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    Soma and its Effects Essay

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    Soma and its Effects Throughout India's long and colorful history, there have been a considerable variety of groups who have left their mark on the land and its people. One of the most influential, however, were the Aryans. In fact, some of the Aryan customs still remain in modern-day India, such as cattle demanding great respect, which stems from the Aryan tradition of using such animals as currency (Chamberlain). The Aryans were mainly pastoral, relying on agriculture to survive (Bentley and

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    Artificial happiness – universal drug addiction (modern soma, gov’t sponsored) When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, he predicted that in a future society government will provide a drug that makes you forget your feelings and makes you happy. Huxley predicts that everyone will develop a universal drug addiction to this drug which will provide artificial happiness. In our modern society we can noticed that the current trend in Europe shows an increase of recreational drugs which

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    addicted to them and in the book Brave New World they are addicted to the drug soma. The book discusses how they can't live without the drug and that they need it to help get through everything. There is a verse in the song that says “ we both know we can't go without it” and in the book it says “People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma.” In the book everyone takes soma no matter what and they get addicted. This song is about someone being addicted

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    stop thinking, feeling and only achieve society’s goals. They are divided by castes: alpha, betas, gammas, delta and epsilons. I chose to write a newspaper article because I think that they try to achieve their perfect place in a wrong way by using soma as a drug of happiness and relaxation. In my work, I am a writer of the “London Telegraph" who makes an article about that drug and their effects in the castes, also it says how they are going to solve their problems. This work is written in a formal

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    Brave New World Chapter Abstract: are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events (what is happening in the story) and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects (who is in these chapters and what are they doing). Chapter 1 & 2: The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is 632 A.F. (632 years “after Ford”). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving some students

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    Brave New World-Book Chart Title Significance The author chose the title ‘Brave New World’ because it is a reference to what John had read in a book. Like the character in the book, John believes he will enjoy this new world and will finally fit in somewhere, but it’s when he gets there that he realizes that the new world is restricting him from being himself. Also, I think the book is called ‘Brave New World’ because it relates to plot when John is leaving the reservation where he is not respected

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    History has paved the road for what we call society today. Through the pleasant and harsh, the gains and losses, the victorious and the not so victorious, we as humanity have learned and risen up to overcome whatever is thrown our way. Thanks to our past, we are able to identify certain situations and quickly figure out how they should be addressed. History gives us knowledge. In societies all over the world today, governments and people embrace their history and culture, and continue to learn from

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    The Influence Of Soma

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    influence of Soma looks like. We a person is flushed it means that they are having some powerful emotions like excitement, fear, disgust. An important phrase in the quote that is used is ”Universal Benevolence breaks out”, benevolence means to perform a good deed or a to commit a charitable act. If Benevolence means to do good things for others then Universal Benevolence must mean to want to do good things for everyone. The did not have this Universal Benevolence break out before they took the Soma. The

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    The Soma Symbolism

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    The above picture represents a pill called “Soma.” This pill is used throughout the story by many characters to help lessen the stress of a situation and provides a boost to help tolerate whatever they may be going through. It was used as an escape from reality to a place of pure and artificial happiness. This eventually leads to the character’s death because, as with any other drug, it can cause an overdose. I personally feel this is a very important symbol throughout the story because it shows

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    Hallucinogen Of Soma

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    where everything is being observed, under control and synthetic. Drugs & alcohol and power were some themes in this book. Not only were drugs common, but they were also distributed by the government. The drug that is used throughout the book is called Soma. A hallucinogen described as the “perfect drug”. It is used for escaping moments of dissatisfaction with the benefits of being calm, relaxed and having 10 hour long highs. The citizens have been conditioned to love the drug and are enslaved by it

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