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    hello in my tribe. My tribe, the Seminoles, speaks Miccosukee and seminole creek. And if you want to say hello in creek you would say istonko. I am a ten year old boy named Holata, That means alligator. I live in Southern Florida. The seminole formed in the 1700’s. This is where other tribes migrated to Florida. They joined the tribe for better protection. The tribes that joined together for protection were the creeks,miccosukees,hitchitis, and the oconees. This made the Seminole tribe…

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    Lord of the flies is a thrilling book filled with lots of sudden fighting and unpredicted actions written by William Golding. The book starts at the beginning of the World War with school boys being transported by plane to an unknown location for safety. The plane crashes on a mysterious island unattended by adults and only kids. They start to celebrate with the thought of freedom and no rules, but soon they realize that no rules means no civilization. From the night the downfall begins, they…

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    In Lord of the Flies, the boys act out of fear and cruelty instead of showing heroism and nobility thus displaying the weakness of the human heart when faced with extreme circumstances. All the fear the boys have is from the fact that they are alone on an island without any adults, rules, society, without anything. They are just little kids and do not know how to survive alone. Along with the loneliness, there is the speculation of a terrifying beast. This leads to Jack becoming a savage and…

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    The Cherokee tribe is a tribe that originated in southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina, north Georgia, east Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and claiming even to the Ohio River. The cherokee is a very large tribe that stretched over a vast area. The Cherokee tribe had many sub tribes. The sub tribes often spoke different languages. The Cherokee language originated from the Iroquoian language. Cherokee is a polysynthetic language. A polysynthetic language means that one…

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    Native American Lore is stories that are passed down through generations of each tribe. Folklore is a combination of stories that are passed down generations that include legends, myths, and fairy tales. Legends are traditional stories passed down that seem historical, but are not authenticated. Myths are an early history story usually explaining a natural phenomenon, usually involving supernatural beings and events. Fairy Tales are popular children’s stories involving magical beings and lands.…

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    In Lord of the Flies, the children turn from clean cut and young proper men into savage, remorseless, immoral boys. Shockingly, they begin to threaten and kill towards the end of the novel. This is blamed on the state of nurture, which is based on situational, influential, and environmental factors. Effectively, they lost all levels of obedience and appropriation that they once took part of before they arrive on the island and became both vulnerable and pressured by their peers. There…

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    the Flies, William Golding develops his theme of how innocence can be lost by setting the story on a deserted island where the characters in the book opinions could not be swayed by adults or anyone else influential in their lives. Golding’s tone in the book is violent and tragic which allows him to show how people’s views can be changed when certain circumstances present themselves. In other words he shows how innocence can be lost when groups of people start to do different things. Therefore…

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    of power, no enforcement of rules and a system of government allows the boys’ savagery and loss of self control take over, supporting Golding theme of depending on the ethical nature of someone and not a political system. Golding is saying how everyone has a darker side that can be unleashed.…

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    Civilization Vs Savagery

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    would you lose all your morals? In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of boys is stranded on a jungle island after their plane crashes. They are left with no adults to guide them, they must govern themselves. They begin with trying to keep their civilized manner and compose rules to govern themselves, but soon many of the boys turn into savages and hunt pigs to survive. Although the boys descend into savagery during their time on the island they did not lose all of their…

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    After Simon tries to tell the boys that the Beast isn’t real and that it is all in their heads. The boys circle around Simon and kill him. Golding writes, “The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill… The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed” (219). At this point in the book the boys are slowly losing sense of themselves. They are getting crazier and more…

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