Video Response for Brave New World

    Let me start off by saying that I loved this video. This video strongly reflected our society and educational system, every word that was said in it I agreed with. Especially when the narrator explains that children seemed to always be separated into two groups (those who are smart academically and those who arent...) What's left for the others? It is an unfair system, and an especially unfair system when school districts strictly follow these outdated guidlines. Anyways I just really like the video but now i'll start off with the actual assignment:
   I see many parallels between Brave New World and the video. One of them being the way the society in Brave New World medicate their people to have them pay more attention and have more of a capacity to learn. And honestly in my opinion it is so pathetic and sad that we our using this "ficticous epidemic of ADHD" as an excuse to medicate our own children in America, just so that they will focus more in class. It is just like the drug soma because our society of ADHD children are being forever changed in the way they would natrually think or learn, just like the people who use soma in Brave New World pop some pills to focus and feel better. One character in the book, john who is known as a "savage" suddenly realizes the harmful ways of soma and how it is restriciting peoples mind capacities. This quote explains this situation, "John  realized this damage of the soma and in his grief began to throw it was screaming "free, free!" (213).
   Another simmilarity that occured to me is how there is an veiw of the "ideal student" and how this type of student is the only useful one. I, personally, hate being labeled as the "average" or not as smart as the others in class just because they answered a multiple choice question right on a standardized test which is basically only geared to the academically and book smart children. Just as in the book, it seems as if people in our own world are being maufactured just as they are in Brave New World, and the humans are bred to be a certain way. Our own world does this by alienated children whom are more interested in arts etc. and steer them towards math and sciences..and if they fail on that, they give up on that child. Obviously they just arent smart enough (?!?) An example of how they manufacture their children in the book is shown in this quote directors of hatcheries (where the eggs are progressed and maufactured) “predestine and condition. [They] decant [their] babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons… (13).” <---see separating into two groups, Alphas and Epsilons.

THINGS SHOULD CHANGE in our system thats all I have to say............................

brave new world

    The main portrayl of chapter 3 in Brave New World is about control over the cities people. It explains in this chapter how much control there is, for example, people do not have their or "minds or thoughts" technically because since they were only a fetus technology has installed their control of knowledge into them.
   When it comes to family, the book seems to hold to the fact that the meaning of family is superficial and non-existent. To show this, the character Mustapha Mond was explaining to the alphas that they should “Try to imagine what ‘living with one’s family’ meant” and “They tried; but obviously without the smallest success.” (meaning they tried family). It is clear that the alphas are consumed by the idea that a family is not necessary or even condoned to be with the same few people throughout their entire lives.
   

Temptest Preview

    I have to admit that The Temptest was really confusing to me at first but I did begin to understand it as I continued on. I think that Shakespeare's main topics are dealing with the issues of colonialism and numerous occurences in our history. For myself and many others I believe, The Temptest dealt with the exact same conflicts that our own history dealt with during postcolonialism times, the Native American conflicts. On the other hand, I also believe that the relationship between the arguments of Stephen Greenblatt and George Will strongly relate to two main points Shakespeare was attempting to make. Thiis makes since to me because it reveals the different sides of how we should view or how we should not view a piece of literature. My own view of Shakespeare's narrative The Temptest is that Shakespeare coincides his own beliefs of colonialism by portraying it in with his two main characters, Prospero and Caliban, and also by using our own history into a narrative to make his point a little more clear.