war and other bad things. While the utopian society of The Giver tries to eliminate war from the minds of every person and thereby eliminate in possible future war the dystopian society of 1984 does the exact opposite. In 1984 they are at war with Eurasia or Eastasia at all times and they use war for a plethora of reasons. They use war to waste resources because they would become too rich in them otherwise, they use war to make the people angry and unite them towards and common goal, and they…
The debate on race has been a complex topic raising many conflicts for many years, for it differentiates the views of society on human beings. For decades, there have been a great number of researches on race, where anthropologists and geneticists have proven that there are no differences between what society calls ‘races’. There is one race; it is the human race. We all possess the same physical attributes that make us humans: a body with limbs, eyes, nose, ears, etc.…. As a way to group and…
international staffs operate separately and in isolation from the head office. The company has various divisions all around the world and each division is headed by presidents that control each continental division. There are five continental divisions: - • Eurasia & Africa Group • Europe Group • Latin America Group • North America Group • Pacific Group There are vice presidents for each continental divisions that control sub–divisions based on regions or…
Jared Diamond, uses figurehead Yali, a New Guinean politician, to shape his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel. Yali asks an essential question in which Jared Diamond formulates his work around. “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (14). Even though Yali’s question was only relating the differences between the New Guinean and European lifestyles and success, Jared Diamond was able to broaden Yali’s…
History is constant, as each day’s action adds to the story of civilization. Some events and actions have a greater impact on the world and what is to follow. In the thirteenth century, such events and actions launched civilization on a path that would lead to the creation of the Atlantic world, thus changing the face of the Earth and world history forever. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, new inventions, new technology, and new civilizations would eventually prime the creation of the…
Likewise, the favored novel 1984 exhibits the realistic sense of a government which hopes to obtain downright control of the people. George Orwell’s 1984 depicts how the government overpowers the population’s independence with severe regulations, relentless observation, and the establishment of trepidation through propaganda. George Orwell, originally born as Eric Arthur Blair, has generated a few of the most well-known fiction stories of the 20th century through his career. In 1949, George…
Over the ages, society has evolved from one paradigm to another. A common theme throughout science fiction is a prediction of how the human race would progress as time move forward. Often these futures portray a ruined society that has fallen apart after some key event or development, yet a façade of civility remains to cover the decay, these futures are called dystopias. One of the most obvious and widely recognized comments on the idea of a dystopia comes from George Orwell’s Animal Farm,” No…
With the advent of modern transportation, and instantaneous communication via the internet, telephones, television, etc the world became a much smaller, and more interconnected place than it was ever in all of human history. Through these innovations the spread of people, ideas, and cultures became commonplace. This phenomenon of spreading cultures is known by the moniker of “globalization”. Proponents of globalization believe that through spreading of ideas and culture the world will…
In order to truly understand human society as it exists today, it is first necessary to be able to distinguish between all of the variables that culminated to yield the present. For, if even one condition was to vacillate, the whole outcome of human development could have been drastically different. The man undertaking the arduous task of trying to classify and decipher human history is Jared Diamond, who, through his work, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is able to show just how interconnected the…
Connections, Comparisons, and Changes in the Incan Empire In the fifteenth century, the Inca Empire stood at the prime of its existence. Encompassing nearly all the land of the Andes region of what is now South America, the Inca Empire was the largest civilization in Mesoamerica. Even more impressively, the Incas developed a decadent society without many of the staples of other civilizations. This made the “children of the sun” a unique society. The Incas stood apart from their contemporaries,…