Combat PTSD Wounded Times
March 21, 2018
There is a huge disconnect between the military/veteran communities and the communities where they call home.
The good news is civilians want to help. The bad news is they still don't know what is really helpful, instead of what is popular. In this case, the proof of what civilians don't know, is worse than nothing.
$125,000 rip off
The scheme involved collecting donations for two fraudulent organizations, the “Wounded Warrior Fund” and the “Wounded Warrior Foundation” – both plays on the legitimate Florida-based Wounded Warrior Project, according to the indictment, unsealed Friday.The article on Stars and Stripes had this other detail,
The four are also accused of getting free hotel rooms, gift cards and restaurant meals, ostensibly for veterans’ families. They are charged with defrauding more than 1,000 victims over six years, the indictment said.“Everything they did was for personal use,” Richard Ferretti, special agent in charge of the Louisville field office of the Secret Service, told Stars and Stripes. “No veteran’s family that we found as of yet has benefited from the money solicited.”And there was this guy, reported by ABC 10 News
MIAMI - A U.S. Marine who worked under former Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado was arrested Wednesday after he and a friend were accused of stealing $300,000 of donated items meant to help military veterans in need.And this one reported by Daytona Beach News Journal
An Ormond Beach man has been accused of running a sham veterans charity after investigators said he scammed several local businesses that had provided services for a benefit golf tournament headlined by a former NFL player. Christopher Blake, 46, faces a felony charge of organized scheme to defraud after he received donations and services under the guise of a charity called “Second Chance Veterans Foundation,” Volusia County sheriff’s detectives said.Blake held a late October golf tournament at DeBary Golf and Country Club where he brought in a friend, retired NFL football player Gerald Riggs, to be the star. But the golf course, a sign maker, a hotel and even Riggs were left empty-handed after Blake paid them with bad checks for their services or tried to skirt payment entirely, according to a charging affidavit.And then there are things like this reported by POLITICO
Veterans Charity Raises Millions to Help Those Who’ve Served. But Telemarketers Are Pocketing Most of It. Levite says he protested, but Hampton ignored him. He hired another telemarketer, Outreach Calling, to assist a related veterans nonprofit he runs out of the same office. This telemarketer — which the New York attorney general’s office says is run by a man they banned for life from fundraising in New York and remains under investigation — kept $9 out of every $10 raised.This could go on and on, but you get the idea. Americans love our veterans but maybe we should love them a little less and stop long enough to check to see where the money is going before we donate. Are they really helping veterans or themselves?
After all, for all the money that went to people claiming to be helping veterans, had gone to groups actually making a difference, IT WOULD HAVE HELPED THE VETERANS NEEDING IT!


Senators approved sweeping legislation Thursday to remake the nation's immigration system for the first time in a generation by spending tens of billions of dollars to bolster security along the U.S. southern border and offering a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the country illegally.
By a vote of 68-32, senators concluded a nearly monthlong debate of the 1,200-page measure. Fourteen Republicans voted with every member of the Senate Democratic caucus to approve the bill.
To note the significance, Vice President Biden presided over the vote and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made the unusual request that senators sit at their assigned desks and stand to vote when called.
Supporters, led by the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" who wrote the bill and steered it through the Senate, fell just short of the 70 votes they had hoped for, but the measure got a margin significant for any legislation in the often-divided chamber.
Prospects for passage in the House remain uncertain.
At midday, two key members of the Gang of Eight, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), said they initially doubted whether their efforts would succeed.
"This is one of the most divisive issues in one of the most divisive congresses," Schumer said. "But you know what? Our Republican guys showed amazing strength."
The vote caps more than six months of tedious and contentious bipartisan negotiations led by the so-called gang of four Democrats and four Republicans from across the country with various political strengths and ties to key interest groups.
If the Senate legislation became law, it would set millions of eligible immigrants on a 13-year course toward achieving permanent residency status or U.S. citizenship, but it would also require them to pay thousands of dollars in fines and back taxes.
At a cost of roughly $30 billion, the legislation would double the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border to roughly 40,000 and require the construction of 700 miles of fencing along the southern border. In addition to a "surge" of border agents, the federal government would be required to begin using military-style technology, including radar and unmanned aerial drones, to track illegal border crossings.
The Department of Homeland Security would be required to establish a biometric tracking system at the nation's 30 largest airports and eventually at border crossings and seaports to catch people attempting to leave the country with overstayed visas.
In an attempt to address the needs of a broad cross-section of the business community that relies on immigrant laborers, the agreement also would increase the number of visas available to high-skilled workers, most of whom work in the fields of science and technology, and lower-skilled people who take jobs in the construction and hospitality industries. Immigrant farm workers would be admitted under a temporary guest worker program.
But the bill also would place new burdens on employers, who would be required to check the legal status of job applicants using the government's E-Verify system.


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According to Socrates, to save Philosophy, to save young souls destined for greatness, to save human society itself, the true, philosophic nature must be freed from the corruptive influences that have formed him and receive the best education. The soul must be turned around.
I forgot that we were playing and spoke rather intensely. For, as I was talking I looked at Philosophy and, seeing her undeservingly spattered with mud, I seem to have been vexed and said what I had to say too seriously as though my spiritedness were aroused against those who are responsible. (VII.536c)
Socratic dialogues are always dramatic, and the Republic is no exception. Opinions are revealed by the characters who hold them. Thrasymachus frightens Socrates by the forcefulness with which he expresses his opinion that justice is the rule of the stronger. So when we see something as unusual as Socrates admitting to being upset, we should pay careful attention. This hardly ever happens. Even when Socrates attended a performance of Aristophanes’s Clouds, he didn’t erupt or storm out; instead he stood so the crowd could see how like him was the comic mask worn by the stage Socrates. But at the end of Book VII of The Republic, in the privacy of a group of friends, Socrates’ love of Philosophy makes his blood boil at the ridicule he and it receive from society and its leading elements. This is not simply a personal matter. Socrates seriously believes the greatest goods for mankind and human societies are at stake; a proper reverence for philosophy and the philosopher is necessary if “the city and the regime are to be saved.”
