Islands

happens to man’s ideas when rules disappear? Which areas of personality prevail, and which crumble in the absence of civilization? William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores this idea through a group of British schoolboys who crash-land on a deserted island. They quickly compensate for the lack of adults by electing a chief, Ralph. However, a group of boys led by Jack succumb to their primal instincts and decide to become hunters. Soon enough, most of the boys follow their example, including…

to links more than a dozen islands that surround Papua New Guinea. For example, on page 141 “Individual partners constitute a “path” (keda) along which ideally particular shells are passed from one partner to another. Men from one village or several nearby villages join together under the leadership of a chief or hamlet leader to sail to another island, where they meet their Kula partners who are resident there. A few months earlier, these partners sailed to another island, where they brought…

The book “American Jezebel” was written in 2004 by Eve LaPlante, who is from Massachusetts and has written various other books about powerful and influential women in history. The thing that makes this book unique is that Anne Hutchinson is actually an ancestor of LaPlante which allows her to have a different point of view on the situation and she is able to write the book in a different way and explain it differently than another author would. Anne Hutchinson was a woman of change who was very…

the indigenous people. The word Ainu is compared with Kamuy for gods meaning people and human. In the thirteenth century, Ainu settled their traditions and culture in the Northern part of Hokkaido, Northern part of Honshu (the main island of Japan), and the Kuril Islands which are the Chishima for Japanese. The settlements of Ainu were called ainu mosir, which meant, the great peaceful land, and located near the ocean. Their method of earning was fishing and hunting. Their languages were totally…

meal will come from. Both Castaway and Life of Pi revolve around men alone, taken away from the comforts of society and facing impossible odds. Castaway is about a FedEx employee named Chuck Noland, the only survivor of a plane crash, who lands on an island and is forced to spend four years there. Similarly, Life of Pi is about a boy named Pi Molitor Patel. Pi is the only survivor of a shipwreck and survives for 227 days in a lifeboat with a tiger. Throughout their journeys, both Chuck and Pi…

One traditional proverb that captures the Hawaiian religious perspective towards the environment is, “He aliʻi ka ʻaina, he kaua ke kanaka.” The phrase literally translates as, the land is a chief, and the people are its servants,” which defines the relationship that Native Hawaiians have with their ecological environment. Prior to western contact, native Hawaiians structured their society around the ideology that the land they inhabited was their superior and that it was their responsibility to…

A rescue attempt was immediately sent and became the most extensive search in naval history. On July 19th, after spending 4 million on her search, the United States finally called off the operation. In 1938, a lighthouse was built on Howland Island in her memory. And all around the U.S., there are streets, buildings, schools, and airports that are named after Amelia. Atchison, Kansas became a became a virtual home and shrine. Amelia Earhart awards are given…

group that I found intriguing was the Tiwi people. They inhabit the Melville and Bathurst islands, which spans out to roughly three thousand square miles. I grew up on a farm with about six thousand acres of land used for cattle and planting crops. I always perceived my area of land to be quite extensive, but after learning about the Tiwi’s plot of land I realized how small my farm actually is. The two islands are described as being heavily forested. This allows for lush greenery to be ever…

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 Lord Of The Flies the author argues that a person 's idea of civilization is influenced by surroundings, which is shown through background and history influencing…

Playing It Safe Amusement parks entertain and thrill people all around the world. The origin of the amusement park stems from medieval times, when European cities would host “pleasure gardens,” which included games, rides, dancing, fireworks and other diversions (Baughman, Bondi, Layman, McConnell, and Tompkins, 2001). In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the United States began hosting the world’s fair, and competition for prestige, press attention, and visitors spread across the county…