...MAN CAVE BARBER SHOP SAMUEL TATE DR. MARLA BOULTER SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT February 2, 2014 Mission Statement The Man Cave barber shop is a barber shop that will provide men with a masculine and therapeutic environment while experiencing the best grooming care there is to offer. Men will experience the leisure and relaxation services that we provide. Our goal is to become a profitable business by providing our clients in the community with a place where they can refresh their minds and bodies while networking with colleagues and friends. Company Strengths and Weaknesses Strengths • Customer service • Certified personnel • Stress free environment Weaknesses • Limited work space • Overbookings Services The man cave barber shop will provide leisure’s that you don’t see in most traditional barber shops. The shop will provide massages, manicures, pedicures, and there will be two lounge areas adjacent to the service areas where clients can partake in coffee, reading, surfing the web with free internet connection in one lounge, or playing pool, and watching television in the other lounge until called for. Analyzing Competition In this type of business there is always competition from other salons and barber shops. Most barber shops or salons in the vicinity don’t offer the services that we provide. This gives us a competitive advantage in the marketplace...
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...early childhood 4 men are Tightly chained around the neck and the legs unable to move in a sitting position forced to stare at a wall . In a dark cave ,to a post ,4 men,are given the only source of reality which is in front of them on a wall that is dimly lighted from a fire that is positioned above and behind them.Between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised platform with a low wall built to hid the bodies of the marionette’s who are displaying the shadow of puppets and shapes onto the wall.These men have been in the cave so long that they have the belief and without a doubt that the figures and animals they are seeing are represented accurately to what we know them to be.One of the men is released from the chains and slowly begins his ascension up the stairs and when he reaches the outside of the cave he is just left awestruck and disbelief at what he is seeing and begins doubting what he see’s compared to what he grew up with and saw in the cave. But his disbelieg turns into understanding which enlightens his interpretation of things he experienced in the cave and his intelligence to the level of what most would consider a philospher .But he is left with symphony and guilt about letting the other prisoners know what he has discovered but is only responded by the others that he is crazy and if anyone were to leave the cave they would just become insane like him....
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...The Allegory of the Cave is Plato's explanation of the education of the soul toward enlightenment. He sees it as what happens when someone is educated to the level of philosopher. He contends that they must "go back into the cave" or return to the everyday world of politics, greed and power struggles. The Allegory also attacks people who rely upon or are slaves to their senses. The chains that bind the prisoners are the senses. The fun of the allegory is to try to put all the details of the cave into your interpretation. In other words, what are the models the guards carry? the fire? the struggle out of the cave? the sunlight? the shadows on the cave wall? Socrates, in Book VII of The Republic, just after the allegory told us that the cave was our world and the fire was our sun. He said the path of the prisoner was our soul's ascent to knowledge or enlightenment. He equated our world of sight with the intellect's world of opinion. Both were at the bottom of the ladder of knowledge. Our world of sight allows us to "see" things that are not real, such as parallel lines and perfect circles. He calls this higher understanding the world "abstract Reality" or the Intelligeble world. He equates this abstract reality with the knowledge that comes from reasoning and finally understanding. On the physical side, our world of sight, the stages of growth are first recognition of images (the shadows on the cave wall) then the recognition of objects (the models the guards carry) To understand...
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...PHILMAN PRELIM Lesson 3: Greek Wisdom of Man The Greek Triumvirate The Greek Triumvirate of philosophy is known for having a chain of teacher-student relationship. Socrates was the teacher of Plato; Plato was the teacher of Aristotle; and Aristotle was the teacher of one of history’s greatest conqueror – Alexander, the Great. The Greek Triumvirate & the Three Oriental Sages * Although the teachings of the Three Oriental Sages and the Greek Triumvirate are dissimilar, they however, have a resembling view on the soul of man. * The Oriental sages and the Greek triumvirate believed that man’s soul pre-existed his body. * The Greek triumvirate believes that man, in his original and ideal existence as a soul or a « pure mind », knew all things by direct intuition and had all knowledge stored in his mind. However, when man was banished into his world of sense, man blurred out and forgot almost everything he ever knew. * The Greek triumvirate posited that the present problems of man was caused by ignorance or lack of knowledge and that the only way for man to solve these problems is by recalling all his previous knowledge. * However, while they believe in the vitalityt of looking into one’s self as a method to resolve man’s problem, there are still major differences when it comes to the ‘specifics’ of their ideologies. Socrates * He was born in Athens circa 469 B.C. and died in 399 B.C. * He is known as one of mankind’s greatest teachers. ...
