Fire On The Mountain Chapter 2 Summary

1.) The topic of globalization is a very broad one. Globalization itself can take on many forms as well as definitions. To begin, globalization has roots within civilization. From a historical perspective, globalization consisted of market-trading and expansion of different crafts and specialties. For example, someone who specialized in textiles and fabric of clothing would possibly trade with someone who cultivated agricultural goods. Through this process, development of a cultural aspect had grown. People were communicating more and exchanging goods or items from all over the world. This diminished the language barrier due to interface that was essential for trade. People were learning new languages and integrating themselves into

Throughout the 16th century, as there was a demographic collapse of the indigenous population, there was now a new demand for slave labor in Latin America. In Brazil, the Portuguese needed a large workforce to cultivate sugar plantations. As a result, numerous slaves from Africa were imported to work on large plantation fields. In various plantations, rural slaves experienced harsh working and living conditions. Few slaves had a high life expectancy. Robert Edgar Conrad in “Children of God’s Fire,” shares some primary sources that dealt with the types of environments and conditions many slaves faced and encountered in Brazil. The sources also gave insight into the regulations and economics/business of the slave trade. Conrad states that rural Brazil was “a hell for blacks” (Conrad 54). Many slaves dealt with extremely harsh conditions just to keep the European market in Latin American growing and profitable. This paper will analyze how rural slaves lived and worked on Brazilian sugar plantations.

“Words of Fire,” by Anthony Collings, details the lives of different journalists in regards to free press and covering potentially dangerous stories. Anthony Collings is a former CNN reporter who shifted his focus from reporting to telling the story of journalists who have come under fire in a power struggle between government and free press. Collings puts free press into a spectrum, on one side there is the United States, where the press is largely free, and on the other side there are places like North Korea or China where press is largely restricted by the government. Collings does not focus on these extremes, but rather the places in the middle where there is an ongoing struggle between state power.

This respect and obedience that the conch had earned Ralph was helpful in creating a neat civilization. The conch was also used to create peace and show power. In chapter two, Ralph had said “I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking” (Golding 33). This quote is talking about how the conch is showing power and giving authority to the person that is holding the conch.

For a few days the boys run wild over the island. Ralph steps up and tries to set up things to try and bring civilization back into the group. “If we have a signal going, they’ll come and take us off. And another thing we thought to have more rules. Where the conch is, that’s where we're meeting. The same up here as down here”(Golding 42). Ralph know that there a lot of chaos going on right now and he needs to make rules faster before it gets out of hand. One of the first one’s was the conch. Ralph made this item important to the whole group, giving it significant value. Where the conch is at, that’s where the meeting will be held because he will blow the shell really loud so everyone can hear it. To add on to this idea, I have another quote that is similar to the lasts idea about the conch. “Whoever holds the conch gets to speak”(Golding ). This shows that Ralph wants others to have their opinion too, but not all at the same time screaming at each other. This alouds everyone to have it say because if you have the conch everyone must listen and wait to say everything until they get the conch. Ralph is trying his best to try and get the boy’s civilized again by setting up rules that everyone must

Ilan Stavans says that Juan Rulfo’s book, The Plain in Flames, is best represented by the phrase realismo crudo. Stavans defines this phrase as “a type of realism interested in the rawness of life”, meaning that he characterizes Rulfo’s writing as an unfiltered view into the lives of the average Mexican (Stavans, xi). By writing in this style, Rulfo is able to provide “an image—instead of just a description—of our landscape” as stated by Octavio Paz (xv). To create this image, Rulfo broke his story writing the process down into three separate steps. As paraphrased by Ilan Stavans, the first step “is to create a character”, the second step “is to place him in an environment where he might move around” and the third step “is to discover how the character expresses himself” (xiii). Rulfo was able to repeatedly crafted stories that were filled with high levels of realismo crudo by using that special three-step process. By creating his protagonist, crafting an environment for said protagonist, and allowing the character to express themselves within this environment, Rulfo crafted a three-tier image of post-revolutionary life in Mexico that has never been seen before.

