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- Greg Malivuk
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- Homework: Read the 6 paragraphs from More’s Utopia and write your own rules for a utopia in each of the same areas:
- 1 crime and punishment
- 2 religion
- 3 government / making laws
- 4 dangerous or unpleasant jobs
- 5 business, economics, and money
- 6 foreign policy / war
- (If you finish before other groups, you can also discuss the following:)
- - Marriage customs/laws (who can get married? at what age? etc.)
- - Immigration (who can become citizens? how?)
- - Education (free for everyone? until what age? what about people who have mental difficulties learning?)
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- dystopia: the opposite of a utopia, where everything is generally bad
- Hunger Games (oppressive government dystopia)
- 1984 (oppressive government)
- Matrix
- Truman Show (at least it was a dystopia for Truman)
- Interstellar (environmental disaster dystopia)
- V for Vendetta
- Robocop
- Terminator
- Maze Runner
- Lost
- Divergent
- Butterfly Effect
- Island
- District 9
- City of God
- post-apocalyptic dystopias:
- Day After Tomorrow
- Book of Eli
- The Road
- (anything with zombies)
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- Brave New World
- Elysium
- Stepford Wives
- (false utopias)
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- True utopias:
- Star Trek (for humanity and Earth)
- Dinotopia (written like a travel journal, similar to the original Utopia)
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- Optional homework: Write (in paragraphs) the ideas your group came up with for your own utopia, in a format similar to the excerpt you read for today.
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