Onesies

Deltas
For much of human history, only the very wealthy would have had clothing made just for sleeping in. In general, people were so tired from physical labour or hunger that they slept in their daily wear or, if they were lucky, an undershirt or smock", which was like a vest worn next to the skin and washed every six months whether it needed it or not. Nowadays the infant one piece romper suit or "onesie" is a way of combining a top and trousers in a loose garment which cannot be easily pulled off by a child, they are the symbol of babies and everything that is cute about them.

Lenina

Since everyone is obsessed with material goods in Brave New World, clothing is a good measure of character. On one level, clothing will tell you to what caste an individual belongs. Gammas wear green, Deltas wear khaki, Epsilons wear black, etc. But they also tell us about the society that the "civilized" people live in. For example in chapter 9, Lenina is wearing "a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas." By that Huxley means onsies in a way implying her infantile behavior.


Question: Why would Huxley want to associate grown adults with a baby's infantile behavior?


Link to History of Pyjamas, Adult onesies, and Funzees

When Words Are Scarce They Are Seldom Spent In Vain

Deltas

Eloquence is the powerful, elegant, forcible and effective use of language. It’s persuasive, inspiring and reflects quality and conviction. Some might say that eloquence is a way of strikingly verbalizing strong emotions in such a way to be influential. The article that I found online talks about the power and benefits of being eloquent. Although this article gives tips to women on how to put more power to what they say and how they say it, I think that eloquence is a great tool for anyone to acquire and use. Just like Mark Twain said "The difference between the right word and almost the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

This ties in with chapter 8 because John starts quoting Shakespeare like there is no tomorrow and poor Bernard doesn't understand a single word he is saying be cause of his conditioning. His conditioning has denied the right to know the power of carefully selected and spoken words, or like Shakespeare and John would say: "When Words Are Scarce They Are Seldom Spent In Vain"


Question:What is the connection between the Shakespeare passages that John quotes and what was happening in his life at the time he read them?


link to The Power of Eloquence

Benefits Of Breastfeeding

Deltas
As the oldest child in a family of three children, I have been lucky enough to see and remember when my two brothers were babies. One of the things that most sticks in my memory is seeing my mother breastfeed my littlest brother, Angel, who is now three and not a baby anymore.

The article that I found online relating to chapter 7 is about the benefits of breastfeeding. This article claims that breastfeeding helps improve mothers' health, as well as their children's. A woman grows both physically and emotionally from the relationship she forms with her baby. Just as a woman's breast milk is designed specifically to nourish the body of an infant, the production and delivery of this milk also aids her own health.
This article relates to Brave New World, because in chapter 7 Lenina is revolted by the image of two young women breastfeeding their infants. this also relates to our society nowadays. In today's society, breastfeeding is often thought of as unnecessary. Young mothers are mistakenly led to believe that formula does very well as a replacement for breast milk. Others (like Lenina) don't want to have an intimate relationship with their babies.


Question: Based on what we know so far about Brave New World why do you think that breastfeeding completely disgusts Lenina and the other "civilized" people in the World State?


Link to Why Is Breastfeeding So Important?

The Soma Of History

            

http://huxley.net/soma/

               As we know, Soma is a drug that the government uses to control their people in Brave New World. Based on this article, this drug was found and used by the Indo-Iranians about 4,000 years ago. They split into two different groups, one group was the Indo-Aryans; the other became the ancient Iranian people. Even they were different to each others, but they had the same rite, in this rite the people used the plant to make illusion. This plant was called soma by the Indians and haoma by the Iranians. This plant can make they feel happy and feel like they were connecting to a heaven and can talk/hear to their God.
 
                In chapter 5, they are in a party. They took soma, and their mouths keep saying " Ford, Ford, Ford..." many times. Some of them said that they could hear him and know that he was coming, but all of us know that to them Ford was a God. If he was a God, how could they hear him and see him. They used soma which makes they felt they could hear/see in a party. They feel Ford joins them in a party, but it is just an illusion from soma. It is not the truth, this chapter and an article below in kind of similar.

Why do they have to use a soma to have a fun time?

Does everyone have to take it? Why or why not?

Negative And Positive Effects Of Dating

                We all think that dating always has positive effects, but who knows that it also has negative effects. In this article, it tells us what is difficult and easy about dating. When you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, you can't  be selfish to others. You also have to be honest with others. The most important thing is to not be jealous before you know the truth. Usually, a boy will be jealous when his girlfriend hangs out with friends of the opposite sex. The same for a girl, she will be jealous and angry if she sees her boyfriend is with another girl. If you want to keep peace between you and your boyfriend/girlfriend, you should find out the truth before you guys break up. However, dating is not easy as we see. Dating can make you laugh, happy, feel safe but sometimes it can make you cry, sad, and feel dangerous.

                   This article is related to chapter four in Brave New World, because Lenina had a date with many men and slept with them. We know that she is a person who likes sex, but for each man she slept with before. Their love broke up so fast, but this time her love with Henry is longer than normal. Is Henry really a good man for her to be believe in? Also, Henry knows that Lenina slept with many men, but why he still loves her. Isn't he jealous? It is another story. In part two of chapter 4, Helmholtz Watson has been with too many girls in less than four years. It doesn't mean he never loves them, maybe his ex-girlfriends are selfish or didn't honest to him or really jealous because something. We can see both of them Lenina and Helmholtz have the same problems that they broke up with their love many times, maybe from the negative and positive effects of dating. Lenina also goes out with Bernard as a date, she agrees to go with him to Savage Reservation.

Why did Lenian agree with Bernard to go to Savage Reservation with him?
http://date.mx/dating-advice/negative-and-positive-effects-of-dating/

Joana Melendez-Iotas

http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/how-it-feels--to-use-recreational-drugs/2008/01/09/1199554739462.html



       In the article "How it feels like to be on recreational drugs" Talks about how it is when your own drugs.Like the authors say "It's all about temporary escapism- not escaping from your life all the time- but maybe for 20 hours,it like a holiday" just like how Lenina and Henry refer to there trip in the book as a "friendly world of a soma-holiday. In the book Brave New World citizens are made to think that taking the drug "soma" is ok because in this society it's not looked down upon but encouraged by everyone to consume this drug.This drug is part of there everyday lifestyles.They take this drug in many different dosages.Once high of this socially accepted drug they are oblivious to the world around them.Just like any known drug today, users may feel more energetic and sociable, which can make it attractive to people who have social anxieties, shyness, or who lack the energy to go out and do things. This is probably the reason why in this chapter everyone is having sex orgies and having so much fun, and completely ignoring the fact that they come from hatcheries and that something must not be right with there society.This article related to ch.5 because in this chapter everyone is taking drugs and having relations with everyone and the article makes it easier to understand why it is that there acting this way.

Questions: Do you think our government should supply as with drugs that would make us do things that we usually wouldn't do just to forget what society we are living in?

2.If we was to live in this type of society would you still consume soma even if it is not mandatory to do so?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110330101242.htm

Studies find surprisingly gender differences are related to sexual harassment. That women view sexual harassment as bothersome. But it doesn't seem to be associated with distress, only when they saw it as a frightening. That for men, sexual harassment was distressing when they saw it as either frightening or bothersome.


This article relates to chapter 5 because Bernard is like forced to have sex with everyone even though he doesn't want to. He has a different mind set from everyone else and he try to blend in like everyone else.

What quote from the book makes him an different?