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    faith and reason are connected to one another. Both faith and reason are ways of finding the truth because faith is consistent with reason. In Plato’s Allegory of the cave, he expressed that the prisoner’s reasons within the cave misguided them towards faith and God. In the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, the fundamental claim of faith and reason is compatible is brought about in ways someone can find the truth. In “The Confessions” by Saint Augustine, he starts on a journey to becoming a Christian

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    Ignorance often impacts people’s point of views. Every story has a different narrative that derives from another perspective. As imperfect beings, people tend to judge from only what they have seen or heard, ignoring the other side of the story. As a result, misunderstanding, confusion, and lack of knowledge become part of their experience. For instance, in the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian society where the government rule over the people with dictatorship. On the other hand, common

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    People tend to avoid many obstacles, as it is the best thing to do after all, but sometimes some obstacles are very tragic, and affect people in many different ways leading to dreadful changes within themselves. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, is about a man, Oedipus, who finds out he has a horrifying fate of killing his father and marrying his mother, and tries to run away from it, but ends up doing the opposite and goes to his fate. Oedipus as an outsider, has a disadvantage when he rules Thebes, he

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    The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Obstacles in His Life In The Confessions, Augustine goes on a journey to discover the truth, and purses the ideals of how he should live and what he finds value in. In his pursuit for the truth and his journey through life, Augustine is faced with obstacles that significantly shaped who he is, forming his very thoughts contained in the novel. The obstacles Augustine had to face through his life was the confrontation of sin and why humans perform sinful actions

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    When he killed a man before it calls into question the whole truth seeking process. They both share prophecies that were given to them both similar like when jocasta was told that her son was going to kill his father. Oedipus was given a similar prophecy from an oracle. But they both try to ignore the similarities they don't want to speak about the real truth.They try to continue their normal lives but nothing is the same after the truth comes out. In the Kite Runner when Amir finds Hassan in the

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    own belief of the truth. This performance is a tragedy about a moor who has been tricked by his own ancient who leads him to his downfall. This story connects to Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave, where people are chained up and only capable of seeing what is in front of them which is the false truth. In the story, Shakespeare manipulates characters to see a false truth, create scenes that have characters question each other, and how stereotypes shape your concept of the false truth. From beginning

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    ceded - I've stopped being Their's-” Emily Dickinson’s Poem 353, “I’m ceded – I’ve stopped being Their’s -” speaks of truth to identity against societal standards. The poem is 19 lines, divided into three stanzas, and written in the first person with a single speaker. Dickinson incorporates her own opinion and experiences by writing an assertive poem. Dickinson’s poem unfolds truth to society’s power over a woman’s identity. The poem has an angry tone read from the first line, “I’m ceded- I’ve stopped

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    By writing The Allegory of the Cave or Plato’s Cave, Plato tries to convey to people that they must escape the world of illusions and shadows and look at it with other eyes because that is the only way that they can find the true view of the world. In other words what I mean by other eyes is that people should see not only what is presented to them but see what is the real message hidden behind the illusion. People should think outside the box in order to break away from the delusions and discover

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    “And our sons go, when they are twenty, and they don’t want tears, because if they die, they die inflamed and happy” (2). In Luigi Pirandello’s “War”, the fat man opens up our understanding of fallen heroes, causing us to reconsider how we view death. The arrival of a woman and her husband on the night express, followed by the arrival of a fat man, sparks a conversation between the passengers regarding the recruitment of their sons in the military. While the other passengers are mourning over the

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    In America, large cities almost universally hold a predominantly liberal population, while many rural and suburban areas tend to vere more to the middle and right of the political continuum. One simple explanation for this phenomenon has less to do with the perceived nature of different “types” of human beings living in a given place than it does with the nature of that place itself. Naturally, someone spending every day of their life in a five by five mile square packed with two million people will

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