Homework for Jan. 11th, 2010

1. “Life in Vietnam would be perfect if everyone were totally equal.” I totally disagree with this statement. If everyone were identical in

knowledge and culture, there would be no need for newspapers, books, or films. There would be no such sports as wrestling, running, and swimming, for everyone would be of the same talent. If everyone were the same in all points, it would be a disaster, and there would not be societies. If all people were the same in all aspects, such as in height, color, shape, inte

lligence, wealth, health, strength, beauty, and morals, it would be impossible to differentiate people from one another. Parents can’t recognize their children, police can’t discriminate what car that breaks the rule, and a man could not discriminate his daughter from his wife. Vietnamese people’s life and the society would become a mess of crisis between people and people.

2. In my society, the law would be:

Everybody have to be identical in knowledge and culture, no talented more than anyone else, no one is more gorgeous than others, if yes, you will have to wear mask designed by the government. Intelligence or genius is absolutely illegal, and whoever is will be able o replace their brain by

man made brain, which works as normal as regular people. Indeed, there would be no such sports as wrestling, running, and swimming, for everyone would be of the same talent.

3. Well, for me, to help people who are having less capable mentally, physically, or socially to “catch up”, there are plenty ways to do it. We could design product that could help those people, depends on what their sickness or situations are. For example that individual is having physical problem, that he has only one ear, and he afraid of being laughed or stared by others. The thing government could help him is to make a silicone ear but so lifelike that it even glows a bit in the sun like real skin. Of course he won’t able to hear by that ear, but at least he doesn't feel separate from his community.

4. The only problem that I can foresee right now that might come in a society with laws that force “equality for all” is people being tortured in a same box, with same amount of needs and a machine to control brains. The majority of people, about 98% of citizens, either old or young will receive this torment until they get to their ambitions, of having an “equality society”. In my opinion, equal means fair, and it is good. But having an equality society is personally make your life boring to live, also in general is a disaster, which decrease the develop of countries and nations. There’s no way to solve it, unless

human or whoever came up with the idea

equality changed that word to equity. Equity also mean equal, but it doesn’t mean you have to be identical. For example, you and your friend is studying math, but your friend doesn’t understand, so she asks the teacher. The teacher tutoring your friend again. By that direction, you don’t get extra teaching from teacher while your friend does, but at first she didn’t understand the lesson. Is that unfair? I don’t t

hink so! The goal is to make you understand the lesson, no matter how much time does the teacher spends to teach you or either your friend. Beside, you don’t want to learn more about one thing that you already know all, unless you have to. That’s how my solution is, to have an equity society, not equality society.

5. I am in the middle. I think total equality or either human domi

nate would both be possible. Equality for total is impossible, but for some is still possible and gonna happen, also with human nature makes sure that some people would eventually dominate others. Like I said above, at question one, if equality happens, it would be a disaster that ever happen. But that is just my opinion. In others minds, maybe people would say vice versa things from mines. And about the humans that dominate others, in command economy, communism, and dictatorship government, it is happening, like North Korea, China, Cuba, etc... However, in these years now, the majority of countries on earth mostly don’t have this happened, because they are all leading to become develop country, as I can considered as market economy, mixed economy, along with representative democracy. We all know that in these economies and government, people have rights to do what they want (legal things only), and they have freedom to make up or either delete some laws by their selected representative. In wrapping up, I believe the two are both possible to happen, but actually odd to happen.

6. - When I read the story, at the very end part when Harrison broke all handicap things on his body, showed himself as a very tall guy with handsome face. And with the ballerina, they danced freely, showed everybody their talents. In defiance of the gun of the Handicap General, they kept continued their ballet, and finally gave each other a deep long kiss until the two shots of bullet went through them. Th

at’s reminded me of the contestant Ann Ward in America’s Next Top Model Cycle 15. She was a very tall girl, about 1.90 meters, so that’s why no model company accepted her. But when she joined the America’s Next Top Model Cycle 15, her photo shoots five rounds on row stood at the first place. She looked really wild beautiful on her pictures, like that’s not the Ann Ward people used to know. She shows everybody her talent with an exactly the same choice as Harrison Bergeron, to be on the TV’s screen. And their talents amazed people in any which way.

- Harrison’s Dad was an intelligent man, and this was why he had to wear the ear phone to distract his thought every twenty second. Every twenty seconds, the ear phone made the burglar alarm, and it changed the sound every time, so that you always got surprised and forget thing you was thinking or even watching. I used to have this situation. Just from yesterday, while we were reading the story, Mr. Blake suddenly scared us by a yell, made we forgot where were we in the story. It is kinda fun, but if you have it bother you every day, it wouldn’t be that fun, instead, it would really annoying, make you feel doozy, headache, even can make you deaf, because the sound sounds like someone yells at you through your ears.