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    Ants Vs Queen Ants

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    Most ant species are social insects, living in large cooperative groups called colonies. Two or more generations may overlap in a colony. These ant colonies are divided into three castes — males, workers and queens — and each caste perform certain tasks. Queen ants and males are part of the reproductive castes. They are the most important members of a colony because they ensure the survival of their species. Queen ants, regardless of species, often are larger than other members of their colonies. Queen ants also have thicker bodies, making them easily distinguishable. The abdomens of queen ants are larger than those of other ants, and they possess wing muscles specific to their caste. The majority of queen ants’ eggs grow up to…

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    After reading the essays “The Myth of the Ant Queen”, “Project Classroom Makeover”, and “The Naked Citadel” by Steven Johnson, Cathy Davidson, and Susan Faludi, readers may have spotted that collective knowledge, different systems of organization, and the three terms identity, conformity and group mentality, are mentioned in their respective essays. Interestingly enough, these three completely different essays still have ideas that can work together to address a point: collective knowledge can…

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    Individualism is a characteristic that each system, being, and society possess. It is an aspect that can only be achieved by the particular system or being transcending from itself to experience something from the third person perspective. Each system, being, or society must look from the outside and observe the needs that are specific to it and try fulfilling them even if those needs aren’t the same as some other system. This system-specific need is what makes it a system, such as the ant…

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    complexity in his essay, “The Myth of the Ant Queen”. And to add to other authors, Malcolm Gladwell also clears on how individuals behave according to their origin, background, and environment…

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    When it comes to individual matters, most human beings tend to act selfishly since their instincts tell them to do so. As s popular science author, Steven Johnson argues the kind of organization which involves “intelligence and personality and learning that emerges from the bottom up”(194) through the example of ant colonies as well as the city of Manchester in his article “The Myth if the Ant Queen”. In a like manner, an American journalist Ethan Watters describes a series of marketing…

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    powerful an individual unit is in the grand scheme of a product is difficult when trying to find out the realistic power of just one. In the essays “The Myth of the Ant Queen” and “Biographies of Hegemony,” written by Steven Johnson and Karen Ho respectfully, the discussion of the control individuals in multiple types of societies arises. From hegemonic to self-regulated societies, the one neutrality shared by all is that they are all accepted and followed because they have found a system that…

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    Power Of Context Analysis

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    When you are asked to describe the developments of one’s personality, one would acknowledge that childhood experiences and surroundings shape who they become. One’s character is built throughout their entire life, carrying with us different experiences and ways of thinking. Malcolm Gladwell, in “The Power of Context,” emphasizes the theory that the roles of the environment can impact the decisions and behaviors of human beings. And this is shown in, Steven Johnson’s, “The Myth of the Ant Queens”…

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    reading, “The Myth of the Ant Queens” and “Project Classroom Makeover respectively, shows that they both want to remove inhibitor of group intelligence and progress, in the attempt to create a more adaptive society. However, Johnson and Davidson embody the very nature that individuals within a society have the agency of contributing to the complex…

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    ANTZ Movie The movie Antz showcased several of the things that we learned so far in the civics course. The movie revolves around the fight between different ideologies of the types of government that should be in place. It also shows how being an active citizen and having social trade-off can help work for the common good of the community. It also shows that how our actions can greatly affect all the communities that we are a part of. There are many beliefs of the types of government that the…

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    being oppressed by Hopper and his gang. Hopper tells the colony that they will provide protection for them as long as the working ants provide them with food. However when Flik accidentally ruins the harvest that colony has just provided. Hopper then demands them to provide twice the food or they will no longer protect the colony. This causes a great distress within the colony…

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