Utopian+Communities.+AsiaKE09

Topic: Utopian Communities

Focus: The Brook Farm Community

Reason for choice: It was one of the worst utopian communities, so it would prove our point.

What's your point? (thesis): Nothing is ever perfect, you can't get people together and expect things to go the way you want them to.

What three reasons do you have that will back up your point?

1 People don't always agree with the rules and decisions he made, so some of them ended up leaving.

2 The community wasn't getting enough income, mostly because the workers weren't properly educated in their jobs assigned.

3 They had big losses of income, due to failed investments, and they had to "retrench" a lot of things.

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it? Not everyone agrees with every desicion one makes. George Ripley believed that all the hard labor, such as animal slaughtering and road repair. Many of the teens were sent to do this type of work, which caused some people to leave.

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it? Since money was a little low, many people could not, or didn't get that much knowledge. Some of the people who were assigned jobs like farming or manufacturing, didn't really know what they were doing. This caused the products they made to be bad and didn't get a good income from it.

What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it? One of the big investments that was put into work was the Phalanstery. It was a main building for this society, but however, their work on it was slow. The people of the community put in about $30,000 for this project and then it burned down, unfinished on March 3rd, 1846. This created a very big deficit and caused the community to go into debt, finally ending George Ripley's "perfect" community.

Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life? The conclusion that I came to was the there is no such thing as "perfect" because there's is always something that can go wrong, no matter what you to do try and stop it. People can't always follow such rules, or make things work perfectly all the time, especially in finance.

Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?

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