Chi Mai Professor Joseph McDade English 1303 8 October 2014 Assignment 1 “I was trapped in this cave and there is no way out to escape,” I grit my teeth. In order to become a hero and be able to protect everyone, two years ago, I decided to learn anything that would help me become someone people can rely on. To be honest, I planned to do this for a long time ago and finally I had a chance to do it. At that time, I did not have any tools to help me because I thought I was equipped with the
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200-300 feet from the cave floor, they balance torchlight between their teeth to look for what they call “White Gold.” Their only tool is the three-pronged instrument called rada, which they believe that gods of the cave approved of and anointed. No harvesters would attempt to touch nests without rada. One harvester can collect as many as 50 or 60 nests a day. Sometimes, like mountain climbers, the harvesters hammer metal poles into rocks and boulders to attach themselves to the cave walls. Many have
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In Rhetoric, Aristotle states “The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities”. Aristotle believes that people will always pick out the truth; the truth will always be revealed. For Aristotle, the truth is straightforward and all truths are logical. “Rhetoric is
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trying to find somewhere to rest and try to figure out what's on the island. For the safety of his men he sent a couple of men to see what was on this island. They then came upon this cave where Odysseus’ men were unsure of the cave,]. They were very scared, yet Odysseus being impulsive, wanted to see what the cave had to offer. So they went on this journey seeking for something good only to run into the cyclops's . They met a giant, man-eating cyclops. The crew was terrified and wanted nothing
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What Really is Reality? Reality can be defined as many different things, “The state of things as they are or appear to be rather than as one might wish them to be, the quality or state of being actual or true, totality of all things possessing actuality, existence or essence”(thefreedictionary),“ A real event/entity or state of affairs, something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily” (Merriam-Webster), “The world or the state of things as they actually exist as opposed
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“Wu Zetian and Buddhist Art of the Tang Dynasty” written by Patricia Karetzky provides a number of evidence that Empress Wu is a generous supporter of Buddhism and her patronage led to a splendid achievement in Buddhist art. Per my understanding, it is a Standard Textbook or Encyclopedia Entry type of article. This article does not have many references to other published work and the writer is presenting existed evidence to support his objective of the paper. He used descriptive language to tell
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Pastoralla, George Saunders shows the division between workers and their bosses and how this division affects workers’ lives in many levels. The story takes place in a theme park or a museum were an unnamed man and his coworker Janet work and live in a cave like place where they both play their roles as a caveman and a cavewomen. The first thing that Saunders points at is the routine that both main characters are living in. Both of them are isolated from the real world and trying to live their lives following
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depends on the integrity of the oath.(p.20). Hermes is famous as a God of language and communication (p.19). The God Hermes was born to Zeus and Maia in a luxurious cave. On the day of his birth, Hermes was playing with the lyre and later within the day, stole the cattle of his half-brother, Apollo. After his birth, Hermes left the cave and found a tortoise. Cutting up the tortoise to make his own lyre. He decided he wanted to steal Apollo’s cattle, so he devised another plan. As he was driving the
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the magnificent Hoang Lien Son mountain range, Cat Cat village of ethnic minority people and the Love market will enable tourists to know more about culture diversity of Vietnam. The tourist sites in Ha Long Bay include caves with outstanding topography as Dau Go Cave, Thien Cung Cave… The specific itinerary is provided at the Appendix section of this report. Regarding the lodging properties, British tourists prefer hotel and similar establishments rather than other types of accomodations such as
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The Matrix While in the reality of his world, the main character of The Matrix, Neo finds himself doubting what really is and really isn’t. The writers of The Matrix did an excellent job of drawing similarities to that of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and Descartes’s Philosophical ideas. There are many similarities between the Allegory as well as to the Philosophical differences to The Matrix. The first major similarity that I noticed between the Allegory and The Matrix is the fact that both Neo
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