...Being on an island away from everything that you are used to and everything that you are familiar with can take a toll on you. It can weave your mind to believe the things that aren’t true and can have your brain be your worst enemy. The boys were at target for this at a very young. Their brains haven't developed making them dependent on their parents who are not there. Boys who are left alone and frightened, turn to their largest instinct, there savagery. Isolation took them and changed who they were, well behaved British boys now savages. They were isolated from everything as soon as they got onto the island. The boys changed their personalities and the way they were because they were isolated. Isolation made it so that they were away from everything that was familiar to them changing their total point of view of their lives and what would become of them. The boys were forced to subject to their new life and be in a place they weren't comfortable even though they wouldn't have been comfortable at home either because of the war. Isolation started the fear and starting the main thing that was turning savage. Savagery and civility were the main problems in this book meaning that isolation could be...
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...one place? A place where almost everyone has been when they were young. A zoo keeps many animals in a confined space, but should zoos exist? No, I don’t think zoos should exist because the animals aren’t there for education purposes, the zoos aren’t actually doing what they’re claiming to and the artificial habitat is really nothing like their original one. Would animals like being in a zoo? I don’t think so. Zoos claim to display or give educational opportunities, but most visitors only spend a few minutes at each enclosure, looking for entertainment rather than awareness. Most zoo enclosures are small, and instead of understanding the animals usual habits, signs often provide no more information than an animal’s species, diet, history and natural habitats. Animals are cramped together, lack privacy, and have small chances for physical exercise. These conditions usually result in abnormal and suicidal behaviour, known as “zoochosis.” How many people who go to the zoo actually take the time to go and read everything on a sign? Most people just go to the zoo to look at animals and if they don’t do anything “interesting” they move along to the next display hoping for “interesting” things to happen. Though the zoos say that they are helping save near extinct species, why aren’t they trying to preserve the animals’ natural habitat? In fact the zoo itself might be the one responsible for the extinction of a certain species because a zoo needs lots of space to house a lot of...
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...positions are open to those with better looks and they’re able to earn more as well. This could all be nothing but stereotypes for both gender but when it comes to looks, men don’t usually worry about it. For women that are seeking an opportunity to work in a field that is considered more masculine, it could be considerably hard for them. To land a job position as a firefighter, construction worker or anything along those lines, women are expected to act and look more like men. Attractive women are sometimes stereotyped as models, cheerleaders and trophy wives. They aren’t usually looked at as strong, hard working women. They’re wrongly perceived as less talented. For some the looks of a woman seems to distinguish her characteristics. If a women is attractive then does this mean she might also have traits that aren’t fit for a “man’s job?” Attractive women tended to be sorted into positions like receptionist or secretary. When women seek for male sex-type position the most average looking women often gets the job. Should looks play a role when it comes to deciding on whether or not someone should get hired? Women are more likely to be insecure about physical strength and looks when it comes to work. Women are thought to be weaker and men are thought be the dominant ones. Many believe that these types of women are put on a pedestal and that everything is handed to them. They aren’t thought to be leaders and only rely on their looks. It’s taboo for a woman to dress attractively...
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...Everything is a Remix Filmmaker, writer, and speaker, Kirby Ferguson, in his speech, “Embrace the Remix,” implicates that everything in the modern day world is a remix. Ferguson’s purpose is to spread the idea that no matter how many new products are created, that they will always be a remix of something else or at least composed of a remix. He adopts a respectfully pleasant tone in order to appeal to similar thoughts and ideas of his audience. Ferguson begins building his credibility with facts and reputable sources, citing convincing arguments and statistics, and successfully employing relatable appeals. In a TedTalk filmed this summer, Kirby Ferguson challenges us to think of remix as “a better way to conceive of creativity.” He uses...
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...Leonardo's father took him to Florence Italy, to train as a painter and sculptor in the studio of Andrea del Verroccho. He studied with this master until the age of twenty five. At this point, he set up his own business and was famous for being a painter and a man of science. As a scientist, he observed everything he could in nature. Leonardo used what he learned from nature and science to make his paintings look real. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. His notes were written backwards, probably because he didn't want people to read about his discoveries and observations. In order to read Leonardo's notes, one has to hold them up to a mirror. In 1472 he entered a painters' guild. His earliest extensive works date back to this time. In 1482 Da Vinci worked for Duke Lodovico Sforza in Milan for 18 years. He fulfilled the position as court artist, but also worked as an engineer and architect. While in Milan Leonardo developed more theories about painting. Leonardo believed that knowledge should be based on observation. He believed that observation led to understanding, and artists had an obligation to record this understanding by painting accurate images. He made sketches of everything around him. This caused him to make a master plan, his plan was to record the...
