Allegory Of The Cave

SUMMARY: In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", Socrates explains how  "Most people ,including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance,because its all we know. But once you go beyond your ignorance you will not ever want to go back to being ignorant". But the people don't want to go beyond and if any one goes beyond and wants to teach them the truth they ignore him and live the way they have been living all their life.

He explains that prisoners are tied with chains,facing a wall in a cave so they cannot move.Behind them a fire is blazing at a distance and between the prisoners and the fire there is a road or a passage and they could only see what ever passes through that road it created a shadow on that wall. Men carrying various materials which appeared over the wall as a shadow and the prisoners only recognized one thing in their life are those shadows.Among them a prisoner was released and he went out of the cave and saw the colors of the world and learned new things and came back to the cave again to tell his mates about the outer world of the cave but all the other prisoners thought that he is also the same shadow that they see every day and didn't  recognize their mate and never tried to learn what he was trying to teach them.

" Things I Need to Remember When I Write Summaries."

1.I need to use the author's name in my summary.
2.I need to write the summary of the passage in the beginning of my paragraph to show the readers that i understand what the story is about.
3.I need to explain clearly the significance of each idea and the way it is linked to other ideas.
4.I need to give a reference to the passage (quotes,paraphrases).

Steps I need to pass my CATW

There are several ways to write a CATW essay. Reading passages of the CATW reading sections are about 250-300 words and I need to write an essay gathering the information form that passage. I have a limited time of about 90 minutes to write the passage. So i will split my time in three sections. The first section will be reading the passage and getting the author's main idea, Pre-writing and summarise the passage in my own words to write the essay.

I will split my 90 minutes in three sections, I will read the passage for about 10 minutes and understand the passage and the author's main idea. after that I will pre-write my essay in my own words and spend about 20 minutes and finally write the essay and review in 50 minutes.

First, In my essay i will summarize the passage in my own words. I will state the author's most important ideas about the passage. Develop my essay by identifying atleast one idea in the passage in my own words that I feel especially significant. I will support my claims with examples drawn from what I have read and experienced in my life.

After, I will write my essay and after completing I will review my essay and make any changes or corrections, if needed,  that will help my reader to follow what I have written about and use appropriate vocabulary to make ideas more clear.

HYPE # 1

The topic "HYPE" talks about all kinds of advertisements. Any where your eyes can possibly come to a rest can be filled with a logo or a product message. Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. Your brain is polluted at the rate of about 3000 marketing messages per day. Each day an estimated 12 billion display ads , 3 million radio commercials and almost 200,000 TV commercials are dumped into North America.

Also, there are too many ads on different places near you. You fill your car with gas and there is an ad on the nozzle. Your kids watch Pepsi and Snickers ads in the classroom. There are also ads on the Cabs, buses, trains, subways etc. A company called VideoCarte installs interactive screens on supermarket carts so that you can see ads while you shop. ( A company executive calls the little monitors " the most powerful micro marketing medium available today.") There is nowhere to run off these advertisements. No one is exempt and no one will be spared.