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    The Commander In the beginning of the book, Offred notices the Commander standing right outside what she now refers to as “her” room. He has his back to her and is peering intently inside of the room. Offred instantly feels that her privacy is being violated just as he is violating the rules stating that he is not to be there (49). That was the first time that Offred encountered the Commander. The Commander’s motivation was to see who the new woman was that moved into the previous mistress's…

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    Have you ever wondered what some of the events and figures in books symbolized? William Golding uses symbolism throughout the novel Lord of the Flies. There are characters, items, and figures that represent different things throughout the novel. For example, Piggy symbolizes knowledge, intelligence and reason. Throughout the book, Golding uses indirect and direct characterization to develop this symbol. There are many symbols that are developed throughout the novel. The beast is a symbol in the…

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    Lord of the Flies In Lord of the Flies by William Golding he uses the concept of island survival to show the various negative behaviors of man. The story starts with Ralph as the leader and by the end of the story the island is on fire and Ralph is being hunted by Jack and his lackeys. The cause of this ever growing chaos was the beast, a made up monster that terrorized the dreams of the little ones and caused uncertainty to blossom in the hearts of those who were older. Golding uses the beast…

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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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    Banning Teens at Munchy’s Banning teenagers is wrong because it is worthless trying to keep out a certain age group when not every person is the problem. It is the business person’s choice to go there for lunch, as it is the teen’s. If opposed to dining with teens, there are other places adult patrons could go for lunch or dinner. they should just leave so they do not ruin the opportunity for the younger patrons that have done nothing wrong, teens have rights too. Teenagers should not be banned…

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    What are group one elements? Group one elements are alkali metals. The physical properties of group one elements are that they are shiny and the alkali metals are very soft. Lithium is the hardest alkali metal and they become softer as you go down the group. The chemical properties of group one is that they’re very reactive when mixed with water or when in contact with the air. Each element in group one has one electron in their outermost shell. Also, group one elements get more reactive as you…

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    Jack is able to rule the boys of his tribe because he justifies everything with the fear of the beast. He implants the idea that the beast needs to die in their minds. Even after the death of Simon, at the hands of his chaotic dance, he denies the beast being dead, and claims it still alive. Jack does not believe in the power of the conch either, and without it he has no civilized order. Wilfred being tied up and beaten for Jack's amusement is a perfect example of his savage way of order. By not…

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    Conflict Cluster At first, Ralph refused to believe in the beast. In Lord of the Flies the beast was an imaginary figure that several littluns on the island feared. Nonetheless, fear mutated to reality in chapter six. The boys mistook a dead parachutist for the formidable beast; the petrifying dread that gripped each boy slowly tore the configuration of their society. Ralph’s rationality did little to calm the distressed children. When Sam and Eric restated their terrifying experience, the boys…

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    Flatland is a world that lives on the two-dimensional plane, where its occupants which are geometrical shapes and they live in an exceedingly organized society sorted out into classes depending on the amount of sides of a shape. The storyteller and hero of Flatland, A Square, composes and writes from jail, complicatedly specifying the social association of his nation and relating the disclosures he has gotten from a sphere. At first, a Square meticulously portrays the social scene of Flatland,…

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    Purpose: Utilizing our comprehension of the arrangement of the elements in the periodic table (the way elements with common traits are grouped together), we will determine the name and location of each unknown element by clustering said elements with other known elements that they share the most characteristics with. In this lab we will momentarily fill the shoes of the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who was the first to observe the patterns between elements arranged according to their…

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