New Future Essays

  • A New Future: Gene Therapy

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    A New Future: Gene Therapy Imagine a world where a person could change his or her genetic structure and redirect the future course of evolution in their child and themselves. Through gene therapy this is a very real possibility. In the future it could be just as easy to change your physical or mental health as it is to get flu shot now. But the affects of gene therapy are long lasting and could affect your future offspring as well as your own health. What is gene therapy? First discovered

  • A Dystopian Future in Brave New World

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    Brave New World is a remarkable journey into the future wherein mankind is dehumanized by the progress and misuse of technology to the point where society is a laboratory produced race of beings who are clones devoid of identity only able to worship the three things they have been preconditioned to love:  "Henry Ford, their idol; Soma, a wonder drug; and sex" (Dusterhoof, Guynn, Patterson, Shaw, Wroten and Yuhasz  1).  The misuse of perfected technologies, especially those allowing the manipulation

  • Brave New World - Fears Of The Future

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    texts like Brave New World which are designed specifically as probes into the aspects of society that the writer desires to explore. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World during the late ‘20s and early ‘30s; in the middle of the Great Depression and at the eve of the Second World War. World War One was still fresh in everyone’s memories and so was the Bolshevik revolution of Russia, which threatened to spread throughout Europe and the world. On the other side of the Atlantic the ”New World” was undergoing

  • Why Is Brave New World A Future Dystopia

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    May 2014 Brave New World: Future Dystopia or Present-Day Nightmare? Aldous Huxley is a visionary for his philosophy that we as humans will be destroyed if one must adhere to be just as the rest of society, and for creating a dystopia that echoes todays world in the United States. Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, which portrays life in a future dystopia, and the repercussions of removing intellectual challenges and morality from a society. Huxley’s goal in writing Brave New World may have

  • Brave New World by Huxley and Future Predictions

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    Brave New World by Huxley and Future Predictions Due to the “Enlightenment” belief in understanding through science and the scientific innovations of the “Industrial Revolution” during the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe and America, the notion that society could be vastly improved through scientific progress pervaded “western” culture. Naturally, these advances were expected to culminate in the 20th Century. However, the shear brutality and scale of World War I and the hopelessness of the

  • New Energy for the Future

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    New Energy for the Future For years man has relied on energy in order to be successful in life. The industrial revolution relied on coal for the new inventions brought into the world. Life as has never been the same since then. However since that time, there has been little done to improve on energy efficiency and humans still primarily rely on fossil fuels for energy. For over a hundred years the Earth has become more polluted and dirtier than ever before. Now, with new, innovative technology there

  • The New Future of Football

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    are the NFL really the people to choose? I believe that the issue is now seriously enough that the government should help with regulating the rules of contact sports for everyone. The danger is greater than you think. Alan Schwartz, a writer in “The New York Times Upfront,” quotes that, “A concussion is dangerous, pure and simple, but players don’t view it that way.” Schwartz is basically saying that the concussions that these players are getting are more dangerous than they think they are. However

  • My Antonia Essay - An American Tale

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    of America in search of hope and a new future in the Midwest prarie.  This novel can be considered an American tale because it holds the American concept of the “melting pot,” the ideal of America as the “land of opportunity,” and the character’s struggles could only have occurred in America rather than their own country. "The melting pot" is the tremendous power of national imagination – the promise that all immigrants can be transformed into Americans, a new alloy forged in a container of democracy

  • Copyright vs. the Right to Copy

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    Copyright vs. the Right to Copy Today's digital technology and the computer have changed how the average consumer can acquire information and entertainment. No longer do we have to wait for the CD to hear a new song, or the release date to watch a movie. The technology is available on our home computers. But is this an infringement on copyright? What about the rights of artists, authors, producers, or actors? Has our technology progressed so far that it infringes on these peoples' livings? It

  • Hosue On Mango Street

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    puzzle and reveal a theme. This unique story is about a disadvantaged young Chicana girl, named Esperanza, growing up in a poor neighborhood where she feels she does not belong. She does not like what she experiences, and constantly searches for a new future. As Esperanza grows and changes throughout the book, she realizes that women in her culture are treated unfairly, and makes a conscious choice not to fall into the same trap as the women around her. 4 Women all around Esperanza, such as Minerva

