nowhere‚ but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow‚ 1996) <br> <br>You ’ve been living in a dream world Neo. This‚ is the world‚ as it exists today: Welcome to the desert of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) <br> <br>From Plato ’s "Charmides" to the Wachowski brothers ’ "The Matrix" (1999)‚ there is a tradition of writing in Western literature‚ which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia‚ or both. I believe that what such imagining allows us is to do is locate
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Kevin Dang 11/19/08 Professor Gourko The Matrix Analysis Universal In 1999‚ the Wachowski brothers released the first movie in their epic trilogy and box office sales went through the roof. Filled with unbelievable special effects and kung fu‚ the first film of The Matrix trilogy was a must see for anyone and everyone around the country and the world. It isn’t just explosions and fighting that made this film special‚ the plot is one that leaves the viewer endlessly pondering about the film
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Descartes‚ and The Matrix Kyra Eigenberger Liberty University Deception is the foundational issue prevalent in The Matrix‚ Plato’s allegory of the cave‚ and Rene Descartes meditations. In each of these excerpts the goal of answering the question of what is real and how to uncover the truth is essential. Another question that arises throughout all three excerpts is whether or not the individuals will be able to handle the truth when it is finally learnt. In The Matrix Morpheus reveals to
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realize that the reality they are so familiar with has never been true‚ knowing that it is not true is the real path to being knowledgeable. The importance of knowledge is portrayed in both and Socrates’ “Allegory of the Cave” and Wachowski’s movie “The Matrix” in describing the inevitable pain
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Movie critics and philosophers alike agree that the movie "The Matrix" is indeed based upon certain Platonic themes from Book VII of The Republic. In this story entitled "The Allegory of the Cave‚" he describes a dark underground cave where a group of people are sitting in one long row with their backs to the cave’s entrance. Chained to their chairs from an early age‚ all the humans can see is the distant cave wall in from of them. The shadows of statues held by unseen puppet handlers’ reflect
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After obtaining knowledge from the Matrix‚ Plato’s Allegory of the Cave or The Republic and the first Mediation from Descartes‚ I see that there are a few likenesses and contrasts. I would need to say that The Matrix and Plato’s hole purposeful tale were more comparable because the individuals included in both stories‚ they existed in this present reality where they were being cheated about what the fact of the matter was. In the Matrix‚ once Neo saw this present reality and that all that he thought
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In The Matrix the protagonist Neo is the liberal humanist. The being free from the structure of society and able to make choices without the bias thrown upon us through media and language. However within the first twenty minutes of the movie the theory of the liberal humanist begins to collapse around Neo. He learns that his life has been pre decided and machines control the reality he believes to be truth. The irony in finding out that his whole life is essentially a lie is that he does obtain the
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GPSM (KRALJIC) What is kraljics matrix and how can products be moved from one part of the matrix to the other? Intro: it is the first comprehensive purchasing model introduced by Kraljic (1983). It was targeted at aiding purchasers in deciding what purchasing strategy to use for which product. Its main aim is to minimize supply risk and make the most of buying power. The approach includes the construction of a 2x2 four-category portfolio matrix that classifies products on the basis of two dimensions:
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I am doing my analysis paper on the movie‚ “The Matrix.” I chose the movie the matrix because I want to talk about all the different types of sounds. . I’m first going to be talking about the ambience sounds they used. Then I’m going to be talking about how they used the music‚ and finally about the sound effects they used in the movie. and types of sounds they used‚ like the ambience‚ music‚ and the sound effects . The matrix is about how computer’s control the universe in the future. Which they
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What can we know? According to French philosopher and mathematician‚ in Mediations on First Philosophy‚ Rene Descartes‚ nothing can be certain. Similarly‚ in The Matrix‚ the Wachowski brothers raise the question of how does anyone know what is real and what is not? The Wachowski brothers and Descartes describe their ideas about knowledge and epistemology through skepticism. Knowledge is a justified‚ true belief. According to Descartes‚ knowledge comes from two sources: Experiences‚ which are the
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