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    In the Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, several characters demonstrate their leadership by establishing separate groups of children. Between all groups, the main characters, Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon all highlight their strengths and exposes the weaknesses of their specific leadership style. With these contrasting leadership styles, a struggle for power emerges. Ralph, who is an authentic leader, focuses on creating a democratic body. Whereas Jack, who is an autocratic leader, wants…

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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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    something new to his character. Jack’s priorities are becoming very different from when he arrived on the island. When Jacks group kills a pig, he “Jack held up the head and jammed the soft throat on the pointed stick”(122). Earlier when Jack had to kill the pig he was scared a coward, later in a similar with the same type of situation Jack is able not only to kill the pig, but to put the head on a stick. to stick a pointed stick down the throat. Being on His actions are showing how the island…

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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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    Imagine being stranded on an island with a kid who has the urge to hunt and not do anything about being rescued, but another kid wants to be rescued and barely ever thinks about the idea of surviving. Throughout the book Ralph tells everyone that they need to build a fire in order to be rescued, however, Jack thinks that they need to hunt for food. Every bit of innocence in the boys was lost once they separated into two completely different groups. The conch shell plays a big role for the boys,…

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    In William Golding's classic, Lord of the Flies, a group of children from a British all boys school crash land on a deserted island. After the boys regroup on the island, they nominate a boy named Ralph to be their leader. The first half of the book focuses on Ralph trying to figure out ways to get everyone off the island while dealing with another boy named jack trying to take over. However, as the book progresses, Jack slowly takes leadership from Ralph while also going insane. The concept of…

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    Buddha once said that “It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” Lord of the Flies explores this idea of the nature of mankind as the reader learns about the experience of a group of boys deserted on an island without adults who must take it upon themselves to survive. As the novel progresses the reader sees the boys navigate the responsibilities of a civilization, a struggle for power, and how fear will drive them to go as far as murder. Golding starts to…

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    Gaia Aspitz Savagery Due: 5.2.15 In the book The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there is an ever-present theme of Savagery, more specifically how human nature overrides any sort of mannerisms or propriety that the boys were taught and the way that savage nature has brought them to do things that someone who is used to the “civil” world might consider primitive, savage, and violent. The first five chapters give many examples of occasions in which the boys behaved in an uncivilized…

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    studying systems of Fetal pig Purpose The purpose of this pig dissection lab is to organize the body sturcture by observing external anatomy, oral cavity, neck, superficial muscles, thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, and both male and female reproductive systems. By studying the systems of the pig, it helps understand the systems of the humans because humans and pigs are both mammals which we can assume that systems of pig and human are similar. Results The sex of pig was able to be…

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    tribulations to get to Ithaca and due to an unforeseen circumstance they are delayed in their journey. By cause of the setback, Odysseus and his crew end up in Aiaia, home of the goddess Kirke. Odysseus’s crew fall under a curse that turns them all into pigs after entering her home and when Odysseus tries to rescue them, Kirke tries to trap him too. She soon realizes that her curse doesn’t work on him and tries to remedy her violation of Xenia by feeding and housing them all for a year. Due to…

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