2. Plato’s Cave Prisoners are tied up in a cave so that they can only slightly move their eyes. They are facing a cave wall. There is a fire behind them and between them and the fire is a walkway where puppet showmen perform. So all they see is the shadows of the puppets in the cave wall.
3. If one prisoner was to be let go, he would see the puppet men and wouldn’t believe them to be real as it goes against his reality of the shadows. Also he would see the fire which would be so bright it would hurt his eyes. This would force him to look back at the cave wall. If he was dragged out side he would find this very distressing as it is untrue to his reality and the sunlight is so bright. Release from the Cave
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5. Application to Media In recent years there has been many advances in technology. Young people such as us have grown up with technology all around us so this is our reality. On the other hand the older generations struggle to understand the new technologies as their reality is extremely different. Some of the elderly people long for the past and their reality.
6. Application to Media 9 percent of child gamers are pathologically or clinically "addicted" to playing video games. However, 23 percent of youth say that they have felt "addicted to video games." People have suggested that video games are beginning to become people’s reality. It has been reported in the news that some murderers have said that they thought they were in a video game at the time and they would earn a certain amount points for shooting that person. “Life is not a video game.”
7. Television My Super Sweet 16 Exiled The World’s Strictest Parents Documentaries where British people have gone to live with tribes for a few weeks. Documentaries where people who live in a tribe have come to England.
