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Brave New World Web QuestSource 1: Don your earbuds, and listen to Mike Wallace interviewing Aldous Huxley. Stop when youhave heard the answers to all of the questions—around halfway through. Email yourself a link if youwould like to listen to the rest later.. What are the two main “impersonal forces” that are the greatest threats to freedom?2. Why are technological devices particularly insidious when used by unscrupulous people?3. “We musn’t be caught by ____________________by our advancing technology,” says Huxley.4. How does Huxley believe that future dictatorships will subjugate the masses?5. What is the price of freedom?6. What is Huxley’s view of American political candidates, and do you agree with it?Source 2: Visit the Banned Book Awareness site.. What is Brave New World’s purpose, besides just being an interesting novel? List all that apply.8. What have been some of the grounds for banning the novel?Source 3: Visit and read lines 174-205 of The Tempest.. Copy V.1.202-205 from The Tempest.Source 4: Background on?Aldous?Huxley?According to the author of this biography,? are Huxley’s own experiences recreated in?Brave New World?10. How was?England?in Huxley’s time like?Brave New World?11. Which characters are most like Huxley himself???How?12. What was an influential event in Huxley’s life that occurred when he was 14???How might this event be reflected in?Brave New World?13. What illness did Huxley experience at 16???How did it affect his life?14. What was Huxley’s impression of?America?Source 5: Why Henry Ford plays such a prominent role in?Brave New World:????Some cluesHenry Ford’s business philosophy shaped?America, according to Lee Iacocca’s firsthand account of Ford’s business practices and beliefs.?Lee Iacocca was president of Ford, later chairman of Chrysler, and recently.?founded?EV Global Motors.?? did Ford’s modest agrarian (farming) background influence the type of car he decided to make?16.How did Ford react to backers who wanted him to do things their way (make a car for the rich)?17.Why was Ford interested in mass consumption?18.What is Ford’s connection with the interstate highway system???Why?19.According to Iacocca, how is Ford responsible for creating a middle class in?America?20.Why did Ford raise his workers’ pay?21.In what ways did Ford take care of his workers like a father (paternalism)?22.How?was Ford’s paternalism?similar to the way the?World?State?takes care of its citizens in?Brave New World?Source 6: What is dystopian fiction?A definition of dystopia*Use this video 22.What is the blueprint for dystopia, as imagined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels?23.What changes did the new century bring?24.Name 2 examples of (real) modern-day dystopias.25.At it’s heart, what is a dystopia?Source 7: Persuasion and PropagandaIn our society, we are not subjected to sleep teaching, Neo-Pavlovian?conditioning, or many of the other persuasive techniques used in?Brave New World.??On the other hand, advertisers, politicians, and others attempt to persuade us every day and they are much more effective at doing so than you may think.26.What is Propaganda and why do we care? fallacies.??In advertising and in other persuasive media, the viewer is sometimes left with a false impression.??In some cases this effect is purposeful.??In order to identify when you are being manipulated by a?logical fallacy, you need a basic understanding of fallacies and some examples.??This webpage lists just a few of the most common fallacies.?? the term “fallacy.”??Pick three fallacies that interest you and come up with your own example for each and explain why it is an example of the fallacy.28.What are some current examples of propaganda? List 3. ................
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