Anthony Felix 10/27/11 Che12ALR Synthesis of Diphenylacetylene Observation of Results: 1‚2-dibromo-1‚2-diphenylethane | 0.204g | Diphenylacetylene | 0.087g | Theoretical yield | 0.107g | Percent yield | 81.3% | Melting point range of diphenylacetylene | 57- 60°C | Average melting point | 58.5°C | Average literature melting point | 60.0°C | Percent error of melting point | 2.5% | Calculations: Theoretical yield: Limiting reagent (LR) x M.W. (LR) x Mole to Mole ratio x M.W. (product)
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave addresses important aspects of a person’s’ frame of mind; through indirectly comparing pieces of the story to mental exploitation. Through his story‚ Plato urges the reader to find truth and wisdom through elevating their personal thinking. A concept he would die to make known - some two thousand years ago - now bears a relevant message in our world today. The message Plato left behind the story lies around perception‚ and how knowledge obtained through what we see is
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And the reason he decided to escape was that he wanted to question everything he learned from inside the cave. When he finally left the cave‚ he was in disbelief; it was pretty much a culture shock to him. Everything was so different compared to his life inside the cave that he didn’t want to believe any of the world outside of it. When he finally accepted the new ideas‚ he discovered the truth. Since he was able to discover the truth
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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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Explanatory Synthesis There is a big gap of rich and poor people today‚ in this society‚ how the upper class and middle class people think about poor people‚ is it really just about money? However‚ there are number of reasons that being poor. Some people can’t get equal chance to get education‚ and some people born poor‚ so these problems are cause middle social mobility in America. In the article “Born Poor and Smart”‚ author Angela Locke (2005) claims that her mom was smart but poor‚ she loves
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Synthesis Essay Four The minimum drinking age articles “Tempest in a Bottle”‚ by Shari Roan‚ “The Perils of Prohibition”‚ by Elizabeth M. Whelan‚ “The Minimum Legal Drinking Age: Facts and Fallacies” by Traci L. Toomey‚ Carolyn Rosenfeld‚ and Alexander Wagenaar‚ “De-Demonizing Rum: What’s Wrong with “Underage” Drinking?” by Andrew Stuttaford‚ are articles that represent why underage people shouldn’t be allowed to drink alcohol beverages. In the “Tempest in a Bottle”‚ by Shari Roan‚ explains
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The Republic Notes Dialogue between Socrates (protagonist) and Glaucon (interlocutor) Stage 1. Bound inside cave * Been there since childhood‚ legs and necks fettered * Fire burning behind and above them * See artifacts carried by people along wall of path * Honours‚ praises‚ prizes for those sharpest at identifying shadows & order of shadows honored and held power; rewards are desired / envied * Truth is nothing other than the shadows of those artifacts Stage 2. Freed of
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AP English 11-18-12 Mr. Fayerberg Synthesis Essay Sports have played a major part in people’s lives all over the world. It has affected countries‚ families‚ and schools in a way that sports have become the center of their lives and basically nothing else matters as much. Sources A‚ C‚ E
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Nick Morris March 31‚ 2014 AP Lang 2nd Hour Analysis of “Allegory of the Cave” Knowledge is the one “thing” that cannot be taken away from a person. In prisons and concentration camps‚ men are often striped down until they have nothing; yet what they do possess is whatever is in their minds. Thus‚ for leaders‚ it is important to control their subjects’ minds from the beginning‚ as this is the only to ensure that they can sustain their power. For even if the authority starves and beats their people
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Are African Americans Still Oppressed? African Americans in society today like the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave are hostage to their own mentality. The two characteristics commonly shared between both is ignorance to reality and a reluctance to change. Thus in the essay the prisoners are locked and chained down in darkness with only a glow of light that allows for little sight. In turn objects placed in front of the glow cast shadows before them. These shadows are then interpreted as
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