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    Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, during the beginning of the Great Depression. In this novel, he portrays a seemingly perfect world, with no sickness, worries, sorrow or death. In Brave New World, Huxley writes about many political and social issues. The main three issues are portrayed in the book are the controlling thoughts, the extreme obsession with stability, and the fact that no one is allowed to have a family, and they can produce 96 twins from one ovary. Huxley uses quite a bit

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    Major Social, Cultural, Political, and Economical Fallout of World War I Introduction On July 28 1914 the first World War began. It lasted for four years ending on November 11 1918. Beginning in Europe it is better known as World War I or the Great War. How the great conflict began was over freeing Bosnia. At the time Bosnia was under control by Austria as one of its provinces. Starting with car bombs on June 28 1914 to Franz Ferdinand’s car who was the Archduke of Austria at the time. Five

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    " 'And that,' put in the Director sententiously, 'that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.' "(16) Although in the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, not all of the social classes are exactly "happy", the people in them really do not have a choice of which class they get to join. All of the class systems in the book differ from each other. There are five different classes within

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    there is controversy surrounding this detail. Even when knowing the biological etiology of mental disorders, the culture and environment is still important in regards to the presentation as well as the commonality of these illnesses. In a world riddled by social expectations and beauty ideals, anorexia nervosa (AN) is a prime example of how culture must be examined in conjunction with

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    Everyone in the Brave New World is conditioned to conform to the societies rules: Community, Identity, and Stability. In the world we live in today, are we not conditioned the .same way? We are taught to follow the rules of society by example of our parents, churches, and even celebrities. We don’t describe the process as conditioning, but essentially they are the same thing. In Brave New World, conditioning is used to control the minds of the population, and in modern times, social norms control the population

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    Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. His novel depicts a dark vision of a futuristic utopian society. The society is so different from how things are in the world today. Humans are created and bred purely through factory genetics, not through people. There are different classes that each person eventually is put into when they are born, or “hatched.” Their classes are determined when they are first fertilized. The classes are as such: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta or Epsilon. The

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    Social and economic impacts of World War 2 World War 2 is a war that was fought globally between the years 1939 to 1945. The war mainly involved all the great powers of the world. They ended up forming 2 military alliances that opposed each other. The alliances were the Axis and allies. The World War 2 included several people adding up to 100 million. The war can said to be one of the most deadly wars as it claimed several lives (Zabecki 76). Dangerous weapons were used such as nuclear weapons. Bombing

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    “The people who govern the Brave New World may not be sane; but they are not madmen, and their aim is not anarchy, but social stability.” In the novel, Brave New World, the motto is: Community, Identity, and Stability. (1)This motto is very satirical due to the scientific advancement identifying who people are and who they associate with and the humans are far from stable. Aldous Huxley portrays the political and social issues in the novel by using imagery, diction, and allusions to bring a connection

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    period leading up to World War I was the age of Imperialism, a time when many countries in Western Europe were building up their empires throughout the world. They would often times get into "disagreements" amongst themselves over who was to control certain areas of the world. The countries were jealous, suspicious and did not trust each other.There was also a huge influence from the Industrial Revolution, which introduced new technologies and weapons used in the war.  World War One was one of the

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    and mass media; and two world wars. However, she proved herself as a pioneer of photomontage and as a feminist icon. Hannah Höch focuses her artwork on the political chaos of World War I, as shown in Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch. (Fig. 1) About Hannah Höch: Hannah Höch started her training in 1912 at the School of Applied Arts, in Berlin-Charlottenburg where she studied glass design; until the interruption of World War I. By 1915 she

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