He was born July 26, 1894 in England to Leonard Huxley, a schoolteacher, writer, and editor, and Julia Arnold. As a child, he was very known for his intelligence in various subjects. He enjoyed isolation and education more than going out to parties and making friends with all of the other kids. He was the grandson of famous biologist Thomas Huxley who was well known for his specialization in comparative anatomy and for being an advocate for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Aldous attended Eton where it was discovered he had keratitis, an eye disease that eventually made him blind. Although he was going blind, this did not stop him from writing and publishing books such as Crome Yellow, his first book that he published, and Antic Hay. The Doors of Perception describe his use of mescaline to enter a state that will give him ideas and visions. His most famous work, Brave New World, was a very satirical work that also expressed Huxley’s views on the 20th century politics and technology. While his novel is very satirical, it still contains elements of modern day psychology as well as still presenting the reader with information that makes them compare their modern day society to that of the Brave New World’s. He also experimented with LSD once he moved to Hollywood as well as experimenting with other psychedelic drugs. Later, he died to cancer, and before he died he asked his wife to inject him with LSD which caused him to die while on an acid trip. He also died hours after Kennedy’s assassination.
Theme for Brave New World: The advancement of science as it affects human individuals.
One of his major themes they did not government involvement and he like the idea of the rights belonged to the individual
2 of his main concerns with society/earth:
Exploding birth rates
Excess government
Conspicuous Consumption
Planned Obsolescence
England was very similar to Brave New World as they were engaged in WWI, so they were becoming more creative as well as adapting to their current situation. Along with their creativity came the creation of new technological ideas and discoveries which allowed them to become more industrialized. England was also experimenting with lots of psychedelic drugs like LSD and this is very similar to soma in Brave New World.
Huxley was very similar to Bernard and Helmholtz as they were members of the elite class like Huxley was. They also did not conform to their castes just as Huxley did not conform with his social class like his family did.
Through Huxley’s mother’s death he was able to learn that sometimes it is important to be sad and to learn from it as it is not good to always be happy as he displayed in Brave New World with John.
Huxley admired the confidence that America has in everything that they did. However he did not like all of the parties and outings that they had as he was more of a “loner” and preferred to be alone where he can study and advance his projects and experiments.
2. In On Silence, Huxley writes about how humans always depend on the sound of things to keep them sane. Whether it be the hum of a machine or someone breathing, they need to be able to hear some noise so that they do not go insane.
B. Ivan Pavlov was a russian psychologist most famous for his discovery of classical conditioning. He abandoned his religious views to focus on his psychological research and schooling that he was doing.
Pavlov’s experiment was based off of a dog that was left in a room and then a metronome was added. Later the metronome was removed and the metronome as well as food were put in as well. Then The metronome was left in the roome this time with no food given and the dog kept expecting food, but never got any with the metronome present.
The dogs would continue to drool when the metronome was present in the experiment, and eventually they learned to stop drooling when the metronome was there because they had grew out of this experiment and learned how it works.
It is called classical conditioning
2. They would use a hammer and hit metal to make a loud noise that would in return scare the
baby and make it cry. Eventually the baby became conditioned enough that the sight of
metal would remind it of the loud noise it made and it would begin to cry. Also, the baby
would begin to cry at the sight of anything that had fur.
3.
He would reward the pigeons based on how they performed certain tasks. If they turned slightly to the left, then he would give them a small treat. But, if they were able to do a big turn to the left the bird would receive a larger treat to support them for doing good.
Both pigeons and kids were given rewards based on the actions that they performed which in return would condition them to either behave positively or negatively towards a task.
I think that it is an effective way change something, or make someone do something. By recognizing or calling out someone for their actions would allow they to feel either happiness and gratitude, or sadness and shame.
Yes, if we learn from our mistakes, and if we do good, then we learn that through our actions and behaviors that when we do something good then we will want to get the response from doing that good action. On the other hand, however, if we do something bad then we will receive a negative response that we will not want to receive and then we will change our actions and behaviors.
4.
