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    Although helping someone may be the right thing to do, it does not always benefit you. In the commercial I chose, there is a teenager running away from a man in a mask who is trying to kill him with an ax. But as the killer is going to hit him his ax falls off, as he walks over to pick it up a gorilla pops out of nowhere. The gorilla gives him Gorilla Glue to glue the ax back on, the teenager walks through the steps to help the killer fix it. Now that the ax is fixed the teenager thinks that he…

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    “A tale as old as time”—that infamous saying which refers to the inevitability of the beautiful falling in love with the beast, the inescapable revelation of seeing that which is good in the grotesque. Though the elements of this tale extend all the way back to the ancient story of Cupid and Psyche, not taking on many of the contemporary and recognizable aspects of the story till the 18th Century with Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's “La Belle et la Bete” which then was shortened and…

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a story of bravery and courage. The main characters are Rikki, a mongoose who is the story’s protagonist, and three snakes - Karait, Nag, and Nagaina - who are the antagonists. Other characters are an Englishman and his wife and their son Teddy; Darzee and his wife who are tailor birds; and Chuchundra, a musk-rat who lives in the Englishman’s home. The story takes place in a bungalow and its garden in a British army post in India during the late 1800’s. The story begins when…

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    Power is the ability to do something or act in a certain way. Brute Force is to make someone do something against their will with strength or physical action or movement. The power was dominant on the island because the were kids. Kids are accustomed to there parents to tell them what to do. They don’t know what to do so the rest of the kids elect Ralph as leader and Ralph uses the conch for power. Jack had the most power in this book. He was leader of the hunters in the beginning and…

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    structures must be set in place to follow. While on the island the boys set up law in order through the use of the conch. The boys find hope and power in the signal fire and piggy’s glasses. The hunting the boys do on the island and the fear of the beast drive them to evilness and savagery. Because the boys turn to evil, they destroy their civilized…

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    their lives and dealing with insanity. Their inner beast showed then and it was inevitable. What do you think? Do you think that there is a beast in all of us? Or do you think you could have kept yourself under control? I think that there is a beast in everyone of us because in The Lord of the Flies they are all getting carried, when the Lord of the Flies talks to Simon, and how, in real life, all of us have the potential to show our inner beast and lose control.…

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    Before the Murder of Simon: All of these boys have began to follow me, they have started to listen to whatever I say and I don’t know how to feel about it. The beast is still scaring all the little uns and they are turning to me and Ralph, but I can’t let them choose him over me, not again. He doesn’t deserve to be leader, he isn’t strong and rich, he isn’t a choir boy. He will follow eventually, no matter what I have to put him through. Simon has been scaring me too, with his seizure and how…

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    came a thing in the that they all feared. They called it a beast. Just about all of the boys believed that this “beast” was a real “snake like” thing, but only one came to a realization of what it really was. This beast wasn’t actually a real animal, the beast was actually the fear the boys encountered on the island. Either fear of the unknown, fear of human nature, or fear of war. Those three were the three possible symbols of the beasts. The first symbol could be fear itself. On this island…

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    my poster are “Civilization versus Savagery” and “The Beast Within us All” I chose these two themes because they are the main, overarching themes of the book. The theme “Civilization versus Savagery” is exhibited in my poster by the the crumbling cliff falling into savagery. My other theme “The Beast Within us All” can be found portrayed in my poster as how EVERYONE can fall into the path of savagery, everyone can crumble and reveal the beast within. On my poster, the main image is the boy…

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon. The story, written in a tone of fifteen years old boy Christopher, who is suffering from Asperger’s symptoms; limit his personal social ability and affect his relationship with others. In Christopher’s world, everything is so simple that has no access to complicated information, so he does not understand metaphors or human face expressions. That’s why he likes math, because it’s all reasonable, logical, and give him a…

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