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...The Beast in the Cave Analysis The horror genre of literature has lasted due to the desire to know what is unknown. Its psychological aspects keeps readers continuing to tantalize themselves as they ponder answers to questions such as “What is behind the door?” Author H.P. Lovecraft understands this concept when he states “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear,'' and creates tormenting sensory details within his stories (Handler 1). Written at age 14, The Beast in the Cave shares the same question asked by so many readers (1). Many questions about what exactly this beast is create suspense in readers, leading to a twist in what it truly is, potentially as a symbol for racism. The negative attitudes and moods within Lovecraft’s writings are likely attributed to his tragic childhood. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890. At the age of three, his father developed a mental disorder via syphilis that was untreated (H.P. 1). After three years, his father was hospitalized in Providence until his death in 1898. Lovecraft lived a reclusive life, departing high school before receiving a diploma due to a nervous breakdown (H.P.). Lovecraft died on March 15, 1937 from cancer, and after death, grew more popular over time. His stories have inspired writers such as Steven King and Neil Gaiman (2). The Beast in the Cave is a short story of the horror genre, regarding the adventures of an unnamed man through Mammoth Cave. This narrative begins...
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...of The Republic, Plato introduces his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ which presents itself in the form of a Socratic dialogue between Glaucon, the brother of Plato, and Plato’s teacher, Socrates. Plato’s initial focus in his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is almost entirely transcendent; he is concerned not with knowledge, but rather with the nature of reality. Socrates, speaking to Glaucon, describes a group of prisoners chained to a wall in a cave who have been there since birth. Behind them is a fire, which lights the cave, and between this fire and the prisoners is a road where people carry all sorts of human, animal and other forms, which are then reflected onto the opposite wall of the cave. Unable to turn their heads, the prisoners are only able to see the shadows that these forms cast upon the wall and Socrates makes the point that such men hold that the truth is nothing other than the shadows of artificial things. Plato makes an interesting point about human nature in this case, emphasizing the idea that human beings have a tendency to accept the reality that they are presented with. He goes on to say that, upon being introduced to the world outside of the cave, a man would be at a loss and believe that what was seen before is truer than what is now shown, a natural human reaction when facing the realization that one’s entire concept of reality has proven to be false. After his discovery of the world outside of the cave, the man would begin to adjust, first he’d most easily make out...
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...Plato’s Allegory of the Cave presents a dialogue between Glaucon and Socrates that discusses human awareness simultaneously with human ignorance. Plato concludes that humans think and act on assumption, rather than knowledge. In Allegory of the Cave, Plato argues knowledge gained through sight is an opinion of an individual’s imagination, and in order to find the holistic truth and education, an individual has to rely on more than just sight. The Allegory of the Cave divides man into two groups:those who perceive surroundings by sense or those who perceive the world by spirit. Those chained in the cave base their “knowledge” on sensory perception through sight. This is what Plato deems as falsehood, as “the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images,” (Plato, 267). The cave itself represents misunderstanding because man is only able to gain from observational evidence. The shadows seen from the puppeteers is the evidence man uses to support the idea that observational evidence provides knowledge. The prisoners talk in terms of the shadows they see, rather than the actual objects; reality is impossible to investigate through the senses. Humans should attain concepts from physical objects through the senses, but should not rely on them fully....
