Artifacts
Artifact one: Boat Project.
One artifact I chose was my boat project that I did for physics. We needed to build a boat out of cardboard. We were only able to use duct tape on seams and paint to protect the cardboard. If you did anything else or broke any rule you were automatically disqualified, so I really need to watch what I did. This was a group project took me about a week to do. One challenge I encountered while doing this was making everything precise and equal. If I missed one side by a centimeter, I needed to redo it because it would cause a leak. One thing I learned for this project was how to do buoyancy and waterlines. It requires a lot of math and time.
Artifact two:
The Handmaid’s Tale
Alex Banks
Lora Lewis
English 4
Throughout both novels; The Handmaid’s Tale and Brave New World, sexuality is viewed in two completely different ways. On one hand, The Handmaid’s Tale, sex is forced upon handmaids because they are the only ones who can reproduce and do it for couples. In Brave New World sex is looked at like a way of life and you are free to do it because it does no harm.
In The Handmaid’s Tale sex and reproduction is very important. Before the war, there was a lot of polution and toxic waste which traveled through the air and affected the fertility in both men and woman. When Gilead was formed, all the woman that were fertile became handmaids. A handmaid is a woman that are assigned to couples that are having trouble reproducing. Once a month when Offred is on hermenstrual cycle, she must have sex with the commander while Serena, the commanders wife, lays behind her and holds her hands. This is so that the wife still has some invlovment and very little control. Serena is worried that her husband might be infirtile also, so she arranges for Offred to have sext with their personal driver, Nick. Offred was only supposed to have sex with him once but she and Nick got carried away and started having sex almost every day. Offred and Nick did this because they were tired of being forced to have sex and missed the feeling of being intimate and enjoying the experience.
In the novel Brave New World, there is a system which acts as an authority that controls whether or not it’s possible for a woman to become pregnant. Sex is controlled by a system, not people. They do that by either sterilizing the woman permanently or forcing them to use contraceptives. Also, it is considered acceptable, even welcomed, for people to have many sexual partners and to not be monogamous. Because of this society and how they view sex it creates a conflict between John and Lenina because he wants love and comitment and she is only is interested in what soceity tells her is acceptable.
One difference between the two novels is that in The Handmaid’s Tale, sex is pretty much forced upon the handmaids because they are the only healty ones left and reproduction is low because of this. InBrave New World, sex is looked at like a good thing, and if you want it, it is there for you because there is no harm and it cannot hurt you. The only thing is that if you want to reproduce, you need to go through a system of people and they tell you if you are accpetable to have a baby or not.
In conclusion, the ways they differ a major. I beleive Brave New World is very simular to current day society. Sex is looked at like a "good" thing because it causes no harm, but if you want to have a baby, you and your partner talk it over(sometimes) just like in Brave New World, because they have a system you need to go through to see if you fit the needs to be a parent.
One artifact I chose was my boat project that I did for physics. We needed to build a boat out of cardboard. We were only able to use duct tape on seams and paint to protect the cardboard. If you did anything else or broke any rule you were automatically disqualified, so I really need to watch what I did. This was a group project took me about a week to do. One challenge I encountered while doing this was making everything precise and equal. If I missed one side by a centimeter, I needed to redo it because it would cause a leak. One thing I learned for this project was how to do buoyancy and waterlines. It requires a lot of math and time.
Artifact two:
The Handmaid’s Tale
Alex Banks
Lora Lewis
English 4
Throughout both novels; The Handmaid’s Tale and Brave New World, sexuality is viewed in two completely different ways. On one hand, The Handmaid’s Tale, sex is forced upon handmaids because they are the only ones who can reproduce and do it for couples. In Brave New World sex is looked at like a way of life and you are free to do it because it does no harm.
In The Handmaid’s Tale sex and reproduction is very important. Before the war, there was a lot of polution and toxic waste which traveled through the air and affected the fertility in both men and woman. When Gilead was formed, all the woman that were fertile became handmaids. A handmaid is a woman that are assigned to couples that are having trouble reproducing. Once a month when Offred is on hermenstrual cycle, she must have sex with the commander while Serena, the commanders wife, lays behind her and holds her hands. This is so that the wife still has some invlovment and very little control. Serena is worried that her husband might be infirtile also, so she arranges for Offred to have sext with their personal driver, Nick. Offred was only supposed to have sex with him once but she and Nick got carried away and started having sex almost every day. Offred and Nick did this because they were tired of being forced to have sex and missed the feeling of being intimate and enjoying the experience.
In the novel Brave New World, there is a system which acts as an authority that controls whether or not it’s possible for a woman to become pregnant. Sex is controlled by a system, not people. They do that by either sterilizing the woman permanently or forcing them to use contraceptives. Also, it is considered acceptable, even welcomed, for people to have many sexual partners and to not be monogamous. Because of this society and how they view sex it creates a conflict between John and Lenina because he wants love and comitment and she is only is interested in what soceity tells her is acceptable.
One difference between the two novels is that in The Handmaid’s Tale, sex is pretty much forced upon the handmaids because they are the only healty ones left and reproduction is low because of this. InBrave New World, sex is looked at like a good thing, and if you want it, it is there for you because there is no harm and it cannot hurt you. The only thing is that if you want to reproduce, you need to go through a system of people and they tell you if you are accpetable to have a baby or not.
In conclusion, the ways they differ a major. I beleive Brave New World is very simular to current day society. Sex is looked at like a "good" thing because it causes no harm, but if you want to have a baby, you and your partner talk it over(sometimes) just like in Brave New World, because they have a system you need to go through to see if you fit the needs to be a parent.
