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    Ford is their God because the society in Brave New World moves away from culture and identity towards total technological efficiency. Ford is the father of modern automobiles and of production technology‚ he represent all things scientific and efficient making him a suitable symbol for them to “worship”. Ford is to their scientific society what God is to a cultural one. I believe Huxley chose Ford to become the closest thing to God in Brave New World because he was made progressive in his developments

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    Countless amount of people want a better life; More money‚ better environment and the place to get it done was at Jamestown. The Journey was hard such as: “Harsh winter‚ and no fresh water and diseases” (John Smith 72). People saw Jamestown as a place to make it big‚ by using the land it had to grow tobacco which was a cash crop at the time. However‚ these people obviously did look at survival before going there and even when the time came they still made the tobacco! Which was a terrible idea because

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    withdraws‚ or secedes‚ as from an established church. 20‚000 separatists left England to go to the new land which would later be called America‚ New England. This migration is also known as the Great Migration due to the 80‚000 people total who left England for a journey to the new world. John Smith as well as William Bradford were both leaders bringing a group of Separatists to have a new and improved life. John Smith was an adventurous leader who established the first successful English Colony in North

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    Analysis of A Description of New England by John Smith The author John Smith‚ a pilgrim who arrived to the Americas‚ wrote a description of the new land in his book “ A Description of New England ”. In this book Smith shows a wonderful world of vast food and pleasure. Also‚ William Bradford another pilgrim who arrived to Plymouth on the coast of Massachusetts‚ wrote a book called “ Of Plymouth Plantation ” in which he describes what really happened‚ how the pilgrims actually lived. The purpose

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    Are These Actual Miles In the story made of Raymond Carver “Are These Actual Miles” is about a middle-aged man and woman‚ who are in some sort of a domestic partnership‚ struggle to reconcile their decaying personal lives as they navigate bankruptcy. Toni‚ who came into the relationship with children‚ and Leo‚ who had no children of his own‚ had a comfortable consumerist life that now seems to be in disrepair. They liquidated their personal belongings that not had been reclaimed by credit agencies

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    more specifically‚ the future United States. Every individual’s trip across the ocean‚ from one coast to another‚ would be either directly or indirectly influenced by maps that John Smith (and other explorers of that epoch) drew (and had commissioned in different parts of the world.) It is now well known that John Smith’s map of Virginia was one of the main driving forces behind the first group of people packing up and heading west. In today’s society‚ knowing exactly where you are going and how

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    two Boats Journeys to a new world were long and difficult for both captain John Smith and his men‚ and for William Bradford and his people. Neither of them knew what was lying ahead and what they would have to face and overcome. Both ships traveled to the New World looking for new opportunities. They settled naming their cities Jamestown‚ from John Smith‚ and Plymouth Plantation from William Bradford. The two had many differences‚ but also some similarities. Captain John Smith wasn’t actually a

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    John Williams: The American Composer In American Culture‚ myriads of art forms have been created. There are the photographers‚ who capture beautiful moments with the click of a camera and touches of computer editing. Next are the sculptors‚ carefully depicting real life or imaginative works with soft clay molded into a thousand different shapes. Writers use language to leave images in our heads and create stories in our minds. Dancers are their own artwork‚ illustrating artistic

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    Two Twisted Foundations Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orewell’s 1984 were both composed surrounding times of war in the twentieth century. The authors were alarmed by what they saw in society and began to write novels depicting the severe outcomes and possiblities of civilizaton if it continued down its path. Although the two books are very different‚ they both address many of the same issues and principles. In Brave New World Huxley creates a society which is carefully balanced

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    literature. Within early American literature there are many similarities and differences from the work of William Bradford to John Smith. “In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and the seas so high‚ as they could not bear a knot of sail‚ but were forced to hull for divers days together. And in one of them‚ as they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm‚ a lusty young man called John Howland‚ coming upon some occasion above the gratings was‚ with a seele of the ship‚ thrown into sea; but

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