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    are like prisoners chained before a wall in a cave‚ unable to turn our heads. What we call reality is actually a mere shadow play on the wall‚ projected from behind our backs by persons carrying statues of humans and animals and carved likenesses of other ordinary objects before a fire that is behind them." (Rice‚ pp. 79) This allegory is attempting to simplify the ideas of forms and the reality of what is perceived as real. The prisoners in the cave are those people who have not achieved a philosophical

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    Quinzees Snow Cave

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    Will a Snow Cave Keep You Alive? First‚ let’s define the difference between a snow cave and a Quinzee. A Quinzee is made by shaping snow into a dome-like structure and then hollowing out sleeping quarters inside. The word Quinzee comes from the indigenous peoples of Alaska and Northern Canada. A snow cave‚ on the other hand‚ is typically a hole dug into a large snowdrift or into deep snow. The snow is displaced from its location‚ in other words. To construct‚ you simply dig into deep snow to create

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    Cave Art Shamanism

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    Cave art also known as parietal art‚ in the Upper Paleolithic from approximately 40‚000 – 10‚000 years BP is considered a glimpse into the imagination of modern humans. It can be used as a way to record the symbolic development of early humans giving us a hint to when the behaviour started and more importantly why it was created. This essay will demonstrate the different theories on why and how cave paintings could have been used‚ why it is more prevalent in some areas such as South Western France

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    Brief Summary In this Allegory of the cave written by Plato it tells about how people react to instances in life. The story starts out by telling us to picture people “ having their legs and necks fettered from childhood”(1)‚ so that they cannot move and are only able to see the puppets shown throughout the fire. He goes to point out that if all they can see are these shadows of objects that those said objects must seem like the real ones to the prisoners. So these prisoners would then consider

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    Plato’s Allegory of the Cave World History Honors In reading the philosophical works of Allegory of the Cave by Plato‚ I have come to the conclusion that he is trying to inform about education. In the writing‚ to me‚ the cave symbolizes that they basically have a daily routine with no variables. Another way of putting that is they live in the dark. The chains represent that they are bound by their own beliefs. The shadows represent a state of paranoia because they always feel like someone is

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    Explain Plato’s Analogy of the Cave Plato’s analogy of the cave begins with prisoner­s who are captured at birth and chained tightly in a cave with no natural daylight so they can only face and look at the wall in front of them. Since these prisoners have always been like this they know nothing else. They have limited knowledge to only what they can ‘see’ and oppose any other ideas. They are trapped like this and cannot go beyond the surface. The prisoners here are supposed to represent us. It

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    Clan of the Cave Bear

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    The Clan of the Cave Bear Many people are familiar with the ancient picture of cave-dwellers being the hairy‚ gruff bully of a man‚ dressed in animal skins‚ club in hand as he drags a female back to his cave. This drastic picture is not what one would get while reading Clan of the Cave Bear. The tale is a little more picturesque‚ but equally cruel‚ nonetheless; when it comes to the role of male versus female. Beatings‚ rape and humiliation are just a few of the brutalities dealt out to the females

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    Knowledge is being aware of facts or information. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave explains the reality of nature. It reveals how human freedom gives you the power to think and learn instead of going by misconceptions. Misconceptions come from lack of knowledge. Without knowledge‚ your mind can be easily controlled or manipulated. It would be hard to know the difference between reality and illusion. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ Plato illustrates how as children we are all close minded and have

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    can be argued that‚ from a grander perspective‚ disproving old knowledge does not mean that our new-found knowledge is of higher quality‚ since we may never have an accurate grasp on reality beyond what our senses suggest. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” tells us that‚ what we believe we are seeing are but our interpretations of ‘shadows’ cast by other things. This can be compared to the fact that before the sixth-century BCE‚ almost everyone people believed in the Flat-Earth Theory. They had established

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    Portrayals of prehistory in popular books‚ films‚ and television programs are sometimes more interesting for what they tell us about contemporary life than for what they reveal about ancient cultures. In the Clan of the Cave Bear (and the books that followed it) a doomed Neanderthal race is hopelessly outclasses by physically modern‚ culturally advanced "Others." Such portrayals could be labeled as accurate or inaccurate based on current findings. Whether or not these primitive peoples had belief

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