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Pills In Brave New World

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Happy Little Pill Some people call them “chemical balancers”, and some call them “Happy Pills”, others may not see them that way, but it 's usually because they are hiding behind labels such as: Neurontin, Trileptal, and Zyprexa to make the people think they actually mean something. Not to be confused with Herzberg’s definition of "happy pills" is “the prism of Cold War class consciousness while the US fought a discordant contemporaneous "war on drugs.” Diet Pills In today 's materialistic driven society, people are judged in every possible aspect. From their appearance, background, social status, way or thinking to their friends, families. This conquest for social acceptance becomes so real that the idea then becomes an obsession. It determines the way others see us and from that, it will then determine how we feel about ourselves. Why not?? Whenever you turn on the television or open a magazine all you …show more content…

One example of this is when Bernard takes Lenina to New Mexico to visit the "Savages" on th reservation. The morning after their stay in Santa Fe Bernard takes Lenina to the reservation and must first speak to the Warden, during his encounter with the warden Bernard remembers that he leaves the tap of the Eau de Cologne running at the hotel and is anxious to call Helmholtz and tell him to turn it off. John is the birth child of Linda and the Director, born on the New Mexico reservation, John is unaware of any of the technological advances and differences to his state of living until Bernard invites him to come back to England with him and Lenina. Bernard is then set as his official guardian and all the attention amplifies Bernard 's ego. Bernard constantly writes to Mustapha Mond, another world leader, of the savage 's adaption to his new

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