<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
   <channel>
      <title>Brave New World by Erika Debnam</title>
      <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld</link>
      <description>Erika Debnam / 6th</description>
      <language>en-us</language>
      <pubDate>2015-12-02 20:16:01 UTC</pubDate>
      <lastBuildDate>2023-02-21 17:46:53 UTC</lastBuildDate>
      <webMaster>hello@padlet.com</webMaster>
      <image>
         <url>https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/73061533/1d6e968505bd61cfe377c329aed8d499ae6fbee2/bff58f44b3d037aead5666026ccb4ddd.jpg</url>
      </image>
      <item>
         <title>What is a Dystopia?</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/84772763</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>A dystopia is a futuristic society which is seemingly perfect, but hides its flaws from citizens and frowns upon individuality. By participating in yesterday's roundtable discussions, I was able to see just how much I haven't thought about as far as where our current actions will lead us; things which I don't consider to be a big deal as of right now, may be a completely different story in the near future. Current government practices such as surveillance and wire-tapping, as well as genetic research in order to perfect embryos  are considerably pseudo-dystopian. Dystopian ideas which I have already found in <i>Brave New World </i>include restriction of independent thought, dehumanization, banishment of the natural world, and the illusion of perfection. All of these ideas come from the first scene, where the DHC tells the students about all of their society's miraculous accomplishments involving in vitro fertilization.</p>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="" />
         <pubDate>2015-12-03 17:47:44 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/84772763</guid>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>RG 1 - Wordsmith</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/84870654</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/73061533/8be2d1289890c90bd10a45268a21b1ea68b7ca78/7125bf4425d5eb45803424128093b500.docx" />
         <pubDate>2015-12-04 05:52:35 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/84870654</guid>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>RG 2 - Passage Master</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/85372584</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/73061533/d1bb221fda216a92bcadfd1c1e5f9e494f819c04/e14b8228b4a947ed1512b51c53a2a91b.docx" />
         <pubDate>2015-12-08 04:44:30 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/85372584</guid>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>RG 3 - Sound Coordinator</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/85939583</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/73061533/96501c14c5c6b3853b76350cfa7fb2868559096d/6b31571933053f6b8eecf5b957b30769.docx" />
         <pubDate>2015-12-10 16:21:48 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/85939583</guid>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>RG 4 - Art Curator</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/86299771</link>
         <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/73061533/59216a0474cfc8de1e7576410d85ff84a1ba0a3c/3dcebcdaeb4e181c2eba68a924066501.pptx" />
         <pubDate>2015-12-13 23:16:14 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/86299771</guid>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>RG 5 - Current Events Specialist</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/86855804</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>This article discusses the concept of "test tube babies". This connects directly to the ideas of the World State and even the Reservation which Bernard and Lenina visit. Bernard and Lenina meet a young man named John who was born by a woman, Linda, who once was a World State citizen. Since having a child is frowned upon, Linda relocated to the Reservation. Here, John speaks to Lenina and Bernard about being born. This makes Lenina uncomfortable (p. 118) due to the World State's belief in&nbsp;<i>in vitro</i>&nbsp;fertilization, which is discussed in the article. Since babies are made in test tubes where Lenina is from, nobody is born. On the other hand, people&nbsp;<i>are</i>&nbsp;born in the Reservation. Referred to as savages, Reservation members believe in the "old fashioned" way of having children: by biological conception (p. 102). The article mentions implantation of fertilized embryos into the female's uterus in order for the child to be born.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="http://www.businessinsider.com/in-vitro-fertilization-ivf-success-rates-2015-5" />
