Blog 5: Review summary of the allegory of the cave

In the reading “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, Plato had given a situation in which two men had been having a conversation. The reading includes two men, Socrates and Glaucon, Socrates had been talking to Glaucon about a situation that people had been taken from their homes during their childhood and thrown into caves chained up, from their necks and ankle they had been restricted movement and were not able to turn around and had the heat of the sun hitting their back, the only thing that they could have done was face the wall. They never saw the entrance of the cave they were only able to see the shadows of objects. People would be walking behind them with cut out shapes of animals etc.  From the outside of the cave, allowing the sun to make a shadow of the shape. They prisoners never saw any type of animals or anything and when they the shadow of a cow and how it sounded they would just see a big circular shape. Socrates told Glaucon that what the prisoners thought was real was just an illusion.

The prisoners had been living in this illusion and they didn’t know because they thought that everything that they had been seen while been in the cave was real. After a while the people that had kept the prisoners in the cave for so long had released them at a point in their lives and showed them the objects that they had seen while they were in the cave. They had been going around and showing them different things to see if the prisoner recognized it but they would deny it because in the cave all they saw was shadows. After a while they realize that they have been living in a lie for their lives. When the prisoner realizes that all the people that are still in the cave are living in that same lie he was he feels bad for them.

What I think that the author tells us is that there are so many ways to view something it’s just up to you and where you have been for most of your life, to believe in what they say.

Blog 4: "The Allegory of the Cave"

In The reading “Allegory of The Cave” the author tells us that there had been prisoners that had been thrown into a cave since their child hood. They had been chained up from their ankles and their neck so they were restricted from turning and moving around. The prisoners were chained up and forced to look at the wall only and were not allowed to see the opening of the cave, they hadn’t see the light of the sun for a long time. People would be walking behind them and they would have shapes of animals etc from the outside of the cave allowing the sun to give a shadow the prisoners thought that the shadow they saw was the real thing. Because they were not educated and did not know what was the real world they had been living in this illusion for a long time. For the prisoners a cow was just a round shape because that is what the shadow showed them? After a while the people that had kept the prisoners in the cave for so long had released them at a point in their lives and showed them the thing. They had gone around telling them what a real cow would look like and they would deny it because in the cave all the saw was shadows and for them a cow is just a big circular shape. When the prisoner’s instructor had been pointing at things the prisoner didn’t recognize any of it at all because for him that’s a lie and what he saw in the cave was real. The author just tells us that the prisoners in this reading had been living in an illusion for most of their lives and it is hard for you to accept what you are not used to.

Blog 3:“I Know the Truth, so Don’t Bother Me with Facts”

           The reading tells us that even thou people of a higher authority tell us something, it doesn't mean that its true.when ever you tell someone anything with false information about real events they would believe it and then other people would hear that information make rumors about it. the media, government tell us a lot of things, they say that people have been to the moon, basically they say something will or has happened on a certain day. there are times they are wrong. so it doesn't matter what they say. the only way that you know the truth is if you do research, and not listen to what people say.

Blog 2: Summary and response to “Hype.

                   The article tells us that there is advertisement all over the place. back then there wasn't much advertisement because we didn't have much things to sell. when ever you are awake there is advertisement around you, it could be at anytime and we wont notice it .we are so used to seen the same things for example when you watch t.v listen to the radio, or even when you go on public transportation you see advertisement for shoes ,food,games, clothes. when you got sopping for food ,or you go get gas for your car, there is more advertisement to show you more items to buy and it keeps on going.
                    In my opinion i think that advertisement is like a chain because if you look at it this way when you go shopping at any store, that store has different brands of items. if you go to to sports authority you will see clothes shoes etc. of different brands then you will go looking for that one brand and then another and another, its kind of surprising but we are advertisement, we wear different brands on us like Jordan, Levi's, polo, north face. advertisement is all around us.

Blog 1: "how to do one thing at a time"

According to the author the article states that people who multi-task don't do a good job as the people who do one thing at a time. in the aticle it says " a group of students was asked to spend 30 minutes simutaneously copiling a music playlist ,chatting, and writing a short essay. a second group focused on each task individualy for 10 minutes each. afterward,they were given a memory test. then single-taskers did significantly better than their muilti-tasking peers." for the people who muilti-task ,their brain isnt able to process everything so that it comes out good, people who single task-have more of a chance to do better because their brain is able to focus on only one thing at a time.
For me personnaly i dont think that multi-tasking afffects my ability to do something because in some of my high school classes when im doing my work i listen to music ,when we have to share what wear i would remember. so i dont think that muilti-tasking is a bad thing for some people.

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My Name is Felix Lopez but most of my friends call me Filex and im a junior in high school.