Joanna Wilbur 2010-2011 Global: Summer Reading Notes The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli 1) Why did Machiavelli write The Prince? Machiavelli wrote The Prince because he wanted to impress Lorenzo de Medici‚ who was the current ruler‚ and prove that he was knowledgeable and a useful advisor to him. He also wrote it as a mirror for Princes to read and understand how to be effective in power. 2) Name three recurring themes in The Prince? 1) One recurring theme in The Prince was
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The Reason Utopian Societies Fail: Bad Leadership and the human condition. English Ms. Zimmerman Rios‚ Sergio 30/5/2012 Rios‚ Sergio Ms. Zimmerman English 30/5/2013 The Reason Utopian Societies Fail: Bad Leadership and the human condition. Utopian societies tend to fail because perfection itself cannot be achieved: factors such as discrimination and bad leadership make a utopian society nothing‚ but a myth. History has proven that humans that have leadership can shift things around
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Elements of Dystopian Fiction A dystopia is a futuristic and imagined world where the illusion of a perfect society is created by a government or some other controlling force. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia‚ which is an ideally perfect world and also tries to present itself as a utopia to its citizens. A dystopian novel is a book written about a dystopia that often criticizes some aspect of modern society and usually contains at least one character who realizes what is really going on and
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Almost every day people with great intentions try to create a utopia of any kind. In the path towards a utopia there are many things which one must sacrifice in order to achieve the utopia which has always been a dream of many. However‚ sometimes the price to create a utopia is too much to pay and in ‘The Giver’ the price is definitely too much to pay. Therefore‚ the ‘community’ is definitely more of a dystopia opposed to being a utopia because everyone behaves as if they are incompetent of feeling
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Unit 2 Paper: A Modern Day Sir Thomas More After reading Utopia‚ I realized problems in today’s society itself. Hythloday compared and contrasted concepts of government between Utopia and European countries all throughout the book. The perfect Utopian society included all‚ but not limited to: rational thought‚ communal property‚ no love of gold‚ no class distinction‚ little to no crime‚ no poverty‚ religious tolerance‚ and little inclination to war. Many of these concepts are completely
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thought of Freedom. As a child in the following Society‚ they were groomed to abandon the need for curiosity and freedom of the immoral things in their Utopia such as‚ books and flowers. As a reaction to grooming they received‚ their laughs and Giggles transition toward a frightful cry that shape their morals and ideologies that accept the Utopias interpretations of Happiness instead of Their Own. Withstanding that‚ cast have a sense of Pride wear each member ever so greatly neglects the other cast
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dangerous mixtures. The plague stricken town‚ transversed throughout with hierarchy‚ surveillance‚ observation‚ writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual bodies-this is the utopia of the perfectly governed city (224‚ Foucault)Foucaults quote describes the society in Oceania in Orwells 1984‚ where it describes the controls put on the citizens through control of relation‚ surveillance‚ and separating out their dangerous mixtures
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My Utopian Society Ones Utopia is their view on what a perfect world would be. In my Utopia‚ the main concept I want to address is Liberty. Liberty is the freedom from control‚ interference‚ obligation‚ restriction‚ and hampering conditions according to choice (Merriam Webster). The word liberty can be traced back to the time period between 1325-1372; around the area of Middle English‚ Middle French‚ and Latin cultures (Merriam Webster). Liberty allows a society to be free of all government control
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Throughout the course of History countless philosophers have written about the idea of utopian societies. This idea is such an intriguing topic to philosophers‚ because theoretically Utopian societies are impossible‚ so trying to come up plausible societies in which everything is perfect presents a kind of challenge for them. Of the many philosophers that have given their two cents on the matter‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx’s are two of the more interesting ones. In Rousseau’s Discourse
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Utopian society was a work of fiction with the writer exhibiting what would be considered as an ideal community that differed from the medieval view and adopted a modernist approach. In his book‚ Utopia‚ More’s main features highlight an ideal society and has been adopted today‚ to an extent by the society. In Utopia‚ the structure of the community about marriage and family is idealized. Premarital sex is severely punished and families adopt a traditional structure with elders at the head of the household
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