Utopia Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

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1.The city of Santa Utopia is plagued by ever increasing rent. Worrying that seniors may not be able to afford their rent payments, a city supervisor proposes imposing rent controls. Using supply and demand framework, diagram the effects of rent controls. Will the Santa Utopia rental market face excess demand or excess supply?
In Utopia, the equilibrium price is at Pe and it has been very high for citizens. Therefore, a supervisor suggests applying rent control. If the city management applies that suggestion, the price level has to be kept under the equilibrium price. In ...

In Toni Morrison's 1997 novel Paradise, the town of Ruby, Oklahoma is an all-black town that has been established to separate themselves from the tyranny of the white man in Civil Rights-Era America. In order to escape the shackles of exploitation, the community that established (and maintains) Ruby ends up creating a world that is completely free of whites. However, in the process, a whole new realm of discrimination and victimizing occurs, in the form of cutting down on 'contamination,' remaining inside the family lines while creating new generations, and maintaining a strict religious, moral and social standard that everyone must ...

The United States experienced several social and economic changes during the antebellum period. During this period there were several religious revivals, which started off with the Second Great Awakening, marked by preachers travelling in vast places spreading various gospels, thereby attracting several converts to the denominations they represented. During this period Reverend Charles G. Finney was popular for his crusades in which he converted thousands of Americans to Christianity. America is a democratic country and she supports the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of movement and the freedom of association among other freedoms; hence, these freedoms and the ...

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Identify what methodology (ies) are being employed in this analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's "La Joconde," and explain why/how. What questions might other methodology (ies) ask about this particular work?

Formalism: - a formal approach has been taken towards this image. Several physical properties have been engaged so as to disclose the function and meaning of this work. Also, intrinsic beauty is the main idea behind this work. The image has a slight smile (slight lips opening at the mouth corners) which was considered as a sign of elegance. A delicate atmosphere dominates this image with perfect interaction of light and shade, ...

Religion is one of the most important facets of the human experience. Throughout the world, considering different areas of space and moments of time, different cultures have worshiped deities in one form or another. This usually includes the active adoration of these gods, for which a certain locational frame is typically rendered especially suitable. Thomas A. Tweed, in his essay “Space” seeks to examine the nature and characteristics of religious space. In it, he proposes that these spaces are a dialectical construction between the pious and the physical location. In order to define space, he uses five different characteristics: ...

Fantasy is fiction that is often set in an imaginary universe. Characters exhibit behavior that is out of the ordinary as seen in A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and also Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The two exhibits a child and young lovers get into a fairy tale kind- of life. They transition into a mundane world, they take part in the activities of the magical world that are away from reality and most often the reader gets immersed in it too. The constructed world moves from the conscious and subconscious and vice ...

What Kind of Truth is Steinbeck Trying to Explore in Cannery Row?

This essay deals with the novel of John Steinbeck, which is called Cannery Row. The main goal of this essay is to reveal the kind of truth that Steinbeck tries to explore. A lot of critics state that Steinbeck tries to create some sort of social utopia. He tries to do it by presenting a society where a group of misfits is able to coexist due to their tenderness and warm-hearted nature. However, there are also examples of violence and cruelty (eNotes).
Cannery Row is the place on the map where all the people are poor, but thy have ...

Margaret Cezair-Thompson novel, "The True History of Paradise,” is a story about Jean Landing, a Jamaican woman who is determined to escape from her motherland of Jamaica. It is in 1981, and the country is sliding into anarchy after continuous political unrest. The author intelligently injects the storyline with the whole family background of Jean and Jamaica’s whole history. This Jamaican history stretches from the pre-Columbian days up-to-the time Jean gets on her flight. The unfolding political turmoil in her country of birth causes her to make a decision to flee immediately. Even before making her final preparations, she receives piercing ...

The Dalai Lama is the spiritual as well as the sequential leader of Tibet. He has had to face numerous challenges since his accent to the leadership mantle, being sent to exile in 1959 at a time when the Chinese occupied Tibet. Since then, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been vigorously advocating for non-violence in his home country. As a result, the Dalai Lama has travelled the world over in a bid to give lectures on Buddhism teachings. This is in an attempt to make the teachings readily accessible to all nations worldwide. During his worldwide lecture tours, the Dalai Lama ...

Mary Shelley’s literary treatise ‘Frankenstein’ originally published in the year 1818 falls in the genre of horror fiction. Shelley gives an account of the ethical issues present in technological developments and researches. She discusses the relation of a monster and its creator Victor Frankenstein, who possesses a deep passion for science and research. Out of his burning desire, Frankenstein creates a monster, which acts inhumane and destroys the lives of the human beings it encounters unable to withstand the unacceptability in the society. As a result of his creation, Frankenstein loses all his near and dear, and decides to end his life ...

