This semester, we have been granted many different opportunities to look into what a dystopia is and what it means/has meant to other people in history. With this being the final blog post, I can say that I am leaving this class with many different definitions and opinions in mind. Continue reading
To try and understand the question asked, we must first define what climate change actually is. Climate change is shifts in the temperature and weather patterns that happen over a course of time. Climate change can be natural, but in our case it is being sped up by the things Continue reading
Starting this post, I had to do some research into who Jeremy Bentham was and what he eventually created. From my research, I gathered that Bentham was a philosopher that believed in the concept of right and wrong and how we should be able to control those who have done Continue reading
I want to start this blog post off by saying that even though I do think that the type of government that I chose would truly be the least dystopian, there is no possible way to please everyone in society, so there will always be issues in that regard. The Continue reading
In class, we have debated what a utopia and dystopia truly is, and how it varies from person to person. Stemming from the feedback that I have seen the class give as well as my own answers to assignments and discussions, I think that there will always be someone that Continue reading
I think that America expresses all 5 faces of oppression today. The five faces that Young outlined were; exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. I think that the most prominent and intertwined faces that can be seen in America today are exploitation, powerlessness, and violence. Young defined each of Continue reading
I want to start this blog entry off by making it known that I do believe that dystopias are interesting to hear from many different perspectives, and that (to me personally, at least) are not a monolith and they are up to interpretation in every way possible. The short preface Continue reading
