Elephant Island

“Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason while laying claim to them all” Mark R. Levin. Utopianism refers to the improvement of social issues and to the questions of the imagination. Utopian writers or artists use their imagination and beliefs utilized by society, to create a world that emphasizes on perfection. The tendencies of people to conceptualize utopian societies is for the use of comparing current society to how humans…

Due to the fact that Italy didn’t have anywhere to keep the mentally ill, in 1922, the island was transformed into a mental asylum. The highly disturbed could be kept isolated from the mainland. The hospital was large and had a very impressive bell tower. Right when the asylum opened patients immediately began reporting sightings of the ghosts of the plague victims. Patients would be kept up at night because they were able to hear the tortured cries of the suffering spirits. These complaints…

Interviewer: Today we have the pleasure of meeting with the esteemed healer who might one day control the healer Torre, a tower filed with the best healers our continent has to offer. So Yrene we can start with an easy question, How did you get to the healers place? Yrene: After I left home I planned to travel to the coast work up some money and take a ship to the southern continent to start becoming a healer, but I ended up stuck in a small city off the coast for a few years because I could…

Welcome to the Pledis Islands! The Pledis Islands are comprised of two main islands and twelve smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean, specifically at 42 degrees latitude and 162 degrees longitude. These islands where man made in 2012 by architect Sabine Toews, and have the smooth lines of traditional man made islands, as well as many natural features that truly make it unique. These islands generally experience a climate similar to that of the marine west coast, with warm summers, cool winters,…

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Our Modern Day Soma In Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley describes a drug called soma. Soma is taken by the majority of the World State’s population. This drug is often taken when someone is dealing with something “unpleasant”; it helps to relax them and keep them “happy”. However, soma has a dark side to it. The World State uses the soma to control the citizens by keeping them oblivious to the harsh reality of their world. Our entertainment is like soma’s effect on the citizens of Huxley’s…

Ivory trafficking is an immense problem that is threatening the lives of the diminishing African elephant population. In an attempt to raise awareness of the crisis, the documentary was filmed undercover for sixteen months in the heart of the problem. Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s documentary “The Ivory Game” expresses the concern of elephants possibly becoming extinct due to poaching for their ivory tusks. The film delves into well-known poachers and their hotspots in an attempt to arrest…

Huffington Post, elephants will grieve for their lost loved ones in the same manner as humans. In addition, they possess many other social characteristics as our own society, such as being grouped into complex societies and having frolicsome spirits. Consequently, there was an aptness for scientists to index them, along with various other species, into a high-ranking social group of animals along with hyenas, rooks, and humans. The article, "Elephants Can Lead a Helping Trunk", video, "Elephants…

The Elephant Crisis Fund is improving the conservation of elephants through reducing poaching, trafficking, and demand for ivory, but needs to improve their methods through including indigenous people’s ideas and stopping the continuation of “Othering” indigenous people. The Elephant Crisis Fund is working to conserve elephants because their population numbers have dropped from three million to around 300,000 in the wild, with their numbers steadily decreasing. In Sub-Saharan Africa elephants…

African Elephant, scientifically known as the loxodonta africana, is the world’s largest land animal. There are two subspecies known as the savannah elephant, loxodonta africana africana, and the forest elephant, loxodonta africana cyclotis. They both live in central and western Africa; the savannah elephant lives in the grassy woodlands and plains, and the forest elephant lives in equatorial forests. The African Elephant has lived on the continent of Africa for thousands of years, and elephants…