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Silent Work

Silent Work. As irrigators make water go where they want, As archers make their arrows straight, As carpenters carve wood, The wise shape their minds. -The Dhammapada. MUG.

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Silent Work

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  1. Silent Work As irrigators make water go where they want, As archers make their arrows straight, As carpenters carve wood, The wise shape their minds. -The Dhammapada

  2. MUG Her and I discovered that before the Revolutionary War, anyone who needed money had to borrow from their friends and family, no banks existed.

  3. Background Knowledge for Brave New World Karl Marx Communism Vladimir Lenin Henry Ford Cloning Shakespeare

  4. What is Communism? Hammer for the Workers Sickle for the Peasants (the farm labourers) Communal  Adjective 1. Shared by all members of a community; for common use. 2. Of, relating to, or done by a community: "communal achievement".

  5. What is Communism? Communist Manifesto (1847) This is his good friend, Frederick Engels. Karl Marx: the ‘Father of Communism’. People who believe in his ideas are called ‘Marxists’

  6. Everyone works together so war is a thing of the past – armies are not needed. • Sharing means no police are needed. • Everything is provided by the people – so money becomes a thing of the past. All human activity goes towards benefiting each other – allowing all to live their lives to the full.

  7. What problems do you see with communism working properly? Very difficult to enforce because people are lazy Government must keep very tight control on the people No freedom of speech or choice.

  8. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Владимир Ильич Ленин • Russian Marxist Revolutionary (1870-1924) • Put Karl Marx’s ideas into action in Russia. Started a socialist revolution. • Leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

  9. Lenin Royalty Capitalists (bankers, business men, business owners, etc.) Academics (teachers, philosophers, artists, etc.) "Comrade Lenin Cleanses the Earth of Filth" 1 2 4 3

  10. “Oh, Ford!”“His Fordship”“Year of Our Ford 632”

  11. The Model ‘T’ Ford • Henry Ford set out to build a car which everyone could afford to buy. • It was slow, ugly and difficult to drive, and was nick named the ‘Tin Lizzie’ and ‘Flivver’ by the American people.

  12. The Model ‘T’ Ford • The attraction of the Model T Ford was that its price never increased. • By 1929 Ford was producing more than one car per minute

  13. Mass Production • Ford was able to sell cars cheaply because they were mass-produced and every part was Standardized(only one colour and one engine size were available). • By producing large numbers of cars on an Assembly Line Ford needed fewer skilled workers, and that cut the cost of paying wages.

  14. Ford invented the idea of using an Assembly Lineto speed up production.

  15. Aerial view of the Rouge plant in 1930 In 1929, there were 81,000 men working in this one factory

  16. “… each man and each machine do only one thing ...”

  17. “A customer can have any colour he likes for his car so long as it's black” What does this quote tell us about Henry Ford’s beliefs?

  18. Let’s wrap it all up with one final concept……

  19. Cloning: creating an exact copy of a living creature

  20. Communism+Assembly Line+Cloning=a Brave New World society

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