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    John In Brave New World

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    Try to imagine yourself in a utopian society where people are drugged to feel happy and you have no clue what is going on in the outside world around you. John also known as “Savage” tries to imagine what life would be like if he lived in the utopian society instead of the real world only to realize it isn't all that it seems. “O brave new world,” he repeated. “O brave new world that has so much people in it. Let’s start at once.” (Huxley 139) John was born in the outside world, he wasn’t born from

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    Freedom Vs. Enslavement

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    The topic I chose to examine in this novel in freedom vs enslavement. I chose this topic because in the first two chapters it becomes evident that the people have no say in what they do, they are born with a specific purpose. The Hatcheries and the idea of scientifically creating a baby in a factory and conditioning them to act a certain way were introduced. The ten controllers have total freedom and rule the world, but people in the Gamma, Beta, Delta, and Epsilon castes are slaves of the controllers

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    The book starts in the beginning with how the process of making human beings is.The process which could be compared with how they make consumer goods on an assembly line, they mass produce people the same way they would mass produce an object. A normale egg would become ninety-six people. “One egg, one embryo, one adult” (Brave New World, page 7). The egg would with a spesial process called “Bokanovsky's Process be able to grow to become more human begins “the egg will bud, will proliferate,

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    Red Headed Hawaii

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    Most people imagine Hawaii to be paradise. An island Utopia where the rich and upper middle class come on vacation. However just like most places Hawaii has its own share of poverty, economic problems, environmental issues, high crime rate, and high unemployment rates. The Red Headed Hawaiian by Chris McKinney gives a more realistic and insightful view on what life in Hawaii is like for the Hawaiians. The book was published May 1st, 2014, it is a first-hand account of what life in Hawaii is really

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    Unlike our world today Brave New World is entirely different due to the way children are reproduced. The following paragraphs are summaries of chapters one through three in the book the Brave New World. At the beginning of the novel it opens up in Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre (p.15). We become familiarized with the World State’s motto: “Community, Identity, Stability” (p.15). The Director of Hatcheries is giving a group of students a tour on how human beings are produced

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    (Sherwin, (a)). Sherwin’s studies of dicotyledonous wood evolution has directed him to pursue understanding the evolutionary patterns of islands (Edward & Roy, 1997). This was the turning point where Sherwin’s work finally been acknowledged after thirty long years, on 1991. He had a grand total of 24 principles governing long-distance dispersal and evolution on islands acknowledged by other botanists (CA). Early Days Sherwin John Carlquist was born on July 7th, 1930 in Los Angeles, son of Robert William

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    Leonard E. Read uses the life experiences of an everyday pencil to explain to the readers the benefits of the free market and the price system that allows the free market to continue to exist. In this essay, he vows to teach readers a lesson by revealing his genealogy. His goal in doing so is to show readers the importance of having a capitalist society versus a communist one. He explains that this can be achieved if people are able to “leave all creative energies uninhibited… have faith that free

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    Soma In Brave New World

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    However unlike soma, in the reservation (and in modern society), Linda used a different stimulant to make herself “happy.” She used mescal, “. . .but Linda said it ought to be called soma; only it made you feel ill afterwards” (125). This parallels to the modern stimulants of today: alcohol, smoking, drug abuse, they all are fine at the time to distract you but in some way they cause dangerous to the body that are not worth the holiday. An additional parallel between Brave New World and modern society

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    When reading the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, it is unmistakably evident that the use of stimulants (soma) is the leading source of the society’s happiness. Drugs and medicine are used in both societies in many comparable and contrasting ways. Our “soma” takes a different form than it does in Brave New World, but a lot of the results are the same. The most common similarity between the use of drugs in the two societies is the purpose of the drug is use. This motive is for escaping reality

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    Kodak Research Paper

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    Kodak island is totally isolated island, although it has a thriving community. Most of Kodak is a wildlife refuge, where Kodiak bears thrive on King salmon and Salmon berries. The town is a fishing community with it’s share of eccentric characters. The first thing that you notice when you get off the ferry is the small box houses that almost look like cracker boxes, that climb up the hill. Their bright colors contrast against the dark grey granite of the cliff. The second thing you notice is the

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