hooked up to a giant computer, living their lives virtually through a software program called “The Matrix”. Neo discovers that everything he has ever known was a lie. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” we see Socrates discussing with Glaucon a hypothetical situation where some people are prisoners in a cave. They are positioned so they cannot move their bodies or their heads. All they can see are images on a wall and all they can hear are echoes. To them it is their reality, it is all they know
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Midterm Essay – Searching for Life on Mars Is there other life in the universe? The answer to this question has eluded man since he began asking it. Whole philosophies and religions are based on the idea of the answer to that question being either yes or no. In the following we will be discussing a brief background of the habitability of Mars. Then we will discuss an outline of a mission to Mars to search for primitive life. First of all, a brief background of the habitability of Mars. Approximately
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“Stay your hand, knave! Drop your sword, and take off your robe.” Shouted Ivar. “Why should I? What could you do against me?” Croaked the man “Because, last time I checked, a húskarl's axe is sharper than anyone's neck.” The two guards jumped from the shadows and disarmed the man. His sword bounced off the ground as they ripped his cloak off. “You are too late, Hathgard. I'm the king now, and I have no purpose for swine like yourself. You do not even deserve to be called Hathgard; there
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Received - "A" You are a paramedic arriving at an emergency scene. A group of scouts have entered a cave that is now filling with water. They were led into the cave by a rather large scoutmaster. Unfortunately, while leading them out of the cave, the scoutmaster somehow managed to get stuck in a narrow opening with only his head and shoulders protruding out. With his upper torso stuck outside the cave, it appears the scoutmaster will survive, but all the boys below will drown if they cannot escape
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A Family on the Outside. By: Estefania Calvet May 18, 2013. World Civilization History Professor Happel One day on a beautiful mountaintop on the Greek mountains was a Young lady crying for help. She was trying to get to the nearest town, the first one she could find. She needed help as soon as possible. She had pain starting from her back, through her stomach, and into her pelvis. She was all wet, and cold and her pain was unbearable. She was in labor. She had been dropped in the woods
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| Assignment 4: | Ecology | | Jason Hall | 12/2/2012 | SCI 110 Professor Brian Mccann Assignment 4: Ecology I live in the Common Wealth of Kentucky. Kentucky is part of the temperate deciduous forest biome. This biome is found primarily in eastern North America. The average amount of rainfall per year is between 30-40 inches and rainfall occurs throughout the year. The pre-dominate plants in the region are large trees which lose their leaves during the fall. These trees
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Then one day the same people whom I feared to lose, abandoned me. I had fallen in the same pit about which I had known about, whilst following them. The cave was dark and scary. I was lost and isolated. Day and night past by, but my miseries did not seem to head to an end. Until one day, I spotted a ray of divine glimmering down the corner of the cave. My heart breathed a sigh of relief on the appearance of this light, but at the same time I was incapable of standing over my broken limbs. I cried over
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The world we live in is most certainly real, discordant, and unharmonious so we tend to make disillusioned realities in our minds as a means of survival. Plato’s writing suggested that the perception of the prisoner’s reality of the cave was deception of what reality is like and the light that personified the truth; the prisoners were blinded by fallaciousness of their own silhouettes of observations. In the Bible it states that the truth will always reveal itself in the darkness and that’s exactly
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many complcations. Throughout Odysseus’ long journey, he faces many challenges and peril. One instance of epic plot is that in the ninth book where Odysseus encounters the cyclops, Polyphemus. Polyphemus traps him inside his cave. Odysseus uses his intuition to get out of the cave. Another instance of epic plot is in the twenty-second book during the mass killing of the suitors. Divine intervention occurs on the behalf of Odysseus. “Athena’s presence becomes known to all, as the shape of her shield
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Proposal and Recommendation Theme : Nature 1. Sea(Tampines mall – Tampines) * Tables & Chairs : we will make the form of tables into surfboard shape and put some sands, starfishs, shells into the table covered by transparent glass. Moreover, we will make chairs to shell shape. – It will recall their memories of the sea. * Attire of staffs : every staffs will wear different uniforms. For example, they wear like captain of the ship style during weekdays, and like pirates during weekend
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