...In Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, men were introduced into a society of all women that had been just women for thousands of years. When men were introduced into the society they changed many things about the women and themselves. They brought out the civilized parts of themselves and the women and also the savage attitudes of both themselves and the women. Civilized meaning that they have social, cultural, and moral developments. Savage meaning, they are animalistic and lacking social, cultural, and moral development. Terry thinks he is civilized because of the things that he has like money, gadgets, boats, and planes. It doesn’t really make him civilized, having those items just makes him privileged. Terry acts like he is entitled...
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...and the ‘Civilized’ Mind” to get a vast, relatable, and timely point across to readers. He discusses his thoughts on the differences between the ‘primitive’ mind, and the ‘civilized’ mind... The reason this article resonates so deeply with me, is because it relates to our current culture, and lifestyles in a way that is so obviously correct. I’ll be using this paper to discuss the relation between Strauss’ article, and our lives. Strauss would describe our current minds, as ‘civilized’ minds, as a scientific way of thinking. Strauss says, “It’s a step by step way of thinking, trying to give explanations for very limited phenomena, and then moving on quickly to a new phenomenon.” A kind of thinking focused on numbers, length, things that are able to be measured, like Instagram likes or Facebook comments. Strauss stated, that “We only use enough mental power for what is needed by our profession…” In our lives we do what is needed, and no more. Strauss says what we lack though, is the Savage mind, or a ‘primitive’ way of thinking. A type of thinking focused more on feelings, descriptions, and observations. He says, “We use more mental power, but considerably less of our sensory perceptions.” We’re no longer as aware as we once were, no longer as in-tune, or in-depth with our surroundings, with our world. Strauss states, “People without writing (‘primitive’ people) had a fantastically precise knowledge of their environment and all of their resources.” It is clear that we are no longer...
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...Lord of the Flies Full book report 1. A person’s behaviour is determined by several causes through out his life. The phase already begins when we are born. As a child we’re taught how to behave by our parents. Later on our teachers and surroundings influence our behaviour towards a more and more civilized one. In a society we’re kept as civilized as possible by following rules and laws. If we as human beings are placed away from a society, will we be able to maintain our civilized characters, or will we become savaged barbarians? This is the theme William Golding creates in his novel The Lord of the Flies from 1954. Golding takes his readers on a journey, where he shows what mankind is capable of doing through youngsters. The question is: can the young kids maintain civilization? 2.c. The Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of young boys who crash on an island. While they’re stuck on the island they manage to establish some order and civilization by choosing a leader and by using a conch shell to arrange meetings between the boys. The established civilization crumbles as the book goes on because some of the boys can’t control their animalistic qualities. The boys waddle between the human instinct of savagery and the civilized ways of order, which they’re taught from home. Despite the fact that they try to establish order they become more and more drawn towards savagery throughout the book. The sow’s head and the conch shell are both symbols of power, but...
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...World live. He goes on to compare these people to the more civilized people within Europe, and eventually comes to a conclusion that the New World might be less barbaric, even though they have more barbaric practices. This epiphany goes hand in hand with the Mayan Ball Game, in that the loser of this game would be sacrificed to the Gods. Montaigne would think that this game perfectly portrays how a civilized society is just as barbaric as the uncivilized, for they kill one another for their belief. Within Montaigne’s essay, he makes the statement “We may call these people barbarous…but in respect to ourselves, who in all sorts of barbarity exceed them” (Widger, 18). This is a powerful assertion, for he claims that his own society is much worse than that of a newly discovered one. The New World was full of different beliefs, one of which were active cannibals, yet here Montaigne still believes that the European civilization is just as bad if not worse. He justifies this by providing examples of different...
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...Every day the morning papers bring news of dacoities and murders, kidnappings and rapes, hold-ups of trains and hijackings of planes, adulteration of foodstuffs, drugs and even of poisons. All this makes one sit up and wonder whether crime is inseparable from civilized life. We appear to live on an earth of well-dressed gangs. Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized and deep within them there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity to revert to our first natures. Small wonder that under stress and strain the most civilized people are as near barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals have only a superficial brilliancy. Compared with our wonderful progress in physical service and practical applications, our system of government, of administering justice of national education, and our whole social and moral organization, remains in a state of barbarism. The wealth and knowledge and culture of the few do not constitute civilization. Shaw has castigated our superficial civilization in words bitter but true. "Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honour false in all its points." Crime and violence are inherent in our political and social system. "The poor...
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...Every day the morning papers bring news of dacoities and murders, kidnappings and rapes, hold-ups of trains and hijackings of planes, adulteration of foodstuffs, drugs and even of poisons. All this makes one sit up and wonder whether crime is inseparable from civilized life. We appear to live on an earth of well-dressed gangs. Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized and deep within them there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity to revert to our first natures. Small wonder that under stress and strain the most civilized people are as near barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals have only a superficial brilliancy. Compared with our wonderful progress in physical service and practical applications, our system of government, of administering justice of national education, and our whole social and moral organization, remains in a state of barbarism. The wealth and knowledge and culture of the few do not constitute civilization. Shaw has castigated our superficial civilization in words bitter but true. "Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by in experienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honour false in all its points." Crime and violence are inherent in our political and social system....
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...inequality among men we should look to the earlier days, and not to that of which came through man’s successive developments, (Ritter & Bondanella, pgs. 8-11); Therefore, generally laying out how he is concerned with the inequality present when man becomes civilized because according to Rousseau such circumstances are rare in the state of nature where all things proceed in an absolute uniform manner, (Ritter & Bondanella,...
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...existed. However, as the novel progresses the characters gradually start to become savages due to their newly developed society. Ralph is now losing his civilized group and Jack is starting to form a group of his own, where more boys decide to follow and become savages. The remainder of the boys...
