America In Brave New World

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Today’s United States is probably the greatest country on the planet. But America’s rise to the top didn’t come easy. We didn’t get our independence by sitting down and having it given to us. We had to fight for it and then after that, we had to work hard to make America the way it is today. Without someone doing their job at every single level, America would still be just a normal country. In Alduous Huxley’s Brave New World this remains true. From the highest class to the lowest class, everybody has a job that needs to be done and without that job getting done, the society wouldn’t function as highly as possible. If everyone in the United States wanted to do the same job and couldn’t do any other jobs well, the country would go into ruin.

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