Lord of the Flies Blog

1    1.  Death is the physical killing of someone. It is obviously the most noticeable way of killing a man. One day they’re breathing and boom, next day they aren’t so they’re dead. But society has its special ways of killing a person so they’re still physically alive. Society knows just how to crush a man’s free spirit so that he is so broken inside and has no free thoughts, only what is pumped into him by the filtered media. As our President has even said, “fake news.” This leaves a person dead emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. People undergo this killing of the spirit and soon we have a nation full of mindless slaves.

      2.      Without doubt, our savage self will take over. Some may be able to resist it longer than others but eventually all will succumb to the savage self’s rule. The savage self has only one goal: survive. It will do whatever it needs to in order to take over and make the best out of what it has. It is the most primitive basis of our beings, as it develops earliest. The savage self of our beings is the epitome of the id in Freud’s philosophy. For these reasons it is important that we teach our children to be able to separate the two and try to repress the savage self as much as is humanly possible for them.

      3.      A civilization is created when a group of human beings figure it out and decide that they will have a greater chance at survival if they band together. The civilization is strengthened when they begin to rely on one another to fulfill tasks that meet one another’s needs. I believe that society is controlled by the people because at some point all of our rules and norms we follow today were created by the people. We wouldn’t have a law against stealing if someone never would have determined that action hurtful and worked our society’s beliefs to feel that way also. All rules, laws, amd norms that make up our society and culture were created by the people, for the people. Therefore I say the people control.

   

      4.      The Lord of the Flies is talking about a few things, mainly how the other boys think Simon is weird because he’s always off on his own and he speaks about how he is the Beast and the Beast is all around and in everyone. The Lord of the Flies is angry because Simon is trying to leave him and acts like he knows better than him. He is angry at Simon in particular because Simon is the only one who talks to him and the other boys are going to think he is weird, but none of the other boys act like Simon is. 

Refugees

1. 18-24 months typically.

2. 110,000 refugees.

3. Burma and Iraq.

4. 39,000 Muslim refugees.

5. California, Texas, and New York.

6. The first observation that caught my eye was that Europe had the most refugees in the 1990s, a lot more than anyone else and there are hardly any from there now. The second was that the amount of refugees from Africa has risen slowly but steadily over the years. The third is why did the amount of refugees go down so drastically in the late 1970s?

7. One, that there are so many Christians that seek refuge here. Two, that there are so many others.

8. Because we've become much more accepting of other cultures, and that we were in some sort of standoff or war or battle with the three others, but not Albanians.

9. It has shifted from Europe to Africa to Asia. Bhutan.

10. Ukranian refugees just popped up in the northwest heavy. Wyoming almost has no refugees most years. Most of the Midwestern states all have the same country that leads refugee counts. 

11. 50,000 refugees.

12. March was the lowest month in pretty much all the states.

13. 60 million.

14. 12.5 million.

15. Norway and Switzerland.

No, I believe that the US does not necessarily have an obligation to help other countries. It might be nice if we helped them but I feel like there is no obligation there. When we provide aid to those people and countries, we then feel obligated to continue helping them after helping once or twice, sucking us in and forcing us to be there helping forever.

Bacha Bazi

I read the article about the stolen boys, the abused boys years after they got away from their captors. I am absolutely appalled that it is customary and normal in Afghanistan for older men to kidnap and rape young boys and not get in trouble at all. Although it shouldn't, it still shocks me that after they escape, some boys will turn into kidnappers themselves. The fact that it is accepted for older men to take younger boys and force them to dress up as women and dance and then rape them make absolutely no sense to have as an accepted custom.

To exhibit sociological mindfulness and empathy, I am putting myself in the shoes of the Afghani boys who are kidnapped. If I were them, I would be so afraid every day of my kidnapped life. At any moment I could be raped or forced to dress up as a lady and dance for other men, then get raped after that. I have been stolen from my home and my family and am now being used as a sex slave, and my captor will get no punishments from this because it is legal for him to do this to me. Fear grips me every time I am forced to dance, and once I escape, I will not know how to do anything other than dance and have sex. All I have done my whole life is function as a male prostitute and be afraid.