The Shadow

cave. The cave is about a prison that people are trapped in and can't get out, they are seeing these images and shadows in front of them, but they are not aware that the real images are behind them. Plato had the idea, what if one of these prisoners were freed and saw the light, what would happen then? The freed person would be blinded to the light and no longer believe that the shadows they once were seeing were real. The prisoners don’t…

As a few of my friends and I were walking down the road by the Lidtke Mill, we suddenly saw a shadowy image in the window. We then went in the Mill. Walking in, we heard strange sounds, screams. All we wanted to know is if it was real or if someone was playing a cruel joke on us. When we realized that there was a fire back in 1894, we did not know if anybody was killed in the fire or not. As we walked, the screams got louder and louder. We were walking around and saw writing in bold. We tried…

Chapter 1 Introduction Digital photography is a form of photography that uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to capture images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. Here images are captured and stored in file for further processing. Digital photography aims to produce an image that gives an illusion of a real environmental image. Inorder to produce an image that provides visual richness and sets the mood of the environment the important…

The sunlight, like the firelight before, would be too bright for his eyes and would be painful until his eyes adjusted once more (275). Once in the sunlight the prisoner would be able to first see shadows most easily as they are most familiar to him, then reflections on the water, then the objects themselves (275). The final step to true reality for the prisoner would be looking upon the moon and the sun itself and coming to the realization that the…

shone on the small door. She pointed to the dark, winding staircase going down, farther than she could see. “There!” The mudroom. “There!” The staircase leading toward the little girl’s bedroom. “There!” The girl continued to point to every corner, shadow, and creaky wood panel, her mother navigating through the thick, cold air. Mum incessantly followed the girl’s…

prisoner held captive in a cave. The men are confined and cannot move about and can only see what is in front of them, day after day the men watch images of shadows on the wall in front of them illuminated by fire. Also within the cave the men are exposed to echoes and believe the noises come from the shadows. All the men know are the shadows and echoes, this is their reality and they have empirical evidence of such. Later Plato writes that one of the prisoners is released from his bondage and…

true knowledge. Everything that we know today is our soul remembering what it learned in the past. Plato spoke of two “worlds” the sensible and the intelligible. He used the analogy of men chained up in a cave. The men chained and watching the shadows on the wall are living in the sensible world.…

storing up for hibernation. Sleeping from late fall for roughly three months, I will open my sleepy little eyeballs when it’s still quite cold. Tomorrow is February 2nd, Groundhogs Day, all about me! Every year I get so anxious. I wonder will I see my shadow or not? Will winter clad the United States for 6 more weeks, or will spring prevail? I personally shouldn't be trembulus because I have been doing this for 7 years. This year is special because it may be my last year to be “the” groundhog;…

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato had strong views on important topics in history. One of the more important views he had, he transcribed into his Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory of the Cave brings in many different processes that one must undertake in order to reach true enlightenment. Numerous people have conformed to the allegory, but one slave experienced a process in his attempt to learn to read and write that matched closely with what the allegory described. This person was Frederick…

In the reading material, the author believes that the painting could not be painted by Rembrandt, which is contradicted by the following lecture. The speaker claims that the painting is actually a work by Rembrandt. According to the reading material, the first piece of evidence is that the woman's fur collar doesn't match with her status. However, the speaker suggests that the wrong part of the painting was added by someone else about a hundred years after the original painting. The additional…