One of these rules is that when they are in a group if someone wants to talk they “give the conch to the next person to speak”(Golding 33). The conch is a big white shell that was found when Ralph and Piggy first got onto the island, which is also blown loudly to organize the boys to a meeting. The use of the shell symbolizes order and civility because it is an object that is used to silence the boys and let people speak without everyone talking at once. However, as time passes on the island the power of the conch slowly deteriorates to the point where people don’t care about its meaning and constantly talk out of turn. This happens time and time again, until Piggy, holding the conch, gets hit by a boulder which causes “the conch [to explode] into a thousand white fragments and [cease] to exist”(181).

It started off as a good rule but eventually boys started talking over one another, therefore defeating the purpose of the conch. They had a plan to keep water in coconuts, keep a signal fire going, and use a specific part of the beach for going to the bathroom. But all of these plans failed, making the boys more like savages. Ralph also used the conch to call the boys for a meeting by blowing into the shell. By having these meetings the boys could talk problems out and solve them like civilized people.

When the conch was present, the boys behaved at their best behavior due to the conch’s sound. The sound was so powerful that it sounded like a horn, as if the conch was giving orders, not the boys themselves. However, Jack starts to question the purpose of the conch itself. They start to question on democracy because they believed that they shouldn’t follow the rules anymore since there are no 'authority - like figures anymore. They believe that they deserve freedom to act however they want.

This rule is intelligent and it is perfect for making the counts of fights and talking overs less as much as possible. The other intelligent way of the use of conch is, Ralph and Piggy blew the conch to make themselves heard “Ralph grasped the idea and hit the shell with air from his diaphragm. Immediately the thing sounded” (Goulding 12) the possibility to find anyone nearby increased thousand times in seconds and luckily they found Jack and his group. This meeting occasion is great for both of the groups, it makes the chance of survival increase. Piggy and Ralph was intelligent to use the conch and to find a group to live with and also it was in the beginning of the book.

In the story, Ralph orders that the conch only be used to allow a boy the right to speak during a meeting. “I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking”(Golding 33). Ralph fears and respects the power and purpose of the conch very highly and uses it to conduct and influence an organized and structured civilization.

A Gift of Fire by Sara Baase introduces the evident problems due to changes over time; in this case, the introduction and standardization of cheap yet powerful technology. Chapter 4 shows the benefits and consequences of evolving technology and its effect on copyright issues. Touching on the history of property laws and what’s considered ethical, chapter 4.1 gives insight into factors that content creators, distributors, and buyers alike should all understand. Beginning with the protection of physical content (maps, books, and charts) in the late 18th century to the addition to digital content protection (movies, music, software, interfaces); definitions regarding property has drastically changed in effort to adapt to the efficiency of authoring

When the group of boys first arrived at what they believed was a desolate island the conch shell was one of the first things they discovered. Not only used as a form of unification, the conch shell became a tool used to keep order. It placed a system, similar to democracy, in effect for the boys. The conch shells’ sole purpose was to mimic the role of a microphone: in the sense that at group meetings the conch was to be held by each speaker. This system allowed everyone an equal chance to speak their thoughts while remaining uninterrupted.

The Hundred Foot Journey is a movie with lots of food, drama, and adventure this movie is about a family who love to cook and got kicked out of their own country. They try to settle and find a new and better life. They wanted to start a restaurant but it was not easy because of local who owns a restaurant right in front of the kadam families restaurant. Fire occurred twice in the movie and it occurred for the same reasons. The first fire occurred because of political change that happened in India.

At the daily assemblies Ralph uses the conch to enforce his leadership on to the other boys. He begins to enforce new rules to keep the boys safe and that help get them off of the island, as well as rules to maintain peace and order on the island. At one of the meetings, Ralph states a new rule that is, the one who holds the conch is the only one that is allowed to speak. “I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak.” (Golding 33) said Jack in agreeance with