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I think this about sums it up.

Practice Essay.

Think of a small boy, he has spent most of his life being cared for by his parents and sheltered from the harsh realities of the real world. Now picture that same small boy as a young adult who is moving out for the first time, still having spent his life underneath his parents wings. The first few days on his own are the worst. He is out of his comfort zone and forced to adapt to a way of living that he is unaccustomed to. This new world is overwhelming and he desperately wishes to return to his parents home. A few weeks, later the young adult begins to accept the new world around him and even begins to learn from it. The young adult is very similar to the cave prisoners featured in Plato's The Allegory of the Cave. Each of them were born into a certain way of living that over time, they became very accustomed to. When one of the prisoners was released from the cave, he was blinded and overwhelmed from what surrounded him. The world around him was so new from what he had grown up with, the prisoner was forced to adapt and eventually began to learn from it. 

We all have trouble adjusting when out environment and atmosphere have been shifted. It takes a strong heart and mind to be capable of  becoming comfortable outside of our comfort zone. The young adults reaction is one that many Americans can relate to today. When we venture out of the known and begin the

long and grueling journey into the unknown, we are stripped of what we know and handed a blank slate. 

Everything we have ever come to know and understand is no longer valid to what is to come. Over time, we begin to gather and collect from the endless mystique that surrounds us and fill that slate with our new found knowledge and experience. A select few opt out of pertaining this newly understood information to themselves and choose to share and expand what they have learned in order to benefit the less courageous. After his enlightenment, the prisoner had chosen to return to the cave so that he could share his understanding with the other prisoners. Regardless of the freed prisoners didactic intentions, the cave prisoners choose not to believe what they could not see and continued to hide from the light.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is very similar to Sartre's No Exit in this sense. Just as the cave prisoners refused to accept the words of the freed prisoner, Estelle had also constantly refused to accept the words of Garcin and Inez. Both Garin and Inez were very similar to the freed prisoner, they had both entered hell without fear, making their ability to believe what they could not see very high. Garcin and Inez had come to accept their unknown reality rather than to shove it away as Estelle had done. Throughout the play Estelle refuses to acknowledge the new reality that is presented before her and even attempts living in the past at one point. Satre's character Estelle decides to embrace the good, ignore the bad and avoid her true feelings. She would prefer to be miserable and unenlightened then step out of her comfort zone and lose grasp of what she knows. Estelle's standing on the tip of an iceberg and refuses to accept what lies underneath.

Both Plato and Sartre manage to capture the difference between the enlightened and unenlightened. The enlightened sacrifice their comfort for freedom and understanding while the unenlightened choose to live a life of misery in order to stay where they are. Both writers successfully reveal the sad truths of society. Many people would rather live a familiar life of darkness than to journey off and live underneath an unfamiliar sun.

Kids React : Gay Marriage

I was on Youtube and I happened to stumble upon this video. Considering gay marriage is such a controversial topic, I found it interesting to see a child's perspective on the subject. Though these children are only between the ages of 5 and 13, they manage to shed so much light on such a tender subject. The video is a bit lengthy but it's definitely time well spent.

Work in progress

My blog has been a bit empty over the break so I'm just clarifying that I have been giving these assignments MANY attempts. They haven't been working out too well . . But I am definetly trying. Hopefully I can get it together soon!

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