Education & Reference - 25 November 2006

My brother is applying to colleges and has to answer that essay about one hardship you've overcome. The problem is, our parents are insanely protective, so we've never had any hardships. No illness, no deaths, and no bad situations. I wrote my essay on training for my dance graduation, but he never had anything like that.

Any advice?

2006-11-25 07:21:39 · 5 answers · asked by retzy 4 in Higher Education (University +)

2006-11-25 07:16:37 · 12 answers · asked by stebec 1 in Trivia

am a 2nd yr student at loyola? i am intrested inm the
EMT program,i want to know how long will it take to become a paramedic, is there a diffrence between emt and a perimedic? will it look good on my resume for med-school? and is it possible to do vauntary work as an emt or is it like a job which you can do? i want to know every thing about it, and how many times you can take the emt exams, and what happens if you failit the first time, what happens to the money?do u get ur money back ?

2006-11-25 07:15:52 · 6 answers · asked by aaa 1 in Higher Education (University +)

2006-11-25 07:13:55 · 5 answers · asked by jamash5 2 in Homework Help

as in taxi-cab

2006-11-25 07:11:13 · 7 answers · asked by pongo77 1 in Words & Wordplay

i've looked all over the internet for ethnic groups and languages for the mediterranian but i can't fricking find anything. and the gaotr game sux right now! this should be a blow out game!!

2006-11-25 07:11:02 · 1 answers · asked by xcrunner579 1 in Homework Help

the 80s is the generation when technology became really popular.. for example.. this is the generation when the computer came out and when cell phones were first used.. and when computer graphics entered the arcade.. space wars, pac-man, king kong, frogger.. i was wondering.. for those who went to college in the 80s.. did the outburts of these technology effect you in any way?

2006-11-25 07:09:12 · 3 answers · asked by crztna 2 in Studying Abroad

advantages and disadvatages on pet trade

2006-11-25 07:07:39 · 4 answers · asked by marcrounds 1 in Homework Help

related tofair trade coffee market

2006-11-25 07:04:27 · 5 answers · asked by sujatha s 1 in Higher Education (University +)

I see alot of questions on here about online schools and a lot of people put them down but they have never been to one.

2006-11-25 06:59:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

2006-11-25 06:58:11 · 3 answers · asked by angel_salad 1 in Other - Education

2006-11-25 06:55:04 · 18 answers · asked by Tickerbiller 3 in Trivia

"I want to get laid can you help?". And say in any given hour 500 leaflets were handed out and I did this for 8 hours a day Monday to Friday.

What are the statistical chances of me getting laid? Also, how many partners am I likely to find according to the laws of probability?

2006-11-25 06:54:00 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trivia

Asked by my brother in law when he was 8 he is now 27 and we still can't answer it, lol.

2006-11-25 06:52:39 · 5 answers · asked by Devon 1 in Words & Wordplay

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2006-11-25 06:51:24 · 5 answers · asked by 1HTOWNGURL 1 in Homework Help

can u please write a sentence ....like one sentence with the word work...then the sentence would read I'm going to work....use each of the following words...please help..10pts

totalitarian
narration
onomatopoeia

2006-11-25 06:51:06 · 2 answers · asked by ♫poison ♥s will never change♫ 5 in Words & Wordplay

Fear is one of the most powerful emotions that control the way a human being acts in certain circumstances. It contributes to one’s instability and, ultimately, to irrationality.

William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is all about fear and its irrational consequences. It sheds light on that kind of fear that may not be of something physical at all. It is the irrational fear of fear itself, the big horrid “Beast of Fear” with claws, eyes, and teeth lurking inside us. It is the fear we prefer to ignore. In “Lord of the Flies,” it is the fear which leads to irrational acts.

In “Lord of the Flies,” the boys fear almost everything they see and hear on the island, assuming them to be beasts. As the novel progresses, their fear of the unknown beast becomes exceedingly powerful their attitudes towards it become increasingly irrational. Terror paralyzes their minds, leaving them too weak to face the truth about their fears.

The beast in the novel symbolizes fear flying around on the island. Fear is evident in all the boys, from the nightmares to the belief in the existence of a beast. From the moment the first littlun claims to have seen snake-monster in Chapter 2, even the hunters begin having nightmares of their own. In Chapter 5, Jack, addressing Ralph, says, “You said they dream and cry out. Now they talk not only the littluns, but also my hunters sometimes talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal.” (p. 83). Indeed, the boys’ fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives. The fact that all the boys on the island are younger than thirteen greatly affects the amount of fear that control them. Their cries can only reverberate within the walls of their own nightmares.