Socrates grows angry because he thinks he knows who is responsible for the insults and abuse heaped upon Philosophy. Aristophanes simply dramatized the common opinion that Philosophy is practiced by charlatans and humbugs; he did not make their opinions. Who is responsible? The answer to this question drives the movement of the dialogue from the end of Book V through Book VII, and provides the context for some of the most famous images in literature, particularly the Cave allegory at the beginning of Book VII. I hope that understanding this movement will help us to understand The Republic better, but also provide us with important reflections as teachers and students of philosophy.
1 The Philosophic Nature
This part of the drama begins near the end of Book V. Book V began with Socrates somewhat unwillingly presenting key changes a regime must experience if the just Republic described in Books II-IV is to really come into being. The hardest thing to swallow—harder than the common education of women and men, harder than the community of women and children—is that either philosophers must rule, or rulers must become philosophers. He knows how “paradoxical” this will seem, and is not surprised at all when Glaucon expresses dramatically how insane, and even dangerous, most people will think such a claim. Adeimantus later states what experience has shown: those who spend too much time in philosophy tend to become “quite queer, not to say completely vicious; while the ones who seem perfectly decent . . . become perfectly useless to the cities.”
Socrates immediately blames this reaction on the caricature of the philosopher that most people have. Naturally, the idea of Aristophanes’ Socrates being a ruler is crazy. So Socrates has to try to establish an accurate image. He does this by argument, starting with the drive that marks a young person as a budding philosopher—a youthful omnivorous appetite for learning: “The one who is willing to taste every kind of learning with gusto, and who approaches learning with delight, and is insatiable, we shall justly assert to be a philosopher.” In response to a criticism from Glaucon, Socrates clarifies. Some people love to learn about all the fair things and fair ideas, the different views of justice and of holiness, to be found among different kinds of people. They know that none of those is absolute justice, and are glad of it. In fact, they get angry with anyone who would say that the fair and the just and the holy are really the same everywhere. Though they are lovers of learning, they are not philosophers; philosophers are passionate about learning what the fair and just and holy really and simply are. “About philosophic natures, let’s agree that they are always in love with that learning which discloses to them something of the being that is always and does not wander about, driven by generation and decay.”
Socrates’ complete vision of the philosopher might seem the idle dream of a besotted lover: “a rememberer, a good learner, magnificent, charming, and a friend and kinsman of truth, justice, courage, and moderation.” But he makes a strong case. The one really passionate for wisdom would love truth and hate lies. He would love the pleasures of the soul and forsake the pleasures of the body, and therefore be moderate. Money would hold little interest for him. His speech will be weighty; he will be great-souled through his “contemplation of all time and all being.” He will be courageous through having an accurate judgment about human life and death. Justice will come naturally to him, and he will easily work with others. Add to this the necessary intellectual gifts, and you end up with an impressive package, one truly worthy to be made into a ruler.
Socrates arrives at this image through argument. But he admits that experience produces very different images, which he must account for in order to have his claims taken seriously. True philosophic natures are extraordinarily attractive and natural-born leaders. For this reason, they receive great praise, flattery, and promises of reward from their youth in the hopes that they will follow the path to greatness approved by everyone. Most will succumb to this kind of flattery. Those who don’t, who show a magnanimity that makes them immune to the lures of society, end up being distrusted by most people. They lead quiet, private lives that will keep them from getting into trouble, but make them useless.
So the positive images of the philosopher are unavailable to experience. But false images are plentiful. Those who claim to pursue philosophy do not have the passionate commitment to real learning characteristic of the true philosophic nature. Most of these are small souls, who make philosophy look pedantic and ridiculous, but pose no threat to anyone. They are attracted by the pretensions that philosophy gives them in looking down on those who pursue the ordinary interests of life. Apollodorus, the character who narrates The Symposium, seems a prime example. He abandoned his business life to follow Socrates around and make himself into a little image of him. “There was a time when I was running about the world, fancying myself to be well employed, but I was really a most wretched thing, no better than you are now. . . . I pity you who are my companions, because you think that you are doing something when in reality you are doing nothing.”
But sometimes a soul made for greatness will dabble in philosophy long enough to become very dangerous. When natures passionate for greatness receive bad instruction, they become “exceptionally bad,” “the source of great injustices and unmixed villainy.” Alcibiades is the tragic figure of Philosophy. As Plutarch relates:
The affection which Socrates entertained for him is a great evidence of the natural noble qualities and good disposition of the boy, which Socrates, indeed, detected both in and under his personal beauty; and, hearing that his wealth and station, and the great number both of strangers and Athenians who flattered and caressed him, might at last corrupt him, resolved, if possible, to interpose, and preserve hopeful a plant from perishing in the flower, before its fruit came to perfection. For never did fortune surround and enclose a man with so many of those things which we vulgarly call goods, or so protect him from every weapon of philosophy, and fence him from every access of free and searching words, as she did Alcibiades; who, from the beginning, was exposed to the flatteries of those who sought merely his gratification, such as might well unnerve him, and indispose him to listen to any real adviser or instructor.
In spite of his best efforts, Socrates finally failed to fix Alcibiades’s affection on philosophy. This was not only a personal disaster for Socrates (who had to content himself with the Apollodoruses of the world), but also brought shame and suspicion to philosophy. Alcibiades’s Trump-like flaunting of the social norms of Athenian culture, and his subsequent abandonment of Athens for Sparta, and then Persia, could easily be blamed on his strange association with that strange man, Socrates. “Corrupting the youth” was the charge that finally brought Socrates to his death.
Socrates warns Glaucon and Adeimantus against believing this charge. Young men such as Alcibiades have indeed been corrupted by their education. But the corrupter is society itself.
Isn’t it rather the very men who say [that sophists privately corrupt the most promising youth] who are the biggest sophists, who educate most perfectly and who turn out young and old, men and women, just the way they want them to be? [This happens] when many gathered together sit down in assemblies, courts, theaters, army camps, or any other common meeting of a multitude, and, with a great deal of uproar, blame some of the things done, and praise others, both in excess, shouting and clapping; and besides the rocks and the very place surrounding them echo and redouble the roar of blame and praise.
