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    Utopian communities have had an incredible impact on both American society and various recognized religious sects throughout the United States as a whole. Many people saw, and still see, democratic government as unfair, leaving the poor behind to become poorer while the rich continued to get richer; they felt a change in work and fairness was officially in order. Utopian societies were created with commendable intentions, and their idea of the perfect cooperative society is an attractive conference

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    is a perfect society that will never exist, thus it is perfect. One utopian theory is a society without drinking and driving. However, a utopian society could potentially go wrong and lead to a dystopia. One example to look at this transition from a utopia to dystopia is causal analysis. Causal analysis "systematically examines the causes and effects of an event, situation, belief, or action” (Cuda). This gives an effect to all situations by leading to potential futures.

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    Perfect Societies Have you ever wanted a perfect utopian society? There are many examples of societies that have failed and some that haven't. For example the The Amish is a very good example because they have kept their community together . In my opinion Utopias are possible, but to have an accomplished society you need requirement, values, and beliefs. The requirements are pretty brief. One is you cannot be private about your life. You also cannot be better than anyone else. Which means you

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    social movements to remake and reform mainstream American society as a whole. No group of women, however, expanded to new territory as much as certain utopian societies allowed them to. These settlements sprang up in the 1830s and 1840s and called for radical changes in women’s sexual and reproductive lives. These societies were not based on the nuclear family and posed challenges to conventional notions of marriage. These utopian societies were the Shakers, the Oneida community, and the Church of

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    A utopian society seems like it would be the perfect world to live in. With an organized structure and a harmless environment, anyone could look at a utopia and think that they would want to live there. In fact, throughout history, many civilizations have attempted to form these blissful societies. However, all of them have either been abandoned, or fallen apart. So what is utopianism anyway? Utopianism is the idea of creating a problemless society. In other words, a society where many rules are

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    - the “perfect” Utopian society, essentially. The general purpose of this society was so that “Man could live with his fellow Man and find personal fulfillment without doing harm to others”, according to the College of William & Mary Utopia Student Literature. It’s almost a given that this Utopian concept has been deemed as mankind’s ideal world, thus it having been sought after so fervently. With that so, it’s almost a foreign idea that perhaps, the concept of a Utopian society given could prove

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    More when it appeared as a title to one of his novels. More was familiar with the Greek language, considering that the roots of the word utopia are ou meaning not, and topos meaning place. Together the words translate to “no place” or “nowhere,” ("Utopian Literature...Fiction"). In his novel, More explains that a utopia is anything but perfect. “The ultimate moral of the story is that the “perfect place” is “no place,”("Why Did Thomas... "Utopia"?"). More focused on the human imperfections, and deteriorating

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    Utopian societies A utopian society is a perfect society that possesses perfect qualities. Utopian societies don’t typically work due to money issues and conflict due to control issues within the society. People have conflicts due to the fact that not all of the people in the society think alike. Money troubles became apparent when people in the utopian societies created a system of sharing money and profit. Issues arose when people in the society realized that only very few people in the society

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    or state where there everything is pretty much perfect. It is an ideal society that is supposed to fulfill everyone’s needs in an equal way. There are no issues like poverty, disease, war, inequality, or anything of that sort. Although living in a utopian world would be perfect, all people have their own definition of perfect when it comes to what kind of world they would desire to live in. One reason that a utopian society is not possible because everybody thinks differently and has their own

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    The first work describing a utopian society was Plato’s Republic. It is a description of a society with an environment as preferable and equal as one could imagine. Also, the Republic consists of a model for social, governmental, legislative and resource distribution rules necessary for the society to keep its sustainability. Characterized by its fixed system of social classes the model of society that is presented in Republic could be perceived by contemporary standards as dystopian. Taking into

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