Review PPTs and textbook and answer the following questions with SPSS. (Note: The data sets for the problems are available on the course D2L. Q1. Sue Borch‚ director of the Fowlerville‚ Maine‚ Center for Adult Recreational Activities‚ has long wondered whether there is a relationship between the number of complaints the center receives from patrons and volunteer staffing levels. To examine her hunch‚ Ms. Borch regresses the number of complaints received per week (COMP) on the number of volunteers
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to the climb out of the cave in Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave." In the "Allegory of the Cave‚" the chained down prisoners are limited with their perception on reality. At first‚ they can only see moving shadows on the wall in front of them. Once released‚ the prisoners’ sense of reality is changed as they can see the people making those shadows. The prisoners can then climb up the ascent of the cave and eventually bask in the Sun’s rays. After stepping outside the cave‚ the prisoner accepts a new
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talks about many subjects‚ including how he believed a person learned. He tells about an “Allegory of the Cave”‚ a story told by Socrates explaining how a person comes into knowledge. It tells of people in a cave facing a wall‚ chained so that they can not move their body or head and turn around. They were only able to see the wall and the shadows cast along the wall by people and animals walking by the cave entrance. They would only be able to hear their own voices‚ those arounds them‚ and the echo
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Compare the film ‘the matrix’ with Plato’s allegory of the cave. The Allegory of the Cave is one of Greek philosopher Plato’s most well known works. It is an extended allegory‚ where humans are depicted as being imprisoned by their bodies and what they perceive by sight only. In the allegory of the cave Plato wanted to show how true reality is not always what it seems. A group of prisoners were chained up in a cave since there childhood‚ each prisoner was chained to each other by their heads
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The movie The Matrix has many similar themes and differences to “The Allegory of the Cave”. The Matrix is about a man named Neo‚ he believes that he’s a normal man with a normal life but then he is contacted by a man named Morpheus. Morpheus exposes Neo to the truth that his world‚ where he is just regular Tom Anderson is made up. The Matrix‚ was created by sentient machines that subdue the human population‚ while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Neo is reluctant
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Myth of the Cave” can’t have more different titles with completely different meanings right; well‚ not exactly. How is it that an allegory about a seagull is anything like an allegory about people inside of a cave? Allegories are just representations of a thing that has a hidden moral or religious meaning the titles of these allegories are very misleading until you analyze them both. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato are both allegories about people
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Persuasive Essay Bliss Most people live in a world of relative ignorance; we are comfortable with this unawareness because it is all we know. "Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” captures the essence of the journey to enlightenment. Clearly‚ the thought of sameness and normality thinking has transcended from Plato’s time to today. Thus‚ the allegory is relevant to contemporary essential life. Organizations are known for fostering a culture of group thinking. The danger inherent in group thinking is the
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What Plato is trying to teach with The Allegory of the cave is that things that we learn through the senses are not always the truth and people are too close-minded to try to see things in a different light. In Plato’s theory the cave represents that people believe that only things you can see or hear are true or real. The cave shows how these people are trapped in there misunderstanding of reality. The Shadows represent the mistruths presented as reality in the world. The game represents that people
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Allegory of 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
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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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