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Evilness In Lord Of The Flies

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Throughout the course of history, humans have shown that they will trend towards evilness, instead of doing the right thing; evilness has been shown through events like slavery, the terrorist act of 9/11, and further explored through literature, such as in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
One Historical event that truly shows evil is the history of slavery.Throughout slavery there was a lot of slave masters mistreating slaves and one powerful quote from a former slave stated.“I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers,the boldest of frauds,and the grosset of all libels' ' (Fredrick Douglass). Seeing this from a former slave who taught himself how to write since the slave owners weren't gonna teach him shows a lot about slave masters …show more content…

The slave owners demonstrated pure evil by taking away the slaves from their family and making them suffer by selling them to different countries or different states. The thing i just explained is called the Alantic slave trade. The Alantic slave trade was the selling of African slaves by Europens in and around the Alantic ocean,it lasted from the 15th century to the 19th century so when they got sold they was mostly getting ship from West Africa and brought over to the New World on a slave ship. Inside the slave ship each person occupied a tiny space in the hold, they were also chained up so they couldn’t have any free movements to stretch or to move their body, many people jumped off the boat to escape from that even though they couldn’t swim, they also starved theirself so they wouldn’t have to go through that evilness no more. In conclusion, the benefits of being a slave …show more content…

Many people had different opinions on what really happened, but one person who really had something to say was our President Joe Biden, a quote that he stated was “The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American Society”( President Joe Biden). The terrorist attack made a very big impact in the United States. There were a lot of people that lost their loved ones. Seeing their family lose their lives on TV was very devastating because while the attack was happening it was also live on TV for people to see what was going on all over the world . The cause of 9/11 was the American support in Israel. American people were doing a lot of shady stuff to Iraq and they responded the wrong way. 9/11 was planned after the World Trade Center bombing on February

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government was to blame. Even though the Muslims were assumed to have orchestrated the terrorist attack, the American people knew that the Bush administration wanted to go to war in the Middle East, which led to the assumption that the government and Bush himself had something to do with the tragic event (Norman). Society felt that in order to feel safe, someone or something else needed to take responsibility for the catastrophe. Many people blamed the American government for the attacks because it was “…a way of reacting to uncertainty and powerlessness (Koerth-Baker). Feeling helpless, the American people questioned the true events of the September 11 attacks.

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On September 11, 2001, two terrorist planes flew into the twin towers and another into the Pentagon. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 attacks, which led to U.S. initiatives to fight terrorism and defined the presidency of George W. Bush History.com History.com Editors, “September 11 Attacks: Facts, Background & Impact,” History.com (A&E Television Networks, 2010). The terrorists were motivated by Al Qaeda, whose leader Osama bin Laden was sheltered in Afghanistan and associated with some of the leaders of the Taliban government, Lara Keay, “9/11 Anniversary: Who Were the September 11th Attackers and What Are the Links with the New Taliban Regime? ,” Sky News, 2021.

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What Happened 2. Conspiracy Theories II. What Happened A. According to the Washington Post 9/11 was a terrorist attack on the US, which the 9/11 commission concluded al-Qaeda, a global militant Islamist organization formed in the late 80s, was responsible. Nineteen terrorists, split into four groups each containing a trained pilot, embarked on a suicide mission to hijack one commercial jet and fly and crash them into US landmarks.

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In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass reveals several inhumane practices of slavery. He gives great description of the many horrors and evils of this practice along with the damaging effects slavery had on both slaves and slaveholders. During this period, ignorance was the most beneficial tool used to keep slaves ignorant and out of touch with reality. Along with robbing slaves of their identity and keeping them in the dark about basic facts about themselves, slaveholders also used false religion to justify treatment of the slaves. Lastly, Douglass describes the injustice and inhumane suffering and beatings amongst the slaves by white men without them ever having consequences.

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In the fifth century BC, Gautama Buddha quoted that, “It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” Two and a half thousand years later, humanity still is still faced with its own evil. Buddha was correct in his monitions for mankind because he knew that evil is always set in motion by human nature. In the novels, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Night by Elie Wiesel, authors reveal humanity’s true evils through literary devices such as characterization, psychology, and setting, to connect to the darkness that is present in the real world.

