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    The 1920 was a time of major cultural and moral change. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley he uses satire to relate to the society and politics in his time of the early 1920s and 1930s. He describes drug dependency, moral and cultural decay, and alienation by using the following literary devices: connotative diction, and dialogue. Aldous Huxley uses connotative diction to describe many topics in his book. In the quote, “Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consumption, the peace, not of mere vacant

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    pictures we noticed that I was neck deep in water, my dad on my right was waist deep, and my little brother who was the only one that wanted to dip into the water wasn’t even touching it! We stayed on the second largest island Oahu and we took a day trip to the biggest island of Hawaii to see the volcanoes and some other

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    Cormac McCarthy’s brain child “The Road” is a postapocalyptic novel that illustrates the harsh reality of the world. This story serves as a truth that humans, when stripped of their humanity will take desperate measures in order to survive. The reader learns; however even when it seems all hope is lost good can still be found in the world. The son character of this story illuminates this philosophy. He is a foil of his father and shows how even a person never accustomed to the luxury of a normal

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    Hawaiian Identity

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    Hawaiians have experienced difficulty with understanding their identity since the arrival of the first haoles, and since then with the promise of labor and tropical paradise, people of all different races and cultures flocked to the islands. Through years of interracial marriages, Hawaii has become home to many beautiful hapa children of different backgrounds and ethnicities. However, as a result of these mixed bloods and cultures, many have had difficulty coping with where exactly they belonged

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    He could not make up his mind if it was a small island and he was very close, or if it was a massive one and he was far way. Still continuing to take step after step across the water, across the stretch of glass like liquid, he reached the sandy island. The moment his bristled toes touched the hot sand, Judai immediately fell into a deep slumber. When he hit the ground, his head split apart like an

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    In the passage “A Brave New World,” by Adam Huxley, John the Savage experiences exile when he travels to the civilized world with Bernard Marx. While John is in the civilized world, the separation from his homeland causes him to have alienating experiences. John is seen as an outcast in the civilized world due to his refusal to participate in customs and events that are normal to the citizens. His refusal of protest also makes him appear as an odd person to the citizens, due to the citizens viewing

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    The book begins with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explains that this Utopia breeds people by artificially fertilizing a mother's eggs to create babies that grow in bottles. Everyone belongs to one of five classes, from the Alphas, the most intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the jobs that nobody else wants to do. All the babies are conditioned psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the society with both a liking and an aptitude for the work they will

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    the West, while the island of Uta-Jima is a symbol of Japan as a whole. The novel pits the ancient, traditional values of the island against the new, brash values of the West. Off the shores of Uta-Jima, the author describes a world slowly succumbing to Western encroachment. The author depicts Shinji as the embodiment of Japanese values pre-World War II. Shinji is described as living an average islander life. He supports his family by fishing, something that men on the island have done for generations

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    Aldous Leonard Huxley was was born into a family that loved working in the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Huxley was born on July 26 of 1894, in Godalming, England. His father was the son of Thomas Huxley in which he was a great biologist. His grandfather also helped develop the theory of evolution. Huxley was the fourth child in the family. “His father, Leonard, was a teacher and a writer; and his mother, Julia, was a descendant of the English poet Matthew Arnold” ( Biography)

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    Drugs In Brave New World

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    Raymond Argueta Ms. Wierenga Honors English IV 31 August 2015 Brave New World with Drugs In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, there is a drug used and mentioned throughout the story called Soma. The characters have been conditioned by birth that Soma is always the answer when you feel alone or sad. This drug is used so people can go on "holidays" from their reality and is used as payment for the lower caste groups. People want Soma because they go on these highs and live in their "Heaven" to

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