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| | Utopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Religious utopias, perhaps expansively described as a garden of delights, existence free of worry amid streets paved with gold, in a bliss of enlightenment enjoying nearly godlike powers, are often a reason for perceiving benefit in remaining faithful to a religion, and an incentive for converting new members. | | | In a similar sense, the Buddhist concept of Nirvana may be thought of as a kind of utopia. | | | A global utopia of world peace is often seen as one of the possible inevitable endings of history. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
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| | Utopia (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The politics of Utopia have been seen as influential to the ideas of Anabaptism, Mormonism and Communism. | | | The name of the place, Utopia, is a reference to the Greek words ou-topos, meaning "no place", and eu-topos, meaning "good place". | | | Utopia is often seen as a satire and there are many jokes and satirical asides such as how honest people are in Europe but these are usually contrasted with the simple, uncomplicated society of the Utopians. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Novel)
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| | UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to School Term Papers |
| | In quest for utopia the controllers of Brave New World have created a caste system were at birth many human natures are taken away; the controllers act as god and decide who gets what from birth. | | | T.H. White's, Once and Future King brings a utopia in which King Arthur constructs from his childhood lessons from Merlin, but is in danger by the teachings of Toirdealbhach to Arthur's ill made son and the Orkney boys. | | | Utopia strives to correct what is done wrong from the past so they have taken money that causes lust, greed and temptations away from the society. |
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http://www.schooltermpapers.com/essay/018509.html
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| | THESIS ABSTRACT |
| | It may in fact partially be Utopia 's generic link with the Bible (though More's Utopia is not a Christian State) that explains the bizarrely ritualistic mandates on sexual relations between husbands and wives in the book. | | | Utopia, then, and the literary works in which it is found, reflects the ultimate hopes and dreams of humankind, whether these are Judaism's Kingdom of God, the Bourgeoisie's rational state, or Marxism's classless society (Tillich 298), or the chiliast, liberal-humanitarian, conservative, or socialist-communist Utopias presented by Mannheim (211-263). | | | Of course, if one defines Utopia as Frye does, as a "city," then obviously Arcadia cannot be Utopia, but such a definition is too limited, and causes Frye to accept the official (urban) Utopia of More as definitive, and to overlook the unofficial (rural-arboreal) Utopia of Arcadia. |
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http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/lem/thesis.htm
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| | Utopian themes Monika Marons novel Animal Triste |
| | The terms utopia and utopian will be understood as a state of mind, as static and not evolving, as something the narrator clings to as long as she can endure it. | | | The imagined utopia, in this case her lovers moving in into her apartment, the joining of their everyday lives, bursts like a bubble when the present, i.e., the end of the relationship, is narrated: the protagonist kills her lover by pushing him under an oncoming bus (AT 232, 237). | | | Flugasche and the ultimate futility of wishes and desires: Christian, a long time friend of Josefas, voices his thoughts on how fragile wishes and especially wish fulfillment can be. |
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http://www.lsus.edu/la/journals/ideology/contents/animaltristeutopia.htm
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| | Utopia - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Utopia |
| | The adjective utopian has come into some disrepute and is frequently used contemptuously to mean impractical or impossibly visionary. | | | He wrote so well about that make-believe land that from then till now every one who read Utopia sees the beauty of More's idea. | | | The device of describing a utopia in satire or for the exercise of wit is almost as old as the serious utopia. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Utopia
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| | The boy grew up absorbing three cultures: the Utopia he heard about from his mother; the Indian culture in which he lived, but which rejected him as an outsider; and the plays of Shakespeare, which he read in a book that survived from pre-Utopian days. | | | The word "Utopia" means "no place" in Greek. | | | As a boy, John witnessed his mother's painful shift from the happy sex life of Utopia to being the victim of both the Indian men who came to her bed and the Indian women who punished her for violating their laws. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2684/litanalysis.html
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| | Book Review: Utopia of Usurers |
| | One of the prophetic parts of the text, Utopia of Usurers, is the chapter on "The Evolution of the Prison," in which Chesterton predicts that the only institution of his time that will have a future will be the institution of the prison. | | | Doesn't our government and our media keep telling us that those who strive for a religious "utopia" are nothing other than insane, because we have a perfectly well functioning secular one already? | | | The writer of the preface to G.K. Chesterton's Utopia of Usurers, Aidan Mackey, states that this is not the book for a newcomer to the writings of Chesterton. |
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http://www.sspx.ca/Angelus/2003_May/Utopia_Usurers.htm
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| | [EMLS 1.2 (August 1995)] A Bibliography of Thomas More's Utopia |
| | Utopia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 616 | | | Marius, R. "The Building of Utopia," and "Utopia's Religion and Thomas More's Faith." Thomas More: A Biography. | | | Utopia as an embodiment of the three 'evangelical counsels', and as an attempt to regulate the desires for pleasure, property and power.] (cf. |
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http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/01-2/lakoutop.html
