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Essay Instructions: I am requesting Writergrll101 or Sandy/Chowmama(if avail.) to complete this assignment. Please advise ASAP if neither are available.

- This writing assignment is based on the novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Euxley.
- 4 pages (including the annotated bibliography)
- MLA citations
- include 1 critical review and a scholarly article plus the novel. (3 sources)
- Develop the thesis on the following questions: Discuss the incompatibility between happiness and truth. Why must the citizen of the World State be ignorant in order to enjoy their lives? Is this true of our society today? Why was the past eliminated?
- Annotated bibliography

Essay Instructions: Compose a paper on the following topic: How effectively does the experimental society of Brave New World & Brave New World Revisitied(Aldous Huxley) achieve social stability through the tools of social control: i.e. Social Stratification, social class and social consciousness. Discuss the costs and benefits of such methods and their applicability to issues in our world today.

Essay Instructions: Both Brave New World and The Island are satirical fiction pieces. Keeping in mind the social and political implications of what each is satirizing. Explain the satire and compare the satirical effectiveness of Brave New World and The Island. Does each communicate what it wants to communicate well enough to elicit people to think and change? Requirements: Cite at least two other reliable outside sources aside from the book Brave New World. No wikipedia. At least two concrete details per body paragraph

Essay Instructions: Evaluate the tension between happiness and freedom in the book The Brave New World. Looking at both the Brave New World society and John's response to it, and relating it to our own culture.

Must engage with 3 philosophical readings which are (Jeremy, Bentham, Epictetus. Using these philosophers to help you assess the roles that pleasure, pain, emotions and God - and their relationship to happiness and freedom.

Here are the websites to the three philosophers just use an example or two from each philosopher and tie it into the paper topic.

Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain" Chapter 4

Bentham www.utilitarianism.com/jeremy-bentham/index.html#four

Epictetus

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html


Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 5 "The Natural History of Morals, Section #201"

http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/beyondgoodandevil5.htm