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    'Corrupt In The Well'

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    experiment” in this passage I believe that when the prisoners would mine the guards would be mean and cruel like when the person made his bed the guard went over and messed it up although the prisoner did what he was told. But still this shows that power can be corrupt because the guard was being cruel to the prisoner although he was told what to do. The guard’s power is corrupt because of his actions and what he did he was being cruel and unfair to the prisoner. And in the well “ are they on there way yet”

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    depiction of the cavern, one of the prisoners gets out of the cave, and the he come back to the cave, gives us an outline of how our education works, to be liberated from the material world, the impact of any kind of custom, beliefs, and to find out oneself and the world in a more liberated and meaningful way. At the start of the Allegory of the Cave, Plato depicts a gathering of men, anchored in a hole, confronting a divider, with just a flame behind them. These prisoners exclusively see the world by

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    The next day, the driver and I went out to the truck early just to make sure Murphy’s Law hadn’t struck and everything was still set for the prisoner transport. We drove down a couple of dirt roads on the FOB, less than a mile, and I found the NCOIC I was to link up with. He started off briefing me what the timeline looked like and where I needed to be. My driver and I went inside to get the

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    George Orwell A Hanging

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    The recurring dog acts as Orwell’s motif to show that the soon to be dead prisoner is still very much a person. The simple behavior of a dog “...[making] a dash for the prisoner,... and [trying] to lick his face,” shows that the man is a human, not a monster. Humans have a tendency of trusting a dog’s instincts more than their own. This is because dogs are so pure, that they

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    Blinded by Ignorance The world is full of distractions to keep us comfortable with living in a false reality, one of the biggest distractions being the internet. The invention of the internet has accommodated us with an immense amount of knowledge; ironically, the internet also conditions us to accept shallow knowledge as truth. Plato argues that each person possesses some form of ignorance, and that it is our job to break free from our chains to truly see the world in its purest form. In “The

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    These problems in prison make the prisoner release system incredibly difficult for prisoners to return to society as active, prospering citizens. Over the course of 19 years in prison, Senghor had many negative encounters with guards, one of which resulted him being sentenced to 4 and a half years straight in solitary

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    Essay On Chimps

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    In the future, all humans owned Chimps as their personal servants, until one day. There was a chimp named Cornelius, he served a wealthy, ungrateful man. This man owned more than one chimp, but he didn’t treat them as well as he treated Cornelius. He tortured the other ones, killed their parents and their whole family in front of them. But Cornelius was special, he had a secret that only the other chimps knew about. Drake, his owner, would ask the chimps to make a sacrifice, one chimp would become

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    about first discovering philosophy and its teachings, the allegory starts of as prisoners at birth have been forced to watching shadows puppets projected on walls of a cave from a fire; the prisoner, as Plato says is every person to have existed or to exist at this moment in time. As the prisoners watch the shadows, they're perception of reality are the shadows and they live out their lives as normal until one of the prisoners is released, the light from the fire hurts their eyes, they are exposed to

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    Summary Of Socrates Cave

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    Also present in Socrates’ cave was a certain wall or partition separating the prisoners from another group of people who simply walked along a path carrying statues shaped after all that of beings and occasionally uttering sounds as the others remained quiet. The shadows of the statues

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    about living inside a cave were prisoners were held. They were kept held since childhood, being chained up only to look at a wall. They had no access to moving their head to only looking at a wall. Within this wall were shadows Socrates explains “they only see their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.” Behind these prisoners was a walkway, were people could put up figures of if certain objects to show the prisoners the shadows of these objects

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