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Topic: Utopian Communities.

Focus: Brook Farm.

Reason for choice: It was one of the ones that bombed the most, so it will help 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, and there were rules that not everyone liked, so they ended up leaving.

2) They had people who weren't very educated in their jobs, and they made very little income.

3) They had big income loss, and they were forced to "retrench" items.

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?: Not everyone agress with every decision 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 workm which caused some peole to leave.

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?: Since money was a little low, mant people could not, or didnt get that much knowledge. Some of the people who were assigned jobs like farming or manufacturing, didnt really know what they were doing. This caused the products they made to be bad and didnt 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 3, 1846. This created a very big deficit and caused the community to 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?:

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