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    recognize that they start to behave like the society in which they live in. Angry conflicts between the two arose in which closely relates to Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. Freud’s book explores the restrictions that society has delegated to individuals, whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual. Revolutionary Road and Civilization and Its Discontents both identify with the society-given limits to a liberating life, such as individuals lacking the…

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    It takes more than just one person to create a successful civilization. Golding elaborates on this idea by giving these four boys different leadership qualities. However, the civil society that Ralph and Piggy created was consumed by savagery. Jack and his hunters didn’t share the same values as them. The boys weren’t working compatible with each other. In order to properly run a civilization, the boys need to blend their different leadership qualities. With Ralph’s focus on…

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    Society shapes people to be civilized and follow the guidelines put in place by the society's leaders. In William Golding's novel, the reader experiences first hand what it's like to be separated from society and the progression of reverting back to human instincts. This novel can be used to prove the theory that society conditions people to conform to a chosen culture, and how people revert to their instincts without this conditioning. Through the experiences that take place throughout the book…

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    Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic Age lived in assorted habitats which allowed them to gather seafood, nuts,eggs, and fruits not collected by scavenging. Hunting and gathering was thought to be the main strategy used by human societies to collect food about 1.8 million years ago, and from its re-appearance about 0.2 million years ago. It remained the only way of collecting food until the end of the Mesolithic period about 10,000 years ago. Beginning in transition between the Middle to Upper…

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    Some of the earliest civilizations in the world had very similar, but also very different ways of life. A couple of the earliest civilizations and most prominent in the world where Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. These two particular civilizations probably had some of the greatest influence not just on their community, but on the whole world around them. Both of these particular civilizations where at the height of their era around 2000 B.C.E., the things they did like trade and agriculture…

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    presumed the presence of order and law helps their corresponding society. Authority must be in the right hands to be beneficial, and its effects can vary. In the novel Lord of the Flies, civilization doesn’t always help the boys. Although no adults were actually present on the island, the expected rules of civilization were seen throughout the novel, morphing from positive to negative from beginning to end through the interchanging reigns of Ralph and Jack, implemented by anonymous authority.…

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    are major differences between many diverse countries, indicating the separate growth and development throughout the years. In this case, Yali wanted to discover the reason as to why the development of guns, germs, and steel could allow different civilizations to become more dominant than…

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    What went wrong on the island was the marked change of place setting. The first response to the island by Ralph, Jack and Piggy shows how they expect English choir boys to keep their innocence and their English values. However, the setting of the island soon destroys these old values. Golding is showing, therefore, that societies operate as functions of place. Nothing is constant, we behave because of where we are. The novel’s exposition describes how the boys expect to keep their English…

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    The Flies: Savagery

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    Lord of the Flies explores the black side of humanity, the savagery that underlies even the more civilized human things. William Golding intended this novel as a tragic copy of children's adventure tales, illustrating humankind's intrinsic evil nature. He presents the reader with a chronology of events leading a group of young guys from hope to disaster as they attempt to survive their uncivilized, unsupervised, isolated environment as rescued. In the midst of a nuclear war, a group of British…

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    On a visit to San Antonio, people can see how it developed tourist attractions. These attractions were left behind for history to be spoken. San Antonio portrays a good image of the development of its history in the success of improvement, action, and dynamics as it can relate to the article of “A Spanish borderland community: San Antonio” by Jesus F. De La Teja given to discuss the brief information to explain Fr. Benito Fernandez’s letter. Wise choice that the missions did was by expanding…

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