In A Perfect World By Trish Doller

David Christian, This Fleeting World: A Short Story of Humanity. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2009. 120 pages.

David Christian, This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing. 2009; 142 pp. $18.95 (paperback)

David Christian, This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2009; 120 pp. $14.95 (paperback)

A perfect society is an unattainable idea, because everyone has a different idea of what a perfect society would be. While on the other hand making yourself a better person can better a whole society. Creating a perfect society would be fairly difficult thinking of factors such as not everyone agrees on what a perfect society is. Some people may think it is when there is no hate or when everyone is equal while others believe the opposite. Although, when someone works to better themselves and they do better themselves, the people around them better themselves too. Gandhi said “Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men” which can be interpreted as someone works to be better to better the people around them. So if you look for the good in people and use that to better yourself that would better a society.

Coming from a warm, predictable home with a room to call her own to a corner shared with multiple other people who speak a language she was only just learning to master required a resilience I don't often see in adults let alone 13 year olds. Through these experiences and learning curves, even in the hardest moments of home sickness, frustration with communication, physical discomfort, feeling like a stranger in a strange land, Ruthie focused on what the benefit of her France experience would be, how choosing to stay the course she chose would prepare her for opportunities in the future, and kept the vision of how being a person of her word to herself above all else would shape who she was becoming and lay the foundation for how she would handle future challenges. Ruthie has gone on to travel in France again at 15 as well as living in New York during the summer months of her 16th year to participate in the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

The unnamed protagonist in “Araby” is just an average adolescent boy. His schedule never changes; week to week it is always the same. Each week he helps his Aunt shop for groceries and for fun he plays outside with other boys his age. There is nothing special about his family either. He lives with his aunt and uncle in an average house, in a normal town. Like most kids, his best friend is his neighbor, Mangan. His uncle is a business man and seems to follow the same routine every day. The only thing that makes the boy excited each day is the thought of Mangan’s sister. He would time his mornings around her and make sure that when she left her house, he left his. He would follow behind her down the street until he had the chance to quickly walk by her. He has only spoken to her a couple times, but the thought of her drives him

“The Love of My Life” by T.C. Boyle tells the story of China and Jeremy who are high school sweethearts and have been in love since their junior year of high school. Both of these teenagers have bright futures ahead of them. They end up deciding to go to separate colleges, and try to make the long distant relationship work. In the spring before their freshman year of college, they unintentionally conceive a baby. China talks her boyfriend into keeping the baby, but they agree on not getting the ambulance involved. The night she went into labor, her boyfriend, Jeremy, got a hotel room and she delivered the baby girl in the room

Sophia Peterson is a 12th grader and a girl of wretched countenance, never encouraged of a smile. Sophia is very austere with herself and didn’t give interest in her new town, or new school in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Sophia is from Broadview, Ohio and had never been interested living anywhere else. In late-December, Sophia’s parents decided they needed a change of scenery after losing their older son, Derek, in a tragic house fire in their hometown... Derek’s sudden death was a great calamity and Sophia had no say in this arrangement to move, except to pack what was left of her belongings.

The book, That Summer, by Sarah Dessen is a great coming of age,enjoyable novel to read. Haven,who is fifteen,is going through many harsh changes in her life at the moment. Her parents are getting divorced and her dad is getting remarried and all Haven wants is for her life to be like it use to be. Haven’s so called “soulmate” named Sumner,who she dated last summer,is back at her school. Her dad gets married and Haven does not take it too well.She now realizes that it’s officially over. Her parents are split up and nothing is going to fix that problem now that her dad has moved on. Haven has a job at the mall working at a shoe store in which she sees Sumner often. She believes that fate has brought them back together. Haven’s mother wants

Stupid Perfect World by Scott Westerfeld is a story of imperfections masked by the concept of perfection. These imperfections make the story invigorating and powerful by showing the downside of perfection. Only through imperfection, flaws, and chaos can humans truly live. Kieran and Maria, the two protagonist of the story, realize this as they undertake a school project that changes their lives forever. They inhabit a futuristic world where people can teleport and survive without sleeping. Sickness is easily avoided and hormones are regulated. There is no suffering, sickness, or sadness because everything is perfect in their world (Westerfeld). If there is any downside to this utopia, then it is called “Scarcity,” a class where students are

Huxley makes a lot of arguments to a certain types of topics, but the one the that got my attention was the one about the idea of being an outside society. From what I see, he's making it seem that anything not following a set rule to a perfect life is something that's not civilized. That you'll be viewed as an uncivilized society, that needs to change. In my opinion, if these so call perfect society were to try to change the ways of the native Americans, it would have some similarities to what the Christian crusaders did to some people, just to get them into the system of believing in God. I see that Huxley is making the argument that if your society isn't following a set of rules to live a perfect and civilized life, it's considered, horrible,

Is Utopia a perfect society? Utopia is thought to be a perfect society due to the equality, strict laws, and morals. Could you imagine working a six-hour day, and getting a 2-hour break in between the three-hour point? What about citizens all having the same jobs and making the same amount of money? Everyone’s house looks exactly the same? Oh, and how about not being able to travel on your own time because you have to have permission?

Go back in time think of what it would be like to live in the 70’s, where everything was disco, and women were looked at from a whole new perspective. Within the town of woodsberry there was a little girl named Emily who was 9 years old, but she always felt like she was all grown up. She was a proper girl who always liked to dress-up and wear her mother’s shoes, although there weren’t many shoes, she made do with what she was given. Her mother, Eleina was a 32 year old housewife and her father, Jonah was a 36 year old factory manager. They lived in a 2 bedroom apartment right by main street; one of the busiest streets in the city.

The overall focus of the article is on a new way of science, CRISPR. This “ revolutionary gene-editing technique” is a recent discovery that enables scientists to take out and replace certain sections of DNA. (“Editing The Human Race” 1) It’s like they are “playing God” by considering “designer babies and mutants” as the result to this technology. (1) Using this can “transform the world” through the introduction of bringing new and extinct organisms to a new level. (1) Although, a variety of biologist, scientists, and geneticists do disagree with this new scientific knowledge. Is editing “ desirable traits into a person’s DNA” the right path we should be taking? Numerous professionals say, “there are things you would not want to

When I envisioned a Utopian planet, Earth was the perfect example. It had water, land, and the perfect atmosphere. Unfortunately, it didn't have the creatures I envisioned. They were bipedal, ugly things. Orifice-like faces, spindly arms and legs, and a odd sort of communication. That is why I needed to get rid of them to perfect my utopia. I started subtly. Using the shadows, I crept into their box-like dwellings, going through the vents and open windows. But as soon as they noticed me, I realized how much of a fuss they made. Screaming, yelling, hitting the walls, the "humans" attacked me. Oh, how futile their pathetic attempts were. I ripped them apart and gouged out their life, and it took little, to no effort at all. But I soon realized