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Compulsive Gamblers Illegal Gambling
1,728 words
ter> Gambling, while it lowers taxes and creates
jobs, it also causes addicts to lose money and
therefore creates a higher crime rate. A
Quick History of Gambling. Gambling was a popular
pastime in North America long before there was
ever a United States. Playing cards and dice were
brought over by both the British and the Dutch. By
the end of the 17 th century, just about every
country seat in colonial America had a lottery
wheel. Cockfighting flourished throughout the
countries, espe...
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Point Of View White Man
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... t "has no referent" (p 554) or at least there
is no precise benchmark to measure this "word with
which we are all so familiar that we rarely take
the trouble to ask what we mean by it" (p 554).
Because of this reason, any government, no matter
how despotic can attribute their regime as being
democratic. From this idea, he hits the origin of
imperialism, for colonization starts with a
justification that the colonizer is more
democratic, thus being more virtuous and
civilized; therefore they i...
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Ralph And Piggy Ralph And Jack
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Themes and Issues Themes are the fundamental and
often universal ideas explored in a literary work.
Lord of the Flies is a thought provoking novel,
the main theme being the fact that men are
inherently bound to law / moral society and
without the influence of morality and the basic
consensus of right and wrong we would slowly
regress to our primitive and savage instincts.
This essay will analyse the novel giving evidence
to support the theme as well as discuss issues
that may arise from it. Mr. ...
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Group Of Boys Ralph And Piggy
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SETTING The action of the novel has been set
sometime in the future. A planeload of boys has
been evacuated from England, where a war is being
fought against 'the reds'. After their departure,
an atom bomb has fallen on England and destroyed
their civilization. The plane carrying the boys is
attacked by an enemy aircraft. The passenger tube
carrying the boys is thrown out and the plane
crashes, but the boys land safely on an
uninhabited island that at first seems like a
paradise to the boys. CHA...
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Leader Of The Group Savage Instincts
557 words
"'Hands up, " said Jack strongly, "whoever wants
Ralph not to be chief. '" In the book, Lord of the
Flies, by William Golding, there is an extreme
change showing the savage instincts we all hold
inside. Over the course of the novel, Ralph goes
from being the leader of the group to an outcast
on the run. Meanwhile, Jack rises to power on the
island by being a savage. When the group of boys
first met in the beginning of the novel, after the
conch was blown, they elected Ralph as the chief.
Ralph w...
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Clockwork Orange Suicide Attempt
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A Comparison of Jack and Alex The thoughts and
actions of Alex in the novel, A Clockwork Orange
are both alike and different from the character
Jack in Lord of he Flies. Alex a young man at the
age of fifteen is a bane on society. Rape,
violence, and Beethoven are his main joys. Jack is
a choirboy on a deserted island. Jack's world,
before arrival on the island, consisted of a '
voluntary adherence to a pragmatic pact of
nonaggression& # 8230; which passes for
civilization, but maintained on...
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Brave New World Mustapha Mond
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Brave New World The novel Brave New World is like
no other in fantasy and satire. It predicts a
future overpowered by technology where the people
have no religion. Has Huxley written about a
degrading way of life or has he discovered the key
to a perfect world that should be called Utopia?
This essay will show that upon close analysis the
way of life in the novel is justifiable and all
the precautions that are taken are needed to
preserve their lifestyle. This essay will also
show that however d...
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Story Takes Place Brave New World
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The author Aldous
Leonard Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on
July 26, 1894, third son of Dr. Leonard Huxley and
Julia Arnold. He is the grandson of T. H. Huxley,
the scientist. Aldous Huxley was educated at Eton,
which he left at seventeen owing to an affliction
of the eyes which left him practically blind for
two or three years. This event presented him from
becoming a doctor, for which he was grateful later
on. The book Brave New World was written in 1932.
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Brave New World Risque
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About brave New World: In After Ford 632, this is
632 years after Ford has released the first T-Ford
(year 2535 in our world), there is a World
Society. People are made in bottles and
conditioned to do predestinated work. People have
no family, marriage doesnt exist. People are
taught to serve the production, to reach the
states motto: Community, Identity and Stability.
People also are made in different grades of
intelligence. In the brave new world, there is no
depth of feeling, no ferment of i...
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
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To gain further knowledge on the Excel theme of
technology, I choose to read Aldous Huxley's Brave
New World. In this novel Huxley explains what may
happen if the human race tries to create a utopia
based on technology. This book expanded my
knowledge of how technology and the quest for a
perfect society can mix, creating a vial and
intolerable society. The plot line of the book is
very simple, but at the same time it is also very
effective. The story takes place in London at
least 632 years int...
