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Crusoe Doesn't Trust Crusoe Doesn't Trust Friday Friday's
832 words
The "primitive" Friday demonstrates exceedingly
good values superior to those of the "civilized"
Crusoe. Friday's honesty, loyalty, and natural
innocence are unequaled by Crusoe's deceptiveness,
lack of trust in Friday, and pessimistic ideas.
Early life in "civilization" gives Crusoe
preconceptions that don't allow for simple,
natural thinking. Yet, Friday, raised as a
"savage", is given to simple childlike behavior.
When compared with Crusoe, Friday triumphs with
his good-natured morals. Friday...
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Advancement Of Science Mustapha Mond
1,722 words
Author: Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, and died
in 1963. He first went to Eton, and then to
Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a
succesful writer of short stories in the twenties
and thirties. Besides short stories he also wrote
essays and novels, like 'Brave New World'. The
first novels he wrote were comments on the young
generation, with no goal whatsoever, that lived
after WW I. Before he became the writer as we know
him, he worked as a journalist and a critic of
drama. In his books,...
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Compulsive Gamblers Illegal Gambling
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Gambling, while it lowers taxes and creates jobs,
it also causes addicts to lose money and therefore
creates a higher crime rate. 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, especially in the South. Bear
Baiting was also a...
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Different Changes In Characters Of Lord The Flies
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... the beast, Ralph for the first time, had an
opportunity to join the hunters and share their
desire for violence. "Ralph too was fighting to
get near, to get a handful of that brown,
vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt
was over-mastering. " (p. 126) Without rules to
limit them, they were free to make their game as
real as they wanted. Ralph did not understand the
hatred Jack had for him, nor did he fully
comprehend why their small and simple society
deteriorated. This confusion r...
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2 Nd Ed Paradise Lost
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... om which she comes. The narrator, the French
tutor and the other whites have come largely from
England, though Oroonoko's owner, is Cornish and
Banister, his barbarous executioner, is "a wild
Irish Man." Here Behn sets the opposition of
savage and British rule by a reference to the
first colony as well as the symbolic
representation of superior and inferior classes.
The slave trade was an economic necessity for the
continuance of class differentiation in England at
that point in time. Along ...
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Social Construction Native American
664 words
Braxton The theory of social construction states
that many concepts that appear naturally are
really the result of human actions and choices.
The British constructed the myth that the American
Indians were savages for their own economic
benefit. Because the British needed to have a
legitimate and verifiable reason in order for the
countrymen of Great Britain to advocate the taking
of the lands of America from the Indians, the
British developed a scheme of developing a myth to
perceive the Indian...
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Brave New World By Huxley
601 words
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a book full of
meaning and purpose. Even though it was written in
1932 and wasnt completely accepted at the time,
today people accept it as a work of written
genius. The book starts off as telling of mans
destiny in the future. It is so far into the
future that it isnt even on the time scale of BC
or AD, it is AF. There are no parents, no
relatives, and no family history. Children are
test tube babies in which they are grown and born
in a building and live the...
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Lord Of The Flies Savagery
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There are too many people, and too few human
beings. (Robert Zend) Even though there are many
people on this planet, there are very few
civilized people. Most of them are naturally
savaged. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by
William Golding, boys are stranded on an island
far away, with no connections to the adult world.
These children, having no rules, or civilization,
have their true nature exposed. Not surprisingly,
these childrens nature happens to be savagery.
Savagery can clearly be identi...
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Mentally Handicapped Body Language
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Throughout this course of study, the concept of
language as the demarcation between animals and
humans has prevailed. Further, as we have seen in
our class readings, many claim that it is through
language that our "consciousness" and "cognitive"
skills are developed. Accordingly, these skills
are necessary for us to interpret and
conceptualize our world. What this infers is that
because we have these skills and the "brute"
animals do not, animals do not possess the ability
to analyze or think ab...
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Racism In Heart Of Darkness
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Chinua Achebe, a well-known writer, once gave a
lecture at the University of Massachusetts about
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, entitled "An
Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of
Darkness. " Throughout his essay, Achebe notes how
Conrad used Africa as a background only, and how
he "set Africa up as a foil to Europe, " (Achebe,
p. 251) while he also "projects the image of
Africa as 'the other world, ' the antithesis of
Europe and therefore of civilization. " (Achebe,
p. 252) By his own...
