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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- What are some things you would change in your school? city? country? the world?
- no smoking anywhere (shut down the whole industry)
- allow traveling without visas
- fix Saudi road system
- increase the break time between classes
- make the school more academic
- include an oral exam when assessing new students' levels
- improve Boston's Green Line (new trains, better timing, stop to pick up passengers)
- build more parking in Boston
- don't allow gay marriage
- no tipping in the US
- offer jobs to everybody, not just family and friends (in Saudi Arabia especially)
- offer more jobs, so there are enough for all the people
- lower the US drinking age back to 18
- stop producing weapons (wars may be fought, but only with fists and feet)
- make countries' leaders live in the same place so they can get to know each other
- increase the minimum salary to at least $500/week (or something similar)
- (This is called a guaranteed minimum income or base income.)
- religion, law and crime, political parties, immigration, freedom of speech, working hours, dirty/undesirable jobs, money, foreign policy
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- Utopia: something perfect, so perfect that it's impossible
- (ou = "not" + topos = "place", originally "utopia" meant "not a real place")
- euphoria, euphemism, euphonium - "eu" = "good"
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- Dystopia: the opposite of a utopia, a world where everything (or most things) are worse than they are today
- Dystopian stories: 2012 (movie), Book of Revelations (in the Bible), Hunger Games (books and movies), Book of Eli (movie), Elysium (movie), Planet of the Apes (movies)
- post-apocalyptic dystopia - everything is bad because some terrible catastrophe destroyed most of the world
- Book of Eli, Hunger Games, Walking Dead (almost anything with zombies)
- false-utopia dystopia - some group of people think everything's perfect, but under the surface it's terrible
- Elysium, Hunger Games (for the Capitol), Divergence
- "true" utopia - Star Trek (individuals have problems and conflicts, but overall most things are good for most people)
- Dinotopia (children's book)
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- Sir Thomas More's book "Utopia" is what gives us this word today. It was written in 1516 by an English lawyer and philosopher.
- advocate
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- Homework: try to come up with one rule for each category that you would have in your utopia
- religion, law and crime, political parties, immigration, freedom of speech, working hours, dirty/undesirable jobs, money, foreign policy
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