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    shadows in the cave are his reality. Eventually‚ when he is released into the real world‚ he realizes that what he perceived in the cave is not actually real. The Matrix shares this message‚ but instead of a literal cave‚ which symbolizes fantasy and ignorance‚ a digital world is utilized. Both stories‚ despite the usage of different symbols‚ still convey the same meanings with those symbols. Hence‚ the symbol of the cave and the digital world are parallel to each

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    Sloka on Guru

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    Brahma‚ Vishnu and Shiva. He creates‚ sustains knowledge and destroys the weeds of ignorance. I salute such a Guru. 12. 13. 14. 15. vKkukfrfejka/L;k] Kkukatuk’ykD;k A 16. p{kq vufefyre ;ssua] rLeS Jhxqjos ue% AA 17. 18. 19. Agnyaana Timiraandhasya 20. Gnyaana Anjana Shalaakayaa 21. Chakshuhu Unmeelitam Yenam 22. Tasmai Sri Gurave Namaha. 23. Meaning: A Guru can save us from the pangs of ignorance (darkness) by applying to us the balm of knowledge or awareness of the Supreme‚

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    John Boyne uses narrative voice and a variety of other literary devices to convey the main ideas of prejudice and discrimination‚ power of friendship and innocence in his novel “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (BITSP)”. Boyne’s novel portrays the story of a young German boy in Nazi Germany who befriends a Jewish child residing in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The author explores prejudice and discrimination‚ power of friendship and ideas of innocence in his novel. Boyne uses third person limited

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    imaginations‚ or are they things we’ve seen or experienced before? Is your mind the ultimate guide to happiness and truth‚ or is experiencing things for yourself the only way to find the true meaning of life? Or is living in a cave confined of your own ignorance your ideal way to live a happy life? In Descartes

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    him may not have been as kind as previously thought. Charlie is worse off than before his operation because he now understands how poorly he has been treated in the past. One reason Charlie’s operation was not to Charlie’s benefit is because his ignorance protected him from the cruelties of the world. First‚ Charlie’s coworkers took advantage of Charlie’s condition by picking on him. After the surgery‚ Charlie begins to understand that they are not as kind to him as he previously believed. Keyes

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    For Descartes‚ you cannot be sure of one’s existence or its reality so first you must doubt it. But as we see through his work Meditations on First Philosophy‚ we are presented by his loosening grip on his own sanity since he had continued to doubt and never accepting to believe in other realities but only is certain of his own existence. Descartes gave the awareness that to doubt is to know and to know is to doubt. He had known that he exists because he can think‚ and he cannot doubt that he can

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    name I would like to introduce Mr. Sensitive The one who never let the worst get the best of him They throw the stones and bricks and bones Exact Rhyme “He didn’t stand a chance”‚ they said Come little boy the world is so But ignorance is bliss I would like to introduce Mr. Sensitive The one who never let the worst get the best of him Repetition I would like to introduce Mr. Sensitive The one who never let the worst get the best of him Get the best of him 2/ Poetic

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    Macbeth by Shakespeare was set back in medieval times in Scotland‚ this play depicts a story of a Scottish General that receives a promise of power and his journey of attaining and living with his power with a guilty conscience. Macbeth turns to murder out of the pressure of his wife and greed and in the end he pay for their consequences with his sanity and life. Although it is assumed that those who are murderous are simply heartless killers and do not have a conscience‚ in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare

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    Zak Fisher Eng-2 8-26-13 Exercises 1/ pick an issue TERRORISTIC FOODS We as people go day-by-day and night-by-night‚ not realizing what is happening around us. Ignorance is bliss you say‚ not in this case‚ ignorance when it comes to our world food supply‚ those that control it and what they are doing may wipeout a good percentage of mankind. Genetically Modified Organisms‚ fruits and vegetables ripened by chemicals and loaded with cancer

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    Red or Blue?

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    Cicely Wood English 101 – 004 1 December 2012 Red or Blue? There are some questions people come across in life that could change his or hers life forever. For example‚ in The Matrix Neo must chose to take the blue pill and live in an ignorant bliss‚ or take the red and find out the truth about the world he is living in. Most people are raised to believe certain things‚ meaning they believe in what ever their parents believe in‚ and their parents believe in what their parents believed in as well

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