These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... The scar symbolizes how human nature can destroy paradise by simply entering it. ... Lastly, Simon is interconnected with nature and respects all life. Simon is quiet and returns to nature to be with the natural world, which is a comparison to people of the Pagan religion. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. ...

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His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). ... Because of Golding's loss of faith in mankind, the boys experience the harsh realities of the human condition. ... Joseph Conrad's experiences with the dark side of human nature also heavily influence his work. ... Apparently he had a negative experience as he characterizes nature as a force acting against Marlow. ... The realization that the scenario presented is not so farfetched helps amplify the dark nature of the story. ...

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1. In "Homo Loquens"," Marshall Poe describes his theories on speech communication. Within his ideas, he points out disadvantages in speech, and how society tends to interpret it. One disadvantage that Poe pointed out was the idea of privacy, and how with speech, nothing can ever be private. "You ha...

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Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Ho...

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The artworks included in this exhibition portray various artists' beliefs on human identity and what makes up their own personal and cultural identity, with human mutation being the key symbol and theme within the artworks. Four artists that have included the themes of human frailty and mutation in their artworks are Peter Booth, Ryoko Suzuki, Gordon Bennett and Francis Bacon. ... Booth mainly focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment and humanity's capacity to create and destroy the earth. ... In Booth's works, mutant-like human figures inhabit the landsca...

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The neglect of these signs can, in most cases, be attributed to some sort of human error in dealing with those signs. Although human error played a large part in the reason that those in power did not take further advantage of those signs, it was not the only reason. ...

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Any attempt to analyze the transition from a Cold War system of international relations to a post Cold War one, will incorporate an analysis of the general nature of the system itself, in this case the system of international relations in Asia; of the actors involved and their respective roles; how changes in the political environment and in specific policies of the actors shape the evolution of a new system; and finally the nature of the new system with its own actors, their new roles, and new concerns. ... The interactions within the strategic quadrangle itself, have been generally of a bi...

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Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 release, Apocalypse Now, is another Vietnam War film that follows the ahistorcial nature. ... As you went further up the river, you went deeper into the origins of human nature." By trying to represent universal truths about the human condition, Coppola removes the history from the radically different and original problems the Vietnam War caused and misses the specificity of the moment. Also, he represents the human condition with racist stereotypes, as the Vietnamese symbolize the primitive origins of the species and the Americans symbolize the more civilized...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. At the close of World War II, the Allied Powers (The United States of America, England, France, and The Soviet Union) were faced with the dilemma of how to deal with the vanquished Axis military and political regime which had committed horrific crimes in its pursuit of world dominance. The United States, taking the dominant role, set forth in the Moscow Declaration of 1943 methods to deal with the punishment of Germany. Thus the N...

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The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" ... The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single power. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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New ideas were brought to the fore by scientists and expounded upon by philosophers to forge innovative and rather radical notions concerning Man and his place in nature and among his fellows. ... His theories proposed that human society progressed as a result of competition, and that it was ethically incumbent upon the strong members of society to avoid helping their weaker counterparts, lest the society, in its entirety, should suffer. ... The ideas first presented by Darwin and later extrapolated to include human society and ethics by Spencer, took a distinctly anti-religious tone in the w...

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The rivalry for global dominance immediately became, perhaps, the single most important factor determining the American, as well as, the global human experience and would remain so for the next fifty years. ... Sexual practices were rarely discussed outside the bedroom and sexuality itself was viewed as either unimportant, immoral, or of too sensitive a nature to become part of public discourse. ... Perhaps, even more revealing is the court's reference to sex as "a great and mysterious motive force in human life, it is one of the vital problem...

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Introduction As the world modernizes, the relationship between nations becomes increasingly important. Globalization has taken over, allowing countries to lower transactions costs across areas of economic trade and social interactions. This has prompted international governments to create trade, soc...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible"...

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It plunged society in an age of anxiety and uncertainty in almost every area of human life. ... The new weapons and new methods of warfare that were developed during World War I dramatically affected the nature of the conflict. ...

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Gorbachev introduced his new policies at the United Nations in December of 1988: . . . . human interests take precedence over the interests of any particular class; the world is becoming increasingly interdependent; there can be no victors in a nuclear war; security has to based on increasingly on political rather than military instruments; and security must be mutual, especially in the context of U.S....

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In giving a "thorough description of the production and the lethality of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons one would have knowledge and understanding of chemistry, biology, human physiology, nuclear physics, metallurgy, and meteorology, not to mention mechanical, material , genetic, electrical, and chemical engineering" . ... Anthrax is a bacteria that usually affect cattle and sheep, but if it gets into the right atmosphere and germinates all it needs is amino acids and some other elements that is found in human and animal blood. ... With this definition in mind, there are a wide v...

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Within Italy, an incredibly high amount of human casualties had happened within the war that had emotionally and politically scarred the people. ... When the government seems weak and unwilling to help any human will turn to his or her human instincts, and human instinct is to follow the trail of logic to getting help wherever you can. ...

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This brief swell of dissent only shows how egregiously people still misunderstood the nature of Stalin's rule. ... In an amazing scene that was broadcast around the world--and which played a large role in exposing the true nature of the Soviet regime--every one of the accused Bolsheviks confessed their supposed crimes. ...

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But as the number of refugees and the nature of conflicts that triggers mass refugee movements continued to change in manner and in intensity, the challenges faced by the High Commissioner correspondingly became compounded. ... Eastern Europe and the Balkans witnessed an unprecedented change in the nature and scale of international armed conflicts, in the unprecedented collapse of its established blocs and multi-ethnic empires in a manner that reflected in and influenced by the continued change and advances in technological and scientific innovations. ...

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The period following WWII was a period of tension characterized by conflict at diplomatic, economic and all levels short of actual armed conflict between the principals on either side. The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and...

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Suspicious of their attitude, "Teddy" associates his experience during the liberation of Dachau death camp – psychiatric experiments on living humans – and believes the same thing is also conducted on this island. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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