Analysis Of We Are The Ants By Shaun David Hutchinson

“The creation of a structure of good and evil…[is] a function of intelligence-unquestionably the ultimate evil may [be] the destruction of conscious intelligence.”(8) In the psychoanalytical story ‘The Large Ant’, by Howard Fast, a multitude of facets portray how fear morphed history throughout time. ‘The Large Ant’ locates itself some years after the Second World war, atom bombs having been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With a communist regime on the rise, ‘The Large Ant’ parallels Cold War hostilities and breaks apart the intentions of a humanity through the use of theories, including classical conditioning, defence mechanisms, and group influences.

In chapter 9 of the book Black Ants and Buddhists it talks about the different situations that families and teachers may encounter inside and outside a classroom setting. One of the situations that it talks about in this chapter is about different types of families and their origins. Talking to students about their families it might be challenging because as a future teacher we might not know what is their situation or who is taking care of them. For instance, last year when I worked in a school I told a student that his mom and dad would be so proud to see that he had made a 100 in the test. I noticed that he was upset when I told him that, he later on told me that he lives with his grandma, I felt bad for the entire day because I didn’t

As the year progresses, Conrad becomes interested in this girl name Jeannine Pratt, who just move to Lake Forest. They go on dates and spend a lot of time together. That spring his parents decided to go on a get away vacation just for two of them, since Beth believes Calvin worries too much about and needs some time to relax. So Conrad goes stay at his grandparents house. One day, He saw in the newspaper that his friend Karen has committed suicide and past away. He was very shock about this. The only thing that was on his mind was about his suicide attempt, his time with Karen, and his decent brother. Immediately, that night he called Berger and ask to meet up with him immediately. Conrad finally comes to realize that he has been living in Buck’s shoes. Like Berger said, he needs to live for himself and for others, and needs to open up for a change. From then on, he began to let his inner self heal and enjoy his relationship with Karen. Soon after, his mom move to Europe when they returned from the trip. Conrad and his dad move to Evanston and started a new life. Conrad starts to open up to Calvin more, instead of blocking him out of this

As Alan McCluskey, following Aldrich, argues, “usually only white and wealthy—and Anglo-Saxon Protestant—males were permitted to enter positions of influence and contribute to American high culture” (9). But while WASPish principles would maintain some hold on New England for another half-century, as we saw with Prescott, prestigious institutions began to extend class privileges to those—like Coleman Silk—who did not necessarily fit the WASP designation physically, but were sympathetic to the WASP habitus. As McCluskey continues, “Roth’s philosophical orientation to the nature of human identity holds that [identity] is an ineluctably synthetic process that is unstable, contingent, and ultimately outside the parameters of rigid definition” (8). We see as much when, about the time of Prescott’s retirement and death, a young Silk makes the decision to discard his black heritage and live his life as a white man. While relatively light-skinned, however, Silk knows from personal experience in a Norfolk brothel (“You’re a black nigger, ain’t you, boy?”) that he will never ‘pass’ for ‘pure’ white, and instead adopts a Jewish identity (114). In the slowly expanding definition of who ‘belongs,’ Silk decides to negate the race difference that would exclude him by adopting a religious identity that, while still marginalised, had increasing access to the upper echelons of New England collegial culture. As Zuckerman explains, he presents himself as a “small-nosed Jewish type with the

Marty and Henry have a relationship close to that of Henry and his own father. They do not talk much, and they have never been close. Ethel, Henry 's wife was the glue that stuck the two men together. In essence, both men were bound to their fathers through their mothers. Marty is Henry 's only son, and he himself had been an only child. After Ethel passed away, Marty came around more, and their relationship started to grow. Eventually Marty introduces Henry to Samantha, his girlfriend, and Henry seems to open up to an even further extent. He is very accepting of the fact that Sam is Caucasian, and not Chinese. Marty is surprised at this fact, and thus begins the unveiling of Henry’s past. Marty ultimately realizes that Henry is not his grandfather, and they take the first step into a stronger bond. Following the trips to the Panama Hotel, the two are more connected than they ever had been. Marty encourages his father to find Keiko again, and not to completely give up on his first love. Henry’s relationship with Marty helped him learn acceptance in a way that he will love Marty no matter the circumstances. He will sacrifice to no ends to make sure Marty is able to attend college, and that he is happy. Another key lesson that Henry learned is to follow his dreams, and that it is never too late to chase them. Marty and Samantha both encouraged Henry

“Each ant is a strange and alien force but, when they cooperate they become a world superpower” is not what most would say when describing something as small as an ant, but a phrase as bold as this captures an audience. Ants: Nature's Secret Power is a 2004 Animal Planet documentary, directed and written by Wolfgang Thaler, on the extraordinary life of ants. Throughout the film we follow a colony of Grass Cutter Ants in both their natural habitat and a laboratory setting, created by experts, each demonstrating the complex society these small insects can create when they work as a single unit. With this level of organization and social skills, the colony is one of the few communities that is as sophisticated as the civilization humans have created on this planet. The purpose intended by the Creators of Ants: Nature’s Secret Power to educate and entertain viewers, I believe, was successfully achieved. The documentary combines credibility, presentation, and support to create an enjoyable environment that promotes viewers to learn and retain new content.

