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I found this video to be quite interesting in the sense that we as students are all exactly as the communitiy around us. We all dress about the same within the same group or styles. We converse the same and we all take the same educational classes. In a sense, we are the same in someway. However, unlike Brave New World, we all are able to think for ourselves. Our only purpose may be to contribute to the economy and live our lives out that way; on the other hand we have our own choices. We are not genetically programmed to carry out a certain machine's needs.  

One parallel that caught my attention was the point in the video where he addressed the condition of ADHD.  The fact that most people nowadays seem to have it made it so much more interesting. As a society we are constantly bored looking for the next thing to keep us occupy, whether it be technology, food, sports, or even on the harsh terms of drugs and alcohol. Just like in Brave New World, the people turn to Soma to relieve them from any boredom: "What you need is a gamme of Soma."

On another note, we are taught throughout school what is right and wrong through the eyes of the teacher. This is similar to Brave New World in a sense that they are also taught what they can and cannot do to fulfill their life purpose. But question is who is really in charge of what is right and wrong, what they can do and what they can’t?

This video was indeed an eye opener of how society is slowly starting to resemble that of Brave New World by our lack of concentration and our ability to easily be consumed by what is around us.

NEW BOOK NEW WORLD. NEW ADVENTURE TO BLOGGING OH FUN FUN FUN

After reading chapter 3 I came to realize how the government makes it so simple to cover society from gaining experiences and replace those experiences with artificial pleasures.
Infants are tempted with books and flowers and then shocked when they go to grasp them they are electrically shocked. This is a way of showing harm to what was once a pleasure and something that can be enjoyable. In a way it is like the idea of a child falling off a bed and learning the fact that they can get hurt if they go too close to the edge again. If the children are caused pain for what they wish then soon enough they will no longer find pleasure in it.

On the other hand, women are able to feel all of the symptoms of a pregnancy unnaturally. With thoughts like “my baby… the little hands, the hunger, and that unspeakable agonizing pleasure!”  Women are no longer able to experience the feelings of carrying and birthing a baby due to the new manufacturing technique in the book, so those who desire such feelings are able to consume a “pregnancy substitute.” This makes pregnancy seems as though it could just be a joke that babies are not naturally born the way they used to be.

The people in A Brave New World are encouraged to be promiscuous and frequently change partners to keep the happiness going. “Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.” Having whatever one person wants cannot stand in the way for a person to be unhappy. So either you do what you have to do to make yourself happy or u tumble down and be unhappy.

In Brave New World, people are birthed to do their jobs and nothing else. There sole purpose is to fulfill the job that they were embedded to do. They must be “obedient men,” men who enjoy fulfilling their duties rather than acting against them. This quote justifies Ford’s thoughts on how life should be. Life should be manufactured and synthetic, not real. This way no one would be able to live unhappy and everyone would be the happiest person living.

preparation to write for the Tempest

I can honestly say I did not like the book The Tempest at first because I really had no idea of what was going on. But as we got into groups and started to discuss about it I started to enjoy it a bit more. In those discussions of "The Tempest" that we had, one controversial issue has been the debate between the themes of colonialism and imperialism of the time. On the one hand, Shakespeare meant for that The Tempest is to arugue this issue of during his time. Aime Cesaire discusses the theme of imperialism in Shakespeare's work. Her rewrite titled "A Tempest"  of a comical writing style to emphasize imperialism and colonialism in Shakespeare's "The Tempest". On the other hand, others who have analzyed Shakespeare's work have come to the conclusion of a few different meanings. One example is Stepehen Greenblatt. He emphasizes his views on how imperialism affected the Native Americans. On the other hand, other critics, such as George Will, believes that this analysis of the text takes away the original meaning that the author intended to convey to the reader. These two critics have different views of Shakespeare's ideas. But who knows which one of them maybe right. There are many other views of Shakespeare. There would never be a "right" answer to everything.