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- 4081: Power Of The Few Over The Many
- ... eleventh commandment that the church held it's power and control over the masses. Without the church and it's leaders to guide the masses, their society would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave New World, the whole society is conditioned to "work for everyone else"(Huxley 67) by the abuse and daily consumption of soma. Without the drug called soma, their society would have also collapsed due to withdrawal symptoms. The underlying reality between the two societies is that the masses are manipulated, controlled, and brainwashed, without resistance, to obey and follow their leaders through various methods of enforcement. The Brave New World is controlled by a select few who call themselves Resident Controllers and Directors. These elite few are able to control the production and selection process of societies masses. Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller for Western Europe ... commandment. Through control and brainwashing of the masses the church was able to manipulate their society to the point of total utter starvation. [How? BNW] Manipulation and enforcement to the masses in the Brave New World was very easy for those who were in control. The techniques used by those in power were varied between the usage of subconscious persuasion, hypnopaedia, brainwashing, and chemical persuasion. Pavlovian conditioning was used on ...
- 4082: Lord If The Flies A Reflection
- ... of new technology used for inhuman purposes, and finally a society ending in collapse. Hence these elements suggest that William Goldings’ Lord of the Flies is reflecting upon the turmoil that existed during the Cold War. Different types of power, with their uses and abuses, are central to the story as are during the Cold War. There are two main types of powers that seem to try to over take one another throughout the coarse of the plot and the time period. The first being the Democratic power, represented by Ralph ... thinking . Secondly there is the Fear of the unknown on the island revolves around the boys' terror of the beast, which is mirroring society's fear of the new technology, that is being used for war purposes. Fear is allowed to grow because they play with the idea of it. They cannot fully accept the notion of a beast, nor can they let go of it. They whip themselves into ...
- 4083: Canda At War
- Assessment of Inappropriate Behavioral Development It is far easier to measure a child's physical growth and maturation than to assess the complexities of individual differences in children's disruptive and antisocial development. Pediatricians can clearly record increases ...
- 4084: Gandhi
- ... will of the tyrant" Mohatma Gandhi "An eye for an eye makes everybody blind" summarizes Gandhi’s view of violence. That statement is one of the greatest things ever said, and was borrowed by other world leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi did not believe in violence as a technique of achieving his goal of an independent India. He preached non-violent non cooperation. Gandhi considered non-violent non cooperation ... Gandhi protested the British monopoly on salt and the salt tax Indians had to pay. He tried to a provoke violent a response from the colonial government. Such a response would show him to the world as a victim and not a tyrant. This approach would expose the British injustice and would get the world’s public opinion on hGandhi’s side. As a result, even the English people supported his independence movement. Gandhi’s non-violent non cooperation required much more bravery and devotion then violent techniques used ...
- 4085: Burial Practices Of The Ancien
- ... by the Egyptians to aid the departed soul involved mass human sacrifice. Many times if a prominent person passed away the family and servants would willfully ingest poison to continue their servitude in the next world. The family members and religious figureheads of the community did just about everything in their power to aid the deceased in the transition to a new life. The community made sure the chamber was furnished with "everything necessary for the comfort and well-being of the occupants." It was believed that the individual would be able of accessing these items in the next world. Some of the most important things that the deceased would need to have at his side were certain spells and incantations. A conglomeration of reading material ensured a successful passage; The Pyramid Texts, The Book ... persons to carefully wash and prepare the corpse for his journey. It was vital for all persons to receive a proper burial and if they did not they were dammed to hover in a quasi-world, somewhat of a "limbo" between life and death. One Greco-Roman myth that illustrates this point is The Odyssey by Homer. There is a part in Book eleven of the work in which Homer ...
- 4086: ... suffers insomnia due to haunting nightmares, which leads him to "restless ecstasy" [Macbeth, III, ii, l: 24, p.127]. He killed the sleeping Ducan; therefore, he cannot sleep. Macbeth lives alone in his tormented inner world admitting, "O, full of scorpions is my mind" [Macbeth, III, ii, l: 40, p.129]. "Regicide easily becomes a mysterious sort of suicidal deterioration, both spiritual and physical"[Mack, 89]. As Macbeth's mental health ...
- 4087: Poetry
- ... to it! When you're not, live with it. Don't ever be afraid to try to make things better you might be surprised at the results. Don't ever take the weight of the world on your shoulders... Don't ever feel threatened by the future take life one day at a time. Don't ever feel guilty about the past what's done is done. Learn from any mistakes ... t for them you would be a total stranger. 10. A friend is never known till he is needed. 11. Friendship is a responsibility...not an opportunity. 12. Friendship is the cement that holds the world together. 13. Friends are those who speak to you after others don't. 14. The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue. 15. Pick your ... down there to be with you. ~ © Sent to Destroy The pleasure you get out watching me cry sickens me more so than you do How can you stand by and watch as everything in my world crashes into the depths of burning hell? Just because you are jealouse means you have to take away the one important thing in my life. You straight face makes me want to spit on ...
- 4088: Puritan Doctrine In 17th C. Li
- In seventeenth century America, the world was a frightening place. God could, and would, strike a man down at any time for any missteps he might take. Nature was filled with horrors, like Indians, and the Devil resided in the forest ... earth, rather than concerning themselves solely with the expectations of the afterlife. God stopped being thought of as a puppeteer, pulling the strings and controlling every movement, but as a clockmaker who had wound the world up and had then stepped back to watch. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine were two important figures in the Enlightenment. Although their philosophies differed on some matters, they both believed that the world was there to observe, not merely to act as a waiting room for the afterlife. This was a dramatic change from the seventeenth century viewpoint. Franklin and Paine’s viewpoints differed sharply from those ...
- 4089: Frankenstein 2
- ... companion. Knowing that his first creation was evil should the doctor make a second? With the knowledge at hand, to Dr.Frankenstein, it is not at all morally correct to bring another creature into the world. Looking at this problem with his family in mind, the doctor begins his work on the second creature. The first creature threatened Frankenstein and even his family. The creature angrily said to Frankenstein, "I can ... chance that they will not keep their promise and stay in Europe, envoking fear into the people that live nearby. The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever they please. "A race of devils would be propegated,"(pg. 163) thinks Frankenstein to himself in his study. The monsters, if powerful enough, could possibly take over Europe. Frankenstein realizes that he can not possibly doom the world to benefit himself. "Shall I, in cold blood, set loose upon the earth a daemon.."(pg. 162) argues Frankenstein with his creation. It is not morally right for one person to unleash such a ...
- 4090: Poetry 2
- ... to it! When you're not, live with it. Don't ever be afraid to try to make things better you might be surprised at the results. Don't ever take the weight of the world on your shoulders... Don't ever feel threatened by the future take life one day at a time. Don't ever feel guilty about the past what's done is done. Learn from any mistakes ... t for them you would be a total stranger. 10. A friend is never known till he is needed. 11. Friendship is a responsibility...not an opportunity. 12. Friendship is the cement that holds the world together. 13. Friends are those who speak to you after others don't. 14. The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue. 15. Pick your ... down there to be with you. ~ © Sent to Destroy The pleasure you get out watching me cry sickens me more so than you do How can you stand by and watch as everything in my world crashes into the depths of burning hell? Just because you are jealouse means you have to take away the one important thing in my life. You straight face makes me want to spit on ...
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