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Reply Reply All Forward Move Delete Close Previous Item Next Item Close Christian Laskie Plato's Cave Paper Christian Laskie [christian.laskie@apps.schoolcraft.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 4:06 PM To: Jesse Mileo Christian Laskie Professor Mileo Philosophy February 1, 2017 Plato’s Cave and The Truman Show Have you ever questioned your reality and if anything is beyond it? This is a question humans often struggle with because it questions whether or not we are actually free…

In the world of Seahaven the producers and creators did anything to keep Truman in Seahaven. Including newspapers, with the most to the point headlines. Like when Truman showed signs of wanting to leave they came up with a headline that said The Best Place on Earth: Seahaven voted the world’s top town. Truman was trying to leave Seahaven to go find Sylvia in Fiji, who was an actor who tried to tell him the truth and Truman fell in love with her. Someone overheard him or they tapped the phone…

Fad Diets By Rupert Starkey Fad diets are diets that do more harm than good to people that want to be healthier. They can result in people consuming unprocessed food or too little food that can lead to them being very ill. For example“The Raw Food diet”. The Raw food diet claims that when you cook food it get rids of all of the nutrients of the food you eat and that all processed foods have no nutrients. This claims it will make you lose weight and get more nutrients faster. This was created…

Do you remember the first rhyming book you ever read as a kid? Most people would say that Dr. Seuss is one of the first rhyming books they read. Dr. Seuss was a fabulous author that wrote children's books for America. Dr. Seuss’ “Cat in the Hat” was one of the most famous works that just about everyone has read or seen. Dr. Seuss is an important figure in American literature because he changed the children's book scene with a life full of inspiration, a career with a rocky start, and works that…

reminder to young women across the country to stay away from strangers. Like many literary characters we’ve read about such as Macbeth, The Co-Ed Killer has brought our nightmares to life starting when he was just a young child. On December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California,…

Grace E. B. Vogel #28 Tim Burton Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, on August 25th, 1958. He goes by Tim Burton, or just Tim for short. He is known for blending elements of fantasy, and horror. Tim also draws. In his artwork, he creates characters with big, egglike, heads, little bodies, pale, grey, blue, skin, and large, White, round eyes. His artwork is often blended into his movies, such as Alice through the looking glass, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, Corpse…

The Truman Show (1998) directed by Peter Weir follows Truman Burbank, a man who has spent his life in a television set where his decisions are controlled by producer Christof. The Truman Show raises the question ‘Is the world within The Truman Show an illusion or does it have some reality?’ This is an epistemological issue as it is relating to the theory of knowledge and more specifically, the knowledge of reality. As epistemology is a branch of philosophy, this question is a philosophical issue…

Texts of many genres especially dystopia can help us better understand concepts and ideas of many potentially real world situations and issues. When viewing a text, there are multiple questions being posed towards the viewer relating to them and their context of the text. McCarthy repeatedly reminds us of the desolate post-apocalyptic landscape created by a nuclear incident, and by observing this fictional world we are shown what could become of our own world through the very real threat of a…

The beautiful San Fernando Valley encompasses approximately 260 square miles in one of California's most scenic areas. Although the majority of San Fernando Valley lies within the city boundaries of Los Angeles, it is also the location of Glendale, Burbank, San Fernando, Hidden Hills, Calabasas and many other towns. In the midst of such natural serenity, the pain and suffering that can be caused by medical malpractice seems out of place. However, every year, many residents of San Fernando Valley…

Carrigan Zenor Mr. Connors Period. 1B 24, April 2016 The Truth Behind Reality How do humans determine what reality is? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury and the film The Truman show, directed by Peter Weir, the similarities and differences between the two are very much in the spotlight. Both Montag and Truman experience the fakeness of what they think reality is supposed to be like, until they are shown wrong. Both are characters of a warped society, but they experience everything a…