...THE AMERICAN DREAM THE AMERICAN DREAM Section #1 a. The impact cultures in North America have on the United States is that each region adapted the traditions and/or beliefs of those who settled in that area by maintaining dance, music, and crafts. Many English settlers did not respect the Native American cultures, and were seen as uncivilized and/or savages. Basically there was a clash of cultures, with new ideas pushing away old ways and mayor cultures oppressing others. b. Immigration and migration shape the early United States, for example: The first person to be processed at Ellis Island was Annie Moore who arrived from Ireland on January 1, 1892. As the first immigrant Annie Moore was given a $10 gold piece. She soon was married and gave birth to eleven children. While Annie Moore was the first immigrant, she was definitely not alone. Some famous immigrants who arrived through Ellis Island included Charles Chaplin, Cary Grant, Harry Houdini, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is easy to see from this list how immigrants have changed the face of the United States. All of these famous people contributed to the United States, giving a bright future for innovative contributions to the young nation. c. The most important change in the United States ‘ involvement in foreign affairs from 1789 to 1877 was expansion of its territory. Marked by a treaty with France buying Louisiana territory doubling the United States, and other treaties...
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...My suffering came from the quick departure from utopian society to the cruel and harsh mistress of a day job. My Utopia was the living on campus experience that many college students participate. This utopia fizzled out after I flunked for two semesters in a row, and I fell into the workforce. Everyday I struggled to find anything to do in the hours I was out of work; my friends all had work as soon as I was free and I needed to wake up around when they were going to sleep. This lead me to just work as much as I could and not really ever leaving the house. In the world of Ramapo College, nothing really matters besides grades and your parents’ money. This kind of philosophy set me up to fail extremely early in the first semester that I was there. While I went to most of my classes and I did some...
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...The ideals that should be honored in my utopian society are freedom, equality, and justice. In a perfect world, freedom is a must-have. It allows people to express themselves and choose their own paths in life—like what job they want, how many children they want, who their spouse is, etc. For example, in The Giver, choices aren’t a part of their community. All of the important life events are chosen for you, like your occupation and your family—you don’t get a say in your own life. This is one of the reasons why I would value freedom in my utopian society. If people got a say in what their life was like, happiness and individuality would be promoted because each person will go down a different path and experience different things. Although there is a possibility of making a wrong decision, that is part of life and makes people...
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...Utopian literature is a genre that is characterized by a perfect society. A utopia is a place where everybody is equal. No one is better looking than anyone else. Nobody is stronger than anybody else. Normally a perfect society becomes an imperfect, or dystopian society. In the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, the handicap general claims to have a perfect society. In the book it says ”...Everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way.” (Vonnegut 1). This portrays a utopian society because nobody had to worry about being better than anybody else. The world was finally a “perfect” place. “The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn’t clear at first as to what the bulletin was about was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For half a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say ladies and gentlemen.” (Vonnegut 2). In the story, they tried to create a utopia by handicapping people to make everyone equal. Also, because of the handicap...
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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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...The Illusion of Reality: A Comparison of The Matrix and Plato’s Cave The poet Thomas Gray coined the phrase “Ignorance is bliss.” The phrase states that a lack of knowledge results in happiness and that people are more comfortable if they don’t know something. We can apply this phrase to utopias and dystopias and get this scenario: imagine living in a utopic society isolated from the true dystopic world. Would you want to know that you are living a false life and that the true world around you has been hidden? If you had this information, how would you react? This scenario is the basic premise for the Wachowski brother’s The Matrix Trilogy and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Both stories show humans perceiving a false utopic society that is being used to blind them from the true dystopic world. Over the course of this paper I will describe the similarities between The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave and analyze how the Wachowskis and Plato used the ideas of utopias and dystopias as a backdrop for showing human nature. In The Matrix, humans have been enslaved by sentient machines, or sentinels, to be used as energy sources. In order to subdue the human population, the sentinels built a virtual world known as the Matrix. What each person thinks is reality, is actually a complex computer simulation. The Matrix simulates a “utopic” world where humans believe that they have freedom and choice and that their actions have a consequence on this “real” world. In reality, the...