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...Claudette turned out to be more civilized than she was the point at which she first went to St.Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. At the point when Claudette first went to the home, she was destroying clothing and peeing everywhere throughout the beds to check her domain. She wasn't typical around then, yet then the preparation started. She will ever be the same again. She won't be a wolf any longer and in the event that she can't be prepared to be ordinary, the nuns will toss her in the forested areas without anyone else. Claudette turned out to be more civilized than she was the point at which she first went to St.Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. She makes a considerable measure of clues towards that she is making strides....
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...Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff and these facts will prove why. After Rainsford found General Zaroff’s enormous building on the palatial chateau he went in and was treated very well due to them knowing who he was by his book. After a while of talking Rainsford exclaimed, “I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff...”. “ Hunting? Great guns, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder!” (Connell 9). Zaroff got tired of hunting animals because he was perfect at it. He lived by the sea and had the technology to crash ships and he took the people who were on them as his “game”. By Rainsford killing Zaroff, he took one life but he saved many lives by doing this. If Zaroff lived many more innocent people would die....
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...the part of earth, we like to consider as civilized. The society in this part is on a higher level of technology, growing and civilization. This part of the world has received the longest distance to the Stone Age, and we can continue to emphasize the west. But do the great improves always been welcoming by the population, and do the improves always been as civilized as we like to consider? The text is divided into different chapters. The first one concerns the creation of the telephone, and how it took in turn in New York. It’s mostly about the telephone wires, and how they been raised, and how the inventor of the telephone, presents the telephone by creating demonstration of how the telephone works. The first chapter is also about how the public don´t welcoming the new invention. This negative angle leads us to the next chapter. The next chapter is a long listing of black people being hanged in telephone wires. The listing contains names of the men and the town they have been hanged in. The describing of the hangings continues supported by quotes wrote by different people. The people contains off a writers, a precedent, an activist and an investor, scientist and businessman. The novel ends in the last chapter with the main character, telling what he thinks of the telephone, the wires and the poles. The construction of the novel is quite unusual. There is a bit of a surprise element in the beginning of the story. We’re supposed to believe, that we are about to read a...
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...Guard would chose him as a spokesperson considering that there slogan for many years has been “Anything less would be uncivilized,” and Sir Charles’ domineer on the basketball court was anything but. These ads could lead people to wonder, “If this is a product that can make Charles Barkley more civilized, imagine what it could do for me.” The ad takes place on a clear spring-like day. You can practically hear the birds gently singing as they fly jubilantly through the crisp, spring morning air. The overgrown grass smells of dew as it flourishes from beneath a broken down, tattered wooden fence. Wearing a vibrant red coat, yellow vest and while collared shirt and slacks, stands Charles Barkley in the foreground. A towering man, Sir Charles stands 6 foot 6 inches tall and sports a dark mustache and a completely shaved head. Looking quite regal he leans on a saddle that sets atop the wooden fence with a clever look of sophistication on his face. Well equipped for a fox hunt, in his left hand he holds a black riding crop. In the upper left corner of the ad there is a quote in white lettering that reads, “One cannot smell like a hound and expect to catch any foxes.” –Charles Barkley We live in a society that is...
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...As members of a civilized society, we are expected to behave with what we call restraint on a daily basis. It is what makes our society functional. Restraint is what keeps people from bludgeoning one another while walking down the street, or, on a smaller scale, keeps a dinner table clean as we eat with silverware as opposed to our hands. We function on a belief that our ability to exercise self-control is what separates us from uncivilized societies and animals. However, restraint can both be learned and lost. In his novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad exposes the counter-intuitive dichotomy between restraint and civilization. The novel begins with the story of Fresleven, a boat captain who worked for the Company, whose death created the...
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...that state of nature is a fiction and it’s hardly possible to achieve that system within the state. It is impossible because there is no scarcity. Natural necessities of humans are modest. Rousseau believes that there is no need for conflict between individuals in the state because lives of individual are self-sufficient. State of Nature is more static than any other. An individual that lives in the State of Nature is good because he is not in touch with the outside world and also with enlightened ideas of civilized individuals. This natural man knows about satisfaction, and has no morality. Even though he is immoral he doesn’t attack other individuals. This is because he lives with himself, doesn’t know about medicine and doesn’t require medicine. The reason for that is that he lives a modest life that is too basic to require all of the necessity that civilized people need. On the other hand we have individuals that are civilized and he calls it the Civilized man. This is a man that is totally opposite to the Natural man. He doesn’t rest and he is al the time ill. Unlike the natural man is not all the time satisfied. The most important aspect about this individual that he acknowledges that killing is wrong, however at the end he does it anyways....
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...During the post-classical era, the Mongol empire was civilized because it had an extensive system of organization for its processes and its promotion of trade & arts its region. However, it was also uncivilized because the Mongol empire, during its conquests, had slaughtered many people needlessly. The Mongol empire was civilized because of an organized system of processes. The Mongol military was organized based on the decimal system. “History of the Mongols,” by John of Plano Carpini, says “…in such a way that over 10 men should beset one man and he is what we call a captain of ten over ten of these should be placed one, named a captain of a hundred; at the head of ten captains is placed a soldier called a captain of a thousand….” Carpini was a European missionary who came between 1245 and 1247, suggesting that Mongol battle tactics may have changed after his departure, making his writings unreliable. This shows that the Mongol military was very flexible in many situations, since it had an intimate level of organization. They also had advanced battle tactics, based on deception and encirclement. In “Carpini on Battle Tactics,” by John Carpini, “The chiefs or princes of the army do not take part in the fighting, but take up their stand some distance away facing the enemy, and they sometimes make figures of men and set them on horses. They do this to give the impression that a great crowd of fighting men is gathered there.” This shows that Mongols were well organized, since...
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