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Utopian Essays and Term Papers
2001 A Space Odyssey - Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite - SetThe film segment chosen was the final scene from Stanley Kubrik’s 2001 – A Space Odyssey made in 1968. As the name would suggest, the film is set almost entirely in the future. Already having projected itself over 30 years into the future, it would be safe to assume that this motion picture offers ...
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Astrologyis the science of certain cryptic relations between the celestial
bodies and terrestrial life. It is considered an art and a practical science.
It lays no claim to be what used to be called an exact science, but studies
certain predispositions or tendencies in human life, which are ...
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The Impact Of Stalinism In 1984
Truly one of the greatest anti-utopian novels in history George Orwell's 1984 is a "nightmare vision" into the future of a world controlled by totalitarianism (Meyers 144). Through the character of Winston Smith, Orwell expresses his negative views on totalitarianism in Stalinist Russia and ...
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Animal Farm and Russian Revolution“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism…Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole”. (Woodhouse ...
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Various Ideals Within Antebellum ReformAs the Jacksonian Era was coming to an end, various reform movements that dealt with religion, temperance, abolition, and women’s rights took place. Although some might think that these reforms movements limited democracy as a whole, the religious, educational, and feminist reforms movements in ...
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Which Religion is the Only Truth?“All religions are equally true,” an anonymous speaker once said (Woodrow 10). Ever since religion started conflicts, people have said this over and over about this controversial subject. But is this statement true? What would the world do if it found out that all people were doing the exact same ...
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Candide's Satire Of Enlightenment ThinkersThe political and social environments of the Enlightenment were revolutionary, both in thought and in action. Philosophes embodied the term “Age of Reason” and critically questioned traditional theories, customs, and morals. Among these, was the theory of optimism, which was often linked to a ...
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Erasmus' Influence on More's Utopia. To be or not to be a humanist.More was born on February 7, 1478, in London, which, if not yet the chief city of the world, was at least one of the most important commercial centres of Europe, in which the tendencies of the new mode of production were sharply and clearly defined.
He came of an “honest but by no means eminent” ...
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CultsCULTS
For many years, cults have been a subject of great controversy. A cult is a group of people that are bound together by an appreciation of the same thing, person, and ideals. Usually these groups keep close because of religious reasons, but their beliefs are almost always considered ...
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A Study of Themes in the GiverStudy of Themes in The Giver by Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, is a portrayal of a utopian community without pain or fear where all human needs are provided for and the elders of the community make all decisions for each individual. It is a society in which the belief system is based ...
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Chapter 24 OutlineChapter 24: The early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851
1. Introduction
a. The steamship
b. Use of steam power to bombard China
c. The dramatic innovations of the industrial revolution were linked
d. The effects of the industrial revolution were uneven
2. Causes of the ...
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Bolshevik Revolution and Animal FarmThe Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 still remains the prime reason for the “evil empire” that lasted 69 years as President Reagan described in the 1980’s. It has accommodated not only intellectuals, but ordinary people a political canvas to paint their opinions on. ...
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The Great GatsbyAn essay on “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm. Amount of pages: 478. The book goes on in explaining the ways of aggression and how it reaches into man. Citing aggressive examples in the behavior of necrophilics and Hitler. The author goes into the early life of Hitler and ...
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Beloved - Internal ConflictsThe conclusion of the novel Beloved is packed with internal reconciliations, retributions and salvations, both those that were accomplished and those that were narrowly missed. The two main characters that did experience a reconciliation, retribution or salvation in the largest degree, or at ...
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Technology And The Future Of WorkEvery society creates an idealised image of the future - a vision that serves as
a beacon to direct the imagination and energy of its people. The Ancient Jewish
nation prayed for deliverance to a promised land of milk and honey. Later,
Christian clerics held out the promise of eternal salvation ...
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Roaring TwentiesTHE Americans, in the years following the end of World War I found themselves in an era, where the people simply wished to detach themselves from the troubles of Europeans and the rest of the world. During the years of the Twenties, the economy was prosperous, there was widespread social reform, ...
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Brave New WorldGeorge Santayana once said, “Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.” In life, there is no such thing as a “complete utopia”, although that is what many people try to achieve. Aldous Huxley’s is an attempt at a utopian society. In this , mothers and fathers and family ...
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Social Criticism In LiteratureMany authors receive their inspiration for writing their literature
from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from family, personal
experiences, history, or even their own creativity. For authors that
choose to write a book based on historical events, the inspiration might
come from ...
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Young Goodman Brown 3"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "Young Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere ...
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Crime And Punishment: Is There Or Is There Not Such A Thing As Crime??
For this question, I have chosen to discuss the following three works of
literature: Crime and Punishment, by Feodor Dostoevsky, Beloved, by Toni
Morrison, and Utopia, by Sir Thomas More.
To begin with an omniscient and philosophical frame of reference, crime
is only defined as crime by the ...
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