  • Satire of the Utopian Future: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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    While the knowledge of the world around man may open door to him, it leaves his mind filled with endless thoughts that weigh on him. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, Huxley describes a satiric version of the utopian future where humans are genetically bred and classically conditioned to live passively and happily in their subservient culture. Throughout the novel, this idea of happiness verses knowledge and intelligence is brought before the characters of Huxley’s society. The only way this

  • Flowers in Season by Andre Maurois

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    are compared to the changing seasons, two people and their losses and the tragedy that has overcome their lives. Etienne and Gabrielle who were both tragically widowed at a young age, have been living in their pasts began to discover a hope for a new future within each other. Etienne and Gabrielle are both utterly consumed by their pasts, and the past is their complete focus. "He would have replied that he would be coming every Thursday until the day of his death, which he hoped would not be too

  • The Future of Airports and New Larger Aircraft (NLA)

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    The first airplanes carried only one individual. Today an average commercial airplane will carry approximately four-hundred to five-hundred people. However, recently new larger aircraft (NLA) have been designed to carry anywhere from five-hundred to eight-hundred persons. The need for NLA’s has been recognized as demand for air travel continues to increase. Furthermore, by deploying larger aircraft the problem of capacity will be addressed: more people on a plane will translate to a lower number

  • John Achenbach's The Future Is Now

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    cell phones to look up and discover the advancing world around them. In “The Future is Now,” by John Achenbach, the author suggests that people live in the present day and don’t see the future coming. Achenbach communicates can that society today is oblivious to the progression toward tomorrow. Achenbach uses diction, logos and irony to portray his message that society should stop in the moment and focus on what the future may have to offer. Achenbach uses careful diction throughout the passage. When

  • Back To The Future Movie

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    Throught the back to the future movies there has been many changes that occured between each time period. The First movie happened between 1955 to 1985 and the second movie was about going to the 2015 future. During the events of the first movie the protagonist Marty Mcfly goes to 1955 from 1985 where he witnesses his father and mother as high school teenagers. Everything seems new to him. In this movie the audience gets to witness the many changes that happened throughout time. This small changes

  • Mark Watney's The Martian

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    suspended between the past and future on a moment we call the present. In a world full of stories, what distinguishes a tragedy from a happy storyline? Is it the length, the climax, the general direction of the storyline, or the cast of supporting characters? There are many factors that contribute to living “the good life”, but one of the most important is peace with one’s own story, which encompasses resolution and continuity from the past and hopeful expectations for the future. First, the good life requires

  • Essay About College Experience

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    It is not as easy as people say and think it is. It is more fun than how some people describe. The experience is beneficial for everyone to have. It has the potential to be a new start and the beginning of a bright future. It can bring a new career to an individual. Being a college student is what I’m talking about. There are a number of varying points of view on college. College can take plenty of time out of my schedule and stress me out. I have classes throughout the whole day, which doesn’t

  • Seeing The Future Analysis

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    "seeing the future". "This is not what real futurist does," she warned. "A futurist does not see the future. They make the future." She then goes on to ask the attendees at SXSWEdu to imagine all the conceivable options the future may have in store ten years from now. She chooses ten years because it's close. We can easily envision ourselves ten years in the future: where we will be in our careers. Simply put, our actions today have a foreseeable impact on ten years in the future. Instead of

  • Hyperion By Matt Cruse

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    For Matt I can see his future being very happy and promising. I can see him getting married to Kate de Vries and them being very rich with the hold they found in the ship. I can also see Matt graduating the airship academy and Matt getting his own ship. With Matt’s ship I think he will pilot it and hiring his own crew. In Kate de Vries future I think she will open her own museum with all the amazing new species she discovered aboard the Hyperion and in the air while

  • The Future Of Nanotechnology Affect The Future

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    Nanotechnology Will Affect the Future The future of nanotechnology would seem to be something out a sci-fi movie but it is the new norm. Nanotechnology is the future for science, research, and technology. It is the thought of working with something so small that would make big changes with great success. This paper will discuss how the future of nanotechnology would work in our society. Nanotechnology will be great with endless achievements that will help the future. The thought of these little