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| | Fabi/Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel. Chapter 2 |
| | The possibility and explicit threat of constructing an even "more powerful" (265) organization are reiterated at the very end of the novel and sustain the utopian vision of unstoppable black empowerment and liberation Griggs projects. | | | Harper's construction of Iola Leroy as a utopia emerges clearly by comparison with the recently rediscovered Minnie's Sacrifice, a novel she serialized in 1869 in The Christian Recorder, a newspaper published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | And because "the utopia is designed to describe a unified society, not individual varieties of existence" (Frye 122), the detailed description of utopian life tends to deflect the author's attention from the rounded portrayal of his or her characters. |
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http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/fabi/ch2.html
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| | Amazon.com: Anarchy, State and Utopia: Books: Robert Nozick |
| | These are the kinds of questions that the author addresses in the book, and some are left solely for consideration by the reader. | | | The second part of the book is meant to challenge arguments for the more than minimal state. | | | He thus begins with the Lockean state of nature concept and uses it to build a justification for the state in the rest of the book. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465097200?v=glance
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| | Utopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Religious utopias, perhaps expansively described as a garden of delights, existence free of worry amid streets paved with gold, in a bliss of enlightenment enjoying nearly godlike powers, are often a reason for perceiving benefit in remaining faithful to a religion, and an incentive for converting new members. | | | A global utopia of world peace is often seen as one of the possible inevitable endings of history. | | | See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word |
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| | 3. The Dialogue in Book I of Utopia |
| | In terms of formal structure Utopia consists of a short "dialogue" in Book I), followed by a longer "oration" in Book II, both of which are in turn framed by a series of introductory letters, maps and commendatory verses (roughly twenty percent of the total text). | | | Hythloday's response is once more to cite the example of the Utopians: "But you should have been with me in Utopia and personally seen their manners and customs as I did, for I lived there more than five years and would never have wished to leave except to make known that new world" (106/13--16). | | | The form of Book I is that of a Platonic dialogue on the all too real problems of government in contemporary sixteenth-century Europe, while that of Book II is that of an oratorical declamation on the ideal, imaginary republic of Utopia. |
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http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/work/chapters/utop-chp.html
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| | Utopia by Thomas More: A searchable online version at The Literature Network |
| | Utopia is an excellent book that describes a place where everything is perfect. | | | Utopia is a classic masterpiece that conveys More's vivid imagination of the Island of Utopia. | | | Utopia could not be perfect for any modern person who desires freedom of thought and ideas. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/more/utopia
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| | Critique on Jennifer Burwell's Notes on Nowhere |
| | The first chapters of Notes on Nowhere are devoted to an articulation of her argument and establishing the characteristics of traditional utopias. | | | She goes far in proving that feminist critical utopias are poststructuralist drives for agency rather than an upholding of traditional utopian unity and purity. | | | Part of Burwell’s claim in her exploration of critical feminist novels is that, while aligning with poststructuralist and antifoundationalist theories by using utopia to deconstruct the current reality, critical feminist utopias add an aspect of hope for a better future which can be used as an agent for resistance to the current social structure. |
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http://my.voyager.net/~itspring/UtopianNovels.htm
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| | Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Margaret Atwood |
| | Atwood weaves many elements into the novel: hatred of feminism, religious bigotry, racism, contempt towards older women, environmental destruction, and religious patriarchal control of women's bodies are part of the background of the novel. | | | In a reading from The Robber Bride at Women and Children First in Chicago in late 1993, Atwood commented that for women to be recognized as fully human, it must be recognized that they have the capacity for evil as well as for good. | | | The U.S. has been taken over by the religious right and women have been forced into a patriarchal Old Testament life-style. |
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http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/reviews/atwood.m.html
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| | Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction |
| | You have to distort the word "utopia" out of all recognition to make it fit any right-wing book; as for instance, "the world would be great if it were run by a junta and had biological communists to fight forever, so Starship Troopers is a right-wing utopian novel." True maybe, but useless. | | | This gives the utopia a story and characters, so that it is interesting enough to read, while it gives the novel some very interesting new content, and the chance to make explicit its political program. | | | Each novel is different, but all do more than "make gestures" toward the realities of power in our time. |
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intksr.htm
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| | UTOPIA comes to OTTAWA __ __ __ _ |
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| | Utopia: Book 2 |
| | The remainder of the book describes the moral and religious values of Utopians. | | | Utopia is a crescent shaped island that resembles an atoll. | | | Book two of Utopia begins with the geographical description of Utopia by Raphael Hythloday. |
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| | utopian.txt |
