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    Civilized People

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    Long Vo English 102 Instructor: Sean McFarland A 21st Century Civilized Person A 21st century civilized person is one who respects others‚ treat others as she or he would expect of others. Civilized does not mean to be only educated‚ because many of educated people are not respectful of others. The way you choose to represent yourself to the world is a personal choice. Instead of being a slave to reactions‚ you could make a proactive decision to be a rational and respectful person. Being a genuinely

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    Civilized in the story have different character‚ every character have different idea in the story. I think the word civilized mean something represent the character‚ how they act and‚ talk. Evidence from the story show that Zaroff considers himself civilized‚ Rainford considers Zaroff civilized‚ and Rainford considers himself civilized. First Zaroff considers himself civilized. Went Zaroff said‚ “ You see‚ I read all books on hunting published in English‚ French‚ and Russian.”(p.g 45) Show how he

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    Mecha Collins Dr. Alan W Brownlie English 111 October 23rd 2014 Savagery in Society Wealthy individuals have more privileges and opportunities than the average person. Most wealthy people think down on the poor or ordinary people.  In the short stories “The Ones Who Got Away From Omelas” by LeGuin and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut both deal with the complications many average people deal with when being judged by people with a higher

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    A Civilized Society What is the meaning of a society? A historian might say a society is a group of people living in an ordered community that has a hierarchy. An adult might say that a society is a community of people that have certain jobs and a community that has schools for their children to go to. A child might not even know what the meaning of society is. Their answers differ because there is not a book written in history that clearly defines what a society is. But when “society” is narrowed

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    Civil to Savage There are many factors that determine how people behave in their daily lives. For example‚ morals taught by parents‚ laws that have we have to obey‚ and social norms are all influences of character and behavior. Human nature is primitively savage. Humans’ true instinct is to be savage. In the article “What Does Lord of the Flies Say About Human Nature” the teachings of psychologist Sigmund Freud “suggested that there is evil in everyone that must be kept in check by conscience”

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    Definition of a Savage In “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”‚ Benjamin Franklin opens by saying “Savages we call them‚ because their manners differ from ours‚ which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs” (Franklin‚ 2008‚ p. 226). When Franklin wrote this‚ he had no idea that our society would continue to complicate the differences between cultures to the extent they exist still today. Many of the colonists attempted to convert Native Americans to Christianity

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    The “Noble” Savage Over the years‚ people have formed many different opinions over Rousseau`s noble savage theory. The main controversy sprouts from Rousseau`s statement that the natural human heart is good until civilization corrupts it. Golding’s exploration of the Noble savage theory has instigated theological and philosophical questions on the origin of human wickedness‚ as well as arguments comparing solitary and civilized human nature. Rousseau’s declaration that humans are naturally good

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    Why did some “civilized” societies begin calling other societies “primitive”? What were the differences that led to ethnocentrism? Civilized means that you stay in one place and hunt and gather plants there all the time. Primitive means that you move around a lot and you follow where the animals go. These differences in how these two societies lived led to ethnocentrism because one society thought the way that they did things was better. The civilized society probably thought there society was

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    novel Wuthering Heights in 1847 and just one year later died of tuberculosis. Wuthering Heights is considered a classic of English literature. It tells the story of two people‚ Catherine and Heathcliff‚ who love each other and it shows how money and power come between this love making it almost impossible to triumph over. I am going to focus my work on the different main characters in the novel‚ the setting‚ themes‚ nature vs. culture‚ comparison between the two houses (Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross

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    Savage

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    Dortione Brown Write for college October 11‚ 2012 The effect of a longer school day The effect of a longer school day can be painful for students but for teachers as well. Extending the school means more teaching and learning to be involved. According to the dropout rate article “Extending the school would continue to raise the dropout out rate throughout Chicago because kids wouldn’t want to go to school for longer hours”

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