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World War Ii Jack Tribe
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1. After Simon is killed, the next paragraph
begins, "The clouds open and let the rain down
like a waterfall" When the boys kill Simon they
not only kill him and spirituality, but what they
perceive to be the beast. Because the beast was
created by them and embodied all of their evils,
one of its interpretations can be as mankind's
sin. Simon is very similar to Jesus in this book.
The Roman's ruled the world during Jesus' life,
and now a similar bloodthirsty society rules the
island during Simon...
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South South West Bernard Marx
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Basic Plot: This novel takes place in the year 632
A. F. The government controls the population of
Utopia, there are only test tube births and an
artificial process for multiplying the embryos.
Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World
Controllers; these people control the government
and all of their plans. In the very beginning
there are students being given a guided party line
tour through the London Hatcheries. Two employees
that work there are Henry Foster and Lenina
Crowne, they have been ...
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European Imperialism Labour Force
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... th, a cheetahs speed, a bears claws, etc.
Humans, have the brain. When this characteristic
was developed throughout the eons of evolution, it
broke all the existing laws of nature, and humans
formed new rules to suit their needs. One thing
that remained, however, was our ancestral
behaviours. Like a descendent beckoning at the
knell of the bell, our savage inclinations stayed
with us physically. The region of our brain that
controls our most primitive of emotions, is called
the hippos campus...
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War In Vietnam Heart Of Darkness
1,454 words
Vietnam was a war fought by the unwillingly, for
the ungrateful, led by the unqualified. Apocalypse
Now is Coppola's film based on Heart of Darkness,
but set in the Vietnam jungle. The major theme in
the novel is the examination of Americas
involvement, militarily, in Vietnam. However, like
Conrad's novel, it also shows the potential
inherent darkness in all human hearts. Coppola
retains the basic structure of Conrad's novel for
his film. As Marlow, in Heart of Darkness, travels
up the Congo eve...
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Soul And Body Small Things
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Forged in the fire of revolution and defined by
manifest destiny, America has always been the land
of the individual. Although the American dream has
not always been coherent, (married with 2. 5 kids,
2 cars, a dog and a satisfying job), the spirit of
innovation, individuality and progress remains
unchanged. The father of free verse, and perhaps
the American perspective of poetry, Walt Whitman
embodies these values in his life and work. First
published in 1855 in Leaves of Grass, "Song of
Myself...
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Kubla Khan Pleasure Dome
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In the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge,
language is used to convey images from Coleridge's
imagination. This is done with the use of
vocabulary, imagery, structure, use of contrasts,
rhythm and sound devices such as alliteration and
assonance. By conveying his imagination by using
language, the vocabulary used by Coleridge is of
great importance. The five lines of the poem Kubla
Khan sound like a chant or incantation, and help
suggest mystery and supernatural themes of the
poem. Another impo...
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The Brave New World Of Technology
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When thinking of progress, most people think of
advances in the scientific fields, believing that
most discoveries and technologies are beneficial
to society. Are these advances as beneficial as
most people think? Brave New World presents a
startling view of the future which on the surface
appears almost comical. Yet humor was not the
intention of Aldous Huxley when he wrote the book
in the early 1930 's. Indeed Huxley's real message
is very dark. His idea that in centuries to come,
a one-world ...
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Piggy Is Murdered Conch Is Broken Jack
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... tisbury) calling for fiction which was not
domestic and usual but exciting and thrilling. He
would have read Charles Darwin's Theory of
Evolution because Hyde looks so much like an ape,
almost as if he had regressed back to a beast.
There was also much interest at the time into the
human brain and its functional properties. Both
authors use a very different story to illustrate
their philosophy. Lord of the Flies is set on a
tropical island paradise. A plane evacuating boys
during wartime cra...
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D W Griffith Birth Of A Nation
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Film Criticism There are several approaches to the
film criticism and each approach provides us with
certain information about the movie. Altogether,
these approaches allow us to construct a complete
characteristic or critique of a film and make it
possible to understand better its meaning and its
symbolism. In my opinion, semiological approach
would be the best in showing information hidden in
the movie on that subconscious level, which makes
that special impact on the viewer. The word
semiolog...
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Brave New World Escape From Reality
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For more than half a century science fiction
writers have thrilled and challenged readers with
visions of the future and future worlds. These
authors offered an insight into what they expected
man, society, and life to be like at some future
time. One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilized this
concept in his work, Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic
look at a man and his role in society. Bradbury
utilizes the luxuries of life in America today, in
addition to various occupations and technological
advances...
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