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The Hawaiian Monk Seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) It is estimated that monk seals have been living in the Hawaiian island chain for 14-15 million years. It is believed that they reached the Hawaiian archipelago through the Central American Seaway, which closed approximately 3 million years ago. They are considered by many to be a “living fossil” due to the primitive nature of the species. Both remaining species of monk seal are in imminent danger of going extinct. While the Hawaiian monk seal population

Tuvalu, a small island with a population of less than 11,000, is on it’s way to sinking. The island has been struggling to keep it’s inhabitants safe from it’s rising waters for many years now, but it had gotten to the point where their plight can no longer be ignored. With the climate1 continuously on the rise due to high CO2 2 emission rates, from countries such as China and the United States, there has also been an increase in ocean acidification3 and ocean water levels4. These consequences both

Brave New World is seen as a book written on a utopian society that robot-like humans live in. The time is 632 After Ford, and the city of a utopian England is stabilized by soma. Soma is seen as a substance taken in low dosages to induce pleasant feelings and stimulates social contact. It makes the people happy, relaxed and good-humored. (Schermer, 2007). A substance like soma can be evaluated as what makes the book, Brave New World, a utopian universe. The author sees soma as psychoactive drug

“The plant, or the intoxicating juice of the plant, used in ancient Indian religious ceremonies. Inevitably, given the Indian tradition, the plant and its juice were personified as a god, Soma” (SOMA). In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Soma is a huge symbol used throughout the story that shapes the characters and the work as a whole. Everyone in the World State does soma, Lenina and Bernard take it with their coffee before they go out, and at the event there is soma ice cream bars “The

Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was a prestigious philosopher and author that wrote dozens of works, but he is best known for his novel Brave New World (1932). The Huxley family name was recognized as most of his family had gone on to become acclaimed scientists. Aldous Huxley actually began life dreaming of following in his family’s footsteps and becoming a man of the sciences, but after keratitis left him partially blind, Huxley had to change his

The Brave New World society is filled with extremely happy people who know nothing. They live in a dystopian world, where there are no meaningful relationships or significance to their lives, but they do not know that. All they know is that they are happy. However, there is one character, John, who does know the truth, but he does not know happiness. When this character enters society, he knows nothing about, and is extremely excited to be apart of it, however the more he learns, the worse he feels

One of the most interesting fictional thought created in the novel, is the process of cloning people. In the perspective of Aldous Huxley, he believes that the world would be better off without the process of growth. Therefore, he created a technique (Bokanovsky’s Process) that would fasten the advancement of growth and bring sophisticated people into its society. As a reader, I noticed how Huxley symbolized social stability as the Bokanovsky’s Process. The author utilizes symbolism when the Bokanovsky’s

Utopia which written by Thomas More is a story that can only be applied as an imagination. More uses more than a half space of the book for discussing how a perfect world looks like because he wants to provide all the details of a prefect kingdom for readers to create their imagination. He also tries to have readers to ponder the differences between the imaginal world: Utopia, and the real world. This is a reflection of More’s value. He sees the weakness of the society, and also predicts the future

Hawaiians have experienced difficulty with understanding their identity since the arrival of the first haoles. Since then, with the promise of labor and tropical paradise, people of all different races and cultures have flocked to the islands. Before the arrival, the language, beliefs, and traditions that solidified their culture had already been established and practiced solely by the Hawaiian people for generations. Yet through years of interracial marriages, Hawaii has become home to many hapa

A “utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality,” said the famous French novelist Albert Camus in his collection of essays, Between Hell and Reason. History shows us that seemingly exemplary ideals in practice have led to the collapse of societies. Just examine the two most prominent attempts at a utopia: Hitler’s attempt to socialize all of Europe and create the “perfect” Aryan race coupled with Karl Marx’s beliefs to instate communism into society. The final result was the destruction