To save Philosophy, to save young souls destined for greatness, to save human society itself, the true, philosophic nature must be freed from the corruptive influences that have formed him and receive the best education. Socrates spends a great deal of time talking about the kinds of studies that will help in this educational effort. But he also makes clear that just presenting the studies is insufficient to ensure the benefits. In fact, without great care being taken, the very studies meant to save the philosophical nature and bring it to its natural greatness will undermine everything. The Cave allegory illustrates the difficulties.
II. The Cave
Few images in all of literature have had the lasting power of Plato’s allegory of the cave. “Next, then, make an image of our nature in its education and want of education.” So begins Book VII of the Republic. I have been captivated since youth by the image of imprisoned dwellers in a cave, knowing nothing of what is real but shadows. It inoculated me against the stupidity of the world and its ways, though it also fed a sense of superiority and disdain. I think it helped keep my heart steadily fixed on coming to know what is really true and good and beautiful, and prepared me for the spiritual/intellectual ascents found in Catholic authors such as St. Augustine, St. Anselm, and St. Bonaventure. I believe it has had a similar impact on others.
But the moral impact of the cave image may be negligible because its moral character was never really seen. Many students may only see shadows of the cave itself, because they read it through a deformed Phil 101 version of Plato’s Forms. They interpret the cave image primarily or exclusively through an epistemological lens, in which the shadows represent sensible particulars of dogs and petunias and mud; the point of the image is to illustrate that they are not really objects of knowledge because they are not really real themselves. The prisoners are freed and begin the journey to the outer world by realizing that “dogness” and other Ideas exist in themselves, and are the real objects of knowledge. Most students do not buy into Plato’s Forms, so for them the Cave Allegory remains a quaint though memorable story of a somewhat silly philosophical position.
That is the Phil 101 version, which presents the Cave Allegory in isolation from its larger context. Even students who have read the entire Republic tend to isolate the allegory from the political and philosophical questions which dominate the book—“What is justice? Where can it be found? Why can’t it be found in any of our real cities?” In a recent classroom discussion, an excellent group of intelligent and eager students limited their examples to Fido and furniture compared to “dog-ness” and “table-ness.” They strongly affirmed that the allegory is essentially about an individual alone; whether other prisoners are in the cave is irrelevant. Students usually find something strange and even sinister about the people carrying artifacts along the wall behind the prisoners, but that only confuses them. Who are these people? Did they imprison the poor souls? What does that have to do with epistemology anyway?
Students never seem to pick up on the discrepancy between their examples of forms and Plato’s. Plato doesn’t speak of dogness and treeness, but rather the Beautiful, the Just, the Equal and the Unequal, the Good. As he begins to speak of the greatest of studies that philosophic souls must be prepared for, he reminds Glaucon of what he has “often repeated on other occasions . . . that there is a fair itself, a good itself, and so on for all the things that we then set down as many.” Understandably, the last part encourages our natural drift towards the animals we instinctively view as substances. But Plato, or at least Plato’s Socrates, seems not to care about natural substances, generally, and certainly not in the context of the Cave. The philosopher’s journey of soul culminates in a vision of the Good which reveals the Right and Fair. The Allegory’s central theme is that of the Republic itself—Justice; the soul who comes back into the cave, having seen “justice itself” is forced to enter contests “about the shadows of the just or the representations of which they are the shadows, and to dispute about the way these things are understood by men who have never seen justice itself.”
Socrates perhaps unwittingly misleads a modern audience, with our distorted images of what philosophy is and what the philosopher does, by likening the prison home to the visible world and the light of the fire in the cave to the sun. But the dialogues all suggest that what Socrates sees all day every day by the light of the sun is the world of men, men scheming and striving, men preening and searching, men arguing and laughing, men fighting and killing and dying. Socrates explains to Phaedrus (in the dialogue of the same name) why he is out of his element in a beautiful natural setting: “I am devoted to learning; landscapes and trees have nothing to teach me – only the people in the city do.” He explains his lack of interest in debunking nature myths by saying, “I am still unable, as the Delphic inscription orders, to know myself; and it really seems to me ridiculous to look into other things before I have understood that. . . . Am I a beast more complicated and savage than Typhon, or am I a tamer, simpler animal with a share in a divine and gentle nature?”
The sun reveals for all who live in political communities first and foremost the daily lives of men, dominated by implicit and explicit views of what is worth living and striving for. Young eyes open to the lives of adults and absorb patterns into the soul. Education in stories—fact and fiction, gossip and legend—provide other models. The laws of our societies imply an image of what is just. As the young mature, they wittingly or unwittingly begin to model their own lives after the patterns of those they find successful, beautiful, glamorous, strong, even when they judge themselves failures for not living up to them. They instinctively avoid what seems ugly, often influenced by the sneering laughter of those around them. Tolstoy reports of Ivan Ilyitch: “At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.”
As we have seen, in Book VI Socrates accuses society of poorly educating the best souls about the most important things. The language of his diatribe closely anticipates the cave—many, sitting down, shouting and clapping, rocks resounding—and Socrates reminds us of it when he promises that the man freed from the cave would finally be immune to the memory of the “honors, praises and prizes for the man who is sharpest at making out the things that go by.”
Within this context, we can profitably interpret many of the details of the liberating journey. Let’s begin with common questions. Who chained the prisoners? Significantly, the prisoners are prevented from turning around by chains, not by being sick or paralyzed or quadriplegic (which our doctrine of original sin might suggest). Socrates wants to drive home that it is not our nature that keeps us in ignorance and error, but the external chains of societal custom, and especially the desire to be approved by the multitude which “honors, praises and prizes the man who is sharpest at making out the things that go by, and . . . who is thereby most able to divine what is going to come.” This man is fixed in thinking that the lives of the temporally important, which come to be and pass away with startling rapidity, are the only things that matter. The man approaching philosophy is anything but a tabula rasa, though his soul remains capable of seeing what really is, if he can force himself to look long enough.
