Last Chapter of A Brave New World John's eyes fluttered open and he cautiously surveyed his surroundings. Where was he taken? Who knocked him unconscious and carried him from his solitude at the lighthouse? He did not have to wait long for his answer, when he saw his friend standing over him, shaking him to awareness. "It's about time you came to," said Bernard Marx, "we've been worrying about you." Helmholtz laughed as he came around to the bed John was laying on. "Don't look at us like that, Savage. We have good news for you." Bernard wore a smug look on his face as he told John of their accomplishments. "We have met some of the most intelligent men of the world here at this island, and we found a way to overthrow this so called civilized society which has tried to subdue us one too many times. We destroyed all the soma in London, and right about now, all England is in an uproar. We were able to get you out in time; before anyone tried to come for you, youíre to blame for all this, you know." "Youíre a mighty unpopular fellow back in London at this moment, Savage," came Mustapha Mondís voice from the corner. "But anyway, enough of this dallying, we have work to do." As John rose from the bed, all that he was hearing started to sink in. Loss of control in England? Thatís not what he had intended. The damage was done, though, and Mustapha was right, they had a lot of work to do. There was no time to waste. The group consisted of one hundred fifty seven men and women who had been sent to the island because of their inability to follow the rules of civilized society, as well as Mustapha, Marx, Helmholtz, and John. Mustapha was the leader, of course, because he knew all the laws, and was a natural commander. Together, they planned to destroy the worldís soma supplies, and all the manufacturing plants. Once the citizens were cut off from the drugs, theyíd be more apt to become deconditioned. The next step would be to teach the world of meditation and natural herbs such as St. Johnís Wort for wellbeing, and to detoxify and preserve their bodies using deep tissue cleansing techniques and fasting. Schools had to be set up; treatment and rehabilitation centers had to be opened.
... Peter's wife is on the brink of yelling, urging Peter to wake up. When he finally awakens, he takes Anne out of the burning house where she is reunited with her daughter. Boyce traps Jack in the fire by pouring gasoline on him before dying. Peter rushes back into the burning house where he sees his wife and daughters for the last time and is finally forced to let them go. At this point he has coped with his Dissociative Identity Disorder and is letting the traumatic event go. He fully lets go of Will Atenton and embraces his new found self, Peter Ward.
Kathy's odd disappearance is haunting the reader all the way throughout the novel. Her husband?s unstable emotional being is somewhat a key to the mystery. We examine his inner thoughts and simultaneous occurrences, but we are still left guessing. There are various situations that lead to multiple possibilities of Kathy?s disappearance. Did John eat Kathy? Did she take the boat and vanish, or did John murder her, and hide her in the Lake of the Woods? These are all possible hypotheses that will be looked into and taken apart to find out what really happened to Kathy.
When we discovered John’s body the following morning after he had left my house I couldn’t bring myself to believe that he had gotten lost in the blizzard. I know this blizzard was a bad one, we haven’t had one like that for quiet a while, but still John knows this land better than anyone. I really started to think that there was more to his death than a directional mishap. Just the location and direction his body was found in was enough alone to lead it to be suspicious.
The question of paparazzi threatening privacy and First Amendment rights is often to situational to argue in a conventional manner, but certainly there are many facets of the issue which can be addressed in a quite straightforward manner. Celebrities who feel they have the right to privacy in public places often muddy the waters of this issue. Oddly enough, those celebrities who have chosen to speak out against what they feel are violations of their privacy most always begin their campaigns with a large press conference. In other words, they gather together those people they wish to not only suppress but also berate in hopes that these people will use their positions and skills to carry these celebrity's messages to the public. Is often seems that theses celebrities want it "both ways" in that they appreciate coverage when they have a movie, record, or book coming out, but not at any other time.
In modern day now women are able to genetically choose what they’re baby would be like. Sperm banks are required to have a profile of each man that donates sperm. This gives the opportunity to women to choose what kind of characteristics their baby would inherit. Which this concept ties into brave new world. In the book they are created by machine basically but multiple eggs will produce more than 40 or about 40. But if you were going to be high class you would be created by one egg. And he high class people were in control of what kind of people they needed. If you weren’t going to be all there you would be injected with alcohol etc. It was a world that was controlled and cruel. Such as the modern world due to the fact that women are giving the opportunity to pick the kind of characteristics that they please for their children. Which most people would think would be absurd. Another way of doing such thing is doing genetic mutation. This basically is a permanent change in the DNA sequence. There are three ways a genetic mutation can possibly occur. One it would be passed down and the mutation would inherit. Also it can progressively occur over time without the person knowing it’s actually happening. Or it can be altered which a genetic message is carried to the DNA and changes it. There are so many ways to alter or choose what kind of genetics or DNA you would like to choose for the human being you create. If it’s one thing modern society would have to say it’d be why create something piece by piece when you can create something on your own with out no genetic mutations or any sperm donation. You shouldn’t interfere with what you create at all. In the brave new world Linda was ashamed that she was pregnant because babies weren’t...
