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    The New World experienced a great many changes as the Europeans explored‚ traded‚ and exploited the native peoples and lands. The way the Old and New World influenced one another was huge‚ including everything from spread of goods/ideas/diseases‚ to taking slaves‚ to colonizing in the New World. It was all driven by European greed‚ them wanting to gain wealth‚ not really caring what they did in order to gain that wealth. Different Nations from the East took to making many voyages to and from the

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    D. Writings III. Function Explaining unknown Philosophy Supernatural Providing aid Sanctioning conduct Morals Traditions Delegating decisions The Basis of Religion In the novel "Brave New World" civilized society lives in a world of science and technology. Major changes have occurred during the future; Utopia now revolves a religion of drugs and sex. God and the cross have been replaced by Ford and the symbol T‚ the founder of the age of machines. Instead

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    used to understand todays families and help them. In the end‚ what McIntyre wants from us‚ the reader‚ is to use the sociological imagination and always remember it. (McIntyre‚ 2014‚ pg. 266) In Mills article “The Promise”‚ he describes the sociological

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    World Religions Report Stephanie Webb Axia College University of Phoenix HUM 130 Introduction The Catholic religion in the new world was led by ordinary men that wanted to form a church in similar structure to the church in England. Catholics during this time period were a minority as the first settlers of the new world were primarily Protestants. So Protestants during this time period outnumbered Catholics. Catholics wanted to keep

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    Sociology 8 November 2012 Brave New World Essay A novel written by Aldous Huxley‚ Brave New World is a very interesting‚ which is based upon a futuristic society. The entire novel shows the reader that this society obtains pleasure without any moral effects. This Utopian/dystopian society manipulates people’s minds making them believe they are all working together for the common good. Brave New World explores the negatives of a successful world where everyone seems to be content and

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    the concept of science being a way of life rather than an interest and where individuality‚ love and affection is frowned upon. The society mentioned in this book is “World State” and the people live by the motto “Community. Identity. Stability.” which suggests that the population depend on factories and science labs to create new life and use for employment. The infrastructure in the area is modern and similar to what we have today which is suggested by the line “A squat grey building of only thirty-four

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    throw it away. This is a sarcastic comment on materialism‚ principally the wealthy; don’t waste energy to fixed things and just simply throw things away. The society wants continuous grow of consumers. So‚ people need to throw away materials to get new materials rather than fixing old ones. So this is the use of propaganda to boost citizens to do that. Every person repeatedly hears this through the process of sleep teaching starting at an early age. The phrase is continuously embedded so Depp inside

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    Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a work of science fiction‚ but it is not a work about the dangers of science. Huxley himself says in the forward to the novel that "the theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human individuals" (Huxley xi). In the novel‚ Huxley shows that science itself is dangerous and that the true goal of the World State’s research is to advance consumer technology—the aspect of science that directly

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    Brave New World: Utopia?

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    26 April 2006 Brave New World: Utopia? When one envisions a utopian society‚ religion‚ the prevailing presence of social class segregation‚ and abusive drug use are not typically part of such a surreal picture. These attributes of society‚ which are generally the leading causes of discontent among its members‚ are more so the flaws an idealist would stray from in concocting such hypothesis for a more "perfect" world; not so for Aldous Huxley. In his novel‚ Brave New World‚ these ideals are the

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    (including insects and spiders). Some characteristics are shared among the groups; most New World monkeys have prehensile tails while Old World monkeys have non-prehensile tails or no visible tail at all. Some have trichromatic colour vision like that of humans‚ others are dichromats or monochromats. Although both the New and Old World monkeys‚ like the apes‚ have forward facing eyes‚ the faces of Old World and New World monkeys look very different‚ though again‚ each group shares some features such as

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