...Manslaughter is the killing of someone without malice or harsh intentions. In William Goldberg’s Lord of the Flies, the meaning of manslaughter is questioned. When a group of boys get stranded on an island, their sanity is tested time and time again. They must kill to survive, but they take it too far when they start seeing things and mistake one of their own as a monster and brutally kill him, not realizing that it was one of them until it was too late. Without the knowledge that it was an actual human being that they killed, they should not be held responsible for his death. To start, many studies have found that kids, especially boys, have natural wiring to become primitive when the situation comes down to it. In an article going deeper...
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...Book Report Lord of the Flies Dylan Fuhs By: William Goldberg This story takes place on an uncharted island in the middle of nowhere. The main characters in this story are Ralph and Piggy but more so Ralph. Ralph is a leader and a very calm person. Piggy, on the other hand is the only voice of reason on the island and is very fat.Again Piggy is the only voice of reason on the island and is also probably the smartest even though physically he is very weak. Jack however, is a vicious cruel evil savage even though it does not seem that way at the beginning of the story. You find out about him wanting...
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...FREAKONOMICS A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Revised and Expanded Edition Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. vii PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION xi 1 INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How “experts”— from criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts . . . Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life . . . What is “freakonomics,” anyway? 1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? 15 In which we explore the beauty of incentives, as well as their dark side—cheating. Contents Who cheats? Just about everyone . . . How cheaters cheat, and how to catch them . . . Stories from an Israeli day-care center . . . The sudden disappearance of seven million American children . . . Cheating schoolteachers in Chicago . . . Why cheating to lose is worse than cheating to win . . . Could sumo wrestling, the national sport of Japan, be corrupt? . . . What the Bagel Man saw: mankind may be more honest than we think. 2. How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents? 49 In which it is argued that nothing is more powerful than information,...
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