What are the shadows, which the prisoners take for the truth about themselves and others? Socrates tells us later in the allegory, when he says the man returning from the light is “compelled in courts or elsewhere to contest about the shadows of the just or the representations of which they are the shadows and to dispute about the way these things are understood by men who have never seen justice itself.” This gives us a glimpse into both the shadows and the artifacts carried behind the wall, which include things like tables and couches, but also statues of men and animals. The shadows are of justice and/or of its representations. If the shadows are primarily to be understood as the lived lives of men in community, particularly when they draw the attention of others as being praised and honored, blamed and disgraced, the artifacts would represent the ideals or abstract models which justify the shadow-lives that impress the multitude. These are the laws and regimes (political orderings), the great works of literature and tales of heroes and heroic actions, great works of craft and enterprise that awe visiting foreigners. Pericles did not model his life simply according to the praise and blame of the multitude; rather he led his Athens according to Solon, Homer, the great deeds at Marathon, and the thirst for beauty in architecture and art.
The shadows can arise either directly from imperfect grasps of justice or, perhaps more often, from imperfectly living according to the ideals. Unlike the shadows, the artifacts have color and depth and substance in themselves. Looking at them brings about pain, which tempts the freed captive to long for the “leeks and onions of Egypt.” How often have we heard the chief ideals of our democratic Cave—freedom, equality, rights—used to justify the most despicable lifestyles of first the rich and famous, and then everyone else? Those captivated by the glamorous promise of license have little interest in or capability of understanding the ideals that founded our nation. They twist the stories of our heroes into images of their lust, or delight in besmirching their heroic character. It can be very painful for one immersed in this environment to begin to see that the life favored by the multitude, the only life he has known, is judged to be a shadow in the light of these ideals.
Are these image-makers sinister? Not always? Not intentionally? In Book VIII, Socrates goes through what seem to be a number of different caves—the timocratic, the oligarchic, and the democratic. Their ideals of what is right and fair differ according to what they believe is the good. “The good that they proposed for themselves and for the sake of which oligarchy was established, was wealth, wasn’t it? . . . And does the greediness for what democracy defines as good also dissolve it? . . . Freedom. For surely in a city under a democracy you would hear that this is the finest thing it has, and that for this reason it is the only regime worth living in for anyone who is by nature free.” This is the fire, the artificially contrived vision of the good that men in different regimes establish for themselves. The laws celebrated by Pericles in his funeral oration enshrined freedom and equality, and the poets (like Aeschylus) and historians (like Herodotus) celebrated it as well.
III. Turning the Whole Soul—The Education of the Philosophic Nature
Socrates draws out from his allegory the real task of education. Education does not put knowledge into the soul. Rather, it focuses the soul’s own power to learn on what is judged to be important. The best education turns that power “around from that which is coming into being together with the whole soul until it is able to endure looking at that which is and the brightest part of that which is,” the good. The soul must be turned around, for it has already been educated to dwell on shadows by its society. Education is “the art of this turning around, concerned with the way in which this power can most easily and efficiently be turned around.” In terms drawn from the earlier part of the Republic, the whole soul includes the desires, the spirit, and the calculating, as well as the imagination.
Because of his concern for the whole soul, Socrates thinks educators must be very careful to present their training in stages appropriate to age, and only allow those who have shown themselves dedicated and capable to encounter the most advanced parts of philosophy. Turning the soul is made easier by preventing the young from developing tastes for the pleasures of sophisticated daily life, by putting before them the best stories to form their imaginations, by developing body and spirit in athletic contests and love for the beautiful through singing. Such an education makes the chains thin, but the virtues developed through proper gymnastic, music, and education in story are not based on understanding. They are founded on a trust in the goodness of the specific traditions and laws of their particular society. In the terms of the cave allegory, these guardians have little trouble turning to look at the images carried above the wall, in the light of the good of their society, but have no incentive to begin looking beyond these images.
Socrates is leery of challenging those images at any time during youth. In most of Plato’s dialogues, Socrates is shown trying to shake the complacency of older, established men, the leading members of society. That kind of procedure is dangerous for the young. In the Apology, he seemed to express some concern about the idle sons of wealthy men who enjoyed watching him reveal the pretenses of their elders, and even made themselves annoying by imitating him. He won’t even introduce Glaucon, who may have been in his thirties at the time of the dialogue, to dialectic. Dialectic has done harm to society and philosophy by encouraging those too young or too flippant about real learning to engage in arguments that challenge their “childhood convictions about what’s just and fair by which we are brought up as by parents.” When they can’t answer difficult challenges, they often come to “the opinion that what the law says is no more fair than ugly,” just than unjust, good than bad. The result can be an outlaw.
Mathematics provides for the young the proper incentive and bridge to lead the soul to look towards the world that is. That Socrates would choose math is perhaps surprising. When in The Apology, Socrates pursued those who seemed to be wise, he went to the politicians, the poets, and the craftsmen. He did not approach mathematicians. Mathematicians don’t pretend to be wise; at least they don’t aspire to political power nor to insight into justice and legislation. But they do claim to have knowledge, and in many ways a kind of knowledge that removes them from the daily hustle and bustle of political frenzy. Archimedes’ death while contemplating a mathematical diagram during Rome’s invasion of Syracuse expresses the spirit.
Although mathematics arose out of a desire to apply knowledge to build buildings and canals, and astronomy out of the desire to plot the heavens for religious and agricultural purposes, Greek mathematicians became enamored of the mathematical world itself. Real mathematicians use diagrams and symbols which can be seen, but they know they are not thinking of these things. Amazingly they are gathering eternal truths about unseen objects. They know that they are not making proofs about tangible bodies; they draw figures but they know the accuracy of the figure is not essential, because the argument does not depend upon sight. “(The study of calculation) leads the soul powerfully upwards and compels it to discuss numbers themselves. It won’t at all permit anyone to propose for discussion numbers that are attached to visible or tangible bodies. For surely, you know the way of men are clever in these things. If in the argument someone attempts to cut the one itself, they laugh and won’t permit it.”
Mathematics has a natural charm, as evidenced by the way solid geometry developed even though society saw no use in it. Its charm will win young souls to think about what is beyond sense, while being accessible to them because of its use of images and still practical enough to keep their practical side from causing resistance. Mathematics also tests mental agility and the aptitude for serious study necessary to really advance in philosophy. Socrates recommends not making it compulsory, but offering it as a playful, leisurely activity. Those young budding leaders who enjoy mathematical problems and push themselves to understand their solutions are the ones who are most likely to have the best dispositions to the fullness of philosophy (like Theaetetus).
