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    The two main antagonists, Ralph and Jack, are very valuable and conflicting in the story and have broad types of specific individuals that they represent in their society when they are stranded on an island, but go through the difference of life that they experience like never before. The boys are excited about how they begin a new era in their lives, but when they realize that there were no adults on the island, they figure out and keep order about what the environment contained as an island…

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    In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, Golding introduces a story about boys who have crash landed in a plane on an unknown island before World War II. This story explains how children, who are civilized, turn into savages through isolation. Golding also wrote an article, “Why Boys Become Vicious,” which is about a cruel kidnapping. He explains what had happened to cause the kidnapping and his own thoughts about it. He also explains how there are certain “conditions” that cause people to…

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    tempests, disease, exile, and death” (Conrad pg.7) around every corner and from where no one has returned. Humans need other humans to keep them accountable. Without accountability a person loses all restraints, is driven by his natural desires, and civilization is ultimately lost. Although the job of the Europeans who go to Africa to collect ivory is to humanize the natives, the natives prove to be more civilized than the Europeans themselves. Without social restraints, there is nothing to stop…

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    of the Flies”. In the book, the children are at peace with each other. Eventually, they begin to break the rules that were established by their leader, and the kids start to turn against each other. The book is a perfect example that with rules, civilization can be peaceful, but not everyone will be content with the laws. Society can…

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    Governance And Civility

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    Article Review On Civility and Resilient Governance. Matthew S. Mingus and Catherine M. Horiuchi. Public Administration Quarterly, spring 2012, pp. 119-129. Matthew S. Mingus and Catherine M. Horiuchi’s article, On Civility and Resilient Governance, has given examples of incivility, especially that experienced or practiced by public servants and its negative effects on the society, their causal factors, and how this trend can be reversed. Per the article, therefore, it takes a…

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    Throughout this semester, we have explored many different civilizations in the many different chapters that we looked at. Some being the same in areas and some being different. I’m going to look at Chapters two through four, to show see how Ancient India, Ancient China, and Ancient Greece are different and how they are the same. In chapter two we learn about Ancient India, which was and still is a land of diversity (pg. 38). The early civilizations in India arose in river valleys and were…

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    Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding in 1954, but is set in an unknown time period. It is about a group of boys that were in a plane crash and had to find a way to survive on a deserted island long enough to be saved. The protagonist in this novel is Ralph, a young male who was elected as the initial leader of the boys when they first arrive on the island. Throughout the novel the antagonist, Jack, revolts and gets others to begin to follow him. Jack was a more successful leader…

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    In life, you need support you can not have a complete life without the support of others. The quote “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main (land)” from the poem Meditation 17. The quote is a metaphor for how every person is special and not one person can do everything right, each person has their own quality or talent that is distinct to them. It compares a complete man to a piece of an island, and how to be complete you need other…

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    Consequences Of Savagery

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    throughout the novel. In the early chapters of the novel, he proposes that one of the important roles of a society is to provide an outlet for human impulses. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel in which the theme of savagery versus civilization is explored. William Golding uses word choice and Sam and Eric’s impressions, looks, and actions to reveal their attitude of being positive and nice. Firstly, Sam and Eric’s attitude of being positive and nice is revealed through the…

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    Coral Island is a novel written before Lord of the Flies; it depicts a group of three boys stranded on an island who form a utopian society. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding is the exact opposite. In Golding’s story, a young group of schoolboys, stranded on an island, face the challenge of creating a society amidst power struggles, beasts, and loss of innocence. This struggle is most apparent in the events of chapter nine, after Simon wakes up from a fainting episode. He struggles…

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