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    Essay Prompt: At the start of George Orwell’s dystopia novel‚ Animal Farm‚ the animals set out to establish a perfect community‚ a “society of animals set free from hunger and the whip‚ all equal‚ each working according to his capacity‚ the strong protecting the weak.” However‚ by the end of the novel‚ we see that a very different society is actually formed. A cruel dictatorship rules: no animal can speak his mind; all animals work in hunger‚ pain‚ and gross inequality. In a brief two-page essay

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    Laurence Lafore’s book is divided into seven chapters that systematically advance his thesis. The first chapter‚ titled ‘The Lost Utopia’ illustrates the era of peace and progression that preceded the war. Chapter two‚ ‘The Austrian Anomaly’ shows how the mixed nationalities within Austria-Hungary triggered the actions of Serbia and the consequent actions. ‘The Europe of the Armed

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    The Past and Present Society Social Utopias in the Middle Ages Author(s): F. Graus Source: Past & Present‚ No. 38 (Dec.‚ 1967)‚ pp. 3-19 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/649746 . Accessed: 18/06/2014 09:35 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps

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    A Utopia is an imagined place where everything is perfect. It can be real or not. My Utopia consists of a race track with lots of loud cars. My Utopia looks like (and is) a racetrack. There is loose dirt flying all over the place. Sometimes‚ if you’re lucky‚ you get a rock thrown at your face by cars zooming by. There is hundreds of people sitting in the bleachers‚ most of the time huddled up with blankets because of the cold. There is empty soda bottles and old candy wrappers laying under the bleachers

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    Imagine a world in which technology is in charge of the world‚ and nobody can live without some form of drug. Dystopian societies are basically the opposite of an utopia. This means that they are mainly ruled by one person‚ and everything is unpleasant. The works 1984‚ Brave New World‚ and “The Pedestrian” all have many dystopian elements with a variety of sacrifices and gains. In general‚ dystopian societies offer stability and complete control of power; however‚ citizens have to sacrifice privacy

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    According to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. The genre of dystopia is clearly illustrated through the short stories of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ the main character is suppressed of her freedom from doing anything

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    constructed only with stones‚ and their government was based on “compartmentalized and interlocking units.” The Inca culture was alive and vibrant‚ with religion playing a major role. Their economy was unique but worked. Some consider the Inca Empire a Utopia because of its carefully planned government and streets‚ vivid culture‚ architecture and technology years‚ if not decades‚ ahead of its time‚ so that it was - and still is - a society with a vast and far-reaching

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    Big Brother – have complete control of the nation known as Oceania‚ where everyone is under constant surveillance by the Thought Police. The story is set in London which has decayed just as much as the people’s souls and minds‚ shown as a “negative utopia”. Just before the end of the novel‚ the protagonist known as Winston Smith is being tortured by the Party operative O’Brien until he adheres to the Party’s mentality‚ admits crimes he has not even committed‚ broken inside‚ and has only “love” for

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    White People and Their Infatuation With Utopias Utopias can only be true the model of a society when all of its citizens are treated justly and equally. Utopias are only a figment of the white‚ carefree imagination and is not accessible for black and brown bodies because they engage with society in the mindset of anti-ethics so is therefore not possible. The thesis of anti-ethics‚ coined by many famous authors such as Tommy J. Curry‚ defines all morality as white morality. It says that minorities

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    Analysis of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia The purpose of this paper is to carefully study and analyze Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia. Before‚ I being with my analysis I want to give you a quick back brief on who Thomas More was‚ and why he might have wrote the book to begin with. Sir Thomas More was a man of many titles and jobs‚ but for the sake of this paper I will only discuss the titles and offices in which he held prior to the publication of this book. More was a lawyer who studied law at Oxford from

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