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    Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” discuss the influence that some of these various teaching methods have on an individual. Freire’s work names and describes two specific approaches which are referred to as the banking method and the problem-posing method. Similarly‚ though in a vastly more abstract way‚ Plato outlines two other ways of learning about the world through metaphoric prisoners within a cave. Though my own educational

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    Upon reading the Allegory of the Cave‚ one can see that Plato is arguing the importance of defining the theory of what is really being seen versus illusions that we see and think are reality. In this play‚ prisoners are chained by their feet and necks so that they can not move their bodies or their heads‚ forcing them to look straight ahead at a stone wall. A fire is burning behind them and people are walking with sculptures across a platform in front of the fire‚ creating projected images onto

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    Paleolithic and Neolithic Art Drawing by Firelight (30‚000 B.C.) Cave drawings have been found dating back to 30‚000BC. This was man’s first written attempt at the art of storytelling with pictures. Many of the paintings are located in the ceilings and walls deep within the caves meaning they could only be viewed with firelight. Most of these caves have been found in France and Spain. Animals were most commonly drawn in the pictures. Early artist also painted people into the pictures. Some

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    The Allegory of the Cave The Allegory means a lot to people who are very mystical and like to think of different things about life. The allegory is a story about these prisoners whom since they’ve been children have been locked away deep inside a cave with chains all over their bodies including their heads making them be immobilized and their heads facing one certain wall. To the backs of these prisoners there is a fire and between the prisoners and the fire stands a way in which men carry various

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    The painting of the rhino‚ wounded man and disemboweled bison is found deep in the Lascaux cave in France. The entire cave dates back to the Paleolithic period in art. To be able to create this painting these early artists depended on light from make shift lamps or candles to see in these dark environments. In order to create this astonishing art work the need for art supplies that we easily find at a store today needed to be created from their natural resources. To create paint for this master piece

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    hidden cave in Lascaux‚ France‚ many children found a remarkable painting on the wall. After telling about their findings‚ researches and explorers visited the cave and it was then they saw the “Chinese Horse”. The art got its name because it resembled the ceramic horses of the Han Dynasty in China. Although the reasoning for the painting is unknown‚ they research has shown that several paintings in this era included plants and animals. It was not the only painting of a horse found on a cave wall.

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    someone’s idea who might not be able to design or paint the idea given. 2. One rationale reason for cave paintings in prehistoric times‚ that I have heard and agree with is that they painted these things on the walls in hope that the creatures would come so they would have food among other things. One particular example would be all the paintings in the Las Caux cave in France; it is a cave entirely full of images of bulls. Bulls or bison were a source of not only food but probably clothing and

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    see our ancestors going into caves such as the Chauvet Cave‚ or the Cave of Niaux‚ and painting truly immaculate‚ unbelievable portrayals of (most commonly) large wild animals. These caves are covered on the walls and the ceilings with these animals‚ and it is quite clear that our ancestors showed these images a lot of respect. These images were not drawn in caves in which people lived‚ in fact most caves showed very little signs of life at all. Some of these caves

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    Two of the panels I will be discussing are the Panel of the Wounded Man and first panel in the cave‚ the Unicorn Panel. The Panel of the Wounded Man is found in the “Shaft Room”. The Panel of the Wounded Man contains a number of interesting artwork like “Man and Bird”‚ the “Rhinoceros”‚ and the “Bison”. This room and panel caught my attention for a number of reasons. First‚ in rooms like the Hall of the Bulls‚ there is a decent amount of color coming out of the artwork. Whether this is the paint

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