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...the meaning of the shadows in the analogy of the cave.” The analogy of the cave is what Plato used to portray his idea of the World of Forms more clearly. In it, he tells us to imagine that there are a group of prisoners who have been held in a cave all their lives, and have never left it or had any experience of the outside world. They are all chained facing a wall, so that they can never see the cave’s entrance. At the entrance of the cave, there is a fire, and whenever someone or something passes that fire, it casts a shadow onto the wall the prisoners are facing. The prisoners think that the shadows are reality. But one day, a prisoner breaks free and rushes outside the cave. He sees the fire, and people, animals and other things. Here, he has discovered the real world and for the first time realizes that it is so much more than the cave, the shadows and everything else seen previously. This man is so overwhelmed by this new reality that he has found that he goes back into the cave, to tell the other prisoners what they are missing out on. However, the rest of the prisoners do not believe him, and in fact become angry at the man, because they believe that the shadows are reality. The outside world is a depiction of Plato’s world of forms. He believed that the World of Forms was the true reality that we will never accept until we see it for ourselves. The cave represents the physical world in which we live. This “cave” that we live in makes us somewhat ignorant to change...
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...Allegory of the Cave,” Plato presents his abstract view of human nature and truth, whereas Douglass presents his personal journal in “Learning to Read and Write.” Compare and contrast Plato and Douglass' essays and ideas. How might Douglass view Plato's allegory based on his experience? The most basic question that we can ask ourselves is: who and what am I? Moreover, the answer to this question about human nature (what a human being is) will greatly affect how we see ourselves. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”, he managed to let us visualize people living in a big cave, where these people were chained by the leg and by the neck and they couldn’t move. They can only see what is in front of them. He explains to us how the “The Allegory of the Cave” is the education of the soul toward enlightenment. According to Plato, the chains that bind the prisoners are the senses and the prisoners symbolize ignorant people, the raised wall symbolizes the limitation of our thinking. The idea of Plato’s essay describes how most people are trapped in their own world, unaware of what is happening around them. According to Plato the “The Allegory of the Cave” is the common man and it represents all people before they are fully educated. The common person sees nothing but the shadows on the wall of the cave. In Plato’s essay, the fire has a significant meaning to the common man; it is the source of light and the only reality he can see as it sheds light into the cave. Then comes the...
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...Shaquilla Carter November 13, 2013 The Cave The parable of the cave is a story where men are held prisoner is a cave. These men could not move because they were chained underground and all they could see are shadow of things from the fire that was burning. These men only saw shadows of things because of the fire and walkway. The light was projecting objects and these men would guess what each was. These men were never outside in their entire lives. They were trapped in a cave where darkness ruled and very little light was shown. There only contact with mankind was echoes they heard from people passing by. What kind of life is this for these men? They had no understanding of life outside the cave. Plato later asks the question of one of these men being freed and getting a chance to see real light. How would this man react? How would he adjust to the light? This man finally was able to see the real images of life. After taking all of this in the man finally got to see the real light, the sun. Now his eyes are opened for the first time in his life. Then the man comes back to the cave. He has to readjust his eyesight to the darkness. Plato's divided line theory talks about the distinction between the different levels of knowledge and reality it wants us to imagine a vertical line. The left half is dedicated to metaphysics and the right half is dedicated to epistemology. Now imagine a horizontal line running through the middle of the vertical line to form quadrants. The upper...
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...In my own opinion, I believe that the short story “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is basically a story that represents the way in which people perceive what they to be reality. The story’s location is in a cave, where there are people who are chained down and forced to look at a wall that is in front of them, for their entire lives. They cannot stand up or move their heads in any direction. The cave is completely pitch black with the exception of a fire lit behind them, casting shadows upon the wall that they are forced to stare at. There are people behind them using puppets, and different materials to cast different shadows on the wall. These shadows on the wall are what the people who are chained in the cave perceive as reality. One of the people who was chained down in the cave gets released out into the real world, thinking that the shadows he had been seeing was actual reality. The story describes how when he was released, what he saw was aching to the eye, and he was not yet even fully out of the cave. Plato says how since the sight of these new images would be so unnatural and uncomfortable for the man, he would feel a need to go back to the cave and stay where he feels comfortable, or safe. One he was fully surrounded by the outside world, full of sunlight, he was completely disturbed and blinded by the suns rays. Plato states how the man will at first see the shadows and the reflections of the people he is amongst, and then he will look up at the sky and to the sun, and...
