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    In the novel Lord of the Flies the most essential part is the setting is the island the boys arrive on. An example of why the island is the most important part is because it's where the boys will be for the whole story and it can be either a paradise or a destroyed eutopia. Something that was very pushed at the beginning was how there was no plane debris and the boys were unhurt. The boys have a fresh water section in the island for a supply of fresh water for all their activities and drinking.…

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    The “Lord of The Flies,” by William Golding has been a novel with a complex plot, diverse characters, and amazing messages. “Lord of The Flies” is a novel about a group of boys who are stranded on an island. During the novel, the boys end up voting to place one boy, (Ralph), as chief. However, later in the plot, another child named Jack starts to form his own tribe. Throughout the novel, the hardest challenge is the boys have to try to survive on the island. In addition, they have to overcome…

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    the conch represents a democratic reign and when it is destroyed, it signifies the demise of civilization. Secondly the fire represents a physical measurement in relation…

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    in the novel the bully darrell mercer the protaginist in the novel given by his english teacher mr mitchel.Mr mitchel encourages Darrell to read hatchet by gary paulsen,so he can build toughness inside and out .when reading the novel darrell and the main character in the book hatchet have some similarities and diffrences. In the book hatchet a young man named Brian is on a private plane going to visit has father.In contrast,Darrell doesnt have a father anymore, because his father died in…

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    systems, and religious traditions. As I proceed in getting my many points across you will see how it is that these two completely different civilizations are so different and yet so much alike. The first traces of China- Zhou Dynasty were found in 1126 BC, while the first traces of Egypt were found in 3100 so then these two numbers make these two civilizations more than 2000 years separation in age. The first mention of China- The Zhou Dynasty was in 1126 BC this was over…

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    Egyptian Women

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    prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable conditions in which our women have to live,” said Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The role of women evidently has many similarities and differences between civilizations and time eras. When comparing the role of women in the early river civilizations, Egypt and China, there are many pronounced similarities and differences around the topics of the economy, education and a women's role within her family. Women in Egyptian and Chinese culture have…

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    Flies experience when they are stranded without any contact with the outside world. They have to depend on each other to survive. While Jack’s group relies on human instinct and savagery in the face of danger and fear, Ralph wants to hold onto civilization, but in the heat of the moment, fear strips Ralph of formality. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies asserts that fear reveals the ugly face of human nature. When man does not understand something, his imagination will discount any common…

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    decided that some humans could work as farmers while others focused on other jobs like constructing structures and crafts. These developments continued and high technologies emerged, leading to the birth of civilizations. All of these contributed to how the world is today. The earliest known civilizations were Mesopotamia in 5000-3500 BC and Indus Valley…

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    Christian Gonzalez Foundations of Civilization Mr. Livingston 14 September 2016 Contributions of Sumerians While the Sumerians were a civilization that existed around 3000 B.C., they made important discoveries towards civilization, technology, intellect, and politics. First of all, the invention of writing is credited to the Sumerians around 3200 B.C. Their writing began as pictograms that were pressed into soft clay tablets for record keeping purposes at first, and that form evolved of…

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    “River-Valley” civilizations had a major influence on geography of the second-wave, “Classical” civilizations. Both the first-wave and second-wave civilizations’ geography led to the formation of city-states. The geography of the first-wave civilizations led to a much more agrarian based way of living then the second-wave civilizations. Lastly, the geography of both the first and second-wave civilizations led both of them to the development of trade. The first-wave “River-Valley” civilizations…

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