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    In 1932‚ Aldous Huxley wrote a book entitled Brave New World. It was a novel of a dystopian future where persuasion and science were effectively combined to control the population. Huxley warns his readers about the problems associated with the advancements of subconscious persuasion techniques because he saw people becoming susceptible to them during the Age of Television Addiction. He critiques this by setting a character contest between John the Savage and Mustapha Mond‚ which reveals the characters

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    as a whole‚ because if a community is happy then the people have no reason to riot or rebel. To control the happiness‚ (and in turn‚ stability) the people of the World State issue the people under their control to partake in the consumption of Soma. "Soma may make you loose a few years in time‚ but think of the enormous‚ immeasurable durations it can give you out of time." (p.154) Unfortunately for the controllers‚ drugs aren’t the only things people can thrive on. Whether it is in God or another

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    happiness. People in the World State live in a totalitarian regime‚ they are brainwashed and conditioned to follow certain rules to keep their society stable. To keep everyone from being emotional‚ they are conditioned to take “the perfect drug” called soma; it stimulates them to be happy. Huxley shows a government that controls everyone to be the same‚ but it creates the loss of individuality and freedom in each person. Nothing in a society is ever perfect. Civilization in the society of Brave New World

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    SPECIAL SENSES GENERAL PRESENTATION Overview of the Nervous System • Endocrine and nervous systems maintain internal coordination – Endocrine system: communicates by means of chemical messengers (hormones) secreted into to the blood – Nervous system: employs electrical and chemical means to send messages from cell to cell 12-2 Overview of the Nervous System • Nervous system carries out its task in three basic steps • Sense organs receive information about changes in the body and external environment

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    Huxley was certainly more apocalyptic than Orwell. Orwell depict of the future as one of constant if largely imaginary war.  War is always in the air as a means of keeping patriotic fervor‚ not so in Huxley’s future. The masses are controlled by drug‚ soma‚ as well

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    BEHAVIOR Objective II.1 Identify the basic components of the neuron. Key Terms neuron dendrites axon cell body (soma) Exercises 1. What is a neuron? Neurons are individual cells in the nervous system that receive‚ integrate‚ and transmit information 2. Label each part of the neuron. 1.Soma 2.Dendrites 3.Myelin sheath 4.Axon [pic] Objective II.2 Define action potential‚ and explain

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    Savagely Civilized: A Look Into the Society of Brave New World Today‚ a civilization is defined as a human society which has reached a high state of culture‚ government‚ industry and science. As compared to modern society‚ that of the Brave New World is leaps and bounds ahead when comparing scientific advancements. In today’s society the thought of choosing which traits and characteristics a child will have is exactly that‚ a thought. Thus‚ because the Brave New World is more advanced than modern

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    ‘’An Marxist study of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley” Alisha Ghosh QD Leavis’ essay mentions a statistic‚ “The investigation made in 1924 into the stocks and issues of urban libraries revealed that while they had 63% of non-fiction works on an average to 37% of fiction‚ only 22% of non-fiction is issued in comparison 78% of fiction.” This clearly ascertains the fact that a commodity that is in demand at a particular point of time is determined by the class or group that is ‘ruling’ or is in

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    “Brave New World” Essay Technology has been used negatively in Brave New World to create a future where individuals are incapable of producing or affecting change. Discuss this statement and show HOW Huxley has demonstrated this idea to his readers. Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” explores the extreme impact of science and technology on an unreal world. The novel fits the science-fiction genre as a dystopia to the reader. Huxley wrote the novel in1932 and presented his thoughts

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    peaceful‚ stable global society in which goods and resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. Happiness is deprived from mass produced goods such as obstacle golf‚ Centrifugal Bumble-puppy‚ recreational sex and the most common one‚ the use of the drug soma; a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable‚ hangover-free "holidays". We meet the protagonist Bernard‚ who is primarily disgruntled because he is too small and weak for his caste and feels like an outcast. Spending time alone is considered an

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