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    name Teachers name Honors Ninth Lit/Comp. 30 January 2013 Jack of Lord of the Flies William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies is an allegory used by the author to demonstrate the instinctive evil within all of humanity. A group of British schoolboys are in a plane crash‚ and left stranded on a deserted island with no adult help. The boys attempt to create their own civilization‚ but it fails when certain members of the group let their dark sides take over. There are many intriguing characters

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    Drosophila Fruit Flies

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    The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are an excellent specimen for research in genetics. Many reasons are that they have a rapid reproduction rate‚ easy to care compared other animals and less expensive. Researchers have determined the nucleotide sequence of nearly the entire 120 megabase euchromatic portion of the Drosophila genome (Cite). Drosophila has a simple genetic arrangement of only four chromosomes which contains three autosomes and one sex chromosome according to(--) and because of this

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    We are all born with evil and good intensions and we have cilvilisation and law to keep our good intension and keep our bad intensions out. In the book Lord of the Flies writen by Sir William Groulding there are many details that show this. For example when Jack one of the main characters says in the beggining of the novel “we will have rules and obey them. After all‚ we are not savages we are English and the English are good at everything.” Yet he is the one to break his own rules. When the narrotator

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    Lord of the Flies is based on human nature and how evil is upon every human. William Golding believed that no matter how good a person is‚ there’s always an evil side. In the Lord of the Flies‚ children are tested if they could keep their insanity or not. In the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ he write about characters who suffers fears and savagery to survive. The setting is at an island. Around that time‚ a war was going on. The main characters are Ralph‚ Jack‚ and Piggy

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    Title: Boys ’ Club--No Girls Allowed: Absence as Presence in William Golding ’s Lord of the Flies Author(s): Paula Alida Roy [(essay date 2003) In the following essay‚ Roy discusses how the lack of female influences in Lord of the Flies impacts the lives of Golding ’s schoolboys not only on the island‚ but also at home.] William Golding ’s Lord of the Flies is peopled entirely by boys and‚ briefly‚ adult men. The absence of girls and women‚ however‚ does not prohibit interrogating this text

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    Lord of the Flies Essay

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    Not done Civility vs savagery Fire The beast The conch In The Lord of The Flies‚ the boys need to maintain their civility and not succumb to the savagery of the island. In The Lord of The Flies‚ fire is not only used to represent hope and survival‚ but also destruction and evil. In the beginning of the book‚ the boys find themselves lost and with little confidence in their chances of being saved. Then Piggy has the idea to start a fire. This was something to hope for. When the boys first

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    In the novel‚ Lord of the flies by William Golding characters have clashing personalities. To deal with this clash and to fit in with their fellow tribe members the assume a persona. Ralph puts on this mask to seem more violent and uncivilized‚ like all the other boys on the island except Piggy. It is proven at the end of the novel that this is just a persona and not a complete change in character when Ralph begins to weep at the thought of being rescued by a naval officer and going home at last

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    Fly Lab Instructions

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    Name__________________________________ Due date: Week of Feb. 11th Fly Lab Assignments 1-4 INSTRUCTIONS Answer questions on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to answer all parts of each question. Make sure you number all questions EXACTLY as they are numbered on this worksheet. This assignment will be turned in at the beginning of class before the quiz. Late assignments WILL NOT be accepted. DON’T FORGET: Fly lab/epistasis assignment on pgs. 41-42 in lab manual is also due at the

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    In a society without adults‚ children are likely to do unacceptable things. Without that supportive‚ influential guide they become more corrupt by following their own personal desires. In Lord of the Flies‚ Golding captures just that idea. Through the use of symbolism the author shows the readers that without parents as a role model‚ children are mislead and tend to behave inappropriately. First off‚ Symbolism is one of the strongest literary devices throughout the book. Within the first chapter

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    Piggy, Lord of the Flies

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    Framhaldsskólinn á Húsavík Smári Sigurðsson Enska 403 Piggy Anna Jónína Valgeirsdóttir Introduction In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies‚ a bunch of boys get stranded on an island. They came in contact with many unique elements that symbolize ideas or concepts. Through the use of symbols such as the beast‚ the pig’s head‚ and even Piggy’s specs‚ William Golding demonstrates that humans‚ when they’re liberated from society’s rules‚ allow their natural capacity for evil to dominate

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