These shortcomings give clues to the concurrent failure of more utopian states. This paper will discuss the most successful Scandinavian State, Sweden, and its attempt to build what it believes is an Enlightenment style utopia. ... In this society, Socrates thought education was the way to freedom. He believed that once we had knowledge of what was good, we would not be free to do evil. ... He wanted to bring these original virtues back to modern society. ...

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Larkin comments on what he sees, contrasting the natural world with modern, commercialised society. ... The poem is set out in two stanzas; the first describing the modern, utopian society portrayed by the billboard adverts and the second conveying the reality of modern life. ... The phrase 'of how life should be emphasise the utopian society as something ordinary people can only aspire to'. ... The word 'stare' makes the people seem very focused and determined to gain what is essentially unattainable. ... He comments that although the people grow older, they are continual...

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"Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame and render a man invulnerable to any but a violent death!" ... Frankenstein's 19th Century Genevan society is founded on the patriarchal division of gender roles. ... Subsequently, this separation of masculine work from familial affections is what leads directly to his downfall. ... This scientific discovery, and others similar to it, would have had a significant impact on society at the time. ... In creating a character, which exemplified the masculine, scientific...

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Critic of Society B. ... The Knight had to travel to many places to look for the answer to the question what do women really want. ... He tries to instill moral virtues by using the Utopians as an example. ... Virtue in Utopia is defined as the moral character of an individual who supports society, individuals who serve as pillars of society are to be considered virtuous. ... Also, sanctity of marriage is held in high regard to the Utopians. ...

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There is, suggests Jameson a kind of winner loses logic about it, the more one tries to define what is characteristically postmodern the less characteristic it turns out to be. ... I shall also venture to suggest that a more dialectical understanding of temporality and spatiality may enable us to move beyond what Jameson sees as the limits of the postmodern. ... Again I remain rather unclear about what is imputably postmodern here as many of the philosophical positions adopted are strikingly modernist in tone and substance. ... What has become known as "late" or multinationa...

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"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion," Javan. One of the biggest questions lying at the root of human curiosity is whether love is real or merely an illusion. In our day-to-day lives, it can be very difficult to draw the line between the two, because our mind...

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This utopian society, as once described by Plato, has survived through myth and lore for thousands of years. ... What Plato said and what Plato meant have been interpreted in many different ways, these writings have been identified as the origin of confusion regarding Atlantis. ... The utopian state of Atlantis, as described by Plato, would have been one of the most glorious, manmade establishments ever created and maintained. ... (Bacon 19) The Atlantean agricultural infrastructure was the springboard to an advanced and leisured society. ... What more could you ask for? ...

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What else can I say? ... Therefore he tries to hold on to that of what he believed. ... Winston's opinion of what was true and what was illusion was no more a place of happiness without suffering anymore. ... If we had a society where everyone's free will is taken away then it would end up being a society full of robots. ... This made the society of Salem no difference to the society of Oceania as both societies thought that to have a perfect society meant that the people had to sacrifice their free will in exchange. ...

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His plays made the everyday man confront himself and evaluate the society and himself with a different perspective. ... The Pillars of society was Ibsen's first truly realistic play, whose title hinted sarcastically about the corruption and hypocrisy that had deep-rooted itself in the society. ... But with The League of Youth, he began a modern phase where focus was directed towards the problems of a modern society. ... George Bernard Shaw points out how Ibsen's characters are people from our own society and his themes are universal. ... The distan...

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Utopian settlement where people of all races, classes and religions could live together 'without petty social distinctions and differences.' He wanted to establish a new society, a new kind of country. ... The tide country is not very far from Calcutta and the mainstream Indian society – only ninety seven kilometers away. Yet it represents another world where it is impossible to tell who is who, and what their castes and religious beliefs are for them. ... They were the poorest of the poor who belonged to the lowest strata of the society. ...

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Many of the earliest societies in time had practiced forms of prejudice for thousands of years. ... In a society there are people high in rank and others low in rank. ... This division also exists in all of society, and there is often a fine line between groups. ... There have been many efforts to remove these forms of prejudice, but the utopian type lifestyle where all people are equal seems almost unrealistic. ... These lines from "The Wanderer- depict what the lifestyle of slaves was similar to, and prove that the Anglo-Saxons were prejudice and thought that they were a superior race by...

