...make him strong. Finally, Simba decides to go back to his land and reconquer his kingdom. Though the fight, retake the king of his land, Simba grows up to a brave and responsible king. From this move, Simba is my favorite character. According this move, I also learned learning from good and bad leadership. Powerful metaphor of light and shadow illustrate the differences between ethical and unethical leadership. Those who cast shadows abuse power, manipulate information, and deceitful, and act incongruently. Behaviors and traits of leaders who cast light include humility, compassion, courage, optimism, and integrity. In this move, the light is Simba, he is very kind, smart, and brave. As a leader, Ethic is the heart of his leadership. His leadership that is effective, in his goals was achieved, and that follows a sound and ethical process. Also, Character development is an essential ingredient of ethical leadership. Simba’s character is defined by his actions and behaviors, not simply by the values that are espoused. Besides, He is nonjudgmental, flexible, listen attentively, showing respect and empathy. About Scar, he is totally shadow, bad leadership. Violating the basic standards of animal rights of their own supports, as well as he of other individuals and groups...
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...Elizabeth is a leader that possesses many great qualities. She had a vision that earned her people’s love through respect, understanding and being unprejudiced. As a leader, she accepted the opinions of her advisors but at the same time thinks rationally and decides on what is the right thing to do for her people and country. In the beginning, Queen Elizabeth and her ministers were discussing how Mary Stuart, a devoted Catholic, is the Queen of England in waiting. Her ministers advised her that all Catholics are traitors and their loyalty is to the Pope of Rome. It was right for Queen Elizabeth to say that she will not punish her people for their belief but only for their crimes. This showed that she understands that by allowing people to live freely, it creates joy and happiness among the people. This in return will allow her to earn the love from her people. She is able to show that she wants to maintain a good relation with her loyal Protestant supporters and her ministers; she made decisions for the good of her people and country even though some might not agree with her decisions. From this situation, it is clear that the she was able to adopt fairness and transparency. She was able to make practical decisions about issues, and treated everyone equally (Brimacombe 2000). During one of the greatest wars known in history – the English defeat of the Spanish Armada. Queen Elizabeth truly stands out as an organized, brave, honest yet motivating leader. Queen Elizabeth...
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...The Socrates points out that the prisoners are mistaken on what is reality, while describing the cave and the prisoner’s predicament. We know the that shadows are cast using certain objects, but the prisoners do not have this knowledge of the shadows so that’s their perception of reality. This development shows us that everything we have perceived as real can be falsified because of screwed interpretations of reality. A prisoner was released and forced to look at fire and items that were once all in his mind and a perception of reality. He accepts them as forms of reality and Plato calls this the vision of truth. Plato mentioned that they would go back to their painless acceptance of the truth and noted this thinking as “belief.” The prisoner was comforted by his perceptions and feared the world surrounding him. His self-comfort resulted in him being forced to step out into the sun. The Socrates elucidate his, the prisoners, confusion, distress...
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...What does Plato's cave represent? The Allegory of the Cave, the cave represents people who perceive knowledge as something that is seen and heard and that is really what it is not about. These people, in a sense, would be the chained people in the cave. This shows us that people in this cave are in a world of misunderstanding. There are people that live their lives in the dark, which means, they live in just that cave and not know that there is something beyond the cave. They lack the truth because they live in such comfortable lives and that the shadows is all they are known to see. The artifacts that they see that casts these shadows are out of their sight and do not see that these are the real 'truths.' They think that its everything in their lives and try to make sense of these shadows in the best form they can. Then, all of the people play the game of knowing what they know about these shadows. The ones that guess them right and know these shadows very well are the ones that know everything there is to know about these shadows they know about. It is an illusion of what they think is real. They even start to respect the one that knows the most about these shadows that are the 'truths' to them. These artifacts represent the form of Good that they are able to see, and think the shadows are that sort of the form of Good that they see and believe in. Then, Plato supposes that these shadows are not supposed to be named. The form of Good can be perhaps something that only your...
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..."When little men cast long shadows," said Walter Savage Landor, an English author of the turn of the nineteenth century, "it is a sign that the sun is setting." Mr. Landor was not speaking of short-statured men, although perhaps he had the diminutive Napoleon in mind. No, he was referring to ignoble men, those with unworthy ideals and ambitions. Such men are self-aggrandizing, interested only in their own promotion. Considering our political landscape, such men seem to be the rule rather than the exception. The current resident of the White House, reputed to be brilliant and motivational, seems to have few ideas, and those he does have are inimical to the traditions and principles of the nation he is supposed to be leading. Despite the President's popularity with nearly half the country, his record of unkept promises, division, and soaring debt marks him as one of the "little men" that Mr. Landor had in mind. And he certainly casts a long shadow, as Americans will be paying for the failure of his ideas for generations to come. A better-known quotation on leadership and character comes from America's sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." This quotation—from a man who was tested as perhaps no other American chief executive has—makes it clear that character in leadership matters. Holding a position of leadership by definition implies holding power, and only people of good character...
