The Odyssey Allegory The book The Odyssey by Homer is a way to show how people can face many challenges in their lives. For example‚ the cyclops named Prometheus could be an example of people trying to hurt you‚ or stop you on your journey. Lotus flowers could represent temptations‚ and Aeolus meant to represent fortune and luck in going to be where you want to go‚ and underestimating how fortunate you are at a certain time. It’s easy to mix life with fiction‚ but the Odyssey merges the two beautifully
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Plato’s Cave: Still Current in Mass Media In the “Allegory of the Cave‚” Plato describes a group of stupefied people who have been trapped in a cave their entire lives. These prisoners are chained facing a wall; they cannot see anything except the shadows on that wall‚ which are being cast by men carrying unknown objects in front of a glowing fire. They never see the actual carriers or items‚ and they hear nothing but the echoes of these obscure men‚ yet are still entranced by these illogical sounds
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“MOTIVATION” Filipino people are religious human being. We usually seek for guidance from our Lord in every decision we will made so in relation to that our teacher decided to have a speaker that can motivate us spiritually‚ emotionally and to enlighten us by a word of god. Fr. Joel Eslabra was the 1st invited speaker. He is a priest who is willing to share the word of God and also can give us inspiration. Fr. Joel starts his discussion with an inspirational lecture about the word of god presented
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Topic: 10-POINT AGENDAS OF PNOY REFLECTION: The Philippine Educational System is having some difficulties in resolving the different issues regarding the quality of education that we have today. Because of this‚ ‚His Excellency Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino our 14th President prioritized the upgrading of the educational system in our country. To give the Filipino people a good quality of education and for the Filipinos to be more globally competitive. One of his agenda is the
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shows a story that teaches a lesson on the mind and its deepest desires‚ taking Macbeth an unambitious man and turning him into a power hungry maniac. Through Shakespeare’s use of ghosts‚ apparitions‚ illusions‚ and ambition he is able to build an allegory that shows the folly of hungering for power and plotting against those that are innocent. The hallucinations that macbeth observes show the internal feeling of guilt that Macbeth has about the murder of his cousin and good friend‚ Banquo. The ghost
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Explain Plato’s Analogy of the Cave Plato (428-348BC) was a student of Socrates and was the teacher of Aristotle. He is said to be one of the most revered philosophers of all time. He produced a lot of work but one of his major works was “The Republic” which was written in the middle section of his life. It is a Socratic dialogue‚ concerning the definition of justice and the order. It outlines his concepts of the Forms‚ knowledge of the world‚ ethics and politics. Plato was an absolutist and
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In this story by Connie Jan Maraan‚ the protagonist of the story is a ghost who died when the Tayuman LRT Station suddenly collapsed and the train came falling down on his face. According to him‚ he has seen Christ because of that incident. -Summary provided by: images.1aot.multiply.multiplycontent.com/…/PHIL.LIT%20-… (first entry that appears in Google upon searching Ghost by Connie Jan Maraan) In Connie Jan Maraan’s story entitled “Ghost”‚ she applied various symbols to express what happened
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STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BENIGNO “NOYNOY”AQUINO lll President Benigno s. Aquino lll has just delivered his fourth State of The Nation address (SONA) at the session hall of The House of the Representatives‚ Batasang Pambansa Complex On July 22‚ 2013 Being a candidate and become President is very hard because he need to face and solve all the problems .He need to help people who are needed ‚ he need to response to the few question of people. For him being a president of the country is not
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(BRFSS) which is from the national Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (Centers for Disease and Prevention 2004). Each year the BRFSS includes optional modules which are only conducted in select states. The author used the “Reactions to Race” module of the 2004 version which was conducted in seven states (Arkansas‚ Colorado‚ Delaware‚ Mississippi‚ Rhode Island‚ South
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Human Allegory in Lord of Flies The human allegory in the story‚ “Lord of the Flies” is represented through the situation of a group of kids being stranded on an uninhabited island without any adults to take care of them. The reason that the author‚ William Golding‚ chose the characters to be kids and not teenagers nor adults is because of their innocence and lack of knowledge of the civilization that they came from. Before being on the island‚ they would not have had a chance to face great responsibility
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