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Austin: Positivist Identity of law: what makes the law the law Law (is) = Rules + (issued by a) Sovereignty. ... So, what counts as reasonable might be suppressive and render illegitimate other notions of reason. 2. ... The Author then says that how does finis know this is what basic? And what becomes problematic is the conclusions that we derive from these basic goods. 4. ... What is the nature of self-evidence. 5. ...

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English philosopher Thomas Hobbes's novel Leviathan (1651), John Locke's The Second Treasite of Government (1690), and Genevian philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1755) political theories and ideologies held an immense influence on the shaping of governmental systems and society in Europe and America. ... How he is by birth as well as how he evolves within the State of Nature are what differs between each philosophers work, The journey into this social phenomenon, the voluntary submission of natural man's rights in order to enter into a form of civ...

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This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. ... Philosophers were the first to realize what the aristocratic society, the bourgeois, and the bourgeoisie failed to understand. ... Mimicking the scientists" curiosity, philosophers questioned the basic workings of government and society and in doing so gave rise to the Age of Enlightment. ... The philosophers were elite members of society, and despite the context of their messages, they were not always free from discrimination. ... In its early ye...

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The ideal society he proposes is of course only an ideal-- but the animals don't know this. ... It's only natural, like Squealer said, really that is exactly what Orwell wants you to think. ... The animals do for the most part live in Orwell's ideal society of socialism. ... This is really more or less a reality check after so much narrative about the utopian lifestyle of Animal Farm. ...

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What are qualities of a national cinema though and how can one define a nation's cinema? ... serving as a vehicle of popular socializing and as a forum for telling uncomfortable truths about society' 2). It can be argued, however, (according to O`Reagan) that the "truth- in Australian filmmaking or the uncomfortable mirror of Australian society is no longer a wholly negative statement in realtion to the most recently produced films from Down Under. ... the fairest child of the motherland... where society, public ideologies and business conditions unevenly and self-consciously projec...

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Religion to an innocent girl back then meant that following what it preaches can make you a good and happy person. ... At first, it will seem unusual why or what this book has got to do with a Political Science student's academic life. ... But Christianity had a different approach compared to what was the way before. ...

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He did what he believed to be right taking very few cues from his senior politicians in his Republican Party. ... Many of the politicians did not like what he was doing because they were "Gilded Age" politicians who thought the government should not interfere with business. ...

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This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of society. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ...

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This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of society. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ...

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This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of society. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ...

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If so, how is it applied and what effect does it have? ... So what is actually being analysed? ... Following Simpson's and Mayr's interpretation of the interaction part of the diagram they state: 'The discourse practice dimension specifies the nature of the text production, distribution and consumption in society' (Simpson and Mayr, 2010, p. 54). ... CDA, thus, examines the texts from the perspective of what they include as well as from what they omit. ...

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Never before, however, has the human race been so close to inaugurating this Utopian ideal of establishing and empowering government on a planetary scale. As it stands today, world government can be compared to communism - both can be viewed as ideals of a perfect society, but neither has proven to work effectively in practice. ... This is what the advocates of an "empowered United Nations are really after. What is most disturbing is that they have nearly succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for t...

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Amanda sets into what must be an excruciatingly familiar account of the time she entertained 17 gentlemen callers one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain. ... What, Amanda wants to know, has Laura been doing from half past five till after seven every day this winter. ... Williams's production notes and stage directions emphasize the striving for what Williams described as a "new plastic theater." ... In the wake of what Tom refers to as the "fiasco at Rubicam's Business College," Amanda has become obsessed with procuring a gentleman caller for Laura. ... What keeps him here, then? ...

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Liberals argue that trade benefits everyone because it helps people concentrate on what they are best at (the formal version of this argument is the theory of ˜comparative advantage'). ... Allowing free trade sends price signals that encourage people to work at what they are best at, a strategy that benefits everyone over the long term. ... For the developing world, "doing what you are best at" in trade may mean providing sweatshop labour so that consumers in Europe can have cheaper trainers or electronic goods. ...

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