Prisoners of war

his writing, Plato asks everyone to imagine humans as prisoners kept from childhood in a deep, dark cave. They have chains around their necks to keep them facing forward while a fire from behind them projects shadows on the wall in front of them. These shadows act as the only real thing that they have ever come across (Plato). After one prisoner is set free and able to turn around, he becomes very confused of what is behind him. The prisoner is at a loss since he cannot differentiate between the…

In “The Allergy of The Cave”, the chains that were on the necks of the prisoners represent technology, because chain are man-made and it’s not created by nature. One of the biggest reason that the prisoners is kept from being ignorance, it’s because of the chain or another word technology. Even though they can use their imaginations on different shadows, at the end it’s just another reflection…

intrinsic traits within one’s personality are responsible for cruel and offensive behaviour displayed in prison environments. Zimbardo conducted a study whereby he aimed to investigate whether individuals would conform to roles of either a guard, or prisoner, in a simulated prison setting. The participants were recruited by a newspaper advertisement in the Palo Alto Times and The Stanford Daily offering…

applicable to my life in the 21st century. In the passage, several prisoners had spent their entire lives living chained inside a dark cave. The chains prevent the prisoners from seeing the world outside and only able to see the shadows that the real world reflects into the cave. When one of the prisoners escapes and finds out the truth about the world, he is ridiculed and threatened by his former colleagues. The freed prisoner, who now knows the truth of the world, is seen as insane by the…

Plato’s Allegory of the cave; Society of the spectacle ‘Picture human beings as thought they were in an underground cave-like dwelling. They are in bonds… and see nothing except the shadows cast by a fire on the wall of the cave… they are like us’. The current society that we are living in has already been widely manufactured; commodity and the media have already colonies our social life. People choose not to understand the real world, the remaining become imbedded and gaze upon he…

forced the Native Americans into white culture, with no regard to their right of a free life. We forced them into reservations, and brutally murdered and hurt many of their people, with the sole reason of greed. In the Ted Talk, America’s Native Prisoners of War, Aaron Heuy says, “The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one…

The Unbroken Louie Zamperini Louie is a very mischievous boy in the beginning of his life but later on in his life he becomes a very loyal, trustworthy, and honorable. Louie goes into the Air force and goes through a tough journey but makes it out alive. As a child Louie was very bad. He liked to steal, smoke, drink, runaway, break into things like houses, picked locks, and took money from payphones. When Louie grew older, citizens started liking him but not by much. He began his “running…

throughout World War II and his strength in surviving. As a young man Louie joined the Army Air Force and became a bomber for a B-24 Liberator. In 1943 when Louie’s plane and crew crashed in the Pacific Ocean while they were on a mission, he managed to keep himself alive for over a month with little to no provisions for the duration of his drifting at sea. After over a month and finally spotting land, Louie was captured by a Japanese ship that had spotted his raft and taken as a prisoner of war.…

POWs during WWII During World War II there were hundreds of POW camps that were located across the United States, Asia, and Europe. POW camps were camps that held prisoners of war. These POW camps were supposed to follow the international laws of the Geneva Convention, but a lot of the time the camp officials did not follow these regulations. Laura Hillenbrand’s biography Unbroken, describes the life of Louis Zamperini who was an American POW that was captured and lived in several Japanese POW…

The events that occurred and the situations that the Prisoners of War were put through during the Vietnam war were tremendous. The stories that have been told from some of the soldiers significantly help us understand just what went on and why exactly they were captured in the first place. Researchers to this day are still uncovering more and more information about what happened in the detention camps and looking at how it affected the soldiers. Going from 1964 all the way to 1973, there was…