Forensic Science
Equalities Role in Keeping up a Utopian Society
By; Reanna Willey
In 1815 your family immigrated to America under the assumption that America was a utopian society, where freedom of religion, speech, and press where no longer privileges but demands. With the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence fueling their ambitions, and the wishful thinking of hundreds of civilians, the thought of equality flourished within the minds of settlers. The mindset that equality plays the largest role in keeping up a utopian society. It’s now 1848 you’re among the many white males to have colonized America; outside your window are a handful of short-skirted, picket sign wielding women all shouting for the same thing, equal rights. You’re intrigued with their indecent skin exposure yet disgusted with their propaganda. Fast forward to 1863; you’re heading to a tobacco plantation when you hear of the Emancipation Proclamation; whereupon January 1st of 1863 African Americans are deemed free. You are instantly mortified with the amount of profit you are going to lose from this alteration, and become enraged at the thought of colored people being equal to you. In essence you’re the government; you’re not afflicted by the low standards of women nor by the shunning of African Americans. You’re at the top of the social system; but the same structure that placed you so high is about to crumble, because its 1939 America has been in a great depression for ten years and the second world war has begun. Instead of coming together as a country riots are breaking out in the streets; white versus black, men are refusing to come to work because their masculinity is being insulted by the thought of female aviators. A dystopian society has begun to be revealed; much like those shown in Harrison Bergeron, The Giver, and Serenity where throughout each realm certain qualities of equality namely social class differences, social injustice,
By; Reanna Willey
In 1815 your family immigrated to America under the assumption that America was a utopian society, where freedom of religion, speech, and press where no longer privileges but demands. With the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence fueling their ambitions, and the wishful thinking of hundreds of civilians, the thought of equality flourished within the minds of settlers. The mindset that equality plays the largest role in keeping up a utopian society. It’s now 1848 you’re among the many white males to have colonized America; outside your window are a handful of short-skirted, picket sign wielding women all shouting for the same thing, equal rights. You’re intrigued with their indecent skin exposure yet disgusted with their propaganda. Fast forward to 1863; you’re heading to a tobacco plantation when you hear of the Emancipation Proclamation; whereupon January 1st of 1863 African Americans are deemed free. You are instantly mortified with the amount of profit you are going to lose from this alteration, and become enraged at the thought of colored people being equal to you. In essence you’re the government; you’re not afflicted by the low standards of women nor by the shunning of African Americans. You’re at the top of the social system; but the same structure that placed you so high is about to crumble, because its 1939 America has been in a great depression for ten years and the second world war has begun. Instead of coming together as a country riots are breaking out in the streets; white versus black, men are refusing to come to work because their masculinity is being insulted by the thought of female aviators. A dystopian society has begun to be revealed; much like those shown in Harrison Bergeron, The Giver, and Serenity where throughout each realm certain qualities of equality namely social class differences, social injustice,