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Description Create a common theme from the list of quotes listed in the document below. then from 3 of the books use 1 one of the 3 quotes that most strongly support the thesis. analyze the connections between the quotes and the thesis Plato: -At first he would see the shadows most easily, then images of men and other things on water, then the things themselves -After that, he would already be able to conclude about it that it provides the seasons and the years, governs everything in the visible world, and is in some way the cause of all the things that he and his fellows used to see -now, if he had to compete once again with the perpetual prisoners in recognizing the shadows, while his sight was still dim and before his eyes had recovered, and if the time required for readjustment was not short, wouldn’t he provoke ridicule ? Genesis: -So god made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. -You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die -and the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man Thomas of Celano “The Life of Francis”: -Since we have grown up with the training of our parents all sorts of evils pursue us from our childhood -These wretched people generally pretend that they have done more wicked things than they actually have, so that they do not appear despicable by seeming innocent -That man was still boiling in the sins of youthful heat, and his unstable time of life was driving him without restraint to carry out the laws of youth Sister Margaret Carney’s Essay on St. Clare: -Their Daughters are slated to make advantageous marriages that will strengthen la famiglia through land acquisition and additional military power -her education was preparing her for a life as the leader of a noble family. -She must leave this shelter of privilege and power. She is going to join Francis and the new community of brothers. The Prince: -He who is less beholden to Fortune has often in the end the better success -it may be for the advantage of a Prince that, from his having no other territories, he is obliged to reside in person in the state that he has acquired -Wherefore, matters should be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord, the may be compelled to believe by force Look out for Number One: -Everyone automatically makes the effort to be happy, so the key word is “rational” -The Absolute Moralist is the creature-looking deceptively like any ordinary human being- who spends his life deciding what is right for you -So-called self-sacrifice is just an irrationally selfish act (doing what you think will make you feel good) committed under the influence of a low awareness level.