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    Who is the beast in Lord of the Flies? There where three things that made the boys believe that there was a beast on the island. The first thing that got them to believe that there was a beast was fear. They got scared when they heard they might be living with a beast. Second was they got bombed out of the sky by a plane and landed on an island. The boys’ minds were not in the right state of mind. Third they were just becoming savages to survive on the island. In (Doc A) the boys begin to believe that they are living with a beast on the island. They first here about the beast when a young child believes he saw a bestie. At first the little children where believing that there was a bestie but later everyone started to believe that there was a bestie (Doc A). Since there were no parents to tell them a there was no bestie they all just believed there was a bestie (Doc A). Jack and the hunters said If there was a bestie we would hunt it and kill It as if it was a pig (Doc B). In (Doc C) the big part of the boys believing there was a bestie was that the war was going on. If they war wasn’t going on they wouldn’t have been stuck on the island to begin with because their plane got shot down by the enemy. Golding says war produces an effect on humans it makes them scared and stiff (Doc C). Golding is saying that’s the boys where very scared of what is happening to them because of the war. He says that war can make you think a lot different than you would think normally (Doc C). (Doc…

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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding is classic loss of innocence novel that has been taught in schools for decades, and will continue to be taught for years to come. A group of young boys crash land on an island with no supervision and are stranded there will little hope of being found or rescued. In the book, William Golding uses a dangerous island setting, rich symbolism, and a overall extended metaphor to relate the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The island is the…

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    Sometime it is surprising to see people do things that they would not normally do or act totally different when in fear. The causes of fear vary among people, everyone have their own fear and it can be both intangible or tangible such a ghost, beast, darkness, snakes, spiders or even dentists. Sometime people do not even know what or why they are scared and it is in our subconscious, this makes it hard to control and eliminated. Fear is a strong emotion which is a powerful force can both be…

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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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    Living in the past can hold you back from opportunities that present themselves in the current day. This is shown in the film The Silver Lining Playbook directed by David O. Russell, this film sends an important message that living in the past will affect you in the present. Patrick Solitano Jr lived in the past, this torn his whole life apart. Living in the past cause Pat to go through many mental stages such as obsessed, Bipolar, defensive and decisive. Pat’s first hurdle to become mentally…

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    Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”. The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government…

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    A hero doesn’t need to have superhuman abilities like flight, superstrength, or invincibility. The attributes of a hero can be anyone who follows superb morals, make an effort to help anyone, and help make a difference in our world. The definition of a hero is based on people’s opinion of what a hero do to help people. While some people believe that a stereotypical comic superhero is a definition of a hero, others believe that a hero can be anyone. Ernest Hemingway, the famous author for a…

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    Bee Movie Content Analysis

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    With the invention of the Internet has come with the creation of a whole new way people express their creativity. A common form of expression on the internet is through the use of fan made content, including things such as fan fiction and memes. In recent months, the 2007 animated film Bee Movie has received much attention on the internet through the use of this fan made content, in particular memes. Many of these memes are about making the film seem even more absurd through editing the film or…

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    Introduction: Flannery O’Connor ambitiously sets out to make a reader face the grotesque nature of society and all it’s commonly concealed evils. In “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” Flannery O’Connor refers to herself as a “realist of distances.” Which means in order for her to explore the difficult and mysterious aspects of human existence she exaggerates the characters and ideas created in her stories. She considers the truly grotesque aspects of writing to be the most…

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    The Bacon’s Rebellion Bacon’s rebellion is a revolution that occurred in Virginia, which started in the year 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was the leader of this revolution who was born in England. Since he was very troublesome, his father sent him to Virginia from England with an expectation that he would mature and have a better life. During that time, William Berkeley was the governor of Virginia and also happened to be bacon’s cousin. The governor, Berkeley, treated Bacon with respect by giving…

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