| | The novels are also varied in plot structure and characterization, as well as the way in which the topic of utopia or dystopia is developed. | | | The Giver, Lois Lowry Jonas' world: No violence, no pain, no starvation--such a utopia may appear to be a paradise at a glance; however, closely investigated, it is nothing more than a collage of harsh and bitter realities of death and control under which its operation is attained. | | | In all cases except Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World, students must provide their own books. |
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http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/utopian.txt
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| | UTOPIA by Thomas More _ Book I_ |
| | Achorians, a people that lie on the southeast of Utopia, who long | | | people that live not far from Utopia, by which their King, on the | | | UTOPIA by Thomas More _ Book I_ UTOPIA by SIR THOMAS MORE |
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http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/utopia001.htm
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| | UTOPIA, Essays Club, Essays, 050609 |
| | It discusses the historical significance of Utopia and its attitude towards religion and comapres how these ideas are parallel to the situation today. | | | This paper discusses the book "Utopia", and how Sir Thomas More explores how a society can be controlled by the threat of divine retribution. | | | From the paper: "In Sir Thomas More's book commonly known as Utopia, More presents an ideal society, which includes his idealized view of how religion might be practiced in such a perfect country. |
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http://www.essaysclub.com/lib/essay/utopia.html
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| | Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Starhawk |
| | The novel did include fantasy / religious elements which require a willing suspension of disbelief; but they were not particularly intrusive, and much of the "magic" was no more than vision-questing (there is not really an external Goddess). | | | The Fifth Sacred Thing is her first novel. | | | I was initially somewhat prejudiced against this novel based on a (somewhat irrational) mistrust of most things religious. |
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http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/reviews/starhawk.html
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| | BOOK REVIEW: ESTHER DYSON'S UNCONVINCING TECHNO-UTOPIA |
| | Though Dyson's agenda for negotiating this new world sounds compelling, she neglects to provide a blueprint -- or many details, for that matter -- for how humankind will arrive at the electronic Utopia she foresees ahead. | | | It isn't surprising, then, that she glosses over the obstacles that lie in the way of achieving it. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov1997/nf71121a.htm
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Transhumanism - Encyclopedia Article |
| | And rather than hoping for eternal bliss in heaven, many Transhumanists strive for a technological singularity, techno- utopia or, at the very least, a future world filled with much less suffering and strife than today's. | | | The Iranian-American futurist F.M. Esfandiary, who later changed his name to FM-2030, coined the term "Transhuman" (short for 'transitional human') in 1966 while teaching at the New School for Social Research. | | | Rather than believing that immortality can be achieved after death, Transhumanists strive for immortality by not dying; through the development of radically advanced health technologies and anti-aging medical practices, Transhumanists hope to establish an open-ended lifespan, to make death a purely voluntary decision. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/t/transhumanism.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Anarchy, State and Utopia: Books |
| | In the ‘Utopia’ part of his book, he argues that as individuals we have the freedom to choose whichever society we might, assuming we can find enough other individuals who share our value preferences. | | | He is, to be fair, agnostic on the rights of individuals to choose other forms of economic arrangements in his Utopia. | | | Up to 25% off thousands of text books for Students. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/063119780X
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| | Utopia Book |
| | (Note: Although this book can, technically, be read by 6th graders, the concepts are a bit deep for younger readers.) | | | It written as part of a book that was being authored by one of my professors. | | | This book is the middle school equivalent of Lord of the Flies. |
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http://www.teachnlearn.org/Utopia.html
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| | H-Net Review: W. Warren Wagar on Memoirs of the Future: A Futuristic Novel |
| | But utopias are fundamentally visions of a better world. | | | Both books bear witness to the ultimate triumph of utopia. | | | Both books highlight the competition between utopia and dystopia by offering, in substantial detail, images of good and evil societies alike. |
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6631019839380
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Utopia : A Thriller |
| | What makes "Utopia" shine, though, is the excellent back-story and the superb characters. | | | It takes a lot of chutzpah to give your novel the same title as one of the most famous novels in the history of English-language literature, even if the original novel didn't spawn a literary field or two (utopian and dystopian fiction) or become an everyday term for the perfect place to live on Earth. | | | Utopia, I think, is a brilliant effort into the thriller realm, and I can't wait for his second solo effort to really see what Mr. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385506686?v=glance
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| | The Book of Cliches |
| | It all started when I was in an unpleasant situation for a while, and found myself saying things like listed here, apparently in order to convince myself of something. | | | The Book of Clichés lists phrases to say in times of trouble in a number of categories. | | | The Book of Clichés is here thanks to the inspiring enthusiasm of my good irc-friend Creamsicl. |
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http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche
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