narrated by Socrates‚ in which he describes prisoners in a cave looking at shadows which they perceive to be reality. One prisoner escapes the cave and can now see the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners. I believe that the Cave is about Plato’s desire for change in Athenian political structure It metaphorically relates to the death of Socrates: The idea of returning to the cave to enlighten the other prisoners is what Plato believed Socrates was doing in
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Auschwitz - 1940 Auschwitz was not a concentration camp‚ it was a kill camp. They used these camps to kill nuisances‚ and people they did not like. Inside of this camp‚ they killed people in many ways. There were many different types of prisoners. And the prisoners thought the living conditions were worse than death. The Holocaust was a horrible time‚ and in a concentration camp like Auschwitz‚ it made it even worse. The punishments in this camp varied. The most common punishment was to take away
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to be either the guards or the prisoners. The guards’ responsibility was simply to cause chaos and disturbance among the inmates without using physical force. A small degree of protest was expected from the prisoners. Surprisingly‚ a prisoner was already emotionally out of control and refused to cooperate on the second day of the study. Some guards even secretly attacked the prisoner with fire extinguishers regardless of the rules. Since then‚ the guards and prisoners started to develop roles defined
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According to how Plato depicts prisoners‚ I think I am a prisoner. To begin I can say that Plato through his allegory illustrates how we are all prisoners in this world. He does that by comparing our lack of knowledge of what is real and what is not to his prisoners who knew nothing except the shadows of reality‚ and who believed what they saw as real. For example‚ at the beginning when Plato depicts the kind of prisoners he is talking about‚ Glaucon responds by saying that it is a strange
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The Andersonville camp was an awful‚ murderous place for Union soldiers to be held prisoners in. It was established in Andersonville‚ Georgia by General John H. Winder and nearly 13‚000 men died over the fourteen months the prison had been in operation. These Union prisoners suffered in the nasty condition of the camp and had little to no clothes‚ food rations and medical care. At the end of the Civil War‚ Captain Henry Wirz was questioned in court for committing crimes against humanity and was
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These three issues cause a lot of problems and frustration in the daily lives of these male prisoners. I will also be informing you about how these issues and how I feel the criminal justice system can improve on these issues. Severe overcrowding is one of the major problem in most prisons. They are so overcrowded that in endangers the lives of the prisoner and officers. Cells originally built for one prisoner‚ now often house two or three men. Judges in the United States have ruled that many prisons
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PROBLEM IN CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA INTRODUCTION The Union of India is a Federal Polity consisting of 28 States and 7 Union Territories directly administered by the Union Government. Under this federal system the States have their own Governments‚ and Legislatures‚ with powers and functions which are clearly defined under a written Constitution. Under such devolution of executive and legislative power the
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file)‚ each prisoner was left isolated in a detention cell to wonder what he had done to get himself into this mess. After a while‚ he was blindfolded and
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contentment would be the prisoners kept in the cave. People who are labeled as rebels and even activist for a cause could be considered as the freed prisoner. Accepting the true reality is a difficult task‚ but it’s better than being arrogant and staying in a comfort zone. To begin‚ during the first stage all of the prisoners were kept chained in a cave and given one perception. The video informs about the prisoners having no knowledge of the outside world.In the video‚ the freed prisoner gradually adjusts
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seen in Shawshank? Key questions What steps are being taken to control and prevent violence around the world and what is being done in new Zealand What kind of incidents are common in New Zealand regarding violence in prisons What influences prisoners to commit these violent acts in prison How effective are programs in place to prevent violence in prisons What steps are being taken to control and prevent violence in prisons around the world and what is being done in New Zealand? Prisons are
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