Bertrand Russell, a philosopher and the author of The Problems of Philosophy, believed in the " . . . distinction between "appearance" and "reality," between what things seem to be and what they are."... Also in the movie, Neo was the chosen one who was going to save the world from the slavery of the matrix, but he had a hard time freeing his mind from it. During his struggle, Morpheus who was also an inhabitant of the real world told Neo that there was a difference between knowing the path of the chosen one and walking that path. The difference was that if Neo would walk the path he would mak...

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The author is making a direct comparison with the prisoners down in the cave with humans in real life. ... And only few of the selected individuals are chosen to see things clearly. ... Author Annie Dillard would not think so. ... The first way, the author describes herself, "When I see this way, I analyze and pry" (654). ... The Author would say to her readers, if one wants to see truly, then they must go backward to the early stage of their lives. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Authors have written about every country in the world, and places that are far away from the planet we currently live on. ... Whether it is studying the history of the world, calculating the distance to the next country, exploring the physiology of human beings, playing an instrument, or whatever else is chosen, readers can learn anything they want through a book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There were not any ethical issues or concerns in this article because the actual studies were done by others not by the author of this article. ... In the case of depression I believe that the subjects were chosen very well. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The government has chosen that freedom of choice is not an option and therefore has shackled the minds of the people. ... In "Report on the Barnhouse Effect," it is unclear from the author's standpoint if he agrees with the use of power wielded by professor Barnhouse. ...

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Small wonder, then, that the British authors who enjoyed the greatest popularity among Bulgarians were among those who expressed lower-middle-class views. ... The gesture chosen had often nothing to do with the original character of the material. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Erich Fromm's book Escape from Freedom the author sums up Martin Luther's acknowledgement of man's selfishness: "Luther assumed the existence of an innate evilness in man's nature, which directs his will for evil and makes it impossible for man to perform any good deed on the basis of his nature."" ... In the science fiction novel Anthem by Ayn Rand readers are introduced to a dystopian society where man's place in society is chosen for him: "'Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School