Analysis After Ralph's tense, exciting stand against the hunters, the ending of Lord of the Flies is rife with irony. ... Now, when all he can do is struggle to stay alive as long as possible, a deus ex machina (an improbable or unexpected device or character that suddenly appears to resolve a situation) appears, at the last possible moment, in the form of the naval officer who brings the boys back to the world of law, order, and society. ... Much of the novel is allegorical, meaning that the characters and objects in the novel are infused with symbolic significance that conveys the nov...

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Most human beings believe that we are sophisticated, just, and supreme of all other beings. But when we lose everything and become exposed and vulnerable, we can behave just like any cornered animal. Every person can do unmentionable things when threatened enough. Each person has a different view...

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Also, the gunman has to have the character of a legal authority which is: Stability and relative permanence – not flit in and out of existence – have longevity. ... Merits: Easy to explain- Analysis of law in non legal terms which shows how legal concepts can be analysed with more basic notions. ...

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The epistemological process gets an endless open character. ... It derives the existential character of the ecological crisis and its life threatening character not only from the so-called 'Reports of the Club of Rome' and from other theoretical and empirical investigations, but in particular from Plato's theorem of the 'plenitude' of a cosmic order. ... The third argument for the existential nature of the ecological crisis is found in Jonas' analysis of the modern dialectic between freedom and dependence, power and powerlessness, autonomy and heteronomy. ...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from...

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This character resembles the Old Testament prophet Elijah in certain ways (see Snyder 81). Cormac McCarthy Journal Fall 2010 1 Elijah predicted a drought (1 Kings 17:1); Ely says he knew that the catastrophe (or something like it) was coming ""I always believed in it " (McCarthy 168). ...

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