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One connection between the ideas that Michelle was writing about and my understanding of Plato's allegory is that I felt she had a very interesting point. 

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When you annotate a text, when you ask yourself questions about its contents, you are helping yourself to understand what you are reading. A summary of a source is usually a condensation of ideas or information. It is neither necessary nor desirable to include every repetition and detail. Before you can begin to summarize a paragragh you mustof course read the passage carefully and understand the significance of each idea and the way it is linked to the other ideas. Both the first and last sentences are possibilities but the first is a broader generalization and a more comprehensive summary. Usually even then you find a strong sentence that suggests the main idea if the paragraph you will still need to tinker with that sentence expanding its meaning by giving th language a more general focus. A comprehensive summary would have to include not only the essence.

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The way i can past the CATW by takin notes proof read my work. I would need to take my time reading high light the main ideas and try to make everything ito my own words. Then i would make up my own main idea so that i can go with every first line in every paragraph. Then i will check for all missed spelled words. So think in order for me to pass the CATW o would need to do all these things that they are telling me to so that i would be able to pass..

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In plato's allegory of the crave socrates is tell how how they was kept in a crave from there childhood.They say that human beings living in an under ground den. Then has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den. Here these people have been there since they were children. Thier legs and necks chained so that they are not able to move. They can only see before them and plus being prevented by the chains from turning their necks around. The figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials.

  Living in ignorance reminds me of being in a "cave" chained to what you only know; people who do not want to learn new things remind me of the prisoners in the passage who knew nothing more than images reflected by fire, these chains represent complacement and unwillingeness to learn. Personally I am coming out of the “cave”, I started a new experience and can felicitate myself on this change. I am now looking at a new day with bright light, standing in this new light reminds me of just seeing the sun for the first time, this glisten blinds me. By not following through with my education I was chained by ignorance, I lived in a “Cave” as if I was facing in only one direction and couldn't move. I’ve personally made the effort to enter school with a brighter thought in my mind and convinced myself after so many false attempts, that this is it, I am ready for this new world. I am willing to prove myself and to step forward into a new light so I can teach others what I have learned and what my experiences will be over the period of my success. After all, when I remember my old habitation I can't see myself going back into the "cave" I once came out of. 
  These people are symbolized in the passage by the released prisoner  who had the chance to see light and went back to share his new knowledge with his pals but they could not understand him because they ignored reality. Socrates said “My opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort". How would we know what this world has to offer if we don’t  give ourselves the chance to learn new things?  I was once told “Knowledge is knowing what you don’t know” I want to experience what the "cave" cannot offer.

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Advertisment are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. Commercial  pollution floods your brain at the rate of about three thousand marketing messages per day. Every day an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials are dumped into north america's collective unconscious. No longer are ads confined to the usual places: buses, billboards, stadiums. In corporate america's view, can and ought to be filled with a logo or product message. Your kids watch pepsi and snickers ads in the classroom. A company called videocarte installs interactive screens on suppermarkets carts so that you can see ads while you shop. No one is exempt and no one will be spared. In the silent moments of my life, I often used to hear the beethoven's ninth symphony playing in my head. Now I hear that kids are singing the oscar meyer wiener song.....................