STEPHENS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE COURSE‚ OBST 590-B02 BY JOSEPH HAMBY BOILING SPRINGS‚ NC FEBRUARY 3‚ 2013 The Bible Among the Myths: Introduction John N. Oswalt has long thought about the issue at hand regarding the bible and it’s relation‚ if any‚ to the study of myths. Beginning first in a course at Asbury Theological Seminary and evolving later through studies about the Mediterranean at Brandeis University‚ Oswalt has intently studied the topic
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The Naica mines are naturally occurring caves‚ located in Chihuahua‚ Mexico. The Naica mines are working mines rich in lead‚ zinc‚ and silver‚ which are owned by Mexico’s largest lead producer‚ Industrias Penoles. Within the Naica mines are caves filled with giant selenite crystals‚ discovered by miner brothers‚ Juan and Pedro Sanchez in 2000. The caves were discovered while drilling through the Naica fault during a mining expedition. The giant crystal caves are in the shape of a horseshoe and have
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Plato’s Allegory of the cave in The Matrix‚ it swirls together Plato’s ideas with a realistic feel. The things that are most clear in The Matrix that relate back to the Allegory of the cave are‚ the forms‚ the blinding soon‚ the escaped prisoner‚ the fire‚ and the idea that the prisoners were living under a blank of lies. The connection between Plato’s work and the work of The Matrix is too strong for it to be unintentional. In Plato’s ideas of the Allegory of the cave‚ the forms play a key part
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Plato allegory of the cave (25 marks) Plato is one of the most important Greek philosophers and a pupil of Socrates. He founded the Academy in Athens‚ an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences. His works on philosophy‚ politics and mathematics which were very influential.The complex meanings that can be perceived from the "Cave" can be seen in the beginning with the presence of the prisoners who are chained in the darkness of the cave. The prisoners are bound
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Dunbar cave is the only site in the united states where you can go see mississippian art from apparently seven hundred years ago! The cave has closed numerous of time‚unfortunately in 2002 they had to close out the inside to all the public do to health issues. They opened back up a fews years later. In 2010 they made it official to close the inside of the cave due to bat infestations as well with other animals. The Dunbar cave is open to see the Native American drawings. In the 1930’s the cave became
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The Cave and the Christian In Plato’s Republic we have one of the best allegories told‚ the allegory of the Cave. The allegory of the cave goes basically like this: Suppose people were born in a cave and from birth they were chained up and unable to turn their heads. All they could do was to look straight ahead at a wall. Far behind them there was a fire burning and in from of that fire people would walk with object in their hands‚ statues and the like. All the chained prisoners could see would
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In the film‚ The Cave of Forgotten Dreams the artists of the Chauvet paintings left behind a cave filled with beautiful paintings that can be interpreted in many ways. The paintings are able to tell how humans saw themselves compared to animals‚ the purpose and meaning of the cave to artists and the paintings also show how far along brain and cognitive abilities were developed compared to present time. These drawing showed how life more than 30‚000 years ago was outside the cave. During that time
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Cave paintings were the first forms of art. These paintings first appeared around 31‚000 years ago. The oldest one known is in the El Castillo cave in Spain. This is not a very well-known cave‚ even though I think it should be. The Chauvet‚ Altamira‚ and Lascaux are the most common caves. Cave art is very interesting and has created multiple theories. The first theory of the purpose of this new outburst was just a way to be decorative. I don’t think that is the sole reason for
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Summary and Response to “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” In “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria‚” Judith Ortiz Cofer illustrates several hardships she suffered due to the universal‚ misleading stereotypes propagated by the media. Cofer demonstrates various stereotypes that Latin women are subjected to‚ such as an experience in which she was regarded as a waitress at a California restaurant‚ and “the Hispanic woman as the ‘Hot Tamale’ or sexual
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Plato’s classic The Allegory of the Cave and seminal science-fiction film The Matrix at first glance seem to have nothing in common. The first is written and set in the ancient times‚ revolving around Socrates telling his follower Glaucon about chained prisoners in a primitive cave watching shadow puppets lighted by a fire burning at the cave’s opening. The latter is a futuristic story set in a world controlled by artificial-intelligent computers that created the Matrix‚ a virtual world programmed
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