Lord of The Flies

      1.   I think that society has many ways to “kill” a person without physically killing them. In history there have been many cases of this. In the medieval era if a man or woman has done something very bad they would be banished from a kingdom and basically that person is dead to the society. Another way that this happens is if you commit a terrible crime and serve a life sentence I believe that you are dead to society. I think another one of the modern ways to “kill” a man is Hollywood blacklisting. If you are in Hollywood and you are trying to become a famous actor or actress and you don’t do exactly what one of the higher ups want, you to you may be blacklisted and never seen in the acting society again.

  2.    I think that if we can’t separate our civilized self from our savage self I think that we will be controlled by our savage self. I think that our savage self will take control because humans have always been savages because we used to not let things stop us from getting our way, and we would kill people and things to get what we need. This was all our instinct that kept us alive. Nowadays we are all civilized because we choose to be, and we are trained to be, it is not our natural way of life. Also, if a savage civilized person tried being civilized and reason with a savage the savage would probably just kill the civilized person.

3.I believe that civilization is created when people realize that there needs to be rules to keep people from killing each other off. I think that before there was civilization only the strong survived because they could take from and kill the weak. I also believe that people are controlled by society. Today many people live their lives based of what society tells them or what society makes them think. I think that the society in the United States is so messed up because people are starting to think there are more than 2 genders but that’s besides the point.
1. simon hiding in the woods. 2. hiding in the woods 3. because simon was the only one hiding in the woods 4. because he was the only one

Refugees

1. 18-24 months

2. 110,000

3. Burma and Iraq

4. 39,000 Muslims

5. California, Texas, and New York

6. The first thing that caught my eye was that Europe had the most refugees in the 1990s, the second thing was how many refugees have been Asians over the whole graph, then it was how many refugees we had all together in 1980

7. how many muslims we allowed in 04, how there are hardly any more unknowns

8. 9/11

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

12. March was the lowest month everywhere

13. 60 million.

14. 12.5 million.

15. Norway and Switzerland.

Boy Play

This article is very informative, and I am very glad that I read it. I never knew that the Afghanistan soldiers that we were in an alliance with sexual abused young boys every day. The whole thing being called Bacha Bazi, literally meaning boy play is so messed up. I bet that this tradition will last for a very long time because just like sexual abuse cases in the united states most cases when someone is sexually abused the abuser had been abused when they were younger and are now channeling that into abusing others.

I think that if I were in the same shoes as the American marines that were there hearing the bacha bazi happening I would have been so uncomfortable living there that I would have had to do something about it.  If I were them I would have went from a country where it is illegal to have sexual relations with a 17-year-old boy if you are 18 and now there are 30,40, even 50-year-old men that sexual abuse young boys daily. If I were in the shoes of these soldiers there would have been a lot more “accidental friendly fire.” There is so much psychological trauma associated with sexual abuse I bet that most of the boys turn basically into zombies and then when they get older they start playing the game.