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    ability to point out it out. He wanted us to see clearly that Rainsford had taken Zaroff’s position. The more we learn about Zaroff, the more we learn that he doesn’t think he’s doing anything wrong. At one point, he describes himself by saying “I’m a hunter, not a murderer.” Additionally, when Zaroff is ready to begin the game he is quite calm and full of confidence. He had no idea that Rainsford would be able to fight back and win the game. This personality given to Zaroff was crucial and made the plot

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    Christopher Columbus, an experienced seafarer, left landmark achievements in various destinations he set foot in. He made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain and he mistakenly thought there was a quicker route to Asia. It turned out he landed on two unknown continents (Jane, pg.6). In the event of making journeys, he accidentally came across to natives where he taught the spirit of exploration injecting a great deal in America's global economy. The journey started at the beginning of

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    land onto a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Two boys Ralph and Piggy find a conch Ralph Wilson to The Conch rallying all these surviving boys. The boys decide they want Ralph to be the leader because he looks most suitable for leader. This makes one of the older boys Jack jealous, Ralph wants to keep a good relationship with Jack. So he tells Jack that he can be in charge of the choir boys and that they can be the hunters. Ralph giving Jack a leadership role fulfills his urge for

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    Even if Rainsford had managed to get far enough from Zaroff to develop a plan to escape the island the sea roaring “twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed”(Connell 36) so swimming was excluded from the plan. The island was surrounded by the ocean and he had no way to get off the island, other than a boat. Rainsford was only the prey in a really big game of “survival of the fittest.” Rainsford felt as if “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place

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    Fear In Lord Of The Flies

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    and his hunters plan to kill the beast. “When we kill we’ll leave some of the kill for it. Then it won’t bother us, maybe” (133). The fact that he says “maybe” suggests that the beast will never stop bothering them, after seeing what the beast is doing to these poor boys. Nevertheless, the beast does not care. It’s like a jack-in-the-box; you do not know when it is going to pop up, but when it does, it scares the living heck out of you. Speaking of the offering that Jack and his hunters plan to leave

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    dead underground way deep a place just like here except that on earth we starve and down there they live in plenty. Another place, the land of the miserable right under the surface of the earth we walk on. There goes all the lazy men who were lazy hunters and all women who refused to be tattooed .The encyclopedia international volume 6 explains on the same that a mans soul was believed to linger about the grave for four days and a womans’ for five during which period the family did not work and made

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    Forecasting Hurricanes Forecasting hurricanes has two components to it: where the hurricane is going (track) and how strong it is going to be (intensity). Hurricane forecasting has improved over time, “In 1992, hurricane forecasts were issued to only three days, but now they are issued to five—and soon they will be given for up to a week” (Main). Predicting hurricanes is extremely difficult, but the development of faster computers and better satellite data has decreased the error percentage of forecasting

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    about a side, as seen in the mental realm where he travels haphazardly through the desert. Later in the film, child Jack, played by Hunter McCracken, appears in the desert of his subconscious to guide the adult Jack to his brother. He has reconciled with himself and his youth and finds the path to forgiveness and grace, where a young RL awaits on the shore of the ocean of eternity. With his revelation, adult Jack falls to his knees, overcome with emotion. Water is used extensively throughout this film

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    At the start of the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys nominated a leader and teams who would perform certain task throughout the day. Groups such as hunting and making houses were created; however the most important team consisted of the boys who would start the fire and keep the fire going. In reality the primary use of fire is to provide warmth, but along with providing warmth, fire in the novel is used for survival, awareness, and destruction. The key to the young boys being

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    Survival - Pi`s struggle to keep himself and Richard Parker alive in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pi not only as to find water and food for both of them, but he also has to protect himself from Richard Parker by imposing his rights and carve out a territory for himself. To live, Pi has to survive the elements that cause him pain and suffering

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