Even so, mathematicians are not themselves out of the cave. “And as for the rest, those that we said do lay hold of something of what is – geometry and the arts following on it – we observe that they do dream about what is; but they haven’t the capacity to see it in full awakeness so long as they use hypotheses and, leaving them untouched, are unable to give an account of them. When the beginning is what one doesn’t know, and the end and what comes in between are woven out of what isn’t known, what contrivance is there for ever turning such an agreement into knowledge?” Mathematicians do not raise natural questions about their starting points. How can what is one not also be many, since every one that we see is also many? How can we determine what is really equal or really straight, since these things look also unequal and unlevel? Where do we get the ideas of perfect circles and exact ratios? Philosophical natures ask these kinds of questions naturally, insistently; mathematicians brush them aside. This was true of my own high school experience, when I could not find anyone who cared to know whether a differential is a really thick point, or what the heck it is. That killed my ability to do calculus.
The one who asks these questions is beginning to get outside the cave. If he is sufficiently old and serious, he is ready to be introduced to dialectic, the art of argument. Socrates cannot give Glaucon an image to capture what dialectic itself is. But he does give several characteristics of it. It is the highest of the arts. It works through argument alone, not through anything sensible or imaginable. It seeks to understand what each thing worth knowing really is, so that it might eventually understand what the Good itself is. It can then give an account of each thing that is (and seems). It does this by “destroying the hypotheses” that are the foundations of cave knowledge. Dialectic shows by argument that the hypotheses cannot stand as they are thought to. This goes not only for the foundations of mathematics, but also for the foundations of society. The opinions about the just and fair that are enshrined in law, tradition, and heroic stories are just the sorts of things which “look somehow both fair and ugly,” just and unjust, holy and unholy. This is the frightening part of education, the one that must be most carefully guarded so that only those who have shown themselves truly devoted to learning, and most truly devoted to their cities, are allowed to enter.
Socrates believes the philosophical souls should spend their early thirties engaged in serious dialectical arguments, having their earlier opinions challenged at every level, while they never lose hope of coming to an ultimate understanding of what is true, just, holy, and beautiful. However, he does not expect them to resolve their difficulties during these intellectual “gymnastics.” Rather, they must be sent back at this time to serve in the cave for FIFTEEN YEARS! This will give them the experience they need so that when they finally achieve rule they will not appear ridiculous. But he also says that it is a continuation of the test. Will one who has been led to question the assumptions of the society he serves finally turn against it? Or will his love for it endure, will his conviction that it is just to serve “stand firm or give way when pulled in all directions”? Perhaps it will also help in the final task of approaching the good to have seen the different dreams of the good reflected in the lives of many different people, including themselves. Finally, when they are 50 years old (hey, who do I know like that?), they can be led to see the good itself, which they can then use as a pattern for ordering the city.
Let me end with questions that Plato raises for us as students and educators.
Has he properly identified the philosophic nature? Do we seem more like Apollodorus than Alcibiades?
Is he right about the effects of custom, of praise and blame, on our opinions? Is it possible that even good customs leave us asleep in the cave?
Is philosophical education a moral as well as intellectual journey? Do we really have to turn our whole souls? Should accustoming to delight in thought be a central part of the education of the young?
Is he right about the role mathematics should play in all this?
Is he right that dialectic should be delayed until older? That it has dangerous effects when engaged in by the young?
Is he right that experience in serving offices is important? Is it philosophically important or only necessary if we happen to need to serve society?
We must take good care of all such things since, if we bring men straight of limb and understanding to so important a study, and so important a training and education then Justice herself will not blame us, and we shall save the city and the regime; while, in bringing men of another sort to it, we shall do exactly the opposite and also pour even more ridicule over philosophy.
Republished with Dr. Seeley’s gracious permission.
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 Plato, The Republic, trans. C.D.C. Reeve (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2004): 473d.
 Ibid., 487d.
 Ibid., 475c.
 Ibid., 485b.
 Ibid., 487a.
 Ibid., 486a.
 Plato, The Symposium, trans. Christopher Gill (New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003): 173c.
 Plato, The Republic, 491e.
 Ibid., VI. 492c.
 Ibid., 514a.
 Ibid., 507b.
 Ibid., 517b.
 Ibid., 517d.
 e.g. ibid., 517b.
 Plato, Phaedrus, trans. Alexander Nehamas (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Classics, 1995): 230d.
 Ibid., 230a.
 Plato, The Republic, 516c; cf. 426c.
 Ibid., 516c.
 Ibid., 517d.
 Ibid., 562b-c.
 Ibid., 518d.
 Ibid., 522a.
 Plato, The Apology, trans. Benjamin Jowett (Bulgaria: Demetra Publishing, 2019): 23c.
 Plato, The Republic, 539e.
 Ibid., 525d.
 Ibid., 528c.
 Ibid., V. 479a-b.
 Ibid., 537d.
 Ibid., 540a.
 Ibid., VII. 536b.
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Update: This story was updated to include a comment from the Senior Policy Advisor for Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA)
On a Friday late in November post-election, I had the opportunity to interview three staffers from the offices of Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), to learn about some of the economic policies that were formed under these well-known public figures.
Another staffer for another well-known politician also chimed in after the interview about the group, “Black women have developed transformative policy agendas at all levels of government. We often serve two critical roles in any enterprise: first, to ensure all voices are heard and reflective of American’s diverse experiences, and second, to seek out and mentor other women of color,” said Yasmin Rigney-Nelson, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris. Rigney-Nelson went on to note that, “Working for and with other women of color has been a transformative experience for me, and I am incredibly grateful for all of the Black women who have mentored me, served with me, and helped me get where I am today.”
Normally covering the ‘digital currency and blockchain’ beat, it made sense for me to start by asking these women of color policy staffers on these areas first. Aya Ibrahim, Economic Policy Advisor for Pressley, helped in the drafting of the Payments Modernization Act of 2019. According to Ibrahim, “Facebook Libra’s selling point initially was that this was going to be a way to bank the unbanked and better serve the underbanked, but that wouldn’t necessarily exist had we provided the services we should had provided,” said Ibrahim.