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...of the Cave” In “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato tells the story about the reality that comes forth through knowledge and the willingness for man to seek the truth. The Allegory of the Cave is a deep philosophical scenario that is being described by Plato in a form of a progressive conversation, which begins with Socrates having a factious conversation with is brother. The hypothesis behind his analogy is the essential principles that all we watch are imperfect impression of the conclusive structures, which implies the truth. This is portrayed as glorified feeling of what goodness and justice are. At the point when the prisoners leave the cave, Socrates explain that these are philosopher who have arrived at a comprehension of what life truly is. The three symbols are the cave, the sun, and the chains. The Allegory of the Cave all through the story the prisoners are restrained to the floor and are not able to move their legs and turn their head to view behind them. They had a fire burning behind them, and they saw shadows of people walking by carrying odd object. These shadows were all they knew they even seemed to be real. The individuals they see are the realities of life. To me, this is practically precise portrayal of life, and proceeds with progression of time. “ When educators instruct information into the soul which was not there before like sight into blind eyes”(1238). A prisoner breaks free and leaves the cave. When he first walks outside the cave he was...
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...days after Lilith’s creation she began to grow lonely. Lucifer notices and decides to send her up to Earth to retrieve a few items so he can create a man for her. “Retrieve these items and you shall have a man in return” Lucifer stated. “Bring me back these two items, a bowl of coal, and the heart of a mammal” “If I return those two items to you, you’ll make me a man?” Lilith asked. “Why yes Lilith. Make your way up out of our realm to Earth and retrieve those items” Lucifer replied. Soon after Lilith was told she will receive a man if she retrieves those items, she makes her way up out of the Underworld. When Lilith made it up to Earth, she felt the grass and dirt beneath her feet, and the wind in her hair. She began roaming the flat land covered in grass with the feeling that she was being followed. She turns around and notices a male being watching her. As she stood...
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...The Illusion of Reality: A Comparison of The Matrix and Plato’s Cave The poet Thomas Gray coined the phrase “Ignorance is bliss.” The phrase states that a lack of knowledge results in happiness and that people are more comfortable if they don’t know something. We can apply this phrase to utopias and dystopias and get this scenario: imagine living in a utopic society isolated from the true dystopic world. Would you want to know that you are living a false life and that the true world around you has been hidden? If you had this information, how would you react? This scenario is the basic premise for the Wachowski brother’s The Matrix Trilogy and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Both stories show humans perceiving a false utopic society that is being used to blind them from the true dystopic world. Over the course of this paper I will describe the similarities between The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave and analyze how the Wachowskis and Plato used the ideas of utopias and dystopias as a backdrop for showing human nature. In The Matrix, humans have been enslaved by sentient machines, or sentinels, to be used as energy sources. In order to subdue the human population, the sentinels built a virtual world known as the Matrix. What each person thinks is reality, is actually a complex computer simulation. The Matrix simulates a “utopic” world where humans believe that they have freedom and choice and that their actions have a consequence on this “real” world. In reality, the...
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...Overcoming the Demons Robert Motherwell’s painting, In Plato’s Cave V, has a much deeper meaning and purpose than the composition and brushwork may reveal. It is merely a black canvas with hints of white, or light. Motherwell displays this ‘cave’ in which men were born and raised, only knowing shadows and darkness. This was their reality. They believed this was life, and that it was all the world was about. Until one man was freed from the cave, and saw that it was all a lie. That it was nothing but an illusion. I believe this is what Motherwell is trying to portray in his painting. He is hinting at how our world that we live in is an illusion, just like the shadows on the walls were to the men of the cave. I think he is trying to show that everything we believe about the world is a lie. One thing that I do know is that we are all comfortable of what we know, we like it that way and some of us wouldn’t want to know if this was in illusion. The men in the cave were like this. They didn’t listen to the free man, they were actually mad at the guy who brought him out of the cave. If I was told that my life was an illusion, I’d definitely be intrigued, but I wouldn’t want to know more into it. This is because I am happy and I’ve grown up believing that this is my world, so even if it is all an illusion, it’s my illusion. When the ‘prisoner’ being held behind these cave walls saw the real world for the first time he saw color and at the same time he could touch trees, flowers...
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