The shadows are produced by men, walking in front of a fire behind the prisoners. ... Plato states there are four stages of knowledge development: Imagining, Belief, Thinking, and Intelligence. ... Belief is the next stage of developing. ... This stage is more advanced than imagining because it's based more on reality. ... In the next stage, Thinking, we leave the "visible world" and move into the "intelligible world." ...

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Psychological death is a more severe stage of emotional death that makes an individual suffering from it make poor illogical decisions. ... For an individual to choose death over life, they must be suffering from stages of dying which consist of the five emotional and behavioral stages that may occur after a person first learns of approaching death. The stages, identified and described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, are denial and shock, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages may occur in sequence or they may recur, as the person moves forward and backward--especially amon...

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I was performing like an actor in a staged presentation. Even the props I used were consistent with stage acting. ... In reality, this performance is a front to hide behind truth because when we perform it is not real and you can not judge what is not real. ... My peers described my presentation as a staged performance. ... Therefore, Glickstein is suggesting rather than have a technique ie. staged performance, is to have no technique at all because when we are at with our own selves other people can feel it too (p. 18). ...

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As a result, one has to question their vision every time a brand new idea is presented in front of their eyes. Similarly, in the essay "Allegory of the Cave," Greek philosopher Plato's thoughts correlate with Thoreau but in a more pessimistic way as he portrays humans are deprived of their freedom to turn their heads and what they are seeing is limited to what is in front of them and will continue to live this way as long as humans don't see the reality of things. ... The Author would say to her readers, if one wants to see truly, then they must go backward to the early sta...

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In front of the fire is a partial wall next to the wall are people moving puppets and creating a shadow of the puppets, (Plato 211). ... This is the stages where our curiosity increases, eager to know more. ... In that time My brother was like the prisoner who had knew about the reality and I was like the prisoner who was still in chains and I was only able to see what was in front of me. ...

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Suddenly, a girl about my age appeared in front of me. ... I decided to go borrow the stage for a little bit. ... I walked up the stage, and borrowed the mike from Tracy, who was about to speak. ... Get off the stage!...

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Visual Impairment "The world is dark, and bland. There is nothing and no one that can help me now. I am all alone." As he walked down the street, George Gray thought to himself for a few moments. "Why is the world shaped the way it is? Why does everything have to constantly be the same...

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They are trained to accept and yield to what lies in front of them, but not to reflect upon and get to the root of the phenomenon. ... Contemplation itself brings no fruit at all, it is considered as the utmost annoyance to pragmatic persons, and as I've brought out before, not every single human being is qualified to this task, because some of us are bound to detract during certain stages from the thoroughfare of this pilgrimage, and fail to envision what lies ahead. ...

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