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    Walden two final Walden Two is a utopian novel wherein the society depicted, human problems and social ills are solved by scientific technology applied to human conduct,called social behavioral engineering. Skinner shows us the society and ideology of Walden Two through the eyes of outsiders who show varying degrees of skepticism or enthusiasm for the behaviorally engineered society. Skinner shows us many diifernt ways he would correct society. The examples are , Education is based on freedom and self-motivation. Structure classrooms with the threat of bad grades do not exist. There is no money, and goods produced by the society are consumed as needed, and instead having a child and worring about taking care of them all the time there is group…

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    Elizabeth Coyle Mrs. Whitford English one honors E Mod 2 February 2018 Chapter One Summary Thoreau’s stated purpose in "Economy" is to explain why he moved into a tiny cabin near Waldon pond in Concord, Massachusetts. He's even more eager to describe how his two-year stay at Walden Pond helped him to live out his principles, which he talks about very much and in detail. This chapter covers the ways he survived. Thoreau doesn’t want to have a normal life and follow in the ways of society. "The…

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    Walden Two Psychology

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    Some of the first learning experiences children have are often through the eyes of fictional characters. From Nancy Drew and Harry Potter, to Cinderella and Geronimo Stilton, we solve problems, learn social skills, and develop schemas for life by being immersed in fictional worlds. Why not, then, learn psychological concepts in college through reading for pleasure? B. F. Skinner's Walden Two (1948) is an example of illustrating complex psychological concepts through the exploration of a…

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    Walden two! I think most of people were thought utopian society. Walden two is a wonderful life, but it is too dramatic in our reality world. As for me, the Utopian’s concept means “imagination” and “perfection”. People were born to have an ability under the perfect political life; people live in a just political life, but also, people are rebellion, because they escape the injustice political reality. So, I will say that people may enjoy the utopian society but couldn’t keep longer. I will…

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    Author of the utopian novel, Walden Two (1948), Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20th, of 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Skinner can also be described as the creator of the behaviorist theory of psychology. B.F. was born to a father occupied as a lawyer and a mother who did not work but stayed at home to tend to Skinner’s needs. Skinner had an early interest in building and inventing gadgets which later on in his life plays a minor role in his success. On the path of education,…

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    They share similar concepts which are change, identity or finding oneself, and society. These concepts go hand in hand in exploring the overall idea in each work. The first concept that is shared between Things Fall Apart and Walden is change. In Achebe 's novel, Okonkwo is faced with change after he and his family are forced to move away from his village for a long period of time, and many events take place during that time. This change can be shown on page 56, where it is written "and at…

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    share a universal idea or belief, but are explored through the different perspectives of those from different cultures or social statuses, for instance. Two classics that demonstrate this are Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which is about a fictional fierce warrior named Okonkwo of an Ibo village in Nigeria who faces circumstances beyond his power and the downfall of the culture he has grown into; and Walden by Henry David Thoreau, a non-fiction novel about Thoreau 's journey of…

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    Two authors, one born in 1812, the other in 1876. Two books, one a reflection of life in nature, the other, the tales of animal decivilization. Even though the two book topics carry strong, distinct differences, they both carry strong beliefs about the laws of nature. Henry Thoreau, the author of Walden, describes a two year stay in nature and how he developed different views on life and nature. Jack London, the author of Call of the Wild, wrote a story about how an animal goes from being a…

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    Walden Two: A Book Review/ Reaction Paper The book talks about the adventure of a professor and two soldiers with their girlfriends and friends when they were invited to go to a society where capitalism does not run the society and activities beyond our imagination is allowed. Frazier, who is the founder of the society, accompanied their guests, which is the professor and others, until the very end. Each day the guests learnt something and even surprised from the activities…

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    Sophisticated Words on the Simple Life: Thoreau’s Rhetoric Nature is a complicated entity whom countless poets and writers have written about. Henry David Thoreau, a highly educated author who frequently wrote about nature, wanted to understand nature and, more importantly, life better. To do so, he went to live in the woods of Walden Pond for two years, and wrote a book about his time there. The resulting work, entitled Walden, discussed Thoreau’s time in Walden. The second chapter named…

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