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    The story Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, translation by Thomas Sheehan explains how people are living in cavelike dwelling like prisoners and not in the real word. It’s telling us how people are stuck in one place because they don't believe that there is something different from what and where they are living. In the story there was a prisoner that had escaped from the cave and was able to view the outside world and how different it was. Once he went back into the cave and told the other…

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    Their lives revolve around this one reality that they can only experience and contemplate. Following this scenario, the poor people talk about it, they joke about it, and they even name the puppets, all in the name of making the best use of the only life they are aware of. However, amidst the…

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    Realism Magical realism is a mixture of culture and oral tradition, made to seem a reality. Magical realism is when the story is in a real world setting, but has magical factors and unexplainable events that attempt to make the reader a believer of something. Magical realism is composed of, historical and cultural realities, magical elements, and a metamorphosis occurring with someone. Historical and cultural realities help to convince the reader that there was a real event that took place.…

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    meaning these objects then get cast onto the cave wall opposite from the prisoners. Socrates claims that to these men, these shadows are all that they consider reality. The Allegory continues as one of the men is released and dragged to the mouth of the cave, where he is temporarily blinded by the harsh sunlight. Eventually, the man discovers a reality beyond what he experienced in the cave. The man eventually pities his peers down in the cave and returns to the cave to attempt to…

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    one of the prisoners got release. While outside it was hard for him to adapt to the reality such as the sunlight which got to his eyes and blinded him because he has been used to darkness and also everything…

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    101. Why THE THIRD TESTAMENT Equals to PEACE & LOVE? • The Spiritual Science clearly indicates and through incontestable Cosmic Analyses elaborates that “the whole religious instinct in Human Beings is a product of an organic function, which gives rise to a cry for protection, a cry for lasting peace, for culture and happiness, a cry for a higher form of Existence…” Undoubtedly, the religious instinct shows itself in multifold of ways. However, neither through religious worships nor through…

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    Motor oil, Lard, glue, cigarettes, shellac. What do these items have in common? The disturbing truth is they are commonly used in food ads to create a picture perfect shot for the camera. No wonder why food ads appear one-hundred percent better than reality. How do people not realize they’re being lied to straight to their faces by food ads? The answer is photography. The art of capturing the perfect image has evolved from the unscripted Kodak moment to the fake, scripted Hollywood moments…

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    In fact, he walks so much that a lot of his shoes got very worn down. Walking around clears his mind and lets him think about the future and what he is going to do when he graduates college. He has dreams about being in the NBA, but he knows in reality it is almost impossible. He has to think about “plan B” but doesn’t…

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    A Perfect Circle Analysis

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    is a story that sheds light on the idea of reality vs. illusion. Through the narrator’s interpretation of the setting, the characters’ and their relationship it makes an important notation towards the theme. Altogether, “A Perfect Circle” is a story that suggests how an individual’s perception of reality can be thwarted due to illusions which can lead to delusions and heartbreak. The story implies how certain events in life can force our grasp on reality to shift and cause us to escape from our…

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    and illusion is able to realize oneness with the Brahm. Pir Sadarddin describes this dissolution of the human self in the Divine as Sat-Chit-Ᾱna(n)d. Therefore, in the context of this verse of the Saloko, sat (truth, reality), synonymous with the Arabic word Ḥaqīqa (truth, reality), refers to the realization of this knowledge of oneness of the ātmā and Brahm, the realization of the unity of rūḥ (spirit) and Nūr (Divine Light). As long as this spiritual union is not attained, says Pir…

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