Queen Charlotte Islands

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the comparative lack of civilization makes way for the turn of our characters to savagery, the truest characteristic of humanity. After their plane crashes on an uninhabited and uncharted island, we see a group of boys turn from a democratic, civilized group into a dictatorial, savage group. In the end all is put to rest with the arrival of society in the form of a Navy officer, but the deeper issues are never truly fixed, only postponed and forgotten.…

Who set many records in the beginning of the aviation industry or was a role model to many men and women in the early nineteen hundreds? Who fought for women’s rights in the aviation field? If you haven’t come up with the answer yet, it’s Amelia Earhart. Amelia was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas and died around the day of July 2, 1937. Amelia Earhart is one of the most significant figures in the twentieth century because of her role in women’s rights, the records she set in her…

Hoover decided at that time to crack down on crime and this led to the creation of larger, higher capacity federal prisons. Alcatraz prison was one of the products of this decision, and is possibly the most famous prison in American history. Alcatraz Island is located offshore the San Francisco Bay in California. This penitentiary was home to the nation’s worst criminals such as “Machine Gun” Kelly, Al Capone, Arthur “Doc” Barker, and Alvin Karpis. (Blakely…

caught up in the uncivilized acts of murder, greed, and fear? The characters in the book, Lord of the Flies, arrive on the island not knowing anything. These are little boys, so their actions reflect nothing but utter irresponsibility, and when there is such irresponsibly, it becomes total chaos and uncivilization. When a group of completely different boys fall upon a deserted island, they all fall into different roles as the tyrant, victim, and responsible one. Victimization, power, and fear…

Over the years and across the world, there have been hundreds of different governments that have both succeeded and failed. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the boys are abandoned on an island and left to figure out how to govern and structure themselves. As the book progresses, we see organization and civilization fall apart. Golding uses Lord of the Flies as an allegory to show how humans regress to savagery without society’s rules, yet Golding’s minuscule test population makes the…

coastline was put into play when queen Elizabeth I granted a charter for Roanoke colony to Sir Walter Raleigh who would be funding the expedition. The most likely explanation for what happened to the Roanoke colonists was that they died in some way, but there are other theories that suggest they moved away to start a new life. From 1584 to 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh funded expeditions to Roanoke Island. This is now known as the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Queen Elizabeth I issued a charter…

ways as well. For example Hawaii and France are different because Hawaii is a state but France is a country. They are similar because their both one of the most popular places to visit. Hawaii is made up of 8 islands: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahoolawe, Niihau, and the Hawaiian island. Hawaii is famous for its coffee because it is the only state that grows its own coffee. Hawaii has a population of 1,454,295 people(2017) when France has a population of 64,838,285 people (2017).…

Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt. How are they similar? How are they different? These two famously historic women are very different, and yet very alike, in many areas, such as their accomplishments, their support from others, and their inspiration. Eleanor Roosevelt was, as we all know the wife of President Franklin D Roosevelt on the other hand Amelia Earhart has no known spouse. Eleanor loved to read, spoke french fluently, played field hockey, and had 6 children, one of which died at…

Jim is the hero in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Departure of Jim’s journey consists of the Call to Adventure and the Beginning of the Adventure. The Call to Adventure is when Billy Bones enters into the Admiral Benbow Inn. After he enters, Jim’s life completely changes, with strangers, usually pirates, coming to the inn. An extreme wide shot and an objective point of view would be used in order to show all of the characters in the inn, introducing all of them. In order to show…

the young boy that the novel is centered around, finds a key in his Father’s closet and makes it his mission to find out what this key, the last ‘clue’ his father left him, opens. Oskar is dedicated to his mission as he walks all the way to Staten Island, the Empire State Building, Manhattan, and across the rest of New York City, without knowing that the answer is in fact ‘incredibly close.’ Meanwhile, the novel also follows the stories of Oskar’s Grandfather, who is suffering from PTSD and can…