didn’t leave the cave. Then‚ you won’t be able to be at peace with both‚ and this will create polarization between these two strategies. And if you are not able to keep both strategies‚ you will not reach you enlightenment to its full potential
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threatened landscape of Kaduna {in mid Nigeria}‚ I have often lamented the fate of prisoners who are stripped of their freedom of movement for specific periods of time {and in some glaring cases of inhumanity of man.. for unspecified and unspecific periods}. My young and then innocent mind concluded that depriving prisoners of their freedom as it presently obtains carries along with it a collateral dehumanization of the prisoners person‚ basic needs and rights that are fundamental to the human being‚ and
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All over the world‚ the principal initiative most find themselves concerned with has much to do with the control of money. Particularly in America‚ quandaries often arise as citizens and officials make fundamental efforts to improve society in due course. Numerous articles found in the New York Times have profoundly demonstrated how issues that continue to emerge can promptly be restored with a budget extension. Articles dated only days apart‚ “Treatment‚ Not Jail‚ for the Mentally Ill”‚ “Many weight-loss
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approach his schoolhouse. He watches them climb the hill. One of the men‚ a gendarme named Balducci‚ is very familiar to Daru. He leads an Arab prisoner who has been accused of murdering his cousin in a family squabble. Balducci has been ordered to bring the Arab to Daru‚ and then return immediately to his post. Likewise‚ Daru has orders to turn in the prisoner to police headquarters at a town approximately twenty kilometers away. Daru refuses this task‚ considering it dishonorable. Balducci agrees with
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The Truman Show are similar by how the characters are portrayed in the story and movie. In the story by Plato the prisoners are kept in the cave‚ chained and unable to move. “In this they have been from childhood‚ with necks and legs fettered‚ so they have to stay where they are. They cannot move their heads round because of fetters.”(Plato 1) Coupled with this shows how the prisoners were treated and how they have been kept
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he divided the candidates‚ 9 guards and 9 prisoners. He constructed the basement floor at Stanford into a correctional facility taking the doors off hinges and replacing them with steel door with bars and cell numbers. Each prisoner was stripped and searched and sprayed‚ the same way as if they were going to a real prison. Each prisoner was given robes to wear with their own prisoner number on the back and on the front‚ and they could only go by prisoner numbers not by name. They also were given
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people were prisoned in a cave chained their whole life and how a prisoner would act once outside the cave then force back in. Plato believes without having any education‚ one will be blinded to the truth. Blinding people from knowledge can lead them to confusion after realizing the truth. Plato and Socrates talked about an allegory of the cave‚ where people were chained to look straight
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