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    life-threatening conditions including high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol or even cancer. These drugs help stimulate and mimic a well-functioning body‚ so there are a number of people whose lives are saved daily because of prescription drugs. In the same sense soma mimics well-functioning body as there are no side effects as it says in Brave New World"Evil’s an unreality if you take a couple of grammes" (18.54-8) and "Pain’s a delusion" (18.54-8).

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    very glad she’s back‚ but because of the way she looks people avoid her and she no longer feels welcome. Linda takes ’soma’ (some sort of drug) and is high all the time. John misses her. Linda dies of taking very much ’soma’ and of old age. John is furious. He takes the ’soma’‚ which was ment to be given to the Delta’s who had just finished their work and he tells them how bad ’soma’ actually is. Bernard and Helmholtz (friend of John) come to rescue him from the angry crowd

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    Student Name Professor Class Date More Machine Now than Man: Huxley’s Critique of Mass Culture in Brave New World Laura Frost‚ in her essay “Huxley ’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World‚” states that “Brave New World has typically been read as "the classic denunciation of mass culture in the interwar years"” (Frost 448). This is true to an extent‚ as Frost points out. The novel explores the effects of mass culture and the implementation of eugenics and mass education to serve

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    Chin 1 Natalie Chin Ms‚B.Wehrmann ENG3U-Second Period 28 November 2009 Dehumanization is Taking Us to the Brave New World The basic warning in Huxley’s Brave New World is that twentieth-century civilization is moving toward the complete dehumanization of mankind. There are three main dehumanizing forces in the twenty-first century world today which might take human beings to a society like that of A.F 632. First of all‚ the easy sex concept is leading humans to the Brave New World. During the time

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    Brave New World Reflection Essay 1. Types of conditioning were used as principles of phycology. This was used in the beginning explaining the reproductive system in brave new world. The name used was hatchery conditioning. This made the delta babies have a fear of alarm bells and electric shock. By using this it makes them not wear khaki‚ or to play with delta children. It also won’t waste time. The Director becomes present when he confesses to Bernard Marx that as a young man he went to a Savage

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    In the book‚ Brave New World‚ soma was given to the people to relax and change their state of mind. Medical marijuana is like soma because it has some of the same effects as soma. It is used commonly throughout America between legal and illegal use. States are also trying to make it have a recreational use. This is the big debate now. Should marijuana be legal? Marijuana is already used by millions throughout the country. There are "15.2 million current marijuana users" today and as it becomes legal

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    BRAVE NEW WORLD Introduction This novel was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. It is a fable about a world state in the 7th century A.F. (after Ford)‚ where social stability is based on a scientific caste system. Human beings‚ graded from highest intellectuals to lowest manual workers‚ hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries‚ learn by methodical conditioning to accept they social destiny. The action of the story develops round Bernard Marx‚ and an unorthodox and therefore

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    Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ both portray a dystopian society in the extreme end. A Dystopian society is a form of totalitarian dictatorship as its prototype‚ a society that puts its whole population continuously on trial‚ a society‚ that is‚ in disenfranchising and enslaving entire classes of its own citizens‚ a society that‚ by glorifying and justifying violence by law‚ preys upon itself. A Dystopian society is what we today would call dysfunctional.

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    Be Original People believe if everybody was equal‚ the world would be a happier place. In reality that is far from true because it can create many problems that are not visible at first. It has been thought that if there was no rich or poor and everybody was the same‚ war would not exist and people would be better-off. There have also been many arguments as to why people need to be different and the need for social classes is essential. Conformity and individuality are very important in society

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    Each part of the neuron has a very important role providing information in the whole body. The most important parts of a neuron are: a cell body‚ dendrites‚ and an axon. • Cell Body‚ also called soma contains the nucleus‚ which itself has the genetic material in the shape of chromosomes. The nucleus and the soma have no active part in the transportation of the neural signal. Cell body; produce proteins that other parts of the neuron

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