Island Fox

Brave New World Essay In Life we all experience detached periods or moments of separation from others, feeling alone, different, and inadequate but these times can also bring out the best in us, we develop skills, discover interests, mature in who we are. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is a book about a controlled futuristic society where people are placed in caste systems, conditioned to do a single job and always remain happy, however, we are introduced to a few people who may be viewed as…

isn't as great as it sounds, criminals lurk ever alleyway and citizens cower in fear, no tourist knows the dark secrets that lie in this tropical land. But young Jim Holloway and his friends and family are unfortunate enough to crash on this secretive island, how will Jim save his friends and protect his family from the dangers ahead, find out by reading Separated! Jim was laying on the hot yellow…

paradises, what do you think about? Do you think about where that could possibly be, or how that could exist. I think of the island of St. Croix, a small virgin island just off the coast of Puerto Rico. It is an island of beauty, culture, and color. St. Croix is the most beautiful place I have ever seen, it looks like those pictures you see of small paradises. This tiny island is made up of huge hills covered in forests and surrounded by crystal clear water. The hills are so vast and tall…

Hawaii would be a rather uncomfortable place to live by the end of this century. The number of tropical storms striking the archipelago, which is the strip of water containing the islands that make up Hawaii, is expected to rise in the Pacific. When climate change increases significantly, researchers from Japan, China and Hawaii have calculated an increase in the number of cyclones reaching the shores. On average an extra one or two cyclones per year are projected to affect Hawaii, as opposed to…

place. When you see the island in a distance, green is seen everywhere. We will be talking about the geography, the people and culture, the economy and resources, the politics and government, and the challenges they are facing. Some of these topics are positive, but some are hiding behind the beauty of the island. Fiji is located in the middle of the south central Pacific Ocean. It is comprised of more than 30 islands, ranging from small atolls to larger volcanic islands. It is also the place…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World entailed a world of intertwined eugenics and genetic engineering, where humans are perfected not within a mother’s body, but in a hatchery’s test tubes (#). A pure work of science fiction one would assume, yet the modification of the human genome is far less outlandish than Huxley’s novel presents. In fact, this type of modification is soon to be in reach (disregarding any ethical roadblocks of course). A technology known as Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short…

Fiji is a beautiful island nation. Mapsofworld.com reports there are 332 islands, but only 110 are inhabited; The highest elevation to the islands is the peak of the volcano Tomanivi at 1,324 meters; There are 18,270 square kilometers of land area to Fiji. The islands of Fiji have a tropical marine climate. This climate zone is able to support rain forests, volcanic mountains, mangroves, grasslands, and coral reefs. The islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean, which belong to the…

Most of the islands are relatively small and easy to walk all around them with no more than an hour. Luxury hotels are located, each hotel on one whole island! Quite naturally, all the islands are surrounded by coral reefs which are driven waves and winds from reaching threaten and harm them. But outside the lagoon, it’s a whole different story , this…

To best answer the question of how Aldous Huxley would perceive our society today we must look to the past. Who was Aldous Huxley? Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England in 1894, to a well-established intellectual aristocratic family. He grew up far from poverty and much closer to riches than most at the end of the 1800s. He originally wanted to become a doctor, however due to juvenile sickness he lost his eye sight for two years and never fully recovered it. This caused Aldous Huxley to…

Nobody is happy. Everybody is only under the illusion that they are happy. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 examines happiness from a society with government censorship. In this society, the government restricts books from the public and believes that burning books is a source of happiness and equality, turning the public’s attention to entertainment instead of knowledge for pleasure. However, seventeen year old Clarisse McCellan, who others think is crazy and antisocial, asks Montag, “Are you…