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After the World War II, the US became one of the most powerful nations in the world in par with the United Kingdom. The span of American power is not determined by its highly trained military units and rich wealth distribution; the American power primarily lies on the cultural aspects especially most writers, both foreign and native Americans discuss the premise of the American Dream, a philosophical ideology which became an integral part in forming the nation’s identity. As early as 1931, the famous American historian named James Truslow Adams envisioned an ideal land which follows the utopian ideals in ...

The two authors bring out the effect of drugs on the society; the authors describe a society which was very positive at the initial introduction of the different drugs. At this time little was known about the aftermath drugs.
Iain Gately in his work tells a narrative of a plant that holds a special place in the history of humanity. The plant is presented to the world as a gift, this is evident on the cover page of his book “ a culture history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.” the crop is the main driving force behind colonization ...

Thomas Aquinas tried to overcome the conflict between faith and knowledge and to combine morality and religion. According to his teaching, God is the greatest good; therefore, the highest good for man is union with God. In this situation, the morality is the movement toward God. Morality carries out virtues. Virtuous action is the action that expresses a conscious choice, the will of the individual. Bliss is the main goal of human activity and at the same time, it is beyond the capacity of man. This contradiction shows that in a number of points morality and religion have a ...

Neuro-functional pathways and Connection with Diseases

Types of Memory
Traditionally, there are three types of memory defined: short-term memory (STM), long-term memory (LTM) and working memory (WM). Hebb defines the short-term as the mechanism of continuous reverberation of stimuli and information in cellar systems and as a result neurons excite one another for some time after the original stimulus (Nadel and Hardt, 2010, 253). In other words, STM is an ability to hold information about the stimuli for the brief period. If this reverberatory activity leads to restructuring of synaptic connections, the long-term memory appears. LTM is an ability of human brain to storage the ...

The story, Bloodchild, represents a scientific fiction story that shows human beings isolated in a hysterical world. The humans mainly function as birthing vessels, displaying many elements of western civilization and scientific fiction by the author. However, the author uses many twists in the story showing that the human beings had many civilization weaknesses that needed address. The story happens in space as the characters say that the humans had ancestors saved by the ancient people living on the land. This paper critically analyzes the story Bloodchild by Octavia Butler showing various elements of the short story that changed the view ...

How Craig and Reina's differing religious beliefs parallel their opposing views on relationships.

Introduction
Religion is a fundamental facet of humanity. It shapes human opinions on what is right or wrong and largely influences decision-making. Factoring in the ambiguity of some religious teachings and the liberty of individuals to make independent decisions regarding personal satisfaction, religious beliefs can spark up a lot of controversy especially between people who are in romantic relationships. The book titled Blankets is a classic depiction of the tug of war that exists between religious teachings on one hand and strong emotional feelings and persuasions on the other. This book is a graphical autobiographical novel by Craig Thompson which illustrates his progression ...

In the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, the author chronicles the attempts by her and her family to spend an entire year eating nothing but locally grown food. Toward this end, Kingsolver concludes that it is entirely possible, though difficult in the process of adjusting and acclimating oneself to these new conditions, to eat only natural food, adjusting one's diet to the local growth available in the season. The author clearly links the wholesomeness, freshness and healthiness of these organic and local foods to the ubiquity and assembly-line perfection of the supermarket in one particular passage, which ...

This documentary consists of three episodes in which Professor Diamond from UCLA is trying to find answers to some of the most interesting questions of today’s civilization, its causes and roots. The suggested answer is a simple one and as we go through the documentary we realize its truthiness. He gives obvious answers, but simple at the same time. I strongly recommend everyone to watch this movie so that he/she could go into an epic and historic journey and acquire better understanding of the past and series of events that lead to where we are today.
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In the history of American society, there were both gruesome and inhuman events and policies. There were times when people were not just denied of their human rights, but even of their human nature and inborn equality. Slavery and racial segregation are humiliating features of American history. Some might suggest that they should be forgotten and life should take its normal pace of democratic development. I think that by forgetting the gruesome past of the history, society is doomed to repeat it, and by rejecting the atmosphere people lived and died in, modern society is also forgetting sacrifices of ...

MAD, known in full as Mutual Assured Destruction, is a military strategy and a policy of national security. It has its basis on the deterrence theory where the positioning of troops in readiness for battle is necessary so that the enemy is threatened and this prevents the enemy from using the same weapons. The earliest reference to this term was during the Franco- Prussian war in 1870.it was also used during the cold war where it was passed by the then U.S secretary of defense, Robert McNamara.

MAD is of significance in the national security of the U.S in that they ...