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    Tanav Kudupudi Ms.Cler World Core P5 8 September 2015 The Truth about Human Nature In the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding a group of boys were trapped on an island with no adult to help them. There was none on the island. They had to survive on their own. But in that process they take some very dangerous steps which prevents them from survival. William Golding illustrates that the boys are afraid of each other and they make up stories about the beast and that clearly matches to the…

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    that connection is lost, everyone takes in savage like tendencies. Humans are inherently evil when cut from society, therefor they resort to evil and selfish actions similar to Lord of The Flies, past and current events. One of the main messages William Goulding conveys in the Lord of The Flies, is that human beings must have authority, government, and rules in order to maintain a safe environment. Without them, everyone’s true form will show just in the manner Jack and Rogers did. At the start…

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    William Blake was a second generation philosopher from 1757 to 1827. Blake loved the world of nature and wrote several famous poems. An archetype is one thing that represents something else and Blake uses this in several of his poems, giving them an overall message or theme. Blake uses archetypes to express one thing that represents something else in the the poems he wrote named The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, and Infant Sorrow which expresses archetypes. William Blake uses…

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    From the swing of the racket to the way they move across the court, Venus and Serena Williams are both brilliant tennis players. Both sisters are equally successful in their lives outside of tennis, but their careers in the game are very different from each other. Venus Williams was born on June seventeenth, 1980 making her the older sister in the dynamic tennis duo. Her younger sister, Serena, was born on September twenty-sixth, 1981. Both girls were enrolled at Rick Macci’s Tennis Academy…

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    The Declaration of Independence gives the right to be free to everyone living in the United States, or does it? About half of the states in the country at this time permit slavery, while only few are against it. William Lloyd Garrison, an extreme abolitionist, wanted slavery to be banned in the whole country, so he created different groups and societies to help him. Many pro-slavery southerners despised Garrison’s work and fought against his belief. After The Civil War ended, he lived to see his…

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    Not Just a Story. In William Golding’s Lord of the flies, there is more than what meets the eye. Lord of the flies is about boys on a stranded island, trying to survive, right? Or is it? What is the true meaning of the book if not entirely for entertainment? In lord of the flies, William Golding show symbolism of human nature, by the use of the characters, Ralph. Simon, and Jack. Ralph represents guidance, the properly socialized and civilized young man. Ralph is the one who created the…

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    The author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding develops his theme of how innocence can be lost by setting the story on a deserted island where the characters in the book opinions could not be swayed by adults or anyone else influential in their lives. Golding’s tone in the book is violent and tragic which allows him to show how people’s views can be changed when certain circumstances present themselves. In other words he shows how innocence can be lost when groups of people start to do…

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    A strict and justified rules in a society is one of the exiguous key systems that keep the negative impulses of human beings such as rebellion, and the will to perform immoral acts, on a leash. William Golding thoroughly illustrates this concept in his enticing novel named “The Lord of the Flies”, in which the lack of order drives a small group of boys to embrace a savage-like lifestyle, and forces them to behave immorally. E. L. Epstein’s reflection is an extremely well written piece that goes…

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    In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015] 1136-1185) each individual character thrives to make their fantasy reality. The story takes place around the same time frame as The Great Depression making the Wingfield’s dreams almost impossible to come true. Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield are defiantly different, however the family all share the aspiration of a fantasy…

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    appealing is its stream of consciousness style, anonymous narration and themes of memory and the past. William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily” focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson. Through a technique entitled 'stream of consciousness' the reader is provided with the thoughts of the narrator or character. The term stream of consciousness was initially coined by a psychologist, William James, in his research 'The Principles of Psychology'. He writes: “… it is nothing joined; it flows. A…

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