Consider the Lobster

The Allegory of the Cave In Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave, he touches upon the ideas and beliefs of how humans perceive reality. In the story, Plato describes that the chained prisoners in the cave believe that the shadows casted on the wall are reality simply because that is all they have ever known, and thus have never questioned if the shadows are real. The prisoners have been left in the dark to make out what is truth with only the light defused from a fire behind them. However, when one…

main factors were to be ignored, the structure can be left incomplete as well as it can be offensive to those that are affected by it. Without the proper funds being available building a monument can be problematic. Such as with the Man and his Lobster sculpture. “The sculpture was supposed to be cast in bronze and made part of the Maine exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. But Maine ran out of money, so the artist just slapped a coat of bronze paint over the plaster model and shipped…

‘arms’ [and] are expected to be used. They grab objects, feel around, and feed the octopus… There are no bones in the Pacific octopus’s arms, or it’s entire body either, which allows the arms to be very flexible,” (Paragraph 2). It is important to consider this because it shows how I can be a valuable asset to your cooking staff. With my available six arms, I will be able…

the diet of Sardinia consists of plenty of meat dishes. Lamb and wild game, such as boar, are common sources of food. With the Sardinian pride in their ability to be fully sustainable, none of the animal was wasted. The sauce for spiny lobster contained the lobster innards, the stomach of the boar was stuffed with the organs and made into a dish and even the sheep's stomach was stuffed with blood and made into a delicacy that everyone longed for. Similar to some small farms in Canada, some…

during a crucial time period, or just to honor an individual’s successful for trapping lobsters (Source F), monuments have been valued for a long time. However, in recent years, many communities, and groups, have found themselves questioning the existence of a particular statute, due to it’s meaning and what it really represents. Which will lead into a follow up question. What factors should a group or agency, consider and examine, in memorializing an event or person in creating a monument.…

1770, British soldiers fired upon a mob of rowdy crowd of colonists. This event, officially named the Boston Massacre, killed 5 colonists. The British soldiers not only fired without order, but fired without order on an unarmed crowd, unless you consider stones and snowballs ‘armed’. The British fired without order from a captain, or a commander. In fact, their Captain, Thomas Preston was not on sight when the attack occurred and had to travel to the section of soldiers, as stated in his own…

Don’t Deport an Opportunity How would you feel if you build a life, home, and family just to have it taken away from you in the blink of an eye? You would feel pretty upset or angry even discouraged. In today’s society this is happening more and more where innocent people come to America for a better opportunity and after settling down, creating a family and finding a job they are forced to leave and go back to their homeland. This is called deportation; the action of deporting a foreigner from…

Case Study Still life is one of the principal genres of Western art. It is art depicting inanimate subject matter, e.g. fruit, flowers and household objects which are usually arranged on a table top or surrounded with fabric. This genre of painting allows for artists to explore their relationship with everyday objects; many still lives have symbolic meanings, revealing stories or ideas. More commonly, the status of the painter (or the buyer of the art, if such is being made for a specific…

provide. The spinach is a way for me to “eat my greens,” as my parents would say. Contrary to the foods I always eat, I rarely eat ice-cream, cakes, pretzels and cookies. These foods are high in sugar and do not follow my “healthy diet.” Foods I consider necessary to “make a meal” include a protein, fat and carbohydrate. For example, for my protein, I would use chicken or fish or any food with a high protein content and…

summer is but coarse meat with us, our bay is full of lobsters all the summer, and affordeth variety of other fish . . . all the spring time the earth sendeth forth naturally very good salad herbs: here are grapes, white and red, and very sweet and strong also . . . the country wanteth only industrious men to employ, for it would grieve your hearts (if as I) you had seen so many miles together by goodly rivers uninhabited, and withal to consider those parts of the world wherein you live, to be…