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    starts a rebellion. Now the trouble begins. This is story line of a book of the name of The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. These rules and laws create comfort, according to Golding. These rules can be compromised by fear. In the case of the The Lord of the Flies, the children fear a creature called beastie. This fear can cause chaos and make people doing things they don’t normally do. The fear brings out the worst in people and it starts with beastie and leads to a the rebellion of jack

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    Discoveries that are confronting can provoke us to change, due to the realisations and findings we may encounter. These mind-altering discoveries can transform our values, actions and future pathways. Both William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy ‘tempest’ exploring the connotations of, hierarchy, power, love and reconciliation, coinciding with Lenny Abrahamson’s’ adaptation of the true story ‘Room’ whereby an exploited teen and her son jack, plot the escape from their captor’s imprisonment, while learning

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    QUESTION 9 Natural resource and its effect on economic growth and dynamics of conflicts. 1.0 Introduction Natural resources are raw materials extracted from the earth. They are useful in many different ways for its diversified opportunity of benefit and profit for economic development. Examples of natural resources are mineral, oil, waterways, land, timber, diamonds, coals, coltan and genetic. Majority of developing countries, distributions of natural resources vary from

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    A Long Way Gone and The Bite of the Mango are two stories written about the same war - and its effects - from the two different perspectives of a young boy, Ishmael and a young girl, Mariatu. Although both novels have their differences, when compared, they come together to create a wider understanding of how the civil war in Sierra Leone affected all kinds of people in ways both comparable and dissimilar. In both The Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone, main characters Mariatu and Ishmael are forced

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    In Lord of the Flies, a group of teenage boys is faced with the tremendous obstacle of being stranded on an island after their plane had unfortunately crashed. To make matters worse, the eldest of the group is only twelve years old. They are now faced with the task of establishing roles for everyone to ensure that their time on the island went a smooth as possible, and that they were rescued as soon as possible. By establishing roles amongst the group, not everyone was able to be assigned their desired

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    children and adults. When the Baby Boom started in 1946, producing more babies, a new era of music, attitudes, practices, and dance began to appeal to kids that did not feel socially accepted by adults in society. This was the start of the teenage rebellion. With increased teenager presence came more disapproval because of rebellious behaviour. Teenagers were pitted against media, parents, and local authority. Teenagers started disobeying parents, getting expelled from school, and fighting back against

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    Organizing Insurgency by Paul Staniland, introduces the question, “Do resources like diamonds, drugs, and state sponsors turn insurgent groups into thuggish people or do they help build a more disciplined organization?” The reason this question is asked is because in some cases it suggests that “resource wealth encourages the degeneration of armed groups into greed and criminality” and other evidence shows that “external sponsorship and criminal activity can help leaders build organizations in the

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    face this tyranny as well. This relentless dictatorship causes men to live in fear for their own lives. Men struggle to abide by these strict and inhumane rulings. In most scenarios, man recognizes that there is no easy way out. Consequentially, a rebellion remains to be the only option. Since before Christ, men

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    first start off by playing music asking for money, no one seems interested in giving them money. As day turns into night Genaro goes into a type of bar to get fire arms, at first this is confusing but as the story progresses we understand that a rebellion against soldiers that are raiding towns and kicking citizens out of the town. Plutarco decides to try to get an inside scoop on what the soldiers are planning by going back to the town where his

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    Hildy Alternate Ending

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    the city. right before I went on stage to command my troops, Hildy admitted to me “6,789, it’s hard being a general.” I replied with “ You should try being Commander in Chief.” and I strided onto the stage before my 2 Million men. “ People of the Rebellion, Hitler, has defeated all of the European, and Asian allies in the second Great War. But we are not a European or Asian All. We are the Reich Rebels. Now we can either lay down our weapons, and our hearts, and submit to the awful tyranny of Hitler

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