Chastity Murphy, Economic Policy Advisor for Tlaib, highlighted the Automatic Boost To Communities Act that called for a digital dollar by 2021 as an option for Americans to receive public stimulus payments. “There is a lot of hype around blockchain technology, mostly from people who are thinking about its private sector uses. When it comes to publicly administered digital payments, the more important question is not how to create a distributed ledger managed by multiple actors, but how to create digital cash, which you can hold in your pocket, that doesn't require a ledger at all. That's the bigger priority, in our opinion.”
Murphy further clarified that, “Technology that may sound very convenient to the average person may have terrible implications for marginalized or historically discriminated communities.” According to Murphy, the concern of her boss and others relates to how, “...facial recognition technology is being used in majority black districts to incarcerate and discriminate against communities of color. Facial Recognition technology is an example of what happens when you separate questions of efficiency and design from questions of exclusion, access, and privacy.”
Speaking of communities of color, Claudia Pagon Marchena, Legislative Aide for Ocasio-Cortez, spoke about how she, Murphy, and Ibrahim forged a close bond on Capitol Hill in their policy work. “I think one of the things that makes our jobs easier in working with one another is the synergy that exists between our bosses and where they stand ideologically. Recurring payments is something that all three of our bosses have been pushing...” said Pagon Marchena. “We find there is strength in numbers and coordination to push these narratives and push the caucus on what a real, progressive response looks like in this time.”
Along with The Automatic Boost to Communities Act that called for a stimulus payment of $2,000 a month per individual to offer relief during Covid-19, the offices joined together to pen a letter to the Congressional leaders on the importance of recurring payments during Covid-19. According to Murphy, it was Ibrahim’s idea to seek out and include Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), now Vice President-Elect, in the letter so the effort would be on a bicameral basis.
With respect to the importance of these recurring payments, Ibrahim quoted economist Larry Summers in our interview, highlighting his point that “...economic time has stopped, but financial time has not been stopped.” Ibrahim continued, “From a policy perspective, it seemed to be just one of the most straightforward ways to provide relief and also provide stimulus on top of that.”
While Murphy is quick to credit Ibrahim on things like coordinating the letter with Harris’ office, Ibrahim is just as quick to highlight that Federal Reserve relief for state and local municipalities was something Murphy had been speaking about since day one. “Why is the Fed not buying municipal bonds?” Murphy would say to Ibrahim. “They have the authority to buy municipal bonds. The city of Detroit should not have declared bankruptcy.”
All three offices together were united in their call to the Fed for helping these state and municipalities during the economic crisis. Ibrahim pointed out, “A public sector worker is more likely to be black who is laid off. This is especially devastating to specific communities.” According to Ibrahim, services that are communal in nature tend to be neglected and are not a priority, and thus the people who need these services don’t get them.
For Pagon Marchena, this type of behavior is an example of the austerity that was imposed after the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis, where states and municipalities had to cut back on their workforce and not invest in education. Pagon Marchena had more to say on austerity too, particularly as it applied to some of the work Ocasio-Cortez did on Puerto Rico.
Claudia Pagon Marchena, Legislative Aide for Ocasio-Cortez
“Claudia is an indispensable member of our team. She is extremely talented at understanding the complexities and nuances of issues that come before the Committee on Financial Services, and fully grasping the legislative actions and tools that are available to elevate what we are hearing at the grassroots level,” said Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Ocasio-Cortez added, “Her work and approach is deeply rooted in the needs of New York’s 14th Congressional district, advocates, and frontline communities. We are lucky to have her spearheading many of our legislative efforts and wins.”
With respect to her colleagues Murphy and Ibrahim, Pagon Marchena stated the, “...underlying principle that drives us all is economic justice.” According to Pagon Marchena, because the Puerto Rican government is a territory and the U.S. still has colonies, U.S. had to enact Promesa which is why this became the subject of a protest some time ago and is seen as an imposition by the island. Pagon Marchena highlighted, “Austerity has all kinds of implications for public services,” including healthcare which during Covid-19 has been extremely damaging to the community on the island.
According to Pagon Marchena, in regards to the ills of the private banking sector, her office has looked for public banks to play a role in moving to a zero carbon economy and part of the ‘Green New Deal’. The Public Banking Act was a bill introduced by Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez that, “allows for the creation of state and locally administered public banks by establishing the Public Bank Grant program administered by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board which would provide grants for the formation, chartering and capitalization of public banks.” Pagon Marchena commented one of her favorite collaborations on the Hill was with Murphy and Representative Tlaib’s office on the Public Banking Act.
Regarding what it is like to work with Ocasio-Cortez, “I am grateful the trust the Congresswoman has put in me and others in the office. When I first started this job, I was not full-time on policy. She was invested in my personal growth and gave me the opportunity. Even in doing this interview, she was incredibly supportive of it.”
On Senator Kamala Harris (CA-D), now Vice President-Elect, being the first woman of color historically in that position, Pagon Marchena stated, “Representation does matter. I think seeing a woman of color rises to the higher places of our Government, knowing that these institutions have been very hostile to people of color, I think it is very encouraging... I think there is still a very long way to go. There is a deep problem of diversity and inclusion in Congress which is why the work of the tri-caucus’ is so important. Also, in our positions is critical.”
Aya Ibrahim, Economic Policy Advisor, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
Statement from Rep. Pressley:
“I am so grateful to do this work with Aya. As my dedicated Economic Policy Advisor, Aya ensures that my work in the economic and financial services space—from the bills I introduce, to the questions I ask in committee hearings, to the stakeholders my office engages with in community—centers the voices of those who are too often excluded from decision making tables,” stated Congresswoman Pressley (D-MA). Pressley further noted, “Aya’s deep understanding of these issues and her commitment to advance progressive economic policies that affirm economic justice for our marginalized communities has made her an invaluable member of my team and one of my most trusted advisors.”
With respect to the Federal Reserve and recent data showing only one out of over 400 economists at the Federal Reserve in Washington D.C. was a black woman, Ibrahim said, “Your expertise matters as much as your lived experience. You can have all of the education and the technical knowledge in the world but if you are removed from the implications of that policymaking, then what you end up with are very different results.” Ibrahim further noted that, “Unemployment is a very important metric to the Fed and key to its decision-making, but not in the way we would like to see. We need to be decision makers too.”
