Utopian Essays and Term Papers
Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
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Brave New World - SummaryThis novel takes place in the year 632 A.F. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. ...
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Herbert George Wellswas one of the world's most talented writers.
He was able to write in many styles, whether it be science-fiction or
nonfiction. Although talented in many areas and genres of the literary
world, it is for his contribution to the realm of science-fiction that he
will always be remembered. H. G. ...
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Brave New Worlds Social OutcasThe characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World represent certain political and social ideas. Huxley used what he saw in the world in which he lived to form his book. From what he saw, he imagined that life was heading in a direction of a utopian government control. Huxley did not ...
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The ChrysalidsDefine the terms UTOPIA and DYSTOPIA, and discuss whether can be considered a Utopian or a Dystopian novel.
One could describe the novel "" as a dystopian novel as apposed to utopian. The town in which David and the rest of shape-thinkers live is deffinatly not a utopia as well as the ...
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SocialismThe term is commonly used to refer both to an ideology--a
comprehensive set of beliefs or ideas about the nature of human society and its
future desirable state--and to a state of society based on that ideology.
Socialists have always claimed to stand above all for the values of equality,
social ...
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Sexual Behaviour As The MeansOrder
Sexual behaviour has been changed and moulded into a revolution over the last 100 years. The changes in our societies have allowed the freedom of public displays of affection. Woman have also played a large part of the sexual revolution. They have gone from doing all that men want to asking ...
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Slavery - Southern White Slaveholder GuiltGuilt is an inevitable effect of slavery. For no matter how much rhetoric and racism is poured into such a system, the simple fact remains that men are enslaving men. Regardless of how much inferior a slaveholder may perceive his slaves, it is obvious that his \"property\" looks similar, has ...
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The City Of The SunIn Tommaso Campanella’s document, , a new social order is introduced amongst the Solarians. Campanella presents his readers with a utopian society that is ordered by rationality and reason. This ideal visionary is a redeemed world, free from injustice and competition in the market structure. ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim PNineteen Eighty-Four was written between the years of 1945 and 1948. Orwell got the title from switching the last two numbers of the publication date. In Orwell's criticism of a perfect society, his book became known as one of the greatest anti-utopian novels of all time. The book's message is so ...
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A Review Of Huxley's Brave New WorldBrave New World (1932) is one of the most insidious works of literature
ever written.
An exaggeration?
Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false
symbol for any regime of universal happiness.
So how does Huxley turn a future where we're all notionally ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction of the Future
Nineteen Eighty-Four was written between the years of 1945 and 1948. Orwell got the title from switching
the last two numbers of the publication date. In Orwell’s criticism of a perfect society, his book became
known as one of the greatest anti-utopian novels of all ...
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John Savage Desires What MakesBrave New World illustrates a world where everything that is morally right in our society, is wrong. Monogamy is sinful, massive orgies are not. Serious thinking is unnecessary because life has already been planned out. Hardships and stress can be solved with a few tablets of soma. This is the ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction Of The FutureNineteen Eighty-Four was written between the years of 1945 and 1948. Orwell got the title from switching the last two numbers of the publication date. In Orwell’s criticism of a perfect society, his book became known as one of the greatest anti-utopian novels of all time. The book’s message is so ...
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Freedom And RevolutionIn 1922 Emma Goldman complained Soviet Russia, had become the modern
socialist Lourdes, to which the blind and the lame, the deaf and the dumb
were flocking for miraculous cures(1). The Russian Revolution was the first
occasion where decades of revolutionary ideas could be applied to real ...
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Comparing Transportation Systems in Radiant City and Broadacre CityTransportation Systems in the Radiant City and the Broadacre City
The utopian architectures of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright are a response to the industrialization (Kennedy, 2003). The industrialization era in the Western world brought about rapid urbanization, which in turn resulted a ...
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Animal Farm: Summary and AnalysisAnimal Farm: Summary and Analysis
Animal Farm starts with Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, drunkenly heading to bed. The animals gather for a meeting to hear Old Major, the prize boar, who tells them about how the humans exploit the farm animals and how they can get rid of their oppressors ...
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More's Utopia And Huxley's Brave New World: Differing SocietiesThomas More’s Utopia and Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World , are
novels about societies that differ from our own. Though the two authors
have chosen different approaches to create an alternate society, both books
have similarities which represent the visions of men who were moved to
great ...
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