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There were many different parallels that could be found between the educational video and the book Brave New World.  The one I am going with will be the way that the video compares education to a factory type environment.  This is just like Brave New World because that is exactly how their society is run and sustained.  The assembly line connection from the video is shown throughout Brave New World when Mr. Foster says "Sixteen thousand and twelve in this Centre...Sixteen thousand and twelve; in one hundred and eighty-nine batches of identicals."  This quote really shows like data or statistics that would be taken down and known throughout a factory type place.  The environment of Brave New World is truly showing how the plot of the story is about how the whole place is based on this idea of industrialism or workplace environment.  Everything is only about how well they are doing and how to make this and that easier.  When complication might be the only thing that makes everyone different and better.  That is just how the video is really connected to the book.  The video is all about efficiency for education and how people want it to be.  But is that the smart way to go about it?  When you could be using free thought.  It really shouldn't matter how you test or what your grades are, but what you have learned and how you have matured.  The whole "factory" and "efficiency" thoughts are good, but is that the smart thing to do?  Is it smart to make everyone do everything exactly the same and make everyone be held to the same standards.  I believe that everyone learns in their own way which leads them to what they will be doing in the future.  You do not have to book smart just smart in their own way.  Well that was just my two cents.  PEACE!

Brave New World Posting

"Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." Mustapha Mond.

This quote right here really sums up the whole guides for society in Brave New World because it points out what is "really" going on.  If we try to decifer this quote when it states "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended."  This part of the quote is talking about a society and how it must run steadily, but only with the help of the people (Alpha and Betas).  "There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axels, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." This section of the quote points out the other half of what is happening in the society.  It can not run fluidly without "brute" work.  For this the scientist have created a certain type of man to do jobs and dumbed them down in the process (Gamma, Delta, and mainly Epsilon).  If you look at it as a social latter the Apha and Beta are the high class rich, smart, white people. And the Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon are the dumb, strong, and poor people. 

The way this is run really takes away from family, monogomy, impulse, and desire.  There is no way that anyone of these developing humans can choose what they want to do because the directors have already chosen what they are going to be before they get to choose and train them for their future job.  The controller says "Stability. No civilization without individual stability."  This quote shows that instead of using family as help to live and make decisions, that all of the decisions are made by you the person.  Which in the end means that all of the decisions are made by the directors who really choose what they desire you to be.  The "people" they create have no impulse or desire because they were taught to do one specific thing pretty much.  They just do their jobs and really have no clue of anything else.  There is no sight or knowledge on the outside world so they have no desire or impulse to change what they are doing becasue they "love" or where taught to love what they are doing. 
That is what I think.. Not so sure if I am going in the right direction or not.. WHO KNOWS!!

I Might Be About 53.5% sure on what to do!

In discussions of The Tempest, the traditional view is to think that it is about how Caliban is portrayed as a native on the island.  However, there may be other ways to think about this text. For one thing, Aime Cesaire's A Tempest explains the more humorous version of the original version.  And the same source also contends that there could have been a different outcome on what happened because of one difference in the story.  Therefore, taking these positions into account we can see that one small change can make a huge impact in the end of things.

Aime Cesaire's A Tempest is a variation of the original The Tempest.  This version shows how there can be a different way to view the reading of the play.  Aime Cesaire's version of the story shows a much more comical version of the play.  Part of the reason for this idea could be because of the people who read it and did a fantastic job with it, but I do believe that with the literature of this one it was more simplistic and it had more humorous writing.  Another way to look at this story is to think that it is a different outcome of the story.  For example in this version of the play Ariel actually did not like Prospero as he did in the original play.  With this one little change of the story Ariel plots against him with the help of Caliban and the whole play goes in a different direction.

I will use this source for mainly the second reason because I believe that I can prove a very good argument on it.  I want to use it in the way that shows that this one small change can change the whole play in itself.  I like this because instead of Prospero getting everything he wants; he actually will have people plotting against him and these people will actually have the ability to defeat him. 

Thats about it...