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    Steve Wynn Research Paper

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    How did the son of a bingo parlor owner turn in to a casino mogul who is credited with bringing Las Vegas in to the new frontier, coincidently the name of a casino he owned? Mr. Steve Wynn has a vision for beautiful things, he always wanted for people to say that place is beautiful in and out. I’ve read 4 bios and watched 3 pieces on him and the statement above is probably the most accurate, besides the fact that it is a business and he makes a lot of money, he wants people to enjoy his casinos…

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    Gardnerville, Nevada lies in the west central portion of Nevada, which is just east of Lake Tahoe. At over 4,700 feet above sea level, Gardnerville rests comfortably in Carson Valley where residents enjoy moderate weather and pleasant temperatures year round. Located in close proximity to Gardnerville are the communities of Genoa and Minden. Carson Valley offers all the residents of Gardnerville a chance to experience one of the world’s most popular locations for sailplane soaring and skiing.…

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    World 's one of the best scientist, Albert Einstein, once said," The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but those who watch them doing evil, and it might be right to say that Ralph and his group was trying to stand up for what was right, and get everyone rescued. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, a story centers on group of boys, who were dropped from a crushed plane on an uninhabited island struggling to survive, William Golding represents Ralph as chief, who is the commander of…

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    Okakura Kakuzo a Japanese scholar once said, “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”. In today’s world plans change, times switch, and things go wrong. In order to have a civilized life nowadays people adjust according to the problem or situation. Lord Of The Files, a book written in 1954 by William Golding communicates a story in which a young group of boys stranded on a deserted island govern themselves in order to keep things civilized. After reading the book…

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    In the Lord of The Flies, William Golding tells the survival story of little boys after a plane crash to relate the creation of a dystopia in result of failed leadership. A plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down into a deserted island. All the adults that were present in the plane, have died. Only the children remain, where they find themselves on an uninhabited island, without adult supervision. The boys need to find a way to survive, and revert to voting for a leader. The…

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    Before I even began reading Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, I had already chosen which essay prompt would be of the most interest for me to write. While a few of the other given options were quite tempting, I finally decided on the topic that spoke to me the most, and being that I’m planning a future in law enforcement, I thought this one was perfect! This book is most likely one of the best suited to display the importance of authority, it’s message spoken very clearly to the…

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    The allegory, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a fictional novel about a plane crash on an island without any adults. The setting of the book is an island; “the shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or declined against the light and their green feathers were 100 feet up in the air.” And that the is,and is hot and tropical; “here and there, little breezes crept over the water beneath a haze of heat”. There are three main conflicts in this novel, they are a conflict with nature,…

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    In the end it’s always the strongest who wins Lord of the flies is a novel written by William Golding. The book is set on an island where a group of young boys gets stranded after a plane crash. The boys are there alone without any adults and is forced to fend for themselves so they make up some rules and decides duties for everyone, with the main objective to survive and get rescued. In the beginning they work well together with hunting food, keeping a signal fire going etc. But this system…

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    Radhik Patel (Date) The Lord of the Flies Jack, one of the main character in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding goes significant change. After a plane crash, some schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island without any adults. This leads to the boys gathering where the boys and pick a leader. They choose Ralph as the leader, which dissatisfies Jack. Ralph appoints the boys to their jobs, and puts Jack in charge of hunting. Jack is a innocent twelve year old boy when he arrives,…

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    No matter how hard man tries, he is bound to destroy nature even if it is unintentional. In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of young boys are involved in a plane crash and become stranded on a deserted island after an attempt to escape from the dangers of World War II. When the boys first arrive on the island, it is peaceful and untouched by mankind, but over time the boys slowly damage the purity of the island as they begin to make fires and start a civilization.…

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