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Topic: Utopia Communities

Focus: Shakers

Reason for choice: Most popular utopia community around today.

What's your point? (thesis): That they belived that they were the perfect community.

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

1 Banned from outside world

2 "perfect community"

3 belifs

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?

The Sakers are banned from having any kind of communication with the outside world. They don't know what anything is like animals... they don't have animals because they don't know what they are. So instead of saying stuffed animal they just call it a "comfort". They have to grow their own food and find their own supplies because they ca't have any contact with the outside world.

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?

They belive that they are the perfect communtiy. No one is better than them. They belive that they were doing everthing perfect when it was a bad way of living.

What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?

They belived in christ's second appearence. When they worship they tend to shake their bodys. They go by their religion and follow every rule to it. Like they can't have babies they have to wait for one to be born and than given to them. There would be a birthing mother and she would be the one giving brith to the baby. They are Christian.

Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?

Based on the reaserch I found, their life was very strict and controled by their relgion and from having no contact to the outside world. Their life was very diffrent from mine. I have contact to the outside world and we don't have to follow any relgion we just have to follow laws. If we can't have a baby we could adpot which is like what the Sakers did, but with a diffrent meaning...

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