Society Vs Utopian

Utopian communities have had an incredible impact on both American society and various recognized religious sects throughout the United States as a whole. Many people saw, and still see, democratic government as unfair, leaving the poor behind to become poorer while the rich continued to get richer; they felt a change in work and fairness was officially in order. Utopian societies were created with commendable intentions, and their idea of the perfect cooperative society is an attractive conference, but they were all considered experiments because they all declined swiftly and hopelessly.

After examining the Utopia in “The Giver”, I do not support eliminating personal choice and freedom for a Utopia. One reason I believe in freedom and choice is I believe individuals should choose their own jobs, unlike in “The Giver” where they cannot. If people chose their own jobs, they are motivated to contribute to society. Some people chose jobs that others may not because they get some personal benefit from it. Steve Jobs said,” Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.”

Everyone believes that utopias are perfect for everyone, but not everybody has the same opinion. Utopias are up to no good, nothing new ever happens, it’s always the same. Some may think that their utopia is the same for everyone else but it’s not. No one is allowed to be themselves in utopias.

The struggle and debate for and about utopias has been going on for thousands of years. In the classic book, Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, explores the aspects of happiness and stability through creating a utopia of his own. Of course, the civilization that he writes about is imperfect in many ways and the story follows an outcast in the society. In the book, Huxley shows us that true universal happiness is unattainable because to live a happy and fulfilled life with a true emotional range of feelings, essentially what it means to be human, people need to have freedom and thought. But in order to have a utopia with never ending happiness, people need stability and control. This makes a utopia an impossible

1. In New York, a group of Hatians live in a building and a hole in the wall is their door. The sqautters have dirty clothes and smoke crack. All of them truly beileve that they are all extended family. They all came to America because they thought it would be so easy to get a job and start making money.

Utopians were expected to work so much that even “If you stay in any place for more than twenty-four hours, you’ll be expected to carry on with your ordinary work-and be welcomed with open arms by the other people who do it there” (More pg. 86). People were expected to always work a trade they had learned and they could never take a vacation or even have a weekend off. In society today, people are encouraged to work, but never forced into a job or made to work every day. In fact, most people who do work only work five days a week and are paid overtime for any extra work. Society is so against More’s idea of work that there are laws against that kind of forced labor and it would be seen as a form of modern

Throughout history, many utopian societies have been established in hopes of creating a protected and uniform environment. In order to maintain a perfectly equal and errorless environment, some basic human rights are often violated. Many of the utopian principles put in place are based on the fear that the citizens will gain knowledge and notice the absence of their basic human rights. Unfortunately, once the citizens figure out that the government has infringed on their civil liberties they become disillusioned and want to revolt. This ultimately causes dissention and unhappiness throughout the utopia, which defeats the sole intention the leaders had when creating it. To avoid the rebellion, leaders of utopian experiments infringe on

The quality of your individual life would greatly improve in utopia. The burdens you face from corporate monopolies, the overwhelming weight of the devaluation of your currency and the lack of faith in your neighbors to achieve a civilization of peace and mutual respect has taken its toll for too long. Although this sounds as if it was taken directly from George Orwell’s book (1984) itself, the propaganda of a utopian government rule and the current everlasting war breathes as it’s on self-reliant organization today. Weary of the multiple political parties that are emerging every three seconds, we are faced with a question that has been proposed since the beginning of logical thinking. Is it

Have there been times in your life when you will do anything to win, anything just to be right? Have there been times in your live when you have decided to just let it go and take the high road? Those things can result in good or bad because violence creates violence, and peace creates peace, so lead by example.

The good of the commonwealth over the individual is also seen in the expectations and restrictions that are applied to the personal lives of the citizens in Utopia. Both Renaissance and modern readers can appreciate that careers come with expectations and that a career can benefit the greater good. For a modern reader it is hard to imagine that these expectations and restriction extend past the work day and into an individual’s personal

The best example of an utopian society is “2BR02B.” In the story it states,“All diseases were conquered . so was old age” (Vonnegut pg: 1). As the quote suggest that in the story all of old age was gone no one grew old and there was no illness at all this shows the society is perfect because all of the harm was gone because one thing is guaranteed death, but not in this society. According to Leora Duncan “‘That sure is a beautiful picture ,”she

Our utopia has a leader. It isn’t one single leader; it is more like a group of leaders. The leaders would be chosen from the communities’ people who meet different requirements, for example like good mental health, are educated, etc... The leaders will monitor how the society is doing and what changes should be made. There will be different leaders in charge of different things. We wouldn’t want to have leaders that are totally

In Thomas More’s Utopia, the elimination of property and money has all citizens working for the commonwealth. It is “where every man has a right to everything. They all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything. For among them there is no unequal distribution so that no man is poor, none in necessity and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich” (More 81). More’s Utopia also encourages a balance of power within society. It is where an individual, in a position of power, is not “as idle as drones, that subsist on other men’s labor” (More 7) It is where that individual gives “more regard to the riches of his country than to his wealth” (More 21).

I believe this article is prominent when addressing the issues of multiculturalism and diversity in that it explores thoughts and experiences of white female teachers educating students of color. The article takes real-world diversity issues within school settings and offers self-reflection on the parts of educators and the readers themselves. The teachers in the article are White females educating African American children. This is diversity in itself. The researcher allows the teachers to openly express how they feel about their experiences educating students of color.

The most advantageous learning I had through the process of research and in the time of this class, was when I was presented with the opportunity to teach literacy and foster diversity by becoming a mentor in a local program called Reading Buddies. As a mentor, I assisted elementary students who have fallen behind in mastering literacy, to help improve their skills in English writing and reading comprehension. Many of these students are those of immigrant families, who are currently facing hardships adjusting to schooling because English has been learned as their second language. I have always been passionate about education, so naturally, I took interest in providing help where the structural violence of our non-accommodating American