Imagine growing up in a world where all you feel is fear and hate, where you have no choice but to live in isolated community and be forced to believe in things you would not normally believe in. Imagine living in a community where they start teaching at an early age to hate something by force. For example, in the book 1984 they are forced to grow up believing in what the party wants them to believe in an obeying the rules the isolated community has for the people, just like it has/is occurring and will occur throughout the world for as long as human exist. Real world examples would be like the Ku Klux Klan, North Korea, The Nazi Party, and the Al-Qaeda organization prove the existence and possibilities of such societies. Firstly,…
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth Summer Reading Assignment One of the more stronger ideas I agree with is the “No Child Left Behind Law” preventing students from being their true self. I believe this is a common struggle many students have to deal with due to today’s standards. It created boundaries that separates the students and pushes them further apart resulting in them feeling like they do not belong. Many of the students in The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth feel excluded or bullied due to this system.…
Comparing Freemont High to Maryville High High school should be a place where teens feel comfortable, and to a certain extent, free to make their own decisions. At Freemont High School (FHS), Jonathan Kozol interviewed the students’ attendance, and all of them said this school was none of the things it is supposed to be. Though Maryville High School, a small town East Tennessee school, is extremely different than Freemont High School, an inner city school in Los Angeles, at first glance, the two actually have a few things in common. When looking at what Jonathan Kozol’s wrote in his article about FHS, a Los Angeles high school called, “Freemont High School”, written in 2005, three similarities arise: crowded lunches, unsanitary conditions, and freedom. At Freemont High School there are…
“Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west…” (Huxley, 259). John’s body dangled, lifeless, from the ceiling of the light house. This scene is the conclussion for Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World. Huxley creates a dystopian society called the world state where children are created in laboratories with certain genetically manipulated characteristics that fit their place in the caste system. This caste system is composed if Alphas, the highest level, betas, deltas, gammas, and epsilons, in their respective order.…
Mr. Keating is right to teach the boys at his alma mater to think for themselves. If they continued to follow Welton Academy's philosophy, they would get out to the real world, where no one is telling them what to do, and be completely lost. Also the strict rules, and regulations, of this school are bound to lead to more rebellious personalities. Mr. Keating knew how conservative and strict this school was, that is why he went to go teach his ways there, he knew it would make the biggest difference.…
In the story Brave New World, many characters are supposed to be shaped a certain way to fill in their society. The entirety of the story solely consisted of ‘groups’ and ‘social classes’. In “Brave New World”, the book listed Alpha’s as the supreme leader of skill and smartness to become the elitist of all groups within their country of England. The second class within the society consisted of Beta’s. Beta’s were mostly in the story for their looks and their kind of ‘full of themselves’ or ‘overconfident’ type of role play.…
The middle of Utopia is 200 miles wide but narrows toward the ends of the islands. The figure of the island represents a sort of crescent shape. Natural protections of the island is obviously the water fully surrounding the island. There are also rocks under a harbour that are very dangerous to navigate around. The original name of the island was Abraxa but, a group called Utopus conquered the island that now carries its name.…
In regards to the internet, the world is at a standstill . The web has proven that it has unprecedented abilities. The internet has allowed ideas, opinions, and information to spread across the globe. However, the internet is under attack.…
Do you know what it’s like to not be in control? That in a moments notice, some greater power could destroy everything you’ve spent your life working towards. This particular scenario is presented to us in Suzanne Collins thrilling trilogy: The Hunger Games. Ruling over its inhabitants with an iron fist, the oppressive nation of Panem will use any means necessary to keep its control over its people and districts, even forcing children to fight to death.…
When someone blurts out the word “high school”, what’s your first initial thought? I don’t know about you, but “cliques” are the first thought to my mind. The media is drowning in films that portray the idea of “cliques”, but personally, I believe the film Mean Girls is the best representation of the world of cliques. Means Girls is a teen classic, and I can almost bet the majority of my generation has seen or at least heard of it. It is American teen comedy film that manifests the harsh conditions teens undergo when it comes to high school cliques.…
The root of capitalist exploitation by the government begins with the conformity of social hierarchies found in the dystopian societies of both Brave New World and The Hunger Games. In Huxley’s Brave New World society is exploited through a rigid social hierarchy that is kept stable by chemically engineering “different classes of humans who are bred to fit perfectly into their assigned roles in society” (Gruenwald 4). In this society the citizens are divided into a caste system made up of five groups: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alphas and Betas are the superior social groups in the World State. This status grants them the ability to gain more knowledge than any of the other groups and have the privilege of being free thinkers…
The school epitomized a 21st century trap house. The walls were marred with gang names and names of students who had been killed. The building was dilapidated and classrooms were overcrowded that some students had to sit on crates and use cardboard boxes for desks. The conditions of the school, however, did not deter the gifted students, who were hell-bent on getting a good education so they could move on to…
Through constant separation and segregation between curious individuals, complicit figures, and the unjust system, and a maintenance of hope and fear, like the ones in Hunger Games and Minority Report, dystopian societies are able to maintain itself and injustice within. In both films, the system that controls the dystopia tries its very best to separate the curious individuals and the complicit, all the while isolating themselves into a very far away and unreachable place. To overthrow dystopias, in a way, a combination of intense hope and intense feelings of unity and empathy of a sadder reality are needed. Throughout both films, false hope is spread throughout the people affected within the system.…
Movies are generally seen as a form of entertainment, but it is important to look deeper into these movies, which serve a purpose for more than just entertainment. Older movies such as the 1998 movie from Ramon Menendez “Stand and Deliver” portray an event that can be applied to ones own life. This movie shows the struggle of Jamie Escalante 's math class students who most come overcome the odds of being successful. The most important thing to take away from this movie is that with hard work it is possible to overcome adversity. High school students face many issues in their daily lives.…
Initially, in my first pieces of academic writing for this class, I was striving to summarize as much as possible in as little space as possible. While this does provide the reader with significant context, it usually leaves them questioning “so what?”. I had to understand that the reader wasn’t reading my essay/journal to make up their own thoughts about the text but rather to understand my interpretation/opinion towards its significance. In my first journal, I summarized the idea of the panopticon in depth including multiple quotes. I wrote only one line: “What’s interesting is how much of a panopticon’s power is based simply on possibility; that the mere chance that one is being watched instils enough fear and control and allows a single panopticon to be effective as a means of…