Malthus’ father was influenced heavily by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His book Émile was considered to be the factor that started Malthus’ liberal ideas on educating Thomas. He was mainly educated at home where his dad taught him about worldly views as well as establish his morales and views.
His work Essay on the Principle of Population received lots of feedback that was mostly defensive yet crude. He argued that no matter how the earth tries to prepare for the growth of human life, it will never be able to sustain and be dependent on by the entire human population. There will not and there will never be enough food, water, or homes to support the rising population as they rise at such a rapid pace and there is very little plans made for this increase. Therefore, there will always be pain and suffering in the world as they try to plan and prepare for the coming ages.
Malthus predicted that the population will always continue to rise at such a rapid pace. He also believed that because of the little changes that were made in living conditions would eventually be forgotten and these attempts at making the population “better” would fail. Then, the human population would overthrow the production of food as there would be nowhere near enough food for everyone and this would cause living conditions to drop extremely fast and cause everyone to become dependent on themselves again setting us back many hundreds of years.
People at first disagreed with Malthus’ views and did not think his views were correct. His views were thought of as insane and a lot of people did not agree with them because with his statement that there is not enough going to be enough food to be able to sustain life on Earth so lots of people will starve to death and it will be full of suffering.
C.
Ford believed that the people that would make the cars should be able to afford them. He did not see the point in making a car if only the rich people could afford it. He made the car affordable to most working class citizens and adjusted the market.
He did not listen to them he went his own route and made a car that was affordable for everyone to buy and own instead of making something that only a few certain people could own.
He figured that if he could pay his workers decent wages then with the production of more cars in less time and for less money as well then they would be able to buy the cars. Also with them buying more cars, then there would be more production of cars as well.
He worked on infrastructure development and pushed for the development of gas stations everywhere so that eventually the people would realize that they needed more roads for all of the gas station that they had created which would in return call on the creation of more and better roads which led to the interstate-highway system.
He helped the nation in the development of raising wages, urbanization, and increasing free time that they used to spend money. His influence helped grow cities as people moved to the cities for jobs, mainly his jobs.
He did this because they could afford the cars that they were making because he also lowered the cost of the cars as well making it more affordable for them to buy his cars. He was also able to make more money this way because while they were making more money, they were also spending that said money on his cars.
He established a “sociological department” so that his workers would not blow their money on stupid things that they did not need with their money. He also banned them from smoking because it was thought to be unsafe, and it was.
Like the World State, Ford took care of his workers and maintained their well-being mentally and physically just like the citizens in Brave New World. They both in a way established their own individual economic system or helped to create one when Ford would pay his workers more which they in return used to buy the cars that they were making.
His family were farmers and he had a very humble uptaking thanks to his parents.
He was very smart as a young boy as 13 years old, he disassembled a pocket watch and reassembled it and left home at 16 to take an apprenticeship.
He helped support him and his wife by running a saw mill. He then later moved to Detroit where he worked as an engineer who rose quickly through the ranks.
He started an apprenticeship at 16 and worked in machine shops where he first came in contact with an internal-combustion engine. He then returned to his farm where he worked part time and an engine company.
He worked hard and moved up in the ranks of the places that he was employed at and eventually left them to start work at his own company that grew and made him lots of money.
He was a very hard worker that had a dream that he followed and achieved. He was also very determined in all of his jobs that he had.
Yes, he built his company himself and with the help of his employees he was able amass his fortune and create a large car empire.
He donated lots of money to charity for research on breast cancer. He not only donated lots of money for the cure, but also for children’s hospital bills and family and friend’s bills.
He helped his workers and built up the community
He was like a father figure to his workers and really genuinely cared about their mental and physical states.
He did not throw it around he spent it only when he needed to and helped others out as well as donating a lot of it to charity
D. The way the reservation was set up in way represented the world and what was going on around it. The people and the way they were portrayed such as the government was an allusion to the government while they were in wars because they could not do certain things and if they did they would get in trouble. Also, the drug usage was similar in both the book and the time frame it was written in.