With respect to her work on the Payments Modernization Act, Ibrahim points out, “...this is not wonky, it is about equity and fairness. For a person living paycheck to paycheck, to have that paycheck held for three to five days, working folks have to turn to payday lenders that are exploitative.” According to Ibrahim, the Fed has one system of governance for people and another for private banks and companies. “I think what’s fundamentally frustrating is a bank is a public-private partnership that offers critical public services with a utility that should be equally accessible to all.” As mentioned earlier, the void in the payment system that is left is then filled by tech companies like Facebook, which is not ideal.
With regard to working for Pressley, Ibrahim is incredibly honored and grateful to do this work and a boss like the Congresswoman who is so open and willing to be out there on some of these issues. Ibrahim said, “...to have those uncomfortable conversations and to take a chance on a ‘Never really been on the Hill before’ candidate when she was interviewing. All of our bosses, the values that they are wishing for, they are making sure the people they are hiring reflect those values.”
On Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), now Vice President-Elect, being the first woman of color historically in that position, Ibrahim stated, “There has never been a question that any of us could do any of these jobs, right. There isn’t any question in my mind that a woman of color could be a Vice President or an amazing President and obviously it’s just a matter of others coming to that realization.”
Ibrahim was proud of some of the work her boss had done with Senator Harris, particularly working on bills with Yasmin Rigney-Nelson, Senior Policy Advisor to the now President-Elect. According to Ibrahim, Pagon Marchena, and Murphy, Rigney-Nelson - a woman of color herself - served as a mentor to all three of the House women of color staffers.
Chastity Murphy, Economic Policy Advisor, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
“I really enjoy working with Chastity on financial services and economic policy. She thinks about legislation that shifts the conversation on what progressive economic policy can look like. She consistently demonstrates foresight on identifying links between the financial system, economic development, and poverty and works to create sustainable, tangible policy solutions towards poverty reduction, especially for my district, and other districts like mine across the nation,” stated Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Tlaib further stated, “She’s always thinking boldly and unapologetically about policy solutions in financial services while ensuring that under-serviced communities are at the forefront of her decision-making. Her brilliance combined with her desire to free communities of color from economic oppression and inequity is what I value the most.”
Murphy’s role with the ABC Act and the way she hoped to frame the conversation around digital dollars is a prime example of a progressive policy that includes the notions of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) as well as a stark division between monetary policy at the Fed and fiscal policy at the Treasury.
On working with Tlaib, Murphy notes, “Rashida pushes me to do big progressive policy that makes sense. Working with her, at no point, have I ever felt like I wasn’t able to push forward good policy. It’s one thing for us to give the information, but it’s another to be bold and stand as the face to good policy. Rashida has never relented.” Murphy further noted that, “...knowing that she (Tlaib) trusts me enough to help her in writing her economic policy, even when it’s something that others just aren’t yet talking about, is something I will always appreciate.”
On Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), now Vice President-Elect, being the first woman of color historically in that position, Murphy stated, “Being a black woman in this country, the closest thing you get to see to yourself are people in the Administration who are heads of departments. To see that someone at the highest level of power with that amount of leverage speaks to be why we need to be more intentional about supporting women of color.”

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Fall Out Boy – American Beauty/American Psycho
Review by Joanna Cosgrove
Contrary to what a certain eyeliner-wearing man exclaimed all those years ago, emo is not over. How do I know? Because here comes punk disciples Fall Out Boy with another record full of hits, each differing brilliantly from the last. All from the celebratory opening of energy-surging Irresistible, to the beautiful closing Twin Skeleton’s are tracks to be blasting for all occasions throughout 2015. Parties – yes. Raves – duh. Alone in your room creating a one-man riot – bet your sweet ass.
It was September last year when we gathered the hint of a new record in the form of the track Centuries. Following its first play on BBC Radio 1, the first revealed music video – filmed with the app Hyperlapse – debuted to the rest of the world what these four punk nuts had in store for us.
Within the rest of the diminishing year, they were unveiling more, including title track American Beauty/American Psycho – which brought me the old-school Fall Out Boy sense of awesomely long titles – and that was when we knew what we’d be dealing with in the new year. The track was fast-paced, each note racing through the listener’s veins… This was a new era in punk, and of course, the leaders were this pop-punk foursome, flag in hand. Well, in Pete’s.
Punk fans aren’t the only ones excited for the release; it seemed the guys were also as days prior to the album’s release, they decided to show off all songs that were yet released. This gave everyone, including myself an exclusive listen before having the album in hand, and I will be honest: I loved what I was hearing.
Before I even held the beautiful case in my hands, I knew what uniquely outstanding tracks graced the plastic inside it. It was diverse; it was a studio-made variety show, so yes. This was true Fall Out Boy.
If I had to choose my personal highlights from this album, as difficult as it honestly was, my top choice at this moment of writing – might have changed, I am always changing mentally – is the newest single to be released, Uma Thurman. I love this track for its catching guitar progression, and lead singer Patrick Stump’s accuracy on hitting the notes, matching the beats, sparking the flames… But also, the story behind its title.
This is a weird reason to enjoy a song, but I’m like that. It brings back memories of previous tracks, similarly titled, and I let out a small laugh when the track listing was first released because I knew I was going to enjoy that song. One pre-hiatus track it reminded me of was the Folie a Deux track She’s My Winona, as it was the underline of the lyrics that spoke about the celebrity involved. That classic case was Winona Ryder, and now, main lyricist Pete Wentz is showing his admiration for the Pulp Fiction actress and her dance moves. Both of which, funnily enough, he recently revealed he had crushes on. Alright, things are a little clearer now…
Another track I have to love through and through was the first non-single previewed, The Kids Aren’t Alright. This song broke the rule of the regular Fall Out Boy track: nothing angry, nothing superior, nothing dominating in its melody. It was a true ballad, following suit to the new formula for songs on AB/AP, but it leaped out. It was told to be a favourite among the band, and I can hear why…
It is a beautiful track, which is only achieved when written by a beautiful soul – having four to put their past traumas and troubles in the weaving of the track created a song that can speak to those thrown-down teenagers who need someone to pick them up, dust them off, and push them into the empty future to encourage them to succeed. This is what the members mean when they say they “write for the outcasts”; how there are people writing about the popular kids partying and the successful ones reaching their goals. Teenagers need that band to speak to the rebellious, lonesome, and overlooked side of them. Enter Fall Out Boy, at their modernised deepest with what I hear as the musical offspring of Folie a Deux’s What A Catch, Donnie.
