The Stranded

In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, human nature is placed conspicuously in view as a group of British boys find themselves stranded alone on an island without any adults to supervise or lead them. The conflict between the human as a civilized entity and the human as an unsophisticated animal are represented by two of the main characters in the novel, Ralph and Jack, respectively. Being in their youth and thus not totally biased towards the workings of a civilized, adult world, Golding portrays what he believes is the typical human’s natural state; cruel, selfish, and wanting of instant gratification. It becomes a wonder then, how society operates and is seen as civilized. Golden attacks this notion and demonstrates that society’s workings are not as civilized as they may appear. If we only alter our perspective, we see that what is assumed to be civilized may regardless draw parallels to the uncivilized world that these boys find themselves in, and that it all becomes clear when we remove the façade created by civilization. We see in the novel that…

In Stranded Deep, you take the role of a plane crash survival victim stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You have sharks, deserted islands and shipwrecks. This survival game has some of the most stunning graphics. Like that is probably one of the best aspects of this game is how good the game developers made the graphics. The sunsets and the moonlight that shines off the ocean is breathtaking. It leaves you saying, "Wow!" The audio is also good, but it has pretty much everything that…

A Final Thought Everyone is affected by rules. As children we are taught to follow them, as teenagers we are persuaded to break them, and as adults we are forced to establish them, but without rules disorder and chaos would dominate our society. Rules are made and enforced for a reason, to prevent an outbreak of criminal behavior and hold people to a moral and ethical standard. In my essay, “Stranded” I argue the importance of rules to regulate genetic editing on human embryos and evaluate the…

Stranded As school was dreadfully approaching the following week, my boyfriend and I were struggling to decide what to do for the weekend. While we can still go out on dates and spend time together, the majority of my time during the school year is spent fixating on academics while maintaining a job on top of that. Gabe and I wanted to do something adventurous that we wouldn't have the chance to do again for a while. Then, Gabe had an impeccable suggestion. He recommended that we should go…

I chose the topic of being stranded somewhere. In “The Life of Pi” Pi get set into the sea with a tiger from a zoo. Being stranded alone is stressful enough, but being stranded with a tiger and not knowing what may happen can stress someone out to the max. Pi is a middle aged man who was a vegetarian that needed to learn to eat meat and survive. The tiger helped him learn how to kill and eat the meat from anything including humans. Pi went through so much stress that he broke and couldn’t…

If I was stranded on a deserted island and a lifeboat came and I had to choose between a healthy three-year-old, an elderly Nobel Prize winner, a single father of two young children, a thirty-year-old decorated combat veteran, and a middle-aged doctor who has performed life-saving surgery to save, I would choose to save the single father with two kids. It would be a hard decision to make but having two kids I would want them to have a father. I would choose to save the father of two because…

So funny to read the posts from the people who don’t get it. I had so much fun with a guy on Match like that once. He had a quiz on his profile to determine if you’d be compatible with him (I just couldn’t stop myself): "If you were stranded on a deserted island, and could only bring three things with you, what would you bring?" My answers were: 1. My two dogs. 2. Money to buy coconuts. 3. Stuff, lots of stuff. His response (this is a typical guy on Match, obviously, not as bright as…

Social Contract Theory: Stranded after an airplane crash. The Social Contract Theory states “We are all by nature largely, or entirely, self-interested. What we want is power over others, physical security, plenty of money and sensual pleasure.” (pg. 194). However, not everyone can be on the top of the heap. Therefore, if we are rational, we will each agree to curb our self-interest and cooperate with one another. (pg. 194) In the scenario given, we have two options. Take control or enter…

synthesised double stranded DNA is made up of one parental (existing) strand, and one newly synthesised strand. The parental duplex is not ‘conserved’ as an entity. This was proved by the Meselson-Stahl experiment by replicating E.Coli in different mediums of of different Nitrogen isotopes. The results consisted of half of normal weight and half with intermediate weight, proving an immortal strand serving as an unchanging template. It’s bidirectional nature stems from the presence of a…

Imagine being on an island with other stranded people and have to work together to survive. The book ¨Lord of the Flies¨ is similar. On an island, a group of kids are stranded and do not know each other but have to work together to either survive or escape. A kid named Jack wants to survive and a kid named Ralph that wants to escape. What is more important, survive with Jack or escape with Ralph? What is the difference between Ralph and Jack's leadership? What needed to happen to escape? Escape…