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...Che Hung Su Mrs. Noll IAH206-Sec 735 June 30 2015 Reflection Paper The story that I had chosen in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction is Eileen Gunn’s Computer Friendly. The objective of the story is taking about the virtual reality and it has been put the category of “Computer and Virtual Reality” in the book. In my perspective, the story is not just about the computer and virtual reality, it is talking about the utopias and dystopias. I know my opinions might not be right since I am not some professor or expert in the philosophy, but here is my thought. In the story, Elizabeth has been taken to a place to do an adaption test by her dad. Luckily, Elizabeth scores high point in the test so that she does not have to go to the “Asia Center,” where is a trash can to down all the children who have low score. And the story revealed at the end that Elizabeth’s brother, Bobby, who had better score than her has been put down, too. Only his brain has survived and it has been used as the hardware of a computer to maintain the system and so as her dog, Brownie, his brain has to put into the system for traffic regulation. To me, this is a horrify story because if this is our future, it is a dystopias. We are not living in a free will and even our lives’ purpose is serving as the hardware component of a computer. If we are not suitable for the computer, we will be trashed. Gunn does not give much about the background, but she has stated that the building that Elizabeth took...
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...For example, in Ricky Gehlhaus’ article, “Brave New World: The Cost of Stability”, he discusses that imaginativeness is one of the costs to a stable world, saying, “Huxley shows that when the citizens were either alone or had a moment of free time, creative forces tended to creep out. This is when it was most opportune to take soma tablets, when the individual is conscious of being an individual.”( Gehlhaus 1998). Helmholtz is a victim of having a wild imagination. Having a high scholarly job, he is expected to research and share his findings, however, during that process, he explores more than what the society intends. The only socially acceptable time to be alone is during a soma holiday. Because Helmholtz jeopardizes the utopias stability, he is sent to an island. Soma will distract an individual from wanting...
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...Ursula LeGuin, the authors consider their society as a utopia and believe sacrifice is the only way for it to remain a utopian society. The similarities and differences of the sacrifice of the two short stories consists of the type of society, the types of government, and how relates to the modern society. In “The Lottery,” their believes that without sacrifice is the only way to obtain livelihood. It is the only way to have food and to prevent a community wide famine. They choose to do a “lottery” because it randomly chooses a person out of the entire community to sacrifice their lives at a random pick which is much like modern day society and how people are chosen at random ny the card/number they get to win a certain amount of money. “Used to be a saying about ‘Lottery in june, corn be heavy soon’” (Jackson 4). In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” they also believe that sacrifice is essential to life. In their society happiness,...
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...Have you ever asked yourself what would be a perfect utopia world? Where there is no crime scenes, no racism, and no billionaire’s like Donald Trump. Everyone had the same amount of money so their wouldn’t be no bragging about who had more money and who didn’t. This will happen if Hilary Clinton becomes our first female president of the United States of America. She will change our world and transform it into a nearly a utopian world. Having some money is better than having no money and bragging about it like for example Donald Trump. Hilary Clinton will have a duty of trying to stop guns in landing in the wrong hands and stopping racism, while trump won’t try his best in succeeding in peoples believes, and all he will do is being a billionaire. ‘I have said publicly no options should be off the table, but I will certainly take nuclear weapons off the table” Hillary states. She has a true visually of trying to not let guns fall in the wrong places. According to the election page of 2016 Hillary Clinton has progressed 73 points in clearing gun control in the entire U.S, and 134 points more than Donald trump. As Hillary states that anybody...
