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Bilbo Baggins’ Psychological Journey Towards Maturity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

adolescent, Bilbos development was being restricted by his limited - albeit comfortable - surroundings. Gandalf recognized that i...

Reflections on Homer’s Odyssey

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

HOW THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HIT HOMEOWNERS

late 1990s and early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust, and how all of those low interest rates (not to mention greedy lenders...

Personal Knowledge and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave: A Metaphysical View

would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...

Including Art in Third Grade Science Lesson

titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Student Submitted Case Study on Spelunkean Explorers

their companions, the group made a pact. They decided that if they are truly starving, they would sacrifice one member of the grou...

Current American Leadership as Viewed by Plato

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

Comparison of the Philosophical Concepts of Plato and Martin Heidegger

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

Education, Knowledge, the Human Soul, and Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

Socrates, Plato, 'Allegory of the Cave' and Phaedo

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

Jose Saramago's Novels

make sure that isolation is maintained from the rest of the city. However, the controlling gaze of the soldiers is also negated be...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Plato’s Cave and Sartre

without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...

Plato's Concepts and the Superiority of Aristotle

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

The Republic by Plato and Its Strengths and Weaknesses

draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Religion

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Concept of a Spiritual Journey

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

Plato's Republic - The Recurring Themes

student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...

Bacon and Plato - An Analysis

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

Impact Of Instant Replay In College-Level Sports

62). II. THE WHOLE STORY When the NCAA implemented instant replay in 2003, anyone even remotely interested in sports felt compel...

Divided City of Jerusalem

(Bayt Mal Al Qods Al Sharif Agency, 2006). And, to further tighten the tensions the British court-martialled Palestinians who poss...

Monsanto's Restructuring for the Global Market

to capitalize on those ideas. It would prove to be quite sound, however, and even visionary. In order to achieve its broader goa...

Learning About The Weather - Annotated Bibliography

explanations of the different seasons of the northern and southern hemispheres in words children can understand. Lin, Grace & McKn...

The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

W.E.B. DuBois and the Sociological Imagination

II. The Contributions of W.E.B. Dubois The Souls of Black Folk is probably W.E.B. Dubois most famous work. It provides an over...

Cerner Corporation - Training Analysis

the paper provides an approximate cost per participant and an evaluation method to determine its effectiveness. Part I: The Cerne...

The Relationship Of Sharia Law And Islam

in the Islamic world is to cultivate and perpetuate a sense of unity where jurisprudence is concerned, otherwise known as the ongo...