Extended Response Practice- English HOD & CAVE Allegory is a way of revealing a quite complex idea using a seemingly simple structure. The term allegory is best known as an extended symbolic narrative with a didactic purpose. An allegory is usually an extended narrative in which the characters and incidents symbolise underlying ideas‚ usually moral or ethical. Main ways the writer achieves this is by using techniques like symbolism‚ personification and metaphor‚ which he/she use to express abstract
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1. Thesis Statement Cryonics is the process of preserving dead body‚ and for its preparation for the future revival. The general idea behind cryonics is that since most diseases and old age that result in death result from damage to the bodies tissues‚ cells‚ organs‚ and cellular components that this damage should be curable in the future as science continues to develop. As such‚ persons who pay to have their bodies frozen by a cryonics company upon their death do not have any guarantee that the
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reality‚ and he made a great impact on the knowledge we can have. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” is one of the best known writings in Philosophy that attempted to answer questions such as “why are we here?” and “what is reality?”. In
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the analysis of three readings entitled “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ “Civil Disobedience” by Thoreau‚ and “A Letter from Birmingham Jail” by King‚ the reader can conclude that the main idea of the nature of good revolves around personal morals and open-mindedness rather than civil law or majority rule in the face of justice. In “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ the nature of good is represented through the deprivation of light the prisoners of the cave experience. In this imaginary representation
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The allegory goes that there are prisoners kept in a deep underground cave. They are chained so that all they can view is the back wall of the cave- they cannot see behind them‚ or even each other. They have been like this all their lives. On the back wall passes a constant stream of shadows that the prisoners can see but the prisoners cannot identify the causes of shadows. The shadows are caused by people carrying cardboard cut outs walking back and forth behind the prisoners. The fire between the
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(SCA) in the United States each year” (Sudden Cardiac Arrest Facts). Only 32% SCA victims get CPR because most bystanders do not have training. Training CPR and AED would save lives (About SCA: Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Healthcare Crisis). b. Thesis statement: Making CPR and AED training a graduation requirement would make students able to help in a SCA circumstance‚ increase the general population of trained life savers contributing to the documented
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“The Truman Show” and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” writings were astonishingly similar in theory. Even though these two writings were written almost 2500 years apart‚ there were many key concepts alike. In both writings there was an imprisonment of a man from childhood to adulthood. Both of these men had a series of events occur as they grew older‚ which allowed their eyes and mind to see and process the truth of the world and to forget their ignorance. “... I proceed to say‚ go in to compare
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It seems logical that good education can only be acquired if one have enough money to spend because all supporting factors require funds and other resources to be realized‚ so much so in a developing country as the Philippines. One of the most evident problems is the poor having less access to good education. Good education require both the hardware (school buildings‚ books‚ supplies‚ equipment) and software (trained and dedicated teachers‚ healthy citizens) components that require funds from both
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Definition of Key Terms: Mobile Platform - also described as an OS or operating system. Mobile Device - a small computing device‚ typically small enough to be handheld (and hence also commonly known as a handheld computer or simply handheld) having a display screen with touch input and/or a miniature keyboard. Mobile Application - a computer program designed to run on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android - a software package for smartphones‚ including many application
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The Allegory of the Cave is a text that is devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge‚ reality and existence. Plato explores the nature of our society by using the illustration of human prisoners who are chained in such a way that they cannot move their heads‚ unable ling them to see the outside world. This allegory is a symbolic representation of what reality can be to one‚ may not be a reality to others. The allegory of the cave commences with the description of a dark cave
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