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Lord Of The Flies Jack And The Hunters
790 words
Lord of the Flies shows that even properly raised
British boys have a bad side. At the beginning of
the story the boys held meetings and said they did
not want to become savage like. As the book
progresses all of the children start to show signs
of inhumanity. By the end of Lord of the Flies all
of the characters have revealed their crudeness
except the dead boys, Piggy and Simon. I believe
they would have turned wild too because everyone
has a savage in them and it could be released at
any time...
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Lord Of The Flies Fear Of Losing
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Easy to Become Evil Is mankind really evil? The
modern classic Lord of the Flies, written by
William Golding, explains the faults of man. Lord
of the Flies begins with a group of civilized
young males becoming stranded on an island. On the
primitive island the children attempt to create an
ordered society, but the exact opposite is
accomplished. The youths lives progress into a
state of pandemonium, because their lives are
without the pressures of a political structure. As
a result of the tumult...
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Marlon Brando Escalating Horrors
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Inherent inside every human soul is a savage evil
side that remains repressed by society. Often this
evil side breaks out during times of isolation
from our culture, and whenever one culture
confronts another. History is loaded with examples
of atrocities that have occurred when one culture
comes into contact with another. Whenever
fundamentally different cultures meet, there is
often a fear of contamination and loss of self
that leads us to discover more about our true
selves, often causing per...
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Roman Empire Civilized Society
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The Greeks, after their country had been reduced
into a province, imputed the triumphs of Rome, not
to the merit, but to the FORTUNE, of the republic.
The inconstant goddess, who so blindly distributes
and resumes her favours, had now consented (such
was the language of envious flattery) to resign
her wings, to descend from her globe, and to fix
her firm and immutable throne on the banks of the
Tiber. [ 1 ] A wiser Greek, who has composed, with
a philosophic spirit, the memorable history of his
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Brave New World Human Mind
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Happiness in Brave New World When we look to
define happiness, many different ideas come to
mind. Webster s New Collegiate Dictionary uses
three definitions for happiness: good fortune, a
state of well being and contentment, and a
pleasurable satisfaction. In Brave New World,
Album Huxley argues that a society can redefine
happiness through the government s manipulation of
the environment and the human mind itself. The
government accomplishes this by mind conditioning
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Heart Of Darkness Good And Evil
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Every man, or woman to be politically and socially
acceptable has buried, within himself, beneath
centuries of societal norms and restrictions, a
dark side, a savage side. When a man is taken out
of society, and left to create his own norms, he
must rediscover those primordial instincts which
have sustained his species since the beginning of
its existence. Survival of the fittest, physically
and intellectually, clique as it may be, is the
foundation of these archaic yet prevalent
instincts. Pers...
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Good And Evil Heart Of Darkness
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[Every man, or woman has buried within themself a
dark side, savage side. When a man is taken out of
society, and left to create his own norms, he
rediscovers those primordial instincts which have
laid dormant since the the beginning of existence.
Survival of the fittest, physically and
intellectually, is the foundation of these
instincts. Persons who dominate one or many
through mental or physical prowess develop a sense
of superiority. This feeling, if fostered by the
environment, and intensif...
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Vincent Freeman Was Born World Where People Society
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A hero is a man noted for courage strength and
honor. Heroes exist in many different forms
throughout literature. Several heroes studied in
class were Beowulf, William Wallace, John Savage,
and Vincent Freeman. All of these are considered
heroes for different reason through their
different journeys. Every journey begins with a
call. For Beowulf it was his fate to fight off the
terrible monster. During the time this was
written, fate and destiny were strong elements in
literature. William Wallace...
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Side Of Human Nature Lord Of The Flies
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The Savage Side of Human Nature: The True Beast In
Lord of the Flies, the beast is a presence
throughout the entire book. First seen by a little
when he is frightened in the dark, the beast is
seen everywhere by the boys, but only when they
are afraid. Towards the end of the book, the boys
begin to become more savage. They still believe
the beast is a real being that is to be feared,
but the reader begins to see that the true beast
is not a physical being at all, but a side of the
boys themselve...
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Point Of View Atom Bomb
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The three essays, Thank God For The Atom Bomb by
Paul Fuel, Democracy by Carl Becker, and Chief
Seattle: Letter to President Pierce, 1855 are
three different rhetorical modes of writing that
exports theoretical, personal reasoning on the
realities of certain controversial historical
topics. The main focus of the essays are in
proving a steadfast view of an ambiguous subject
through sarcastic criticism of opposing ideas and
by applying clever use of irony; the authors?
sentiments vary from imperi...
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