The celebrity is a large reason paparazzi is such a major concern. But, on the same token, so are the public. As subscribers to magazines and newspapers and news channels, all the public are fundamentally fueling and paying the paparazzo to go and photograph celebrities. But the question is if the photos we are viewing are really newsworthy. “When a celebrity is walking down the street after leaving Starbucks, that isn’t newsworthy and shouldn’t be covered” (Burke). That is the dispute. What happens to be newsworthy, and what happens to be pointless information. While the paparazzi may break laws or toe boundaries, they only do it because of supply and demand.
In addition to the above, John was a go-getter and a calculated risk taker. Even though his act of abduction seemed impulsive, a scene before his act saw him thinking intently about what he was going to do and how exactly he was going to achieve it. He had one goal in mind which was to save his son and he pressed towards that with focus a...
There are people in the United States who are paid to follow and ambush famous people at all times. These people are known as the paparazzi. The paparazzi stop at nothing in order to photograph celebrities. In some cases, there are deadly consequences to their actions. Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash in 1997. She was trying to escape from the paparazzi. If the paparazzi were not chasing her, she may still be alive today.
For years, authors and philosophers have satirized the “perfect” society to incite change. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes a so-called utopian society in which everyone is happy. This society is a “controlled environment where technology has essentially [expunged] suffering” (“Brave New World”). A member of this society never needs to be inconvenienced by emotion, “And if anything should go wrong, there's soma” (Huxley 220). Citizens spend their lives sleeping with as many people as they please, taking soma to dull any unpleasant thoughts that arise, and happily working in the jobs they were conditioned to want. They are genetically altered and conditioned to be averse to socially destructive things, like nature and families. They are trained to enjoy things that are socially beneficial: “'That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny'” (Huxley 16). Citizens operate more like machinery, and less like humans. Humanity is defined as “the quality of being human” (“Humanity”). To some, humanity refers to the aspects that define a human: love, compassion and emotions. Huxley satirizes humanity by dehumanizing the citizens in the Brave New World society.
The world we live in is strange. We have war and tragedy and many other horrendous things. We hear about global warming and climate change yet when faced with the possibility without these in some sort of utopia we see it as a sort of dystopia. A strange thing it sounds but it's true, think about the books where nothing bad happens yet to keep it in order you sacrifice many characteristics of society. This is what a world without tragedy, war, or any conflicts of any type would be like and why it would awful. See usually conflict is caused by differences in beliefs, ideas and other things similar to that, So In order to keep it like this everyone would over time lose all diversity which would be terrible and all the things that make us who
In the book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a central theme is the idea that government control on all aspects of life brainwashes people to accept only one perspective of life. The author effectively uses characterization and conflict to address this theme in the book. Characterization is use to describe how the characters external aspects like physical traits or internal aspects like the way they think. Characterization in the book ties into the conflict in the book because of the indifferences of the characters; which leads to disagreements. Both conflict and characterization used by the writer help develop the central theme.
Paparazzi do not have free reign to invade celebrities’ lives and celebrities have a right to privacy. Paparazzi are photographers who take pictures of celebrities. These photos are usually taken while these public figures are doing normal, everyday activities. Many issues have surfaced as a result of overzealous paparazzi; such as the tragic death of Princess Diana, Steven Tyler’s lawsuit, and Hawaii and California’s new laws.
Next, I will have the students draw a ten and ones chart on their whiteboards and I will give them a problem to put in their chart to subtract with regrouping. We will discuss how to solve this problem while we use our base ten blocks to show why borrowing a ten from the tens place creates ten ones to help us regroup. Furthermore, I will give the students each a piece of scratch paper and tell them problems to write down and solve using their base ten blocks and showing a ten and ones chart. There will be four problems all together. The instructional materials used for this lesson are whiteboards and base ten blocks. The assessment to monitor student learning during the lesson is the use of the individual whiteboards while I observe what they do and write on their boards and a quick quiz with four questions that I will collect.][The identified area of struggle for the three focus students were to correctly identify the tens and ones place so they could correctly regroup a ten to the ones when subtracting two numbers. The strategies used in my re-engagement lesson were to review the place value and have them use a tens and ones chart when subtracting so they would remember the place values when subtracting with
Should celebrities have their right to privacy? Before newspapers, television, and the internet, ordinary people were not exposed to endless stories about celebrities. Today however, we are bombarded with information about who is dating whom, where they eat, and what they wear from magazines such as People, Entertainment Weekly, and Star. Also, most ordinary people respect the rights of others to a private life. However, some people are just obsessed to get information out of celebrities. They want to know everything about them and have a desire for more information. Celebrities should have their right to privacy due to historical/practical rights, their invasion of privacy with paparazzi, and their childrens’ rights to privacy. They are ordinary people just with a famous role in life.
After searching through the personality disorders listed in the DSM-5, I realized how much I meet some of the criteria for Avoidant Personality Disorder. Honestly, I had never read about this disorder before now. Although my personality at this point in my life would not meet the full criteria for this disorder, I truly believe that I could have back when I was in high school. In this reflection, I will explain and elaborate upon how I did and do relate with some of the criteria for Avoidant Personality Disorder.