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    Tiana McCorvey Period 4 11/16/10 Interpretations of the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the best-selling and most read novels in America. Of course‚ with this “romance‚” as Hawthorne called it‚ being so popular some of the famed producers and actors tried to make a movie from it‚ as Daniels explains in his article “Bad Movies/Worst History: The 1995 Unmaking of The Scarlet Letter.” Times after time‚ there have been at least 10 productions and none have them

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    of interest in our World’s most prominent literature is Dante. Famous for his beautifully crafted Divine Comedy‚ Dante has provided the basis for Italian literature even until this day. Throughout his Journey through the circles of Hell‚ Dante imagines many prominent figures in history who have been banished to Hell by God. None are more controversial than those of the Islamic faith because of his depictions of Muhammad. Throughout

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    understand it. What is reality? The dictionary defines reality as the quality or state of being actual or true. While there are certain facts that are generally accepted by most people as being true‚ so much about life and the universe is open to interpretation. I have read a several articles during this class and I can now define it in my way. When I woke up this morning‚ I found the world largely as I left it. I was still who I’m; the outside world had not been rearranged. History was unchanged and

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    Dante‚ the pilgrim‚ experienced Hell and as he reached the bottom of Hell‚ he experienced something completely different opposed to what readers would have expected. Dante Alighiere’s depiction of Satan once he reaches the bottom of Hell reveals the theme‚ that in Hell the punishment is always befitting of the sin. As Dante and his tour guide‚ Virgil‚ arrive at the last circle‚ Satan is described to have‚ “three faces on his head...underneath each came forth two mighty wings...at every mouth he with

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    has never been true‚ knowing that it is not true is the real path to being knowledgeable. The importance of knowledge is portrayed in both and Socrates’ “Allegory of the Cave” and Wachowski’s movie “The Matrix” in describing the inevitable pain

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    know‚ I am the defense attorney representing Edmond Dantés‚ who has been charged with murder. Before you deliver the final verdict‚ let me remind you why Edmond Dantés is irreproachable in this court and why the prosecution is accusing unjustly. To begin‚ the prosecution focuses on the fact that Edmond Dantés escaped from jail‚ supplied poisons‚ and somehow caused the deaths of a few people. The prosecution‚ in this case‚ is wrong. Monsieur Dantés did escape from the Chateau d’If‚ the prison he was

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    Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Essay One of Plato’s more famous writings‚ The Allegory of the Cave‚ Plato outlines the story of a man who breaks free of his constraints and comes to learn of new ideas and levels of thought that exist outside of the human level of thinking. However‚ after having learned so many new concepts‚ he returns to his fellow beings and attempts to reveal his findings but is rejected and threatened with death. This dialogue is an apparent reference to his teacher’s theories

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    York‚ 1987. 5. Ross‚ S. D.‚ Inorganic Vibrational Spectroscopy‚ Marcel Dekker‚ New York‚ 1971. 6. Greenwood‚ N. N.‚ Index of Vibrational Spectra of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds‚ Butterworths‚ London‚ 1972. 7. Brisdon‚ A. K.‚ Inorganic Spectroscopic Methods‚ Oxford University Press‚ Oxford‚ UK‚ 1998. 8. Gunzler‚ H. and Gremlich‚ H.-U.‚ IR Spectroscopy: An Introduction‚ Wiley-VCH‚ Weinheim‚ Germany‚ 2002. Chichester‚ UK‚ 2002‚ pp. 1872–1892. 10. Ahuja‚ I. S. and Tripathi‚ S.‚ J. Chem. Edu.‚ 68

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    Plato’s Allegory of the Cave relates to social media use in that the media has developed and maintained a strong hold on society‚ similarly as to how the cave encapsulates the prisoners. Nowadays‚ media has become the basis of truth‚ where society soaks in this information and takes it as fact. However‚ how can one determine if these findings that are presented are genuine or just a mere illusion? Plato’s Allegory of the Cave explains how people only base their perception of the world on their experiences

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    Commentary Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the factual perception on what human’s ignorant minds accept whatever they perceive without envisioning the reality. His use of “dark” imagery illustrates how a person is trapped and isolated in his own “cave” and conceives everything without visually seeing the “light” outside the cave. He conveys the idea that the “prisoners” are stuck and “chained” in their own reality because they were only shown one perspective from “childhood”. Plato wisely suggests

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