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    Nowhere placed loneliness After watching the film‚ I only feel loneliness. As Giuseppe Tornatore’s first English-language film‚ “The Legend of 1900” was renowned in the end of the twentieth century. It tells a story of a pianist’s legendary life. On the luxury cruise Virginian‚ An orphan is abandoned in the first class. He is named after the year he was found‚ 1900. Nineteen Hundred becomes a prodigy with special piano talent‚ as he slowly grows up. He performs piano on the cruise‚ and everyone

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    Hamlet: An Allegory of War in Our Time Deceit is the key device used in politics and everyday life to acquire power‚ status‚ success‚ and in many instances‚ revenge. Deceit and revenge are often repeated in Shakespeare’s Hamlet through many of Hamlet’s actions and of those of the play. Hamlet’s hesitation in killing Claudius‚ and Hamlet’s eventual death are a direct result of deceit in the court‚ and the futility of war be it domestic‚ as in Hamlet‚ or with in the world‚ as with the wars being

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    2017 Allegory in the movie- "The Great Gatsby." The movie - The Great Gatsby‚ produced in 1974 and is based on the Novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925 - is an allegory of the American dream. The story in many ways shows the life of Americans in reference to the American dream and how it is difficult to attain the dream. An allegory is a setting‚ object‚ story‚ colors or a picture that when interpreted can reveal hidden meanings. It is difficult to distinguish allegory from

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    Prompt: Define Plato ’s “Allegory of the Cave”. What is the central message? Is he describing education alone? Where does politics come in? Plato is known to many as one of the most influential and greatest philosophers to have lived. Plato represents his idea of reality and the truth about what we perceive through one of his famous writings‚ “The Allegory of the Cave”. The philosophical writing is in the form of an allegory‚ which is “a story in which the characters and situations actually represent

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    Julian Figueroa (#30973127) 1 An Allegory of Advertisements How does Plato’s allegory influence the way we consume art today? Every minute of every day‚ millions of people are exposed to advertisements. They plague televisions‚ streets‚ radio waves‚ and all means of communication. These advertisements employ many methods of persuasion and their influence is irresistible. Just like prisoners in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ we are told every day to invest our time and interest into the subject

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    In “The allegory of the Cave” Plato argues that education is not a matter of making the blind to see but of turning the learner “in the right direction.” What he means by this is that education is not about feeding someone information and expecting them to take it as the truth. It is about encouraging them to seek out the truths in the world around them‚ and helping them acquire the tools to do so. This point is extremely relevant to education today‚ which is mostly about test scores‚ and textbooks

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    How does Winterson’s use of fairy-tale/allegory add to our understanding of ‘Oranges are Not the only Fruit’ as a whole? ‘Oranges are Not the Only Fruit’ is a novel which often uses allegory to create depth and meaning to the novel by blurring the line between fact and fiction. The use of allegory adds to our understanding of ‘Oranges’ as a whole in many different ways. Allegories are used within ‘Oranges are not the Only Fruit’ to fragment the text; the fragmentation is a key characteristic

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    Human without education in the lowest state of learning is like the prisoners have been in the cave since childhood. Darkness in the cave is relates to the initial stage of education that blocking the prisoners from gaining knowledge. In the story‚ “Allegory of the Cave”‚ Socrates‚ who is a mentor to Plato‚ mentions‚ “The people have been in this dwelling since childhood‚ shackled by the legs and necks. Thus they stay in the same place so that there is only one thing for them to look at: whatever they

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    Francesa Larkin Personal Legend paper What am I good at? What am I good at? The question swirled around my head as I stared at the lake it seemed so endless. It went on and on until it fitted into the sky. in that moment I felt like a body of water myself‚ I needed to find my path in life or just as the lake I would fade away I sat hopelessly feeling alone in the world I looked up to the star filled sky asking for some sort of sign or direction. In my peripheral I saw someone walking. I

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    Reality‚ Truth‚ and Understanding The Allegory of the Cave by Plato questions truth‚ reality‚ and demonstrates how we are similar to the prisoners within the cave. Every person has a personal “cave” and only with knowledge and understanding can we escape from the captivity ignorance. The prisoners in the story were only allowed to see shadows in the cave and it’s what they believed as true. In the story Plato states that the prisoners came to know reality as nothing more as “the shadows of those

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