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    create a utopia, but what is a utopia and is it possible? The literal definition of a utopia is “ an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.” Thomas More created the word in his book Utopia. In a utopian society pain, conflict, and suffering no longer exists. The community is usually isolated from the rest of society and the people who live in the community work for the common good and in return the community provides for the people. Utopias are based off of the belief of

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    In general, when our society discusses religion and technology, we discuss them as opposites, as two things that are essential to our lives but are incompatible when considered together. In his book Religion of Technology, David Noble argues against this common idea. Noble argues that they are not only compatible in our modern day, but that they have been essential to each others growth for much of religious history. In the text, Noble outlines the history of the intertwining of religion and technology

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    possible in place of this place.” The word "utopia" comes from the Greek word called "outopos". Outopos means, "no place” (“Utopia”). This meaning is described because a utopia is a perfect society that will never exist, thus it is perfect. One utopian theory is a society without drinking and driving. However, a utopian society could potentially go wrong and lead to a dystopia. One example to look at this transition from a utopia to dystopia is causal analysis. Causal analysis "systematically examines

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    women and how society and its idea of beauty affects her. My interpretation of the poem is that the girl is basically crying out for help saying look I am healthy, intelligent, and strong but no one sees or cares about those things because the only thing they see when they look at her is her outside appearance and what society considers to be the flaws that she possesses. Although this was written in 1936 Piercy accurately describes the feeling of being defined or constricted by society to think, act

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    individual’s behaviour in order to be uniform and consistent with the expectations of a social system. Conformity provides order and stability in a society as well as a sense of equality, a sense of belonging and identity and the freedom to achieve their full potential. These positive aspects of conformity are explored through the visual text, Dead Poets Society. Conformity is vital in the promotion of equality. Through conformity individuals can gain a sense of impartiality since there are no outliers

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    best effort, the history of mankind is a wrinkled mess. These wrinkles are due to mankind’s inability to stop history from repeating itself several times over. However, the idea of history repeating itself is not new to the literature of today’s society. There are several more causes for wrinkles in mankind’s history. In fact, Ronald Wright argues that not only the idea of history repeating itself, but also the idea of mankind progressing to the point that progress becomes detrimental to mankind

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    An ideal place or state; this is the modern definition of utopia, however if one were to ask Sir Thomas More his answer would be slightly different. Sir Thomas More wrote the book Utopia in 1516 about a “perfect” imaginary island. The island was called Utopia which stood for “no place” but also sounded like “good place”. Through his use of irony, More points out the absurdity of English government and culture. One of the first examples of irony can be found in the first book of Utopia. The government

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    following, a profitable business model and an above average lifestyle for the time, it is hard to dispute Oneida’s success. Oneida represented what Noyes believed to be the perfect society, and by most standards Oneida was superior to 19th century America. Oneida’s longevity and prosperity can be used to analyze other Utopian Societies from this time period. Oneida was born out of the spiritual atmosphere of the mid 19th century. The 2ndGreat Awakening inspired reforms and spirituality through the desire

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    that your society is perfect, without any flaws or worries? Well, that's what the Romans and what Nazi Germany thought, and where are they now? Gone. That's where they are. Even in the fiction book, Ready Player One, they thought they were so tough, but not anymore. These Societies may have been powerful and wealthy, but they all suffered the same fate. Corrupt leaders, turned the society upside down. Poverty, affected the moral of the civilization, bringing it down. Wars destroyed the society, making

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    Antonio Leal Per:2 Society has become too dependent with technology in their lives because they're always on it, children are negatively affected, and it can become a hazardous obsession. First of all, everyone is always using social media and they’re on their device most of their device device most of the time. Grantend, it is known that they are laws in california that drivers in California and have to be hands free . However I know that people still post on social media and text when

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