makes the World State sound like a utopia- the perfect world. However‚ as you continue reading‚ you realize the society they have created is more dystopian- a world where no one is an individual and through technology‚ the government is very powerful. I felt the World States motto- "Community‚ Identity‚ Stability" (Huxley‚ 1)‚ was ironic because the people in this community don’t have an identity since they are conditioned to act‚ feel‚ and think a certain way. None of the people in the World State
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A year ago today I woke up from an enduring coma‚ which was due to a bullet hitting my frontal lobe in a mass shooting at a concert in Chicago‚ and it brought me to a dull country with no opportunity for advancement . I woke up to a dreary hospital room waiting for someone to come in‚ and I pondered a look around my room which only displayed one machine that kept me alive and a bed. Apparently the government stopped funding hospitals and several other groups because our debt came back to us to bite
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Whenever Logan Oxley‚ one of my greatest friends‚ and I get together we always reminisce about events we’ve experienced‚ one of which was when we went to Harris Teeter and messed around creating short thirty second videos. We would do random shenanigans around the store‚ like dance to the atrocious music the store played. We have shared numerous experiences that still make us laugh today; and the best one‚ you’ll just have to wait there and find out. During the first track out of 8th grade‚ I decided
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accomplishments are a testimony to his own words and thus can be considered the backbone of the novel Island‚ where Aldous Huxley depicts the Pacific island of Pala. Pala is an ideal society sustained by philosophical values and disjunction from the surrounding world. Naturally‚ Pala attracts the envy and acrimony from other civil bodies in pursuit of their rich oil deposits‚ leading to the foreseen demise of the utopia. Shipwrecking on the island‚ William Asquith Farnaby is enlightened by the perfection that is
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Sam Radice Brave New World Active Reading Assignment 1. 45‚ 63‚ 78‚ 89‚ 95‚ 99‚ 105‚ 141‚ 148‚ 156‚ 160‚ 161‚ 164‚ 212‚ 217 When Bernard travels throughout Brave New World‚ he never seems to take a long time‚ there is not much description about the length of time that it takes. It always seems like when Bernard travels‚ he does so extremely unconfidently. He is always either slouched or trying to pick himself up right before he arrives of ‘hiding behind the agave’. Bernard never travels with
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What Is Dictatorship? Dictatorship * A form of government in which absolute and total power is concentrated in a dictator (usually one person be it military or otherwise or one political party). * Defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual. * A government controlled by one person‚ or a small group of people. In this form of government the power rests entirely on the person or group of people‚ and can be obtained by force or by inheritance
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contemplates his feelings of alienation and becomes irritable. He visits his friend‚ Helmholtz Watson‚ a lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. Helmholtz is an extremely intelligent‚ attractive‚ and properly sized Alpha Plus who works in propaganda. Some of Helmholtz’s superiors think he is a little too smart for his own good. The friendship between Bernard and Helmholtz springs from their mutual dissatisfaction with the status quo and their shared inclination to view themselves as individuals
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Why Ultimate Happiness is Not Achieved through the Brave New World Ideology If the only way to obtain happiness is to leave reality‚ then the happiness is not genuine. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ the citizens of Huxley’s society frequently consume a hallucinogen‚ Soma‚ in order to escape reality and experience happiness. Whenever a problem arises‚ the government requires its people to take Soma. But even when not on Soma‚ citizens are conditioned to enjoy everything they do have and dislike
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passing Grey Poupon through the window of his Chevy Impala‚ Kendrick mocks the famous 1981 mustard commercial in which one wealthy white man passes another wealthy white man the jar through his car window. Often the subject of satire‚ such as in Wayne’s World (1992)‚ as he passes it to a fellow black rapper‚ Kendrick uses the reference to demonstrate how black people are equal to white people even if society is still in denial. Yet another example of Kendrick’s derisions with pop culture and the way they
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Throughout life you will meet people that seem extremely diverse. Whether it’s the way the look‚ or the way they talk. But have you ever met someone that experienced the world in a whole different way than you? Their world is like no other‚ and you would have to experience it first hand to understand even a millisecond of it. This is what life was like for the young‚ bright blue eyed Emma. In the small city of San Francisco‚ everyone saw black and white. Everyone had their heads hung low‚ sadness
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