Examples Of Equality In 2081

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In the U.S. year 2081, there was finally equality, or was there equality? Everyone was treated the same, no one was smarter than the other, no one was more beautiful or handsome than the other, and the people who had talents were horrible, and there was absolutely no one more graceful than the other. The truth was, there was no equality, no one was truly equal, the world wasn't fair, there was no happiness.

Beautiful people wore hideous masks, the most graceful wore bags that were heavy which made them sloppy, clumsy, and the people who were smart wore handicap hearing aids which would sound loudly in their ears when they were thinking deeply about something. The government would send them loud sounds like gunshots, bells, and other loud sounds. There were some people who were average, they had average thinking and they didn't need to wear handicap.

Harrison was extremely dangerous to the society, he could overpower the government & could take over it & once again make everyone smarter, stronger,

better-looking & happy. But, Diane Moon Glampers, the person in charge of the equality in 2081, stopped him. She shot him the moment she saw him without handicaps with his empress, a
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There was no best player, if there was, he/she would be wearing handicaps, no one was good. The ballerinas, were the same, the most graceful & most beautiful, wore a hideous mask, became like the others, average, and clumsy. The students, adults & kids were the same things, if you were smarter than average, you would be wearing handicaps. If you look better than anyone else, handsome or beautiful, you would wear ridiculous things, for girls, masks, for men, red noses, eyebrows shaved off, like Harrison. If you were more athletic, you would wear hundreds of pounds of bags on you, carrying them around everywhere you go. It was the law, you can’t take them off, if you did, you would either get shot or put in

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