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    a whole‚ today’s world is much worse than what it should be. There is a huge lack of empathy and too much sensitivity; the amount of close-minded people on this earth is crippling; major masses of judgemental people are dragging everyone down. There are many more issues‚ but that short list is big enough in it’s own way. Very few things would stay the same in the new world; it needs a lot of remodeling. Today’s world does have a few perks that could carry over to what the world should be; these

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    In his novel‚ Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley introduces a society based on consumerism. The World State is a self-sustaining machine‚ in which constant production is supported by constant consumption. Reflecting upon our own society‚ there are quite a few unnerving parallels. Our society too is based on mass production and consumerism. Big brands dominate the economy and available goods. And just as how it is never clear who controls the machine in the World State‚ we too are often left clueless

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    I. Introduction Brave New World‚ written by Aldous Huxley in 1931‚ shows a fictional dystopian society located in London that greatly relies on technology and rejects today’s values such as love‚ family and emotion in order to achieve maximum societal stability and gain a false sense of happiness. The novel grasps concepts of futurology‚ which bolster the idea of the book satirizing modern society and showing what it could become. In the not so distant future‚ the novel predicts that humans will

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    Brave New World: World Instability I. Video Intro of World Instability (3:50) II. Past examples of world instability (Chad) A. Russian Revolution a. http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution b. After Bolshevik forces executed Czar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918‚ the killers hid the victims’ mutilated bodies. The remains were discovered and exhumed in the late 1970s near Yekaterinburg‚ Russia‚ and eventually identified through DNA testing. B. World War II a. http://www.history

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    Andrew Santilli Prof. Dettmer ENGL 1220-c1603 March 4‚ 2015 The Battle against Big Brother The poem “The Unknown Citizen”‚ by W.H. Auden‚ is about the ideal person that the government wants in their society. The man does everything the right way and always agrees with the government‚ whether they are at war or they are at peace. Although the man is a perfect citizen to the government‚ they do not even know what his name is. At the top of the poem‚ they refer to the man as “JS/07/M/378”(343) and

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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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    Throughout the weekend I watched Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.  I have always been a sucker for the futuristic movies‚ the viewing depictions of what the future might look like holds a fascination that‚ I trust‚ need not be explained as I watched 1984 and Brave New World in particular‚ I was struck by both the similarities and differences between the movies. For instance‚ both movies depict a terrifying version of the future consisting of totalitarian governments‚ the dehumanization

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    Huxley’s novel‚ Brave New World‚ is a cautionary tale against mankind becoming controlled by science and technology. It is stated that government control should not be allowed in too many aspects of life because mankind’s individuality and personal relationships would be nonexistent. In this New World State‚ everyone is scientifically modified to like what they like and be who they are. Their physical and mental capacities are decided when they are in a birth capsule. Robert S. Baker suggests‚ “the

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    The society of a Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ is closer to the idealized interpretation of a utopia than current society‚ but modern society is preferable. People being conditioned to be falsely content with their society‚ and the lack individual thought‚ are examples of why the World State is corrupt. Although there are many faults in modern society‚ people have free will‚ and are able to control their own lives. The common belief of the people in A Brave New World is that The stability of

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