...Personal or Political? Cleverly penned to literally mean ‘no place,’ Utopia is an ideal discussed by Thomas More in Utopia. With connotations of eternal and universal bliss, the potential of a Utopian society easily strikes a chord in anyone’s heart to continuously pursue. Therefore, isn’t that ultimately what we are all trying to do, reach our Utopia? It is common knowledge that we are all diverse and individual people, so is a true worldly Utopia possible? We each form our own individual Utopian ideals, and while some theories may connect in ways with another’s opinion, a Utopia is more of a personal ideal and less of a societal or political ideal. The foundation of a Utopia is where most commonalities in opinions are found: job or purpose, happiness, belonging, positive environment, insurance of safety and sustenance, and the perfect amount of order. Getting to a more specific level, however, reveals differences in issues of strong government control or complete independence, stationary communities or nomadic, living off the land or to focus on a life with industrialized advancements, etc. In More’s Utopia, the perfect amount of order is similar to the United State’s House of Representatives, in which one person per city is made the voice of the people. The votes are ultimately out of the public’s control and are the Representative’s own personal opinion of what is best for the people. (More) When the time comes to vote on issues like control, as a country we do our...
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...what’s called a utopia because it’s a perfect world. The dystopic world versus a utopic world, what are the similarities? What are the differences? The legal definition of dystopia “an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one” (Webster). A dystopia is the world we currently live in because in certain parts of the world it can be very degrading and dark. Watching the news alone will give anybody a sense of despair because it’s filled with wars, people dying, and tragedy; whether it’s human induced or natural. The media is constantly buzzing with various scandals, such as corruption by people in high places. Violence has become normal and a part of everyday life, people are immune to violence and bad news. This is the real world definition of a dystopia because it does give you a sense of despair and watching the news will make you think that the world is bad and unpleasant. A utopia is the complete opposite of the dark world. It’s a place where everything is peaceful, there are no deaths, no wars, no corruption scandals, no clergy, rulers, king, or army(s). It is a completely peaceful and beautiful world; there is no need for weapons or violence of any sort like a dystopia. A utopia is the sort of world where people escape to in their minds, it’s a place where we build our fantasies and try to find some type of peace. We can dream about a utopia, then we wake up and reality hits us. Imagine a perfect...
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...Thomas More’s Utopia is a work of ambiguous dualities that forces the reader to question More’s real view on the concept of a utopian society. However, evidence throughout the novel suggests that More did intend Utopia to be the “best state of the commonwealth.” The detailed description of Utopia acts as Mores mode of expressing his humanistic views, commenting on the fundamentals of human nature and the importance of reason and natural law, while gracefully combining the two seemingly conflicting ideals of communism and liberalism. The presence of satirical irony and contradiction clearly defines Utopia as an unobtainable goal, though goal that all societies must pursue nonetheless. In essence, Utopia is a written manifestation of More’s humanist beliefs. Many of these views are vicariously present in the character of Raphael Hythloday. For example, Hythloday comments on the unwillingness of Kings to take advice from others, claiming they are “drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood and on” (More, 2011, p. 28). The idea of “infection” implies that a man is not naturally corrupt or sinful, but rather pure at heart and simply influenced by the environment an individual is exposed to. This is a key humanist concept, which suggests that human nature is malleable and inconstant, and therefore can be positively influenced to do good. Raphael later states, “Pride is too deeply fixed in human nature to be easily plucked out” (More, 2011, p. 98) Though this...
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...Although our society or utopia are different in a lot of ways they are also somewhat the same. When everything is all said and done I believe that the two will be so similar that you will not be able to pick out our differences. The way parents are now a days for instance, just leaving their kids and expecting the children to raise themselves, a child needs a parent but Brave New World shows us that it is possible to live without a mother or father (Huxley). There are quite the amount of difference that will always stay the same for instance technology. Although technology plays a big role in our society, their utopia does not use it at all, they are more about the trial and error in science. I find it insane that anyone on this earth would want to have a child and then just leave it on the side of the...
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...Can Utopias Exist Some utopias can and can’t exist. We will learn that utopias can exist. Also that will learn how Amish people are following specific rules to make everyone happy, they are trying to help the homeless not be homeless any more, & they have to have a happy life with their spouse. Before we start let's talk about Amish people and how they are following specific rules to make everyone happy.In the article ¨The Amish Lifestyle¨ in paragraph 9 “ They don’t use cars so that they don’t pollute the air around us”. This supports my reason because they are not wanting to hurt the environment. In the article ¨The Amish Lifestyle¨ in paragraph 8 “Amish believe in marriage for life”.This means that they don’t have as many sad or depressed...