The last song I’ll mention is another favourite, Jet Pack Blues. I’ll be honest and say that this song is close to indescribable. I feel it is one of those tracks that in the minds of the artistic, could paint an image of too many emotions: loneliness in the words, bravery in the beat, confidence in the melody. I can imagine if it was chosen for a single; the video would probably be full of powerful imagery, heart-stopping effects and would be one for the ages.
The track is unskippable – not a real word, but bear with me – and one for that slow-down in a party scene. It’s that stylised ballad that you know will get a whole arena full of fans swaying and crooning along; I hope it will be so when I myself see them in October. It would be a serious mistake to not include this in the tour setlist, as I am sure it is a quick fan favourite. Jet Pack Blues is 2015’s Headfirst Slide, but I’m sure it will never end up like it.
What else is there to say but, emo is back and let’s bust out the band tees and combat boots (not like we ever put them away…)
This is our second coming of Cork Tree, one decade on, when we can bring in the new wave of Overcast Kids to join with the old-schoolers. Very few tracks can be skipped, incredibly few can be hated; backlash from older fans is to be expected, as there was with 2013’s Save Rock and Roll, but the overall criticism agrees.
Change is welcome, and punk is never gonna die as long as we’ve got Fall Out Boy leading the genre to victory.


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Sleep enough – for most people at least seven hours per night on average – and keep stress under control. Sleep deprivation and stress hormones raise blood sugar levels, slowing ketosis and weight loss a bit. Plus they might make it harder to stick to a keto diet, and resist temptations. So while handling sleep and stress will not get you into ketosis on it’s own, it’s still worth thinking about.
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The Witcher Monster Slayer, a mobile game first announced on August 26, 2020 from the official The Witcher accounts, seems to be very close to its release date. The game is being developed by Spokko, a mobile game subsidiary of CD Projekt Red.
The game will also be released for iOS and Android. Android users can now pre-register via the Google Play Store. The Witcher Monster Slayer will appear as a mobile Witcher game in the style of Pokemon Go. And it will aim to give us the experience of being a Witcher while walking down the streets. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to encounter a Griffin or Fiend while walking on the road? With CD Projekt Red’s new mobile game, this will be possible and players will be contracted as Witchers.
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While battling your enemies, The Witcher Monster Slayer will ask for good timing to complete your attacks and dodge incoming attacks. At the same time, you will be able to improve your character with the potions, bombs and battles you will fight. Like a true Witcher, there will be times when you’ll have to track down monsters and solve certain puzzles.
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In a bid to keep their sacred temples open amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have asked all visitors and workers to wear masks "at all times" while inside as a temporary safety measure.
"We are grateful that in recent months, some level of ordinance work has resumed in every temple. Our desire is to keep temples open. As cases of COVID-19 increase in many areas, we want to do everything possible to allow temples to remain open," the denomination's president, Russell M. Nelson, and his two top counselors, Dallin H. Oaks and Henry B. Eyring, wrote in a letter to the church Wednesday.
"Therefore, effective immediately, all temple patrons and workers are asked to wear face masks at all times while in the temple. These safety protocols are temporary, based on COVID-19 conditions, and will be rescinded as soon as circumstances permit."
This summer, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidance on the need for urgently increasing COVID-19 vaccinations. The CDC recommended that everyone wear a mask in public indoor places, even if they are fully vaccinated, in areas of substantial or high transmission.
The CDC said this guidance was due to a "rapid and alarming rise in the COVID-19 case and hospitalization rates around the country." New data also showed that the delta variant was more infectious and led to increased transmissibility compared with other variants, even in some vaccinated individuals.
In addition to regular Sunday worship in some 18,000 chapels, members of the denomination worship in temples they consider to be "the world's most sacred spaces, places where heaven and earth meet." The church lists 252 temples worldwide, but only 161 of them were reportedly operating last month.
Carole M. Stephens of the church's general Relief Society Presidency said the spiritual strength members receive from worshipping in a temple increases their "faith and determination to face the trials" of life.
The LDS Church also performs temple ceremonies on behalf of those who have died, a practice they argue comes from 1 Corinthians 15:29.
"This practice enables Latter-day Saints to form eternal connections between family members in heaven and on earth," the church says.
While anyone can visit a temple during an open house, access is generally restricted to members who have a current "temple recommend" card. The card verifies members believe in the Latter-day Saints doctrines and obey certain rules like tithing and abstaining from alcohol, The New York Times reports.
In urging visitors to their sacred temples to mask up during visits, Latter-day Saint leaders explained that they have previously taken similar protective steps to prevent the spread of disease.
"Our urging Church members to be vaccinated and to protect themselves and others from the spread of disease has precedent," they noted. "Prior First Presidencies shared similar messages in 1900 about smallpox and in 1957 regarding polio. Please do all you can to protect yourself and others so the work of the Lord on both sides of the veil can move forward."


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Sarafin is an artist and writer, studying cartooning and comic book illustration at a respected career college in Toronto, Canada. An aspiring satirist, Sarafin began ...Read More
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This is a strip that gives basic background information about the famous Lakota “messiah”, the White Buffalo Woman. I was extremely fascinated by this legendary woman, so I wanted to incorporate her into my comic somehow. The result was having her tie into Liz’s story.
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Your Assignment should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language. The writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of the role of advocacy and community education in work that is done with children and their families. The paper should be 3–4 pages, double spaced, and in APA format. You should include a minimum of four reputable references in your paper, with one of the references being your textbook. For help with citations, refer to the APA Quick Reference. For additional writing help, visit the Writing Center and review the guidelines for research, citation, and plagiarism.
Child abuse is a broad term used in referring to any form of mistreatment or injustices committed to children by other people. The culprits of child abuse may include friends, family friends, family members or strangers. Forms of child abuse include acts such as physical torture, sexual abuse, child trafficking, bullying and neglect. Recently, there have emerged astonishing reports of child abuse in the United States……………………

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