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The country was not unfamiliar with terrorist attacks before this date though. On February 26th, 1993 Ramzi Yousef placed a moving truck with 1,500 pounds of explosives in a parking garage under the World Trade Center. (“The September 11th”). The explosion injured 1,024 civilians and was a predecessor for the attack that would come only eight years later. (“The September 11th”)

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The events that occurred on September, 11, 2001 were among the most catastrophic events in American history. The events of the day were summarized as 19 militants associated with the terror group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out targeted attacks in the United States. Out of the four planes, two of them were flown into the World Trade Center in New York, a third one into the Pentagon in Washington and the fourth one crashing off course into a field. The attacks resulted in the deaths of over 3000 people and the beginning of a soon to come American counter terrorism policy and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Although there are a lot of conspiracy theories around the real motives and players behind the attack,

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Our country was hit with enormous deviation. The act of 9/11 have changed the way how American live today and forever. Four commercial airplanes were stolen by terrorists.

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Through deep characterization, emotional appeal, and religion, Frederick Douglass shows the readers what negative effects slavery has on the slaveholders themselves. Douglass successfully shows that slavery makes the slaveholder bitter and brings ultimate sadness into their lives. In addressing the harmful effects of slavery on the slaveholders, he makes one reconsider their moral righteousness and better comprehend the difference between humanity and atrocity. Though there are many other ways that slavery could have been harmful to the slaveholder, Frederick Douglass has shown that these ways given were true and has proven that they were indeed negative effects on the

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The shock and disbelief of 9/11 revealed that America felt that something like this could not possibly happen to us. It showed that the security of our country had been compromised

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but when you look and see how bad it was and see yourself getting treated like that every day of your life just getting beaten upon and disrespected as if you were not even a human being or not even a person it ruined them. Mentally they couldn't control their emotions and it was just a horrible thing for them to go through. Some slaves might have even taken their own lifes for the matter of the fact all because the conditions of work were too hard and the masters mistreating the slaves. The psychological effect of beating them upon force created a mental block for them saying they'll never be good enough or they'll never be nothing. Then you have slaves like Douglas who are crazy brave and will stand up to any man behind a weapon or not he took beating upon beating from his

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Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a popular novel that explores the darker aspects of human nature. The novel follows a group of young boys who must learn to survive on their own after being stranded on a deserted island. Throughout the novel, the boys struggle to maintain order and eventually become “savages”, starting by only killing animals for sport, but escalating into killing one another. Golding illustrates the theme of man’s inherent evil in his novel by illustrating the actions and events surrounding Simon, Piggy, and Ralph. One of the major conflicts in the novel is the possible existence of a “beast”, which causes the boys to turn on one another in fear.

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How did slavery continue to exist despite its inhumane practices? The method of dehumanization demoted a slave’s societal status, therefore deeming blacks inferior to their white counterparts. Furthermore, plantation owners masked inhumanity by declaring themselves Christian although opposing religious values. Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, develops the themes of dehumanization and religion that help readers understand the techniques slave owners utilized to alleviate their guilt, condone their malice toward slaves, and preserve their supremacy over colored people in Southern society.

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All of these events demonstrated that al-Qaeda could carry out terrifying attacks thousands of miles away from its base in Afghanistan. Al- qaeda’s leaders did not care about their gruesome actions. In their minds, God was on their side so they could do no wrong. Many people to this day still question our government about the 9/11 attacks and why someone did not take action before it got to this point.

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The question; “Are good and evil of importance to the universe or only to man?”, was posed by Bertrand Russell, a well known philosopher of the twentieth-century, in his book The Problems of Philosophy in an attempt to demonstrate a philosophical question that testified to the true value of philosophy. Russell begins his explanation of the value of philosophy by claiming due to its very nature philosophy cannot have any definite answers, because “...as soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science... ”(19). But, what does Russell think constitutes a definite answer and if there are no definite answers what is the real value of philosophy? Put, simply,

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