Establishing nonhierarchical roles within a system is often debated as an efficient method for internal innovation and stability. In Steve Johnson’s essay “Myth of the Ant Queen,” Johnson describes a phenomena known as emergent behavior, “large patterns of uncoordinated local actions” which is prevalent in systems with nonhierarchial roles (199). The concept of emergent behavior is a useful, however inaccurate, means of categorizing a system’s structure; a self-organizing system must have some origin or initial degree of coordination or organization in order to properly function. Furthermore, Cathy Davidson’s essay “Project Classroom Makeover,” challenges the current educational paradigm with an administrative and societal call-to-action through the iPod experiment.

Within any community, it is safe to say that the goal of maintaining a society that prospers on for many years is common. Establishing order is key to developing a prosperous society. Order, whether it be defined as assigning roles in society, or establishing a set of rules to maintain control, can be done through various approaches. The pondering question however lies in what is the best approach to establish order. This common question has been prominent throughout time, and has been debated in government and society. The debate in how society should establish order regularly results in contrasting opinions. In the essay "The Myth of the Ant Queen," by Steven Johnson, and in the excerpt “The Code of Hammurabi” from Society and Law in Ancient Babylonia, two distinct approaches to establishing order in society are discussed. I believe that through strict reinforcements, order in society can be established. In the essay “Man’s Nature is Evil” by Hsun Tzu, the human nature in society helps explain why strict reinforcements is the most efficient way to establish order. In Steven Johnson’s essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he describes an interesting way in how the establishment of order arises. He argues that society can build itself up and maintain order without the need of a ruler or a set of laws. Through the observation of ants and how they behave in their environment, he explains how ants are able to establish an intricate yet simple

Martha Stout, within “When I Woke Up Tuesday, it was Friday”, elaborates on the idea of dissociation and its implications on levels of consciousness. Meanwhile, in “The Myth of the Ant Queen”, Steven Johnson explains the concept of self-organizing systems which describes how systems form to have patterns of order. These self-organized systems are formed unconsciously and are able to be seen within everyday life. Dissociation and its effects are both conscious and unconscious. Both dissociating brains and self-organizing systems have specific patterns when in specific circumstances, implying brains are self-organizing as well as giving increased insight into the psychology and workings of the human brain.

In the world of the “Electric Ant” by Phillip K. Dick, electric ants, or organic robots, appear to be commonplace in society as the hospital get few of them every week. The most human AI that I have seen this semester is Garson Poole. Mr. Poole is designs to be human manager of his creator’s company so he will possess the greatest human characteristics out of the other AI characters I have talk about before and after him despite being an electric ant. Beside Mr. Poole’s ability to control his reality with micro tape in his chest cavity and requiring an engineer to fix him if he is damaged, he appears to be no different any other human. No one in the story seems to notice he is not human before he found out he is electric ant. Mr. Poole has

In the Prologue of Black Ants and Buddhist, the teacher is always engaging her students with real-world situations and meaningful conversations where the students all seem to be comfortable voicing their own opinion. With the discussion led in her classroom children could hear from other perspectives, which I believe will make the students more empathic and understanding to others beliefs and opinions. With the ant situation the children were able to come to an agreement and also a way to prevent ants from invading the classroom again. I loved how this situation was handled and how the children led most of the conversation with such maturity! I hope one day I will be able to manage my classroom with such

                Ahh! Velvet ant! Now this is how I became so afraid of velvet ants.To begin with, one day I was in the sonoran desert and I came across and ornges-reddish pretty big crawling insect so i decided i wanted to look at it even more and I realized its one of the biggest insects i've seen.This velvet ant also has a really tough exoskeleton so if you try to smush it the insect will roll over and sting you with the enormous stinger.These insects can grow to  be 3/4 inches in size the red velevt ant is the biggest of thier kind.

Junior, being the only Indian in an all-white school, learns to open up and make friends. At Halloween time, Junior decides to help out his crush, Penelope, fundraise for the homeless. Junior has to open up about getting jumped on Halloween and losing all of his earnings. By explaining to Penelope what had happened, Junior becomes better friends with her in a way. Later on, Junior admits to his friends, Roger and Penelope, that he is poor. They accept him, and they help each other and discover new

The wings start to breakout so they start to make a garden of ants. They make a hole and start to lay several eggs out. Soon again they start to lay thousands of eggs every year. Then they die at the age of 28yrs old.

Gene believes that everyone is out to get him including his best friend. Gene is one of the top students in his class but by the drop in his grade says otherwise. When Gene starts failing his tests, Finny forces Gene to go to