Further, a little boy named Phil dreams of weird animals, saying, “And I was frightened…and then I saw something moving among the trees, something big and horrid.” (p. 85) His mind is so obsessed with “beasties” it simply refuses to accept the reality that it is Simon he see in the dark. As a matter of fact, imagination and fear shape their illusory description of the beast which the twins, Samneric, describe, “There were eyes, teeth, claws. The beast followed us, nearly touched me.” (p. 100) [Question: Is this the way you intended to write this part? Your original posting made them appear like sub-topics.] But beast, it was not; it was a dead parachutist.

Fear of the beast totally conquers their minds, making their brains too crippled to think straight. Their imaginations are so powerful, so overpowering and wild that they fail to see the fear for what it is: the beast that impels them to crime.

Fear so control them to the point of believing and doing anything, even trying to regain peace and freedom from fear itself by killing the beast. Thus, when Simon comes stumbling out of the dark forest while the boys are doing a victory dance, everyone surrounds him, chanting, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (p. 152) Believing him to be the beast, they poke savagely at him with their spears until the “Beast” is dead. The beast is dead, indeed, and fear has just taken an innocent life.

However, not all the boys are too affected by fear. Ralph and Piggy struggle to be logical.

When the topic of fear is brought up during one of their assemblies, Ralph declares boldly, “The thing is Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island.... Serves you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!" (p. 82) Ralph, in fact, is so intent on convincing others that there is nothing to fear. In any case, fear is harmless, he believes.

Piggy takes a scientific, rational approach. “Life is scientific. … I know there isn’t no beast…but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” (Chapter 5, p. 84) Instead of being the least worried about the beast, letting fear consume him, Piggy refuses to let fear control him, calmly fighting back with knowledge and reason.

Jack, too, is unafraid; he is carefree. During one of the assemblies (Chapter 5), he says, “Well then, I’ve been all over this island. By myself. If there were beast, I’d have seen it. Be frightened because you’re like that - but there is no beast in the forest.” (p. 83) He tries telling the littleuns there is no beast, even as the littleuns are so overcome by fear they fear doing anything, anyway. But Jack remains confident and unafraid. To him, there is no beast; he fears no beast. The only thing he fears is the persistent refusal to find the truth, face it and analyze what’s causing it.

The boys, of course, seem not to realize the truth that the only beast is the one within themselves, the one they create and recreate but refuse to confront and accept. Only Simon, the calm one, has the courage to ponder, “'Maybe there is a beast.... Maybe it's only us."

And so the boys’ struggle through their worst fears. Refusing to reason and face reality, they suffer in ignorance, breeding beasts of every shape and in every delirious circumstance. And they live in the island of their minds, evolving beasts of their own creation.

And so they panic. And kill

2006-11-25 06:50:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

2006-11-25 06:50:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

2006-11-25 06:48:42 · 3 answers · asked by SUPERMAN 1 in Words & Wordplay

I got a 600 in the math part
350 in the verbal
BUT 5.5 out of 6 on the writing

why is my verbal so low but writing so high
I took it three times and I get the same sore everytime

Is this good enough to go to grad school?

2006-11-25 06:43:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

I need the seven for a project that's due in two weeks. I need to find examples of the seven principles that occur in modern day life. (newspapers, magazines, etc.)...and it can't be anything from the internet. Can anyone help?

2006-11-25 06:35:08 · 1 answers · asked by xpeterxpandaxdancerx 1 in Homework Help

2006-11-25 06:34:45 · 12 answers · asked by tretre 1 in Special Education

What is the 5th daughter's name?

2006-11-25 06:34:37 · 16 answers · asked by Zoey 5 in Words & Wordplay

And where is it from?

Thanx in advance.

2006-11-25 06:32:18 · 3 answers · asked by sharkyu_2002 1 in Quotations

2006-11-25 06:29:56 · 8 answers · asked by Koko ; 4 in Homework Help

______deals withaggregations of cells, tissues, or aggregations of tissues, organs.
A.embryology
B.gross anatomy
C.histology
D.neuroanatomy

2006-11-25 06:29:25 · 3 answers · asked by cherryvalley2006 2 in Homework Help

pythagorean Theorem a^2b^10c^6

2006-11-25 06:28:54 · 2 answers · asked by Jake B 1 in Homework Help

I'm a junior in highschool and I don't really like biology all that much even though i have an A in AP bio. i enjoy chemistry much more. So i guess my real question is can i still go into medicine if i majored in chemistry instead of biology?

2006-11-25 06:22:11 · 8 answers · asked by thatshowiroll 3 in Higher Education (University +)

by calling jasonQ.Neill

2006-11-25 06:20:11 · 10 answers · asked by jasonQ.Neill 1 in Financial Aid

more creative,substitute for the word,vision.

2006-11-25 06:16:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay