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    When you don’t fit in anywhere‚ and there is nowhere to go‚ what do you do? In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ John is rejected in his society. He was born from civilized parents‚ but he grew up in a savage reservation. This causes John and his mother to not fit in no matter where they go. John’s curiosity‚ ideals‚ and conditioning push him throughout the course of the novel to change for the worse because he becomes paranoid and not wanting of any human contact. John’s curiosity is a major reason

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    INTRO In order to become an individual‚ you must embrace challenges and suffering. Those experiences help define who you are. In Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley delivers a powerful message/warning of what happens to a society that eliminates individuality. In the story‚ individuality cannot come without pain or suffering‚ a element that the World State Society has taken out of their civilization. Soma is used as a drug to keep everyone in society happy and from feeling any types of hardship or pain

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    graveyard down at the bottom. As I grabbed my briefcase someone was waiting for me at the door. It was a young man around the age of 16 and he was a mail delivery agent from the MAIL district. I took the letter and read it to myself. It said Dear Brave scientist‚ While you are reading this something very terrible is happening on your floor right now. You won’t realise it until it is too late. If your curiosity is upsetting you let me inform you‚ yes I was in the storage room. From Unknown This was

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    Audit & taxation | Audit Risk in the Brave New World | Audit Risk Model | | | 6/27/2010 | Submitted To: MR. Asim Khan Submitted By Bilal Khalid INTRODUCTION The audit risk model has provided a conceptual framework for auditing practice for more than 40 years. Despite practical difficulties in implementation and criticisms of its theoretical foundation‚ the model has been fairly effective in helping auditors analyze risks and use that analysis to determine the nature‚

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    Brave New World – A Better World “From each according to his ability‚ to each according to his need.” This quote‚ by Karl Marx‚ addresses the principle that everyone should contribute as much as they can to society‚ and in turn take whatever it is they need from the society. The ideology from this quote is greatly applied in Aldous Huxley’s novel‚ Brave New World. It can be said that the entire foundation of Huxley’s novel is based on this single quote. In the novel‚ the population of the world

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    the film Pleasantville‚ at the beginning of the film David and Jennifer I believe represent the working class. Their mother isn’t shown too much but she doesn’t seem to be there for her children. After transforming into Bud and Mary Sue who live in Pleasantville‚ their family‚ along with the rest of the families and characters shown seem to have everything they need to live a happy life. I would say everyone there represents the middle class. There are no homeless people in Pleasantville and everything

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    allowed himself one last chance to partake in sweet memories of friends‚ family‚ his country‚ all left behind. As his wife stirred he turned around. He never looked back. Forward they walked towards opportunities untold. Forward they walk towards a new beginning. Forward they walked in America‚ home of the free. For centuries humans have forsaken the comforts of their current situations in search of a better existence for themselves and their families. From migrating thousands of miles to overthrowing

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    were given the choice to obey or disobey God. In the movie‚ Pleasantville‚ directed by Gary Ross‚ there is a television show named Pleasantville. The show is about people who live in this small‚ secluded town. They are unable to leave their town‚ and they are unaware of what is going on. They have not been introduced to free will‚ so they do not recognize what it is. When two characters‚ David and Jennifer‚ become trapped inside Pleasantville‚ they introduce free will to the town. At first‚ it is unacceptable

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    Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World strongly‚ the vast majority of the population is unified under the World State‚ an eternally peaceful‚ stable global society in which goods and resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. Happiness is deprived from mass produced goods such as obstacle golf‚ Centrifugal Bumble-puppy‚ recreational sex and the most common one‚ the use of the drug soma; a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable‚ hangover-free "holidays". We meet the protagonist Bernard‚ who

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    In the beginning we learn all about this new‚ modern world‚ where this story takes place. A world without emotion. A world where infants are produced in factories. All of this just to control the useless factors and to do what is best for the people. A place where it is acceptable for individuals to escape reality for countless hours. A society where it is nothing but common to engage in innumerable sexual acts. A world very different from the one we live in today. People are divided into classes

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