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    as a golden pink kind of light that comes about as a result of the combination of smog and bright white sunlight. This combination gives the area its unique configuration (color)‚ optical illusions‚ obstructions and at times objects do not produce shadows. Smog in the LA air too comes about too as various factors come together. Firstly‚ Weschler (668) discusses how the warm desert air traps the cool misty air brought in by winds from the pacific. This makes the air very stable in a thermo-inversion

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    lives and we thinks that it will last forever. Rudyard Kipling also uses excellent word choice to enhance the meaning of his poem. In the last line of the poem the word shadow is used. “Shadow to Shadow‚ ‘see how our works endure!’”(Part of line 22). He uses the word “shadow” to say the beginning and end. The word “shadow” creates a darker meaning than other words he could have used. He offsets the dark meaning by using the word “endure”. With this word he creates a sense of invincibility‚ in

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    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 bonds‚ look towards light * Cured of “ignorance” * Pained and dazzled‚ unable to see things whose shadows he’s seen before * Be at a loss; believe that the things he saw earlier were truer than ones he was being shown now * Look at light: eyes hurt‚ turn around and flee towards (shadows) * They’re

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    their persona‚ shadow‚ and self‚ ultimately achieving individuation. In Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men‚ the state of individuation is demonstrated by the antagonist Anton Chigurh at the onset of the novel. In Anton Chigurh’s quest for the stolen satchel of money‚ Chigurh remorselessly murders all those who are obstacles to attain the satchel‚ including competitors. Through Chigurh’s varying experiences during his expedition‚ Chigurh’s constant impersonal persona‚ sadistic shadow and sociopathic

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    see it‚ they can only see the shadow of objects on the wall in front of them (Plato asks us to imagine the wall as a puppet screen). Occasionally people carry objects past the fire‚ and the shadows are reflected onto the wall for the prisoners to see. The prisoner’s play a game‚ in which they try to predict the movements of the shadows‚ and attribute names to the objects from the sounds made by those who walk past. Having known nothing else‚ they believe the shadows are ‘real’ and that the cave is

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    duel‚ he summoned a monster‚ a shadow from the threshold of death‚ which scared him and sent him on a deadly quest across the lonely seas which were full of peril. After taming an ancient dragon and being hunted by the shadow‚ he realized that a man could not know the end he went to unless he turned. Then‚ he went hunting the shadow‚ the most terrible fear in his mind. Far out on the open sea‚ he confronted the shadow and defeated it by realizing that it was his own shadow. Ultimately‚ he reconciled

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    animals. Next‚ we are to imagine being one of the prisoners‚ who cannot look at anything besides the wall right in front of them. These prisoners see the shadows of the different objects that are being carried by the people crossing

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    We can denote this characteristics on the quote from Wordsworth’s poem‚ where he took seriously the idea of death is a horror for humans. “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is the most important example of the shadow of romanticism. This history is an horror story where the fears of humans are exposed like‚ no hope‚ no love‚ no trust and that we are alone in this world. As well‚ it shows that the creation of life is a disaster becoming Doctor Frankenstein a failed

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    haze one may see around a street lamp. The camera is close-up and blurred. The image is kept on for 3 seconds and then the camera fades out and back into another blurred image of light with dark contrasts. The dark contrasts appear to be blurred shadows. The images transitionally fade in and out in two to three second intervals. The sound begins to pick up beat. The momentum of the music increases as movement begins. The camera zooms out‚ as it fades out from one image and into the next. The

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    heads are shackled such that they cannot look behind them or at the sides. On the blank wall in front of them‚ a fire that is behind them projects shadows of objects that are passing behind them. When one of them is released to the outside world‚ the people who remain in the cave do not believe the version of the story concerning the reality of the shadows they have spent the whole of their lives watching and analyzing. According to Plato‚ the chained people represent the uneducated and uninformed

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