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...The analogy of the cave is the method that a Greek philosopher named Plato used to describe the philosophical different between the ‘fake world’ in which we live and the world of forms. Plato portrays this message through a story of a group of prisoners in a cave who can only see shadows cast upon the wall in front of them. These shadows are created by puppeteers behind them and they believe that the shadows are reality. The message created through this scene is that the real world is full of illusion which hides reality. It subtly represents the human which confines the soul, preventing it from seeking the truth, in this case, reality and the world of the forms. The analogy represents the entire human race that is yet to seek the philosophical truth. It teaches us that the world in which we live is full of illusion and everything we see is just an imitation of the forms. Each element of the analogy is symbolic and holds a meaning which may not be completely obvious until the analogy is further understood. We, as prisoners are believed to be rejecting of new ideas and that the actual process of teaching is distressing and difficult due to the fact that when the prisoner is first released he continuously attempts to return to the cave as it is where he feels comfortable. The way the prisoner is dragged up into reality again reiterates the idea that we are all quite narrow-minded and we don’t want to open up to new thoughts and ideas. When the prisoner begins to differentiate...
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...Socrates begins this Book with the last of his analogies. This is the most famous of all of his analogies. Thus the Allegory of the Cave was born. It describes Socrates’s levels of belief and knowledge, as well as describing the role of the philosopher in a society. Without going in to depth about the analogy, I must answer the question if this relates to political life now. Socrates imagines a cave with a long passage leading upward in to the light. In this cave there are people who have been bound up here since birth. They are positioned in such a way that they cannot move. All are forced to look straight ahead at the wall of this cave. Behind each prisoner there is a large fire. Between the prisoners and the fire there is a road,...
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...Wicca Candy Ellis June, 20, 2011 This report is based upon a face-to-face interview that I had with a modern day witch named Vicky who practices Wicca. I chose to dived my report into three different parts, the first part will explain where I met Vicky and it will discuss what I have heard about Wicca during my life time. The second part is the actual interview I had with Vicky. I included the interview in my report because I believe it contains great information that can clear up any misconception about Wicca. The last part of the report will consist of the four questions that are required to be in my report per my professor. These questions are the equivalent of me reflecting on this project. I have to admit that the day I met Vicky had been a good day, not only did I raised a lot of money for a charity pageant; I met someone that allowed me to interview her for my class report. I met Vicky at a flea market and I had a feeling that she practiced witchcraft because of the items that she was selling at her booth. The items she was selling are candles, incense, crystals, herbs, table clothes ranging in size and color that have pentacle designs, pouches and jewelry. My assumption was correct because when I asked her if she practiced witchcraft she told me she follows Wicca. Once I found out what religion she practiced, I told her about my school report and asked her if I could interview her to learn about her religion. She agreed to meet with me the following weekend...
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...different things on their hands and their shadows fall in the cave world. The people inside the cave cannot raise their head completely so that they can only see the shadows like illusion, which they believe, as real but it is just their illusion. - See more at: http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/creationofknowledge/allegory-of-the-cave.html#.Vm1VcUp961s Plato also talks about an ideal state, which is a utopian world. In an ideal state, there is equality among the people because no one is superior or inferior in this world. There is free flow of knowledge justice and truth, everywhere in the ideal state. Plato is also known as the first communist because of his concept of equality among the people. In the ideal state, rulers are also true philosopher whose wealth is not money or gold but spiritual knowledge. Those are the best rulers to rule the ideal state because they are reluctant to rule and active to serve the people as true servants. In other words, the rulers at the ideal state are never thirsty to exercise power, they do not want to impose cruelty over the people but instead they are worried of the condition of the people and the welfare of the state. These rulers are based because for them ruling is not imposing power but it is serving the people. But it is just an ideal state so practically there is not possibility of such state as such ideal rulers are rarely found, these true philosophers are not only the rulers but also best teachers, who should go to the dark and ignorant...
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...prisoners, chained down in a cave, so all they could see was shadows created by puppets in front of a fire on the cave wall. Their reality was merely the shadows and it is the same for us (as the common man.) According to Plato, our reality is nothing more than figurative "shadows." Everything in the cave can be attributed to a part of society. The fire can be equivocated to "unwisdom" (229) or even evil, and in society is created by the greed that some have for power over others. It is the driving force behind the entire scheme to misrepresent reality. By controlling what people believe is reality, they in turn gain control of the people by telling them what is true and what should be valued, which gives them the power they crave. The fire (greed) is necessary for the shadows to be cast, without it nothing at all could be seen. Without the fire, the puppeteers would have no purpose, no reason to hold the objects up at all. Without the greed for control, society's "puppeteers" would not have any desire to misrepresent reality. The puppeteers are the manipulators in society (the greedy people). People in a variety of different positions act as the puppeteers. Anyone who tries to skew reality for his or her own personal gain is a manipulator. Religious and business leaders, as well as politicians are all likely candidates for the role of the "puppeteers" because they often control people's realities. Religious leaders...
