Lord of the flies follows the makeshift civilization of a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island. why is it significant that the island is populated entirely by boys? how does the age and gender of the castaways directly relate to the novel’s themes of civility and barbarity?

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts