To Succeed One Must First Dream in Looking Backwards by Edward Bellamy

This book attempts to tell us what people in the past have thought, fusing the historical side with the story itself. The anonymous philosopher who is later uncovered as Alberto Knox and Sophie, together are trying to figure out answers to all these unusual questions so important to mankind. So far the novel I would have to say is interesting in the aspect that you never know what question will be asked next. With

Thesis what worries me about the future ? This question is difficult for others to answer it because their are tennagers who are getting older in life and they think about how their future is going to be. Often the answer changes as you get older. The texts that we looked at are Anthem by Ayn Rand, “Emancipation Proclamation,” by Abraham Lincoln, Prometheus from Greek Mythology, “Critical Thinking video by Leo, and a Socratic Seminar. I am a person who is stubborn and determined person.

Sonia Sotomayor is a women full of many talents and accomplishments. In her book, My Beloved World, Sonia reveals many people, circumstances, hardships, and successfulness. Sonia has embraces many characteristics in which I can relate. Successfulness, determination, and the importance of learning are all crucial elements that make Sonia into the inspiring woman she is today. Relating to Sonia Sotomayor throughout her book allowed me to remain intrigued in the book and helped apply concepts to my everyday life.

I believe that the three texts that I have studied contained moments of optimism and pessimism which in turn have shaped my opinion of the general vision and viewpoint. This alludes to the feelings and emotions portrayed through the omniscient camera in "The King's Speech", the morally inclined narrator Nick Caraway in "The Great Gatsby" and the protagonist in the novel "Foster". I was very intrigued to find out more about these societies and the vision the author/director hoped to convey.

Anthem, the futuristic novel pinned by Ayn Rand in 1937 gives light to a very scary place and time. This writing expressed her views and beliefs that the United States would be repeating a dark place of its history. Setting the preface where slavery and dictatorship was once more the social norm. As with most forward thinkers their thoughts and ideas are concerned extreme and not given the validity they deserve until future generation look back into the past. History and human behavior always repeats itself.

From the ideas shared in the novel, it is evident that the writer defines his ideal society in the form of an antithesis of existing society. The author takes the initiative of informing the American population - using the novel’s romantic medium - on matters concerning individualism, which is notable in an argument by Andrew Carnegie who claims

Have you ever wondered what a perfect world would be like? To you it could mean no more war, no more poverty, every person of every race and gender being treated exactly the same. However, to someone else their idea of a perfect world could be the complete opposite of what you would want. In Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the idea of a perfect world is not just an idea anymore, it becomes reality. Nevertheless, both books “perfect world” are completely different from one another. The theme of both books is to try and find that perfect world, and maintain it. While there are many may differences between the two, the underlying truth still remains the same.

The Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain and America around the late 1700’s to 1900. This revolution improved the production of goods using new mechanisms and machines. Human labor was in high demand in order for the highest production rates. Factories employed low to middle-class people that were as young as three years old (Document 9). These workers were benefited with money, shelter, and clothes, but the working and living conditions were not satisfying. The average industrial worker experienced a variety of factors that can be classified as good or bad, including the positive effects of labor, like the shelter, money, and food they were given; and the negative effects of the factory,

reader's mind about what life was like in the 1930's showing the reader that the world was

Analyse how Nineteen Eighty Four and Pleasantville imaginatively portray individuals who challenge the established values of their time.

In Looking Backward, Bellamy outlined one proposal for protecting the freedom and welfare of all citizens through equal access to education, job opportunities, and wealth. Furthermore, he expanded the term citizen to include women and imagined a system in which men and women contribute equally to industry and home life.

Within the next few chapters Dr. Leete and Julian stay up to talk and answer questions that he may have. In these chapters Bellamy is using a comparison of the Julian's old world to the utopia that he has just entered and what Bellamy is creating as reader's continue with the story. Bellamy continues to explain further details of this utopia. For one Bellamy explains how each makes the money equally within the state and than how the money is given to the state to be equally distributed. Continuing on Bellamy describes a little how the society and state was run back in the ninetieth century. He talks about man's place in the work field and all the other responsibility that they carry out. Bellamy writes about each world a little at a time in order for the reader to distinguish the differences of the ninetieth century and the twentieth century.

People have always wondered what the future will be like. Certainly Edward Bellamy did when he wrote the novel, Looking Backward (1888). Bellamy uses a man named Mr. West as the main character in this novel. He opens by telling who he is and what his social standing is. West is a young man, around the age of 30, and is fairly wealthy. At the beginning, he tells us about his fiancé, Edith, and the house he is having trouble building for her. The trouble comes from the fact that the workers keep going on strike due to financial reasons, which prolongs the completion of the house. The biggest hint to the end of the novel comes from when he tells the reader that he suffers from insomnia. West must be put

They both emblematize the readers as artifacts of the nineteenth century civilization. Julian was concerned about the twentieth-century association dealing with the problem of motivating workers to do their greatest at their tasks. Julian’s belief was that workers won’t do their job right if they are the same and get the same credit at the end of the year. During the crisis of the nineteenth century, compensation and the hazard of starvation provided the motivation towards the citizens to work hard at their jobs. If they didn’t, they would get fired from not working hard enough and be replaced with someone who can. Doctor Leete clarifies that chaste values regarding tasks have changed by citizens who do their absolute greatest and they are able to receive the same amount of credit as everybody else. Employees who do their job right are considered to be loyal towards the society. With individualism as a choice in the nineteenth century and the twentieth century choses community and cooperation, citizens think that they should do their task in order to bequest to the common good throughout their diligence. The twentieth century has fitted individualism because employees feel dignified with extraordinary apperception for their decent actions through a standardized ranking system. The economy of the nineteenth century disposed incapability and decay through candidacy. A

In life, you are born into societies where various ideas or things are thought to be normal and the customs are already established. The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand has many themes, but what I believe the theme of the novel is, to think for yourself. To think for yourself means to make your own decisions and opinions, without depending on other people. I also think that if you are going to think for yourself you can’t worry about what other people will think of what you believe in. Whether you believe that you should only have school a few days a week or you believe in a certain god, no person should feel ashamed for what they believe in. In today’s society and in the society of Anthem, people don’t think for themselves and they just follow people blindly. In the media, today we see what celebrities are saying, who they like, who they dislike, what they use, what they endorse, and we follow them because we want to be like them. Sometimes you don’t realize that you’re not thinking for yourself, but not being able to think for yourself can make you miserable and that is what Equality 7-2521 realized in Anthem.