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    the novel‚ A Brave New World‚ the author Aldous Huxley creates a world where the people are ignorant of the truth‚ and are‚ therefore‚ in a state of bliss that they mistake as happiness. The people in the World State are in a world where they don’t know what true happiness is. The way they have lived their lives has blocked out real happiness. Through conditioning and drugging the government has kept the people of the World State ignorant to the truth. The people in the World State believe they are

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    In World State‚ the citizens sacrifice real feelings and emotional attachments to gain stability. However‚ sacrificing real feelings and emotion for social stability is not right because without real feelings and emotion people feel like they have no freedom‚ in addition to having no emotions or feelings‚ they have no family because there is no emotion. Therefore‚ no one really cares for you. Another thing‚ is that there is really no meaning of life without feelings or emotion. Feelings and emotion

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    A person who is raised in a religious home is very likely to have different moral standards than to a person who was never taught a religion. The surrounding which a person is grown up in is what shapes and prompts one’s principles. In Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ John’s surroundings shape and change the morals he grew up with in the Reservation and the ones he was prompted by in the civilized London; which shows us the theme of culture prompting morals. Since John was a child he was introduced

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    Similarities of the New World and Today’s World There has always been a need for humans to have order. When the pilgrims sailed over on the mayflower they made the first contract‚ mayflower compact‚ to make their settling life easier. These early settlers and creators of this great nation were just people trying to survive and enjoy life and they even dealt with the struggle to maintain peace and eventually dealing with war. When thinking of people in history‚ we tend to think of them as really

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    handful of characters are put into Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to make the societal themes gleam more brilliantly in his dystopian world where erotic behavior is encouraged from a young age and stability is more important than joyfulness. Two characters that convey themes for the duration of the novel are Linda and John the Savage. The way citizens treat Linda in the reservation and in the New World and the way John perceives the civilized world both elucidate ideals important to the citizens in the

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    funny and inspirational. Unfortunately‚ some memes are very nasty and hurtful. Memes can be funny and help us forget about everyday issues‚ even if it’s only for a few minutes. We all need a little bit of laughter in our lives. Just as in A Brave New World‚ soma made the characters feel happy and not depressed. It made the pain and discomfort that they were going through disappear. Memes have become something most of us see everyday. We see them on Facebook and on other internet sites daily. Some of

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    The Tragic hero vs. The Common Man The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both considered to be tragedies‚ although they very different. In the play Macbeth‚ Macbeth is considered to be a tragedy of a tragic hero and in Brave New World‚ John is said to be a tragedy of a common man. John and Macbeth both share many differences according to Aristotle’s view of the tragic hero and Arthur Miller’s view of the common man. These differences

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    FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL Foreign Exchange Control refers to the control of international monetary and economic transactions involving foreign exchange either by government directly or a centralized agency like central bank. These are various forms of controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies by residents or on the purchase/sale of local currency by nonresidents. Common foreign exchange controls include:   Banning the use of foreign currency within the country

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    Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley the role of race shows that segregation is not born within the subconscious of our minds. It is rather a concept that is bestowed upon our minds. This can be seen in the need to implement hypnopedia in order to create continuous judgment‚ the need to separate Savages from World State‚ and the need to physically and mentally lower a portion of the population so that the feeling of superiority manifests among its leaders. To begin with‚ all the citizens of World State

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    Throughout the course of our live lifetime‚ we learn‚ experience and explore new things that we aren’t familiar with. And as humans we thrive to do things that are said to be impossible‚ but then proven to not be. Therefore how do humans overcome the obstacles that are challenged through their path to solve these problems? The answer is you have to take substantial risk to understand and if it didn’t work the first time you’d have to take bigger risks the next. In other words you couldn’t understand

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