them. The prisoners will see their shadows casted on the wall‚ created by the fire behind the low wall. They would believe that whenever a person passing by would speak‚ it was the shadowing speaking. These prisoners would see reality as shadows on a wall because that’s all they have ever seen. “Now if they could talk to each other‚ don’t you think they’d believe what they saw was reality?” “Necessarily” (Plato 175). As Plato keeps describing the situation he states that what if the prisoners could
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Emily both stories share the theme of isolation. In Plato’s Myth prisoners are attached with chains to their necks not allowing them to look sideward‚ only towards what is directly in front of them. Behind them there is a burning fire with people holding up puppets that cast shadows on the wall‚ making the prisoners believe that the shadows that they are seeing are real people rather than just shadows. What it really convinces the prisoners are the echoes and the sounds that fit the shadows. That is what
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“Allegory of the Cave” and Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write” a painful process of gaining knowledge through all the ignorance is described. Plato describes a prisoner going on a journey to gain knowledge that is behind him‚ after he was stuck staring at a wall of shadows his whole life. He goes back to tell the other prisoners of his discoveries and they want to kill him. Douglass is a slave who learns to read and write‚ going through stages to achieve each step. As he begins gaining knowledge
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need to follow US rules. Many painful and tortuous things are performed on the prisoners‚ such as force feeding and the topic of this essay‚ water boarding‚ where the victim is made to feel as though they are drowning. Although Gitmo is legal/allowed to an extent‚ it still begs the question how the guards consciously perform such cruel acts and what I would do if I were faced with the decision of torturing a prisoner or not. The ethical ideas of the Just War model have been employed by international
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philosopher Plato‚ illustrates three chained prisoners trapped within a cage never seeing the outside world The only thing that they can see are the shadows created by fire of one’s passing through. One prisoner was allowed the freedom to be released. As he discovers this outside world around him‚ he becomes eager to tell the other prisoners about it. The prisoners do not believe him‚ because they are not able to see it for themselves. The one prisoner begs and pleads for them to believe him‚ but
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Socrates‚ the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows that he has seen all his life on the wall are not reality at all. The escaped prisoner would then return to the cave and tell the other prisoners about what he has seen outside the cave and how the things they believe to be reality are wrong. Most of the prisoners ignore the escapee and go back to watching
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imprisoned life. One of these men is being forced to reside alone in his room due to a maddening illness that has overtaken his mind while the other is an actual prisoner in a Russian war camp. Gregor Samsa and Ivan Denisovich are just two examples of how a world gone mad can change how life is lived in almost no time at all. These prisoners also come from different points of view and thoughts on various aspects of life such as work and how it affects one’s life‚ the necessity of food‚ ways currency
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His techniques showed the world how to treat prisoners without using traditional techniques of torture and inhumane punishments. His techniques for negotiations did not involve physical or mental abuse and instead takes a more friendly approach. His tactics started by getting the prisoner off guard by a friendly approach and starting a conversation with the prisoner. In the article Eliciting Intelligence Using the Scharff-Technique:Closing in on the Confirmation/Disconfirmation-Tactic
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The inner journey can be brought about in numerous ways and commonly result in intense emotions. This is evident in the poems ?Of Eurydice? by Ivan Lalic and ?The French Prisoner? by Janos Pilinsky. It is apparent from these poems that inner journeys are brought about as a consequence of an extreme physical journey that can prompt profound feelings within an individual. This is explained in Shirley Geok?lin Lim?s text ?The Town Where Time Stands Still? from the BOS booklet. James Mangold?s film
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to them. The shadows on the wall and the matrix both cover up the true reality that exists outside of the people’s comfort zone. Neo and Plato’s released prisoner go through similar realizations. Both Neo and the released prisoner are chained down (literally and metaphorically) from understanding the truth behind reality. The released prisoner is tied in a way that he cannot move and his head always faces in the direction of the wall. He finds out the truth behind the shadow’s that he has known as
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