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...Utopia (/juːˈtoʊpiə/) is an ideal community or society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed inliterature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia. In many cultures, societies, and religions, there is some myth or memory of a distant past when humankind lived in a primitive and simple state, but at the same time one of perfect happiness and fulfillment. In those days, the various myths tell us, there was an instinctive harmony between humanity and nature. People's needs were few and their desires limited. Both were easily satisfied by the abundance provided by nature. Accordingly, there were no motives whatsoever for war or oppression. Nor was there any need for hard and painful work. Humans were simple and pious, and felt themselves close to the gods. According to one anthropological theory, hunter-gatherers were the original affluent society. Religious utopias can be intra-religious or inter-religious. The inter-religious utopia borders on a concept like Polyculturalism and is not deemed possible in the near future or the near-far future. Fledgling theories are generally canceled as impossible, but the ideology of God and Religion used in inter-religious utopia is commonly stated...
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...! ! ! Table of Contents ! Introduction ...................................................................................................3 Product Description and Classification ...................................................................3 Consumer Product Classification ........................................................................4 Target Market .................................................................................................4 Competitive Situation Analysis .............................................................................5 Analysis of Competition using Porter’s Five Forces Model ..........................................5 SWOT Analysis ................................................................................................6 Product Objective ........................................................................................7 Price Objective ............................................................................................7 Place Objective ...........................................................................................7 Promotion Objective .....................................................................................7 Marketing Strategies and Implementation ...............................................................8 Product Strategies .........................................................................................8 Price Strategies ....................
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...least 80,000 innocent Tutsi`s by hacking them to death with machetes. Genocide is an unnecessary act of war that has the potential to wipe out large quantities of innocent people, with no real reason to benefit society. Author Michael Norfolk believes that it is necessary in order for us to reach Utopia for blood to be shed. According to Norfolk, genocide is “ancient”, comparing the amount of tribes that have been exterminated to the list of animal and plant species that we have...
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...Where Is Utopia in the Brain? DanieL s. Levine Introduction The designer of utopian societies, whether fictional or real, often confronts the limits of what is possible for members of our species. But how severe or flexible are those limits? The explosive growth of behavioral neurobiology and experimental psychology in the last decade has produced many results on the biological bases of social interactions. This growth suggests that we can now look to science for some partial answers to the question of limits. Until recently, the social sciences and the biological sciences have mainly developed separate and disconnected accounts of human behavior. In the “nature/nurture controversy,” for example, anthropology has tended to emphasize cultural influences on human nature whereas behavioral biology has tended to emphasize genetic influences. The journalist Matthew Ridley (Nature via Nurture) provides an accessible account of the intellectual history and rhetoric of these two fields. Yet an increasing number of scholars in both areas are now realizing that behavioral biology and anthropology are studying the same human phenomena from different viewpoints. This overlap means there should be an underlying reality that is consistent across the different disciplines regardless of any disagreements in terminology. The behavioral biologist Edward O. Wilson calls this type of interdisciplinary commonality consilience, a term coined earlier by the nineteenth-century philosopher William Whewell...
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...eliminates suffering and, consequently, the characters think they are happy due to soma and conditioning. In the consumer utopia of Brave New World, citizens are conditioned to be happy, but do not experience true happiness because they are not willing defy the utopia, are not suffering, and are not liberated from soma. Defying the utopia is not in the best interest of the citizen considering genetically breeding requires little to replace them, but they are conditioned to believe they are in the best situation. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” (Huxley 234). In chapter two, the Director used a mild-electric shock to condition the children to not like books. If the children would have not been shocked, they would...
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...When my group and I were creating the “perfect society” or when we viewed the other utopias, it had been clear that all the utopias were different, unique but had one major common idea or belief; the ability for people to have their own beliefs, religion, opinions, and the idea of equality was at an all-time high. It was clear that every society, had a specific goal to achieve with different pathways possible, but they all had a flaw including ours; these utopias are ideals, and will never be possible because of the human nature. The utopias (including ours) is a world where everything is perfect, safe, and pure. But without a doubt, the utopias can never realistically happen. People are not perfect, everyone has their own laws, and sins. The...