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...fact that although women now have equal rights as men and aren’t necessarily controlled by them anymore, men still are considered the dominant, stronger and more powerful sex. Due to this, women's physical appearance plays a very important role in society. Because of women being perceived in such a way, the only thing that gives women absolute power over men is their physical appearance, a man goes weak for a beautiful female. The sad thing is that we have let society define the beauty of a women and a major part of this society is the media. Women have always been perceived and portrayed as sex symbols, as if that is what they are only good for. Men and others in society don’t care about a woman’s intelligence if they look good. Our society has let a woman’s looks overshadow everything else that she is. Our society, has constructed itself into a society so image obsessed when it comes to women, in which color, body figure, and every aspect of a woman’s face is the source to why people approve or disapprove of that woman. Media affects the way young girls and adult women all around the world view themselves. This is why our generation of women is so self-conscious about their physical appearance, and this is affecting their health. There are many methods in which the media encourages women to disfigure and damage their bodies. Even celebrities and models, which are the people that represent what women should look like, suffer because of the way the media makes people perceive...
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...Leonardo's father took him to Florence Italy, to train as a painter and sculptor in the studio of Andrea del Verroccho. He studied with this master until the age of twenty five. At this point, he set up his own business and was famous for being a painter and a man of science. As a scientist, he observed everything he could in nature. Leonardo used what he learned from nature and science to make his paintings look real. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. His notes were written backwards, probably because he didn't want people to read about his discoveries and observations. In order to read Leonardo's notes, one has to hold them up to a mirror. In 1472 he entered a painters' guild. His earliest extensive works date back to this time. In 1482 Da Vinci worked for Duke Lodovico Sforza in Milan for 18 years. He fulfilled the position as court artist, but also worked as an engineer and architect. While in Milan Leonardo developed more theories about painting. Leonardo believed that knowledge should be based on observation. He believed that observation led to understanding, and artists had an obligation to record this understanding by painting accurate images. He made sketches of everything around him. This caused him to make a master plan, his plan was to record the...
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...Kylie Ain’t I a teenager? Hour 5 Literature3 November 16, 2014 Aren’t we teenager? That woman over there says teen are lazy, disrespectful, and irresponsible. I walk my dog and play with my siblings outside and I am on a swim team. And other teens have different ways to be active like going outside and play basketball or dance to music. Aren’t we teenagers? Look at us. Just because we are mad and don’t listen doesn’t mean that we are disrespectful all the time. A lot of teens are actually really respectful they listen to their parents and clean up after themselves so their parents don’t have to clean up after them. Aren’t we teenagers? Lots of people make the claim that teens are really irresponsible. But I know so many teens that have had things from when they were like four years old. And sometimes we lose track of time but we can’t remember everything, really as long as we remember our homework and show up for a sports and band practice we are fine. Teenager aren’t always lazy a lot of them are in sports and do a lot of activities. Just because we like to be on our phones does not mean we are lazy. Some time we just need time to sit down and look at our phones and see what is going on around the world. Teenagers use their smartphones for many things like reading the news, researching on the internet and yes sometimes we talk on the phone to catch up on with friends that we haven’t seen for some time. Grown-ups do all these things but they are not labeled as lazy....
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...The story V for Vendetta is a story about a government wanting to take over the world. Vendetta calls himself “the king of the twenty century. I'm the bogeyman, the villain, the black sheep of the family.” He wears a long cape, a big hat, he has long hair, tall, with a big nose and long face. He wants to make sure everything okay in this town. If you do something and he doesn’t like it who knows what will happen to you. In this small town there are camera in the street to make sure nothing bad is going on. Also so the government and police can watch everything for the peoples protection. Vendetta says, “The fifth of November the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason.” The government wants to control...
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...dictionary.com the definition of gullible is “easily deceived or cheated”; which basically means you believes everything someone tells you. The definition of deceit is “the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating” according to www.dictionary.com. Gullibility and deceit go hand in hand because being gullible means you believe everything you hear and that makes it easier for others to deceive you. Deceitful people look for others that they can take advantage of and manipulate into doing things for them and that they can get things out of. A gullible person is the main target because they will do almost anything someone asks them to do because they never believe that someone will actually hurt them. Most gullible people are very trusting, very nice and will do almost anything for anyone. The word “credulous” is used very closely used to the word gullible because it means “having or showing too much readiness to believe things”; which is exactly what gullible means. Deceitful people are usually liars, and they say what they think they need to so people will believe them but very gullible people will believe them no matter what. That’s just what they do. Contrary to some beliefs, though, gullible people aren’t always naïve. They might believe everything someone tells them, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t aware of things that go on in this world. Some know what is going on but choose to believe the person...
