Plato‚ in "The Republic‚" describes humanity’s inability to escape the pit of darkness known as ignorance due to a limited perspective. Unfortunately‚ society is not fully aware of the limited perspective‚ because people choose the easier path; as a result‚ even when civilization is pointed towards two different paths- one towards knowledge and enlightenment and one towards a much easier decision- it chooses to remain in the darkness. The prisoners would rather allow their imaginations to cloud
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People’s Ignorance towards Fracking New Zealanders are all about the land. After all‚ is it not the thing that we are known for? New Zealand: clean‚ green and beautiful. So it is right to object when another country comes in and wants to exploit our oil via means of fracking‚ isn’t it? How much do people really know about fracking? How much do you know about fracking? The truth is‚ not much. Adjudicator‚ members of the audience‚ facking is apparently becoming a big problem in New Zealand. Major
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The Ignorance Towards Autism The average person tends to stare‚ or look away from a person with a disability. The average person is ignorant about the condition that every 1 in 88 people are diagnosed with‚ which is autism. The average person considers autism to be a disease that a person may “suffer” from‚ and tend to label these people as “unfixable.” Like the well known character Lennie‚ from the novel Of Mice and Men‚ written by John Steinbeck‚ people cannot seem to understand the reason Lennie
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Children are born into and will grow up in a racist and ignorant world. No matter how hard you try to keep them away from it with your words and protection‚ it is a disease‚ and everyone catches it at some point. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a widower named Atticus Finch with his two children Scout and Jem‚ are in the prime time of segregation‚ the 1930’s. Atticus is a very serious lawyer that is presented with an intense rape case. Scout and Jem are tasked with the process of growing
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song “The Less I Know The Better” states: “Someone said they live together / Ran out the door together / She was holding hands with Trevor / Not the greatest feeling ever … Oh the less I know the better.” A situation where one finds out more about the person they lust for than they wanted to is a common and undesirable one‚ hence the phrase “ignorance is bliss”. The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ takes place in the town of Maycomb‚ a fictional small town in the American
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“Everything that Rises Must Converge”: Ignorance Does Not Discriminate The short story “Everything that Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor describes how ignorance has no boundaries. The story of a young man named Julian and his prejudice mother living a time following the end of segregation. Julian despises his mother’s need to feel superior and pities her ignorance. Julian is conflicted by the fact that his mother will never change and toys with different ways to teach her a lesson and end
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Ignorance and Stupidity are words that are commonly used out of context and either word is often mistakenly used in the others rightful place. Ignorance is commonly mistaken for stupidity in society. Just as commonly‚ stupidity can be denied and termed as ignorance. To say that these words are one in the same is ignorance in and of its self‚ that is if one is uninformed of the true definitions of either word. When one has been informed of the correct definition
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Stupidity vs. Ignorance “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity‚” explained Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Even forty-five year after his death‚ Dr. King still continues to preach a very bold message to the world. Although stupidity and ignorance may seem very similar‚ they are very different. Ignorance is the unwillingness to evolve whereas stupidity is the inability to evolve. Today technology is a key aspect in everyday living. It is a necessity
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would you seek comfort from if no one in your surroundings welcomes you? Alienation and ignorance are two terms that are inseparable when it comes to understanding the real reasons behind the alarming success that ISIS and other religious extremist groups have had when it comes to recruitment. For the Islamic State‚ ignorance from Western societies is a tool they wield in order to create the situations (through their attacks) needed to generate alienation against the target groups that they see as
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“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” pg. 6 Those three lines are part of the Party’s slogan and they are repeated various times throughout the story. At first glance they are hard to understand as each word seems to be the opposite of the other. If you look into it more they seem very alike. For war is peace‚ think why we fight wars‚ for peace. And for freedom is slavery‚ in my mind I related it to the words yes and no. Yes entitles you to opportunities it
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