Prisoners of war

into effect for they were saved by the news of the wars end. Giving the Bird time to run away. When the Zamperinis heard of their sons survival, his father remarked; “Those Japs couldn’t break him...My boy’s pretty tough, you know”(331). Throughout the long, distraught days of imprisonment. Louie’s family still had faith that their boy was still alive and kicking. Through outwitting and outsmarting his captors, Louie managed to survive the war with his comrades and his mere…

In the 4th section of the book “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand, it shows life of Louie and other POW inside Japanese war camps. The story start with Louie and Phil imprisoned on the island called “Kawjalein” or also nicknamed, “execution island”. Once the Japanese got the information they needed from them, they were about to execute them. However, the order was stopped on the last minute, and instead those two were transferred to Ofuna, a POW camp. Both Phil and Louie thought it would be much…

Around May 1970 intelligence analysts detected the presence of Prisoners of War (POW) at Son Tay. On November 20th 1970 Son Tay POW camp was raided. No POWs were found at Son Tay. In the span of seven months, intelligence failed to detect the transfer of Son Tay POW’s. The Son Tay raid is regarded as a tactical success, and has largely been analyzed from a tactical standpoint. Analysis of the intellectual failure is necessary. Even in the modern era POWs still exist and rescue attempts are still…

When prisoners died they were buried in the prison cemetery, which is located across from the prison. Of the 111 deaths only 104 of the bodies were buried in the cemetery, the other seven were claimed by the families. Only one body was never buried or given to the family, it was the one-hundred and twelfth death that happened on the way to Yuma. The prisoner tried to escape by jumping off the train but hit his head on a rock on the…

In “Allegory of The Cave,” philosopher Plato explains to his student, Glaucon, that there are prisoners in a den tied up and have never been able to turn their bodies nor their heads to see what is behind them: a blazing fire. The prisoners can only see a wall and the shadows casted from the objects that pass along front of the fire (583). The shadows are the only truth the prisoners know since they have never been exposed to anything outside the cave. Plato further explains saying “To them...…

The confined people are only able to see the shadows of the objects which people are holding as they pass by on the roadway. Plato talks about the tiresome and challenging journey of how one achieves real truth not second hand truth, which the prisoners perceive is real. In this text the most significant ideas of Plato’s allegory is the idea of self- actualization and real truth. Plato states many examples to show that the people trapped are living in a false reality, and that they are closed…

The allegory of a cave is analogous to a world of visible reality in a cave, and a world of reality that can be seen by intelligence outside a cave. The prisoners who are locked in a cave that cannot even look inside the cave in the cave are confused by the rational judgment, the slave of the desire not to be able to make a good judgment, the shadow that blurs the rational judgment, The person who can come…

The Zimbardo Prison Study revealed how prisoners and prison guards transitioned into predefined roles, behaving in a way that was thought to be a requirement, rather than using their own reasoning and beliefs. Zimbardo wanted to communicate how dehumanizing and disengaging them from social and moral values can affect an individual engaged in a highly stressful situation and what happens when identity and pride are taken away as a result of their lives being controlled. After watching the…

divider are different statues, which are controlled by another gathering of individuals, lying beyond anyone's ability to see behind the halfway divider. As a result of the flame, the statues cast shadows over the divider that the prisoners are looking at. Since the prisoners have never known reality other than those shadows, they believe the shadows to be the truth, and if the voices from…

The Cave Allegory This allegory is used to convey Plato’s attempt to explain what the nature of reality is. It displays the role of the masses, the educated, and reality. The setting takes place in a cave. The people within the cave are chained in such a way that they can only see the cave walls. Behind them are these strange figures that would carry objects and walk behind the people. Because there was a fire, the people could see their shadows. Sometimes the figures speak so they thought that…