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...pain and heartbreak, but those are the things that help us make decisions and move forward, our journeys make us who we are. As soon as we are born we begin our journey. We’re thrust into life without knowing anything but are eventually taught the life skills we need. We are taught how to walk, talk and make the right choices, all very important aspects within our lives. In turn the skills we are taught help us move forward meaning we can learn new things. These new skills help shape the decisions we choose to make. If we didn’t have these skills moving forward would be difficult. Our physical journeys would be a struggle if we weren’t able to talk and our emotional ones would be unhappy if we weren’t able to communicate. In the film look both ways many of the characters are forced to make changes in their lives after going through different eye-opening experiences. It’s the experiences we go through that really help move our journeys forward. They change our outlook on life. Whether they are good or bad they make us think and change the way we do things. For example fighting an illness, we can choose to give up or we can choose to fight. Whichever one we choose it will change our life. We can give up and end our journey or we can fight and live...
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...hiding your feelings only makes them worse. Instead of putting them in the right place and staying organized you feel like your world has come crashing down. Your world stops yet everyone keeps moving as if nothing is wrong. The world doesn't stop for you to try and play catch up. It continues even when you are lying on the bathroom floor thinking you can't do it anymore, thinking you aren't worthy of anything, thinking you aren't going to make...
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...looked at the world and everything around us like children did. This world would be a very different place if that happened. Unfortunately not everyone can see as clearly as children do and many children aren’t seeing as clearly as they should be because of how quickly everything around them is shifting. This would is changing very rapidly. Peoples values are not as high as they used to be 20 years ago. In todays world everything is okay. It is almost like right and wrong have been thrown out the window. Children are very confused as to what right and wrong is because the school system and society teach them that they need to decide for themselves what right and wrong is. We need to look back at what the true meaning of values and not just decide for ourselves what right and wrong is. History can show us what has worked in the past and how we can apply it to our lives today. If we look back 15, 20, or even 30 years ago we can see how different our world has become. Change is a good thing but not always. People didn’t accept everything as okay in their culture 30 years ago. When a couple wasn’t married but they were living together is was very frowned upon and many people turned their noses up at the thought of it. Unfortunately peoples values have changed and they don’t care about history as much as they should. Everyone wants to move forward and forget about the past but that is actually the opposite of what we should be doing. We need to look at history and go back...
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...Compare and Contrast The theme I chose to centralize my paper on is race and/or ethnicity. I will compare and contrast two poems: “Child of The Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales and “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t) by Patricia Smith. Morales is a woman if mixed race; Puerto Rican and Jewish, while Smith is African-American. We all want to think that someone’s race or color of their skin wouldn’t determine how they are treated or how they are perceived, but this is not the case. When talking amongst friends about someone they do not know we often describe them by using their skin color. And when meeting someone new one of the first questions we ask is “what race are you?” or the harsher “what are you?” Both of these poems give the reader a look into the mind of two young women of different races, one being mixed and the other being an African American, and how each girl views herself. The poem, “Child of The Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales, the reader looks into the consciousness of a young multi-racial woman. Morales herself is a multiracial woman “Puerto Rican-born and Jewish American Aurora Levins Morales is a poet, essayist, historian, and activist” (Fiandt, 2006). Morales’ poem talks about finding ones identity. Morales starts her poem off by stating that she is an American “she does not claim any single identity beyond “American” and this “American” includes the multiple races and nationalities that have entered the Western hemisphere”...
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...Roles and Skills of an Events Organiser For this piece of work I will be explaining the role and describing the skills required by an events organiser; with this piece of work I will be claiming P1 and P2. I am taking part in organising an event in my business class and we have split ourselves into three teams and we have chosen what type of event we are going to organise; we have chosen to plan an afternoon tea. Our event is going to be a fundraising event because we are going to send all our profits to a charity. I have carried out some research on finding out what the role of an events organiser are and what skills they use; this research is made up of internet research and class discussions. What is an Events Organiser? An events organiser is someone who organises an event and they have many different responsibilities; they are responsible for the planning of the event all the way through to the completion of the event. Their events can range from exhibitions, to conferences, to product launches. An events organiser will work with people in different sectors and their work is usually done within a team and is hand-on. They must be able to have a wide range of skills because they will have to complete a wide range of activities; time keeping and working under pressure is an essential as it is these skills that mean an event will be able to run smoothly and efficiently. What are the Roles of an events Organiser? The role of an events organiser will change depending...
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