In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury makes lots of predictions about the future and some of them are exaggerated but some of the predictictions are pretty close to what is happening in the modern world. The citizens in Fahrenheit 451 aren’t allowed to read books because the government banned them so they wouldn’t get too smart, because everyone should be equal. In Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury makes numerous predictions about the future, some of which are coming true today such as the importance of technology, people moving so fast they don’t have time for others, and people’s lack of responsibility for their actions. In the book people can’t reading so they sit inside on the couch and watch TV. Today it is almost the same, some people like to sit down and watch TV or play video games more than they like to sit down and read.
This can be seen as very similar to the treatment of the people in Gilead, they have been brainwashed to believe what is ‘right’ and the government have expelled anyone who is an ‘unwoman’. However, ‘The handmaid’s tale’ is a dystopia, meaning that it is a time in the future that is seen to be the opposite of our perfect imagination of the future. The fact that the narrative is set in the future means that the story becomes extremely implausible to the reader. With modern technology advancing all of the time, it would be impossible for the rest of the world not to know what the situation in Gilead was like, and thus impossible that the Gilead society has not been saved by an outside country. The story is told through a first person narrative with Ofred, our protagonist telling us about her experiences under the Gilead society.
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life:” — Mohammed Ali 12. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” Michael Jordan 13. “I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan 14. “There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” — Mother Teresa 15. “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” — Hellen Keller 16.
It is of my opinion that a world without death would mean overcrowding, and there would be no concept of time. Death ultimately enhances life and is the sole factor in our world which brings meaning to life. Without such a vital aspect of life in our day today behavior, our social system would begin to decay. According to our textbook there are many consequences to consider in a world without death such as enforcing birth control to reduce families from having babies, inheritance might not mean anything as people would never benefit from it and elderly people would definitely outnumber the youth so much that anything new would not have a chance (Kastenbaum pg.75). Death controls many realms of society for example, without death time would not need to exist and time would no longer be of the essence.
When the federal government is saying there is less inflation than there is, but it’s noticeable in the price of goods, people begin to lose trust in the economy. They don’t truly understand how it affects people on a personal level. We have nothing left to back up the current currency being printed due to Nixon’s termination of the gold standard leaving the world’s economy to fend for itself. The government degrades the side affects of the economy that has produced higher inflation costs, creating more money than what is being backed up, and cronyism. They are not solving the problem; they are just pushing it further into the future and making it worse.
Having a dead future is being no one life, having no job, and especially having no education. This proverb actually affected my education too. This proverb means a lot to my education. This proverb motivates me not only to doing this essay, but to do outstanding in school. This means that I better not say no to my education because without education my future is doom.
As a student, Durkheim became convinced that progress was not the necessary consequence of the development of science and technology, that it could not be represented by an ascending curve, justifying complacent optimism. He perceived around him the occurrence of “anomie,” which is defined as a personal sense of rootlessness fostered by the absence of social norms. He also believed that the relative material success of his generation (almost unimaginable when set against the norm of human consumption averaged over the course of all of human history) set free greed and passions that threatened the equilibrium of society (Lukes, 1985, p. 143). Durkheim very quickly turned to the arena of work in an attempt to understand the relationship of group to individual and, more specifically, how it is that what each one of us does in our daily lives is linked to a sense of well-being or the lack of a sense of well-being and a sense of connection
It is also necessary to allow foreign products to come in so competition will increase. Basic ally, the underlying flaw under foreign product taxes is that it cuts off greater innovations and negatively affects our economy. -Even if we wanted to improve, remove taxes b/c by imposing taxes we don’t accept new ideas into our companies and nothing is innovative anymore. We are promoting isolationism -By allowing foreign products to come in, competition is brought about and we work to improve upon it. Each side improves the product and it continues in a circle.
The government may think its “value for money”, in my views this is no excuse to not only double the fees but to treble them! Students will be left in massive debt, and will have the debt on their shoulders until they pay it off. More working class students will lose the opportunity to increase their potential. This may lead them to go down the wrong path, possibly even end up on the streets. The government is always thinking up ways in which street crime can decrease, this is far from the resolution.
He also believes race, lack of jobs, poor education and unhealthy family life is a factor in insular poverty. He adds that it cannot be solved by increase in income but requires help from outside the community. Galbraith says government officials lack the desire to fix the problem of poverty. He argues that to guarantee a minimum salary to every family and invest in health care, nutrition and schools as a nation could eliminate poverty. He believes that modern society has no excuse for not providing, to every family, the minimum income needed to live comfortably above poverty.