Prisoner Ball

The quality of wisdom is one that has a debatable connotation. While it is true that most people would associate it with feelings of peace, happiness, or enlightenment, I have come to look at wisdom as a source of unrest. Observing wisdom and its cause of human disturbance in literary works such as Antigone, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, and Genesis, it is evident that wisdom is the direct cause of anxiety rather than the feelings of peace or enlightenment that are generally associated with the…

multiple suggestions on how to live an authentic and purposeful life in Plato’s “The Simile of the Cave” from The Republic. In the opening paragraph of the allegory, it begins painting a picture of prisoners who are tightly secured within their chains. “In this chamber are men who have been prisoners there since they were children, their legs and necks being so fastened that they can only look straight ahead of them and cannot turn their heads.” Through reading the description that these men in…

although the biggest parallel can be seen within the character of Neo. The image of the prisoner who escaped from the cave in “The Allegory of the Cave” can be seen as having an influence on the Wachowski sibling’s character Neo from The Matrix. In “The Allegory of the Cave” a group of humans are imprisoned in a cave where they believed that reality was the shadows that were cast upon the cave wall. These prisoners can be compared to the humans in The Matrix. These people were living in the…

Assignment 1 - Write a third person narrative of the hanging scene from Pirates of the Caribbean Over the colossal castle, the spherical star above peaked over the horizon. Led by a sequence of chains, relentless guards warily monitored every limping slave. Mist blew through the ashen compound as every helpless hostage whimpered in agony. Masking beats of drums pursued every hesitant shuffle. Desolated hostages scuffled onto the wooden deck; their blistered, wounded soles left blood prints…

There is only a fire behind them to illuminate a wall like screen in front of them. Behind the wall are the puppeteers who have puppets and the prisoners hold artifacts. All the prisoners see are the shadows from the screen, so they are forced to believe that that is the reality of the world since they have not seen anything else different. Eventually one prisoner is set free to view the puppets and the fire. At first the light nearly blinds him, but after his eyes adjust he can now see clearly…

Today was a slow day, but very education. I am finding that out that my time at CTLC is better spent watching than actually doing things. When I walked into the double door facility I seen the usual faces, and I greeted them as I made my way back to my little small cubical office. When I arrived at my office about two minutes after greeting several people, I noticed a small green sticky note that was on my desk from the day prior. The note was to remind me about the Homeless Alliance meeting at…

two meanings, one of which is literal ; there are prisoners in a cave, behind them is a fire and in between them and that fire is a passage. On the whole length of that passage way there is a wall high enough to hide the people who walk there but not high enough to hide the objects those people are holding above their heads. The prisoners can see the objects’ shadows and nothing else and therefore believe those shadows are beings. When a prisoner is released, he cannot see the fire or the…

In their work, Plato and Paulo Freire offer harsh critiques of education. Plato compares people to prisoners in a cave where no knowledge is circulating, and Freire refers to the “Banking Concept of Education” where teachers put their thoughts and information into students’ minds much like depositing money into a bank. Instead of this money being of value by benefitting students, Freire and Plato acknowledge oppressive teaching styles which result in the value declining because the students are…

In the Book, I found Irony in the situation of prisoners becoming guards, how whites were expected in prison to do what southern society saw a slave work; and the irony of just when human bloodlust was considered perfectly okay, and when that line was considered crossed, or barbaric.…

the idea of the unknown when escaping, the prisoner exhibit that he can go beyond the limits of his freedom by escaping. One of the prisoner who did a notable act to what the other prisoner may think he shouldn’t have done, showcased his freedom to make his own decisions. This prisoner who expresses his free will by making a decision that he was looked upon, actually benefited him, because he got to see a different side of the world that the other prisoner didn’t get to see. The author…