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...What is your vision for America? In my vision for America I think we could change and improve many things. My vision for America would be my ultimate utopia. First, I think that in america there shouldn’t be any people who are suffering from not having a home or not being able to afford something that is a necessity. Secondly, We would have a cure for all diseases for anyone who might have something simple like a cold or for anyone who might have something as severe as cancer. Lastly, In my vision for America there would be an unlimited amount of jobs for anyone and everyone. Those are a few of the things I would change to fit my vision of America. The first thing I would change in america so that it fit my vision would be the amount of people who are suffering. I would make it so that everyone had a home to live in so that there aren’t so...
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...This section of the reading convinced me that rather than a Utopian society is being created from these new technologies, a mixed bag of utopia and dystopia has begun. When examining Lanier’s argument, the issue of ‘Lock In” makes me believe that our society has limited the path to futuristic technology due to a linear way of thinking, and an inability to deviate from the progress we have seen over the last few decades. While there are signs of error and issues with technology, I believe it would be a mistake to categorize all advances in information and communication technology to be harmful or will inevitably lead to a dystopic society. The Digital Revolution has had many positives on society, ultimately changing the primary job industry from warehouse manufacturing to digital computing, and has provided resources and information to people in a way that previously has been seen as...
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...the entire thing is almost a shaggy dog story in the Sociology of Knowledge, wherein the theorists he reviews (Marshall, Pareto, Durkheim and Weber) are proven to be correct simply because they said vaguely similar things at the same time in different places. Let’s just say the strengths of the book, and its enduring legacy, are neither in its style nor the logical strength of its main conclusions. I don’t mean to be too harsh – there was a lot of interest in the sections we read, especially on the development of liberal political thought and Sociology’s emergence as a reaction against it. But none of that has much to do with the thrust of this post – the free market. Somewhere in his exposition of liberal theory from Hobbes to Marshall (my copy is elsewhere at the moment [EDIT: Page 104, about Malthus' idea that competition served as a social regulation mechanism, Parsons doesn't actually use the phrase free market]), Parsons notes that the importance of the free market for liberal* theory has a lot to do with the way it prevents anyone from exercising power over anyone else, and less to do with the way it maximizes productivity. Parsons is not the only one to make this argument – it shows up also in a lot of the work in the “corporate governance” tradition in the mid-20th century, authors like JK Galbraith and Carl Kaysen argue that the rise of large corporations is potentially dangerous because such corporations have discretion in a way impossible under a competitive market...
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...THE PROBLEM WITH WORK A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK THE PROBLEM WITH WORK Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries KATHI WEEKS Duke University Press Durham and London 2011 © 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper co Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Minion Pro by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH LOVE TO JulieWalwick (1959-2010) Contents ix Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION i The Problem with Work i CHAPTF1 37 Mapping the Work Ethic CHAPTER 2 79 Marxism, Productivism, and the Refusal of Work CHAPTER 3 113 Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income CHAPTER 4 151 "Hours for What We Will": Work, Family, and the Demand for Shorter Hours 5 CHAPTER 175 The Future Is Now: Utopian Demands and the Temporalities of Hope EPILOGUE 227 A Life beyond Work 235 255 Notes References 275 Index Acknowledgments thank the following friends and colleagues for their helpful feedback on versions of these arguments and portions of the manuscript: Anne Allison, Courtney Berger, Tina Campt, ChristineDiStefano, Greg Grandin, Judith Grant, Michael Hardt, Stefano Harney, Rebecca I would like to Karl, Ranji Khanna, Corey Robin...
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...It’s hard to understand the true meaning behind why I am hated because of my skin color. This past weekend was Halloween and I’ve seen some costumes on social media and was truly baffled by some I’ve seen. Supposedly there is Halloween costume called black face. Some people may not see anything wrong with it but if people knew the history of black face they’d understand it’s wrong. It came around the time people of color couldn’t be stars or lead actors in theatre plays. So African American roles were played by white people dressed in blackface. I don’t understand why it is accepted or allowed but the United States of America is a free country so we are free to do what we chose. Growing up in my neighborhood, I’ve seen a lot and have experienced...
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