Chicago
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10 pages in length. Tragedy and uprising reflect the foundation upon which most cities move through the often painful struggle of progress. Chicago is no different in this respect and can even lay claim to some of the nation's most notable events of this type. While the Windy City has had her share of positive, uplifting reasons for growth, it has been her brushes with near defeat that has served to strengthen her resolve as a population and a metropolis that much more. Combined with the more positive trends that helped to shape her history, Chicago has long held the title of being a Mecca of multitude for all the things that make a city desirable. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Creating a Utopia
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This 4 page paper very briefly explains why it’s difficult to create a utopia, and then describes one possible version of a utopian society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Definition Of Freedom
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3 pages in length. Freedom is not only a mindset of those who seek life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but it is also a birthright afforded those who live beneath the umbrella of a democratic society. National constitutions bestow the multifaceted components of freedom upon their people; however, myriad countries are ruled by autocratic leaders who refuse to recognize the inherent human right of freedom and instead condemn their respective populace to a dictatorial hell on earth. America's Constitution has long been the prototype for other democratic nations to follow, with arguably the most important factor being its extensive attention to personal freedoms. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Did the Industrial Revolution Improve the Standard of Living:
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This 5 page paper dicusses the impact which the industrial revolution had on the lives of people. While it is often the assumption that the industrial revolution improved people's lives, in many ways this was not the reality. Bibliography lits 5 sources.
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Differences and Similarities in Utopian Literature
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This 10 page paper explores eight works including Plato's Republic and More's Utopia. Various aspects of the books are explored including but not limited to class, religion and government. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Disneyland: Prototype Of The Ideal City?
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12 pages in length. Imagine a community with no crime, no disrepair, no unhappy residents, where there is always a sense of contentment and camaraderie floating in the air. Every citizen upholds neighborhood aesthetics under obligation of town code, and each person maintains a defined responsibility in preserving this Utopian setting. This community is not a democracy, but residents do not seem to mind that their every decision is founded upon autocracy. Is this the description of yet another backward European country? No, this is the setting for one of the world's most beloved communities where everything appears perfectly Utopian: Disneyland. No individuality, no originality, no independence. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Dr. Kafka's Colony
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3 pages in length. Unlike the world he left behind, the colony Dr. Kafka dreamed of does not rely upon or revolve around technology; in fact, the primary component of this colony's long-proven survival is how its people have eschewed technological advancement in exchange for harkening back to when humanity lived a much more simple and humane existence. No bibliography.
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Ecotopia
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A review of Callenbach's Ecotopia, which looks at his depiction of a society based on sustainability and the rejection of consumerism and industrialisation, and considers whether or not it is a valid social model.
Filename: JLecotop.rtf

Emerson and Others on Societal Reform
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This 3 page paper discusses Emerson's observations about man, including that of man's infinite worthiness, and asks if we can enact reform or if we have come to believe that poverty, racism, economic injustice and all the other ills of society are just the way things are? It also discusses two poems, Langston Hughes's Let America be America again and Robert Frost's Mending Wall. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVReform.rtf

Equal Opportunities; An Uneconomic Goal?;
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This 14 page paper considers the argument that equality of opportunity is impossible to achieve and we should stop wasting resources trying to achieve it. The paper looks at how this may be seen as true and argues both for and against the statement. In doing so the role of resources in education and on the work place are included. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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