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    All over the world‚ the principal initiative most find themselves concerned with has much to do with the control of money. Particularly in America‚ quandaries often arise as citizens and officials make fundamental efforts to improve society in due course. Numerous articles found in the New York Times have profoundly demonstrated how issues that continue to emerge can promptly be restored with a budget extension. Articles dated only days apart‚ “Treatment‚ Not Jail‚ for the Mentally Ill”‚ “Many weight-loss

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    reality as the visible world and nothing more. It begins with the supposition that if a group of prisoners were chained to the wall of a cave‚ and are able to see what was in front of them; with a fire behind them‚ they would only be capable of seeing the shadows of the images as they passed by the fire. The prisoners would begin to identify the shadows as their reality. However‚ if one of the prisoners were to escape from the cave‚ he would be incapable of seeing anything at first‚ because the light

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    force you to clean your sleeping area‚ like the cell bars‚ the toilet bowl‚ make your bed‚ and fold the seat and table against the wall. Secondly when you are done cleaning your cell area then the second morning whistle blows‚ which means that all prisoners have to exit their cells when the warden or lieutenant say to. When they say to exit your cell then the inmates are counted. The inmates are counted thirteen times a day and sometimes even more. After you have finished all of these‚ you work all

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    of the cave‚ it allows one to go in depth and be able to see a visual interpretation of the divided line of which Plato describes earlier in the text. The allegory begins with four prisoners chained in the bottom of a cave since birth‚ unable to move and only able to look at the wall ahead of them. Behind the prisoners is a long entryway in which there is a raging fire. From time to time people come forth and hold statues

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    Spoon- The whole idea of the labor camp is to destroy the idea that everyone is different in the camp. The guard’s ultimate goal is to make all the prisoners feel equal‚ no matter what their rank was before entering the camp. This uniform idea of having everyone the same is why Ivan feels so unique. He always keeps the spoon in his boot after every meal without anyone knowing. b. Alyoshka- This character

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    approach his schoolhouse. He watches them climb the hill. One of the men‚ a gendarme named Balducci‚ is very familiar to Daru. He leads an Arab prisoner who has been accused of murdering his cousin in a family squabble. Balducci has been ordered to bring the Arab to Daru‚ and then return immediately to his post. Likewise‚ Daru has orders to turn in the prisoner to police headquarters at a town approximately twenty kilometers away. Daru refuses this task‚ considering it dishonorable. Balducci agrees with

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    The Truman Show are similar by how the characters are portrayed in the story and movie. In the story by Plato the prisoners are kept in the cave‚ chained and unable to move. “In this they have been from childhood‚ with necks and legs fettered‚ so they have to stay where they are. They cannot move their heads round because of fetters.”(Plato 1) Coupled with this shows how the prisoners were treated and how they have been kept

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    Allegory of the Cave Plato’s Allegory of the Cave brings about many question compared to Christianity. He depicts a group of prisoners in a cave chained and unable to move. The only thing they can see is shadows cast upon the wall by their guards. The rationalism in this is very confusing but based on Christianity many of us are prisoners of the world we live in and are kept here by the others around us and are unable to see the truth of the word of Christ because of all the illusions

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    between prisoners and those who they come in contact with both while in custody and on release. For example is a prisoner does not have positive support or role models in the community they come from it can means that when they return to that environment they will more likely reoffend again but if the prisoner can build a positive relationships this will lead to opportunities work or constructive study and the chances of reoffending are greatly reduced. It can be very hard for prisoner to have

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    the fire and the prisoners there is a wall meant for objects to pass. Because of their limited vision (lack of movement)‚ those men can only see their own shadow and the shadow of different sculptures that pass over the wall‚ which are carried by other men they can’t see. One of those prisoners is released and starts walking around the cave. He is very confused by what he sees but finally he realizes that the shadows are just a representation of what is really there. The prisoner is forced to go out

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