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    A man's search for meaning

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    A Man’s Search for Meaning Dr. Frankl elaborates on the psychological motives of both prisoners and himself in his novel A Man’s Search for Meaning. He starts by explaining‚ “It is easy for the outsider to get the wrong conception for camp life‚ a conception mingled with sentiment and pity. Little does he know the hard fight for existence which raged among prisoners” (22). Frankl gives insight on how difficult it was to live‚ but also to survive in the conditions of the camp. It shows how the

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    Carver’s Cathedral is a story about a man who started out as a closed-minded man but‚ throughout the story his character changes as he begins to bond with his wife’s friend‚ Robert‚ a man who is blind. Plato’s Allegory of the cave is a story about a prisoner who is freed from being locked in chains living all of his life underground and finding out a different perspective about a lie he’s been living his whole life‚ being told as a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon. In the stories‚ “ Cathedral”

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    Lesson 2 Dynamic Security

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    List the benefits of a good prison regime Recap on Physical Security What is the difference between an Open or Closed prison in terms of security? Closed is completely locked Open allows prisoners out for work/weekend home visits State the difference between a Category A prisoner and a Category D prisoner Category A – Pose threat to society‚ maximum security‚ crimes such as murder‚ rape or terrorism. Category D – Can be trusted in open conditions and sometime allowed out. Low risk. What does

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    Journey to Enlightenment

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    suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him and he will be unable to see the realities of which his former state he had seen shadows…” (1121). Reality is put into question for the prisoner when Socrates uses the sun in an extended metaphor to also represent the world of intelligence and ideas. The longer the prisoner was in the light‚ the more he would become acclimated to it and slowly his view of reality would become shifted. As Plato shows through this quote‚ “…[B]eing able to see the sun‚ and

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    Security Assessment

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    Security Assessment Amanda (Mandy) Jensen CJS/250 6/13/2014 Dr. Gale Tolan Security Assessment Associate Level Material Appendix B Security Assessment Directions: Choose one of the Facts for Consideration sections from Ch. 3 of the text and list the page number for the section you chose. Then‚ complete the following table. List five threats appropriate to the environment from the section you chose. Rate the risk for each threat from 0 (low) to 10 (high). Then‚ list five appropriate

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    deceit. This quote is portrayed in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” as the prisoners detained in the cave are deluded by their perception of reality‚ and the prisoner that escapes loses that distorted world and becomes enlightened. The cave is a representation of the hidden lies in which the prisoners are provided at the premises of their knowledge and are restrained from the truth to remain ignorant. Ultimately‚ one of the prisoners discovers that the world in

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    chained prisoners watching shadows cast on the back of the wall of the cave. They hear voices and think these voices are coming from the shadows. Thus‚ believing these shadows are a reality. Plato then describes one of the prisoners becoming free from the chains. Someone then drags the prisoner upward out of the cave. Although he would be blinded by the light of the sun and the movement would be painful‚ he will be seeing the reality of the world for the first time. He then describes the prisoner being

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    Sorry for the loss

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    deliver bad news‚ especially when you do not know how the receiver will react. Evie‚ a female prison guard‚ shall in the beginning of the story tell about the death of a grandmother to Victor a prisoner. It is the first death notice she will deliver alone‚ therefore is Evie is worried about how Victor‚ a prisoner she does not know‚ will react when he hears the bad news "(...) her question is really about whether Victor is the dangerous‚ unpredictable type who might want to throw a punch at news of his

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    the cave begins describing a cave inhabited by a group of prisoners who have been chained and held immobile since infancy. Their legs‚ hands‚ and head shackled by chains limiting their movement‚ compelling them to gaze at the wall in front of them. There is a fire that burns behind them and unknown people walk with objects which cast shadows of those objects providing the prisoners with view of what they believe to reality. One prisoner is release and dragged outside of the cave‚ to the real. At

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    If you are still a person that is okay with confront like the prisoners who didn’t leave the cave. Then‚ you won’t be able to be at peace with both‚ and this will create polarization between these two strategies. And if you are not able to keep both strategies‚ you will not reach you enlightenment to its full potential

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