Utopia Persuasive Essay

“Hey guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you” (Qtd. In Krakauer 69). After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned everything, gave his entire savings account to charity, and then hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wild. In the novel, Into the Wild, Was McCandless justified in shunning society? McCandless was justified in shunning society because he simply wanted to find himself and be independent without any distractions from his friends or family.

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands- one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Audrey Hepburn.

If Iowa was the only state in the United States, what city would you live in

Being an athletes is one of the best-paid jobs on Earth. Being that they are paid so much the cost for the consumer is very high. The prices of tickets and sports memorabilia have been steadily rising over the years. The average ticket prices for the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL all rose 5% to 10% this year, according to Jon Greenberg, executive editor of Team Marketing Report. (Mihoces).

Finding a panacea for cancer will be an arduous task with a very lengthy and discouraging trial and error period. Inevitably there will be some trying hurdles to get past in search of this cancer panacea, but, one that seems to be the most difficult to get passed is the severity and variety of the case presented. Doctors see this as overwhelming and very daunting since they do not want to get a patient’s hopes up if the medicine turns out not to work, or cause things to get worse. If doctors believe they have found this new and astonishing drug that cures all cancer at all stages and they prescribe it but turns out to only make the cancer worse, they will have to live knowing that they hurt all of these people and their families forever. In

The last time I saw Charlie outside prison walls we were on the run. Charlie was on the run, not I, I just went along for the ride because he was my husband. Charlie was on parole, but he loved to drink his booze. In our state it's a violation to drink while on parole.

The fantasy books we read today are of mystical worlds that were created from someone’s imagination. Places where magic is real or zombies take over the world, places where vampires and werewolves live among us, or even places where reality has been severely twisted. Worlds like Narnia, Hogwarts and the more mystical version of Atlantis set the stage for what our minds perceive as a utopia. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, a world much like a Utopia, with magical creatures or a twisted version of reality. We read books about the end of the world and call it dystopian fiction, but how fictional is it really? Is the dystopian fiction we read about and see on television really that far fetched from our reality?

Annotated Bibliography Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954. Summary: The novel, Animal Farm, is a fictional novel which starts off with the rebellion of the animals against the humans.

Utopia is a hard sell in the twenty-first century. Today we are people who know better, and what we know are the horrors of “actually existing” Utopias of the previous century: Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Maoist China, and so on in depressing repetition.1 In each case there was a radical break with the present and a bold leap toward an imagined future; in every case the result was disastrous in terms of human cost. Thankfully, what seems to be equally consistent is that these Utopias were relatively short-lived. History, therefore, appears to prove two things: one, Utopias, once politically realized, are staggering in their brutality; and two, they are destined to fail. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

"I come as a messenger of the Lord. I come to bring you the gospel of the kingdom you have long waited to hear. Repent while you may, for the day of the Lord has come upon you. I come to proclaim the gospel of Christ so that you can have the fullness of salvation. I come to proclaim to you the King of kings and Lord of lords. Behold, the kingdom of heaven is at hand, even before you. See the blessings of Utopia formed before your eyes. See the riches of God's kingdom upon the earth. I tell you Utopia is the promised land. Utopia will be your inheritance, your milk, and your honey. No wonder the world hates Utopia, for the world is evil, and Utopia is of God. The nations are jealous of Utopia, for their evil deeds are exposed. Their

Throughout history, the advancement in technology has been one of the few areas that humans failed to set restrictions to, thus leading to many repercussions. In the following utopia, technology is limited to avoid facing backlash. In brief, any technological advancement that is a luxury would essentially be taken away.

“Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay and present it to the class in a week. You will be graded based on how convincing it is. Today we will be choosing topics,” announced Mr. Bowerbank, my 7th grade English teacher and ruler of classroom 110. My class simultaneously groaned at the prospect of work. I simply lifted my head with intrigue as it was already May and about time we had our first essay. He then proceeded to give examples of topics we could choose and gave us some time to think before we had to tell him our topic. My classmates were already rushing to tell the teacher their idea lest someone else steal it. That meant the usual abortion, death penalty, or drug use topics were out. I really couldn't think of anything and the teacher was slowly making his way through the remaining students like an executioner beheading criminals in a line. I have always thought that he would make a marvelous supervillain if he had a curly mustache, a tophat, and a cape. Eventually my name was called. I slowly dragged myself over to his desk. Even sitting down, he still seemed to tower over me. “What is your topic Cindy?” As usual in such desperate times, my mind turned to food. “Waffles are better than pancakes.” I figured that a waffle was just a differently shaped pancake with a nicer texture. “Hmm. Excellent topic. I look forward to your essay!” I survived to live yet another day.

Imagine for a second a place where color does not exist. Imagine a place where everyone lives in a house. Imagine a place where everyone one has a job and violence does not exist. Imagine a place where everything seems; familiar, homely, and secure. How far away do you think that place is from your communities today?

The world is a complicated place and today's standards of society make it even more difficult to live and act in one's own way. I sometimes wonder what life would be like if we could start all over and build a brand new society - a society that guarantees social justice for all groups and full rights to every individual. Would there be a way to make everything and everyone equal? From the beginning society has been judgmental in one way or another, rather it is through racism, sexism, or classicism. There has always been a group of people who declared themselves righteous above all others and if one was not a part of this group he or she was discriminated against simply for not being the same as the dominating group.

“People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.” It’s not often that someone can say that they have something in common with a celebrity; however, unfortunately I can. Brooke Shields, the well-known model turned actress that verbalized my thoughts, and I are alike in one way; both of us have been molded into life-size dummies. The object that best represents me is a mannequin. I have discovered this through universal, personal and practical avenues of inquiry.