         <pubDate>2015-12-17 01:57:21 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/86855804</guid>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>RG 6 - A Five-Sentence Version and Reaction</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/87480993</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>p. 141-151</p><p>"Bring these two individuals back to London with you." "Marx," he said, "can you show any reason why I should not now execute the judgment passed upon you?" "Yes, I can," Bernard answered in a very loud voice. "You made me have a baby," she screamed above the uproar. He came in at once, paused for a moment just inside the door, looked round, then soft on his moccasined feet strode quickly across the room, fell on his knees in front of the Director, and said in a clear voice: "My father!"</p><p>p. 151-161</p><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">After the scene in the Fertilizing Room, all uppercaste London was wild to see this delicious creature who had fallen on his knees before the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning--or rather the ex-Director, for the poor man had resigned immediately afterwards and never set food inside the Centre again--had flopped down and called him (the joke was almost too good to be true!) "my father." She took as much as twenty grammes a day. Bernard now found himself, for the first time in his life, treated not merely normally, but as a person of outstanding importance. "That young man will come to a bad end," they said, prophesying the more confidently in that they themselves would in due course personally see to it that the end was bad. "The Savage," wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, "shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions."</span></p><p>p. 161-171</p><p>"Asked me if I'd take the Savage to the feelies this evening." "He's terribly good-looking; don't you think so?" "Because, you see, Fanny, I like him." He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of. "But, John . . . I thought you were . . . I mean, aren't you? . . ."</p>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="" />
         <pubDate>2016-01-04 05:21:26 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/87480993</guid>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>RG 7 - The ABCs of my Novel</title>
         <author>ErikaDebnam</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/88093683</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>A is for Alpha. Alphas are at the top of the caste system. </p><p>B is for Bokanovsky's Process. Bokanovsky's Process produces mass human embryos by budding. </p><p>C is for Centrifugal Bumble-puppy. Centrifugal Bumble-puppy is a common children's game. </p><p>D is for Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning. The D.H.C. is the administrator of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. </p><p>E is for Epsilon. Epsilons are at the bottom of the caste system. </p><p>F is for Ford. Ford is the spiritual basis of the World State. </p><p>G is for Gamma. Gammas are in the middle of the caste system. </p><p>H is for hypnopædia. Hypnopædia is a series of repeated phrases used to teach the citizens of the World State common knowledge. </p><p>I is for Ivan Pavlov. Ivan Pavlov is the basis for neo-Pavlovian conditioning within the World State. </p><p>J is for John. John is a Savage whose parents are Linda and the D.H.C.</p><p>K is for kiva. A kiva is a ceremonious underground chamber at the Reservation. </p><p>L is for Lenina Crowne. Lenina Crowne is a Beta Plus who works in the Fertilizing Room. </p><p>M is for malthusian belt. Malthusian belts are fashionable belts used to house contraceptives. </p><p>N is for neo-Pavlovian conditioning. Neo-Pavlovian conditioning is used on infants to condition them to their specific caste. </p><p>O is for orgy-porgy. Orgy-porgy is a spiritual orgy in which participants eat soma-spiked ice cream and see Ford. </p><p>P is for pneumatic. Pneumatic describes many things as empty and full of air, such as chairs, someone's shoes, and even Lenina Crowne. </p><p>Q is for queer. Queer is Lenina's most often used word for describing odd situations.</p><p>R is for Reservation. The Reservation is where Savages live and where sexual reproduction occurs.</p><p>S is for soma. Soma is a drug that is utilized by the World State to remain happy at all times. </p><p>T is for T-model. T-model was the first car produced on Ford's assembly line, and is often used as a spiritual "T" gesture. </p><p>U is for undulation. Undulation describes the swaying motion in which Lenina walks. V is for viviparous. </p><p>Viviparous describes giving birth to live young, a process which has been banned by the World State. </p><p>W is for Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey is a nightclub in the World State. </p><p>X for X-rays. X-rays are compared to words by Hemholtz Watson; if used properly, they can go through anything.</p><p>Y is for Young Women's Fordian Association. The YWFA is a of religious group which Fanny Crowne is a part of. </p><p>Z is for zippicamiknicks. Zippicamiknicks are a common one-piece underwear for females.</p>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="" />
         <pubDate>2016-01-07 04:55:16 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/ErikaDebnam/BraveNewWorld/wish/88093683</guid>
      </item>
   </channel>
</rss>