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...The movie I watched for this project was Unbroken. This movie takes place during World War II in the early 1940’s. The setting includes the Pacific Ocean and several prisoners of war camps in Japan. During this time in the war the Japanese were invading and attacking multiple areas and were pursuing the American ships in the Pacific fleet. The movie is about a young Olympian, Louis Zamperini, who enlisted in the war in the early part of WWII, and when his plane crashed in the Pacific, he and two other survivors were stranded in the ocean for 47 days until captured by the Japanese. From there, he was placed in a POW camp in Japan along with his friend Phil, who was the pilot of the plane. At the camp Louis was especially targeted by the violent leader, Mutushiro aka “The Bird” because he was an American Olympian. Mutushiro took every opportunity possible to pick on and beat Louis. The American soldiers were the enemy of the Japanese and vise versa. Mutushiro; “The Bird” was prejudiced against American soldiers. He had a lot of anger and took it out on them, beating and torturing them relentlessly. Louis took the punishment and mentally tortured the bird by his ability to endure severe pain and torment. His ability to tolerate the punishment only made the Bird more relentless. Both Louis and the Bird were doing the duty of their country, only the Japanese were much more cruel. The aspect of the war represented in the film was mainly POW. After I did my research I learned...
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...inverses to one another; both cannot occupy the same place at the same time, and yet neither can be defined without the other. To know the light is to have known the darkness, if one is missing, the other is lost. Darkness is unable to comprehend light, it is unable to understand, it lacks to knowledge. Light in most religions and cultures stemming back thousands of years ago is seen as something that breeds knowledge while darkness destroys all understandings we hold. Nostromo is a modernist novel that enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a fictional South American territory. Throughout Nostromo, the author Joseph Conrad continuously brings up the theme of darkness in many variations within the text, from the physical darkness cast over all of Costaguana, which is created by the setting sun and lack of light, to the psychological aspect of darkness within character’s hearts and minds, as we see within Nostromo himself when he chooses to forsake his ideology and steal the silver. Conrad was able to use an intangible element of darkness, which has the ability to conceal and destroy knowledge, as a tool to portray human consciousness when you believe that no one is able to discern your actions. A brief history of Joseph Conrad and his writing will help give way to understanding his intent behind Nostromo. Conrad was a British writer with Polish origins, most famous for his novels such as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Nostromo. Drawing from his experience as a mariner...
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...late King Laius is caught and expelled from the city. King Oedipus vows that he will catch the murderer and help his city. Oedipus sends for a prophet and asks him about the murder. The prophet tells Oedipus that he is the murderer. Oedipus refuses to believe the prophet, before the prophet leaves he says a riddle saying that,” the murderer of Laius will turn out to be both father and brother to his own children, and the son of his own wife.” Oedipus angry at what the prophet has said threatens Kreon with death for conspiring with the prophet and telling lies. Jocasta, Oedipus’s wife explains to him that all prophesies are false and as proof tells him that the Delphic oracle told Laius that he would be murdered by his son, but his son was cast out of Thebes as a baby and Laius was murdered by a band of thieves. The description of Laius’s murder sounds very familiar to Oedipus and he asks more questions. Shocked, Oedipus tells his wife that he might be the one that murdered Laius. Outside of the palace a messenger approaches Jocasta and tells her that Oedipus’s father has died and that he has come all the way from Corinth to ask Oedipus to come and rule the kingdom. Jocasta and Oedipus rejoice, because the prophecy that said Oedipus will murder his father has not come true. With one half of the prophecy being false Oedipus fears that the other half of the prophecy that says that he would sleep with his mother might have been true. The messenger tells Oedipus that the king and queen...
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...Cast two Shadows is a story about Caroline Whittaker, a 14 year old girl who lived in Camden, South Carolina on a plantation during the American Revolution. As the war goes on Caroline’s father is sent to jail for being a rebel. Her brother is at war fighting for the Loyalist. Caroline’s family home is taken over by Lord Colonel Francis Rawdon, a leader of the British army. Caroline her mother and sister are forced to be the servants for Colonel Rawdon and the other soldiers in Caroline’s house. This invasion affects not just the plantation owners but everyone who lives on the plantation and in the town. I t change the lives of slaves, women, and loyalist and forced them to play major roles during the war. The slaves played a significant role in the American Revolution. They served as cooks; they fed everybody on the plantation including the other slaves. They served as maids and cleaned the plantation. They took care of the people who were injured on the plantation. The slaves also raised the owner's children and their children. Occasionally, the slaves served as soldiers in battles. During the American Revolution women played an important role. A lot of these women husbands were soldiers. They were away from home fighting in the war. The women were forced to take care of the house, become servants to the British army, help in the fields and help to make weapons for the soldiers. Caroline’s role has change significantly. Her family was wealthy. Before the war she...
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...Revolution of the twentieth century. Many say that the incubation stage, the earliest of the stages, could have started in Russia as early as World War I. Some characteristics that define the incubation stage are: an economic crisis, weak rulers and no real reform, class division, and an overall feeling that the leader of the people has done an injustice to his subjects. These traits were woven into events of the Russian Revolution. World War I started to strain the economy. Resources were limited because all available goods had to go to the military. In addition, Tsar Nicholas II was responsible for not...
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