THEME: CIVILIZATION If some adult has ever snapped at you to be “civilized,” then you probably know that “civilized” ends up referring to all kinds of arbitrary things: get your elbows off the table; say “please” and “thank you”; don’t chew with your mouth open; don’t flick spitballs at your sister. You know. Being “civilized” usually means not doing what…
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What I Learned Today 9/10/14
By Sage Hamilton The Big History Project In The Big History Project, I learned about Before Earth, or the Hadean Eon. Named after the Greek god Hades, the Hadean Eon happened around 2.4 billion years ago. Like in one of the videos, if you went through a time machine and took a walk down earth in the Hadean Eon. First…
What I Learned Today 9/9/14
By Sage Hamilton Erosion by Water Yesterday my mom and I went out into our backyard in a forest near a creek. We looked around at everything that was weathered and what was eroded. The things that were weathered were wet and easy to break, like old branches. The things that were eroded were already broken and had been moved…
LOTF Themes: Primitivism
PRIMITIVISM If well-brought-up British boys become violent savages when left without supervision, maybe people really are just violent savages, covered up in clothes and caps. Or maybe just some people are violent savages (*cough-Roger-cough*). Either way, Lord of the Flies asks us whether that primitivism is inferior—or if it’s our natural and rightful state, and if it’s not a little…
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