The cave is very dark because there is little light inside it and hardly seen the objects. There are some chained people on their necks as well as feet, these chained people cannot move easily. Similarly, there is also another world out of the cave world, but between these two worlds, a wall is raised. On the wall, many other people move with 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
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Miriam experiences her first loss at age 16 when she is imprisoned and loses her freedom. When Miriam describes almost being drowned, how she was called derrogitive names by prison guards, the way in which the prisoners were brutal to one another and how she was addressed purely as 'Juvenile prisoner Number 725' for 18 months, it becomes obvious that Miriam's story is horrific and far from being uplifting. As Miriam exposes the traumatic events she experienced in Hohenheck prison it is made clear to Funder
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way. The first entry of the allegory has Socrates describing a cave in which there are prisoners. The prisoners have limited sight since they are chained at the neck and legs and can see in only one direction. There is light from a fire which allows the prisoners to see shadows on the wall form passing men. My interpretation of this starts at the beginning. Actually one line which speaks of the prisoners; …here they have been from their childhood… (Plato (interpretation by Benjamin Jowett)
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15 years ago A dark, stormy night with foul tension in the air and a sharp turbulent wind kicking up sand reaching into a dimly lit cave where multiple shady looking people wearing robes with 5 of them being the only ones wearing colors and two sides parting into half standing parallel to each other with different garment colors, black and white. The 5 with colors start to make a formation which is similar to an occult circle and speak “The 2 who have been chosen by the black and white come join
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allegory of the cave describes a group of prisoners living in a dark cave. They are bound in chains preventing them from moving easily. Being stuck in the same place and position all the time, they have nothing to do but stare at the wall in front of them. A fire casts a light against that wall on a platform in the cave. While people on the outside of the cave go their own business, the objects they carry cast unclear shadows on the wall. As a result, the prisoners in the cave spend their time trying to
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illustrates his metaphor by depicting a group of prisoners who have spent their entire life in the darkened cave and their passage through the distinct stages of the cave, with them starting at the lower stages of the cave and proceeding to the higher stages and eventually out of the cave, however Plato believed that we as humans are not capable of reaching the last stage of knowledge (good) and that we all stop somewhere along the first 3 stages. Just as the prisoner has to reach an understanding of the sun
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enlighten the prisoners who are bound by chains so they can vicariously experience the true good in the world. Socrates, in this conversation with Glaucon, paints a picture describing a world where people are born as chained prisoners that are forced to stare at a cave wall their entire life. Moreover, there is a fire shining behind them that reflects onto the cold stone wall. Behind the fire, guards pass holding artifacts that cast the statue shadows onto the wall and the prisoners play memorization
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of the Cave”, prisoners have spent their entire lives chained inside a cave. They are chained so that they cannot see behind themselves while solely staring at the cave wall in front of them. There is a fire burning behind them and between the prisoners and the fire are objects that create shadows on the wall. A prisoner is released and has to adjust to the blinding light. After learning that there are object which create the shadows and not just the shadows themselves the prisoner goes back to the
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underground in a cave where prisoners are forced to watch a show that they believe is what life only consists of. There is a blazing fire set back behind them and a wall where puppets are displayed so that it casts images on the wall in front of the prisoners. Their heads are chained so that the only thing that they are able to see is what is being projected on the wall. For the prisoners, this is all that they know about life and all they have ever known. A prisoner later escapes and finds his way
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the origins of the modern grocery store? Who invented the Glue Stick and Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan? “The Prisoner & The Penguin” is a short collection of marketing stories that answer these questions and more. - See more at: http://250words.com/#sthash.6K0aBEfK.dpuf What are the origins of the modern grocery store? Who invented the Glue Stick and Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan? “The Prisoner & The Penguin” is a short collection of marketing stories that answer these questions and more. - See more
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