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    Rhetorical Analysis (Women and Vampires: Nightmare or Utopia?) In our modern society‚ the term “vampire” has been stretched among such an enormous range of roles that it becomes almost impossible to accurately describe them. The recent trend of vampires and werewolves has taken a hold over pop culture‚ drawing mass amounts of attention over a huge audience. As I read the title of the essay‚ I feared I was in for a lecture on Twilight and the feminine roles in the stories. However‚ the author‚ Judith

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    Utopian and Dystopian ideas are popular because a utopian society is an ideal world‚ or a fantasy image‚ while a dystopian world is the reality of being a millennial. Utopian stories have become progressively popular because of the widespread ideas of perfection and the ‘perfect image.’ In stories like “The Giver”‚ “Harrison Bergeron”‚ and “Divergent” it illustrates the ideas of society and how conforming people are to the idea of the idea of ‘equality.’ The non-conformists are looked as antagonists

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    Etymologically Utopia means “nowhere” but in reality it means everywhere. It starts at the personal individual level to reach the community and beyond. Someone once said “everybody wants to change the world‚ nobody wants to change himself”. We all remember Martin Luther King: “I have a dream”. We recall Cervantes with his famous Don Quixote de la Mancha. We also have the worst with Hitler and the Holocaust . Jesus himself came up with his own utopia: “my kingdom is not of this world" ( john 18:36)

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    to Henry VIII of England and Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He died on 6 July 1535.  Thomas More became one of the most interesting and influential figures of the early Renaissance.  More’s most important work was his ’Utopia‚’ published in 1516. Utopia portrays a vivid picture of the terrible evils which England was suffering through war‚ lawlessness‚ the foolish application of the death penalty‚ the misery of the peasants‚ the absorption of the land by the rich‚ and the other distressing

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    freedom and limitation within More’s Utopia and Huxley’s Brave New World and determine the positive and negative aspects within each society. In Book 1 of Thomas More’s Utopia‚ thieve suffer the consequence of being put to death‚ including theft of a loaf of bread in order prevent starvation. Thieves suffered the same punishment as murders

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    In Robert Nozick’s Anarchy‚ State‚ and Utopia‚ Nozick uses the example of Wilt Chamberlin‚ a very wealthy basketball player‚ to show that liberty is incompatible with any patterned theory of distributive justice. According to Nozick there are three sets of rules of justice‚ defining: How things not previously possessed by anyone may be acquired; How possession may be transferred from one person to another; and What must be done to rectify injustices arising from violations of (1) and (2). First

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    and create a country living far from equal. It is time to transform into something that works‚ to open our minds to the new solution‚ or maybe just leave these ideas behind altogether. Rave and its religious culture has the potential to create a utopia if the “responsible” population of this society chose

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    Practical Application of Utopia in "Brave New World" Debra Ackerman Mrs. Eileen Waite Criticism of Practical Application of Utopia in Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World illustrates the loss of morality when established standards are replaced by amoral criteria. In his novel‚ Huxley criticizes the practical applications of Utopia in actual society. Huxley’s depiction of love‚ science‚ and religion support the ineffectiveness of implementing Utopia in everyday life. In Brave

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    Governments with unlimited power will eventually destroy humanity itself. The characteristics of human beings are deliberately stripped away by the government‚ leaving Winston as the last representation of humanity.“The definition of humanity is the entire human race or the characteristics that belong uniquely to human beings” (“Humanity”). Intelligence‚ independence‚ and intimacy are three characteristics that are associated with human beings. In the novel‚ the totalitarian government had eliminated

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    Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is a text of universality in which has fascinated and influenced countless writers. It is a novel‚ in which its primary motif and desire is to attack the ills of society and to point direction for the amelioration of humanity. It is a text of value in which it communicates‚ educates and criticizes Thomas More’s opinions and concerns as a political satire. It is the novels use of Utopic/Dystopic conventions‚ intermingling of fact and fiction and comparison‚ which

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