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Aldous Huxley Exposes the Flaws of Society Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World criticizes Huxley’s society while foreshadowing present-day society. Looking at today’s society, one could find the same issues as existed before: conditioning, soma, and a one world government at work. In Brave New World citizens undergo conditioning as children in order to never experience any emotional pain, to love the lives they live, and to want nothing less, nothing more, so that they are easier to control,…

answers for the unexplainable or the unusual. Some greater being to serve, as if their only purpose on Earth was to serve. In “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, it is shown what happens when the government decides technology to be the “greater being” that humanity depends on. They gave people solace after the war, leaving behind the old world and creating a new one. A new stable and ‘civilized’ society where emotions barely exist, sex is a recreational activity and everyone is in a constant…

New York Burning, the award-winning book by Jill Lepore takes place in the mid-eighteenth century of New York City’s, Manhattan during a period where around 20% of the residents were enslaved. The book focuses primarily on the slave rebellion of 1741 and the vicious retaliation that had occurred at the time. However, the events that occurred in 1741 were quite unique seeing as there were plots to which around 200 people were involved. They wanted to take revenge on the towns people and murder…

New York’s Central Park has always been known for the uniquely beautiful garden in the middle of the city to escape from the loud and busy city streets. Horse carriages have been a traditional way of transportation for people to get around the city or central park and are ranked 5th out of 155 top activities to do in New York City. However, Bill Blasio, mayor of New York City, pledged that one of his first acts would be to ban horse carriages considering them to be abusive and inhuman to the…

Aldous Huxley's Brave New world displays an utilitarian tragic culture by debasing the societal thoughts of group, personality, and security into the contorted, un-standard "standards" introduced in the story. He does this by building a sarcastic world that must be comprehended on the off chance that you know about the societal thoughts of this present reality. Huxley does this keeping in mind the end goal to make an anecdotal distopial that cautions the world about the mechanical world. As a…

greatest cities in the world: New York City. Having lived on Long Island for most of my life I haven’t been one to spend as much time in the city as I would have liked. However, the few trips I made to the city were always an adventure. I was dazzled by the “city that never sleeps”; it was always lit up and always moving. Everything about it was enticing; and I knew one day I would live there. The real reason why I’ve chosen the New York campus is because of its diversity. New York City itself…

Franklin Roosevelt was elected by a landslide because he pledged a New Deal for the American people who were facing an economic crisis of the likes they had not seen before. Roosevelt was sworn in on March 4th, 1933 (Norton, 2015.) The following day he implemented the first step of his New Deal, which sought to address the problems of the Great Depression by, helping the banks to become solvent again, encouraging competing companies to cooperate, and giving jobs to the unemployed. The banking…

In early September, Twenty-First Century Fox settled with past host of a news show on Fox New, Gretchen Carlson, for sexual harassment. She was awarded twenty million dollars for her being a victim of long time CEO Roger Ailes. Roger Ailes was eventually fired from running the Fox News company. In her lawsuit, Carlson said her contract wasn 't renewed after she “refused to sleep” with Ailes and reported "severe and pervasive sexual harassment” at her workplace. (Yu, 2016) Since Gretchen Carlson…

Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, was written in 1932 and gave a hauntingly realistic taste of the future in which humans are able to be genetically bred and mentally and physically conditioned to serve in a ruling order. Huxley was able to predict many discoveries that are now attainable in today’s modern America. However, this novel is just a fantasy of the future, and there are plenty of contrasting points within this piece just as there are points of comparison. Love and…

Final Essays 1. Analyze New York City’s rise as a diverse metropolis during the 1950s. In your essay, include a detailed analysis of the Puerto Rican migration to New York City. What were the causes of this migration? What conditions in Puerto Rico led many of its citizens to choose New York City? What government programs also led many Puerto Ricans to choose to come to the mainland, in particular, New York City? What problems did Puerto Ricans face when they arrived in New York City? Prior to…