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    We can see this kind of imagination in daily life. For example‚ people believe in paper currency‚ even though they hold only worthless small papers‚ but they believe just because someone created a system‚ where these papers represent a given value. Throughout the history‚ we can find many examples of different versions of social order. From free citizens (awilu) in Ancient Babylonia‚ tribal societies in Fiji islands‚ up to the New Harmony‚ an utopian society‚ established by Robert Owen‚ each society

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    he Columbian Exchange is best known for the exchange of goods between the new and old worlds across the Atlantic Ocean. This exchange impacted major changes among the Indians‚ Africans‚ and Europeans. After it was confirmed that a new world existed‚ explorers began making their way to the new world. The Old world refers to Asia‚ Africa‚ and Europe. The New World refers to mostly North and South America. Columbus first made a discovery in 1492‚ but he is not sure to be the first to visit the Americas

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    Most people don’t know that even though Hawaii is only 0.2% of the United State’s land mass‚ it has 25% of its endangered species. The Hawaiian islands have more endangered species than anywhere else in the world. Currently‚ there are ninety-seven extinct native Hawaiian plants. This paper will cover the history‚ effects‚ and the solutions to protecting native Hawaiian plants. It all started in the 19th century‚ when white settlers came to the Hawaiian Islands. When they arrived‚ and brought

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    Old World to New World New World to Old World Diseases Smallpox Syphilis Measles Chicken Pox Malaria Yellow Fever Influenza The Common Cold Animals Horses Turkeys Cattle Llamas Pigs Alpacas Sheep Guinea Pigs Goats Chickens Plants The Columbian Exchange Alfred W. Crosby a historian at the University of Texas in Austin created the term The Columbian Exchange in 1972. The term describes the history of the trading from the New World to the Old World

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    the perfection of the ideal state for the human race‚ each individual predetermined in their roles in life. However‚ in Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World”‚ this imagined place of heaven on Earth is disturbing in its reverence for technology‚ need for promiscuity‚ and the suppression of new ideas‚ all for the betterment of this society‚ the World State. This is extended into the gender roles‚ whether it be a citizen’s role in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre‚ where humans are

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    modern world ‚ it seems like they’re over 50% of people glued to their phone losing communication with the outside world and the other 50% are interacting with the world. As the years go by many companies make new and improved technology for their buyers. This recent and the future generation seem to focus on the virtual life rather than socializing with the world. Its ironic how from the year of the 21st century more people are glued to their phone rather than interacting with the outside world‚ experiencing

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    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Our society is becoming like Brave New Worlds because our technology is just like theirs. Our technology is starting to make embryos in test tubes just like theirs. We already have the same drugs as them that make us happy‚ for quite a while now. Both of the religions in Brave New World and in our world are completely destroying the world. This was my opinion about Brave New World and our society that’s lacking. The technology in genetics‚ in Brave New World and our

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    accomplishment. Aldous Huxley’s author of Brave New World gives his own unique perspective of the future. While Huxley’s book Brave New World does reflect our current culture in that people are immersed into technology‚ the book fails in today’s world that humans do not have their genes genetically manipulated. Huxley believed that advancement in technology would bring people into a false reality. In fact‚ the more there is technological improvement‚ the more people are drugged into the false reality. Social

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    societal norms‚ or political systems. The society in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is divided in a caste system‚ in which humans are not individuals‚ do not have the opportunity to be individuals‚ and never experience true happiness. These characteristics of the reading point towards a well-structured society; a society where the government controls the people to create “perfection”‚ robbing them of their freedoms‚ in other words Brave New World is‚ with no doubt‚ written in a dystopian mindset.

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    Brave New World is a fictional story written by Aldous Huxley. In the story‚ Huxley tries to create the image of a utopian society. In the novel he predicts many possibilities for what the future might hold‚ including overpopulation‚ use of drugs‚ promiscuity‚ and the elimination of religion and family. Utopias are societies that possess highly desirable or perfect qualities. However‚ the society in Brave New World does not possess these desirable or perfect qualities and is therefore a dystopia

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