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...Foreshadowing Evil to Win In core, the definition of a utopia is extremely subjective. What would seem like a utopia to one may seem completely ambiguous to someone from a different (or even the same) culture. In consequence even though a utopia and dystopia are polar opposites by definition; the fine line that divides the two truly deserves its title. In Childhood’s End, Clarke explores the nature of the fine line by instigating the arrival of the superfluous Overlords, an advanced impeccable alien race who cleanses the world of inequality and creates a utopia of peace and stability which is evidently shown throughout the novel that they will be vanished. In the wake of reconstruction, Earth “by the standards of all earlier ages, it was Utopia. Ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear had virtually ceased to exist” (Clarke 64). Inequality is the greatest source of unrest and is the cause for all the aforementioned maladies of society. The suppression of inequality naturally brings content and harmony to society and its denizens and as a result “crime had practically vanished. It had become both unnecessary and impossible. When no one lacks anything, there is no point in stealing” (Clarke 65). With no fear to life or property, mankind thrives in a world of security and trust, defined only by the relative term “utopia.” Every action has an opposite, but equal, reaction. The consequence to ensured stability and equivalence is suppressed creativity and expression of spirit. ...
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...The Giver, Cathartic Responses How would you feel if you couldn’t see color? Or if you had lost memories that you didn’t even know about? The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, were in that exact situation. In what appears to be a utopia, the people in The Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of previous historic events. This is due to the fact that the Chief Elders, the leaders of the community, think that eliminating all previous memories and the memory of color is better for the people. The Chief Elders strive to eliminate pain and all human desire throughout the book creating what seems to be a perfect world, but Jonas, the main character, later comes to discover eliminating these things may not make their world the utopia...
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...date: Wednesday, July 10 in class 1. Suppose the country of Utopia has a population of 1,000 and produces only three goods: T-shirts, cars and pineapples. Assume that Utopia does not trade with other countries. The production amounts and prices (in US Dollars) for 2009, 2010 and 2011 are given in the table below: Quantity of Tshirts 10,000 9,500 10,500 Price of Tshirts $10 $10.50 $11 Quantity of cars 75 85 90 Quantity of pineapples 50,000 60,000 45,000 Price of pineapples $4 $4.50 $5 Year 2009 2010 2011 Price of cars $15,000 $16,000 $15,500 a) Using 2009 as base year, calculate nominal and real GDP per capita for 2009, 2010 and 2011. b) Keeping 2009 as base year for prices, compute Utopia’s inflation rates for 2010 and 2011 using both the CPI and the GDP deflator. When calculating the CPI, assume that the representative consumer purchases in any given year 10 T-shirts, 1 car and 100 pineapples. c) Explain why the computed inflation rates are not the same when using the two different methods. 2. Blanchard, Chapter 3, Questions 2 and 4. 3. Blanchard, Chapter 4, Question 8. 4. Consider the following balance sheet of the Central Bank of Utopia: Assets Government bonds Liabilities $2,000 Currency + Reserves $2,000 In answering the following questions, assume that (i) the public wishes to hold 20 percent of its money holdings as currency, (ii) the ratio of reserves to deposits is 0.25, (iii) nominal income in Utopia is $25,000, and (iv) demand for money is given by ( ) a)...
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...Upon entering the “Squat Grey Building” that is the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre; you will see the motto of the World State: Community, Identity, and Stability. These three words reflect the ultimate goal of the Utopia that is the World State. “Community” means that everyone within the Utopia must work together to maximize happiness for the society as a whole. “Identity” refers to the five classes of hereditary social groups that are created through genetic engineering. Finally, “Stability” refers to the ultimate goal of the Utopia. By creating similar people and censoring and controlling actions, the society looks to minimize conflict, risk, and overall change. The three goals of the World State are completely controlled through the use of science and technology in Brave New World, which thereby stripped its residents of all social aspects and personal freedoms. By creating the Brave New World Huxley shows the importance of technology and progress to society, which makes us stop and consider how our current progress and advancements in technology have affected our society as a whole. Before looking into how people in the World State are restricted from having any free will, it is important to define what it means to be human. In my opinion, all humans are born with free will. I would define free will as the equal and inalienable rights to be an individual who can make their own choices. The ability to act at one’s own discretion without constraint...
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