Muzafer And Carolin Sherif's Lord Of The Flies

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It is an indisputable fact that humans are willing to do anything when their personal safety is threatened, that is to say; they will fight and kill when they cannot assure their own future or survival. In 1954, psychologist Muzafer & Carolin Sherif invited 22 boys to what appeared to be a summer camp, the boys were split and divided into two groups, the Eagles and the Rattlers. Within six days both groups had engaged in malicious pranks the ended in a brawl in which various children were hospitalised. This division between groups is an escalation of force, insults are thrown disguised as jokes, eventually reaching a brawl as seen in the Lord of the Flies. In 1898 various scientists became trapped inside their own ship in Antarctica, during

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