replied soon after we were heading towards the cave before we made it I told her to close her eyes and I guided her into the cave. Inside was a sleeping Loch Ness Monster, it was hard to believe this affectionate creature was actually called a monster. When Alex opened her eyes and saw Nessie she wasn’t happy to say the least. Her eyes widened, her breathe heavy but before she could scream I covered her mouth, I couldn't let her draw attention to this cave. I had to explain the situation quickly “Listen
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Plato and Aristotle have similar views on the achievement of the good life but also many important differences. While both Plato and Aristotle believe that the good life is one that attains happiness and that only a philosophical life will bring ultimate happiness which will therefore lead to the good life, the main difference between the two is the status or nature of the good and thus happiness. In this essay I shall explain both Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on the good life and how it should
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Staircases with Purposes Staircases are one of the oldest architectural elements have been discovered but the origin of the staircase is uncertain. The purpose of construction and development are different from each other. Generally , most of them were made to rise as it is today , but people used staircases in different time for different purposes like rising up , overcoming challenges , reaching God etc. That's why ; I examine these purposes and developments of staircases from BC to AD. Çatalhöyük
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secretly in a manor house where Circe worked, but left shortly after and traveled across the woods and countryside until they ran into the ghost of their father. The ghost led them to a cave, where Pilate and Macon Jr. stayed for the night. In the morning, Macon Jr. discovers an old, white man sleeping in the cave, and throws a rock at his head, causing the man to ran at Macon Jr. Scared, Macon Jr. kills the man, and discovered
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inclined Recharge area above height of well Groundwater as flows through surface if it encounters limestone (calcite) will leach (dissolve away) the rock (think dissolution)—forming cave Features associated with caves include—stalactites (deposits formed on top of caves), stalagmites (deposits formed on floor of caves), and sinkholes (collapse above where limestone has dissolved away) In areas dominated by limestones where there has been large amounts of leaching (dissolution), karst
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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy allows the reader to experience survival in a post-apocalyptic world. The book follows the footsteps of a young boy growing up in survival mode with his protective father. Throughout the book, the father tries his best to show the boy the light of life before chaos. However, the boy ends up showing his father a different kind of light by being a source of support to his father. In this brutal world, those who are young and innocent are a source of hope and humanity, which
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truth. The Theory of Forms makes a distinction between those objects that are real and those that are only real in our minds. His dialogues, like the Allegory of the Cave, portray knowledge as the process of leaving the cave and going into the sunlight. The people in the cave find their reality in the shadows cast in the cave and assume there can never be anything beyond these shadows. These shadows symbolise how the world that we see is just a shadow or reflection of what is real. For Plato,
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by day is a normal joe, doing normal joe things but, by night is a computer hacker. This is his life, or at least the life that he knows to be true. From the readings of Plato and Descartes we consider what would happen to a man that is trapped in a cave only ever looking forward and can assume that again this is his life, or, at least the life that he knows to be true. What we could understand from The Matrix and the Plato readings both is, that; both men are living lives that they assume are normal
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however, I would rather be responsible for one death instead of 18 others. I believe that even if the dynamite was not used, there is a great chance that Freddy will never be found and die from starvation anyways. The dilemma does not say if it is a cave with a high volume of traffic passing by to save Freddy. I can only assume that there is not. In regards to the social activity, this is not just an individual based decision. I wouldn’t blow Freddy from his place just to save myself. If I was alone
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The movie October Sky contains some interesting philosophical content. The movie takes place in West Virginia in the town of Coalwood in 1957. The town has a coal mine, which employs most of the men who live there. John Hickam is the foreman at the coal mine. John has two sons, and he intends for them both to work in the coal mine. One of his sons, Jim, gets a football scholarship. The other son, Homer, becomes interested in Rockets. In the movie, Homer overcomes many obstacles in order to launch
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