gather the knowledge of these humanitarians to understand the definition education‚ thereby directing you down the right path towards an enlightening college experience. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato describes education in his "Allegory of the Cave" as a process of spiritual enlightenment. According to Plato: If (one) is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent‚ and held fast until (he/she) is forced into the presence of the sun (himself/herself)‚ is he not likely to be pained
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changed one December day in 1996. JonBenet Ramsey’s body was found by her father 8 hours after she was reported missing. Who could do this terrible deed? Was the killer still in the house? JonBenet Ramsey is one of the most highly publicized murder mysteries of our time and has lots of unanswered questions. December 25‚ 1996‚they found JonBenet Ramsey’s body. The 6 year old girl had been beaten and strangled. It was a sad murder scene that left many police officers upset. They found the body in the
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One day‚ two boys‚ Jamal and Todd‚ went walking through the “Mystery Woods”. No one would ever go into‚ or think about going into those woods. Rumor has it‚ that there was a little boy‚ maybe seven‚ went into the woods and never came out. People sent airplanes and claimed there were pools of blood and trees covered in flies. There were bugs bigger than the rotting bodies that were everywhere! After hearing about this story‚ the boys were DYING to go into the woods‚ so one Saturday… they did‚ and
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Murder mysteries streaming through the nation’s television channels have become a source of entertainment for some individuals; however‚ the officers that discovered the body of a local business man near Robins‚ NC were faced with the reality. The man’s cause of death was listed as drowning because he had a large amount of water located in his lungs. The water in the man’s lungs had a high concentration of phosphates. By analyzing water samples from Woodlake‚ Seven Lakes‚ Reservoir Park‚ and Lake
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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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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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