Devolution

intelligence. When the boys “‘[hunt] pigs’” and “‘[let] fires out[,]’” their ultimate goals are straying away surviving and getting rescued and are turning into merely hunting and killing. Piggy, being the first and only one to acknowledge this devolution amongst the boys, is symbolic of understanding. Secondly, Piggy’s intelligence is exemplified through his realization of the hunters’ complete turnover to savagery. He confronts the hunters by saying, “‘Which is better--to be a pack of painted…

Federalism as we know it today, is a complex and dynamic method of government that divides power between a national government and smaller governmental units. In the United States, the smaller governmental units represent the state/local governments. The United States first started out as a confederation of thirteen states and eventually established a successful federal system. The Founders of this country identified several reasons for creating a federalist government: To evade tyrannical rule…

Much of my younger life was formed by having fun and doing child-like things, but when these activities weren 't occuring my parents were secretly teaching me how to be an independent person. They started with small things, like giving me chores and responsibilities, and slowly graduated to larger things such as expecting me to get to school on time. A lack of rules granted me much freedom, but also heightened moral standards imposed on me by my parents. Overall, however, the independence…

Examining the historical background of the United States, liberalism, with its belief in negative liberty, and republicanism, with its belief in positive liberty, have always been the dominant political ideologies in the United States. That said I am of the inclination that even as modern American government may appear to be republican, liberalism remains inherent within the nature of the people of the United States itself. I would first examine the characteristics of the two streams of…

Over the last few years, there has been an obvious shift of the electorate across Southern Europe, in Spain, Greece and Italy. This shift has come in the form of the rise of anti-establishment and anti-systemic political parties, and the gradual move away from established, ‘old’ parties. Some of the factors that will be discussed are a resentment towards a ‘corrupt’ political and social welfare system, and economic grievances caused by the leaders of the established old parties, that the Italian…

ultra-local is individual immediate geographic community. Regional- associated with either metropolitan, the county or broader geographic area. National- particularly associated with the devolved nations, due to their strong sense of cultural identity and devolution of national level. The types of media are 1300 title local and regional newspapers; 325 local radio stations; channel 3 television (8 TV bulletins in England, 2 in Scotland, 1 in Wales, and 1 in Northern Ireland); 12 main program…

The Sun King’s Heliocentric Rule When a ruler holds authority that is only second to the divine being themselves, an absolute monarch is born. Throughout history, Europe has been home to many individuals that helped define the term absolutism and absolute monarchy. Most notably are Louis XIV of France and Peter the Great of Russia during the late 1700s. When examining a ruler’s legacy underneath the premise of absolute monarchy, how nice or how effective of a ruler has no effect. On the…

Texting and Driving There are many problems with texting and driving. Many people have perished from texting while driving. For somebody who infers some portion of his living from expounding on cell phones, I 'm incomprehensibly something of a cellphone curmudgeon in fact, an out and out phone curmudgeon. I value the utilitarian estimation of communication and related advances, yet I strenuously oppose the start that being reachable by telephone day in and day out wherever one may happen to be…

The fictional worlds of Franz Kafka’s Before the Law and Jorge Luis Borges’ The Lottery are built upon complex and expanding laws of chance that evolve to encompass the lives of the people who live themre. In both stories, a dichotomy is established between those in possession of the law, and those who are ruled below with very little comprehension of the laws that guide them. Though it would seem at first glance that the nobility and rulers benefit the most from these confusing and unjust…

Prisoners of Geography: Western Europe and Russia Although technology is increasingly advancing and shaping the way our world works, the bottom line for the human geography of a region is its physical geography. Prisoners of Geography, a book written by Tim Marshall, takes this idea and further applies it to the various regions of the world. The book discusses the diverse environmental features in the world’s regions and their impacts, which can both resemble and differ from impacts in other…